A Random Post 7.2.2010

Submitted my FYP first draft but i am super unhappy about what i had written … Cleared my HC160 presentation but it was not exactly a good one, judging from XXX’s response … HT401 quiz was still ok, at least i thought so … Anyway, i am left with the HC160 report, HC341 presentation and report before the semester break … Booked the accomodation last week and air tickets this week for my graduation trip; i am going to Tokyo from 19th—24th May, and taking a transit flight from Japan for a 2N2D HongKong trip, 24th—26th May …

Orginally,

各位同学：

下一次的毕业论文聚会是在2月12日星期五。

地点是 Meeting Room 3 (HSS-03-85).

这次的聚会分为两个梯次：

第一个梯次
8.30am – 10.10am 馨薇、嘉欣

第二个梯次
13.30pm-16.30pm 俊贤、思敏、俊辉、秀莉、惠婷

At first, i thought JunHui, XiuLi and Muzi would join us two. I absolutely had no idea why it ended up with only the 2 of us … Received another email on Thursday,

各位好

剛才臨時得知下星期五下午有院長的演講，我應該出席。
FYP的討論必須更換時間

我看了大家的課表，想把時間更動如下

二月十日 星期三，上午十一點，在我研究室：嘉欣，睦子
其他同學：二月十一日，星期四，下午兩點到五點(請俊賢借場地)

My death had been brought forward by 2 days …

Thanks to Kaide, i got the books …

My granny dug out the 族谱 yesterday … 族谱，是个非常重男轻女的东西 … HiStory；谁说历史只能有男人来创造？又是谁规定女儿就是泼出去的水，族谱无须记载？再怎么说，我还是我们家长子的长女 … =(

不管任何原因，男人犯的错为什么要小孩来承担呢？幸好可爱年纪还小，大概不知道爸爸妈妈之间发生了什么事。长大后懂事了，她还会像现在这样那么的爱爸爸吗？所以女人自己才会说，世界上最可恶的女人就是当第三者的狐狸精 … 可爱被妈妈“利用”来绑住老公，觉得同情但又有点可悲 … 可爱毕竟是我的远房表妹，我妈妈又是她的保姆，所以我们全家特别关心这件事。因为这件事，我妈妈除了不停地确认另一半的心思，还一直对我碎碎念说：“改次嫁老公时，张大眼睛看清楚，不要选错人了。”

可是男人跟女人一样，心思也常难捉摸 … 你能保证他们的温柔体贴，婚后就不会消失不见吗？

A Random Post 1.2.2010

It’s been a crazy week … As i had mentioned many times in my blog, the dateline for the FYP first draft is 1st Feb 2010 …

As the week drew near, i began to panic; i can’t seem to cough out much of the work. So, i emailed my mentor and asked if i could meet her individually before the submission. I was 10 minutes late, she was too; i met her in the lift … She commented that my shoes were pretty … =) We had a long talk, nearly 1.5hr; i would say she gave me a direction on how to write my conclusion.

Today was pretty hectic; only slept 4 hours and i had to wake up at 7.30am to finish writing my Chapter 4. Received a depressing email from KD earlier cos i had emailed him previously to find out his opinions about what i had written so far. He offered to lend me his version of the novel; asked me to collect from him before HC110’s lecture tomorrow. I think i will be meeting him next week to find out more, hopefully if he has the time … An email isn’t sufficient to pin-point all the flaws in my thesis report …

Xinwei sms-ed me in the morning and asked if i would submit today; it seemed that most of them had already finished writing a long time ago. Though i submitted a “not-so good” piece of work, but still, i managed to submit in time. Cos at 4.30pm, Junxian called and asked if i had submitted. Oh … Turned out he sent us a sms saying our mentor wanted everyone to submit today, regardless of what you had done or haven’t even complete; i was having tuition so i didn’t saw the sms … By the way, this P3 girl ranks 2nd among my 4 students, at least for now; her name is Nicolette …

Thanks AY for helping me to print out my FYP and sending it to the Chinese faculty office. The conversion from word document to pdf file too … Bubble tea … Love you … =)

Will be resting today; will start work on the HC160 presentation this Friday tomorrow.

Photos …

Minmin bought this back from her Taiwan trip …

A sudden craving for durian puffs and durian coils from Durian Mpire …

Saturday: The broken necklace; it broke when i was twirling it around my fingers. Did i mentioned about the “bird-shit-bomb” on my new top when i was walking towards the hawker centre in Jurong East for lunch with my parents? And Vesy’s mummy complained i didn’t gave her daughter a break; she didn’t said she wanted a break and i just want the lessons to be valued for money. She also complained my voice was too sharp; i should speak softly to Vesy cos her ears hurted and it gave her a headache … Fine … =(

My aunt decided to do some spring cleaning, starting from my room. I was out for tuition on Sunday and by the time i returned, my room became like that … Not sure what she threw away cos i wasn’t told that she was coming. Desperate situation calls for desperate measure; she did issued a “final warning” to me … At least, my things seemed to be more organized, my room looked cleaner too … 

the tatami table didn’t change much …

After

Before

After

Before

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Sony T90

Was still saying i want to buy a new camera in my earlier post; dual LCD Samsung ST500 … Tested Samsung ST500 but the overall picture quality wasn’t that good; lack of more vibrant colours; ST550 too … I decided to buy my second choice, Sony T90 … I am left with black and blue; black comes with a matt surface, so …

Of course, the picture quality couldn’t be compared to Canon or Olympus models, but it look sleek and foremost, thin … Put aside the short battery life, we can adjust the power of the flash; low, medium or high; that means you can control how bright you want your picture to be. Like my current LG phone, i can doodle here and there on the pictures and it comes with various editing effects, like …

Other than the usual trimming, red-eye correction, sharpening and rotating the image, i can play with more editing stuff. The colours are brighter than my current camera; dual stabilizer; 12mega-pixels; 4X optical zoom without the protruding lens; takes 720p HD videos, play a slide show with personalized music; create a digital photo-calendar; 3″ LCD, smart-face recognition, smile detection, etc.

But i still missed the physical buttons and longer battery life. At least it comes with a stylus and power adapter for 100V-240V; i should be able to recharge it everywhere.

Chanced upon the BYSI sale, and i bought …

a cardigan; i just love the sleeves and you can tie up the sash at the waist … The material is thick cotton so it’s kinda heavy, that means keeping you warm in air-con rooms or cold weather; $24.90 after 50% discount.

For the Johor trip on Saturday, i only bought a pair of shoes …

It costs less than S$15 bucks after a 15% discount. And “Simple” wipes for LingLing from Johor’s Watson too; around S$5.80 per packet when Singapore is selling at a more-than-doubled price.

Oh … We picked Week 3 for our HC160 presentation, which is 2 weeks later. The point is, i am supposed to submit my FYP first draft on the same week too … 

My FYP is still not making much progress …

Buck up!!!

A Random Post 20.1.10

Attended the first HC341 tutorial yesterday … It’s a long story, didn’t got the slot i wanted and seriously, i had no intention to present immediately next week … Stayed for Tutorial 2 after my session to see if i can arrange another timing … Finally, it’s fixed … I will be presenting a Week 10 topic on Week 7 during T2’s lesson; 《品花宝鉴》…

Wanted to buy this camera ever since i heard about it, but i got to resist the temptation since i don’t have the money … Suddenly felt a little richer this semester with the ongoing tuition assignments, and …

Samsung ST500 … Dual screen; that’s precisely the BIGGEST reason why i am willing to spend nearly S$500 on it … 1.5 inch front-LCD and 3 inch back-LCD …

I am a little worried about the touch-screen plus the fingerprints. But you got to admit, it looks cool … 27mm wide angle lens with 4.6 optical zoom, 12.2megapixel, smart-face recognition up to 20 faces, beauty mode, etc. Pay $50 more for her successor, ST550 and you will get heat-sensor like those for iphones instead of stylus control. Add in a bigger back-LCD, 3.5 inch too … But on the downside, ST550 has a lower battery life, back-LCD more prone to fingerprints and  i don’t like the colours offered. Other than that, everything stays the same.

I think i will get the dull red one … $469 after members’ discount with free additional battery, 8GB memory card, camera case, cleaning kit and tripod stand.

I am not sure how long i can resist the temptation this time; i found out that i have the tendency to buy what i want if i do set my mind on something; that’s why i changed my handphones every year … But i need to be prepared for the sudden termination of tuition assignments, the P4 kid i am teaching is quite clever; three “1″s and one “2″. And i heard from my aunt that she changed her tutors thrice per year too … The another Sec 4 condo kid is another “attitude-case”; i am not sure if the mum will be pleased to know that the kid HATES Chinese lessons …

If i buy the camera, it means i have to keep ALL tuition assignments with me at least till end March to make sure i have $2,300 for the Tokyo trip in May … So to the mothers of my 4 tuition kids, please try to bear with me at least till the end of CAs …

I am definitely going to start on my FYP today latest after dinner …

=(

A Random Post 16.01.10

It’s the end of the first week back school …

Lessons were “so-so” … Had lunch with Yu Chong on Friday cos he will be in NTU this semester for the inter-school exchange … Went to the Chinese library then to meet up with AY …

Crapped with some of the others girls and i realized, the mentor’s datelines are drawing closer; 18th Jan, 24th Jan, 25th Jan, etc … I am glad; mine is 1st Feb …

Had to find 2 more groupmates for HT401 presentation …

We finally booked the hotels at Shinjuku for our graduation trip to Tokyo; 19th May to 24th May …