gk's right. it's all about how much you want it, for you to get there in the end.

now i think about it, maybe the one hour school day on Wednesdays is a good thing after all. it forces me to wakeup bright and early and leaves me with plenty of time to get things done afterwards.

haha i just posted again on the ivle forum (compulsory la, im not mad) and why do so many people like to use big words? okay i get that you're highly intellectual with a vast range of vocabulary, but simple concepts should be put across in simple english should they not? maybe it's so that others won't understand them enough to dispute. but so sorry, i think disputing about what someone else said is easier than making your own thread :D   

im beginning to like tuesdays :) but too much reliance is never a good thing. 


lassie's twentyfirst <3

celebrated chris's and hy's twentyfirst ytd night at clarke quay with the usual and i just went to the yio chu kang sakura tonight. actually the main point was the sashimi haha. week two tmr, it's lucky i start the week with the most entertaining prof with funny barbs and the right kind of sarcasm i like, brings monday blues to a halt.

you know, i always feel that when you want to do something, you gotta do it fast, right away. and if you really want something, you have to be prepared to do whatever it takes to get it. because the longer you leave it hanging, the more likely you won't do it. exception being unless you have to, like essay deadlines urgh. that said, i better start studying like now, so i can take advantage of the fact that so many CAP market spoilers are off on exchange.  

 it's like some things just don't change, one prime example being......


haha :D

had lunch with the girls at one rochester park today for some good food and pretty scenery, not to mention awesome company <3

haha i've been complaining since forever about idiots who push up bidding points at the last minute of closed bidding, and here i am guilty as charged. despite the fact that as of now, one minute before it ends, there are exactly twentyseven bidders for twentyseven vacancies so there isn't really pressing need to do so. but oh well, this is what bidding does to me, and all the rest of us. haha forgive me. 

i know i haven been updating much, but i really can't remember exactly what has happened by now. it was just hols, the usual going-out, old friends, the christmas party :D and now it's nearly the end of the entire year. it's like the years go faster as we grow older. i can't quite put a finger on how significant this year was and how much it meant but somehow, i think i'm not quite the same person i was at the beginning of it all.   

i can't say it's been a good year, cos it wasn't. but you learn some, and next year will definitely be a much better one. there're some things nobody can change, except for me, and it's time to get things back on track. way overdue but better late than never. no resolutions or wish-list, cos these things don't work and are impossibly passe. but i get what i want, and that's a promise to myself. i hope i look back next year and tell myself 2010 was one of the best years yet. 

you know, people drift apart all the time. im just thankful for those who're still here, and always will be here.

im not particularly sad to see this year go. as i've said, it wasn't a very good year.

next year will be mine. hah :D    

this is really long overdue, but it was a beautiful wedding..








and i ran into karyn there purely by chance, i didn't know she was gonna be there too! lol

funny, im using the com much lesser in the hols. or maybe, i used to fb just cos i didn wanna do the things i had to do during term time oops ~

exams are finally over, but finance mcqs were damn difficult. and my strategy is, when in doubt, put C as the answer. the structured ones were okay, but i was pressing the calculator so quickly who knows if i pressed correctly. i hope they have error carried forward. haha time flies when you're in the midst of a paper. you start writing when it's daylight, then you lookup and it's dark outside. i hope i get decent enough grades, i didn even try this hard in my first year. but people are so competitive it's scary, especially when i really hate losing.

anyway, here's to holidays! i know alot of people've barely started their papers, like suat, so all the best okay! oh and there was a notice next to the lift today, telling us to refrain from taking the lift in case we get trapped inside and miss our exams. LOL.

okay i need a good night's sleep before i do anything else. i was totally dreaming of finance stuff the past few days hah.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you have.

how true. haha okay bullshit, if people aren't happy after getting what they want, then ten thousand pigs will take to the air tmr. not saying it's not true la, but i bet u my bank account that few are so easily contented.

speaking of which, some stranger has been using my acc for payments and withdrawal for the past few months and dbs hasn't managed to solve the problem. and now they say they're gonna credit my acc with the missing amounts next month, not all mind you, but only those amounts missing after the second complaint. why can't he go rob someone rich, there're plenty out there. and either dbs is really incompetent, or that stranger is so highly skilled he can get through blocked cards.

ching, i hope u're much better already! :D

was studying at the airport ytd and more than half the people milling around were singaporeans (!!!!). it's like a new shopping place, like why on earth would you go to the airport to get groceries at fairprice? it's insane haha.

just now, this singtel salesman knocked on the door and tried very hard to convince us to switch to singtel instead of starhub. i think he deserves credit for rattling on and on for nearly ten minutes with perserverance, and stopping us with pleads every time we said no and tried to close the door. lol i know you got the bid but we don't watch soccer and mio isn't very appealing. plus the internet and phone rates are similar to starhub's so what's your point? haha poor thing, selling door-to-door on a sunday afternoon.

goin to school tmr to submit ais with jiaxin. i wonder why we can't submit soft copy.

and eileen turned twenty ytd! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 010! hahaha dinner later, can't wait! :D

         

OKAY STUDY.


you know sometimes, a few words can hurt more than ten thousand conversations put tgt.

and so school is out for the sem, except for the test left on thurs, and finals. i think time is going too fast :(

by the way, i hate train delays! it made me horribly late this morning cos the train stopped at every stop for 5-10minutes and subsequently it stopped while in the tunnel as well!! it took me more than twice the amount of time to get to vivo, what with the operator's voice over the system saying 'this train will stop here for a short while. we are sorry for the inconvenience.' seriously, hearing it repeatedly at close time intervals makes your blood boil.

met up with drey last week after so long. haha had marche and updates! more when the holidays come round <3

the weather was freezing today, it was pouring like mad. the bus was like north pole lol. and i saw christmas decorations already up in orchard on my bus ride home! 

some people are really amusing. if you get a certain grade then that's it. there is no need to approach others and try to get them to evaluate you in comparison to your other grp members. maybe your intention was for us to express shock at your grade cos u deserve so much more but that's too bad cos i think u must have accumulated some amazing karma to get your current grade already. plus what's over is over, get a grip and move on HAH. do we look like we care about your concerns? haha oops later jx say im mean :) maybe i should accumulate some more good karma so that a miracle will be bestowed on me too.

haha okay time to hit the books. you know, miracles don't just happen to anyone.

night safari on saturday was so packed we could hardly believe it. if the bfs were there they would have wanted to leave within half an hour or even less. ohmigod we queued for close to two hours? lol karyn screamed at everything even when the ghoul was like ten metres away, i got startled by her screams even before i saw the thing HAHA.

first halloween with PC :)





and then joce sent us all home cept for karyn who went boonlay, thanks my dear! :)

okay i can't wait for mkting report to be over. i just proof-readed thirtytwo pages, restructuring sentences(i know u love commas but fullstops are nice too), changing grammar(why people dun get the difference btw present tense, past tense and future tense, i will never know) and adding in more points. and i stil have to do executive summary and conclusion tmr plus general editing. and my ais is not done, along with a dozen other things :(  

i am NOT wondering why only three out of seven people are writing up the report. i am not. thank god for amy and lj, the rest better stay out of my way.   

im waiting for joce to end her ais class now, i had mine before hers; we are in school on a saturday -_- the tutor speaks like ris low. think 'porbably', 'porblem', and the 'you know you know' lol.  

haha but night safari later, can't wait! :D

okay now i better get back to the mkting report ~

i've been in a much better mood these couple of days :) and today was a good day, apart from the annoyance named sarah, but more on that later.

mkting was jus to watch presentations today cos we did ours last week and since there were groups with clients like chewy junior and botak jones, we actually got sponsored puffs and burgers for breakfast and lunch. lol nine to twelve class is good timing! haha and i had no idea botak jones had a profit margin of millions, like two percent of its profit margin already hits a couple hundred thousand. as amy said, we should drop out of school and open stalls in coffee shops already, like seriously!

then sarah came to sit next to me and said she wanted to talk about the report. okay, since it's due next thursday and she's supposed to compile what we already have but no apparently she's the world's busiest person. so she started asking me what an executive summary was(!!) i wonder if she actually uses her gray matter and in any case im sure bizcomm at least taught her that much in her second year. i explained but she seemed to be way lost in the deserts of africa so being nice, i offered to do that part. (okay, not so much being nice, but simply cos i didn want to have to re-do one after she screwed it up)  

it's a thirty page report due and when i saw her email of delegation just now, i felt like flushing her down the toilet along with a truckload of sewage. we have seven people in our group and out of eleven parts, i saw my name on three. and it isn't even really eleven parts; her part is imc objectives which anyone can do in five minutes cos you can copy & paste from our slides. as for the timeline, that's what we came up with tgt and i know for a fact you can copy & paste from the minutes cos i was the one who did it. to sum it up, i am writing the executive summary, promotions, events, and overall conclusion. plus compiling the whole thing with amy and lj cos we want a decent grade, not to mention our beloved sarah has a test on saturday and wun be free to do anything till sunday. and did i mention it has to be written up by saturday night cos time is running out? sleep is a sacred privilege these days. 

i gave her a three out of ten on peer evaluation last night but i think i was too kind. on the scale of contribution, she would hardly deserve a two. 

on to more pleasant things, jx cabbed me to braddell after biz comm on her way home, thanks my dear! i think we bitch too much, but it's for our own good, de-stress ya know! <3
 

hahaha if only i could do that too. i mean, i'll be bored to death if that was my life but just one day or a few days la :D

i am not having a good day.

someone said to me, when u care less, u hurt less. i couldn't agree more.

i think it's what i have to do to feel happier. because these days deep down i feel like shit.

i've always known that life was unpredictable. but when it hits you in the face, that's when you really know it's true. i just hope he's in a better place now, it wasn't an easy choice to make. still, to each his own, i dun think im in any position to judge. i hope you will be happier, wherever you are.

on another note, had presentation today :D





lol just look at prof :) and we felt so sorry for the mascot when we dumped it beside the bin to be thrown cos it was too big for anyone to lug it home even if we wanted to. all that work chucked away! and just for fun, here's one of our print ads and mascot haha..

 

haha so this is the last presentation of the sem. at least i had fun :D :D

driving is making me very very poor haha esp when everyone's cancelling their lessons this month cos of exams. im amazed that even the primary one kid took this month off to prepare. prodigy arh? LOL. and the driving schedule is loading terribly slowly as always on the 18th, when it's barely twenty minutes past twelve.

went for ais today and it was... okay. class on a saturday -_-

i suddenly have a craving for starbucks :) i need to stay awake.