MIA so long again. Super super busy in school now, not even time for SJ work. Haven't even started my main comm work, I think it's really the wrong sem to take on so many stuff. Seems like I underestimated my core modules this semester.
So many things to read. Some modules just seem like there is nothing taught, you are supposed to read up, do your questions and discuss in class. Oh well, this is how a real university works I guess, just that we have been spoonfed all the time till now, so I am just a little not too used to it.
Today very sianz. Not cos' hall very sianz, or sianz cos' a lot of schoolwork. Cos' I typed a portion for my project, and my groupmate changed practically everything. Okie loh, I have to admit it wasn't very well organised, but then no need change all my points right... Out of 10 points, maybe left 1 point only... My language is not that good, my ideas not that fantastic, but changing without even telling me first... Haiz. So now, I feel like a free-rider. Most probably I get the feeling that some of my groupmates think that way. And it's not very nice, though tomorrow have to hand in the report liaoz, but I have one more report and presentation to do with them.
Sianz, and my points written out so long liaoz, she also never criticise, then last minute change. Sad life, am I supposed to feel angry that she changed it just like that, or am I supposed to blame myself cos' I didn't do a good enough job? Or am I supposed to feel so idiotic cos' it seems that my points are all dumb and got replaced? So I am dumb maybe. I am feeling all of that together now.
And after reading her editted version, seems like it was too last minute, she like added some stuff from the 'answer we found online'. Yikes, I hate copying stuff. But I don't feel like complaining liaoz, cos' there will be too many people who insist on their points liao, then the group will end up in a bad state. Just hurry up and finish the project, I would never want to do project with her again.
So extreme hor. Seems like everytime I work in a group that is allocated, not own choice one, always got some buay song 'ness' with some people. Maybe it's me loh. Only my accounting II group is great, but that's cos' both of them don't really insist a lot on their points, rather, they provide opinions... So izzit liddat then our project got B+ instead of A? Aiyah, I rather have a good working experience and get B, than have the opposite and get A.
So sianz. Haiz.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Lol. It's so bad for the blogger to be MIA from her blog. But you guys seemed to be having much fun on my shoutbox! haha. That's a pretty good sign.
Alright, so I shall update you on my MIA period: the hectic and crazy December.
Timeline:
1-7 Dec - Taiwan Trip
9&10 Dec - SNCO Course
11&13 Dec - JNCO Pre-Camp Training
15-18 Dec - SNCO
20-23 Dec - JNCO
27-30 Dec - Seniors Chalet
31 Dec - Countdown
Woah what a packed December! One by one.
Taiwan Trip
Oh well. Taiwan wasn't exactly the shopping paradise that I thought it would be. Perhaps HK is a better place =p The stuff are quite ex actually, but yesh, there are loads of clothes like those at Bugis. Totally the leader in fashion today, Taiwan is. But you know, I am not those super-clothes-shopper. And it is a very packed trip, in these 6-7 days, I went all over Taiwan: Taipei, Taichung, Gaoshiung, Taitung, Hualien. Basically one round round Taiwan. I stayed one night per city. So you know, it's PACKED. Wake up at about 6 plus in the morning everyday, reach back hotel on average 10pm or so each night. Later if we go to night markets of course. I didn't buy much, but I think I spent about 100 bucks there. Even shopping places, we stop for 1 hour or so. How to shop? Lol. I never like such packed tours, but my mum likes to tour the whole place. *shrugs.
So in between, I got my dear uni classmates Yvonne and co to help me register for my subjects on the noon of 7 Dec cos I am not in Singapore! Thank you girls! And my dear roomie Yian Pin help me collect my hostel room key from the office too! As you can see, I think I have no time in December for such stuff. LOL.
SNCO Course
Quite bored. I am Admin Officer only, so guess what? I was trying to settle all my paperwork in the canteen while lectures are ongoing in the AVT. See, no time to do it outside of this time anyway. =p The most ultra shocking thing that ever happened was: by the end of the SNCO Course, I realise I wasn't just an Admin Officer. JY decided to rope me in to his platoon to be his Assistant Platoon Commander. Manz. I was super lost, but I wanted to go. Cos' it's for the kids that there is an extra person to manage the advisors, secondly it was out of selfish desires cos' I always wanted to be an advisor in SNCO, only to end up being Admin Officer cos' the oldest advisor was one year younger than me. Thirdly was cos' I wanted to gain some experience, since I was Chief Team Advisor in JNCO. I took on the job, double post.
JNCO Pre-camp Training
Nothing much to say, just that I knew the kids a little more, and was the first time perhaps that I talked face-to-face with my advisors instead of through email.
SNCO
SNCO was a little crazy for me, cos' I run 2 appointments? I was supposed to hand over my Admin stuff to my superior (DY Course Commandant Admin) so that I can take my APC post full time in camp. So pre-camp I was rushing to do up everything properly and handing over accounts etc. Till I was supposed to meet fish for lunch and I didn't, worked till 3-4pm in the afternoon without lunch. As someone who suddenly chup into a platoon, I was quite lost. It is quite an experience, cos' APC is really different from CTA in a way, CTA only cares about how the advisors are doing, and perhaps know a bit more about the trainees. APC seems to be in charge of that, and fix the training schedule along with the changes, and know quite a lot about the trainees at the same time. Seriously, I really dunno all of them very well, and you know my super forgetful memory, I think by now I already forgot who is in my platoon. After SNCO I was pretty demoralised cos' I felt I didn't do a good job as a APC, but I knew I have to pick myself up within a day to be CTA in the next camp.
JNCO
Seems like CTA has as little sleep as the advisors. But actually I think I slept more than them anyway. Cos while they are assessing cadets, I think I was sleeping. LOL. I think JNCO I feel more in control, cos' I was heading the advisors, whereas SNCO there is still a PC(kongz) and 2 other APCs around me. Somehow when you are in total control, you can do whatever you think is right, and have a set of what is right and a common direction to bring the people under you forward. Perhaps I feel lost about the direction etc in SNCO. I think I did an okie job there in JNCO, and I somehow knew quite a bit about those kids, even though I didn't really come in contact with them a lot. Hearing my advisors talk plus some observations here and there, and maybe cos' I had contact with them since JNCO Course. It was a tiring camp, but there is much satisfaction to be gained.
All the weird sleeping habits came, perhaps cos' it was the second camp and I was tired. I think on the last day of camp, I fell asleep reading the assessment forms in the ops room, and Sheryl said that no matter how they called or tap me I won't wake up. Haa. First time I was so dead asleep in front of them I guess. At least this was better than the last time during JNCO while I was still an instructor, I couldn't remember how I got sleeping on the third floor classroom to become in the fourth floor classroom. My squadmates said I just got up and followed them up to the 4th floor which was our bunk, but I couldn't remember a thing! Guess that was sleepwalking?
Seniors Chalet
Aloha Loyang is BIG. The first bigggg mistake: the chalet was supposed to be 27-29 Dec, but it was booked from 28-30 Dec. BIG mistake. I wasn't there on the 27th, cos I intended to join them at night. Come on, after so many camps etc, I wanted to stay home more. at about 6pm, dear Huawei called me about the mistake. So I went to join them anyway, at karaoke at Katong Shopping Centre. It seemed that the Seniors' cohort is too big to squeeze into 1 room, 26 of us. so we split. We sang 4 hours and paid about 4 bucks each. (ok we didn't pay, it was sponsored by school fund or something.) We had a hell lot of fun shouting in the rooms. LOL.
Anyway, what happened at Pasir Ris before I joined them? Basically they met at the MRT at 1pm, and they went shopping for food at the supermarkets to prepare for the cooking competition which was supposed to be on that night. After reaching Aloha, they realised they booked the wrong date, and they thought about what to do, before deciding on karaoke. They put the food at Huawei's squadmate's chalet (Joel), who so coincidentally was staying there too. The rest put their bags at certain people's houses, then went to sing. After the singing marathon, they went back to their squadmates' house to stay over for the night before heading for chalet on 28 Dec. haha. Me no squadmate to stay over, so I went home along with dear Sheng Lian.
The next day, we booked into chalet at about 2pm. Ha I was late as usual. I couldn't believe they walked to Aloha yesterday and couldn't book in. Aloha is SUPER ulu, and it is a LOOOOONG walk in from Pasir Ris MRT. Must have been super devastating for them. We played monopoly and cards till about 5pm, which the cooking competition (supposedly the day before) began. I was thrown into a Mexican team, meaning we were supposed to cook Mexican food. Pia Leong, Chee Hoe, Jian Li and me. Only girl. Who said girls can cook? I didn't cook. CH and JL did all the marinating of the chicken, and threw the chicken into the oven to bake. HAHA. So easy. But it tasted nice! Okie, admit it, we NEVER ate mexican food before. We just mixed a sauce consisting of tomato sauce, tobasco, capsicum, and 'sian' our way through. What did I do? I cut stuff loh. Peeling onions make me cry. First time sia, I never peel onions at home before. Haha. The sauce was prepared by PL. I was doing the deco of the plate with lettuce onions and capsicums. haa. I can't cook for nuts pls.
After that we ate up all the food, of course before that, there was judging by the Yr2s (Kristian's batch). Haa. There were other food to top up, while we were cooking, the Yr2s were doing BBQ. And we cooked till 8.30pm! Now you know the hard work your mum goes through to get you those few dishes on the table. After that was cleaning up. Then the usual seniors' initiation of the Yr1s and the Yr2s who didn't initiate last year.
And there was supposedly a movie marathon. But it turned out they only had a VCD player, all there was only 1 VCD, the others all DVDs! HAHA. And the VCD is...... Initial D. Played mahjong the whole night till morning, with dear CW. He came after the initiation with a smell of liquor. Apparently he only drank a martini. But the smell was super strong. haha.
Till morning. The morning of 29th Dec, I went with the Yr1s and 2s to Mt Sinai (i.e. the new Dunman campus at Buona Vista). Manz, nice walk from Buona Vista to reach the campus, and from the outside, you can't see that it's DHS! Cos' along the sides of the road are all terrace houses, and the entrance of DHS looks just like one of the entrance of the terrace house. White. Just a gate for the cars to go into. I guess that was why a BIG "DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL" sign with an arrow pointing towards the gate was right outside the gate. And the school is pretty big. I only went to one half of the school, since they were doing Orientation Preparation. Didn't see the classrooms. After settling my admin stuff with the secretaries, I went back to Pasir Ris chalet. Looong trip, feels longer than Boon Lay to Aljunied. And at the chalet, we started our Yr3s and above meeting at 2.30pm. Setting appointments for Yr3s and above and Yr1s. We met till about dinner time. That night I was dead tired. Fell asleep at 1am, not caring whatever they are playing at chalet. lol. Oh yah, one of the Yr1s sleeping beside me said I was talking in my sleep. But dunno about what.
Last day, the usual stuff happened. Pack up, go eat breakfast, head home to the pillows! Okie the guys went play LAN. Not too surprising.
Countdown
Finally, the last event. Woah you must be nuts to read till here. We were supposed to meet at 9pm at Lau Pa Sat. Guess wad? Huawei only told me we were meeting at 9pm AT 9pm. Haha. Super joke. Okie so I reached at 9.45pm. After that we went near Fullerton Hotel to watch fireworks. The fireworks was great, but the spraying of 'fake snow' i.e. soap was smelly and irritating. Unavoidable on these kinda occasions I guess. After a hard time getting out of the fireworks place, we finally got to Huawei's house for overnight. (I am the only girl, yikes. nvm. xi guan jiu hao) Fell asleep watching some weird movie, then woke up to play monopoly. Haha. We just like to play monopoly huh. Then till morning, eat breakfast, and go home.
My house is like hotel sia. Go there sleep only. Haha. So this is how my December went.
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Alright, so I shall update you on my MIA period: the hectic and crazy December.
Timeline:
1-7 Dec - Taiwan Trip
9&10 Dec - SNCO Course
11&13 Dec - JNCO Pre-Camp Training
15-18 Dec - SNCO
20-23 Dec - JNCO
27-30 Dec - Seniors Chalet
31 Dec - Countdown
Woah what a packed December! One by one.
Taiwan Trip
Oh well. Taiwan wasn't exactly the shopping paradise that I thought it would be. Perhaps HK is a better place =p The stuff are quite ex actually, but yesh, there are loads of clothes like those at Bugis. Totally the leader in fashion today, Taiwan is. But you know, I am not those super-clothes-shopper. And it is a very packed trip, in these 6-7 days, I went all over Taiwan: Taipei, Taichung, Gaoshiung, Taitung, Hualien. Basically one round round Taiwan. I stayed one night per city. So you know, it's PACKED. Wake up at about 6 plus in the morning everyday, reach back hotel on average 10pm or so each night. Later if we go to night markets of course. I didn't buy much, but I think I spent about 100 bucks there. Even shopping places, we stop for 1 hour or so. How to shop? Lol. I never like such packed tours, but my mum likes to tour the whole place. *shrugs.
So in between, I got my dear uni classmates Yvonne and co to help me register for my subjects on the noon of 7 Dec cos I am not in Singapore! Thank you girls! And my dear roomie Yian Pin help me collect my hostel room key from the office too! As you can see, I think I have no time in December for such stuff. LOL.
SNCO Course
Quite bored. I am Admin Officer only, so guess what? I was trying to settle all my paperwork in the canteen while lectures are ongoing in the AVT. See, no time to do it outside of this time anyway. =p The most ultra shocking thing that ever happened was: by the end of the SNCO Course, I realise I wasn't just an Admin Officer. JY decided to rope me in to his platoon to be his Assistant Platoon Commander. Manz. I was super lost, but I wanted to go. Cos' it's for the kids that there is an extra person to manage the advisors, secondly it was out of selfish desires cos' I always wanted to be an advisor in SNCO, only to end up being Admin Officer cos' the oldest advisor was one year younger than me. Thirdly was cos' I wanted to gain some experience, since I was Chief Team Advisor in JNCO. I took on the job, double post.
JNCO Pre-camp Training
Nothing much to say, just that I knew the kids a little more, and was the first time perhaps that I talked face-to-face with my advisors instead of through email.
SNCO
SNCO was a little crazy for me, cos' I run 2 appointments? I was supposed to hand over my Admin stuff to my superior (DY Course Commandant Admin) so that I can take my APC post full time in camp. So pre-camp I was rushing to do up everything properly and handing over accounts etc. Till I was supposed to meet fish for lunch and I didn't, worked till 3-4pm in the afternoon without lunch. As someone who suddenly chup into a platoon, I was quite lost. It is quite an experience, cos' APC is really different from CTA in a way, CTA only cares about how the advisors are doing, and perhaps know a bit more about the trainees. APC seems to be in charge of that, and fix the training schedule along with the changes, and know quite a lot about the trainees at the same time. Seriously, I really dunno all of them very well, and you know my super forgetful memory, I think by now I already forgot who is in my platoon. After SNCO I was pretty demoralised cos' I felt I didn't do a good job as a APC, but I knew I have to pick myself up within a day to be CTA in the next camp.
JNCO
Seems like CTA has as little sleep as the advisors. But actually I think I slept more than them anyway. Cos while they are assessing cadets, I think I was sleeping. LOL. I think JNCO I feel more in control, cos' I was heading the advisors, whereas SNCO there is still a PC(kongz) and 2 other APCs around me. Somehow when you are in total control, you can do whatever you think is right, and have a set of what is right and a common direction to bring the people under you forward. Perhaps I feel lost about the direction etc in SNCO. I think I did an okie job there in JNCO, and I somehow knew quite a bit about those kids, even though I didn't really come in contact with them a lot. Hearing my advisors talk plus some observations here and there, and maybe cos' I had contact with them since JNCO Course. It was a tiring camp, but there is much satisfaction to be gained.
All the weird sleeping habits came, perhaps cos' it was the second camp and I was tired. I think on the last day of camp, I fell asleep reading the assessment forms in the ops room, and Sheryl said that no matter how they called or tap me I won't wake up. Haa. First time I was so dead asleep in front of them I guess. At least this was better than the last time during JNCO while I was still an instructor, I couldn't remember how I got sleeping on the third floor classroom to become in the fourth floor classroom. My squadmates said I just got up and followed them up to the 4th floor which was our bunk, but I couldn't remember a thing! Guess that was sleepwalking?
Seniors Chalet
Aloha Loyang is BIG. The first bigggg mistake: the chalet was supposed to be 27-29 Dec, but it was booked from 28-30 Dec. BIG mistake. I wasn't there on the 27th, cos I intended to join them at night. Come on, after so many camps etc, I wanted to stay home more. at about 6pm, dear Huawei called me about the mistake. So I went to join them anyway, at karaoke at Katong Shopping Centre. It seemed that the Seniors' cohort is too big to squeeze into 1 room, 26 of us. so we split. We sang 4 hours and paid about 4 bucks each. (ok we didn't pay, it was sponsored by school fund or something.) We had a hell lot of fun shouting in the rooms. LOL.
Anyway, what happened at Pasir Ris before I joined them? Basically they met at the MRT at 1pm, and they went shopping for food at the supermarkets to prepare for the cooking competition which was supposed to be on that night. After reaching Aloha, they realised they booked the wrong date, and they thought about what to do, before deciding on karaoke. They put the food at Huawei's squadmate's chalet (Joel), who so coincidentally was staying there too. The rest put their bags at certain people's houses, then went to sing. After the singing marathon, they went back to their squadmates' house to stay over for the night before heading for chalet on 28 Dec. haha. Me no squadmate to stay over, so I went home along with dear Sheng Lian.
The next day, we booked into chalet at about 2pm. Ha I was late as usual. I couldn't believe they walked to Aloha yesterday and couldn't book in. Aloha is SUPER ulu, and it is a LOOOOONG walk in from Pasir Ris MRT. Must have been super devastating for them. We played monopoly and cards till about 5pm, which the cooking competition (supposedly the day before) began. I was thrown into a Mexican team, meaning we were supposed to cook Mexican food. Pia Leong, Chee Hoe, Jian Li and me. Only girl. Who said girls can cook? I didn't cook. CH and JL did all the marinating of the chicken, and threw the chicken into the oven to bake. HAHA. So easy. But it tasted nice! Okie, admit it, we NEVER ate mexican food before. We just mixed a sauce consisting of tomato sauce, tobasco, capsicum, and 'sian' our way through. What did I do? I cut stuff loh. Peeling onions make me cry. First time sia, I never peel onions at home before. Haha. The sauce was prepared by PL. I was doing the deco of the plate with lettuce onions and capsicums. haa. I can't cook for nuts pls.
After that we ate up all the food, of course before that, there was judging by the Yr2s (Kristian's batch). Haa. There were other food to top up, while we were cooking, the Yr2s were doing BBQ. And we cooked till 8.30pm! Now you know the hard work your mum goes through to get you those few dishes on the table. After that was cleaning up. Then the usual seniors' initiation of the Yr1s and the Yr2s who didn't initiate last year.
And there was supposedly a movie marathon. But it turned out they only had a VCD player, all there was only 1 VCD, the others all DVDs! HAHA. And the VCD is...... Initial D. Played mahjong the whole night till morning, with dear CW. He came after the initiation with a smell of liquor. Apparently he only drank a martini. But the smell was super strong. haha.
Till morning. The morning of 29th Dec, I went with the Yr1s and 2s to Mt Sinai (i.e. the new Dunman campus at Buona Vista). Manz, nice walk from Buona Vista to reach the campus, and from the outside, you can't see that it's DHS! Cos' along the sides of the road are all terrace houses, and the entrance of DHS looks just like one of the entrance of the terrace house. White. Just a gate for the cars to go into. I guess that was why a BIG "DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL" sign with an arrow pointing towards the gate was right outside the gate. And the school is pretty big. I only went to one half of the school, since they were doing Orientation Preparation. Didn't see the classrooms. After settling my admin stuff with the secretaries, I went back to Pasir Ris chalet. Looong trip, feels longer than Boon Lay to Aljunied. And at the chalet, we started our Yr3s and above meeting at 2.30pm. Setting appointments for Yr3s and above and Yr1s. We met till about dinner time. That night I was dead tired. Fell asleep at 1am, not caring whatever they are playing at chalet. lol. Oh yah, one of the Yr1s sleeping beside me said I was talking in my sleep. But dunno about what.
Last day, the usual stuff happened. Pack up, go eat breakfast, head home to the pillows! Okie the guys went play LAN. Not too surprising.
Countdown
Finally, the last event. Woah you must be nuts to read till here. We were supposed to meet at 9pm at Lau Pa Sat. Guess wad? Huawei only told me we were meeting at 9pm AT 9pm. Haha. Super joke. Okie so I reached at 9.45pm. After that we went near Fullerton Hotel to watch fireworks. The fireworks was great, but the spraying of 'fake snow' i.e. soap was smelly and irritating. Unavoidable on these kinda occasions I guess. After a hard time getting out of the fireworks place, we finally got to Huawei's house for overnight. (I am the only girl, yikes. nvm. xi guan jiu hao) Fell asleep watching some weird movie, then woke up to play monopoly. Haha. We just like to play monopoly huh. Then till morning, eat breakfast, and go home.
My house is like hotel sia. Go there sleep only. Haha. So this is how my December went.
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