Maomi just bit off one of my earphones!!!!! I'm broke and i'll only get my pay next week!! This is not the 1st time she has spoilt a electrical appliance. The other time, she spoilt my bro's computer speaker..most probably bit the wires again. Other times, she's spoiling the furnitures, breaking vases, killing my flowers, attempting to scar me whenever i make her unhappy, etc etc etc..
'People' person
Met my Biochem lecturer this morning. Chatted about my work load this sem and what i'm planning to do after graduating from poly. She said that since i'm such a 'people' person, i should do work pertaining to management, sales, event planning, etc etc etc. Interestingly, i found out from her that one of the students from my dept left sch before she even graduated (mind you, she didn't get sacked from sch..) is working for this certain doctor and he's paying her a graduate's pay for being his secretary. Of course, her work is related to what she used to study. So, my lec offered me his name card but i had to go get it from her as it was not with her at that moment. Good to get contacts and my lec's name can be on my resume as reference.
Oh my..i feel so happy..i'm in such a joyous mood. My mind has been made up on what i wanna study. I'm gonna study Pharmaceutical management. So far, i only know MDIS offers this course. But then again, will i be able to pull thru another 36 to 42mths of studying?? And will i have the money to study in a private uni?? I don't really want to use my mum's money. Stressful. You just feel this extra pressure on you to do well..sigh..
My cat
Was observing my cat on and off while typing out the above. I realise that she's real smart. She was unable to open the wardrobe door from the bottom of it so she jumped up into the shelf beside it and proceeded on to open the door. Once she got it ajar, she jumped down and opened the entire door (ok...she just jumped up in front of me) and played with its contents. What i meant by play here is....pulling each and every one of the contents, one by one. Gosh..
I realised it long ago..but i'm only telling you now. =P
I LOVE MAOMI!!!
ok...a few pictures of her...my late Princess (adopted her when she was still a puppy when i was ard 6yo) and Coffee (Silky terrier x Jack russel)
this was when they were still young and Princess was already on her last 6mths...sigh..i miss her
Cute?? Cute??
Coffee was 3mths old..growing out of "proportion" haahaahaa
Taken when Coffee was about 9mths old and Maomi was close to 1yo..they're holding hands....
She was slping when i was mugging for my papers last sem..accidentally woke her up when sneaking a photoshot of her..
This is the best shot i have of her. She's so hyper that most of the pictures, she either looks like a mad dog or extremely tired coz she had been jumping up and down. Oh..she's about 1m tall when she's standing and weighs approx. 15kg..haahaa..big dog..surprising eh?
I hope i ain't boring anyone or 'chasing' off my readers with all these talk and pictures about my pets. Hope u love them too. =)
-iWrote 9/23/2004 05:45:00 PM
Amazement
Last lesson of the day and S was slping in class. And to make it worse, the lesson's only from 2-3pm, she came in 15mins late and fell aslp within 10mins. Yes, i do fall aslp in class too but that happens only when it's a long day and slping now would give me more energy for the rest of the classes. The lecturer bent down to look at her in amazement and S didn't even sense anything..she was so dead aslp. The lecturer then continued with her explaination of some term, using my fren as an example. How? Well, she said, "It's ok for one to die (pointing to S) and let others live (points to another friend of mine beside her, J)". The class laughed hysterically. I laughed too but was thinking, "S is not on good terms with this lecturer and another lecturer, who is her friend from Uni and happens to share the same staff room. She is so dead. But oh well, she can study and pull thru."
Sometimes i really wonder how is it that my studies are not good but yet my lecturers try their best to pass me. After being in poly for almost 4yrs, i realised that it is because i am a good student. I try my best to listen in class, be on time, be sorry when i know i'm wrong (usually before my lecturer approaches me about it), try to pass my test and appear to be sorry that i failed it (of course, half the time i'm not sorry. Those were the marks i deserved coz i didn't really study..but there are also times when i really am sorry coz i did study). Therefore the lecturers like me and help me to pass. Guess you really have to have manners if you're not good in your studies. Last sem and i hope i can pull thru with my mediocre knowledge about the modules concerned.
-iWrote 9/22/2004 10:06:00 PM
Of Schools, Results, and the Level of Education
I had been very vexed recently over the need to futher my studies. Why? A few days back, my friend wanted to talk to the lecturer about futhering studies. As usual, having no where else to go, i tagged along. And the conclusion after talking to her for half an hour? People doing life sciences had better go futher their studies if not, they'll end up doing all the 'shit-hole' work forever. ('Shit-hole' work refers to doing gel purification, running gels, etc etc..miscellaneous work..) In exact, no research work for you.
To make things a little more unbearable for me, i actually made myself finish reading what xiaxue wrote on her blog. Well knowingly that she's trying to make a point that going to poly is a bad choice and had she studied harder, she would be in JC and right now in NUS or NTU.
I use to think that the young adults nowadays are able to think better than the on-the-brink-of-death generation. But i am surprised that some think the same way as the older generation. How many of the big bosses out there are actually uni grad students? How many of those driving expensive cars are actually uni grad students? Why is it that most employers would rather hire more diploma students than degree holders? Why can't anyone actually see that at the end of the day, it's not how much knowledge you have or how well you can work. It's more of how much can you earn for the company and to family members, it is how much you bring home each month.
Why do adults still brag about their kids going to Uni?? Simply coz they do not have a life. They want to be in the lime light and everyone will start talking about how great their kids are. Argh! Such disgusting behaviour. Has studying become a competitive sport and something for parents to go around the whole estate bragging about? Is studying no longer something for one to upgrade and gain knowledge? Does it really matter which route people take to gain that knowledge? At the end of the day, it's just you and you alone. Why can't people just stop comparing and competing? Doesn't anyone find it tiring? I do...i am tired and drained. Sometimes i just wish i can just stop but i can't coz everyone is still comparing and competing with each other.
My conclusion? I will still go ahead with futhering my studies but it is just a matter of time and being financially independent to do it. Now you might be asking, why do i go futher my studies? Am i not also competing with others? My answer, No. I am not competing with others. I am just merely doing what i need to do to achieve what i had planned for myself. It's the same ending but different starting points.
This is not helping. I've written it all out and i'm feeling even worse. For those interested, you can highlight the above space.
-iWrote 9/19/2004 04:03:00 PM
Quick update
Monday (6/9) => Helped mum out at her stall from morning till late afternoon. Went for a BBQ with classmates from the other group (1 class = 2 groups) at Palawan Beach, Sentosa. I was invited so i went. Left early to catch last monorail out.
Conclusion = Good day
Tuesday (7/9) => Helped mum out at her stall again. Went home with her.
Conclusion => Good day, but can be better
Wed (8/9) => Mum sent me to do errands, thus i didn't go to the stall. Went over to Karen's place to put my bag down (was staying over). Bought a slice of cake for S to celebrate her birthday (belated). Happy face on S. Went for BBQ again with my group of classmates. Had lotsa fun. Went to club at Newsroom after that. Had more fun. Got drunk, puked, felt very much better.
Conclusion => Very very good day
Thurs (9/9) => Slept the entire day at Karen's, prepared dinner. Karen made a makeshift 'curtain' with the blanket we bought from Ikea. Was meant for her mum. But she didn't want to use it.
Fri (10/9) => Watched Karen do her work. Made things up with Karen. Went home after lunch.
Sat and Sun => Stayed home and did work but went out to meet Karen after her paper on Sat. Had dinner together and dropped by Esplanade coz we got no where else to walk.
Conclusion => Good day
Mon (13/9) => Sch reopens and been hectic till now.
When my day starts wrong, it ends wrong.
I had a lousy day today. Got irritated with my classmate coz she couldn't understand a simple term that can be understood using layman's term. In exact, she could just break the term up and understand each term as an english term.
Told Karen about it plus something V said after school and me coaching V Immuno tomorrow. In the end i got reprimanded for it all. Was unhappy but what can i possibly do? This is just me and that is just her.
Window shopped a little and realise that it was getting late. Mentioned it once but Karen didn't quite get me. Maybe it was the way i said it. I mean, we were having fun window shopping and all of a sudden i just went "oh my my...look at the time.." Karen was amused and said i was cute. ok..i'm a sucker for praises..so i forgot to remind her again. When i finally did, we got unhappy due to some misunderstanding of what Karen said. Once again, i was unhappy. Upset to be more exact. Realised that i had walked onto a path that i know i'll constantly get hurt. But i still wanna walk on. Unhealthy. But i am still gonna walk on. This is just me and that is just her. Accept each other for who they are.
Finished shopping for groceries and went home with dinner. Realised my sore throat is getting worse. In fact, it's spreading around to my whole entire throat. Up till now, am not sure how i got it. Oh....bought Shindeller's (is that how you spell it?) List. Gonna watch it when i'm free.
Right now, i've to mug for all my final tests and do my reports properly. Exams are in a month's time. Not much to study but lotsa things to rem. About 10 chapters for each examinable module.
Friends
Just read Karen's blog and it started me thinking. Who are my friends? Are those that i call friends my friends coz i have something which they can make use of? If they had nothing to gain from me, will they still want to be my friends? Sometimes, i believe that no one will be my friend coz i really am irritating. Don't any of you say no. I know myself well enough in certain aspects. But i guess this is only so when i regard that person as a friend, a friend whom i think will take me for me. Some part of me still believe so. But i am getting skeptical towards everyone. Maybe i just want to protect myself somehow. *shrugs*
-iWrote 9/16/2004 10:38:00 PM
Judgment
I realised that i judge people according to how to act towards animals. I am not trying to say that if someone doesn't like animals, then i'll dislike them. It's more like, it's alright if you dislike furry animals or think that certain animals are evil.
Oh...i remembered something..let's digress for a while (haahaa..learnt that from Mrs Mark..)
Let me bring you to a wednesday morning during an agrotech practical.
S: I dislike dogs. I think they are evil.
V: NO!! Cats are evil!!
S: No! Dogs are evil!!
Me: they are not evil lahz...
S and V looks at me
S: Yeah..she has both of them...(if i didn't rem wrongly, she said this too..) she's the evil one...
My group of friends laughed..
Me: *huh? me evil?*
ok...back to my subject...
If you dislike animals, you won't keep them and that's fine with me. What's not fine with me is that people look at puppies and kittens and think they are real real adorable. Of course they are. Then these idiotic imbeciles proceed to take them home. Like all living things, they start to get bigger and bigger, older and older and sadly, they often look increasingly less adorable. Next! These imbeciles proceed to chase them out of the house.
Why can't these people just take a step back and look at what they are doing? So what if you say you'll feel sad too but you had no choice. THAT, is not an excuse. Think. If people who brought you up, fed you, and kept you clean and warm decide to throw you out of the house coz you're no longer pretty, or cute, or adorable? And these people proceed to tell you that they had NO choice coz you're getting bigger and bigger. How would you feel then?
I am not an animal activist. I do biotech and i jab and kill mice for my practicals. Then again, that's another matter altogether. My point being, if people will just be responsible, there wouldn't be all those stray dogs and cats in the streets. Especially the cats. Just in case you haven't noticed, the vets that volunteer to do the sterilisation of the cats now not only clip their ears, they also cut off half (or more) of their tails. What's the big deal? Ok. Here's the deal.
Cats are born with tails. Their tails are to help them to balance. It's fine if those borned-stray cats are without tails coz of some genetic mutations. They learn to get their balance without the tail from young. Imagine one which is born with a tail. All of a sudden, it doesn't have a tail. It can't balance, falls off from the tree while escaping from some ferocious animal, gets injured, ferocious animal kills them.
Keeping a pet is a life long responsibility. If you don't think that you have that responsibility, then don't keep it in the first place. Play with someone else's pet. I think, the best way is to have every pet microchiped and if the owner disowns it, a heavy fine should be imposed on the irresponsible owner. In exact, we should stamp out the source of trouble instead of thinking of ways to get rid of the strays..or stray cats to be exact.
-iWrote 9/05/2004 07:06:00 PM
What they say is kinda true..don't you think so too?? haahaa... =P
You're Element is Fire. You have a strong,
independant, fiery personality and you
obviously don't ley other's puch you around.
You like being in charge and don't care what
other people think. In fact, you like to stand
out and be yourself. You're probably shy when
people first meet you but your a ball of energy
that could explode at any given moment. You
like to laugh and whether you admit it or not,
you like to fight. You're peronality that is
wild and untamable. You're beauty is physically
fit and a little sexy and you have a very
pretty face.
What's Your Element(girls)? (PICTURES)
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-iWrote 9/05/2004 06:14:00 PM
Birthday
It's mum's birthday today but somehow everything that i had planned had fallen through. Not that she had seen through my act of ignorance but more of, she thought that i had really forgotten that today is her birth day. Called her up awhile ago and asked her what do i do with my lunch and dinner since she is going to stay at grandma's place the whole day. Obviously my tone was irritated coz i went to look for the perfect cake for her (though it didn't take me much time coz i only wanted to get an Angie's Choice cake for her), msged my bro using Karen's hp (that risk was too big coz he might just give mum the number if mum asked him how i contacted him bout my plans for her birthday, but that was a risk i had to take) and told him to cancel all plans to go out tonight coz the best dinner would be for us to cook for her. Bro was unhappy but he had no choice. We all know what mum is like.
At the end of the day, i just wanted to give her a perfect birthday but now, i end up being the maid, cleaning the house, hanging and folding the clothes. I wanted to make her breakfast. I wanted to do so many things for her today. I even wanted to get her a huge bouquet of lilies and birds of paradise. Maybe i shouldn't have planned anything. WTF!!
When questioned, she said she waked me up a few times. I only heard her call me twice. First time round was she asked me if i wanted to go to grandma's place, i fell back to sleep. The second time was her giving me instructions for the day. I didn't care to listen.
You know what?? i have decided that the best birthday gift for her from me from now on till eternity will be just an angbao. i don't need prior planning for that and i can just prepare it before i see her in the day or before i go home to visit her (that's if i get married or for some reason i moved out of the house). I'll be saved from all these trouble. @#$%
-iWrote 9/04/2004 09:53:00 AM
Visit
Went back to secondary school this morning and gave the last minute written cards and long prepared flowers to 2 of my Sec4 teachers (my Chinese and Math teachers. i simple adore them now when i look back at my sec sch days. Really love them. Yang laoshi and Mdm Yeo). Nothing much has changed in school except that it seem to be more lively now after Mrs Lee has left the humane world..ah..yes..i almost forgot she had passed away until YT jie jie mentioned it. There isn't any principal coming in to take over her place as yet. Major Yum is still in sch. All of a sudden i feel that if he went to Mrs Lee's wake, it will be more like 'bai fa song he fa' kinda saddening..i pray none of my friends will leave me like that till they live to a ripe old age. Yang laoshi said that i am a very good girl just because i went back to sch too see them and even gave them gifts. I was shocked and said that they should know better that i am not a good girl. Mdm Yeo laughed and Yang laoshi continued to explain her point. Which all comes down to, 'Students nowadays seldom remember their teachers after they had graduated'. Touched.
Singapore Idol
DAPHNE KHOO is my classmate's sister..haahaa..that energetic small thing is actually in the top 10..you go girl!! Must go home and look for Astrid's number..haahaa..love those sisters..
Haircut
Mum loved my hair the moment she set eyes on it. As for me, i was so afraid that it will turn out to be disaster when Edward was snipping of my fringe...*ZeeeARG...fringe short short..* but it turn out that i had a face that suits the long out of date doll hairstyle. You get to learn a new thing everyday don't you. Came back to class and my classmates almost couldn't recognise me but they said my hair looks nice. I trust them. 2nd day into my new hairstyle, i am so pretty in the morning. Even without combing my hair. Who says that all hair needs to be styled to look nice?
School and Reports
There actually wasn't any class today and i was not informed. Am both glad and pissed about it. Pissed coz i couldn't finish up this blog and had to continue now and wasted money on the bus fare to get to sch. Then again, it's not justified coz i eventually will want to head to sch to hand in my report. And talking about the report, Vicky's file was corrupted so i couldn't even open it at all. Even if i can, i wouldn't want to. KZ didn't contribute at all. 4 pple's work and i had to do 3, including my part that is. Sitz did her part and after vetting it, i decided to use all coz the points that i had were also included. The worse part is, when i was about to finish my work, i realised that i should be concentrating on how the medications work and how the cancer cells are eradicted. Instead the report was more like a Physiology and Anatomy report. Although it does have certain parts talking about Immunology but still, i was not precise and to the point. Once again, i'm not goin to get very high marks for the report. But you can't blame me. 4 brains are supposed to work to piece the report together but in the end, no discussion was made and no one knew what exactly to write about. There you have it, an informative but partly irrelevent report.
-iWrote 9/03/2004 10:46:00 AM
