Simple things that make me happy.

BUBBLE WRAP!!! <3

AAAAARRRGHHH.

I've been in school for 28 hours and counting. And that actually also means that i've been awake for 28 hours and counting. I freaking stayed up all night in my friend's hall's TV lounge to finish up an IT project.

Yes. IT. Which plays like such a significant role in my accounting career. You don't even see me doing that for Accounting-related stuff; the most i ever did was work overtime until 1am during month-end closing. That's what i find so ridiculous about the whole thing.

Anyway. Something funny and gross that happened yesterday when my 4 other group members and i were walking in the North Spine.

-cockroach scuttles past-
Me: Omgomg cockroach!!! -freaks out-
SH: [trying to warn D, who is walking ahead of us] D, there's a cockroach!
D: -stops in his tracks and turns around- Wha? -simultaneously hears crack coming from beneath shoe-
5 of us: -stare at remains of cockroach after D lifts his shoe-
SH: Err... Nevermind.

LOL.

Of school and school and more school.

Had two tests today, more or less screwed both up. I'm just hoping everyone else screws up as well so i won't be that bad in comparison.

Nah i'm just kidding.

But seriously, i don't like the bell curve system. It's practically impossible to break out of the bell curve and if you're suay enough to kenna smart classmates for the entire 3 years then your results will be pretty much effed up.

Going to chiong IT all the way until the submission on Friday. I'd say TGIF, but my Friday looks like this:
0900-1230: IT submission, seminar
1230-1430: Lunch, comm fund meeting; rehearse for presentation
1430-1630: Psych tutorial

...

Mastercard Advertisement

LOL.

Random and dumb.

I seem to always find all sorts of random stuff whenever i'm supposed to be studying.

Crazy Rabbit.

:D!

I wanna get married!

Yeah i know you all haven't heard this for damn long already. Lol. Don't worry i'm not going to go on about babies.

Yet.

Lalala random

Remember i was fooling around with PhotoFunia some time back? [Refer to IMH escapee entry] I made some much nicer pictures with it as well, and i was just flipping through my photos when i came across them. Here they are!


Babes we gotta go out, shop, and go back to Sam's place to take preeeetty pictures again! With Dine this time ;D

I'm in my IT lesson now!

And we're doing a hands-on lesson on blogging! Yaaay!

Look forward to an improved blog with all sorts of weird stuff tonight xD

Edit [2410082335]: If you visited my blog earlier on, you would have noticed a lot of extra gadgets around. I've removed most of them, leaving only Twitter, which i think is pretty useful [it would be more useful if i could figure out how to send updates through SMS].

So let me briefly tell you about what i had on my blog earlier.

RSS Feeds - Live feeds from various sites. I had CNN's news just now. To get that, scroll to the bottom of the CNN homepage, and you should see a button that says 'RSS feeds' there. Click that, and you should come to a table with many links for different feeds. Copy the URL that you want, paste it into Blogger by adding a feed gadget.

Swicki - This is a personal search engine. You have to sign up for an account and basically just follow the guide to get your Swicki up and running. I haven't really much use for this as i'm still quite attached to Google, but it's interesting to have your own search engine running on your blog.

Del.icio.us - I like the URL for this site, lol. Delicious helps you share your bookmarks with people. So you input all your favourite pages on Delicious, and put the code on your blog where it'll appear. Then people can go to your recommended sites by clicking on your labels/tags. Pretty useful for stuff like doing projects where you want to share with your group members various websites.

Google Reader - This is provided by Google, where you can RSS stuff from all over the place onto your reader, including even Blogger blogs. If you scroll right to the bottom of this page, you'll see "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)". Click on the link, take the URL from that site, and paste it into Google Reader, and you'll be able to read blog entries from this blog through Google Reader. This makes things convenient because it's like a one-stop place to get information from many sources; you won't have to go to each individual site.

Twitter - As you can see on the right :) It's basically like Facebook's status updates. I'm sure this would be a great application once its community grow bigger. With its mobile device updating function [which i have not figured out how to use yet], people can update others on their status, even on the go! I think this is really good in the sense that i can record down what i'm actually thinking at a certain point in time, so that i won't keep forgetting about things i want to blog about.

I hope you found the above information useful. I didn't =/ Not that it wasn't useful; i probably just haven't found an appropriate use for those applications yet. They're really interesting though, so you might want to check them out :)

Epic Parent

'We've all got to die sometime. I haven't got cancer from smoking so she'll probably be all right anyway.'

As for drinking, Miss Holt says Sam only drinks a couple of cans of lager a night.

'It wasn't a one-night stand. She had been dating the guy for a couple of weeks.

Miss Holt blames teachers at Sam's former school for being 'too soft'.

http://www.asiaone.com/Just%2BWoman/News/Women%2BIn%2BThe%2BNews/Story/A1Story20081023-95777.html

Hello again, Access.

This is what i'm going to forward to my group members along with the database after i'm done with my part later.

Srsly, i'm not liking IT.

The Wizard of Oz

Wizard: You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom.

Or is it just cowardice? ._.


Just got back from the doctor's. Had my second jab; this time i'm going to be left-handed for a while.

The Man Cold

No, i'm not going to 'poor little bunny' you so please stop telling me all the details about you having a cough/feeling drowsy/and your sore throat, i don't have to know unless it's life-threatening.

...Men Boys.

Sloth

Picture Source: lovingshiva
and Animal Photos!

Nostalgia :)

Went out with poly friends for dinner again, this time to celebrate Sharon's belated birthday. We celebrated her birthday at Sakae two years in a row -.-

It was really great catching up with them again, although it hasn't been very long since we last met up. Since the last time, complaints about our new lives have dwindled as we all get used to what lies ahead for the next few years. We still lament and everything, and it's nice to know people who are in more or less the same boat.

After that, Sharon drove me back and we had a long chat about uni life. Talked about lots of things that i would blog about if i could remember all of it, but unfortunately i can't.

Just a few years ago, we stepped into poly, behaving like the kids we were, talking about playing pool, mahjong, having picnics at Pasir Ris Park and watching movies. Now, here we are talking about the economy, job prospects, property, cars... How we've grown. And i'm glad to have done so in such a comfortable environment with fantastic company.

Thanks people :) It's really great to have you guys around.

So, umm.

Is it grey or gray?

Accounting/Auditing Jokes

Top 3 Worst Pick-Up Lines for Accountants [actually Top 10 but i cut down]

3) I'd do just about anything to see your GAAP.

2) Can I put my substance all over your form?

...and the #1 worst accounting pick-up line is...

1) So, how do you feel about things in arrears?


Q: Why did the auditor cross the road?
A: Because he looked in the file, and that's what he did last year.

Q: Why did the auditor cross back?
A: So that he could charge travel expenses to the client!

Q: What's an auditor?
A: Someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all the wounded.

Q: What do accountants suffer from that ordinary people don't?
A: Depreciation. [LOL]

Got it from this Facebook group. It's so funny because they're all so true x)


Simple explanations for non-Accounts/Audit peeps:
- GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which is the standard for Accounting in the US.
- Substance over form is a concept in one of those GAAPs.
- Arrears means owing.
- They always say that auditors merely refer to their past-year working papers and just follow what they did previously without regards to new circumstances and information.
- And also that they charge all sorts of random expenses to their clients.
- Depreciation is like a theoretical using up of a fixed asset e.g. machinery. Each year its value drops because it has been used.

<3

Chan Kwang Siong, i love you <3
Nothing. Just felt this way.

Let's go on another pseudo-honeymoon soon? [Yes i have to blog about it so that you won't ruin the romantic atmosphere by raising time/money/whatnot issues, which you would probably do when i mention this face-to-face].

I want to wake up next to you,
Laze around in bed for an hour,
Spend the whole day getting sunburnt,
Walk along the beach at sunset and find all sorts of weird stuff in the water/among the rocks,
Write silly messages in the sand,
Have dinner at some nice restaurant with a nice seaview,
And then go back and fall asleep next to you again.

We only did that once. In >4 years. [Those other holidays with my family aren't counted although the above list was fulfilled.]

HK next anniversary? :)

Senator, thou shalt not sue God

Lincoln (Nebraska): Mr Ernie Chambers. a Nebraska state senator, sought a "permanent injunction" that ordered God to stop causing "widespread death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants".

But a judge has thrown out the lawsuit, saying it could not be served because God has an unlisted address.

Mr Chambers filed the suit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God.

The suit listed examples of God's wrath, including "fearsome floods, horrendous hurricanes, earthquakes, plagues, famine, genocidal wars, birth defects, terrifying tornadoes and the like".

It identified the defendant, said to be "also known by various aliases, titles, names, designations" as "present in all places at the same time".

On Tuesday, the court in Lincoln rules that "...as there can never be service effecteuated on the named defendant, this action will be dismissed with prejudice".

Mr Chambers, 71, said he filed the lawsuit to make the point that everyone should have access to courts regardless of whether they are rich or poor.

He has 30 days to decide whether to appeal. He said he has not decided yet.

- The Straits Times, World Page C14. Saturday October 18, 2008.

Some social psych concepts...

Was told to read up on those stuff so here it is, in my own words.

Social facilitation
- The ability to increase performance while doing simple tasks, in the presence of a group of people.
- Something like what happens during those large running events where people usually perform better than when they usually run alone? [I'm not sure; i'm only gathering from my mom, Aunty Jo and my experiences]. I can't really think of a better example; my brain kinda died while i was in the tutorial earlier.

Social impairment
- The inability for a person to function at his/her normal level while doing more complex tasks, in the presence of a group of people.
- Something like stage fright/autism [depending on the degree]?
- Possibly what happened to me during my secondary school class BBQ? Although i'm not sure what's complex about interacting with people -.- Lol never mind stupid example.

What i was thinking was maybe this could be somehow interrelated with esteem. Like when it comes to simple tasks, people know for sure they can do it, so they do their best and end up performing really well [which they would have already expected], so it boosts their esteem. On the other hand, when performing more complex tasks, people are afraid of being judged with what they're doing, because they're not sure if they can do it well. So that might impair their performance.

That's merely what i think la. To apply it in a simple example, i think social facilitation is what happens when i do a choreo [simple because it's just following and reproducing], and social impairment is what happens when i have to freestyle [more complex because i gotta think on my feet].

Did i mention i felt a lot better freestyling with my eyes closed on Wednesday? -.- I may not have performed better, but it definitely felt better. To me at least.

I digress.

Social loafing
- When a person puts in less effort while working in a group; free-riding.
- Diffusion of responsibility? The more people there are around, the less likely for an individual within the group to take action.
- "Everybody thought somebody would do it, but nobody did it."
- I'm wondering if this really applies to everyone or whether there are individuals who will put in their best whether working in a group or alone.

Yup. So these are the 3 concepts i was told to read up on :) I hope i'm not wrong =/

Conditioning/Motivation

Eat more Happy Meals, he says.

Happy Meals make happy families, he says.

If money could talk, it would say goodbye.

The sad thing is, it's not really peoples' own fault that they lost their money.

I was just discussing with my mom about the financial screw-up. People losing their life savings and retirement funds through minibonds and the stock market crash. And i was wondering, even if you can get peoples' money back, can you ever regain their trust/confidence?

It's going to take a while for the economy to recover. Probably even longer for reputations and confidence. But i'm not really going to talk about it on such a macro scale.

I really feel for those people who have innocently lost all their life savings overnight. By innocently, i mean those who didn't actively decide to invest. Unlike those who trade equities and were prepared to take high risks [so they should be prepared to lose a lot, although i'm not saying that they deserve it], these people managed to lose all their money through what they thought were low-risk products.

I used to joke with my poly friends that after we had gone through our module on personal financial planning, we felt much poorer. Because from that, we realised how difficult it is to earn and keep money.

Imagine, just after you manage to pay off all your debts around your 40's [yes, normal people will have debts unless you're from a rich family in the first place] and start to accumulate some savings for a rainy day, some supposedly risk-free product comes along and helps to lose it all for you.

Not fun.

Anybody still wanna trust the big banks? Then again, it's not really like we have a choice.

Yay!

Life's great :D

On Tuesday i bumped into Rachel while i was rushing for something. Subsequently during the lecture, she came over to chit-chat. The familiarity was wonderful :)

Today i bumped into Zhuang Shu while i was walking around in school, Chuan Hui and Fabian [yeah we had Lock course after that so i had to meet him anyway, but that's besides the point] while i was having project meeting, Wei Long who was at SMU [i have no clue why], and Zoe also at SMU [as usual].

Bumping into Zoe was the best la. We saw each other and just started talking like we were continuing an old conversation. The first thing she said to me wasn't, "Hey Loretta!" or "Hi!". It was, "Why are you wearing formal?" Lol.

It's nice because i didn't even notice these people until they called me/tapped me on the shoulder/walked into a radius of about a metre from me/etc. They just pop out of nowhere lol. It's like life's way of reminding me that my social circle isn't as miserable as i thought it was after doing the social networking survey required by the school x)

Edit [1610081523]: And today it was Shu Chun while walking along the corridor, as well as Yong Kai and Si Hui while i was buying bubble tea :D Considering i was in school for a mere two hours [yes i spend more time travelling to and from school than actually being in school itself], that's a lot of people :)

AB114 Mock Interview - Confidence

Today i was supposed to have an ungraded mock interview in class. In the group of 9, 3 people were the interviewers, 3 were the interviewees and the remaining 3 were reviewers. We had to draw lots to determine who was going to play which role, after we had stepped into class.

And obviously with my suay-ness i kenna-ed interviewee -.-

Still, i've brought back one very important pointer. It's not something i gained just from this occasion alone but i just thought i'd share it now.

Confidence is very important.

See, if you speak with confidence and enthusiasm, you can pull off almost anything [i'm not saying that you should lie through your teeth in a confident manner though]. Even if your content only makes half the sense, your voice can help you project the feeling of sureness and make people believe you.

Plus, even if people don't remember what you say, they'll remember how you said it. The confidence leaves an impact.

Let me recount an interview i went for during my vacation, for my vacation job. In a way i was lucky because it was an impromptu/rushed interview [i only knew about it 4 hours before i had to go down for the interview] so i knew my interviewer wasn't very prepared as well. Plus it was only a temporary job so they're not going to ask complicated questions about my aspirations and such.

There were tonnes of reasons for them not to take me and they also gave me lots of reasons that put me off. But i guess i still stuck with it.

"Have you used ____ application before? Are you familiar with it?"
"I have not used it before, but i am sure that with some guidance i will be able to work well with it."
"This job requires a lot of overtime. Plus the fact that you stay so far away. Can you commit?"
"Yes, i can."

I knew practically nothing, but managed to convert all those negatives into proving my interest and determination to learn.

I got the job -.-

The short 2-month stint there taught me another valuable lesson, about perseverance. But that's another story for another time :)

A recollection through Neopets.

Yes, i'm playing it now and have been for a few weeks. Please don't ask. Lol.

So anyway, it reminded me of how i used to be several years ago, when i was first introduced to the internet community and was obsessed over it. I earned myself a committee position in a large and active guild, and boy was i enthralled.

I imposed all sorts of stupid rules and had the dumbest reasons to back them up. Who'd go against me? I'm a committee member and what i say goes.

I thought the world revolved around me. The things i said and the things i did were the only things that carried weight. I expected people to care about every little thing i did and if they didn't, i'd blow it up into such a fuss that they had to care. I remember posting this on the Neopets chat board after i wasn't getting the attention i wanted - "-puts knife to wrist-". Of course then everyone clambered in to post and i got what i wanted.

I lived my life thinking that there was a permanent video camera around me. Literally. Such that even the way i yawned had to be cool. Yes, i was that self-centred.

In fact i was so annoying that someone created a user called 'slashsux' and started posting hate messages about me on the guild message board. And i was outraged and started an entire war. Lol. I actually still have the draft of the message that i was going to post in reply to the hate messages but eventually didn't. The message addressed how everything i did was right in every sense, and was all backed up with facts down to the date/time of posts.

And then... i grew up :)

I learnt that people honestly couldn't care less about what i thought and what i did. They all have their own lives and i have mine, and our lives only intersect by a very miniscule fraction, which is probably the only part that they'd be concerned over me about. No, they wouldn't care even if i died. They've got better things to waste their time on. But i'm lucky. I have a small group of people who actually do care, and they are my Top 7.

I learnt that the world is more than just the way i see it. I believed i knew everything. About everyone. I couldn't have been more wrong. Things and people change all the time. Sometimes, i can't even keep track of myself. I can certainly tell you now that no single individual knows me totally and completely. Top 7 included :)

Most importantly, i learnt that people are more important than things. When i was younger, interpersonal skills had no bearing on me. Things were simple - you don't like me, i either force you to like me or if you still don't, out you go. Nope, sorry Loretta, doesn't work that way. As much as i would've liked, i didn't and don't exist in a vacuum. I can never avoid having people around me, and therefore i should do my best to make myself more likeable, for the benefit of both myself and others.

Thank my lucky stars to have poly days as my turning point. I don't know how many times i've said this but really, poly days were the best.

I should never ignore/manipulate human relationships in order to achieve any objective. Simply because human relationships are much more fragile and precious. Didn't manage to achieve something? Try again next time. Didn't manage to save a relationship? Too bad, that's it.

Don't know how to interact with people? LEARN.
Don't want to learn/conform/change anything [also with reference to my previous post]? Then accept. Accept the fact that you're deviant.

Don't blame the world for leaving you all alone. Maybe it's you who turned your back on the world.


I have much more to learn :)

Acceptance is the key.

I@Home says:
see love doesnt die
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
it did already
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
long ago
I@Home says:
-.-
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
really
I@Home says:
i've always believed that love doesn't die
I@Home says:
it gets....
I@Home says:
misplaced.
I@Home says:
you just have to look a bit harder
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
love dies. just like everything else eventually does
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
:)

- A conversation from some time ago.

I'm not being emo or anything. Not even close :)

Life and death [and divorce, in the case of the conversation above] are among some of the things that cannot be avoided. Delayed, perhaps. Hidden, maybe. But eventually you'll have to face it. There's no way to change it and the only thing you can do is to accept.

True happiness is when you have neither attachment to happiness nor aversion to sorrow. Accepting that life is full of things you could either love or hate. If you can change it for the better, do so. If not, take it as it is and make the best out of it. Live the highs, live the lows.

Live life :)

Love you Sam babe. Remember i'm just a phone call away <3

MINESWEEPARRR.

Just so you know.

I was never on anyone's side. I tried my best to mediate, to adopt a neutral and objective stand for all those arguments. But if i'm the bad guy by not supporting your view, then there really isn't much i can do, is there? I can't possibly stand on both sides.

I was pretty angry earlier on because i was being labelled all sorts of things for trying to come up with a solution. If you had something better, i do welcome your initiative in doing something to solve the problem. See, rather than sit there and criticize, maybe you could have taken some action to help.

I sent both of you more or less the same messages. One turned out alright. The other... not-so-alright.

Of course i wouldn't understand. I don't see how i could, if i'm not even allowed to. I said i get you. You said i don't. Not like i can say anything more to change your mind.

I've put in my share of the effort. It takes two hands to clap. If i'm going to have to go the extra mile to make things work, then it's no longer worth it. And no, it's not really that important to me. I just thought it might be a waste to let go.

Or perhaps i should've just left the situation as it was and watch as things continue going downhill. As mediator i guess i never should've interfered at all.

I'm not trying to start any argument nor mend any relations here. I just wanted to present my side of the story.

I learnt new words today :)

1. Cryptomnesia - [from Wiki because Dictionary.com doesn't have it]

Cryptomnesia, or "concealed recollection," is a theoretical phenomenon involving suppressed or "forgotten" memories. It refers to cases where a person believes he or she is creating or inventing something new, such as a story, poem, artwork, or joke, but is actually recalling a similar or identical work previously encountered. According to the theory of cryptomnesia, the person is not engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were inspiration. Proponents of the cryptomnesia phenomenon believe it may be a means of recalling to mind certain experiences that one otherwise would not remember.

2. Petrichor - [Also from Wiki because Dictionary.com doesn't have it]

Petrichor (from Greek petros, "stone" + ichor) is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The scent is generally regarded as pleasant and refreshing, and is one of the most frequently cited "favorite smells". In desert regions, the smell is especially strong during the first rain after a long dry spell.

3. Proprioception

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. In humans, these stimuli are detected by nerves within the body itself, as well as by the semicircular canals of the inner ear.

4. Floccinaucinihilipilification [whatever the f that was]

An act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial. [And you need 12 syllables/29 letters just to mean that. Oh well still not as long as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.]

5. Erythrismal

Actual entry in Dictionary.com is 'erythrism': abnormal redness, as of plumage or hair.


For more words, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7659954.stm :)

Oh and this would probably help too.


Edit: Here's one more interesting word that i came across in my Psychology class a week or two ago :)

e·go·cen·tric [ee-goh-sen-trik, eg-oh-]
–adjective
1.
having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things: an egocentric philosophy that ignores social causes.
2.
having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centered: an egocentric person; egocentric demands upon the time and patience of others

Law of Attraction

The world will only help you if you're willing to help yourself.

If you make it so difficult for the world to accomodate you, why should it make things easy for you?


Too much happening all at once. I want out. Out of my own life.

WLiiA - Super Funny!

Life is beautiful :)

I woke up this morning to an sms from KS. Ignored it and went back to sleep. Then i finally woke myself up about half an hour later. It's been a while since i last woke up to no alarm :D

After that i just lay in bed for a while, thinking of how wonderful it was to not rush around and take life easy.

The sun was shining in through my day curtains. I love waking up when the sun is shining.

And then i spent some time reading the papers. About the financial screw up and recession ahead. I'm fortunate that i'm not working now, so i'm still sheltered from what's going to happen :)

Oh and i fed my hamster ^^

Life is beautiful.

...And tadaa! Everything appeared.

So maybe the world was created 5 minutes ago. The computer screen i'm looking at was created 5 minutes ago. What i have, what i'm doing was all created 5 minutes ago. And i was created 5 minutes ago with all the memories and knowledge i have now, with the personality i have now, with the family and friends i know of now. I was created, and i just knew everything.

No.

Because i was created for a purpose. My existence means something. I'm not just something created out of nothing; you can't do that.

I can't be continuing to do something that i wasn't doing until 5 minutes ago. Besides, how would i know what i'm doing, just like that? If that was the case, no one would need to learn anything because we just popped into the world knowing everything that we already do.

In that case, there's no such thing as memory as well. What truly is memory is only up to 5 minutes ago, anything else is merely knowledge, the knowledge that was created when i was created 5 minutes ago.

Alternatively.

I could be a cell. A puppet. Controlled by a higher being. Maybe i don't think at all. Maybe there's no such thing as life. No autonomy. No one is who he/she really is. Everything in life just falls on you and all you can do is take it. Not like there's anything you can do.

Do you want that? Do you believe that?

I know what i live for. I know what i want. And i'm going to get it.

Are you going to stop me? :)

The Bathtub Test

During a visit to a mental hospital, I asked the Director, "How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?"

"Well," said the Director, "We fill up a bathtub, then we offer the patient a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."

"Oh, I understand," I said, "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."

"No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug."

"Do you want a bed near the window?"


Something Aunty Jo forwarded to me :)

I hope to...

Be able to see the goodness in everyone :)

Love myself, love others.


Having random chats with people about BGR. Kinda funny and interesting xD

Ahhhhh.

It's now 0230. I gotta wake up in 3.5 hours to go to school. I didn't even realise i had to wake up in 3.5 hours to go to school until i typed the previous sentence.

Gah.

Trust

My problem with trust is not because i'm afraid to let someone know something in case they abuse what they've learnt from me.

My problem with trust is because i'm afraid that if i put too much trust in someone, and eventually that someone isn't going to be there for me anymore, i'm going to be completely helpless.

Is that being too dependent?

Some random updates about stuff

4e4 BBQ
I had a class gathering at East Coast on Saturday, with the people i mostly haven't seen for 4 years. I'm not really going to go into detail about the whole thing, but i kinda want to reflect on something a bit.

So on that day, i happily went for the BBQ, hoping to catch up with old classmates and do some networking. I decided i'd be able to do pretty well after i learnt how to be a lot more sociable in poly. I could probably start chatting with my 4e4 classmates as easily as i could do with my poly friends.

It started out pretty fine, because i first met up with 6 people, one of which was one of my besties, Brain, and another was a girl in my secondary school clique. Subsequently, when we reached East Coast, 3 more people were there already, and it was still okay. I still managed to talk to almost everyone [which was actually only about 10] there, asked what they were doing and stuff.

Over the few hours we were there, people kept arriving. By the end of the night, i was staying quietly in a corner. Back to being that invisible person i was in secondary school.

-______________________-

Okay. I don't know what happened. The only thing i actually managed to say to more or less everyone was when i had to collect money from them as i was tasked to by the class chairman. And even with that i had some difficulty, because i started getting afraid of approaching them as the number of people increased.

I didn't exactly manage to meet my objective, as you can tell. But okay at least i managed to talk to some people. I'm just wondering why i can't bring those positive traits over from my poly personality. Oh well.

AA101 Project
They think it's funny giving us fucked up companies with screwed up financial statements.

Nothing. Just complaining.

Code Edge
18 October's less than 2 weeks away. Jiayou girls!

Wah i'm 20 and this will be my first time at Zouk. I'm such a good girl :D

I Can Has Cheezburger

Pair o' dogs.

Why is 'abbreviations' such a long word?

Quote

They say that your entire life flashes in front of you when you die. I want to make my life interesting so i'll have something nice to watch at the end.

...Or something to that effect. If anyone can remember the exact quote/where it was from please let me know :)

Zzz.

I spent the whole day being tired/hungry/cranky/braindead. Cannot liao. Need sleep.

Dilemma dilemma :(

Introduction of New Minor in NTU - Minor in Risk Management and Insurance

This minor in RMI prepares students to apply modern risk management knowledge and skills in various financial and insurance areas. This is essential under today's rapidly changing and more integrated business world, where organizations, financial institutions, and governments encounter different kinds of risks such as market, operational, technological and catastrophic risks.


Howhowhow. Psych or RMI?

Psych is like my obvious choice but RMI's gonna look good on my CV [because unfortunately Psych has nothing to do with my area of study -.-]. I'm not gonna be taking B&F because every other Accountancy student wants to do that. Zzz.

Aiyah Minor in Psych and go out take a Real Estate/Financial Advisory course -.-

Damned Elven Blood -.-

I won't be playing it late at night anymore. It's probably gonna give me the first nightmare i've had in years.

Conquests
Help the mother find her child
She is searching for her child... "Loretta, come back!" she calls... Oddly, the child has the same name as you.
Experience: +50
Reward:
Dreamscent
Recover 4x stamina

I swear i effing got goosebumps upon seeing my name. It didn't help that there was a grotesque picture of a doll's head [which honestly looked more like a mummified head] there under items required for that conquest.

K i shall stay away from that for the whole night. So i can study for IT test tomorrow. As well as finish up my Law assignment for submission tomorrow. Then my schedule looks like this:

Now to 7am: Study/Assignment
7am - 7.30am: Prepare for school
7.30am - 9.30am: Head to school. Yes, disgusting.
9.30am - 12.30pm: IT seminar and test.
12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch and Soul Funky committee meeting.
1.30pm - 2.30pm: Psych research participation. My fantastic time-management skills ah. Maybe i'll be able to finish early and choreo a bit for Locking after that.
2.30pm - 4.30pm: Psych tutorial. Please finish early ^^
4.30pm - 5.30pm: Rush over to Hall 16 studio and teach choreo -.-
5.30pm - 6.30pm: Rush over to studio. Will probably be late and miss some, if not all of Popping.
6.30pm - 8.30pm: Pop and Lock.
8.30pm - 10.30pm: Dinner. Get home. Shower.
10.30pm onwards: Do Accounting project.

No break sia.

Spam chocolates, coffee and bananas tonight.

Oh and i better not continue searching online for costumes for the finals. I end up looking at the guy models rather than the clothes :(