just a quick update about today, my first day of exams:

woke up at a miserable 0555 and got out of the house at 0640 to catch the 650 shuttle bus to hougang interchange to board the 0705 bus number 165 to reach michele's house at 745 so that we could catch a cab latest by 0800 to reach school by 0845.
hahahahahahahahaha.
seriously, thats how i run my life. organized. precise. the timing all mapped out.
sometimes its a good thing, somethings it annoys the hell outta me.
but im not blogging about this today, maybe some other time. haha.
moving on.........

there was a traffic jam! and the stupid taxi driver....i bet he was out to cheat our money! twice he asked us which route to take and twice he took the route stated otherwise. bahhh. as a result we got into an avoidable jam on the way to school. which was horrible. it made me and michele feel rather sick in the stomach. tsk.

shakespeare exam was just. simple. plainly put. B-A-D. argh. and i was so frustrated as i read the passage given because the words were printed so small and the printing itself wasnt very good so it was kinda faded and not clear enough. i read the first paragraph and completely skipped it to do the second question first. BAH. these people should attend my visual comm class, especially the lecture on typography. word space, font size and leading all affects readability! HA!

went to munchie monkeys for lunch after the paper..its like the usual hang out for lunch when i have two papers in a day..hurhur..shared wedges and calamari with mish..but i gotta say that most sadly..the standard of their food has gone down..even the quantity..shrugs..oh well..was still not too bad i guess..met nicole..and we had a pretty good time chatting and finding out more about switzerland, her exchange programme and her plans before heading back home..sounds so exciting..my parents would never let me go backpacking..haha..soon after..we migrated to an empty couch..and saw shaun..haha..after a while shaun joined us permanently after his friend left and the four of us started crapping..haha..it was a lot of fun..too bad we only got to do this on the last day we officially met as a class..heh..later Erin and Allana joined us too..and we nua-ed around for a good hour or more before heading to MSPH6 for the paper..ohhhh! and how could i forget to say that i had my brownie! haha! i was a very happy kat after the brownie. hurhur.

visual com paper was ok..it was really like an art exam..i did feel kinda sorry for the guy sitting on the left side of me..while i was busy colouring and drawing and making a lot of noise erasing and outlining..he was struggling with math problems..hahaha..and to make it all worse..the students doing the NM modules left early..some even before the first hour..haha..i think they must have wanted to tear their hairs out..hahaha..too bad..heh..well..i really didnt expect mr reddy to make us design something so big..we had to design the cover of a metal pencil case for children..haha..when i saw the size of the outline of the pencil case i was like...oh-oh...panic panic..haha..but it turned out ok..managed to squeeze out some brain+creative juices and design it..finished in about an hour and twenty minutes...

right now..im dead tired..i planned to read my interactive media readings but i think im gonna shove it..haha..for now..the brain needs some TLC..and tons of sleep!

will my exams hurry on up and get started?

haha..ok now thats something you dont often hear about the dreaded exams do you? welllll..im really sick and tired of all this waiting around..its like..ive run out of things to study..ok..disclaimer here..its not that ive done my revision till im a complete pro at it and can rattle it off like the back of my hand..but rather..its the monotony of reading something over and over again..and you jolly well know that heck you wont be able to memorize every single little detail..phish..i really cant wait for the exams to start tomorrow..cause by 4:30pm tomorrow i would have completed 2 papers..haha..but then the waiting starts all over again because my next paper isnt until next wednesday..bah..but it should be a little better..considering i havent really started on my lit and other art module..hurhur..

other than the exams..nothings been going on..boringggg..bored bored bored..ive been nua-ing at home the past three days flipping through pieces of paper (otherwise known as notes) and trying my best to suddenly turn into a sponge so i can soak up all the information and quotes and names and lines and what not..bah..shakespeare is getting on my nerves..i'll be a much happier kat when this paper is over..haha..and then there's visual comm..which i dont even know why they bother to have an exam..its only 20%..and its like art exam..where we have to design stuff..and it only has a meagre 3 open-ended questions..haha..oh well..by the time both papers are over i think i would be brain dead and wrung dry of whatever creative juices i have (which isnt much to begin with..hurhur).

okok..i better be off to read my notes..on and ending note..to all those who have finished their exams or are about to finish....i dont wanna heard about it. at all. not even a single word..............

if money was not an issue, id keep my handphone in this:



(dont worry. im just dreaming. hurhur.)
(back to the books!)

second post of the day:


i cant help but realise that i never actually pursued my interests.
in primary school, i excitedly tried out for the choir knowing how much i enjoyed singing.
the teacher in charge told me i couldnt sing.
for a primary 3 kid, that was quite devastating.
i enjoy dancing.
did quite a few performances for school.
primary 6, secondary school, dance society in srjc.
but after i went to acjc, things changed.
i couldnt stand to be in front of so many people.

so what is all this hype about being bold and pursuing your dreams?
its more like chasing after the wind.
working towards something you wont be able to grasp or see.

now im in NUS.
a typical and systematic product of the singapore educational system.
what have i achieved in my life?
im not too sure myself.
i love literature.
i did well in secondary school and JC.
it stemmed from my love of reading Psalms and all the beautiful imagery in the bible.
what am i doing now?
studying literature half-heartedly.
doing a shared major.
even my dreams of mass media has died down so much i cant even find the glow.
yeah new media is interesting.
i did quite ok for visual comm. i learnt alot.
but it isnt self-satisfying anymore.
nothing seems to be.
im just riding along.
acceptable grades, passing each semester, surviving each exam, churning out ok essays.

i think i lost my drive.

well, drive or no drive, i still have to study.
browse through rather.
whatever.
it doesnt matter to me anymore.

ive just changed from using IE to firefoz mozilla..at the instruction of my brother after a most unfortunate spate of consecutive events that my lappy went down..he claims is better and a lot faster..hmm..*rubs chin..im not sure about that actually..but it does work differently..in the sense that it waits and receives all the infomation it needs to load and then shows u a fully loaded page instead of IE whereby all the different stuff on the page take its own sweet time to download..haha..im ok with that actually..usually im quite impatient and just click as soon as i see the buttons i need..*shrugs..when it comes to technology i can be uber impatient..haha..you should ask michele or my brother..when the page takes just a little longer than immediate to load (i always assume it should be that way since im using broadband) i start telling my lappy that its slow and stupid..hahahaha..maybe it finally had enough of me and rebelled! technology against the humans! ahhhh!!!!!

ok..sorry..that was just me being silly..as usual..haha..and doing everything else but studying..hurhur..i guess its always the case..we do everything else but what we're supposed to be doing..i was just reading in my reading package that people naturally and instinctively do things out of convenience..in the sense..they do have some stuff that they know they have to do..things like go to the supermarket..check my email..find out more about the buffet offer that the UOB card is giving..haha..and the principle is that i'll go to the supermarket if im near by..i'll check my email if im at my computer..i'll find out more about the buffet if im near the telephone..and only when they place special importance on something then will they actually make the effort to do it..interesting huh..its something we do everyday..but we never actually realise it until we read it..haha..these people really have nothing better to do huh..then to just think of life..hurhur..

i just checked out the past exam papers of shakespeare..and..well..looks like i have a lot of studying to do..hahahaha..thats the common conclusion i draw whenever i check out the exam papers..heehee..*sheepish grin..oh well..it works as a sort of..er..motivation i guess..haha..more like do or die! yeah..but at least we only need to answer two questions..which is a good thing..the usual 3 essays in 2 hours is just pure insanity..but thats gonna be the structure for lit and other art..haha..but its the last paper..so..yeah..hurhur..and someone kindly tell me what is the structure for interactive media? PLEASE? since the department couldnt release the paper due to some copyright issues..tsk tsk tsk..wonder whats in the paper..hmmmm..haha..anyway..thank God that i only have four papers this semester..four papers in three days..but its ok..im the kind who likes to get things over and done with..so yeah..but im still grumbling about my last two papers starting at 5pm...5pm leh..by that time ur brain just stops functioning and starts to think of dinner and sleep..and possibly tv..hahahaa..hopefully my parents will be coming to pick me up on those two days..haha..thats good news for u too mishie moo!

and finally..to those people who tagged on my tagboard..u guys are horrible lah..when i had a tagboard u dont tag..only after it finally died due to negligence..you guys suddenly give me an influx of tags!!! hmmm...is that like a reflection of our innate desire to vandalise anything clean and new and empty? hahaha..okok..too much shakespeare..its making me too analytical..but seriously..for all you know shakespeare is laughing and turning in his grave..at all these poor pathetic souls who are studying his work and filling it up with meaning he never intended..hahaha..we'll never know will we..BUT BUT BUT..its always nice to know people are still reading my blog..haha..yes yes gina..i havent seen u for ages..and to my brother..i never knew u were reading my blog..haha..and to cherie toh! lets try to meet up during the long holz alright?

(notice the change in fonts..apparantly sans-serif fonts are easier to read on a low resolution computer monitor..haha..i learnt it in visual comm class!)

"hath never fed of the danties that are bred in a book;
he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink
his intellect is not replenisht; he is only an animal,
only sensible in the duller parts"
~Nathaniel to Holofernes, Love's Labour's Lost

I love this video! hurhur.
closet jay chou junkie.
hahahahaha.
ok maybe not thatttt closet.
hurhur.
(:

so here i am in the central library of NUS.
it has been such a wasted trip today.
i didnt get my two main objectives done.

i had wanted to print out the assignments for my portfolio but clever me forgot to bring along my A3 sized folder..no point i printing out the stuff than cumpling them on the way home..so yeah..so much for that..i havent exactly finished typing my learning reports either soooo..phooey...

the next on my agenda was to watch the tempest video for my shakespeare module..but lo and behold..the girl right in front of my and michele beat us to it..and my goodness gracious me..she was the most annoying girl in the world..at least for today..the librarians asked her how long the show was..and since it was going to take a really long time of 2 and a half hours..the librarians asked her if it was ok to share it with us..like all 3 of us watching it together..but..BUT..she gave us this really constipated arrogant look and said a flat no..because she wanted to have the liberty of taking her time and stopping the video as and when she wanted..right..she had such a slappable face i think i would have slapped her..tsk..and like michele said..she though such people only existed in horror movies..tsk tsk tsk..we should have annoyed her by purposely standing behind her as she watched the movie..hahahahaha..but of course we didnt lah..

so yeah..rather unfruitful trip all the way to NUS..but at least i managed to get a little extra information about walcott and dabydeen as well as draw a few more sketches in my sketchbook..and finished reading the readings i photostated this morning..oh well..i didnt accomplish as much as i wanted to..sigh..looks like its gonna be another really late night for me today and back to school again on wednesday..bah..i hate non-aircon buses!

life has its many little ironies.
but some little ones have enormous repercussions.
well, at least at that point in time when it occurs.

so whats this little irony of mine?
i was studying for my cybercrime test.
(take note of what test it was cause it plays a big part in this irony.)
i was surfing the internet, trying to find out what a mod is.
i was chatting to JY online.
suddenly, my windows alerted me to a virus intrusion.
i scanned it but somehow the software didnt work.
and so my computer crashed on me.
kapish, died, dead, gone.

ok first reaction was to scream and yell for my brother.
BUT, it was 1am in the morning so that wasnt a very good idea.
next reaction?
sulk, get frustrated, get pissed and lash it out at whoever was the nearest to me.
ok. so maybe not the nearest since i vented on JY since i was on google talk with him.
(see? another little irony of life.)
sigh. poor boy had to endure my nonsense for about an hour while i grumbled and complained and got kinda sarcastic as i tried to save whatever data i could bu burning them into CDs.
thanks dear. for just being so patient. thanks for waiting up with me though i was being an absolute pain in the ass.
heh.
*sheepish smile

but my lappy is working again thanks to my techie brother.
my C drive was reformatted and up and running within about an hour.
and so i was fortunate enough not to have to survive one day without my lappy!
yay!

in the computer lab blogging now though..haha..bored..waiting for visual com class to start..to present the story book me and michele did..

the whole process of making the storybook was a long and tedious and very very expensive one. i think the whole experience has taught the both of us a lot and perhaps made us even closer friends. and we also learnt how to be more dependable and accountable.
but we had our fair share of a lot of fun, laughing at each other, and ranting about the high cost of this module!
i love you babe. no matter what. its really been a great semester doing all the same modules as you.
(:

oh well. after all the money that has already been spent, theres still more to be wasted away when i print out all the stuff i need for my portfolio submission. which means. no more shopping for the time being i suppose. haha. thats gonna be quite the impossible. but i suppose it helps that i dont really have the time to go shopping. tsk. argh. but i was supposed to find a white top and bottom for choir tomorrow! amazingly, ive joined the choir. haha. more like i didnt have a choice. but its interesting i guess. gonna be singing for good friday tomorrow. hopefully i'll remember how the song goes. hurhur. lets just see how it turns out tmr shall we?

alright. think im running out of things to say here. typing on this keyboard is really noisy. haha.
cant wait for the weekend!

(:

TULIP PLANTING
Saturday 27 May and 10 June and Sunday 28 May and 11 June

The tulip bulbs are chilling down nicely in the cool room and all we need now is many willing hands to help put them in the ground. The annual planting of tulip bulbs at Araluen Botanic Park has become a tradition formany families and groups. So why not put on your gardening clothes and get acquainted with mother earth and join us in the enjoyable task of planting tulips. You will be rewarded with a delicious morning tea courtesy of Araluen, so bring a friend, bring the family or just come alone you will be very welcome.

I wanna go!!!!

sponsors? donors?

anyone wants to go to perth?

haha

(:

and just to wet your appetite:

and so they say,
"out of sight, out of mind"
and why this way?
"i've got no money, i've got no time".

and this song dedication goes out to....

You.

"Get to Me"
-Train

Well an airplane's faster than a Cadillac
And a whole lot smoother than a camel's back
But I don't care how you get to me
Just get to me

Parasail or first class mail
Get on the back of a Nightingale
Just get to me
I don't care just get to me

Prokeds, mopeds take a limousine instead
They ain't cheap but they're easy to find
Get on the highway point yourself my way
Take a roller coaster that comes in sideways
Just get to me

Go on hitch a ride on the backof a butterfly
There's no better way to fly
To get to me
I look around at what I got
And without you, it ain't a lot
But I got everything, with you, everything

Maybe you could pollinate over the
Golden Gate

Take a left hand turn at the corner
Of Haight

And then a sharp right
At the first street light
And get yourself on a motor bike
And if you think you'll get stuck in atraffic jam
That's fine, send yourself through a telephone line
It doesn't matter how you get to me
Just get to me

POLLY’S PERFECT SHOES

One day, Polly’s mother bought her a new pair of shoes. . She gave them to Polly and asked her to try it on, “Put them on and see if you like them Polly.”
Polly opened the box and tried on the shoes.

However, instead of a word of thanks to her mother, Polly declared, “These are the worst shoes in the world!”

With that Polly kicked off the shoes and ran out of the room.
“I shall find my own perfect pair of shoes,” she thought to herself and went into the next room which was her mother’s.


“Mummy should have nice shoes. I’ve seen her wear those lovely shoes to work.”
Polly took out a pair of black high heeled shoes from the closet and tried them on.
“It’s too black, it’s too high and it’s too difficult to walk in!”
So she left the shoes on the floor and went into the next room which was her Grandmother’s.


“Grandma should have nice shoes. I’ve seen her wear those comfortable shoes around the house.”
Polly found a pair of pink bedroom slippers at the side of the bed and tried them on.
“It’s too bright, it’s too flat and it’s too difficult to walk in!”
So she left the shoes next to the door and went into the next room which was her older brother’s.


“Big brother should have nice shoes. I’ve seen him wear those colourful shoes to school.”
Polly climbed on a stool to reach the sneakers on the top shelf of the shoe rack and tried them on.
“It’s too smelly, it’s too dirty and it’s too difficult to walk in!”
So she left the shoes on the bottom shelf and went into the next room which was her baby sister’s.


“Little sister should have nice shoes. I’ve seen her wear those cute shoes when we go out to the park.”
Polly took out a pair of baby booties from the chest of drawers and tried them on.
“It’s too soft, it’s too small and it’s too difficult to walk in!”
So she left the shoes next to the cot and went downstairs to her father’s workroom in the backyard.


“Daddy should have nice shoes. I’ve seen him wear those tough-looking shoes when we go fishing.”
Polly pulled out the hiking boots from behind the shed and tried them on.
“It’s too muddy, it’s too heavy and it’s too difficult to walk in!”
So she left the shoes in the pile of racked autumn leaves and went to the front porch.


She sat on the steps with her head in her hands and even asked Snuffle her dog, “Do you have a pair of shoes I could try?”


Disappointed, she finally walked back to her room. There she sees the shoes she kicked off. She decided to try on the shoes once again.
“It’s pretty, it’s comfy and it’s easy to walk in, play in, jump in, run in and dance in!”

Polly excitedly went to find her mother in her new pretty shoes. She found her mother in the garden and ran into her arms to hug her tight.
“Thank you for the new shoes mummy. I love it. It’s lovely. I’m sorry for what I said and did earlier on”
Mummy picked up Polly into her arms, kissed her, and said, “It’s alright, Polly. Mummy is happy that you like them”
They then walked back into the house, hand in hand, with Polly in her perfect shoes.

THE END

haha! so what do you guys think of my story? hurhur. its for children's storybook that me and michele have to do for our visual communication module. illustrations will come up soon!

(: