Exams oh exams

I absolutely love Erin McCarley's music. No album yet, but she's discovered through One Tree Hill- her 2 songs Pony and Pitter-Pat are REALLY worth listening to.

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Anyway, been burrowing my head into books journal articles and barely readable lecture notes (did I write THAT?) lately.

Exam timetable:

6th June (fri)- BIOC352
7th June (sat)- MICR335
11th June (wed) - MANT301

MANT is the odd one out, I know. It stands for management, for you non-Otago people. Part of the points to fulfill my commerce requirement- writing business reports are so different from writing a scientific one. Neither is easy, just different format and all. Never having taken any 100 or 200-level management papers before, I completely blew my first 30% research report. So sad. THEN, my lecturer mentioned about clear headings and highlighting the key points. I tried my best not to scream at her; I had thought business reports should be as smooth-flowing as possible. Thank God I got 18 out of 20% for my 2nd assignment.

I've been here for 3 years now, but still didn't know where the surveying department was. That is, until I found out one of the exam locations would be there. FYI: it's between Hayward and Cumberland halls. Next to department of marine science. Weird.

Worked for about 4 hours today. No more scanning for me to do, woohoo! All the scanning are to be done by the business support people from now on. It feels nice to be able to go to work whenever I feel like it am free, thank God for a super cool manager. And also for my new super canggih contour-fit mouse which I requested for. Too bad I couldn't sit at my workstation today as someone else was sitting there; my fault really as I was supposed to come in yesterday instead of today. The backlog of work at the office is terrible: just proves that so many people are having accidents every single day!

Went with Michelle to a florist today to discuss flower arrangements etc. So surprised to find out the money you have to spend just for flowers: around $300!!! So if you're wanting to get married, make sure you budget at least that much for flowers (more if rose petals are needed ;P) If not, marry a florist and save lots of money.


Back to my late-night studying session.

Gambate every one. =)

Dum dee dum

I HATE reading journal articles. Stupid mad scientists writing in their flowery language (simple English please?)- a 10 page article takes me about 1 hour to read and understand. Imagine having to read over 10 journals for just a MODULE for biochem. Plain torture.

I feel restless. Maybe I have the restless leg syndrome. I won't be surprised if I have that. So many things to do, yet I have the itch to find something else to do. Hence the new layout change AGAIN (which if you notice, always happen around exam time- how coincidental). No idea why I picked this layout; certainly not because of the yellow bird (it looks like tweety, doesn't it?), or the chocolatey background which looks like the wallpaper of an ah-ma's house. And oh, not forgetting to mention- caption: "Sweet blog". Hate the new layout if you want to. I'll probably change it again in a month's time.

We had the bridesmaid/groomsmen "meeting" last night after cell group. Cracked up when Michelle aka the bride said on the phone "yes and the bride's grooms... OOPS i mean grooomsmen" hahaha! I'm not as excited as you all think: don't know why I'm always seen as the most excited bridesmaid -__- Anyway it is a challenge fitting all the 14 of us (bride, groom, maid-of-honour, best man, 5 bridesmaids & 5 groomsmen) on the stage at church next week. Hopefully there'll be a proper rehearsal to make sure it goes smoothly.

The wedding march song hasn't been chosen yet. Most probably would be Canon in D, but Michelle reckons it's overplayed 1 too many times. *envisions having Brooke Fraser playing Waste Another Day at background...* Also, having scary visions of myself falling on my face after hearing Raymond said that we MIGHT need to salsa/waltz onto the stage. Oh well, it is NOT your average wedding after all.

Needing ideas for decorating Blue Skies restaurant at night too. Red table cloth + blue carpet = serious no-no. Thinking of a blue-silverish theme. Hmmmm, silver table cloths with silver/blue balloons/ribbons might look good with the winter theme.

During the visit to penguin colony, when parents came to visit.

Random pretty flower (looks like hibuscus, no?) at Olveston.

Ah, enough of all this procrastination. Honestly, I think the word procrastinate is so overused.

Burning midnight oil sessions

Were we ready, who’s to say the answer?
Who is ever ready for these things?
No one could prepare us for the laughter
No one could prepare us for the pain

You feel like burning embers
You feel like coming home
You feel like my forever
And that’s all I need/want/have to know

Every night I ask for your forgiveness
In grown up skin I still act like a child
I can make believe that I am flawless
You’re close enough to see the cracks I hide

You have caused me tears of joy relentless
I cannot now imagine life without
I owe you more than humble words could confess
I love you more than I even know how

You feel like burning embers
You feel like coming home
You feel like my forever
And that’s all I need to know

You feel like Christmas morning
You feel like summer rain
You feel like holy waters
That rinse away my stains

You feel like children singing
You feel like midnight calm
You feel like breathing deeply
Until the storm is gone

~Burning embers
by Kendall Payne

The view outside my bedroom window. Leaves have fallen from the trees, winter is officially here. See the heart shaped candles? They were used for my 19th bday!

Took out my camera, might as well take a few more pictures of my room. Study area, with little fan heater blowing right in my face. Very messy ;P

My comfy bed. I find having big beds a waste as I just sleep on 1 side anyway
(the side closest to alarm clock of course)

No I'm not depressed or anything like that. Just feeling a wee bit sentimental discussing over "heavy" stuff lately: graduating next year, having to leave some friends end of this year, weddings, responsibilities, duties to fulfil etc.

And also, looked through my photo album from National Service back in 2005, reminded me of all the friendships formed; the tears cried & laughter shared, those are the memories that will stay in my mind forever, the ones that I will cherish. It scares me a little knowing that the experiences I go through now, the words I say and actions I do at this very moment will define my future and the people that are going to stay in my life forever for a long time. =)

expectations vs desires

Today Ps. Graeme preached a really good sermon. Not your typical everyday, boring one. It was about marriage, quite funny he chose that topic as there were probably only 3 married couples at Cityside. But many potential ones coming up, so that's useful. It was about expectations vs. desires.

He talked about why most marriages fail: when you turn your desires into expectations. For example, you DESIRE a husband who earns big bucks, you DESIRE a big-as mansion, you DESIRE a husband who cooks, bla bla bla. And when desires are not made, you turn those into expectations that SHOULD HAVE been made. As a result, a covenant of love turned into a contract of obligation. Such a simple statement but I wonder just how much a difference it would make if people stop expecting people around them to serve them...

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My parents are mean.

They're "complaining" about the warm weather back home in Kuching.

Plus, they're going away for an ahem shall we say, exotic holiday next week.

How encouraging that is for me. -___-



Would you rather live here:

...or here?

P.S. I'm running out of pictures to post. My camera haven't been used in almost a month now. How sad. Exams are driving every one crazy.

MU forever <3

I didn't feel like blogging, but this special day calls for a post for itself.

Scholes (18, not the eagle dude) - an oldie but still my fav =)

Congratulations to Manchester United on winning the Champions League yet again!!!

I can't believe I was so engrossed in the reports I didn't even bothered to find a way to watch it- sneak into Unicol to watch the live match...

Bummer.

Anyway glad that they won. =) Though it has been a bad day in general. I wore boots today (bad idea since it was rainy and the grips on my boots are practically non-existent. Worst case scenario: slipping and falling on my knees on the side of the road where everyone can see me. Yeap, that happened. I know, pity me. I grazed my knee pretty bad, had to brush it off (despite holes in my leggings), and try walking without limping to lecture.

Bioc report class presentation tomorrow. Eeeeeeeeks. I freak out during public speaking.

Then here comes the weekend... well one of the last weekends before finals. Scary.