Stage 1 of hell over! - 30/10/07

Finally just got the mid term stats test over. With that, up next is law and AS proj presentation that i got to prepare with my group mates this coming week.

Both presentation will be on the same day. So double the scipt, double the speech.
This time, what's difficult is the reading, interpretation and the answering of the respective assignments.

Though i think it should be easiler than what i did in BGS, it just aint gotta be that easy still. I still have a stats assignment meeting to bother with too in the midst of it. STATS AGAIN!!!

Stupid Prank! - 30/10/07

Totally irritated when I got home... Realised that the house kena blackout. But after checking the electric box at home, found out that it was fine...

after some tot, i went out of the house to check the one outside the gate, and found out that someone had actually play a prank and switch it off outside ...

Freaking bo liao.. ! Made my ice cream melt! Bloody Hell!

Start of a nightmare!

I just realised that this is the start of a sch nightmare...
no wonder, I was thinking sch was still manageable in the first period of the term.

Now that the assignments and projects are packing on one another, my time are all squeezed dry!

Today had a stats quiz, holding a 10%. I must say i manage to survive thru this. Managed to pass the test. Even so, I think i could have done better if i had been more careful.

Tomorrow is another obstacle, BGS proj presentation. Not comprehensively prepared for my group. With the constant changes, and obstacles we faced, we have done what we could do.

Even so, following that is non-stop chionging of projects and studying of test.

3 Weeks of home alone will pass by soon just like that. SUCK!

3rd day

Today was my 3rd day in consecutive that i stay at sch till 10pm plus... :(
Suck!

Why BGS this topic so vague one? Hai...

My First training at floorball.

Yesterday, i went for my first floorball training. It was kinda delayed till now, because of coach's injury from an accident. Upon her arrival, she was still in a limping situation.

I do not know how the previous coach training is like, but i must say, i kinda like her style of coaching. Doing the initial drills reminds me of my secondary sch training when i was in the basketball team. I can roughly see where her style and tactics are going towards from the way she conduct and teaches use during training.

My skills need a lot of brushing and improving. Of course being a novice in this area, expectation should not be high. But being highly competitive, I can stand to lose out during games. Having a soccer background, my playing tend to be fast and quick, trying to catch opponent unguarded. But floorball is a different ball game, with an extra stick at hand. My game play most of the time is too fast, leading to mispass or lost possession. Thus, this is one area i must look into first. Oh well.. Proj BGS and stats test is killing me for the moment. Hope i can go thru this period smoothly... JIA YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Proj cock up

My BGS proj came to a obstacle, after my grp mates went to consult our Teacher Assistent. According to our TA, our proposed presentation lack depth and that we are not answering the qn. So our whole plan had to be revised.

Today, instead of shooting the video, we changed to rediscuss our outline and info that is needed to be add in. From a light hearted presentation, we had to compromise and for now, stick to a more formal presentation. Spent about 5-6 hours at library sorting out the stuff.

At the end of it, there is a clearer and better outline. Tml is another meet up, hopefully we can settle most of the stuff and work on the presentation.

HOME ALONE ! - 21/10/07

Because of grandma staying at sengkang for 3 weeks before the maid comes back, Im officially HOME ALONE at bedok...

Back to my loner days, when i had this kinda period a few times during my poly days... of course, this time is different.

Gosh, have to wash my own clothes and buy my own food. this is the 2 bad side of staying alone..

Worser and worser each day - 21/10/07

Not me that its going worser each day... rather its my grandma...
She had this azhemier disease, and her memory is getting worse for her.

She cannot remember many of the things around her. Even her children, relatives, she could not recall at times. At home, she could not keep track of eating and bathing.

Because the maid had completed her 2 year contract and so my aunt let her return back to her country for 3 weeks. During this time, they arranged for my grandma to go to sengkand home to stay and let my mum take care of her.

Yesterday morning, Uncle Long came to fetch her. Because the others have not informed her about the arrangement, so she was puzzled and shocked to know that she have to leave house so early in the morning. I was awoken from my sleep and had to persaude her downstairs to the car.

Before leaving, I had to talk through her for a couple of minutes that she is going to her daughter's house. Through the conversation, suddenly i can feel a moment of sadness. She was showing unwillingness to go out and thru her speech i can sense that she was actully afraid. Downstairs, she even commented that we are selling her off... How an active grandma who once would scold and nag endlessly to me now be like that... Helpless like a kid.

BGS Proj - 20/10/07

After work at Kumon tuition centre, I had to rush off to sch for BGS meeting.

Finally after a few hours of hard core discussions, we 3 guys have finalised our presentation outline. Splitting work among us, i strongly believe it will be a hell of a presentation by us ! Yeah!

The next coming week is ultimate siong. With 2 tests, essay submission and presentation all within a 5 day period. I must chiong hard and make sure my health can take it too... Pray i survive this period!

Stats Proj

Today at Stats class...
had a annoucement that i do not know whether is it good or bad...

the course outline weightage will be changing...
for participation... its down to a mere 4%. kaos... so low... guess there's nothing much to mark in this area ba...

for mini class quiz, it is only 3%... .this indeed good news to me... since i got a big fat 0 for my second quiz.

these low weightage has some conditions... that is a stats project...
WAT? stats also can have proj ah...

anyway, yes... we had to form grp of 5-6 ppl...
so manage to form after class. got the qn from her just now in the evening.. .and darn...
its like many pages of qns... jia lat....
and i tot i had enough of proj and assignments liao...

now presently, is BGS proj... tml got meeting... must come out something substantially... next sat is the presentation liao.. and still not much headway... the most jia lat one so far... God bless man...

Finally a Grade "A" - 17/10/07

haha...
today so happy... After the few assignments, mini quiz, essays... finally i have gotten something that i can be happy about.

Today in BGS, i gotten back my individual project assignment and take home test result, for the individual assignment, I got an A, while for the take home test, i managed 90 marks from it....
HAPPYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally this good result can compensate my 0 points gotten from my stats class mini quiz, a grade C for my first Acad writing essay. keke...

After class, went to meet up with Janice. Just found out that she was approach by Dolphin Warriors, a network marketing company that sells biomagnetic products. Worry about how the company work, i arranged to meet up with her to check out how is it going so far.

Managed to talk to her for an hour, and got to know a bit of DW. Gave her some advice and stories of my own when i was in this industy. Anyway, heard from her that its no obligation and no upfront fee needed, so at least she has nothing much to lose, except for wat she say is "tuition fee"- the transportation fee... It will be good in a sense that she will get to learn some new skills and hopefully open up as a person as it did for me during my time.

Heard tml she is going back down to DW to learn more about how the system is like, so hope to get info from her more to understand her situation, so as to give proper advice...

4 am!!! and im still up...

Was studying my Stats till now...
shack man...
ok.. dont think that i look so pia hor..
is because i today whole practically did not touch anything at all.. only one hour plus did some homework and then evening went off to floorball gathering..

came back ard 11plus pm.. then after bathing did up my Acad essay and then look thru my stats...
My Stats is complete buang... its looks pretty simple...
but dont know why.. when i see the qns... at times, my mind just goes to blank..
talk abt the recent class quiz.. though its just 2% weightage... was a 10min online quiz..
my score a cool 0... yes.. zero... first time in my study life... did i get anything but 0...

gosh.. more of stats tml... and my AS essay.. .must complete ... and hand in early... so that another assignments is out of my mind... not to mention law to read thru also... hai.... and worst ... my BGS project... that's even worse!

New Specs!!!!!!!!!!!

Got my specs today... changed from black to white this time.. .with some red colouring ard it..
was choosing at the spec shop when Serene was there to get her contacts... so i got her to help me choose... She managed to convince me to get this..... so that's how i got this..

But after getting this design, im afraid that the side will chip off in the future man... plus i will be playing floorball too... think have to get a spec strap soon...

Nice??? wahahaha

Kenneth "pit pit!!!"

This my 3 year old distant nephew. Took the chance to have a picture with him that day when he came with his grandma( my aunt) and my mum to visit mama. i did not stay long as i had to go out to meet Janice for the sentosa outing.

Work at tuition centre.

Oh ... besides the take home test ass described below. Today, i went for my first day work at the tuition centre. Mentioned b4, my work there is mainly to mark the worksheet the kids do.

I must say the way the tuition works is quite efficient. Students will come and go very fast. Each staying at the centre for about half hour (from what i was told). Upon arrival, they would submit their homeowork and start with their classwork. While, i and a few others would start marking their homework and classwork when they are finished. Once all is done, they could actually go back home.

Me being the first time working there, I am a bit confused on how the system works there. So many children, so many markings to do, plus the fact that im not totally myself ( sick!), think i had my usual blur look through the 3 hour session.

Anyway, the next time im going there would most prob be 2 weeks time. I have been given a permanent sat time slot, so unless they need manpower on tues, that's the only time im working there.

Take Home Test.

One of a kind test... First time a test is take home and to be submitted 24hours later.

For my Business, Govt and Society, my prof decided to carry out a take home test, where he sent her the qn through email and we are to submit it back within 24hours. Just finished it not too long ago and have submitted in.

In this subject, we have gone through the topic of ethics, guess, this way of carrying out the test is one way to test our ethical behaviour. haha..

Oh well, the qn he gave is again quite vague as always.. had a hard time trying to figure out what exactly does he wants and within his word limit. Hope the answer i gave satisfy his criteria and his usual "elegant" requirement.

Sports Fiesta Pictures...

Pictures taken during Sports Fiesta.

Sick!!!

One really ought to take care of themself. Sick is something not pleasant at all, even if its a minor one. Started with sore throat after coming back home from Sentosa on tuesday. The past 2 days have not been good. The coldness in the rooms plus the hot weather outside is not helping.

Sore throat lead to fly and fatigue... I could not do anything at all..
Today even had my final presentation for my Creative Thinking class and we had to sing a musical, plus i must be half naked at the end of the class presentation because of what we plan initially. Anyway, the presentation was very well-received by everyone in the class. They are all caught amused by the videos and impressed with our musical. thus the work done for the few weeks was well worth it.

Now, time to get some good rest, hopefully i can recover fast. Got so many work to do plus tml have a continuous 7 hour lesson for stats... Good Gracious!!!!

Pictures of me and Janice.

Took here in front of a waterfall at the MerlionSame place with me only... haa


That's her when we were in the tower
Hmm... looking something upstairs???

The only silly look among the pictures taken


Ohh.... That my finger there on her nose! haa...

scenery picture at sentosa

Below are some of the scenery pictures took on tuesday at sentosa..

Took a pic of the Carlsberg tower from Merlion.
This was taken in the Carlsberg tower on a part of the beach.

This is one of the "waterfall" while walking along the dragon trail.

Another site along the dragon trail...

A nice view of the merlion.

One of my favourite all time... The fountain trail or whatever u call it.

A place where i remember viviedly with my poly mates where we would come here and play inside the trail and take lots of pictures in it..

Sentosa Outing.

Today was a rare day other than fiesta and Sports group outing that i didnt do any school work.

finally found a nice time to meet Janice after our last meeting. Had agreed on sentosa.
So we took up a package that sentosa had and went around exploring the "attractions" it had. Took quite a bit of photos using her cameras, though initially we had trouble on what display function was the best one for the pictures.

I must say, the attractions are indeed expensive for the short time we are at each place. But hey, its the experience that counts... I had a nice time today, walking around the place with her.
Now, is waiting for the photos she have to upload.. haha..

Oh ya... before i went out today, managed to get a part time job from a education centre. Alright the job scope is kinda simple, cos all i had to do is to mark papers, as according to the lady i contacted with. She confirmed my work all by use of sms. Cool eh.. first time i got a job so easily and with the use of sms... haha.. anyway, work is on saturdays, in the late morning to early afternoon. Pay not much, but i guess its the first step for me to be involved in an education work area. Hope i can progress something from there...

Proj, essays are packing up soon again. So even though next week is break week, a lot of time would most prob be occupied again with sch work. But hey, like i said, balance is impt for me. So there are some meet ups, like with my buddies, ELW group mates, and hopefully janice too since she is still "free" for now till she found her new job. Prob have to find time to go back home too for dinner... mum been asking me when im going back liao... Time management is really crucial!

Monday's Law Test.

On monday, i had my first test since 3 odd years. Ever since my graduation from poly, this was the first time i had a test in school. Feeling i must say is different, though it can be quite nervous when the paper is starting.

I feel that now me... though grades are important to my CV, i would not make it my main priority that it forgoes other important things in my life. I would try as much to achieve the best as i could for test, essay, assignments and exams. But at the same time, i wanna get much more from this uni experience other than just A, A, A, A...

Floorball is starting competitive training soon. Met Say Wai on the way home. and had a talk on floorball with him. My heart is telling me to try it out, but somehow something is stopping me to commit immediately....

Perlyn's wedding dinner

Saturday was kinda special day.
First, it was one year aniversary of my ORD day. Yes, exactly one year ago, I was finally released from army. Next, was one of da jie in poly, Perlyn's wedding. She's the second among the class to be tied down. Seeing her so happy on saturday, im so glad for you and envious too that she have found a partner for life.

At the dinner, Xiao wei was there! And she brought her baby along too. Super cute! and very look like his father. The baby's almost been the centre of attention for the whole group of us. Indeed, baby can capture all adults' heart. They are able to add something special.