Wednesday, November 03, 2010 @9:07 AM
*blows dust off*
i haven't been here since august. and many many things have happened since then.. birthday parties, farewells (and three of them at least!), meeting up with old friends, meeting up with not-so-old friends, got my driving license, school projects and assignments, and probably more other stuff which i can't remember right now.
but anyway, one of the more significant events is my driving license! haha, i'm officially a road hazard now. (: i passed on the second try actually, the first try i had 32 points! (struck the kerb when coming out of the vertical parking lot and had three abrupt lane changes. that was already 22 points.) the second try, i had.. *drumroll*.. 6 points!! (: vroom vroom vroom!!
another significant event (or should i say, events) were the farewells. deb from cj, sars from church and drea from tk left to study in other countries! deb went to northern ireland to study medicine, sars went to york to study psych and drea went to york (too!) to study bio and english. life is rather strange without these people around.. haven't spent much time with deb since school ended, but i met sars every week for catechism and drea every one/two months for gua outing. hope they're doing well wherever they are! (:
of course, there's school. it finally dawned on me why they had such a stringent selection for fst.. because it really is mega content heavy (even my non science friends said that) and we can't just throw away what we've learnt because they're applicable when we're working! ): at least its interesting. whoever knew there were so many methods of processing meat.. (11 to be exact!) and oh, the LABS!! three lab modules this sem - one for bio, one for chem and one for food science. the food science experiments are the best! (: it involves some cooking skills too, like the first lab we had to peel lemon and juice it, the third lab we had to cut and peel apples.. and it always involves food!! :D (though the latest one involved rotten meat which smelt horrible.)
alright. school's ending in one more week and then there's one week of study break, before the exams! there's just way too much to do in way too little time. looking forward to having submitted all my assignments though!
till the next time i write here to let all of us realize how much time has passed, toodle toos!
PS. GOOD LUCK FOR EXAMS TO ANYONE WHO HAS THEM, ESPECIALLY A LEVELS, ESPECIALLY ALVINA TAN. :D
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 @2:30 AM
heh its been more than a month since i last posted! whoops. anyway since my last post i have not had fazli as my driving instructor..
driving test on 30aug! in the morning. luckily, doesn't clash with school timetable (i hope). better cross my fingers toes and everything else that i get a nice instructor, don't get into an accident, remember to check blindspots, signal, mirror, everything else that i don't always remember to do. :D if i pass, that's one thing over and done with!!
passed my qet! am still very excited and hyped about that. had to take the qualifying english test because i didn't do very well for gp during the a levels. but i passed the test! so heheh, don't have to bid for that english module in uni. thank goodness. but i didn't pass my exemption tests though, so no exemption.. haha. oh well. passing my english test is more than i could ask for!
school starts again in 6 days. and i'm not really looking forward to it. as i made my trip back from nus today (just do throw two dumb forms into two dumb separate boxes) i realized why i wasn't looking forward to it. (at the start of the year i couldn't wait for july to come.) i guess 'cos i've come to enjoy bumming around especially in july since i stopped work.. sleeping in till about 9 most days, no need to study, wake up earlier for driving about twice a week, give tuition on two to three nights of the week.. the prospect of change makes me shiver and there's no motivation to get out of this nice lovely bumhole i'm in now. the module bidding and all not helping me to be excited about school.
guess i would just have to get up and moving and make the best out of these three/four years! am doing food science and technology (: hopefully all will be fine! the interest i have in eating should sustain me.. and help me to make friends. am all aloney baloney in this course ):
yay. chompchompchomp.
big question that i've been thinking about in the runup to school:
will my eating habits change after i start studying about all the food that surrounds me?i sincerely hope not. :)
Monday, June 28, 2010 @9:10 AM
YAY FAZLI IS MY DRIVING INSTRUCTOR TOMORROW!! :D
haha. i've been having a mix of instructors lately (not that its bad, but i just miss having the steady 2 people fazli and khai). so yes i can't wait for driving tomorrow! shall show fazli my new found up-and-down-slope skills. :)
on another note i just downloaded a few nights ago the ipod OS 4 and so now i can play all my games! :D taptap 3, here i come!!
should go and sleep now and get ready to vroom on the roads tomorrow! watch out singapore, the most dangerous driver is going to be out there!
Friday, April 30, 2010 @8:34 AM
i had my first driving practical lesson today! and was it exciting. XD haha. i'm laughing at myself even as i type this.. and to share some funny moments.
instructor: *1001th time* you can't let go too much of the clutch if not the car will jerk!
me: *lets go way too much* whoops!!
instructor: *on crazy jerking car* yay i'm riding a horse!
instructor: lift up the clutch! lift up the clutch!
me: okay, okay *tries to lift up a bit faster* *lifts up too much* *car stalls.*
me: whoops.
instructor: sigh.
instructor: filter to the left lane.
me: okay. *switches lane without checking mirrors and while turning round a bend*
instructor: *after i finish switching lane* are you supposed to switch lane while you turn?
me: uh.. no..?
instructor: okay good i'm glad you know you just contradicted yourself!
heh. i can't wait for my next lesson on monday. hope i stop stalling the car especially when i change gear. D:
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 @7:09 AM
time's passing so slowly yet quickly.. it seems like its really near june already, 'cos there have been so many activities, but its actually only april! :) changed to a steady admin job, am giving tuition, looking forward to a holiday soon..
meanwhile, during easter (the sunday that just passed), my grandma got baptised. one of the biggest days in her life and i'm glad she had a good time. :) on another note, tomorrow she'll be moving some of her stuff to her new place. initially she wanted to move the shelf next to my table.. and my mom agreed 'cos at that time she hadn't yet seen the condition of the shelf. so grudgingly i agreed to get my stuff out of the way. i can't believe how stubborn she was about getting the shelf even after i showed her all the parts where the wood was coming out.
so my mom called her to ask what she wanted to bring, from the stuff she had in the shelf. and after my mom said the shelf was actually in quite bad condition.. my grandma said that it was alright then and she could just get a new shelf.
which was what i was trying to tell her to do since she even mentioned she wanted the shelf.
but oh wells. i moved all my stuff back where it came from and at least, there's a little less dust. :)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @6:38 AM
wahlau.
you ask me what time i gotta be there, so i said 1145am, then maybe i'll be dropping by church before that, then you come and ask me how come i don't need to work, so i say that going in and out and in and out is very troublesome, and then you snap at me for saying that going in and out thing and you say that you were just concerned about my schedule and you had asked me if i had to work after btt, and i went on saying all that in/out stuff.
if you don't use your ears, i'm not gonna be able to be nice and patient with you because you're not even trying. if you would even put some effort into reading that dumb timetable i put up on your board for you, you would already know a lot of things. its not like i take away that schedule from your board. its like there, 24/7 for you to read. if you choose not to read it, i'm sorry i can't do anything to teleport my schedule into your mind. i could very well take it away now and throw it away and you really won't know anything about what i'm doing everyday.
you know how much i wish to bum, for a bit? at least when i was doing the morning job, i could have my afternoons off with my friends. with this afternoon one now, the job's not so bad, but i don't get to go out with my friends anymore. who wants to watch a movie at 9am in the morning? and all my evenings are being taken up by tuition slots and there was only one pathetic slot left this week for evening mass. one miserable slot. and you actually rubbed it in (even though it was unintentional, i choose to believe) that you'd rather i was busy than bumming.
well if you yourself would rather be busy than face up to what you're really feeling and you'd want your entire family to be like that too then i'm sorry but i can't be like that. alright? i've had 18 years of keeping everything inside instead of ever voicing my opinions and views or facing my emotions and i'm sick of it. i'm sick of it always taking its toll on the people around me, especially those who have done me no wrong. i'm sick of feeling so angsty and unhappy all the time. if you don't feel that way i applaud you for being a superhuman.
besides, what my friend said last night was really true. which other time of your life would you get to bum like this?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @10:04 PM
life's been okay, with its little blessings in between. but there is this one thing i've really gotta rant about and its been bugging me ever since tuesday.
i don't understand, is being self-centred a thing that just comes with you? is it something you've always been taught, to look out for your feelings and to achieve your goals at the cost of everyone else's? to always assume that everyone's out to get you and that you've gotta defend yourself at the cost of everyone else?
is it really that difficult to take a step back and try to look at the bigger picture? the consequences of your action on others instead of only yourself and her? to look at the effects of your decision on the rest of your family?
i just really want you to know that you should just think before you speak, think before you do anything, try and look at the big picture, realize the domino effects of your actions on our own actions before you do anything, and at least weigh the pros and cons of your decision before you make it.
i just hope the one pro i can come up with for your decision this time can help you realize that life's not as cheery and easy as you think it is. the world is not out to get you but the world does have difficulties in their own way. i hate to say this but just stop being a pessimist and start thinking good things about other people and events that happen. just try to stop being narrowminded. i can tell when you even just try.
