Hellooooo there.

Yes.. i am back to this moldy blog of mine once again. i'm getting really tired and lazy to blog these days, and i'm even contemplating to shut it down. but as for now, i'll just put that thought on hold. i was actually in the midst of doing my Tsm3307 tutorial.. and i got stuck halfway so here i am! its sooooo hard. i don't know how am i ever going to pull thru with such tough finance units this semester. I just keep reminding myself.. last lap! last lap and its o.v.e.r! i only have approximately 3 months till the end of semester, a part of me is just dying to return back home, yet another part is still struggling with the idea of applying for PR. there are sacrifices to be made either way, it is just a matter of how willing i am to forgo some of them for another. thinking like a business women, it would be all about the cost vs. benefits, the opportunity cost incurred. most fresh grads are just dying to experience the world which awaits them. But i don't think i am all that ready for the world. i don't want to be enslaved to the whole notion of being stuck in the office 16hours a day, working your butt off through the wee hours of the night, aggressively trying to climb the corporate ladder, engaging in office politics, etc etc. Yuckie Yuck Yuck! i don't see myself as the sort who would rule my career over my very own spiritual and personal life. i don't ever want that to happen to me, and i guess this is something i'll never be able to escape out of if i choose to work in singapore. sighhh...

The younger brother is probably coming to visit next week! Yay!! it'll be my first family visit e.v.e.r! out of all my 3 years here, no one has ever bothered to come down to see how i'm doing lor!! How sad. and just when its my final semester here, they decide to come because it would mean getting free accomodation for the last time. sheesh. but i dooo love visits and i really really miss my family sooo much, so i'm not complaining. He has his army block leave, i think its the long one after bmt. i just hope i dont start crying when i see him, he's probably all botak, tan and buff now. That will most definately help him in getting a girlfriend. Hehehe...

Oh noo! i'd better get back to my work now, plus my audit revision. I've got my audit mid semester exam next week. Oh the horror. *shudder. Note to self, its the last lap and i'd better finish it well.

Adios folks.

The tuesday night special

It was laska for dinner tonight and it turned out pretty good than how i had expected it. Well of course it still no where near the authenticity and richness of the famous nonya laska you get find along katong, but hey it was quite a decent attempt to head back to my family's peranankan roots. And for that, i am happy. Next, Kway Pai Tee.. thanks to Eugene who brought back Kway pai tee shells from my mother. Okay, i must applaud him for handling it with care, not all of them were brutally damaged.

Anyway, after dinner Cheeky, Eugene (who just got back from his longggg holiday) and myself headed down to the Moon Cafe at Northbridge. I was so reluctant to head out because it was already coming close to 10pm and i was already in my Pjs and had brushed my teeth. But the guys kept insisting soooo i dragged myself out into the cold night, also because i don't have school tomorrow la!

***The End***

Justin's Birthday

it was Justin's birthday yesterday, and we had a 'muffin' of a celebration after service. we had got him 12 mini muffins plus one large one placed in the center... as birthday cake. i know it sounds strange but its really quite innovative don't ya reckon? Wahaha. I had bumped into rachel, our new cell birthday ic, on the way to daobao lunch along Hampden on saturday. Lovely thoughtful Rachel was on her way to take a bus all the way down to Subi just to get a proper cake for Justin! But me bring me.. i just told rach to buy anything that looks close to a cake from Brumby's (a bakery selling everything but cakes) which was just down the road. Anyway, Rach saw the Muffins and so thats how the muffin-cake came about.

The muffins tasted gross though! I had a apple cinnamon one.. and it was bad. it had a strange after taste. Anyway it was the birthday boy that mattered, not his cake.

Haha.. Happy Birthday once again Justin!

Cheeky was one behind the camera, which explains the number of bad takes. he was a monkey on fire who just kept snapping and snapping without even telling us.

Why me?

Have u ever gotten out of bed with a rotten feeling that u're about to have a bad day?

Well today, i did.

It all started when i woke up at 6 a.m this morning, desperately trying to rush through my tsm (trading in securities markets) tute for my class at 9a.m. Hookay, and as i was doing my readings and figuring out the tute questions, i felt confident. i felt that i would be able to present a good answer to all of the questions, all except one. Well apparently, i had to purchase an additional set of readings compiled by the prof to answer that particular question...which i wasn't aware of. Anyhoos, due to the lack of time, i left it blank in hope that i wouldnt be so 'suay' as to be chosen to answer question 3 lar huh.

To cut the long story short.. as my tutor started randomly calling out names from the class list to answer each tute question... i had that sick rotten feeling inside again. I just knew he was going to call out my name as he came to question 3.

Yeap, no prize for guessing... it was me alright.

Everyone of the students in class was prepared and were on the ball when it came to answering the tutor's questions. they were awfully smart, and i just couldn't look stupid infront of them. so i attempted, even though i had no clue what the question was asking about because i hadn't even read the readings. I tried reading off suwen's notes at the corner of my eye, and answered:

"The coefficient outside the variable suggests that writing time for each option is shorter for selling than buying."

And suddenly there was this great silence. Everyone and i mean everyone started looking at me with confused facial expressions. okay.. for the benefit of the non-finance major students, what i rambled in class was a whole lot of rubbish. I had read Suwen's handwritting wrongly it was suppose to be

"The coefficients of the SIDE variable sugguest that waiting time is shorter for sells than buys."

Everyone just looked so confused that after 3 mins of silence, i had to explain to my tutor & class that didn't have the readings and so i couldn't answer the question. I felt like a complete moron. I wanted to dive right out of the glass window i was sitting next to in class.

Whoopeedoo.. there goes my tute participation. BLAH.