It's that time of the year, where I sit around and do nothing more than usual, simply because I don't want to study. Finals is exactly in a week's time.
30th Oct - Company Reporting
2nd Nov - Taxation Law
5th Nov - Commercial Banking and Finance
6th Nov - Performance Measurement and Control
Two second year subjects, two third year subjects. Can somebody please just kill me now? There's the sublime bright side after finals of course, Gold Coast from the 8th to 13th with Jo, Jiayi, Alicia and Mel. And Wen Chien from NZ too, who coincidentally is Alicia's best friend from young. What a small world. That's gonna be so much fun. Plus, Bao Hua, Serena and her mum'll be there as well. As my manager at Cotton On Body said, "You'll be soaking up the sun in Queensland! :( :( " Lol. After that it's another four days in Sydney where it's apparently loads of sun sun sun too; the guys and Caryn will be flying up to meet us there. And of course, the day after - Justin Timberlake concert!
Day after that, even bigger day, cause it's Miss Ng Siok Kwan's birthday. :)
As you can tell, I'm trying to make myself feel so much better about exams coming. There's just so much stuff to look forward to after exams, but at the moment it feels like it's milestones away. I know time will rocket past, and soon I'll be in a cab on the way to the airport watching Dandenong Road go by, but right now, it seems like the after-exam joy period will never, ever come.
Tax Law beckons now, unfortunately.
P/S: 2007 Formula 1 World Champion - Kimi Raikkonen, still as awesome as ever. His championship was such a dream come true, and I'm so bummed that I didn't get to watch it live. -_- But still, just as happy. Stupid Alonso can go eat worms.
30th Oct - Company Reporting
2nd Nov - Taxation Law
5th Nov - Commercial Banking and Finance
6th Nov - Performance Measurement and Control
Two second year subjects, two third year subjects. Can somebody please just kill me now? There's the sublime bright side after finals of course, Gold Coast from the 8th to 13th with Jo, Jiayi, Alicia and Mel. And Wen Chien from NZ too, who coincidentally is Alicia's best friend from young. What a small world. That's gonna be so much fun. Plus, Bao Hua, Serena and her mum'll be there as well. As my manager at Cotton On Body said, "You'll be soaking up the sun in Queensland! :( :( " Lol. After that it's another four days in Sydney where it's apparently loads of sun sun sun too; the guys and Caryn will be flying up to meet us there. And of course, the day after - Justin Timberlake concert!
Day after that, even bigger day, cause it's Miss Ng Siok Kwan's birthday. :)
As you can tell, I'm trying to make myself feel so much better about exams coming. There's just so much stuff to look forward to after exams, but at the moment it feels like it's milestones away. I know time will rocket past, and soon I'll be in a cab on the way to the airport watching Dandenong Road go by, but right now, it seems like the after-exam joy period will never, ever come.
Tax Law beckons now, unfortunately.
P/S: 2007 Formula 1 World Champion - Kimi Raikkonen, still as awesome as ever. His championship was such a dream come true, and I'm so bummed that I didn't get to watch it live. -_- But still, just as happy. Stupid Alonso can go eat worms.
I am done with finals! Okay, so I was actually done on Friday, 12:50 p.m., but yeah, you get the idea. Went to DFO with Serena after that, and shopped till our heart's desire. I bought a $4.95 bag. *is proud*
We cooked nasi lemak, with chicken rendang on Saturday, with honeydew sago for dessert. Yum. Sunday was more shopping, this time at Bridge Road. Pretty disappointing. Nothing much unlike the beginning of the year when we practically raided the shops there. Lol.
Today was a collapse-at-home-day. Mopping floor, cleaning room, stacking up all my over-and-done-with textbooks and notes. Lazing around and eating nasi lemak leftovers.
Oh, apparently there was a shooting this morning at Flinder's in the city. I had no idea till Caryn told me. Scary shit. I've always thought Australia was a safe place, compared to the US where you hear of school shootings once in maybe two years. Case in point, Virginia Tech. You can't walk into say, Target, and purchase a gun like you might be able to in the States. And yet, this morning, there was a gun-wielding guy, letting off 6-7 shots in the CBD. Pretty scary stuff. Any one of us could've easily been there. Friends living in the city could've been easily walking down the street.
Let's hope this is not the first of more to come in Melbourne. May the one victim rest in peace, and the other two heal as quickly as possible.
Okay, this was not meant to be a depressing post. Sorry.
OTH Season 4 finale was possibly the smiley-est, happiest episode EVER. The way it all ended. Damn sweet. Damn nice. Baby James Lucas Scott. Obsessive adorable Nathan & Haley. Brooke and OMG-so-awesome-Chase. The BFF-ness of Lucas and Haley. Brotherhood. The Rivercourt. Dance routine to Spice Girls. I've been watching it a few times over. Lol. Jasmine and I might have spent an hour this afternoon obsessing about OTH and Season 5. Hah! :D
Serena's going home on the 20th and I am going to be so bored. Lucky thing Ching finishes after that, and we are going to goeat shop have fun!
My stupid work permit STILL hasn't arrived. I'm so annoyed. At the rate this stupid thing is going, I'm only going to be able to work for about two weeks, one week of which I want to volunteer at the Monash Abroad orientation for Semester 2. Grrr. Why is the stupid immigration taking so long? I hope they haven't rejected my application. Joachim got his easily, I remember. Please come tomorrow, work permit.
I am going to completely die for Semester 2. I'm taking two third-year units because of the exchange - all the units have been screwed up because not everything is available in Caulfield and yada yada. Don't want to bore you with the inside works of the Monash curricular system. Long story short, I'm doing two third-year units next semester and might possibly die. That is, if I don't already die on the 13th of July, aka results day.
Ehhh. This post is heading back down the depressing lane. Better end it now. Love you all! xoxo.
We cooked nasi lemak, with chicken rendang on Saturday, with honeydew sago for dessert. Yum. Sunday was more shopping, this time at Bridge Road. Pretty disappointing. Nothing much unlike the beginning of the year when we practically raided the shops there. Lol.
Today was a collapse-at-home-day. Mopping floor, cleaning room, stacking up all my over-and-done-with textbooks and notes. Lazing around and eating nasi lemak leftovers.
Oh, apparently there was a shooting this morning at Flinder's in the city. I had no idea till Caryn told me. Scary shit. I've always thought Australia was a safe place, compared to the US where you hear of school shootings once in maybe two years. Case in point, Virginia Tech. You can't walk into say, Target, and purchase a gun like you might be able to in the States. And yet, this morning, there was a gun-wielding guy, letting off 6-7 shots in the CBD. Pretty scary stuff. Any one of us could've easily been there. Friends living in the city could've been easily walking down the street.
Let's hope this is not the first of more to come in Melbourne. May the one victim rest in peace, and the other two heal as quickly as possible.
Okay, this was not meant to be a depressing post. Sorry.
OTH Season 4 finale was possibly the smiley-est, happiest episode EVER. The way it all ended. Damn sweet. Damn nice. Baby James Lucas Scott. Obsessive adorable Nathan & Haley. Brooke and OMG-so-awesome-Chase. The BFF-ness of Lucas and Haley. Brotherhood. The Rivercourt. Dance routine to Spice Girls. I've been watching it a few times over. Lol. Jasmine and I might have spent an hour this afternoon obsessing about OTH and Season 5. Hah! :D
Serena's going home on the 20th and I am going to be so bored. Lucky thing Ching finishes after that, and we are going to go
My stupid work permit STILL hasn't arrived. I'm so annoyed. At the rate this stupid thing is going, I'm only going to be able to work for about two weeks, one week of which I want to volunteer at the Monash Abroad orientation for Semester 2. Grrr. Why is the stupid immigration taking so long? I hope they haven't rejected my application. Joachim got his easily, I remember. Please come tomorrow, work permit.
I am going to completely die for Semester 2. I'm taking two third-year units because of the exchange - all the units have been screwed up because not everything is available in Caulfield and yada yada. Don't want to bore you with the inside works of the Monash curricular system. Long story short, I'm doing two third-year units next semester and might possibly die. That is, if I don't already die on the 13th of July, aka results day.
Ehhh. This post is heading back down the depressing lane. Better end it now. Love you all! xoxo.
First up, about AFF2851. Ugh. May this be the last time I ever complain about you.
You know, my standard answer to my parents whenever they ask me how an exam went, would be, "Okay-lahhh." Over the years, I've learnt to give this answer to my parents, because if I say it went really well, then they get their hopes up really, really high; and if I say I did really badly, they will go, "Oh, see lahhh. Ask you don't go out so much already". -_-" So yes, 'okay-lah' becomes my favourite answer.
But AFF2851, aka Accounting Info Systems and Financial Modelling, aka possibly most redundant unit I've ever taken besides Management MGW1010 (Okay, the AIS part, that is), aka Wen's weakest unit because she's just plainly shit-useless at spreadsheets and Excel and all that jazz, was definitely not 'okay'. It was so awful, omg. I pray I pass. Seriously. I do not want to start failing units now, especially all the way here and when my parents are paying more for me to be here. And I do not want to be failing this unit of all units. Gulp.
On a brighter note, this much down! Hee. The ruler, I added for effect, just to emphasize how much it really is. Out of my life you go!
Okay, on to the next thing: my daddy.
Recently, there apparently was a problem with AMO contact lens solution. Apparently all over the news or something like that. Maybe it was broadcast here either, I have no idea, but yeah, my dad called me from Malaysia about two weeks ago to tell me about it.
Me: (checks caller ID) Hi, Pa!
Papa: EH WHAT CONTACT LENS SOLUTION DO YOU USE?
Me: (taken aback) Err...
Papa: ARE YOU USING AMO?
Me: A...M...O?
Papa: CAN GET CANCER YOU KNOW!
LOL. No, nothing so drastic, but apparently all the AMO Complete MoisturePlus solutions for sale in the market were recalled by AMO because it apparently it was found that users of this solution had seven times greater risk to Acanthamoeba keratitis, which can apparently cause cornea ulcertaion and cause severe loss of vision, temporarily or even completely.
My father, the drama queen.
Want to know how I knew all that? Easy.
Today, I got a letter from my dad. I was so happy when I saw it in the mail. Was actually waiting for my work permit to come from the immigration, but instead saw this, and instantly recognised my dad's awful scrawl.
So I so very excitedly thought, "Hmm, what could it be? It's so thin...ooh, MAYBE IT'S A CHEQUE." [/dream]
Ripped it open, all happy at the prospect of mail and what do I find?
.
.
.
.
Newspaper clippings of the AMO situation. -_-" The Star, Tuesday 29th May 2007, pg. 27 of the Nation section. LOL! I had a good laugh when I saw it. Papa, oh Papa. How I love your quirkiness so.
Serena had a good laugh too when I showed her. She thinks my dad is extremely hilarious now, I think. Lol.
Serena: (laughing) "What you think your mother would have said lah?
Me: "She would have laughed at him or... (pauses to think) Eyy, she could have been the one who asked him to do it too! (laughs somemore)
My parents are so funny. I blame all my weirdness on them, lol.
*
So yes, my brother came awhile ago, as most of you probably already know. They left on the Saturday after my first paper, and called from the airport as they were going through customs. Sigh. Got a little teary when Josh said in a teensy-tiny voice, "Buh-bye Wen Kor *sniffle*". I swear that little boy's going to be a heartbreaker one day.
Pictures of our yumchar lunch! (Yes, yum cha here refers to having dim sum in the day, people. I know it's weird, lol. Everytime someone here mentions yum cha I get a flash of Maybank mamak and Murni's.)
Cheeky-darlin' Joel and I. He's so tall. And it's just been four months! How come he seems like he grew so much?
Amelia sweetie pie, and my awesome brother. Isn't she super adorable? She's such a sweetheart and can walk so well now. And I think she still remembers me, because she warmed up to me straight away and let me carry her and stuff when I went over to Su's parents house for dinner. Sigh. She's so cuuuute. I'm missing her already.
Adorable Josh.
Su, Melia and Josh. Su's hair looks sooo different now, I was so shocked, hee.
Serena came too! This picture was taken by Joel, all by himself. Proud sial.
Me, Josh and half of Joel. Sigh. Good time.
Wen Kor misses you all already, darling boys and girl. And the darling big adult boy and girl too. Lol. Can't wait to see you guys again.
*
Zhen Han's family came to visit a week ago, and his mum was the sweetest ever. She stayed at home, cooking us meals to store in the fridge so we could just reheat all the stuff during our exams to eat. She made nyonya ba-chang, and curry chicken (which I didn't have because I was sick, boo), and dumplings with dear Yao.
I know you all are jealous. Lol. Especially YK.
Proof that it wasn't just a picture of dumplings in a restaurant. Hee. We have the actual steamer and all too, now.
*
Geez, I know I said exam-hiatus. But, then I come and post a meaty picspam. Tsk. I've been so awesome at procrastinating. I'd sit around, read a few lines, and think, 'oh hmm, I should clip my toenails'. Random, I know!
Then, I'd read another few lines, fiddle with my hair, and think, 'oh, it's been awhile since I plucked my eyebrows'.
Fine. All happy and plucked, I'd sit down again, read say another paragraph or so, and get up again. This time to moisturise the area which I've plucked because it felt dry.
Fast-forward to the next day during studying: 'OMG, I just plucked my eyebrows yesterday. How come there's hair there again so fast? o.O'. Either my eyebrows have super-hero insta-growth powers, or my moisturer is a mangkin for quick hair regrowth. Or maybe I'm just blind. Heh.
Okay, enough rambling for tonight. I have to go study Cost Info now, but all this rambling has made me so tired. Sheesh.
See you all on Friday after freedom. Ooh wait, maybe I'll see you all on Saturday instead. Since I plan to be outttttttt the whole of Friday after the paper. Hee.
P/S: Ms. Caryn Yan gets a special sentence because she's got a Financial Accounting paper tomorrow and it sounds like a bitch-hard subject. ): Talk to you soon! All the best to others taking FA too- Sotong, and I'm not sure who else. Jasmine? Are you taking FA too? If yes, good luck!
P/P/S: Kelly Clarkson's new album, I like. There's a song named Chivas. How not to like? Lol. But yes, it's awesome, and I love.
P/P/P/S: The OCD-ness in me has managed to obtain the help of an online photo-resizer and yay, everything looks better again. :P
You know, my standard answer to my parents whenever they ask me how an exam went, would be, "Okay-lahhh." Over the years, I've learnt to give this answer to my parents, because if I say it went really well, then they get their hopes up really, really high; and if I say I did really badly, they will go, "Oh, see lahhh. Ask you don't go out so much already". -_-" So yes, 'okay-lah' becomes my favourite answer.
But AFF2851, aka Accounting Info Systems and Financial Modelling, aka possibly most redundant unit I've ever taken besides Management MGW1010 (Okay, the AIS part, that is), aka Wen's weakest unit because she's just plainly shit-useless at spreadsheets and Excel and all that jazz, was definitely not 'okay'. It was so awful, omg. I pray I pass. Seriously. I do not want to start failing units now, especially all the way here and when my parents are paying more for me to be here. And I do not want to be failing this unit of all units. Gulp.
On a brighter note, this much down! Hee. The ruler, I added for effect, just to emphasize how much it really is. Out of my life you go!
Okay, on to the next thing: my daddy.
Recently, there apparently was a problem with AMO contact lens solution. Apparently all over the news or something like that. Maybe it was broadcast here either, I have no idea, but yeah, my dad called me from Malaysia about two weeks ago to tell me about it.
Me: (checks caller ID) Hi, Pa!
Papa: EH WHAT CONTACT LENS SOLUTION DO YOU USE?
Me: (taken aback) Err...
Papa: ARE YOU USING AMO?
Me: A...M...O?
Papa: CAN GET CANCER YOU KNOW!
LOL. No, nothing so drastic, but apparently all the AMO Complete MoisturePlus solutions for sale in the market were recalled by AMO because it apparently it was found that users of this solution had seven times greater risk to Acanthamoeba keratitis, which can apparently cause cornea ulcertaion and cause severe loss of vision, temporarily or even completely.
My father, the drama queen.
Want to know how I knew all that? Easy.
Today, I got a letter from my dad. I was so happy when I saw it in the mail. Was actually waiting for my work permit to come from the immigration, but instead saw this, and instantly recognised my dad's awful scrawl.
So I so very excitedly thought, "Hmm, what could it be? It's so thin...ooh, MAYBE IT'S A CHEQUE." [/dream]
Ripped it open, all happy at the prospect of mail and what do I find?
.
.
.
.
Newspaper clippings of the AMO situation. -_-" The Star, Tuesday 29th May 2007, pg. 27 of the Nation section. LOL! I had a good laugh when I saw it. Papa, oh Papa. How I love your quirkiness so.
Serena had a good laugh too when I showed her. She thinks my dad is extremely hilarious now, I think. Lol.
Serena: (laughing) "What you think your mother would have said lah?
Me: "She would have laughed at him or... (pauses to think) Eyy, she could have been the one who asked him to do it too! (laughs somemore)
My parents are so funny. I blame all my weirdness on them, lol.
*
So yes, my brother came awhile ago, as most of you probably already know. They left on the Saturday after my first paper, and called from the airport as they were going through customs. Sigh. Got a little teary when Josh said in a teensy-tiny voice, "Buh-bye Wen Kor *sniffle*". I swear that little boy's going to be a heartbreaker one day.
Pictures of our yumchar lunch! (Yes, yum cha here refers to having dim sum in the day, people. I know it's weird, lol. Everytime someone here mentions yum cha I get a flash of Maybank mamak and Murni's.)
Cheeky-darlin' Joel and I. He's so tall. And it's just been four months! How come he seems like he grew so much?
Amelia sweetie pie, and my awesome brother. Isn't she super adorable? She's such a sweetheart and can walk so well now. And I think she still remembers me, because she warmed up to me straight away and let me carry her and stuff when I went over to Su's parents house for dinner. Sigh. She's so cuuuute. I'm missing her already.
Adorable Josh.
Su, Melia and Josh. Su's hair looks sooo different now, I was so shocked, hee.
Serena came too! This picture was taken by Joel, all by himself. Proud sial.
Me, Josh and half of Joel. Sigh. Good time.
Wen Kor misses you all already, darling boys and girl. And the darling big adult boy and girl too. Lol. Can't wait to see you guys again.
*
Zhen Han's family came to visit a week ago, and his mum was the sweetest ever. She stayed at home, cooking us meals to store in the fridge so we could just reheat all the stuff during our exams to eat. She made nyonya ba-chang, and curry chicken (which I didn't have because I was sick, boo), and dumplings with dear Yao.
I know you all are jealous. Lol. Especially YK.
Proof that it wasn't just a picture of dumplings in a restaurant. Hee. We have the actual steamer and all too, now.
*
Geez, I know I said exam-hiatus. But, then I come and post a meaty picspam. Tsk. I've been so awesome at procrastinating. I'd sit around, read a few lines, and think, 'oh hmm, I should clip my toenails'. Random, I know!
Then, I'd read another few lines, fiddle with my hair, and think, 'oh, it's been awhile since I plucked my eyebrows'.
Fine. All happy and plucked, I'd sit down again, read say another paragraph or so, and get up again. This time to moisturise the area which I've plucked because it felt dry.
Fast-forward to the next day during studying: 'OMG, I just plucked my eyebrows yesterday. How come there's hair there again so fast? o.O'. Either my eyebrows have super-hero insta-growth powers, or my moisturer is a mangkin for quick hair regrowth. Or maybe I'm just blind. Heh.
Okay, enough rambling for tonight. I have to go study Cost Info now, but all this rambling has made me so tired. Sheesh.
See you all on Friday after freedom. Ooh wait, maybe I'll see you all on Saturday instead. Since I plan to be outttttttt the whole of Friday after the paper. Hee.
P/S: Ms. Caryn Yan gets a special sentence because she's got a Financial Accounting paper tomorrow and it sounds like a bitch-hard subject. ): Talk to you soon! All the best to others taking FA too- Sotong, and I'm not sure who else. Jasmine? Are you taking FA too? If yes, good luck!
P/P/S: Kelly Clarkson's new album, I like. There's a song named Chivas. How not to like? Lol. But yes, it's awesome, and I love.
P/P/P/S: The OCD-ness in me has managed to obtain the help of an online photo-resizer and yay, everything looks better again. :P
OMG. I just released a shitload of stress. By laughing at...myself. Heh.
See, I was reading through my tutorial solutions for Money & Capital Markets, and I was at question 4, week 1, and it says:
"Depository financial institutions - they attract savings from depositors and investors and provide loans to borrowers. Examples: commercial banks, building societies and credit unions."
Fine. Nothing remotely funny, or even interesting about that. Snooze-fest. Right?
Noooo. See, I like to write down extra notes by lecture notes and tute solutions. So right after to this sentence, I wrote:
"...attract through on-demand or term deposit."
Okay. Still nothing funny. I repeated the sentence under my breath a few times, trying to get it to stick in my non-Velcro memory. And then I read the other notes I wrote in the margin of the paper, next to the first sentence:
"...mainly provide loans to borrowers in-house & the handsome guy."
*blink blink*
*pauses to process that*
*blinks somemore*
o.O
WTFLOL. What in the world? HAHAHAHA. I immediately cracked up after all that blinking for a good five minutes. Don't ask me how that got there. I have no freaking idea. Bwah!
Aduh, stomach pain now. HEE.
The whattheheck-ness of it all is hilarity in itself, I swear. Hah.
ETA: I cannot take it. I'm still laughing! HAHA. Damn funny, can die. So randommm. I don't even remember writing that. And it's not like there's any cute guys in my Money&Cap lecture/tutorials.
Just went to show Serena and accidentally woke her up. Oopsies. Sorry yah. But she found it damn funny too. And I just started giggling like a mad woman on the way back to my room. Yao and Mel and Zhen Han must think I'm bonkersif they can hear me. I'm sure they can.
I think it's all the exam stress getting to me, omg.
LOL. Great, now I'm super hyper.
ETA2: Papa just called. I always feel better after talking to my parents. He said all the things a dad is supposed to say when his daughter is sick. :) I love mandatory-daddy love. Hee. It makes me a happy happy girl. And my mum loved the Mother's Day top which I told my brother to bring back for her. Hee, she asked me if she could wear it with slacks and whether it was okay to wear a tube inside. I miss my mother asking me random fashion questions. Le sigh. Mum and dad dearest.
Because I'm still finding it bloody funny. Lol. This is soooo classic. I can imagine what my mother would do if she saw this: shake her head and click her tongue - tut-tut-tut-tut - really quickly and probably ponder why she even bothers with me. Hah.
See, I was reading through my tutorial solutions for Money & Capital Markets, and I was at question 4, week 1, and it says:
"Depository financial institutions - they attract savings from depositors and investors and provide loans to borrowers. Examples: commercial banks, building societies and credit unions."
Fine. Nothing remotely funny, or even interesting about that. Snooze-fest. Right?
Noooo. See, I like to write down extra notes by lecture notes and tute solutions. So right after to this sentence, I wrote:
"...attract through on-demand or term deposit."
Okay. Still nothing funny. I repeated the sentence under my breath a few times, trying to get it to stick in my non-Velcro memory. And then I read the other notes I wrote in the margin of the paper, next to the first sentence:
"...mainly provide loans to borrowers in-house & the handsome guy."
*blink blink*
*pauses to process that*
*blinks somemore*
o.O
WTFLOL. What in the world? HAHAHAHA. I immediately cracked up after all that blinking for a good five minutes. Don't ask me how that got there. I have no freaking idea. Bwah!
Aduh, stomach pain now. HEE.
The whattheheck-ness of it all is hilarity in itself, I swear. Hah.
ETA: I cannot take it. I'm still laughing! HAHA. Damn funny, can die. So randommm. I don't even remember writing that. And it's not like there's any cute guys in my Money&Cap lecture/tutorials.
Just went to show Serena and accidentally woke her up. Oopsies. Sorry yah. But she found it damn funny too. And I just started giggling like a mad woman on the way back to my room. Yao and Mel and Zhen Han must think I'm bonkers
I think it's all the exam stress getting to me, omg.
LOL. Great, now I'm super hyper.
ETA2: Papa just called. I always feel better after talking to my parents. He said all the things a dad is supposed to say when his daughter is sick. :) I love mandatory-daddy love. Hee. It makes me a happy happy girl. And my mum loved the Mother's Day top which I told my brother to bring back for her. Hee, she asked me if she could wear it with slacks and whether it was okay to wear a tube inside. I miss my mother asking me random fashion questions. Le sigh. Mum and dad dearest.
So long, farewell, AFF 2631 Financial Management.
I know I said hiatus, but procrastinating like there's no tomorrow. It's such an awful habit. Financial Management went okay, thank God. Luckily they didn't ask the implications of the Efficient Market Hypothesis in full and throw in a 15-mark allocation for that, or else I could just have started burying myself a hole under my chair and died in the Caulfield Racecourse (Yes, did I tell you guys? We take our exams in a racecourse, lol.). Three thorns to pull out from my behind before I can do my happy dance. See you then...
Meep. :(
Do you know what's as bad as being sick?
Having the hot water completely run out and taking a freezing shower because there's still conditioner in your hair that you haven't washed off. Oh, and to make things even more fun, all this at 12 degrees Celcius. And while you're possibly not 100% recovered from your 3-in-1 flu, fever and sore throat.
WTF.
Gee, thanks, stupid water heater system/whatever. I officially hate you.
Financial Management tomorrow, Money & Caps on Tuesday, AIS/Financial Modeling on Wednesday, and finally, Cost Info for Decision-Making on Friday, and I'll be a happy, happy girl at exactly 12:30 p.m., Friday.
Till then, this blog will be napping. Zzz.
P/S: I think I finally got over my driving-other-people's-cars-phobia today. Hee. Serenamade requested me to drive her to campus for her Trade Finance paper today. You all know how I don't like to drive other people's cars, right? Well, it went fine. Except for that teeny oversteer, and I think I gave her a heart attack. But that teensy factor aside, it was a-okay. Yay me.
Having the hot water completely run out and taking a freezing shower because there's still conditioner in your hair that you haven't washed off. Oh, and to make things even more fun, all this at 12 degrees Celcius. And while you're possibly not 100% recovered from your 3-in-1 flu, fever and sore throat.
WTF.
Gee, thanks, stupid water heater system/whatever. I officially hate you.
Financial Management tomorrow, Money & Caps on Tuesday, AIS/Financial Modeling on Wednesday, and finally, Cost Info for Decision-Making on Friday, and I'll be a happy, happy girl at exactly 12:30 p.m., Friday.
Till then, this blog will be napping. Zzz.
P/S: I think I finally got over my driving-other-people's-cars-phobia today. Hee. Serena
Someone please just kill me now. Or something like that. I just wasted half an hour of my time looking for my Financial Management lecture notes for week 9. Rummaged through all the notes for all four units, looking for that elusive 10 pages that was playing hide and seek with me. Pawed through so many sheafs of paper.
AND THEN IT HIT ME.
Week 9 was our mid-sem exam. There was no lecture. Hence, NO LECTURE NOTES FOR WEEK 9.
Seriously, someone shoot me and my stupidity. I'm so, so annoyed. ROAR. My head still hurts.
AND THEN IT HIT ME.
Week 9 was our mid-sem exam. There was no lecture. Hence, NO LECTURE NOTES FOR WEEK 9.
Seriously, someone shoot me and my stupidity. I'm so, so annoyed. ROAR. My head still hurts.
Okay, so I thought I'd finally put you all out of your misery of having to see my cam-whoring pictures of me in my new dress at the top of the page and thought I'd post pictures of my lunch with my brother, Su and the kids. But as usual, nothing is going the way I'd like it to. Internet is incredibly shitty and...
I AM SICK.
Flu and sore throat and fever, could you please kindly leave my body? It would be best appreciated. I will give you triple chocolate chip cookies if you do.
With love,
Wendy.
I hate that I always fall sick during exam periods. Wtf. Am I really that stressed out? HATEEEE. Nothing went into my head today. My head hurts. My throat hurts. And now my nose hurts from blowing too much. I was feeling a little better after dinner and the soup which Zhen Han's mom made for us, but now it's back to feeling bad again.
Financial Management is on Friday. I'm so screwed. Does anyone have any good remedies for flu? Sore throat? Fever? Anyone? *makes very sad-looking puppy dog eyes*
I AM SICK.
Flu and sore throat and fever, could you please kindly leave my body? It would be best appreciated. I will give you triple chocolate chip cookies if you do.
With love,
Wendy.
I hate that I always fall sick during exam periods. Wtf. Am I really that stressed out? HATEEEE. Nothing went into my head today. My head hurts. My throat hurts. And now my nose hurts from blowing too much. I was feeling a little better after dinner and the soup which Zhen Han's mom made for us, but now it's back to feeling bad again.
Financial Management is on Friday. I'm so screwed. Does anyone have any good remedies for flu? Sore throat? Fever? Anyone? *makes very sad-looking puppy dog eyes*
Okay. So finals are in about four weeks away, and I'm still bumming around like a complete...bum. Heh. I need to get a little studying done so I can go hang out with my brother and his family when they come, and play with the adorable kids, and get them to bring out for more expensive food than I can afford on my own budget. Hee. And, I need finish off the list of things I want them to bring over from home for me. Do you think my dad will notice if I put 'new handphone - SE Z610i' and 'new shiny, sleek camera' on the list, and just buy them for me without thinking? Hey, a girl can hope.
The Internet at home is reaaaaally getting on my nerves. It's so damn slow. It PMS-es worse than Streamyx. And I know I spent a lot of ungrateful time complaining about Streamyx after I was stuck on awful dial-up for years, but give me Streamyx now, and I'll be a happy camper. The happiest, ever. I was trying to download the new OTH ep, and Azureus indicated that my download would finish in approximately 81 days and 16 hours time. Rawr. At that rate, the season finale would have premiered, already.
Got back mid-sem results and one assignment, and did better on all than I expected. So, yes, YAY. I expected to be contented with maybe just a 60% on Financial Management, since I thought I screwed the yield to maturity question up, but thank goodness for nice tutors and flexible marking schemes. Hah, I like my Financial Management tutor. He tells us there are bound to be mistakes in the marking since he was marking them in front of Friday night footy games, and he might've been a bit too strict because his team lost. Lol. Money and Caps assignment back next week, which is worth a hefty 25% of the final mark, so that one's kinda nerve-wrecking.
Okay, enough about boring academic talk. We shall have pictures since I'm at campus (Yes, I know I have no classes today, the articles I need for next week's presenation won't download at home because of the god-awful Internet speed) and the connection is heavenly.
So, finally, after like, what, three months? Pictures of the house. No matter how nice it is, it will never quite be home, so it will remain the house.
Ppl, meet our house.
A tree in our front yard. So autumn.
The road I take everyday to get to campus. The fact that the trees and everything is so pretty makes it a pleasant walk. Except when it's raining and damn cold.
The bed. I'm getting so used to sprawling all over this big bed that I just might fall off my bed when I go home. Eep.
I'm pretty sure I'll never get sick of this cupboard.
Yep, pretty sure.
Are you convinced yet?
The study area, and where I talk to you guys.
Tiny shot of the collages on my wall.
Kitchen. We've been baking and making use of the oven, hee. Especially Yao, who bakes a cake like once a week. That's George, Serena's boyfriend from when he visited us last month.
The other half of the kitchen.
Living area, which is after the kitchen. When you walk into our house, it's all rooms first, then the kitchen, and then the living room at the back of the house.
The other side of the living area, where all the munching happens.
Our backyard.
You can't actually see it clearly, but there are fruits that look like little oranges on this bush, which Ching kindly informed me, are limes. Lol.
Our infamous swimming pool. Which can't be used cause it's so freaking cold already.
I love this rosebush by the side of the pool.
So pretty, isn't it?
Yep, so that's where I live right now. I love it, actually. It's a gazillion times better than the place I was staying in when I first arrived. I've probably complained about it so much to you guys. And I'm super thankful that we managed to get this place for the price that we're getting.
So next up...Lavish shots, mostly stolen from Jasmine and Caryn. :P
So, G-Mun expected me to still be getting ready when he came to pick me up. But no, I was done and had time to take self-shots. I'm punctualat rare times, okay. :P
I cannot take un-blurry pictures when I turn off the flash. But yes, that's my new multipurpose top which can be tied in seven ways, according to the little card that came with it. 10 dollars only. Hee.
In the car while picking Jasmine up in St. Kilda.
Me and Jasmine.
Take 1: Jasmine, Serena and one-half Quinnie.
Take 2. Perfect shot.
Poh Yee, me and Caryn.
Alco! I think one of the bottles belongs to the one of the aunties that was dancing behind our table. She mumbled something to Kim, and smiled (flirtatiously) and put her bottle on our table. Hahaha.
Caryn and I.
Sorry, guy in white. It's just that it looks like...you're reaaaally into the song. Not laughing at your dance moves, I swear.
Jasmine, me and Caryn.
Me, Ching & Caryn. See, this is like towards the end of the night when we're all a little pinker.
Oh, and finally a pic of some of the guys. Lol. Jasmine, G-Mun & Kim. Ching says Kim reminds her of Joseph Dong, apparently.
So that's it, I think I'll go grab some lunch and head home now, and watch Friday Night Lights or maybe catch up on Heroes, or OTH, if that's finished downloading, althought I highly doubt it. Hee. Everyone should go and watch Friday Night Lights too. It's a pretty good show.
Clubbing tonight again 'cause it's Nelson's birthday. =) Happy birthday in advance, Nelson!
The Internet at home is reaaaaally getting on my nerves. It's so damn slow. It PMS-es worse than Streamyx. And I know I spent a lot of ungrateful time complaining about Streamyx after I was stuck on awful dial-up for years, but give me Streamyx now, and I'll be a happy camper. The happiest, ever. I was trying to download the new OTH ep, and Azureus indicated that my download would finish in approximately 81 days and 16 hours time. Rawr. At that rate, the season finale would have premiered, already.
Got back mid-sem results and one assignment, and did better on all than I expected. So, yes, YAY. I expected to be contented with maybe just a 60% on Financial Management, since I thought I screwed the yield to maturity question up, but thank goodness for nice tutors and flexible marking schemes. Hah, I like my Financial Management tutor. He tells us there are bound to be mistakes in the marking since he was marking them in front of Friday night footy games, and he might've been a bit too strict because his team lost. Lol. Money and Caps assignment back next week, which is worth a hefty 25% of the final mark, so that one's kinda nerve-wrecking.
Okay, enough about boring academic talk. We shall have pictures since I'm at campus (Yes, I know I have no classes today, the articles I need for next week's presenation won't download at home because of the god-awful Internet speed) and the connection is heavenly.
So, finally, after like, what, three months? Pictures of the house. No matter how nice it is, it will never quite be home, so it will remain the house.
Ppl, meet our house.
A tree in our front yard. So autumn.
The road I take everyday to get to campus. The fact that the trees and everything is so pretty makes it a pleasant walk. Except when it's raining and damn cold.
The bed. I'm getting so used to sprawling all over this big bed that I just might fall off my bed when I go home. Eep.
I'm pretty sure I'll never get sick of this cupboard.
Yep, pretty sure.
Are you convinced yet?
The study area, and where I talk to you guys.
Tiny shot of the collages on my wall.
Kitchen. We've been baking and making use of the oven, hee. Especially Yao, who bakes a cake like once a week. That's George, Serena's boyfriend from when he visited us last month.
The other half of the kitchen.
Living area, which is after the kitchen. When you walk into our house, it's all rooms first, then the kitchen, and then the living room at the back of the house.
The other side of the living area, where all the munching happens.
Our backyard.
You can't actually see it clearly, but there are fruits that look like little oranges on this bush, which Ching kindly informed me, are limes. Lol.
Our infamous swimming pool. Which can't be used cause it's so freaking cold already.
I love this rosebush by the side of the pool.
So pretty, isn't it?
Yep, so that's where I live right now. I love it, actually. It's a gazillion times better than the place I was staying in when I first arrived. I've probably complained about it so much to you guys. And I'm super thankful that we managed to get this place for the price that we're getting.
So next up...Lavish shots, mostly stolen from Jasmine and Caryn. :P
So, G-Mun expected me to still be getting ready when he came to pick me up. But no, I was done and had time to take self-shots. I'm punctual
I cannot take un-blurry pictures when I turn off the flash. But yes, that's my new multipurpose top which can be tied in seven ways, according to the little card that came with it. 10 dollars only. Hee.
In the car while picking Jasmine up in St. Kilda.
Me and Jasmine.
Take 1: Jasmine, Serena and one-half Quinnie.
Take 2. Perfect shot.
Poh Yee, me and Caryn.
Alco! I think one of the bottles belongs to the one of the aunties that was dancing behind our table. She mumbled something to Kim, and smiled (flirtatiously) and put her bottle on our table. Hahaha.
Caryn and I.
Sorry, guy in white. It's just that it looks like...you're reaaaally into the song. Not laughing at your dance moves, I swear.
Jasmine, me and Caryn.
Me, Ching & Caryn. See, this is like towards the end of the night when we're all a little pinker.
Oh, and finally a pic of some of the guys. Lol. Jasmine, G-Mun & Kim. Ching says Kim reminds her of Joseph Dong, apparently.
So that's it, I think I'll go grab some lunch and head home now, and watch Friday Night Lights or maybe catch up on Heroes, or OTH, if that's finished downloading, althought I highly doubt it. Hee. Everyone should go and watch Friday Night Lights too. It's a pretty good show.
Clubbing tonight again 'cause it's Nelson's birthday. =) Happy birthday in advance, Nelson!
Okay, so Big Bad Week 7 with two assignments and the mid-sem exam is finally over. Phew. And then, straight after that, we gave the house a HUGE cleaning because we kinda abandoned it for that week and the week before that. Heh.
As usual, I'm blogging in spurts. Periods of which I blog once every two days, and then I go weeks before I blog. Oopsies. My bad for leaving you with Wei Soon's etiquette inadequecies at the top of the page for so long. :P
So anyways, nothing much as happenedexcept that I rewarded myself with some shopping therapy and chatted with a cute cashier in the mall. It's been back to classes, back to looming assignment due dates and more mid-sem exams. Got another assignment due on May 7th, another due on May 25th, and then Financial Management mid-sem exam on May 1st. And then my brother and his family are coming on May 26th, till the 9th of June.
Finals timetable's out.
Financial Management, 8th June
Money and Capital Markets, 12th June
Accounting Information Systems and Financial Modelling, 13th June
Cost Information for Decision Making, 15th June
Not that bad, a week's period of exam, Tricia and Joachim got worse deals than this. You know, I was marking all the dates on my calendar and after marking the last paper, I thought to myself, 'Yay, I finish just in time so we can go out and celebrate Mary's birthday'. And then, I remember I'm all the way here. -_-
So yeah, when finals timetables are out, it sorta gives you that feeling. I'm not going to try to describe it because I'm sure you all know what I mean, plus, I'm not feeling very eloquent today because it's 9:20 in the morning. Lol. Anzac day today, meaning no classes, so it's a full day for me to stay at home and study. GAH.
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Pohpoh's not well. She hasn't been well for the past two weeks and it scares me every time I get a call or text on my Malaysian line. Every e-mail from my family members updates me on her condition and everytime it's been getting worse. Doctors say she doesn't have much time left. My mom and brother went down to Singapore to see her, and they say she's suffering. And I don't really know what to do. I don't really know what I can do. Probably nothing, and that really sucks. It's been in the back of my mind throughout the past two weeks, and amidst all the academic stress, and I just needed to let that all out.
And also, the news about Virginia Tech really scares me. To think that guns are so easily accessible, and that a person with previous mental instability could purchase one just like that. And for him to plan it all so meticulously; to record his manifesto in the form of a video, and to walk to the post office in between his first and second shootings to mail it to NBC. It's so deranged; it all seems like he'd been planning it for ages. Imagine being barricaded off in classrooms and just shot at. The people who died were all people with bright futures, double-degree students, students about to graduate in May, students who were heavily involved in charity, and it's such a shame. And that lecturer, who died because threw himself in front of the gunman to shield his students and give them time to climb out of the window. It brought a tear to my eye because in times of desperation like these, you could be the most generous person on the planet, but human nature and reflex actions strike, and then you save your own ass first. But in the space of a millisecond, probably, this professor chose to save his students.
It's been hailed as the bloodiest shooting rampage in the modern American world. And yet, people are still standing by the right to carry guns. They claim it's their freedom. Sure, yes, it gives crazed people the freedom to gun the bright young adults of your country down. Go figure.
Although it happened so far away, I don't know why it hits so close to home.
Lik Xiong, Dong, rest of you guys in US, please take care, kay? See you guys at the end of the year.
Those who perished in the Virginia Tech shooting, rest in peace.
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Happy Birthday to Ms. Chong Pek Wah, turning the big two-oh yesterday! Hugs, babe. (:
Plus, another big happy birthday to Ms. Kwong Poh Yee, turning twenty today! When we celebrating, babe? ;)
P/S: OMG, I've been so addicted to TVB. Just finished watching Dicey Business. Someone stop me, eek.
As usual, I'm blogging in spurts. Periods of which I blog once every two days, and then I go weeks before I blog. Oopsies. My bad for leaving you with Wei Soon's etiquette inadequecies at the top of the page for so long. :P
So anyways, nothing much as happened
Finals timetable's out.
Financial Management, 8th June
Money and Capital Markets, 12th June
Accounting Information Systems and Financial Modelling, 13th June
Cost Information for Decision Making, 15th June
Not that bad, a week's period of exam, Tricia and Joachim got worse deals than this. You know, I was marking all the dates on my calendar and after marking the last paper, I thought to myself, 'Yay, I finish just in time so we can go out and celebrate Mary's birthday'. And then, I remember I'm all the way here. -_-
So yeah, when finals timetables are out, it sorta gives you that feeling. I'm not going to try to describe it because I'm sure you all know what I mean, plus, I'm not feeling very eloquent today because it's 9:20 in the morning. Lol. Anzac day today, meaning no classes, so it's a full day for me to stay at home and study. GAH.
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Pohpoh's not well. She hasn't been well for the past two weeks and it scares me every time I get a call or text on my Malaysian line. Every e-mail from my family members updates me on her condition and everytime it's been getting worse. Doctors say she doesn't have much time left. My mom and brother went down to Singapore to see her, and they say she's suffering. And I don't really know what to do. I don't really know what I can do. Probably nothing, and that really sucks. It's been in the back of my mind throughout the past two weeks, and amidst all the academic stress, and I just needed to let that all out.
And also, the news about Virginia Tech really scares me. To think that guns are so easily accessible, and that a person with previous mental instability could purchase one just like that. And for him to plan it all so meticulously; to record his manifesto in the form of a video, and to walk to the post office in between his first and second shootings to mail it to NBC. It's so deranged; it all seems like he'd been planning it for ages. Imagine being barricaded off in classrooms and just shot at. The people who died were all people with bright futures, double-degree students, students about to graduate in May, students who were heavily involved in charity, and it's such a shame. And that lecturer, who died because threw himself in front of the gunman to shield his students and give them time to climb out of the window. It brought a tear to my eye because in times of desperation like these, you could be the most generous person on the planet, but human nature and reflex actions strike, and then you save your own ass first. But in the space of a millisecond, probably, this professor chose to save his students.
It's been hailed as the bloodiest shooting rampage in the modern American world. And yet, people are still standing by the right to carry guns. They claim it's their freedom. Sure, yes, it gives crazed people the freedom to gun the bright young adults of your country down. Go figure.
Although it happened so far away, I don't know why it hits so close to home.
Lik Xiong, Dong, rest of you guys in US, please take care, kay? See you guys at the end of the year.
Those who perished in the Virginia Tech shooting, rest in peace.
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Happy Birthday to Ms. Chong Pek Wah, turning the big two-oh yesterday! Hugs, babe. (:
Plus, another big happy birthday to Ms. Kwong Poh Yee, turning twenty today! When we celebrating, babe? ;)
P/S: OMG, I've been so addicted to TVB. Just finished watching Dicey Business. Someone stop me, eek.
I am hyperventilating! EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
2 high distinctions, 1 distinction and 1 credit! OMG. WHOA.
WAY better than what I expected. My 2 HDs are Marketing Theory and Practice, and Macroeconomics, the distinction's for Introductory Accounting A and the credit's for Business Law, which I thought I'd definitely fail. A HD for us, or for me anyway, feels like it's way hard to get, I didn't manage to get one in the first semester, so I can't believe I got one, let alone two. :D
OMG. I'm like floating-and-dancing-on-air happy. *attacks everyone with hugs*
I want to say a big big gargantuan thank you to everyone, especially Siokkwan, Ching, Jo and Mary who told me not to worry and tried to make me feel better these past few days. And YK, who was trying to calm me down online while I was checking. You guys made me feel so much better and made my heart rate slow down. Just a little, because I swear it was going like 500 beats a minute while the results were loading because of all days, my bloody Streamyx chose today to screw with my mind and act like a turtle on ice. It was sooooooo slow. It took about fifteen minutes to load up, and I typed in the password wrongly on the first two tries because I think my fingers were trembling too much.
OMG. I think I forgot to breathe! I'm just rambling now, aren't I? Sorry.
EEEEEEEE!
This means that my average as actually increased, and I've definitely met the 60% average I needed to make the exchange program. HEE, Australia here I come!
