what am i doing this leap year?

i’m not feeling too well at the moment…i feel strange in the head and stomach…and i feel a little cold and tired…

mid terms are coming so i hope i’m not gonna fall sick!

not sure why i feel this way…maybe because i’ve been skipping breakfast too often?
but my tummy didn’t grow any smaller…so…

anyway, here’s a peek at my loserish schedule…
what am i doing this leap year?

sad…

the good news is that i won some competition in some facebook application (yay)

i know it’s not a big deal, but it makes me happy…

sold the prize to buy a couple of stuffs for my habitat…

i should be spending my time on better stuff…like doing my tutorials or reading books on shares right?
no, you’re wrong! everybody needs some timeout to relax…

although i am still reading that book i still dread reading it…it’s only a small book that ought to take only a couple of hours to finish…

i can finish harry potter in 1 day (and it’s the thick ones ok)…
but it’s been 2 weeks and i haven’t finish reading the stock book yet…every sentence is difficult to digest…more like fibre…after a couple of days i just pass it out…

let’s talk about something else here…

i think my sissypoo here is really the cupid’s best friend…but i really dislike her approach towards love…

she’s like a dumb little dormouse that scuttles away in fear and excitement when you put cheese in front of her…

this post is about work

Gosh i am feeling so so so so terrible from yesterday’s project meeting…

nevermind that our project proposal is still not accepted (rejected once).
nevermind that we’ve met up on monday afternoon to discuss the project (proposal)
nevermind that we didn’t finish the proposal in one afternoon
nevermind that we met up yesterday to discuss the proposal and the hypothesis (again!)

in the end we came up with 5 hypothesis before we disbanded the meeting yesterday (which was fine also)

but after reading the proposed hypothesis i’m feeling the doubts in me escalating (again)…
i’m beginning to feel like we’re back where we started.

we are totally getting Nowhere!!
why do we even need 2 afternoons to do 1 stupid proposal?

are we thinking too much or something? and why can’t the group agree on something?
i am weary and i am frustrated…

i have 3 mid terms coming my way and i really can’t afford anymore unproductive meetings coming my way…
it is Not the meetings that i am weary of…i really hate it when nothing gets accomplished after some time…

i know it happens sometimes…like when a chicken is old, it can’t lay any more eggs even if it tries for a week…
but we are not chickens and we are not laying eggs…

we are business students who discuss about projects all the time…
which is why it is just not acceptable to arrive at nothing after hours of work!

which part of this doesn’t make sense?

the team has decided to conduct an experiment to test for behaviour (because the module is organizational behaviour) but we are using it as a “side dish” to complement our survey, which hardly makes sense.

why do we need to do survey when we are already burdened with the experiment (have to conduct the experiment like 30 times)?
we might as well improve on the experiment to make it worth. but oh wait, that means all the time that we have spent on the hypthesis and the survey has gone to naught…

bloody hell…

and mum’s been doing weird things to me again…

she had this (free) white sling bag from my cousin and she’s been pestering me to use it since this morning…

went to pack my bag for school and discovered that my bag is just an empty sack..

all my stuff gone!

found it in my cousin’s bag and transferred all my stuff back into my own bag…

and after that she wanted to transfer the stuff in my bag back into her bag again coz she didn’t believe that my file wouldn’t fit into the sling bag…

thoughts on some people

oooh i just saw a video clip on hillary criticising obama for some health care thing….and OMG she sounded like a school principal ticking someone off =_=

anyway i think either leaders for america is fine…

nothing can be worse than warmonger president bush i think… even clinton (with his manly desire whatnot) is wayy better….+ given that there are so many people who disagree with what bush is doing, the crap on the weapons of mass destruction blah and blah and sooo many people died…it’s quite puzzling why they make him their leader in the 1st place…

did a project on the asian financial crisis and IMF…
something also tells me that whites harbor a secret dislike for asians… otherwise why the strange economic policies that only seems to benefits *coughs* the rich *cough cough* whoops…or maybe life is supposed to be unfair think Doha rounds i didn’t say anything : X

*plays music by Black Box Recorder* goes something like…

Life is unfair……kill yourself or get over it….

was banned in several countries i think…lol..

having a little break now…back to work very soon…
ploughing through work all morning and i just finished the 2nd chapter Only…ahhh

making money from games

yucks…

i realized that i’m blogging way toooo much about work….as if that’s all there is to me…

i shall cap the work content to 2 blogs per week (means i will only complain about work twice a week at most – think this is gonna be harder than getting a cca LoL)…and hopefully things that are closer to the heart will surface…

but then again, this can be pretty dumb, since i am complaining about work because it is important to me…

i’m spending too much time on some facebook application (fluff friends) and i took part in some competition… i’m looking forward to the results…hopefully i’ll win something out of that…

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***making money from trading virtual items***

oh and there’s this buy sell limited section in the fluff friends game… well the prices are set by sellers and the lowest priced will always sell first…

i have this golden trophy and i was waiting for the price to go up..and it did peak at about 140+ gold and i was expecting it to go up somemore…

but it dropped to about 30+ yesterday and even then, i was deliberating whether to sell for 30+ and buy something that i think will rise in value next time….but i didn’t coz 30+ is like so wayy undervalued…and today the price fell somemore to about 20+ …

damn too much stupid sellers trying to undercut each other on the price, i hope they all cry when it reaches a new high of 200 next time!!! …and i’m SOOO sOOO lousy at this buy/sell game….

and you can really make money from online games…a friend of mine from ntu played muonline with me and he didn’t “play” the game but traded ingame items all day and sold them for real cash…real cash from playing game you know….

and he made several thousands just by leaving the computer on with a macro advertising what he was selling and do his own stuff…check his ingame mail at the end of the day and sell it if the price is good…not much blood and sweat required…not much effort (i’d say) and getting thousands for playing a game, i’d say it was a good deal…

i always make a loss when i’m trading because i’m too impatient (or so he says)… *sulks*
which reminds me…i think i have about 200 dollars worth of items in muonline…i should really sell the stuff before the game close down…lol…

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i took a typing test xD

maybe i should be an office girl =_=ll

70 words

Speedtest

rantings

just finished doing some bit of work (quite a lot in fact) …

read more articles on money (coz i need to do project on money and motivation) and there was this article that says that people who think of money as evil have relatively LOWER success in life ( generally poorer/less better off in careers) than others who think of money as not evil…

GREAATTT!
THIS IS JUST THE ENCOURAGEMENT I NEED!!!!!

OH GOOOODDDD =_=

maybe i should set aside some time each day to think of money!!! *goes into spasm*

going to bed now…. waking up to study finance later …

dunno eh, i feel so insecure about my finance…
given that my tutorials are not normal tutorials and my tutor is not normal ….
i mean it’s interesting …but but…

dunno what’s going to happen to me this sem… i’m feeling quite terrible coz i got 3.5 /6 for my quiz… if i had taken viet instead of organisational behaviour i would have gotten 5.5/6 or full marks… bloody hell…

and i still don’t have a cca yet… i don’t even know why i’m deliberating….all the ccas are like sooo..i dunno, just not interested… like that can’t go into finance sector….. i have no leadership and no strengths…. i am a mugger toad…and not a very smart one….

time to bang wall and die…

mug and shop

hmm i worked pretty hard today (on my projects) and i was at it the whole day lor…
never revise for my mid terms!!! omg -_-ll

going to gym tomorrow, hope i still have enough energy after that for revision and projects!

feeling very stressed now…
let’s see what’s due right after the hols:

3 midterm test
1 debate
1 report draft
2 presentation

and after all these are due, i have:
4 exams
4 reports
4 presentation

and i’m like so darn busy when i don’t even have a cca, i really hate this…
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meet abbie’s uncle today to talk about some insurance thing and investment….signed some papers…and i’m finally investing (even though it’s just 6k of my cpf uhh) in some unitrust thing…he’s helping me invest…haha

so it works out to be something like, i’m finally investing, but i don’t know a shit about investments!!!

actually, i don’t think our finance teacher was talking about investing with our cpf in the first place…students where gt cpf?

he definitely meant investing in stocks with real cash…but i really don’t have 1k to open account or a few hundreds to play with…i still don’t know how to do a portfolio…and WHAT FOR? heck i don’t even have that much money to diversify in the first place…so frustrating lol, but at least i’ve taken the first step =_=

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bought a pair of pointy shoes (again)…i am a business student so i must wear pointy shoes!!! or die trying…i will most probably die trying…but at least i’ve tried!!!

actually this pair feels ok…now i’ll just have to worry about not falling down when i’m walking….i am such a loser

bought a black pair of stockings as well…think it’s the new rage…and sissypoo thought they were gross…
maybe my leg is too skinny…ar whatever…

baptism and nus freak accident

phew…just came back from church O_o
so tired lol…

sissypoo after baptism…a memento

in case you’re wondering, sorry i don’t have a better photo…

mum was really funny…

kept on insisting that my aunt send sissypoo’s friend home cuz it’s so late and such…
and my other aunts assumed that the guy hanging out with my sissypoo’s friend is her bf…
lol so 38…

saw her cell leader as well…

omg was expecting someone older…
thought it was her cellgrp friend or another of her jc classmate coz sissypoo always say that her leader is sick or what…

anyway this highlights my lack of achievement (given that i am already so old and i have accomplished nuts while other people are teachers, leaders.. i don’t know what…argh), well i’ll save the ranting for another occasion (when i get my other set of quiz marks back)…

flowers for sissypoo…

such nice flowers…just what i like…

but sadly, none of my bf ever gave something like that to me…
she also has another bouquet of (5) blue roses…

*looks at my up-side-down withered rose dangling from my drawer*

…

nevermind Y___Y

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oh no, study week is here…plenty of things to do…
i emailed my teacher regarding the miscalculation of my quiz mark and she gave me a 2 word reply…

well at least she bothered to reply haha…but i think she hates me =.=

dieeeeeee, i going to flop this module =_=

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today i met a reporter in my school…

she said she’s from straits times and some construction workers died at a work site near my LT after a crane toppled over….checked if i was a biz student and told me that she’s looking for an open area to take a pic of the accident site….

i told her i dunno and she Rolled her eyes at me…and left in hurry…

omg -_-ll she probably felt like i wasted 10 seconds of her life…LoL

i really dunno what…
there’s no open space in biz for her to take pics cuz much of the biz building is closed (as in just walls and offices….very concrete)

thought maybe she could have a better look from “the deck” in the arts faculty but she left before i could say anything :X

anyway i think the crane toppled at around 2+ pm (heard it from the radio later this evening)…
was eating at the biz canteen during this period of time…but i didn’t hear anything loud leh…

some sketchy photos…
i think the fallen crane is in green…taken outside LT 16 and 17

much of the area is cordoned off…

we lost the biz bus stop (coz it was cordoned off, not cuz the crane fell on it or what ok)…

i hope NUS doesn’t get implicated in this…haiz

given the situation, i think i’m pretty heartless cuz all i thought of was taking photos…
nevermind, coz i don’t really know the workers, v hard for me to be concerned..and i don’t feel much, except that they were unlucky…anyway they are already gone..

3 construction workers died in NUS…what kind of reaction would you get?

sympathy from people with a compassionate heart…
honest apathy from me
and hypocrisy from the rest…

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“Selfish commuters are the latest in a long list of social problems that Beijing authorities have targeted for improvement before the world’s spotlight shines on the city in August for the Olympics.

Last year, the 11th of each month was designated “Queuing Day” in an effort to end the curse of people shoving in front of each other on buses and trains.

Anti-spitting, anti-littering and civilised driving campaigns are also ongoing, and classes are being held to teach people how to be good spectators at the Olympics.

However, a harder edge to the drive is seeing beggars being kicked out of popular thoroughfares and tougher restrictions being placed on rural migrants who for years have done the physical work behind Beijing’s modernisation.

Last year, in a speech marking the 12-month countdown to the Games, China’s chief Olympic organiser Liu Qi made clear he believed the manners of Beijing residents were a problem.

“We must carry out a campaign for a civilised environment and thoroughly resolve rampant spitting, dumping of garbage and other uncivilised behaviour… as over four billion people will be watching Beijing,” he said then.”

i’m really curious as to whether such things can be developed overnight…coz singaporeans know how to queue, not litter, not spit, not dump…whatever…

but most of us are still pretty selfish commuters

xD

stressed over stupid things

i’m feeling stressed again…

presentation today….don’t even know why i’m stressed given that i’ve done sooo many presentations already….oh god Y__Y

had a convo with abbie this morning…
dunno, just felt depressed after that…

watched p.s. i love you yesterday with abbie yesterday but he didn’t like it much…
well i relied on the movie ratings…and it is said that the movie makes people treasure their loved ones even more….works opposite for us…

the pace of the movie is also kinda slow…i think abbie almost fell asleep….

demanded abbie to send me home after that (instead of just seperating at bishan mrt) and he refused coz he was tired and dun wanna reach home at 11+…

that i was being unreasonable and selfish when i complained that he didn’t love me…well he did say (before) that i was worth 2 worlds…but 2 worlds of abbie is not worth 2 hours of his time…apparently….

said something about just gratifying me that extra few mins and he has to spend so much more time taking bus, getting home and everything….. that i was treating him like a dog, that i wouldha blamed him if the movie is not nice, but he’s sensible about it and how he didn’t blame me…and so on….

needless to say, things just went downhill after that…blah

still thinking if i should go to sissypoo’s baptism on friday evening….
probably should…coz it’s her happy occasion…but still deliberating for don’t know what reasons…
i hope i don’t feel sleepy on friday…

oh god, i’m stressed over this presentation
need to wear formal…i hate wearing formal!!!

things i love and hate about business school

Loves

the timetable
what is there not to love?

each module is only 3 hours worth…at most 4…you can easily cram everything into a 3 day week…or less because of the flexible tutorial timing (of course, tutorial balloting kinda compromised this advantage..nevermind…)

still, it’s best to keep your free days to 1 or 2…cos you’ll never know when you need to come back to school for project…and having only a few available slots for your project mates will not work well, especially when you have 4-5 groups!

the competition
non-existant in NP, which is nice, for a change…makes me wanna become better and better…

of course the grades that i get back (especially for biz modules) are seldom encouraging but well i’m trying harder and harder all the time, so this is probably good on the whole…

the things i get to learn
is relevant…for once…i know what i’m learning and why i’m learning it…
best of all, it’s easily applied…

back in NP, i’m always curious why we have to calculate the stress/forces, mechanics of stuff, airplane structure, some trigo…more on materials (which was very yucky)…

i mean, i can probably make some sense out of learning the 3D engineering drawings (i love this) and autocad – coz we can assist engineers in their work…

as for aircraft design and ehhem materials? we diploma holders (or even degree holders) ain even close to designing an aircraft on our own…it’s done in those secret factories in boeing, lockheed and blah blah by top brains *shrug* so i never really understood why it was even part of our curriculum…

Hates – everything else about biz school

money-mindedness/prestige mindedness or whatever!
hell, i know everyone is money-minded to some degree…and money is important and so on and so forth…but i don’t want to be reminded of it all the time!

investment banking is still the rage and only the best students get in…what’s the perk? money
becoming a millionaire/billionaire before you reach a certain age…
making money out of investment/stocks
getting cushy jobs at barclays/goldman sachs
networking with others to make use of them in the future (even if you don’t like them very much)

i mean none of them are bad…they’re all good…
but is that all there is?

i can tell you that the time i spend thinking about money related matters has increased 10 folds as compared to that time when i was still in NP…

and everytime i think about these i become depressed…

demanding integrity
just thinking about it makes me wanna laugh…

think about projects/reports and statistics from surveys…or “outsourcing” for tutorial answers from your friends…maybe twisting some facts or misleading someone into thinking of something…or “rephrasing” what you wanna say to what people wanna hear…all these need skill de…and i really think they are highly sought after…no?

nobody rewards integrity or honesty in school or at work…only bottomline…
and all the moral things that they demand (say integrity/honesty) will only hurt the bottomline, or something else…

sometimes i think people are just so stupid to even demand this…especially from business people…

distracted…hmmm

omg i am like so distracted… not productive… and my asia pac proposal got rejected!
oH My God!!! arghhh!!!

then my friend suggested that we do some sex industry thing, ethics vs economics…LoL why didn’t we choose it in the first place T___T

these are the vday food…

buddha jump over the wall…

judging from my mood now, i’d put my face into the soup and blow bubbles =.=

cereal prawns

herbal duck…the skin is superb…

i think whatever benefits that the herbs in the duck is supposed to deliver..is like totally outweighed by the super crispy sinful skin…
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post vday rose

this was from yesterday…

the same flower today…drying it upside down

i kinda feel sorry for it…so pretty but so pathetic…