Sunday, September 29, 2013

Halfway through Sem 1.

"Booking in" soon.
Dad just got home.
And it's time to prepare for another week of school now that Recess Week is over...

A really tough week coming up ahead...

Two midterms (only, when compared to some others), and two assignments due on Fri.
CH and SW tutorials to prepare for, two of the mods which got neglected the most zzz.

Didn't do much today, but at least I sorta finished up half my readings for PL2131 the research methods part.
Sorta finished only 'cause I basically simply skim through a lot of things, probably every section which has more than three paragraphs were skipped and just briefly read through lol.
Did fine for all the practice questions behind each chapter so just hope that the test will be of a similar level..
Haven't start at all on the stats textbook though.
Probably gonna leave it till Tues night and maybe Wed morning since I gonna spend my next two days on Psych only.

And then after the two midterms are over, I can finally devote the rest of my time in chionging the two assignments that are due on Fri sighhh.

That seems to be the plan for the week so far.
Still gotta draw out a bit of time to prep for CH tutorial by tomorrow night, as well as SW tutorial by Wed night though.
Good that prep notes are not required this time for SW tutorial but still the readings and stuff zzzZ.
SW becoming more and more of a burden now sian.


Alright shall go and shower, do the final prep and final inspection then book in.

Speaking of final inspection, the men of 2SIR are going for ATEC stage 2 finally, the last obstacle and missions to clear before they can ORD.
All the best to them and I shall look forward to seeing them at ORD function end of the year.
A little regretting about agreeing to go for it though now that I've understood how hard these uni stuff can be...
But whatever, things will work out eventually.












Byeall.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

We all work hard.

Supposed to be doing work now.
Well, supposed to have started doing work since just now.

And yet it's already 4pm with nothing done yet so far in the day.

Got home at around 1.30pm today.
Cabbed back CK after waking up at 12plus.
Slept for four hours only before that 'cause of Jia Hao and my overnight studying session.
Set up a studying corner by shifting the table and chairs to beside the wall just for the socket so that we can plug in and charge our laptops.
Had supper before that, ordered Town Supper as it was the last night for 50% discount.
Studied from like 2plus or so all the way till 6, super unproductive as I was really too shagged to study sighhhhh.
Ended up staying awake for 24hours without sleep.

Had to wake up early yesterday before 8 to eat breakfast then travel to Bukit Merah for the social agency visit.
Then had lunch at Eunos Umi Sushi and chilled for a while before going to the family centre for the afternoon agency visit.
Didn't take down any notes for both thought so hopefully I'll still be able to crap something meaningful out 'cause the reflections are gonna weigh 15% for the final grade omg.
Travelled all the way to JP to meet Steven, Shafiq and Jia Wei for dinner at Pizza Hut.
First time eating Pizza Hut and not feeling extremely full after that.

Got back to my room at around 9pm and didn't do any work at all until after supper where I finally studied just a little through the night.

Was in CLB for two entire days on Mon and Tue.

Not exactly the entire day, but probably from around 11plus onwards to evening at least.
That's a whole lot of 7, 8 hours of studying per day and I actually still need much more than that to make up for my lack of productivity sigh.
Decided against staying in school to study today though since I'm really tired of studying alone in the library and I just feel like I should stay home more since it's recess week now.
Recess week hasn't really been living up to its name though.
More like reading week for mid-terms.

Anyways, shall try to start work soon.
Gotta complete studying biopsych today, just spending one day, or rather, half a day or one night on this single chapter because it's so tough to handle and require so much attention zzz.
Gotta start on my psych essay as well, or possibly even finish it.
Or maybe I'll leave it to tomorrow or what when I'm studying chapter 6 since references will be made based on it.
Still have reflections for SW to type out, two pages sigh have to incorporate readings lectures tutorials and stuff as much as possible.
How well I gonna do for this really depends on how much effort I gonna put in to find out and throw in whatever they are looking for.
Really thinking of giving a phone call or simply sending an email to the two agencies to ask and find out certain information so that I can include them in my reflection too.
Kinda contradicts the point of doing the visits and kinda ass to do so but I guess if you gotta do well you gotta do what you gotta do.

Fri, Sat, Sun; three more days before going back again.
Seven chapters of Psych to study for, many readings for Stats to complete, SW assignments...
And many other stuff which I don't really care about now.















Byeall.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Sunday that got away.

Ahhhhhh my Sunday gone just like that. D:

Played ball in the morning after like less than 4hours of sleep, don't ask me why.
It just somehow happened like that, again.
The misery of lying on the bed for hours before falling asleep.

Went KFC for lunch after taking quite some time to decide where to eat.
Haven't had fast food for quite a while but just ate Macs last Mon and now it's KFC.
But it's okay, everyday else is CAPT Dining Hall and Deck food only anyway.

The fulfilling meal combined with the weather really just makes me feel so sleepy~
But since we ended earlier than usual today, due to lack of people, I decided that I should head home straight and start studying when I got the full day ahead.


Well everything was supposedly fine until I reached home...

Got settled down and decided to take a short nap on the sofa just as my parents got out to buy some stuff.
Was still on the sofa, half awake when they got back.
And the next thing I knew it was 5plus and my 'short nap' turned into a 3hours one and there goes my Sunday sighhhhh.

Not sure what I've been doing since then but it's suddenly 7.15pm now and only an hour away to Arsenal's match so I'm not sure what I can do with this hour too.
Well I can definitely try to finish the psych quizzes but...
Okay nevermind I shall try and aim to do just that!
Hopefully I can at least finish the quizzes by tonight, then when I get back to school I can start on assignment, the problem sets, make notes and revise etc.

And everything is on psych only.
Really neglecting the other mods so much haiz.
But whatever, it's gonna be my major so I better do damn well for it.
And when I'm sure that I'm gonna do damn well for it then I can settle my other mods and get a CAP 5.0 this semester.
Well just kidding about the 5.0 but shouldn't we all have dreams and aims and goals? Hahaha.
Just do what I can and see how things goes then.















Byeall.

Ups and downs.

It was a week of ups and downs.
Couldn't actually remember much just thinking about it, but that's the first thought which came into mind when thinking about the past week.
Shall try to remember and record down as much as possible to see if that's true.


Good thing is, I didn't have any tutorials for the week since I had three during e-learning the week before and for Stats both odd and even-week tutorials only require you to submit an online tutorial after watching the lecture and tutorial webcast, or not.

Hmm now what did I do for Monday...
It was a free day filled with four RPs. FOUR omg.

Don't know why did I torture myself with that but yeah anyway it was over and all is good now.
Met Zhihui and Cherylf for lunch, CK only joined later when his class ended.

Zhihui left by then for her lecture and Cheryl went back to biz lib to study after lunch while CK and I went to CLB.
Studied for a while, didn't do much as usual, before I head out for RP again.

Can't really remember what occurred next but it's most likely finally finishing all my RPs then going back to CLB to study till late.
Ohh I studied with Jason for quite a while before deciding to head back to Utown for dinner.
Got attacked by Chan Yu on the way to bus-stop so joined him and Justus for dinner at Macs although I promised Jia Hao to dinner with him. Sorry Jia Hao. ):
But I couldn't really resist the shaker fries, especially when everyone's talking about it hahah.

Good dinner and we had a mini-mission of stalking Justus after that only to find out that he's really going home lol.
Sort of wasted the 2hours plus instead of studying but time you enjoy spending is not time wasted right so I guess it's okay.
Finally got back and... wanted to say don't know what I did for the night but suddenly remembered that I went for a jog with JH.
At least I didn't pangseh him for the jog hahah but his shin really hurts so we only jogged a shorter distance and just went back up later on.
Wasn't really tiring and it was the only exercise of the week I had, until today.
Guess I really gotta do more exercise every week, other than keeping fit and that it's a proven method for increasing happiness, it's a good way to de-stress as well.

Well, which is also about the same as increasing happiness but not entirely the same anyways.

Seems like I did quite a bit of stuff on Monday, it was a day well spent indeed.
Moving on...

Slept like crazy and woke up damn late just because I just really had to try waking up really late once hahahah.
The latest I ever woke up was still about 9plus and this time I managed to sleep until 11pm.
That's like a whole 9 hours spent just on sleeping. Naise.
Except that I didn't really get a superb sense of satisfaction that I got to sleep so much but whatever it just shows that it's not exactly something useful to do in the future, perhaps except when I really stay up late until like 4, 5am and really need the sleep.
The latest I've stayed up usually was probably 2+? Or maybe 3+ at most?Well except that one time when I had dinner with JH and CK then got back to chill for really quite long before going back to our rooms, slept at 5 or 5plus for that one time I think.
Anyways, got to CLB to study once again, and then saw Chan, Vince and Shi Kai at Deck when I was meeting Mel for lunch there too so just sat together.
Went back to CLB after lunch only to realize that I forgotten to bring my SW prep notes to submit...
Sighhhhhhh really screwed up I wonder why was I so careless that day.
And to think I had 9hours of sleep still zzZ.
Was still thinking that I should lighten the load since I usually only needed my laptop to study and was only there for one lect as well before having to get back to Utown for my Junior Seminar.
Well so I rushed back my room to get the stuff then back to FASS again for the lecture.
Had wanted to just skip it and go for the Thurs lecture instead but SK already took my bag in so yeah...
Thinking back, maybe I should've really skipped it and go for Thurs lect instead...
Anyways lect ended and I went back Utown as usual for my JS, did my discussion leadership, sort of didn't really prepare well for it but still got through anw.
It's a pass/fail mod anyway so I guess I'll just continue doing the bare minimum to pass it.
I've got so many other things that seem to need more of my attention anw sigh.
So that day was really different 'cause we had to catch a play called LIFT Pursuit of Happiness as a class!
Was sorta excited as it was my first time watching a play or even going to something like this.

Got there damn early somehow and just walked around a lil before the play.
It was pretty interesting and I gotta say I enjoyed the play, but was a lil disappointed since I couldn't really make any sense out of it sigh.
Ohh well but sometimes there just isn't so much to understand at all.
Although many factors came into play while creating the play, no pun intended, it's just up to our own perspectives and imagination on what some things are really about and stuff like that.
Bus back to school and reached around 11 or so?
Went back up and not sure what I did but slept after that.


And wow this post is really long, probably the longest after school started and the most detailed one yet accounting for almost everything that happened to me for the past week hahaha.
Three more days to go!

So on Wednesday, woke up early and got to FASS for stats lecture.

Well sometimes I really don't know why I go to lectures because I simply don't listen much or just can't get anything in my head even if I try really hard to.
Alright maybe I didn't try hard enough, but I tried, at least.
And halfway through I find myself just chatting away until the end of the lecture.
And also writing on the birthday card for Tay Lin. Which I didn't write any message anw zzz and didn't manage to decorate much as well.
But good enough I guess, since I was the first to message her last night hahah.
Anw I finally decided to go for CH lect 'cause it's the lectuere's last session before another lecturer takes over after recess week.
Okay but I really regretted it after like 10minutes.
Dozing off just after 10mins and barely somehow survived through after that.
Got back to FASS after that for lunch and I was quite hungry by that time, supposedly.
Ate at deck with Jo-En, well more of she watched me eat 'cause she had lunch already though.
Had Chinese cooked food again 'cause it was still the shortest queue and I don't know why were there still quite a number of people eating even though it was like 2pm already.
Didn't finish my food though really getting bored of the stall zzz oh well I should stop eating from there for like one or two weeks now.
Went to CLB AGAIN to study all the way until evening when everyone got down to meet Velda to head over EWF for Tay Lin's surprise birthday celebrations.

And yeah almost everyone went down from CLB together that shows how mugger we all are.
Well okay actually they all are, not me.
I'm like everyday in the library but everyday simply being extremely unproductive sigh that's why I needed all the extra hours to make up for it.
Anyways, we headed over to EWF while Aizhen brought Tay Lin over.
Good dinner and a good meetup, although there was really few freshies and most were year2s.
Wasn't keen on going for it initially due to that reason though I really had no reason or excuse to not attend lol.

So I still went since everyone who were in the library was going and I got no reason for not joining as well, if not it will turn out like the previous outing at Vivo... but we shall not get to there for now hahah.
Yeah anw Emma and I were like the only O Week freshie? The few others were all from Arts Camp, actually four, including Tay Lin herself and everyone else were year2s.
But it's alright I guess, we're all S1 anyways right.
Our batch of freshies are really weird though, can't see how a Best OG got scattered so quickly like we were never the best together but I guess we sort of still meet each other all the time in the library mugging together sitting separately lol.

Went for ice-cream later on though I didn't have any, had some performances by Amirul Justus and gang then went back to school.
Really wanted to watch UCL Arsenal Marseille at that time.
But I really didn't have the mood to study or do anything so I just nua on the bed until 2plus and it is then I had the stupid idea of having a power nap before the match...

And what a power nap it was, lasting two hours until 4.30am zz.
Checked twitter and saw that Walcott scored and continued sleeping and only woke up at 9plus.
Lights were still on.
Don't really know how I slept but I guess that was a time when I was tired and needed sleep.

So got up and got my stuff, had breakfast and headed over to CLB to study again.

I guess I've talked enough about the ups of the week and this is where the downs begin.
It was still pretty good at the start of the day though, aside from the fact that I missed the Arsenal match.
I got a window seat at the library, for the first time, and it was the furthest in corner somemore.
Quite a small isolated corner for myself and a conducive studying spot, or so I thought.
The problem is, I couldn't really focus and study and felt super sleepy all the time until I went for lunch with Vincent and Jason at around 2 I think.
Ate curry chicken noodles and got back like just before 4? To continue studying.
And my throat started hurting out of nowhere.
I really thought that it was sore throat because it's just this spot that's hurting really badly and it felt like I twisted or sprained it or what.
Well anyway even without that, I was pretty much too distracted to concentrate on studying anyways.
Just quite a bad day to study or even do anything at all sighhhh.
Still stayed till quite late though, trying to make up my unproductiveness with more time spent on studying.
Not sure if it helped or just made myself feel worse though.
Finally decided to head back at 9.
Went up to put my stuff before going down to dining hall only to find out that I just missed dinner time as the dining hall closes just before I reached.
It's as if my day wasn't bad enough already.
So I just got up, ate half a mooncake, emo in my room, showered and attempted to sleep early.
Pretty screwed up day where nothing goes right.


Woke up hoping to have slept my pain away only to realize that I really really am having a bad sore throat.
Spamming water all the way while going for my RP that morning.
Came out and things were still not right as the freakin' dirty headphone dyed my ears black.
Well not so bad that the whole area is black but pretty much so.
Spent some time trying to wash it away before going to central forum to see the crazy crowd queuing for Krispy Kreme donuts which were there for some promotion as it's gonna open in Singapore I think.
Got called there by Zhihui to join her in the queue but she gave up eventually after knowing that it's gonna take a group of 8 to redeem a box of donuts.
Well still went up to meet her in the library as she printed her notes since I had nothing to do and had an hour to spare before my lecture.
Went for SW lect alone later at 12 and was falling asleep just 10mins into lecture... sounds too familiar now.
Somehow managed to survive again, and got awake halfway through and also managed to hear the guest speakers speak.
It's really quite interesting, what they do as social workers but guess it isn't the kind of thing for me.
So I had lunch at Deck later, met Jerome, Vincent and Zai and went CLB to study after that.
And really, the people I see most aside from the psych people are actually all these year2s, really didnt't get to see many of my fellow freshies after O Week in all these weeks, somehow.
Studied all the way, pretty much nothing to say.
Again not exactly productive, and there was this period of time when I felt so sleepy again.
Never fail to feel sleepy in the library but at least I don't fall asleep every single time now.
Finally finished all my chapters of psych at least, got back for dinner then did pretty much nothing until Dad came to bring me home.


And today.
Today was sort of a no-phone day on me, imposed by myself.
Well, managed to not use phone from like 3pm all the way to 11pm so it's pretty good.
I should try to do this more often, perhaps even during weekdays as well.
Then I'll be like MIA all the time but also possibly being able to spend more time doing other stuff which will supposedly be good anw.
Watched TV almost the entire day and also did the psych quizzes, left two for chapter 7 or 8 I think, and the remaining until chapter 10.
Hopefully I'l be able to finish all these as well as all the problem sets by tomorrow.
Then when I get back to school tomorrow night onwards, I'll probably start on the psych assignment or simply revising and studying for mid-terms the following week...

Really gotta do well for this man.
30% mid-term MCQs, 30% for essay assignment.
And by the end of that week, 60% of PL1101E would have been fixed already.
Ohh and I finally gonna buy the textbook for PL2131, should be getting them next Mon so it's all good and I'll be able to study for mid-terms that way.
Did my assignment without textbook though and I thought I did okay for it... hahah.
Seems like I still need the textbooks though.
And there's still social work portfolio to start on haiz, as well as the reflections fo agencies visit next Wed.

And I managed to run today, finally another exercising session for the week after the short jog on Mon.
Ran 2 rounds followed by some pull ups before coming back home to catch the front part of JUMANJI.
Yes Jumanji is showing again on Channel 5. YAY.
Well didn't watch much though since there was 超级歌喉赞 as well and I was pretty much occupied trying to study psych and stuff.
Then it was 我可能不会爱你 again after that.
Each episode of it seems to be reminding me of the remaining time in Sem 1 as well, since it's got 13 episodes and started airing when school started and there's 13 weeks in the semester.
Really a good show and worth me watching it again though so I'm still gonna spend 1.5hour each Saturday catching it.

Balling again tomorrow morning hopefully it's gonna be a good session.
And also that afternoon's gonna be productive for me as well.
Going back again at night and here's hoping, again, that the next few days will generate some good productive studying.
It better be good.
Gotta sleep soon so perhaps I'll just end it here, a really comprehensive post on this week 6 of school and I think the only one who will bother reading this is me, myself and I months or years later down the road when I feel the need to relive some memories or look back at myself at this stage of my life.

And that's the reason why I gotta continue blogging more like this all the time.











Byeall.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Press on.

Suddenly decided to blog, like finally.
After two weeks of inactivity.
And I didn't even manage to tumblr much in these two weeks either.
Work is really piling up and deadlines are inching closer...

And as e-learning week comes to an end, we are just left with a week of school before Recess Week, which supposedly marks the midway point of Sem 1.
Wow.
We're already gonna be halfway through Sem 1.
And just slightly more than a month ago we were having our Orientation Week.
What the heck man.

One more reason for not blogging and tumblring as much is probably the screwed WiFi I have in my room sighhhhhh.
And that is the exact excuse I give myself for blogging and tumblring instead of doing work like I intended to...

Argghhh tons of work left for me to do.
Gotta really get organized by this week so that I don't waste my Recess Week away.


Don't know where to start from regarding the last two weeks of my life...
Only know that it's been lectures and tutorials, readings and more readings, slacking, 300% increase in usage of Twitter and Instagram like no one cares and stuff.
I'm seriously tweeting and Instagramming so much more since school started that it's sort of crazy.
Goes to show how bored I frequently get while studying/attempting to study but ends up not doing anything at all.

Also, finally had a basketball session today.
Like after so long. After so so long.

Hasn't been exercising much either, ran with Jia Hao quite a few times but none for the past week since his shin is still hurting.
Well hopefully I'll get to run more this week, at least two times and three would be really good.


Took a long pause and my train of thoughts had been broken.
Shall get back to tumblr now and also I still have to pack my stuff for going back school later ahhhhh.
I should really try(again) to blog as much as possible from now on, to record as many things as possible.










Byeall.

Sunday, September 01, 2013

Dragged.

Didn't do any work today, didn't get my license, didn't achieve anything of note sigh.
Another weekend gone.
Just like that.


The only thing I did was to meetup with Gavin and a few others, people whom I've not met for a long long time.
Ohh well, only didn't meet Gavin and Johnny for a long long time, still saw Marcus a few times and seeing Kelvin few times a week in school too.
Really really great seeing Gavin before he flies off for his studies.
Hopefully he'll be able to find time to visit us in NUS before he goes on on 12th, or maybe we can be there to send him off since it's e-learning week anyways.

Just need to get through this week, then hopefully e-learning week won't be too tough on us.
Really gotta catch up on my readings though, and to not forget about other mods while putting more emphasis on Psych as well since I gonna major in it, and can definitely not screw up at all.
B- is not good enough when there's A+ to aim for.
But A+ for two mods and C for the rest doesn't make sense either.
Oh well, just have to work hard equally for SW and CH as well; thankfully I'm taking JS this sem and it's not graded.
Still got a photo essay to submit for next week's session though sigh haven't really got any idea about it yet and there's only two days left omfg.

Shall reorganize myself a lil, try to straighten things out and sort things through tomorrow before booking in again at night.
In a dilemma of if I should book in myself in order to catch the full Arsenal-Spurs match or to wait for Dad to fetch and missing first half or even possibly start of second half too of the match sigh.
And it's certainly a no-go to stream and watch in room as well with the cock up WiFi, probably gotta travel down to at least Starbucks or what to get a more stable connection.
Might be kinda dumb to be streaming and watching soccer alone there though, well shall see how tomorrow.
Got more important stuff to worry about now anyways zzZ.

Gotta catch some sleep too and wake up not too late to chiong the whole day!!











Byeall. 

Friday, August 30, 2013

Pray hard; work harder.

And so another week is over; first week of tutorials.


Only had Psych tutorial on Monday, so it was alright.
Tues and Wed were kinda hectic again with CH tutorial on Tues morning and the usual lecture followed by JS then three lects in a row on Wed except that I only went for two lects hahaha skipping the CH lecture.
While CH lecture is really pretty interesting and funny, I don't know what I'm learning and I think the time can be better spent on having lunch/studying/resting in between the two lectures than sitting there laughing and stuff.
Well, having two Psych lect and SW lect timeslots really give me flexibility; so I shall just decide to jump here and there as and when I like on the week itself.


Only had SW tutorial on Thurs morning, where I met Boon Teck sis hahah damn small world omg.
Lunch after that with Shi Kai since I met him in the library then it was just waiting and waiting until 2pm before taking the hour-long bus ride to Ubi for driving.
It was.. pretty bad yesterday.
Really glad today was much better.
And hopefully tomorrow will be even better since I'm finally taking the test tomorrow sighhhhhhh.
Howwwwwww???

Hopefully I'll clear it in one shot because if I don't, I don't really know how much more time can I invest on learning and then taking the test again in Dec or even next year or what.

Or maybe I won't even bother with it until a long while later.
Please please please please let me passssssss.
Gonna really pray hard tonight before I sleep and tomorrow morning before going out and all the time while driving.

Assignments are gonna start to pile up soon, tons of readings which I haven't complete and haven't got the time/mood to do thanks to driving test tomorrow, mid-terms coming in few weeks' time...
Thank god e-learning week's two weeks later and falls on an odd week, which means I won't get to go for three of my tutorials until Week 7 which is right after Recess Week.
Much needed break there probably.

Going to Bintan next weekend with parents for some Buddhist thing.
Just realized that it's gonna be on next weekend time flies ahhhh.

Really hope for a good week ahead from here on...
Getting my license, completing all my work and starting on assignments and stuff, finishing up on my readings and making wonderful and awesome notes for myself.
That will be all I need for this week to go right.

Now I just have to pray and work hard.









Byeall.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Let's go.

And two weeks in Uni really go by quickly.
Going into our third week now.

It is now that we really feel that we're in school I guess, with tutorials kicking in from this week onwards, and assignments start piling up, tons of readings to do, and many other things for us to complete.

So much things to do; so little time.

Week two had been fine, if not for the realization that I really do have to start doing work in order to avoid being thrown behind and not able to catch up in the future.
It's good that there's e-learning week coming up in two week's time, just after our first tutorial, since most tutorials we have are scheduled in alternate weeks.
Three of my tutorials for this week and one in the following.
Guess I really have to try hard to just pull through this week for now; especially with TP test coming up on next Sat and two more lessons of driving on Thurs and Fri sigh.
Got a feeling I'll somehow be able to scrap through it after yesterday's lesson though, so hopefully I can continue the good form into the test and get it done and over with once and for all.

Somehow it just feels like there is no such thing as 'doing enough', with so many things flying in from different direction at you and no time to react against them one by one.




What a boring Sunday it has been.


After going to KenTan's party on Fri night, having driving yesterday, today seemed so uneventful.
A day that was supposed to be used for doing work to make up for the lost time over the past two days.
A day which was plain boring because doing work is just not my thing.
Sigh.
And I still gotta pack to 'book-in' soon.
It's only gonna be around three days of school this week but why do I feel that I've got so much things to be done and that I will never do enough?
Perhaps things aren't as bad as they seem, I just have to look on the bright side of life. 
I think I need to play some basketball really soon though.
And Allen Iverson is finally gonna retire officially.

Well, I guess there's nothing much to talk about here.
Maybe I'll have more stories to share the next time I blog.












Byeall.