ah! i have been stoning for the first half of the day! i was supposed to get off at the bus stop at communications school to walk over to my school. =S before i realised it, i am already passed the bus stop and at the next stop. in the end alight at innovation centre and walk over (sun so hot, the other way is sheltered!)

blur momo.

then cos' i haven been following for the past 2 weeks about group reporting lectures and seminars, today i am again lost in class. but more sian than usual cos' i wanna fall asleep. yest run zone competition for sj as logistics officer haa, too tired? halfway through class i went to eat breakfast at the canteen, since i can't get anything into my head anyway. eat 1 carrot cake and 1 curry puff and 1 can of coffee, ah! eating makes me happier when i returned to class. though i dun understand still, but haa, at least i am not falling asleep or getting too restless. lol.

now in the library typing blog. bad girl. now is 12.53pm. lessons at 5.30pm. zz. and there's still sj zone meeting tt i go crash after my class, usually enter the meeting 2 hrs late. haha.

tata!

Oh my gosh! These few days it's freezing in sg. Okie it's not snowing yet.

But it is super super cold! Tuesday it rained entire day, when it stopped like mid afternoon, I was all ready to go out to Raffles City Robinsons (to use my voucher from my birthday given by my uni clique) to buy my eye gel, body scrub or something alike, and maybe a pack of Marks and Spencer cookies/biscuits! The moment I am ready, it started raining! AH! Then I stay at home loh.

Wednesday went to school, started raining at 9-10am I think. And I had to go DHS to look at the grounds to get a feel of what I may need for Zone Comp (cos' I am Logistics Officer, yet AGAIN). RAIN RAIN RAIN. Carry umbrella to walk to and forth DHS, so wet. (it's like 15-20 min walk from MRT =S)

Thursday, which is today. Rained in the morning, haa, at 11+am it stopped. So I went out to buy lunch. On my way back, it started drizzling, and it's still raining now (1.30pm). SO COLD. I am glad I am in the house sia, I think I can sleep with a blanket without even a fan. Wanted to go visit my grandaunt, but rain so very sian to go out, and I am supposed to do online lectures, and perhaps stay home cos' my junior may want to meet me at MRT later to give me DHS map.

My gosh, lucky I dun need to go NTU today (online lecture yeah!). Damn cold. Best day to zzz.

Some people requested to see my latest bday pres for 2007. Just took a pic of it. Here it is. It's name is 大熊 . It's a big bear haha. See the comparison with my pillow.

yeah look at my 杰作 today! i finally got round to making my didi a new shirt! see this is the new shirt!


and let me show you the before and after pic of didi...

BEFORE

AFTER

yeah! didi looks more kawaii and shuai now right!

Hello! Sorry ya. I didn't update alot cos' busy sia! Summary of what happened from the previous post:

Nov:
- Finished the super long exams. Didn't do as well, there goes my second uppers unless I get A for all sub. A!!! Not even A-. Impossiblez.

Dec:
- JNCO Camp, Course, Pre-camp, whatever.
- I was shortlisted for interviews at all Big 4 (they interview almost everyone, except PWC who chose 200 people to interview, my school has 600 people.) So I went for 4 interviews on 4 days within 6-7 days. Hrm, eventually I managed to get all 4 offers of employment, and after much thinking, I signed contract with PWC on 18 Dec. (deadline la haha) Ok la, the people there seemed quite friendly and they say it's slacker then some of the other 3. Haha. Initially I wanted EY, but I guess I got a better impression of PWC during the interview. So assuming I pass all my exams this sem, I am going PricewaterhouseCoopers. =)
- There was the Seniors chalet, Dinner and Dance and initiation. I bought a tube dress for the D&D, black one la. I think it was quite fun with all the guys dressed in shirts and gals in dresses. Haha. And everyone had a partner also, but mine was like 4 years younger. Haha, cos' they wanna mix up the different batches, so the older ones will get younger partners, just so happen I am the 'older' one. (I am talking crap lol)

Jan:
- Start of SCHOOL! I was in holiday mode for first three weeks, so lag a lot in readings, as usual.
- Start of work in SJ as Senior Admin Officer, don't say I do admin again k. Just that there's nobody to do it, eh, this is my last year anyway. Hopefully I train up someone JC1 to take over admin matters =/. Damn hectic, super lot of things to do. I did feel a bit of regret agreeing ya, but well, it's my responsibility now. And gosh, I am doing 40th Anniversary with Huawei also. Initially heading the June event (Annual Leisure Camp cum 40th Anniversary), but really too much work from Admin side and school is heating up. So ended up as advisor for the project instead.

Feb:
- Start of project period. 2 core subject projects and 1 core subject quiz from 1 Feb - 21 Feb. Craziness. And CNY in between too! How to finish...
- Initially thought we won the preliminary round of a online simulation game competition, then we need to go for round 2 in Feb. But just got the email to say that we didn't win, cos' it's based on the average score and not the score which we thought was cumulative (it turned out to be the score for the last round, not cumulative). Haha, so no go. But all as well, the next round of competition is on the 3 days I have consecutive presentations and quizzes. =/

And then... other things...

Had fun with Esthie when she came backz! Ate lots of Haigen Daiz ice-cream, I became very fatz. LOL. Esthie esthie, update your blog MA!

My dear airen went overseas, saw her off at the airport. And now her blog and messages all become CHINESE! 我的天啊！爱人，你的华文水准还不错嘛！进步了哦！不过，好像是 "人生",不是"人身"... 人身是body吧!我的华文也不是很好... =/

其实我有个问题... 你的blog那个关于"雪"的post, 是你写的吗?哈哈,如果是的话,你的华文水准真的超高的呢!

Ok, enough chinese. haha. So that's my 'ren shen', whichever is the right one. Higher Chinese weiwei girl, pls correct us. LOL.

Last of all, Happy New Year! 新年快乐! Get lots of angbaos!

while i am busy mugging...

updates on the presents partz... i bought new ear phones liaoz (sony $15 hehe, and it's pink!). and my mum happened to have bought a spare walletz... so i have a new walletz haha. and my pooor broken slipper i have replaced it with 'ripples' 15 bucks. oops. hee. sorry arh... my ear phones dieded on me, so i had to get immediate replacement hehe. (i will die without my mp3 on trains and buses).

oh, and i saw a jacketz tt day that was a kind i like. and it's only 14 bucks! (looks like those woolly ones from mango and zara, 14 bucks!! *emphasis) so i bought. bleah =P

hehe. and i dunno wad else i want.

Hello! Barely had the time to write this... just pop by to type out the 21st birthday messages I received. Will talk about what happened some other day yah... October too busy with millions of neverending projects...

On 29 September 2007...

00:01:35 - Ai Ling
Happy birthday! Love ya!

00:02:38 - Yaohui
Happy 21st birthday!

00:02:39 - Sheryl
Oh oh oh happy birthday momo this must be a really special day for u since its your 21st! So enjoy yourself to the max k!

00:25:39 - Boon Wei
Hey gal! HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY!!! :) May all ur bday wishes come true! Hope u find ur prince charming soon :) Stay cute and pretty! And enjoy ur day!

00:43:33 - Hongwei
Happie bdae!

00:43:48 - Huawei
Happy 21st Haha!

00:44:16 - Jason (08/03) (this message is similar to wad i sent him for his bday on the 28th)
Haha thanks thanks sis! Happy 21st! Hope u have many many boy friends n pass with flying colors!

00:44:53 - Junyang
Eh. Happy bday

08:14:36 - Mitchelle
Hey... Happy birthday! Haha.. Many happy returns.. Enjoy your meeting and your celebration after.. We will be working under the hot sun today.. Sob..

08:14:57 - Xinyu
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You are finally 21.. So slow lor.. Haha eh after mid sem break got test not? Dun keep playing and not study.. Jiayou!

09:03:07 - Boon Wei (haha for the 2nd time, cos I said I think my birth time is 9am)
Yo! Happy birthday again! Hahaha.. U're officially 21 le!

10:47:37 - Yuanwang
Happy birthday hur. Today ur birthday right.

10:56:31 - Sheng Lian
Yo Momo! Happy 21st birthday! Hope u have a good time at meeting and later with your frens.. Stay happy and may all your wishes come true =)

11:43:01 - Peijun
Siew Siew! Happy 21st birthday! Whee. May all wishes come true k. Enjoy your special day! Muacks Muacks!

12:16:23 - Emily
Happy 21st birthday! May all your wishes come true! Stay cheerful n sweet! :)

13:29:21 - Limin
Happy birthday siew chin!! Btw, have u sent me ur speech for cesim ppt?

22:00:34 - Yvonne
Hey! Happy 21st Birthday :)

22:09:23 - Pia Leong
Hey mdm! Happy birthday! May you be cheerful and happy-go-lucky always. Enjoy ur last yr of studying and join me quick in earning $.

23:45:28 - Jian Nan
Hello Mdm, happy 21st birthday! :)

23:45:46 - Xinying
Hello mdm, just before it turns 12, happy 21st birthday! stay cool and good luck in yr studies! Haha see you around soon =D

23:46:41 - Grace Tan
Hey mdm! Before it turns 12, i'll wish u a totally happy 21st birthday!! All the best in your future endeavours n continue to be a nu(means girl i can't type the two dots on top) qiang ren!

23:48:41 - Tien Leng
Hey mdm, happy bday! may all ur wishes come true! all the best!

On 30 September 2007...

00:13:57 - Esther (sms all the way from Australia)
Hey happy 21st bdae my momo! I haven't forgotten.. Just a little busy.. Love ya and see ya soon..*hugs

00:29:42 - Yian Ping
HapPi belateD bdae. :)

The above were through sms. Thanks everyone!!

Through msn:
13:27h - Wen Yuan
15:19h - Xinyu
22:55h - Wei Ning

Through JNCO meeting at PN's house from 9-12pm on 29 Sept:
Wei Loong
Chee Hoe
Wei Chee
Pearl Ning
Huiru

Hee, activities for celebrations:
21 Sept - Family dinner at Wheelock (Jap food at Sun with Moon) + ice-cream at Azabu Sabo treated by my bro

23 Sept - Went out with all the senior seniors after meeting at DHS to Jap food at Katong (haha jap again!) proudly initiated by Serene!

27 Sept - Went out with my dear roomie Yian Ping to study at Singapore Post Coffee Bean (my fav studying place), and she bought a slice of mango cheesecake (newest taste on the display) and put a candle on it, borrowed a lighter from someone in the restaurant to light the candle. All done while I was away to the toilet. Lol.

28 Sept - Went out with airen and weiwei to Marina Square. We bought a whole load of presents, for airen and weiwei (belated), jason (whose bday was 28th but he got date at night, so never come out with us), me (of course of course!), ser hian (whose party is the coming saturday on 6 oct). Went to the glutton's square or something near esplanade to eat supper!!

29 Sept - Went to JNCO meeting in the morning, and PN and co bought me a powerpuff girls cake! Damn cutez! and a A3 size card...

30 Sept - Went to run event at orchard cineleisure, at nightz they bought a cake to celebrate my day and Yaohui's bday (2 oct)... haha, came as a surprise...


Thanks everyone who celebrated for me or wished me in one way or the other... haa. i guess i shall skip the details of 29 sept till i have time later on. lol.

sighz. sometimes i really dunno what am i doing anymore.

today i went to zone meeting. it was like a major discussion about things here and there. one of them was about having jnco in dec and then snco in june. william asked for opinions from the corps. so i guess i am the oldest there for dhs, so i just said loh. by right in zone meeting, all opinions are supposed to mean like your corps think that way. i was quite confident about my opinion and i just said loh, that we should have 1 year lapse for jnco and snco, and why etc. and our corps constraints for only able being to hold jnco in dec. right. and thus maybe snco should be in dec also blahblah. at least till that point, i thot that should be the general opinion around.

so i came home, and i found out that wl held a different opinion, and he felt that pl would go for snco in june. right. you know, when you are at a meeting representing your group, and you are actually not the boss in the group, yet you are supposed to air views that rep your group? professionally, u can't say, i dunno, cos i am not the highest rank or most senior. again, if you keep quiet, then what's the real point of going to a meeting to discuss things? okie so i am of a certain rank though not the highest, it would be weird if i kept quiet rightz. well, so am i right to air my opinion? i guess i should, just that i should just say it's my personal opinion. my flaw, i didn't say that loh. so basically, even if u have a certain rank, u can't really say that it's definitely my corps' stand on things, because there are so many people above you. so what's the rank for, i wonder. unless u are the CEO, you can say this is what my company wants. if u are MD, just say, this is my opinion, i think this should be the way. really. manz. the world works like that.

this sem is a most tiring semester. i got 3 core subjects, 3 project groups that is. 1 chosen, which i had to play a strategy game together with. i spent 3 hours arguing at a grpmate's house about what are our real intentions, our strategy etc. we didn't finish and continued online for 3 hours the next day. i am already exhausted from all these, it's just like she wants everything her way and doesn't plan everything in line with the strategy that we have agreed on. so that's a perfect arguing group, and goodness i have done that for 2 weeks(i.e. 2 rounds), cos we have to argue every round about all the numbers to put in for team's input on the game.

the second group was like, the perfect elite group. smart, outspoken people. right. so actually 3 of them are closer to each other, and 1 of them likes to whisper to another person about blahblahblah goodness knows what in front of everyone in the group. i find that action irritating, cos' if it's for discussion, just tell everyone. if it's not, we can share the sidetrack thing together. she was in my group last sem for another subject, but luckily we dun have meetings often so i ignored it, but it's still damn irritating. and so much for elite group, when they changed the company we were doing for project over the weekend, NOBODY told me a thing. i only got to know when they have changed the company and got ready the second proposal for submission on monday. fine, i thot it was just, u know, they forgot, and they were busy trying to find a new company cos the previous one flopped on friday. today the contact person in our group for the company, was saying the company refused to give us the SOP blahblah, confidential blahblah. and she went with another of my grpmate and asked the tutor about it, and thanks, we didn't know a thing la. nobody said anything like that, and if we didn't like go up to see what was going on with her and the tutor, we would never have known.

now all these made me quite detest this feeling, i am in the group, and you dun wanna tell me a thing. is it cos' i am not as smart, or cos' i am insignificant, or cos' u dun even feel that my existence is worth a cent? even if i can't tell u the solution, at least tell me right. for that, i have a mild feeling for my sj post in the camp in dec. so being the deputy camp chief, basically everything goes through the camp chief. sometimes i dunno some things, or i am not the first or one of the first to know, makes me feel that i am quite an extra post hanging around. i know it's not cos' they dun wanna send me, maybe they forgot, and seriously going through another person is really inefficient. so makes me feel like my job is quite in name only.

so exactly, what am i doing now? being in too smart a grp, pple think i am too dumb and useless. airing my views is either tiring cos i have the argue so long for a very simple thing, or i am in no position to represent anyone. manz. for the first time k, i think that working in my uni main comm is more enjoyable than any of these.

yoyoyo! the most miraculous thing happened! i washed my teddy bears!! they have been unwashed for quite some years, so if you have touched them, you may regret now. haha!

okiez, this is the cute photos of my dear soft toys on clothes peg.

My dear didi. *pull earz

gege (brother) and dino


scarfy, shuai niao and doodoo
(sorry the latter two are facing outside, looking at scenery i guess)


my tortoise, happy and the bad bad manz
(this pic looks funny with the bad bad manz and the background hdb)


happy family on clothes peg. with the addition of my dear cowie on the left.

Yoz. I shall add on to my list earlier on... bored as usual. I dun wanna study!!

More wish lists:
- perhaps a cooler for my dear laptop. I am scared it will explode if I leave it on to download stuff for more than 2-3 days.
- a pair of sony ear plugs tt is those with smaller cushions that can stick inside the ear better. eh, i dunno if it's noise cancelling, i only noe it's abt 60 bucks. haaa. black is preferred, so that if it gets super dirty, nobody will see! (now u noe why i like black handphones, better dun hold my phone next time, u dunno how dirty it is!)
- a dummy that looks like me so that it can replace me at project meetings haha!

Can't think of anything. got some stuff to do liaoz. BYE!

Yo! I am bored and lazy to study and do homework. So I shall start my birthday wish list before anyone buys anything. haha. Don't need to buy something from the list, I welcome surprise and creative stuff! Haha (I damn thick skinned)

Please do not buy me skirts, I have so many, though it's all knee length, but there's just too many! Eh, advisable not to buy any soft toys, my bed is overflowing! haha.

Things that perhaps you can consider:
- Long tops (on the search for long tops that is not too tight, trying to change my wardrobe to more feminine siaz. But this is tough, I am fatz so hard to find exact fit)
- Hooked, dangling earrings (plenty of studs, keep wearing the same few dangling, haha, cos the ones I like all very ex i.e. above 6 bucks)
- Cardigan (Bored of my dark blue mega size one)
- Handbag (realised I don't really have any except for the rectangular black one that I bring along when I wear formal wear)
- A super memory brain (arhh tml got advanced theory driving and I am not halfway thru, and I can't remember!)
- An intelligent teddy bear that does all my AA205 homework for online submissions like twice a week.
- A boyfriend. Haha!
- Dress? Don't have any except for a white one from my jc classmates last time. But not many dresses fit me well cos I am fatz.
- Swimming lessons next semester (cos' all the projects and driving lessons are driving me nuts this sem)

Okie. Now I got this time to talk about National Day when I saw Serene's blog post about our nation's birthday.

I haven't been watching National Day for perhaps the past 2-3 years, including this year. Reason being, everyone is so busy, and National Day is a public holiday that seems like a perfect day to meet up, even though NDP is on TV etc.

So for this year, I went out with my uni clique, and it was pretty cool, almost like watching NDP, in a different sense. We didn't see all those contingents, parade commander and audience shouting and choir singing. We didn't hear the nice national songs, see the displays by the students in the centre, nor join in everyone singing the national anthem. But I still think we got a pretty spectacular view. Where did we go?

We went to Boat Quay to eat dinner, and sat at a table just next to Singapore River, and the view was one that was overlooking the Fullerton Hotel and the Asian Civilisation Museum. You may wonder what is so great about those buildings, it's not those buildings, but the stadium that is located behind those buildings. We saw all the sky effects of NDP, starting from the parachuters with their beautiful red smoke descending into the stadium, the helicopter carrying the national flag (which flew past over our heads, cool), more parachuters with the lights descending at night, all those fighter jets that flew with the smoke making patterns and having great coordination in the air. Display of the aircrafts of Singapore Air Force, and of course, the fireworks! No big crowd, happily sitting there to watch the scene, and eating Thai food. Cool isn't it? I think I will go back next year. Haha.

Oh yeah, I should watch out for the re-telecast of the NDP, dunno if it's over yet. Then I can say I have watched it on tv, and the real thing too!

Oh no. Latest article in the newspaper today has stated that Odex, who sells anime in VCDs (note: I think they sell those in silver boxes), has taken action against people who downloads anime. Basically from what I gather after reading about a dozen websites, they catch people who downloads by bittorrent. But of course, I guess nobody should take any chance doing any direct downloading either. Basically you get fined for 5k per anime downloaded, and they track you for all the downloads that you do since March this year.

According to a post made by someone in one of the websites, stopping the downloading/torrenting now does not protect you, cos' the person that made the post stopped since July, and still got a letter from Odex. But of course, if you are still downloading, you should stop now to reduce the liability in case they decide to send ya a letter, choy choy.

Anyway, after reading some websites, people has expressed concern over the issue of human rights and privacy as StarHub and SingTel currently gives the names of the IP addresses that Odex asked for to get the identity of the downloaders. Basically, they managed to secure a court order to get these names, which is quite expected, cos' the law stands on the side that downloaders are wrong. I guess there's not much of a say about human rights and privacy, like when you broke the law, or suspected of having broken the law, the police are allowed to track all those internet trails and stuff, I think even if you say "I love you" to your boyfriend on MSN, they can track it. And after they track the IP address, to find the culprit they have to find the name of the address also. So downloaders have broken the law, and Odex do have the right to go get the names. I don't think this has anything to do with human rights, as for privacy, whatever you do online, you should know that there's no privacy already.

So for all anime fans out there, I guess the suggestions made by the various blogs and websites are quite sufficient. Well, the law is the law, although the quality of anime sold by Odex are really poor, (I have 2 boxes of their anime in my house. 1 bought and 1 given to my brother as present) there's nothing we can do about it yeah. So to carry on watching anime, the best way is watch online. If you wanna keep anime, one way is to buy from a company that sells higher quality anime from overseas. Another is get your overseas friend who is in a country that is not strict about this and download, burn and mailed over. Anyway, my suggestions for these is not that I wanna boycott Odex (seriously many fans are so irritated so they say boycott it. I was irritated too, but wellz), it's more cos' I guess there's no point buying low quality anime for such a high price. Don't waste money, buy better quality from overseas.

I heard that the company is like going into higher quality stuff, selling dvds. Hrm, the last time I saw a Bleach DVD, it's like VERY ex. Last time it was like 10 episodes, for about 30 bucks. I forgot how much was the DVD, but it's more ex than that. Anyway, Naruto is not on their list, but I wouldn't take the risk. Naruto is currently distributed by Blue Max, their quality is quite good. (I have 9 boxes of them, so I know) And besides, Blue Max is my favourite VCD/DVD store =P.

Don't be too sad, anime lovers. But I think I would miss the great quality fansubbed episodes. Thanks to all fansubbers who worked so hard. It's cos' of you that I love anime.

Momoko-chan & the Passport renewal

Today was a great an exciting day at the ICA building. Let's see, we shall start with how I began my day. I woke up 11+am this morning (hey i got home at 3+am yesterday, so i am not that late!), read a little of my storybookz, and headed out to photocopy 4 chapters of my textbook. Hrm, the reason for photocopying was cos' the book is like perhaps 5-6cm thick, and I didn't want to have to bring that thick book to school for lessons. Okie, that's not the real reason. The real reason is cos' I 'accidentally' sold the book to someone without checking that it was needed for my module this semester =S. So before I turn the book over on Monday to my buyer, I guess I better make a photocopy of the 4 chapters I need.

Hrm, then I went over to 328 Katong Laksa to eat er... laksa. Haha. Here comes the real adventure. I went to ICA Building to collect my passport, had to renew it cos' it's expiring soon. When I reached there it was like, the whole audience from NDP was there. Haha. So crowded, it's almost hard to move around. Struggled to get my queue number, the time then was 2pm, and guess what, when I looked at the electronic boards with all the numbers, it was like... my number was 4137. And the latest range of numbers on the board was 3000+. Hrm, a thousand people in front of me in the queue, a THOUSAND????

My best idea was to go to the cafeteria downstairs to grab a nice cup of coffee, sit there and read. But alas! No space there. Headed over to the coffee shop 5 minutes away. Went back to the building at about 3pm, still far from my number. By 3.20pm I had finished my book, and the number was 3500+, so by estimation I guess I will have about 1.25hours more to wait at the very least. Decided to hop on a bus to Bugis, return my book at the library, and borrow another. Wow. Took me about an hour to and forth, and cool, the number was just at 3800+. Sat down and read my book, finally at 4.50pm, the number turned 4000+ and I decided to station myself nearer to the super crowded room for passport collection. Finally got my passport at like 5.10pm.

I got my queue number at like 2pm, I wondered what about those people who got their number at 4pm? The building was supposed to be closed at 5pm. haha. The place was still very crowded when I left. Oh well. Taught me not to do anything at the ICA building on a day after National day, where every other family decides to take leave and go there for passports and stuff.

Oh yeah, if you do meet up with this kinda situation, I guess it's pretty safe to walk over to Bugis for a nice cup of coffee, look at the library collection and come back later. Better than squeezing with the families at the building, all camping near the collection room, sitting on the floor. It's like queuing for NDP tickets or something you know.

rem the always very blur momo.

what happened today: i met my roomie out for dinner at bugis, after some shopping after food we went home together (since we both stay in the same area). guess what happened. we were chit chatting, taking the mrt home. when we reached the next stop, it was city hall. right, we took the west train instead of the east train... manz, we crossed over the platform to take the next train home, guess wad. when we reached the next stop, it was dhoby ghaut! dear me. lol. forgot that the train across city hall's platform don't go in the opposite direction... LOL.

and then we went across the platform of dhoby ghaut again to take to city hall. and went across city hall's platform to take a train towards pasir ris. yes, we verified carefully before we took the next train across the platform again, but this time it was all right. haha.

so, if u dun wanna take the escalator to the next platform to go east after being on the wrong train to the west at city hall, maybe u can try crossing the platform 3 times to get the right train. trust me, you will get the right train, cos' i tried it. haha!