there's this jap fest outside the canteen held by our jap cultural club. i was getting pretty hyped up over it as there's all these 'balloon yoyo', 'goldfish fishing', 'yukata-wearing' and other stuff i'm interested in.

so today i went off to have a look-see and maybe catch a few goldfishes back to hall. the goldfishes were... small and spottly as expected. but the tank was SUPER big, and there were only these 10 goldfishes swimming very fastly all over the place, and i felt like just giving it up le. and give up i did.

and the balloon yoyos were... water balloons. -__-"' uh-uh. no way.

in the end i spent the entire hour chatting with stell (who was manning the titbits stall and goggling at the gothic accessories stall) and looking around the food stalls. somehow there was a Ramly Burger stall... shall buy it for lunch tmr! never eaten a Ramly before; its supp to be super good isn't it?

and i wanted to buy takopachis back to hall for yy, but the lady just refused to sell me ham and cheese flavour, or any other flavour (except crabstick) for that matter. basically she had these 3 crabsticks flavoured left and she's just determined to sell them, or sell nothing. -___-

in the end i bought chicken hotdogs. LoL.

Ramly tmr! 

 

 

remind me never ever ever ever to study for an IT quiz. the topics i din haf time for came out and i couldn't do them. the topics i studied came out and i couldn't remember the answers. and those i got correct were stuff i remembered vaguely from normal lab lessons.

about the quiz questions, the first question was a trick where none of the choices provided were correct. the second was one where i'll never be able to attempt without my textbook coz it required a fair bit of regurgitation, something i never could do. the third had the potential to score 15/5 with some common sense, but of coz i flunked the common sense test (-__-) and yadar yadar yadar about the rest of the questions.

i did finish faster den anyone else in class ^ ^, 

in the end, the scores would be curved, such that our highest scorer would get full marks unless he gets above 50%, for which he would be awarded more than full marks. ...which makes me pretty happy since i had secured at least 5 marks, putting me in the moderated pass range.

happily eating my ramly burger now. 

hmmm... i'm staying back in hall for the next 4 weeks until exams start, and den i shall continue staying back in hall throughout the exam period, and then until lest finishes his exams. and i've this horrendous pimple that's popping out, and i'm running all four corners of the school looking for pimple cream to kill it and not succeeding. and since i shall not be going out of school to buy the pimple cream, and experiencing lots of  'exam stress', i shall be very very ugly the next time anyone else sees me. *cries*

anyway, that aside, i've... nothing else to say! wahaha! just finished my HTML assignment; first time i did a HTML website! =feeling quite proud of self= all you geeks who KNOW html, as in KNOW it like the back of your hand, go on, laugh at my work. this is the link: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2005/TA0003QI/Xue/xue_index.htm

its lengthy, its long-winded, its boring, but i really can't think of anything else to make a website on (shows how boring my life is). no, i'm not going to make a DeathNote, Pringles or Lester fansite, although that is highly tempting. ...hmmm...

so so so out of touch with scanlations progress nowadays. and i haven't been playing Scrabble lately either due to =other interests=; my scrabble skill level just dropped to kindergarden again. sigh~ needs to buck up! waiii!

 

and i switch on my power and hear "peh! peh! peh! bang! boom!" and i look up over the table top and see sparks flying out my speaker power button. so i switched off the power again.

and there's smoke coming out of the speaker, although they'd all dissipated by now. i wonder what happened?

ooooopz. 

you know chinese jade pendants? they're supposed to bless you and help you avert disaster; if your jade cracks, it means it had helped take a misfortune in your place. i guess i can say the same for my speaker. seeing as how today is lest's quiz and yy's super impt marketing project and my biz law tutorial presentation (already survived), i'll be glad if it actually IS a disaster averter. if so, in this case...

thanks, speaker-san. i'll give you a nice burial.

i'll be feeling lucky for the rest of today. :) 

diamonds are timeless. to hell with that. i'm timeless. and that is so not a good thing.

just realized the exams are just around the corner; like... 3 weeks? and of course i'm still trying my best to work hard to salvage my projects which constitute the 20%s and 10%s of the final grade.

and of COURSE i'm flipping out again as per last semester.

current projects are to:

design a robot for robot battle (www.robotbattle.com), join the NTU competition to get extra credit points to the biz IT module, and kill everyone else for MORE extra credit points. which, trust me, by the look of our case study project, we need all the extra credits we can get.

IT case study to be done by monday. first draft was handed in one month ago. it came back with red fonts and changes and comments splattered all over. changed 60% of the thing and sent a second draft; came back with more red fonts and comments; we changed 40%. Third draft, and it came back splattered again; think i'm changing like 70% of the stuff now. very very very demoralizing. 3 days left to drop-dead date.

OB project. hey, this is interesting. 4000 words essay on favouritism and discrimination in the workplace, followed by a presentation to the class. chance that i might be cross-dressing as a male chauvinist boss. either that or a disabled old indian female who happens to be a lesbian. 

Communication Management: more presentations. heck care liao la.

btw, hey! you know the angela zhang concert to be held at NTU tonight? i'm ushering! wahaha!

well, *.

i don't know when it happened, but it is sometime today when our kindly tutor posted on the blackboard that ' Make sure the PPT slides are uploaded before 10am, 29 Mar.' *, its 29 Mar 1.14am now. maybe she just wanted to give an example of how a bad negative-message memorandum is supposed to sound like. well, its not funny.

and she didn't ever mention this in class. never.

and * i've got the bloody IT case study due 8.30am tmr, and robot battle and now this crap. and running on 5 hours sleep a day doesn't exactly make me the most amicable and best-tempered person around.

i know. there are people with less sleep then me and more responsibilities and * but tat's them and wad do i care. grrrr.

i'm feeling my hair dropping off with fatigue. bitch and i'll. (use ur imagination. can't be bothered to think of stuff to do) 

wahlau... full day school day tmr. sianz.

mmm...

=cooking on campus= 

you know, in university, time is really really precious. WHY do people still cook then? to destress? to save money? for greater nutritional value? nah. the answer is DIGNITY and EGGS. we cook to save our DIGNITY and use up our EGGS that our parents push onto us.

so monday my mom gave me 6 eggs. haha. you know how hard it is to wake up in the morning and make breakfast. add to the bread the chore of having to boil an egg, wash bowls, wait 3 mins... basically the eggs get eaten over a span of 3 weeks until i get the feeling that maybe maybe i should throw them away.

so this time round i decided to use up the eggs and cook the instant noodles in our exam goodie bag for lunch. major spoiled attempt. had too much water, fired at too low a temperature- in the end i spent more den half an hour boiling the water and den trying to evaporate the water. looked tasteless, smelt tasteless, but the msg salvaged everything.

so we decided to attempt again, together. two packets of nissin, four eggs, and... spoiled attempt again>> yy poured away too much water so its too dry. (the two extremist roomies)

and we shall cook again. and again. and again until we achieve the perfect bowl of noodles + eggs. 

=staying up late=

sleep is precious. why do people still forsake their sleep just so they can finish their projects? nope, its not coz of that bloody deadline. if you're just too bloody tired, you'll just feck it all and hand in a horrible copy and leave it at that. its coz of FRIENDS!

its coz some people, knowing you're burning the midnight oil, drop by at 1am with roti prata and a hug, and you get the strength to carry on.  

its coz some people, on term break and on the other corner of the globe, can chat and help out from the other end of the msn window.

its coz some people gave up studying for their quizzes the next morning to slog through with you. 

thank you all...

p.s. shut-eyed for a precious 1/2 hour the whole of last night: when ning was helping me edit. wat happened: did IT case till 5.30am, comm mngment till 7.00am, robot battle till 8.00am. felt like putty in afternoon.

=when you feel like putty=

why does it still feel like such a perfect day when i feel like roadkill and then screwed up everything? maybe feelling like putty makes you feel like all things external are great.

could't do the IT quiz today coz surprise surprise i din study at all last night! the only questions i could do were those that others can't. which doesn't amount to much.

my robot killed everyone in the class competition, winning the bonus 10%. somehow, got killed in the NTU robot battle compn, while my classmates got through. becoz i died in the prelims, went off back to hall earlier than the rest.

had to drag myself off to dump my clothes in the washing machine as i'm out of stuff to wear. set my alarm so as to collect the clothes and go off for linguistics lecture, and died on the bed.

slept through a fire alarm and a huge storm that flooded the corridor
and woke up just as the storm clouds cleared. missed the lecture, got an extra 2 hours of sleep, and hung the clothes out to dry just as the storm clouds cleared.

and in the scrabble game with lest, got 4 'S's, 2 'blanks', 'Quioetn' (can form Qi, Quiet, Quite, Quoit, Quine...), 'TONIES' (list. Atonies, Boniest...) and ended the game with 'Yuckiest', across two triple words for a score of 160+.

used up all my luck for the 10% econs quiz tmr morning.