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Monday, August 30, 2004

I am losing patience. Even though they are young and innocent and (what the hell, they aren't even innocent. I think I'm an angel by now)..whatever.

Having tried to ignore all mean/irritating/childish/bitchy comments about me, I think it still doesn't work for some certain people out there. To them, I'm like a zoo exhibit - whatever I do will sooner or later be commented upon and broadcasted to the whole world, ie. to their friends, who will tell their friends, and their friends, and their friends..and so on. You get the idea.

Because you think you may know me very well just by reading ONLY my blog, but actually you don't. Yet you claim you know so much, but in reality, you are just a story-teller, living in your own lala-land. So sue me. You are no better yourself.

Doesn't matter if the comments are meant for me and me alone, but for goodness sake, this doesn't extend to my friends/family etc.

Bottom line is, I have said what I want. I don't really care anymore. I don't seek for the entire world to like me. I am loved for who I am.

Tutorials still undone. Damn.

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Saturday, August 28, 2004

Sports bash at Chinablack was good. Good to be chionging with people you know and not having to be wary of strangers having other intentions. Feels good to really let loose with my friends there, haha...which overall is a great workout man...I wondered how I survived - 8am-6pm lessons followed by floorball training followed by bash...totally high.

On a more sombre note, I'm nursing a huge bruise on my face. Well, I shall leave out details, but everyday I thank God to be alive. Its really scary when you come close with the potential to lose your life in a mere split second, and thank God its really just a bruise. Didn't tell my mum what happened, won't want her to worry, so I guess its just gonna be some floorball/softball whacking session that I'm gonna cook out. So, well...you all know better than to say anything.

It is a really beautiful world out there.

Oh, and not to mention, to the anonymous many who haven't been willing to just step up to me and slap me across the face, I suppose I've probably generated so much hatred through my actions for the past few days/weeks. Thank you for voicing your opinion. The point is, I don't see why I should seek to be loved by the whole world when after all, I can't please all. What I'll say is, the inevitable has to happen. One can't force certain things.

But its gonna be heart-wrenching for me, because I've finally begun to seek my own happiness, only to create another period of temporary sorrow for myself. *sigh* The irony of life.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

My hair is freaking short. *whines*

I have absolutely no idea why I went to cut my hair when the previous length/shape was so perfect. Argh! Now I'm in such a sorry mood thanks to this hairstyle. Its supposed to help me relieve stress and not add on to ittttt! *sigh* Blame it on Ms PMS coming to visit again. And guys say we use that as an excuse to throw tempers and expect them to please us. For goodness sake, we really cannot help it.

I'm in such a grouchy mood today.

Finally got my Psychology tutorial slot to Wednesday morning 8am-10am, its a slightly better change compared to the evening slot so that I can stay over on Tuesday night and crawl to tutorial the next day. And I'm in the same tutorial slot as Crystal! Yay!Ha-ha.

The politics arising due to internal elections is killing me. I wish I could get away from it all.

I gotta figure out a way to style my hair. Probably gonna rely on hair spray for the next 3 months. You all know what to get for me.

I just made two very sinful purchases today. A pair of Roxy boardshorts and a short denim skirt from Topshop. *whimpers*

And anybody interested in working as a camp instructor from 2nd-4th Sept or 4th-6th Sept?

Back to Psychology notes. Whee!

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

Sometimes I hate the idea of writing speeches to "sell myself" to my audience. The thought of having to praise myself consistently is rather, disgusting. *shudders*

Hahahaa. Its 2am and I'm not asleep. And I woke up at 7am this morning! Wait no, yesterday morning!

I'm getting goosebumps from the ever-constant-rotating fan. Rotation at level 5. *eeew*

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

I got into floorball team!

Okay, so that was loud. But I don't care! *happy smile*

Finally at home reading through my psychology text, its so darn interesting, I think I'm going to major in it, although the module is very very hot. Been talking to my neighbour, and I found a couple of modules I will want to take. Say, Old and New Music of Southeast Asia and Science of Music. Sounds deliciously exciting.

Tutorials have yet to begin and I'm already thinking of modules to take. XP, slow down. Speaking of tutorials, my tutorial time slots this time round are really bad, didn't get 2 tutorial time slots that I wanted, thus having to settle for the really late timings, like Tuesdays 4-6pm and Thursdays 3-5pm..*sigh* At least floorball practices are from 6-9pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays..which mean that my Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to start from 8am to 9pm. *speechless* At least my Wednesdays and Fridays are off, meaning, no lessons!

Bought a printer at long last, FINALLY. I'm slowly settling into university life, and its really busy.

Watching all my fellow instructors getting promoted to a senior instructor level..feeling too darn happy for them, means I'll be seeing more familar faces in orange polo teeshirts! Yet at the same time, I can't help but also feel a slight sting on my part. The competitive streak in me will always be there. Then again, there isn't any point comparing! *shrugs*

University life is really unhealthy - I've been drinking at least 2 cans/cups of coffee everyday, expresso shot. Not to mention, my sleeping times are like 2.45am to 9.15am, or 1am to 6am when I have my 8.00 lessons in the morning. I am amazed at myself.

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

A friend of mine asked me a question today, "What is the point of blogging?" A blog is an online journal - and why do people write journals in the first place? A journal may be interpreted as a diary, or a record of the day's events. If it were to be a diary, where our deepest thoughts and feelings are jotted down, will we do the same for our blogs?

The answer is a definite no. As much as people express their thoughts and concerns over a particular matter, I am sure nobody is willing to share every single detail of their private and personal life. So why do I blog in the first place?

1) To allow my friends to know what is going on in my life. At least, snippets of it so that I won't feel so much of a stranger when I next talk to them.
2) An expression of my thoughts on certain matters, though not all, which I feel can be shared with everybody out there.
3) A place for me to vent my frustrations: I don't know how/why, I feel slightly calmer after I blog. Been keeping too many things to myself I suppose.
4) An expression of creativity.

I don't know what else there is.

First week of university life is over. I am exhausted - physically, mentally, emotionally.

No doubt you noticed that I have been feeling troubled recently, I bet my face shows it all. I wish sometimes I don't have to make decisions concerning my happiness, because it doesn't really make sense. What makes me happy now may cease to work its joyful effect on me in future. What I am doubtful about now may instead be the target of my happiness in future. Everchanging world, everchanging expectations, everchanging wants. *sigh* I wish I could stop spinning around like that.

Girl, what matters is that you must be happy. But what if it makes me sad to see others sad because of what I had done to them? Won't that be so ironic? To attain my happiness, I hurt a person, and in the end I feel the hurt as well because of what I had originally set out to achieve - happiness.

(Sounds a little like philosophy over here. Speaking of Philosophy, reading the philo notes was hell. I ended up being more confused and troubled than ever.)

And one last one. I want to get into the floorball team. I decided to ditch bowling. Please pray hard for me to enter the team.

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Friday, August 13, 2004

Floorball trials today. I had alot of fun today, but it was pretty crazy considering what I did. Finally learnt how to handle the ball properly with the stick, the ball went where I wanted it to go! Lots of running, or rather, a mad dash for the ball, I love it. Its really a good workout and all.

Two lectures today, 8am's Philosophy lecture - oh why in the world did I take that? - so confusing, so much to read, so boring that I went back to my habit of falling asleep during lectures. Arts canteen at 10am isn't crowded *phew* at all, ate a little something, and its back to 12pm's Information & Communications lecture - the lecturer's super young, he's 29 years old, newly married..extremely funny, lame even..*grin* Keeps talking about his wife..aww so sweet - I survived the lecture!

It pays to bring at least $50 this period of time for buying pre-printed notes. Better because I doubt my printer can take the heavy load of those super-thick notes, may as well buy them first and start reading. Arts faculty area is full of stairs, just a walk from the Forum to the canteen to the LTs involves climbing flights and flights of stairs, and MORE flights of stairs...I'm basically walking and climbing and walking and climbing and walking and climbing... you get the idea lah!

Floorball trials started 3.30, played till 5.30, afterwhich I immediately joined Jo & Nick for a quick jog around the school till 6. Well, just really tired myself completely, couldn't run properly..6.30pm Sports Club welcome tea..thinking of running for Publicity Officer..

I don't know if I just made a decision to make my entire university life busy. Because I am hoping to get into the floorball team, yet at the same time work in the managing committee of Sports Club. If (a very big "if") I do get into the team, its Tuesdays and Thursdays 5.30pm to 9+pm and Saturday mornings. If I get into the committee, its gonna be a very very very very very busy life for me.

Damn. Why do I have to be so interested in everything?

And here's a resolution for myself: Time management. Juggling studies/floorball/MC (if i do get them) will be a challenge for me.

Feeling all seh now. Considering I just ran on Tuesday, bladed on Wednesday, floorball + jog today. Here's to nice sexy legs and to the disappearance of love handles. *cheers!*

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

National Day's over just like that. Dating back, I went to watch fireworks at the Esplanade on Sunday..but it was freaking crowded, and palm trees (whatever) were blocking my view of the lower fireworks. The large ones exploding in the air were marvellous though. *smiles* Splendid!

National Day - Woke up at 1pm (woah), ate a quick lunch, decide to plan out my tutorials first. Headed over to Simei to meet up with Stacey, Fahmy and Justin, a mini gathering at Stacey's house. Small group but cosy enough, love the food we made though. Love Stacey's bread pudding! *yum yum* Anyways, XiaoMing joined us later..but too bad I had to leave, but nevertheless - great few hours spent.

Today - I woke up at 6am. Upon reaching school, I miraculously located LT8, where Psychology lecture was supposed to be held at, but I couldn't find the damn door. I probably walked like 2 rounds around it trying to find the stupid door. Half an hour into the lecture and I started yawning. Maybe it was due to waking up too early. The lecturer was rather...cheesy. *winces* I mean, we're all 19 and above and he has to employ the method of throwing a stuff toy around to choose a student to answer his questions. I am deeply amused.

Headed to Sentosa to run, yes, to RUN. Rather, testing out the Nike Road Run route of 5.5km (which of course I am not participating but just running to burn off some calories)...aiyoh. Uphill, downhill, uphill, downhill...a short rest, and then a stretch of sand along Palawan..I probably looked like a mad woman bull-dozing my way through sun-bathers and those attempting to play volleyball.

So there, my first day, or rather, first 2 hours of official school in NUS. At least I didn't get lost! *beams*

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Saturday, August 07, 2004

School's starting.
I'm putting on weight. Got a tummy once again.
And I feel so nua.
Not ready for school.
Printer just died on me, just when I wanted to print lecture notes.
Not ready for school.

I was introduced to something called auravision by a friend yesterday. It was pretty interesting, where you sit down and rest your both palms on this two metal plates, and have your "picture" or rather, your "aura" taken by this electronic device. It supposedly works on the scientific belief that our body is surrounded by an energy field, of which a well balanced energy field around our body will consist of the seven rainbow colours. My picture showed a pure red aura with a patch of purple concentrated on my left arm. Its super interesting in a sense because the person who interpreted my aura was pretty accurate - my character, my current situation and the problems I'm facing now. I could say I was pretty skeptical about it at first, maybe because of my Christian faith. Hmmm.

Let's start with the patch of purple. Maybe it is indeed scientific, since our body does emit heat and these variations can be detected by the machine which will in turn tell us the story of our bodies. The purple patch concentrated along my left arm indicates a weakness in joints, upon which I was asked whether I played any sports, then I realised my left arm is my bowling arm. Slight dislocation there. Woah.

Red. Force of will. 'Passion' would best describe you. Red is the urge to achieve results, to be successful. It is a hungry desire for all things which offer intensity of living and fullness of experience. Desire, excitability, domination and passion are the qualities most important to you. You work hard at whatever you do. Intensity of experience and fullness of living; conquest, energy-expanding, you put the energy out. The world sees you as alive, outgoing, sexual and powerful.

Character : Seen as an enthusiastic person, your enthusiasm rubs off those around you. However, you're externally strong, internally weak, ie. more fragile. Your external self is what everybody around you perceives you, your emotions deep inside you are seldom shown to the world. This results in many friends, but few who really know your true self. The red aura, implying strength, generates stubborness, but because of your internally weak self, you are an undecisive person.

Haha, and the red aura I generated from myself was also due to tiredness, lack of sleep, heatiness ie. lack of water. Considering how much time I spent in the sun for the past month, the body heat generated says it all.

There's a whole lot more, about how my studies are in tune, except that I will be very easily influenced by my surrounding friends. Kind of true, since I decided on Psychology but some friends kind of started me thinking whether its right to major in Psychology in the first place. Why not English, or Geography and minoring in Urban Studies? Hmmmmm. How I encounter problems within my family due to a breakdown in communication because of the way I like to keep my problems to myself - yeah. How my work in future will be affected by the decisions I make, meaning I'll encounter fluctuations in my life.

Oh and there was a name analysis as well, where (yes this touches on Chinese fortune-telling now) my two Chinese characters - "xiao" and "pei" decide my life. Okay, this is the part I'm skeptical about. To cut it short, my name will give me a very successful career in my life, I'll soar high in my career because it is my interest. This sounds good huh? I won't mind this kind of future. Well, the down side was, my name destines me to be a career woman not fit for love in my life, meaning any relationships I experience in my life will be a failure, or there will be just too many obstacles that will put any relationship I'm involved in to a major test.

Take it with a pinch of salt, they will say. Do I believe in it or not? Let's just say it was a very very interesting experience, and I'm deeply intrigued by the auravision part especially. Maybe I ought to find out more about it. Any shouts about it? Will love to hear them.

Oh. And yes, I've gotten fat. Dieeee lar. Time to start running liao...
A few snapshots from Sentosa. (Yes I went there again!)

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Sunday, August 01, 2004

"F sharp!!!

B flat!

Oei your F sharp and your C sharp!!"


Goodness knows how many million times I repeated those few phrases today during lessons. Kids have an uncanny way of forgetting the most basic stuff. *groans* Today wasn't really that bad, except for one or two students who played me..well, crap.

It brings me back to the days when I was in grades 3-7, where my mum makes sures I practise the piano 1 hour everyday after my afternoon nap. "Girl! Go play piano! Your exam coming up ah..you better practise okay, don't let Miss Lee scold you again!" *grin*

Tomorrow's the start of O-week, ie Orientation Week for freshies, of which I haven't signed up for anything at all. Which means an extra week's break for me! Planning to crash NTU's lectures one day..otherwise I'll just pop down to visit my friends...for the fun of it.

Didn't bother to apply wax/spray to my hair, realised it has grown quite tame without all those camps. I am amazed.

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