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samsung is indeed not very durable despite not having dropped my phone more than five times nor letting it drink any beverages, throughout its life of 11 months. my phone’s keypad is getting a little retarded, the most retarded being the number 4 button. which is a pain in the ass cos g, h and i are very important alphabets and i get damn fed up sms-ing.

driving me to the next point:

i have my eyes on this presentable looking nokia (yes, it’s back to nokia for me) phone which singtel is offering at S$138. yah lah, it’s an old model. but i don’t need a super new model either. cheap is good. as long as it allows me to communicate with the rest of the world, i’m satisfied. plus i like the leather pouch and strap that comes with it too.

and surprise, surprise, my current phone is actually worth S$100. which works out to a balance of S$38.

once my exams are over i’m gonna take my current phone to see if they’ll fix the keypad for me. if they don’t (pretty high chances) i’m getting a new phone.

meanwhile, does anyone have a singtel shop voucher or a nokia phone voucher they don’t need? i’ll be perfectly happy to get a phone at zero dollars.

or maybe someone can consider getting me a belated halloween, deepavali, hari raya or xmas present. just give me a S$38 ang pao can liao.

1) i hate hot weather. even though it has an innocent looking appearance complete with bright sun, blue skies and nice fluffy clouds. it is too freaking hot even though the weather appears as good as a perfect saturday morning.

2) my room is being invaded by cockroach(es). spotted one last night and didn’t bother to murder it. i just saw one, could be the same one as last night, sprayed some baygon on it, and it crawled to the back of my desk. where it can end up dead in my bottom drawer.

3) realised last night, that a switch in my living room next to the door is for a bright orange light in the car porch. wah lao, four years since we moved in, countless barbeques in the front. now then i realise. no wonder some of my friends wonder if i really live in this house.

4) everytime i move to the living room to study in the late afternoon (thanks to the desk in my room which gets the setting sun) i knock my knees very hard into the table legs, made of solid wood. %^#%@&$%&#^*

thursday:

spent the whole day in the school trying to study but ended up chatting with people on msn.

decided to meet weiwei for a movie cos i was that bored. flight plan was quite interesting, especially since i didn’t watch panic room so i don’t know about the similar story plot thingy.

friday:

dim sum in the morning. authentic dim sum at red star. WAHAHAHA. speak of contentment.

shopping in the afternoon with wenwen, for tracy and weiwei’s presents and *ahem actually more for ourselves. lol. wenwen accused me of becoming gu niang too. the only thing un-guniang of me now is that i go around giving people hard slaps and i laugh like a fiend. all their fault lah, never influence me enough. now i’m left with the evil gu niang forces in school.

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i need more discipline, i need to get some serious studying done.

pissed off with msn. i had to use web messenger cos there’s some mysterious problem with my msn nowadays. it just freezes immediately after it logs in. then now they say i cannot sign in to webmessenger because they can’t sign in anymore people. what the hell?! an example of atrocious service from msn. yes, it’s free, but then doesn’t mean they should screw up so often.

by the way, i think i should cut down on the use of “hell”, “damn”, “bloody” and “freaking”, etc. cos i was doing a q&a session for my presentation, when i almost used these words quite a few times, so i had to pause mid-sentence and think of alternative words. took me a few seconds to come up with replacements. not a good habit.

but then habits are hard to change. nowadays getting more demure liao. all thanks to the gu niang people i hang out with in school. if i get anymore demure i think weiwei will disown me. i don’t like the demure me too. not so fun. i’m getting boring.

how how how?

first day of mugging and i’m behind schedule.

die lah.

finally reached the end of the semester and even managed to turn up as the EARLIEST for the tutorial class. despite being really tempted to just skip the class and get all the sleep i’ve been needing.

sat there. listened to all the naggings and blah blah blah from the tutor. he never fails to do this every semester. basket. at least my efforts to turn up wasn’t wasted, cos we got back our individual assignments and i got a freaking A+!! hahahaha. i’m a genius~!

and i had a beautiful sleep in the afternoon!! decided to take a break from sleep. so that i can sleep early later, haha.

yawn.

had to leave wenwen’s party at 8pm - which is freaking early. sorry, buddee. but i’m glad you like the pizza box!

the morning presentation was totally screwed up.

stomach growled very very loudly in class cos i skipped breakfast.

met someone i don’t like along the way. he was wearing a hot pink polo shirt some more.

got another presentation in the afternoon. don’t have the mood for it anymore.

what can be worse than a day like this?

luckily got mayday song on 93.3 at a timely moment.

post-edit: the tutor for the presentation which we totally screwed up is awfully nice. we were sitting around s4 after his second class and we spotted him going off. 5 minutes later he appeared out of nowhere and told us not to worry too much about the presentation and to concentrate on the exams. if i were him i wouldn’t even bothered consoling a group which has totally screwed up their presentation cos they were totally irrational. i guess our group would still be heavily penalized, but then he still made me feel happier about it.

next time must be more rational.

here’s a happy birthday to:

my msian buddee weiwei!!!
born:23rd october

buddee i’m so proud of you that you are growing up!! but then stay siao so that you can influence me from time to time, ya? congrats on your new phone, new line and your free dinner with your sister!

but then *ahem* being the lousy but busy buddee i am your present will be belated!

never mind lah, you already got such a fantastic present from your special someone.

next on the list…..

my slacker buddee wenwen!!
born 30th october

buddeee!! welcome to the 21s!! this is the buddee whom i sacrificed for in my virgin filming and she refused to promise me not to pass around the video. basket. never mind, it’s your day so i shall forgive you. erm i hope you don’t find your presents redundant haha but i had fun shopping for them, so who cares? lol.

basket, i need to breathe! am badly stuck in the last lap of the semester.

i hate chains. i hate cages. i hate restraints.

tamade.

i think someone should do something about weather control. why waste the money on ammunition and space travel? invest the money in controlling weather lah. it’s more beneficial for the entire world, saving loads of people from earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and such. the number of disasters this year alone tells us we should do something, right? plus all those reports about warm areas going to get warmer and cold winters going to get colder.

and while they are doing something about the weather they should do something to the weather in tropical areas too. yah lah, i agree it is fun sometimes, there’s the element of surprise when it is bloody hot in the morning and then it rains cats and dogs in the afternoon. but then it irritates me cos the weather is so damn unpredictable i have to bring my umbrella out every day or i cannot reach home without wetting my phone or ipod or notes! plus it makes one vulnerable to flu.

if only we can control the weather and make it more predictable.

sheesh, i sound like that bush over there in america who’s asking the fast food companies to try invent french fries that are not fried in transfat, healthier and costs little for working class. the day that happens, cows will come in blue, yellow and green colours.

i hate this restless feeling, when i suddenly don’t feel like doing anything. i’ve tried retail therapy, a haircut, tv, lying on the bed doing nothing to get rid of the feeling. these used to work on me. not this time.

i think i need something else to entertain me and make me happy.

happy workers are productive workers.

slept at 4am this morning and fell totally unconscious. haven’t slept this well for a long time.

until my inconsiderate parents woke me up twice (supposedly more) to talk to me about heaven-knows-what. they didn’t know i slept so late.

woken up by a call from my mum who sneaked out when i was asleep, asking me if i’ve cooked porridge. i growled and told her she didn’t tell me to do so. she said she did.

she should know better than to tell me something when i’m asleep.

shall start on another project now.

fengyi had it worse. she just went to bed. and i volunteered to do the report so it was supposed to be my job. sorry everything somehow ended up to be dumped on you!!

buddee here’s your birthday present!!

hahahaha

a whole tagboard for you to blog on!

boing boing boing!

awake.

half wake, to be exact.

still working on the report.

yawn.

i just like courier font suddenly, no reasons.

“In particular, a good and strong government will lead the country in economic progress ? which applies in the case of Singapore. “

see? this appears in the report i’m compiling. this is only one of the many praises i’m singing of the government.

who says i’m not pro-government?

oh, the great and mightly government! i promise i’ll be display civil obedience and not put up white elephant placards anywhere! i am a model singaporean!

the internet gives me a sense of security, i realise. or should i say a false sense of security.

just 5 minutes ago when i switched on the computer to start working on the report due next week, i felt kinda lost. cos even though the points are provided by my group mates and all i have to do is to compile and edit, i felt lost. maybe cos i had to start from scratch. i didn’t want to get connected cos it’ll be troublesome, having to talk to people on msn. but i couldn’t escape the truth, getting connected made me feel less lonely. basket, what has human interaction turned into?! even though i knew my group mates wouldn’t be online, i just feel better somehow.

just like the way i know i am safe and connected to the internet when i see my msn logging on successfully. otherwise i’ll feel so frantic. the way i start IE and is able to surf the net.

basket, i’m addicted to the net. i should quit this before it gets serious.

don’t think i’m not online just because you don’t see me on msn. i am online most of the time, just that sometimes i’m on invisible mode or not logged in at all. cos i want to avoid communication with other people.

basket, i’m becoming an anti-social being very soon. if that happens one day, please remember that once upon a time, yanyan was a sociable, noisy person who liked expressing herself through her voicebox, not with the keyboard.

i feel sorry i’m such an incorrigible bum. i know i’m not supposed to be feeling sorry for myself, but then i can’t help it.

i overslept again and was 1 hr late for a project discussion. luckily they didn’t cover much ground today.

then i bummed around in the computer lab cos i didn’t wanna go home when i went all the way to school for less than one hour. so i started doing some retail shopping, checked out movies schedules and dvd rentals.

after which i thought of going to jurong point to get the top i saw on tuesday. but i was too lazy to go all the way to jurong point just for a stupid top. what if it didn’t fit? and the corpse bride is no longer showing at jurong point. couldn’t get anyone to go with me, since it’s the deadline season now. so i decided not to go either.

i wanted to dig out some dvds i bought but haven’t watched yet, but it would mean either going up to my brother’s room to use the pc with the dvd-rom or going downstairs to the living room where the dvd player was, but i decided i was too lazy to go to the trouble.

then i wanted to go sleep until tomorrow, the weather being so nice and cool, but i decided it was too nice a day to waste.

it’s the perfect day.

so here i am because it’s such a nice day and i shall get my bumming ass back to work again.

talk about a bumming workaholic.

all due to somebody’s suggestion (which i didn’t take up) of going downtown today to get the bag i’ve been wanting to get, i feel an incredibly strong urge to do some shopping. since it’s 10pm now i don’t supposed i will go out and shop, not that the shops are open now.

so.

i’m trying online shopping. but it seems that i can’t find a place with reasonable prices and good stuff i.e. bags and accessories!!!

someone gimme some good links!!!

1) i’ve decided to start scolding people or things that piss me off with BASKET! cos the other day we were in the lecture theatre i scolded “shit!” quite loudly when i saw some tartar sauce on my jacket. fengyi said how come i curse so loud, not very nice. so i said aloud, “oh, sorry, please excuse my language”. from that point onwards, i decided to use non-racist (later kana caught by govt), non-offensive terms.

so far the only word i can think of is BASKET!

2) BASKET! my fingers are no longer listening to my brain. cos my brain is screaming for sleep. had less than 4 hours of sleep last night, again. basket, i spent 10 minutes typing a simple email. kept making typos. now doing this with a lot of help from the backspace button. still got a report die die gotta finish tonight. better save the remaining energy for it.

this is freaking me out.

it’s pitch black outside and there’s crows crowing away.

try telling me this is not eerie.

only managed to sleep at 4am this morning, thanks to the mind-boggling ab 311 slides. and i don’t even know what i was doing. i haven’t read through the points clearly, which meant that i only cut and pasted everything from here to there last night.

and then we all thought the tutorial question we were supposed to answer was based on the 4 Ps from marketing. then we sent our slides to the tutor for review - and realised we were supposed to base it on the 4Ps of strategy. which aren’t covered in the textbook or notes. tamade. how many Ps they wanna teach us?! in year one we learnt about the four Ps in marketing. this semester we learnt about 7 Ps in services marketing - which is built upon the 4 Ps in marketing. then now they’re telling us strategy also got 4Ps (actually there’s 5). what the heck.

somehow my msn screwed up on me. i am connected to the marvellous world wide web, but i can’t log onto msn. therefore i cannot communicate with the co-mastermind of the presentation. meaning if i still can’t get online by 10pm, that’s it, i’m gonna sleep.

i got a tuition class tomorrow morning.

basket! i really hate sunday morning tuition classes.

today was the second time i attended the political economics lecture. out of ten. but then cannot blame lah, only a third of the lecture group turns up every week. and i wouldn’t have attended if not for the presentation we’re doing. maybe i’ll consider attending the lectures by this professor, cos he’s a blast!

this guy must be about 70 years old and i think i would have dropped dead on the floor if i had seen his resume. he’s worked for the government, was the chairman of the wage union for thirty years (or something like that) and blah blah blah. then he had SO many stories about his lunches and dinners with CEOs here and there, discussions with this minister and that prime minister and so on, implemented this campaign and that. basically he seems to be involved with a hell lot of things singapore is involved in right now.

BUT.

he’s not irritable cos he’s got quite a sense of humour. and friendly, pretty humble i would say. he didn’t do the names dropping to impress us but to educate and interest us in some stuff. and i would say he talks as if he were at our level, a lowly undergraduate. come on lor, he’s like up therrreeee and we’re like ignorant people who doesn’t even know the history of our own country well enough.

at some point he was so overly polite to ask us if we minded if he took off his jacket cos it was too warm in the lecture theatre. and commented “i’m like doing a little striptease here. but never mind, i’m an old man”

!!!

this guy is a hell of a lecturer, although i admit i remember more about his anecdotes then the stuff he was trying to teach us. seriously, i wonder how the heck ntu managed to get him here to lecture. cos he’s like over-qualified. really, i think the school got a gem lor.

man, i can’t believe i have such a liking for a lecturer, but he’s probably the first one who’s so entertaining in ntu. rare moment for me to praise something about the school.

oh yes, just now my tuition kid was talking about some soccer match thingy. then he asked me, “teacher that time i went to the stadium to watch a soccer match. then hor, the people behind me siao one leh. this team scored a ball they went “goooal!!” then later the other team scored a goal they also cheered. which team they buy ah?”

wah liao eh. i nearly died laughing, it’s totally hilarious!!! the things kids say…..

made my debut as a superstar yesterday - man, it was damn fun!! the part when the “talents” sat around waiting for them to figure out the lighting, the filming angles and all that lah. not the acting part. i suck at acting. plus the pitiful, gentle character i was supposed to portray. hmm. hope it doesn’t screw up their project grades.

but then i have to say i’m totally, absolutely, completely convinced that the comm studies people are not slack. while watching them do their filming, i was stunned. they could remember the stuff they learnt about the hands-on things. they spent 8 hours filming a short film less than 5 mins long. and the whole thing is 20 mins long. and god knows how much time they spent developing the ideas and the storyboards. then they had to lug all the heavy equipment here and there. and killed a hell lot of brain cells positioning the lights, cameras, props and stuff. and cursed and swore whenever there’s mystery shadows and people banging the toilet doors. they spoke a different language from us earthlings. but then, i have to say, they rock!! they’re a bunch of super funny people who couldn’t stop talking, really. they had to talk and talk and talk and talk.

so wenwen, here’s my take on u comm studies people: you guys are cool and definitely deserve your grades!!

suddenly i felt weird wearing my astro boy t-shirt during the shoot yesterday. this may be a signal that i am growing up! hahahah. ok ok i’ve gotta tear myself away from those t-shirts and buy more grown-up clothes. lol. wait till i get rich. i’ve got a growing shopping list man! wah liao passed by the city chain outlet that day, and there was this super nice dkny watch!! it’s in a shade of deep red, simple face, niceeeeeeee!!!! but it cost $400+. bloody hell.

if my mayday concert plans screw up then i’ll have more money to spend. cos i’m supposedly ordering the tickets through fy’s friend, who’s ordering from someone else. it’s the uob priority booking i think, but then open booking has just started this morning. dunno lah, if i don’t manage to get the good good seats i won’t bother going i guess. strange that i feel so cool about it.

maybe i’m really growing up. no more super excited moments when i hear that mayday is coming.

I’M GROWING UP!!

not vertically though. damn.

finally reaching the end of the semester when all the work will be cleared.

to date, there’s:

one more individual article analysis.
two group presentations for strategic management, with one group report.
one group project+presentation+report for ge.
one group very difficult presentation+report.

and then it’s the exams.

should i be anticipating the end of the work? cos that will mean the beginning of exams. ack.

better if i can look forward to december. 10th december. =) mayday concert.
haven’t got the tickets yet, probably going alone. but then never mind lah, can try and be friendly to the neighbours duriong the concert.

entered an arcade for a racing game with fy, kx and sy. man, it was a blast. even though i was the only one making all the noise, screaming and whooping whenever i crashed. came in last some more. so disgraceful. never mind, when we go there again after all the deadlines i’ll try and play better.

had crystal jade for lunch yesterday too. yum. xiao long bao and radish pastry and la mian.
good stuff!

then i had a full 12 hour sleep last night.

went for movie today some more. the andy lau one. dunno what it’s called. the tong something something something. where he grew super old in a few day’s time. it moved fy sooooo much. shall not say how much. later she whack me upside down. hahahahaha. i had a good time laughing at the movie and at her. but how come it didn’t move me? does the problem lie with her or me?

ok my day’s off is over. back to work. gotta cross the deadlines safely!

i need discipline in my life.

cos i’ve been skipping too many classes. mainly because out of the three school days i have, all three start at 8.30 am. which is too damn early for me. strangely though, i seem to be able to get to work on time during my holidays, i wonder why.

anyway, i’ve been skipping too many classes of the tutor who always nabs me when i turn up in school immediately after i skip his class. so today when he saw my usual gang he asked me if i was “all right”.

ok, ok.

i know i need some discipline in my life. i need to apply myself more with the help of some discipline. honestly, i think i can do a lot better in school and in my life if i will apply myself more, cos i have this perception that i’m actually smart enough to do that. misconception or not, i’ve never really figured it out.

but then a little discipline in my life wouldn’t hurt. so please remind me whenever you see me, that i need discipline!!

hmm sun yanzi’s new song is pretty cool, although i haven’t got any idea what she’s singing. i can only catch “da fang zi (big house)”, “hen duo fang jian (many rooms)”, something about guitars in a room, something about french windows and something about a perfect day.

yes, i finally have a new keyboard - free of charge. with no yellow tinge indicating its age. with a nice keyboard sound when i type. a nice crisp feeling when my fingers hit the keys. with an exclamation mark in working order.

never mind that the wrist rest that comes with the keyboard doesn’t really fit in the keyboard tray. it’s ok, really.

such a nice feeling.

say hi to my new keyboard.