Tuesday, July 31, 2007
I woke up late and ended up missing the arranged swim at school.
I proceeded to dilly-dally and ended up being 45 minutes late for kayaking at Macritchie reservoir too. The kayaking place being so hard to find didnt exactly help either as i had to walk back and forth like 3 times.
So once i got to the kayaking, i realised something. The paddles were straining my arms. This led me to privately resolve to work up my arm strength since I had no problem with the oars a year ago. Brian= weakling.
So for the first round, i went on the double open top kayak with my lecturer (who hereby shall be called captain andrew due to his request for us to call him that by). It was more leisurely as he wanted to take pictures of our class and i proceeded to do most of the rowing.
Having a camera on board was turning out to be a valuable asset as the others couldnt splash water at me without risking a fizzled out camera. But of course my friends couldnt resist capsizing my vessel after i went back on shore.
Before that however, for some weird and totally inexplicable reason, captain andrew asked me to change places with denise, which she agreed to readily. That left sok lay and i in the same kayak. Whatever was the cause for their insistent reaction?
Hahaha, prata house was the lunch venue and i had quite a meal there. After which i went home with 2 tagalongs, rastus and rasmus. God knows why the sudden decision to go to my place but hey, not complaining about the company.
All in all a very nice and eventful day.
Realising that writing a day's event as a blog post is severeley boring and un-creative,
Brian Thomas Lim
RULES OF THE GAME : Each player of the game starts off with ten weird things or habits or known facts about himself/herself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end the player must choose 6 people to be tagged and list them down. No Tag Back !
1) I don't seem friendly because I frown like 95% of the time. Well let me state that it's just a force of habit for me, I'm really quite friendly in person. That is of course if you can get past my obnoxiousness and aloof-ness...
2) My getting 'high' involves me being sarcastic. Too much western-influence for me.
3) Despite what others might say, I currently have no interest in any girl. Too emotionally draining among an assortment of reasons.
4) I am very ambitious, which explains my attentiveness in class. But that by no means mean that i study every day or am a mugger. In fact, i only do my tutorials the night before class...
5) If you're bored and don't know what to do, talk to me on msn. I like talking about anything under the sun, e.g. politics, science, love, dreams.
6) Oh and I'm not weird (I think). I just don't know how to make conversation with some people, so pardon me if i say something stupid/weird, i'm just testing the waters.
7)According to my parents, i once fell in love with a girl (same age) when i was 5-6. Met her at rasa sentosa hotel and apparently even talked about marrying her (when i was at a 3 day stay there). Apparently she has the same name as my laptop (i named by laptop without prior knowledge of this event), Genevieve. Man, was i a funny kid.
8) I turn emo under 2 conditions: It must be at night and i must think about how my friends are having fun without me.
9) You'll never seeme in sandals/slippers or shorts/berms in school. Only jeans and covered shoes.
10) I take things too seriously at times, so i seem very tense quite often.
Well.... I was supposed to finish this post like 3-4 days ago when i saw the tag. Can you imagine this took me so long? I can barely find 10 things interesting about myself, heck i don't even know whether my current 10 is interesting. Oh wells, at least i did it.
There's still another post below. Don't run off yet!
I was supposed to finish the above post a long time ago and i felt it was appropriate to separate these two posts, different atmosphere between the two ya see.
So anyway, i got back MIEC newspaper analysis project marks today. 8.5/10. I'm glad my joint analysis with Ting Wei got us the highest possible marks in my lecturer's 6 classes and i even got the comment that the demand & supply analysis was particularly detailed. Awesome.
Oh and out of the blue during today's tutorial for OB, captain andrew asked us whether we wanted to go kayaking at macritche tomorrow (today). Since we didn't have lessons today (end of semester rocks), why not?
But what was most interesting to note was samantha's response. No offense to her, but it was the most energised response thus far in OB. Maybe because our class was finally doing something together or that we were going to do something interesting, I don't know. But i guess on hindsight our class isn't a very united bunch to begin with. I don't help with all my seemingly obsessive hunt for being better than everyone else (which i must say that it's to keep myself focused to get good results) to the benefit of our class bonding.
I guess tomorrow would be a good way to start a class spirit. The guys in my class are going swimming in NP at 9, then they're heading off to macritchie for kayaking. I'll join them as
admittedly, my choice for hanging out with particular *ahem* people does not help with the friendships with the guys in my class.
Tomorrow's a good a start as any to improve friendships, me thinks.
Wishing Life had a summary,
Brian
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Having gone for a skin peel 5 hours ago, my face feels tight now. Neat.
So anyway I had my evening planned out for me. Do group minutes, miec and biz stats tutorial. Minutes took me 40 minutes (I took my time) and i gave up doing biz stats half-way. Linear regression and correlation analysis takes like freaking long just to come up with the table. I'll just skip doing this one tutorial, which so happens to be the last one. Meh.
Oh and I get to pass up one of my favourite projects tomorrow, the microeconomics article analysis. I personally did up the analysis in partnership with Ting Wei, and it looks so nice and long. Especially the graph as i took pains in making it as detailed as possible.
Speaking of tomorrow, I'll be having dinner in school. Ariana invited me to her CCA's free picnic called 'picnic under the stars', according to the card i got. Her CCA which happens to be Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC), a christian group.
I haven't forgotten my denomination, don't worry. It doesn't hurt to check out what others of the same religion but of different denominations do. Always good to approach things in life with an open mind, albeit watching out what goes into your mind. So yea, thanks to those good people who are organising that event, a little fellowship goes a long way.
Friday, July 20, 2007
So what time is it now? 1am. What the hell am I doing awake? Damn good question.
So CATS presentation is tomo.... nono. I mean today. So my group consists of Ben, Belinda and Yvonne. I volunteered to do all the writing portions as it's no problem for me and besides, I do want to improve on my writing. The work gets distributed, Ben does presentation slides and the girls handle the drawings.
Ben was supposed to pass me the slides today so i can veto and add in the reflections. But I get nothing during the night. I try to call him but to no response. So I grudgingly acknowledge something; I'm doing nearly everything again. From writing to coming up with slides to comingup with presentation style to presenting.
I mean maybe Ben has something on, I don't know. But come on. As busy as you may, at least tell me you can't do it for whatever reason you may have. Give me that little courtesy eh? At least I know what's going on, unlike just now where I wondered if I had to do presentation slides by myself or not.
So anyway it's 3/4 done now. I'm going with the 'little visual aid more presenting' style. Which means my slides are rather empty. Not surprising given I hate doing powerpoint slides.
My brain is not sleepy, butI can feel the exhaustion pulling down my eyebags. I'll handle the rest in the morning, with the proposal and the creative style it's supposed to be done in. I'll need to have a little chat with my tutor though, I don't appreciate people not doing their parts.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
You know, i'm supposed to have emperor's chicken for dinner tonight. But.... seeing as i promised i'd help out with MPM's er recording session (?) i'd have to settle for cold chicken.
So i had bizcomm short report writing test today. I was totally out of my game today. I couldn't focus properly like i usually do for writing tests. And i like took so much longer than my classmates (even though there wasn't really a time limit per se). I just hope i can secure an A for bizcomm.
Oh yea, there's something interesting i'd like to share about, which concerns my friendship test. This is question 8:
Which feeling do i fear the most?
Feelings of isolation
Feelings of lost
Feelings of helplessness
Feelings of incompetence
For future do-ers of the test, i can safely say the last option is out. BUT. 5 out of the 7 who did the test thought i feared the feeling of incompetence the most.
Hahahaha, i can't say i'm not entirely surprised. I guess i do emit this vibe about me being unable to tolerate failure to do things as supposed to. But i can state this it's rather untrue of me. If i can't do it, it means i can't do it. I'm not gonna beat myself up failing to do something. I'll just get better and try it again. Either that or i just ignore it completely.
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Ho hum, exams are from 21st August to 24th August. After that, 7 weeks or almost 2 months worth of holidays. My oh my, whatever am i going to do during those 7 weeks? I sure as hell ain't gonna work. I guess i'll fill it with meaningful service to God. Either that or mindless CS gaming, that'll will work fine too.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
It's totally becoming a habit. I tend to sleep after 11pm only. Good to a certain extent I guess; learning to survive on 6 hours of sleep.
Things are starting to overlap each other in poly. As in there are so many things going on; tests, cca, meetings, project meetings, studying, it's so crazy and hectic at times. And I don't even have a fixed cca. Thank God for my planner. It's like totally filled with pencil markings now and crissed-crossed with arrows and other forms of indication.
I'm so proud of it, it single handedly keeps my life sane.
In other news, today was MEL chat day. Meaning that my class had 2 chats on our school online learning platform and trust me, if Singapore ever gets another pandemic, our education would be screwed. I cannot imagine tutorials being conducted over chatrooms or lectures listened to via voice recordings, it's too soul-less. There are certain things as to which humans need interaction in order to perform well in, and learning is one of them.
And in between those 2 chats i managed to squeeze in watching Die Hard 4.0 (or Live free or die hard in the U.S.) with ariana in AMK. Eng Wah cinema though, best available timing. So i like rushed to the cinema, only to find someone was late. And there i was worrying i'd be late, heh.
It's a pretty kick-ass awesome show. Who-ever said Bruce Willis was too old for it was wrong. He gets beaten up and shot at so many times. And he's so witty and sarcastic that I'm impressed. My favourite line in the movie: "Damned hamster". You gotta watch it to get it.
So a pretty crazy, rush day. Oh lookie here, 12am already.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Tomorrow is archdiocesean (sp) youth day. Meeting in church at 4pm before we head off to the Singapore Expo.
It's pretty cool given the fact we're going to see other fellow youths in Christ. Due to the fact that I've never really been very enthusiastic about youth praise and worship (I don't head-bang and do very vibrant motions when singing, singing is taxing as it is), gatherings such as these usually turns me off. But hey, I should go with an open mind huh.
Today was okay at school. I was briefed on the aspects of assignment 2 for CATS, which I am very determined to score an A for, as my current grade of B for CATS is an eyesore in my academic profile. S&W was fun, though the scorching hot sun really brought the game to a crawl at times.
Now for some personal thoughts...
When I think about it, all I want for my birthday (Don't worry, it's still very far off, October 6th) is something very simple. A best friend. Poly life is getting very hectic, and unlike the secondary school days, I don't have a regular friend to go back with or just chill out.
And the Lord knows that some friends have drifted off now. I once thought I'd go lonely without 'em, well I guess I was wrong. Time and tide waits for no man. We all gotta move on.
So yea, I guess what I'm wanting for this October is a best friend. Any one interested in the job?
Monday, July 2, 2007
My goodness, i must repeat again how much i hate eleaning. This week is elearning for CIP, which means i don't need to go for lectures,workshops or tutorials.
But it just so happens today i'm supposed to wait for somone until 4 which wasn't too much of a biggie until i realised: Isn't CIP workshop cancelled today? So it means that instead of finishing at 4pm, i finish at 1. Nono, earlier than 1. Bcomm classes tend to finish like an hour and a half earlier. Damn.
And there's still one more grouse. I have a stock analysis thingy at 5 tmr. I end at 1. Nono, supposed to end at 1. Because of elearning, i end at 11. 6 HOURS. 6 HOURS!
Oh well, i'll use today and tomorrow's time very wisely by revising my biz stats which needs some serious revision in preparation for tomorrow's test.
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I was dropped off at the bus stop as per usual today. After a few seconds of staring blankly into space (as per routine), i realise that i forgot to bring something important to school. It was something not so important but important at the same time (contradictions exist for a reason), so i called my home to ask my dad to come by the bus stop again on his way out. This would mean that i would have to wait quite a while.
"You need that stack of CDs? I'll come by now." said my dad.
I told him not to come again despite just dropping me off, i said i could wait a while.
He still came a mintute or two later.
Man, my parents are really an awesome bunch. I really should appreciate them a lot more.
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