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Spam comments are getting more and more personalised. I have received two comments that have told me that my blog is great with a huge smiley face. Seriously?! This is absurd.

I felt like splurging today, or rather, plenty things caught my eye. Had I not convinced myself to walk out of the stores, I would have left with a Nike top (55 sgd), a Nike sports bra (59sgd), a Sloggi bra (59.90 less 10%), a Elle bra (49.90 less 10%), on top of my 3 for 2 bras from Cotton On for 39.90 sgd. I bought the Cotton On items though, and I am actually still thinking about the Nike top. It is really really nice, even Joycet agrees with me. (:

Tonight is a really special night, the boyf is finally coming home. (: Am gonna attempt to work through the night before going down to pick him up. He refused to let me go to the airport by public transport and work while waiting for him there. He wants me to spend $$$ and cab. Urgh.

Screwed up my utorrent settings last night by restarting my home computer and the new version installed itself, hence losing my old powderful settings. Had to be silly enough to follow a Youtube video on how to speed up the speeds, which resulted in a total crash in the system. Thankfully for the forums, I could delete the new settings and start off from the default one, with the fantastic memory of the port number – I managed to salvage the situation. In all honesty I wanted to wait for the boyf to come back, whine to him and get him to set it up for me, but I fixed it before I knew it myself. I’m amazed. (:

Work beckons. Urgh. Lovely day with Joycet today though – can’t wait to catch up with Fishball!!

:)

Was being a little emotional this afternoon when talking to the boyf over msn, and he was rather adorable. I mentioned that I was jealous and envious of those frequent travellers who get to move around, and nobody is available to travel with me during June when I have loads of time to spare, with the fact that I’ve always wanted to see the world, but had no chance.

(1:57 PM) Ban Xiong: hmmm. envy? i guess it’s only human
(1:58 PM) Ban Xiong: like how i covet your phone?
(1:58 PM) Weina (娜): but you always say my phone fat!
(1:58 PM) Weina (娜): im proud of my phone though.
(1:58 PM) Ban Xiong: i’m trying to make myself feel better
(1:59 PM) Ban Xiong: i know you are darling
(1:59 PM) Ban Xiong: nothing i say can make you feel bad about it

I was inwardly smiling to myself after that. (: Thanks darling for the pitch of confidence.

Onward with work!

Wonderful!

Feeeeeeeeeeeling good.

Striked off two main assignments off the checklist today – completed the pairwork podcast with Karen in school today and done my reflection on the bus on my way down to town to meet Peanut for Hoooooowl at the Moon and it was a pretty interesting experience! We both agreed that it didn’t feel as though we were in Singapore anymore – I felt as though I was transported to another country all together, and the comedy was alright – we couldn’t catch 1/3 of it and didn’t understand some of them.

The free drinks at Starbucks after that was pretty fun though. Plus the chat!

[Announcement to Roo&Sy - we've decided to meet at 645 at Wheelock on Monday for dinner before going for duriandurian at Goodwood thereafter. I should be there earlier, Borders is always a very huge draw for me wheeee!]

And I shall sleep with a really light heart tonight, wake up to fight the accounting worksheets and Ed Psych individual assignment tomorrow. Am so damn envious of those who finished their presentation this morning. Urgh.

Edit: I adoreadoreadore charming bald guys. I have this humongous growing crush on Howl’s dueling pianist Jamie Mahn that grows enormously by the day for every minute the boyf is not back. Teehee. He can sing, he’s funny and he is bald!!!  Okay I can’t help it. Swooooons.

Awwwww!

Awwwww sho cute!

Twitter!

WordPress finally has a widget for Twitter! 

Now, I no longer have to rely on RSS feeds to bring my tweeting over! 

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Perplexed

by my laptop. The skinny thin one that is mostly the envy of all other laptops due to its insane lightness and wonderful portability. I thank thee for the full sized keyboard.

Anyways, when it started up at Starbucks today, its memory was running at nearly 100% and I could not figure out what on earth was eating up so much memory. And I’m going dead broke for the month – my sister dragged me out for an imprompt shopping trip at Bugis last night after her interview at SSC and I spent 80sgd on 5 pieces of clothes – a dress (20sgd), 2 tops (10 and 22 respectively), a pair of 3quarts (10) and a skirt (18). Plus I treated her to mudpie at NYDC and I had dinner there..

To think I thought I’d be saving money when the boyf is not around. More spending later when I meet ST for dinner, and dinner+Howl at the moon with Peanut tomorrow. I should not do much over the weekend, I should focus on my individual paper for Ed Psych, better get this hefty chunk of 55% out of the way to the best of my ability. On top of the accounting worksheets I have to set, right. At least I have a 3 day week next week, because its e-learning for the modules on Monday and Tuesday, but that means I have to grapple with the podcast assignment for Comns over the weekend as well, and the group assignment for Ed Psych 2.

Who said NIE was a honeymoon route? It feels more and more like SMU to me, the on slaught of reports and individual assignments. Pwoah.

But I do reckon I like to do research. The process of sifting through information from various sources like books and the Internet, trawling through journals and reading up on the materials before sitting down and doing the proper writing. Another thought – I need to do Ed Psych 2 individual reflection by next week as well.

Enjoying my new-old Atrios at Starbucks now – I think I’m a total Atrios convert. I might just stick to them for the rest of my life, I truly enjoy its thud thumping bass, its uber shiok and sinful really. Trying to get some self directed readings done before the long boring meeting at CSC later (sorry ST – we know its long overdrawn and boring!). The meeting just drags on forever – who knows, maybe I might get some work done later during the meeting, but I’ve yet to settle the accounts too. Humms.

6 more days till the boyf comes home! Missing his presence terribly. The weekend felt emptier with his absence. At least there are classes and distractions during the week, plus I’ve been catching up with Peanut quite abit too. (: And then the girls go get durianmad on coming Monday, which so happens to be Roo’s 22nd birthday too – what do you want dear?

I’m contemplating making a second trip back to Taiwan this June, just Taipei only. I think Taiwan is a lovely place and I dont’t want it to be marred by the events that happened last year during the same time. So I might want to go back, cover similar and different places and truly enjoy it at the pace I want to enjoy it. Away with the memories of crying along the streets of Taiwan with strangers stopping to offer tissue and making sure that I was alright in the middle of the roads in Taipei – we welcome the wonderful memories of beautiful scenery and lovable food and shopping.

Yea I think I might just do that. It doesn’t have to be a long trip, probably 5d4n and I’ll see if my sister or the boyf has a schedule that I can work with. Or maybe even the parents – I do know for a fact that my dad would love to visit Taiwan, he has been a couch tourist of Taiwan with his constant viewing of Taiwanese variety shows at home on cable. If none of them are available, my mum has agreed to me visiting Taipei myself, because she feels that since I’ve been there before, hence she would be less worried as compared to if I were to take on Aussie myself. She even said she won’t have any qualms about me travelling Shanghai myself.

I shall continue to contemplate. Meanwhile, back to work before meeting Mr Ler for dinner – no more Old Town please!

I should stop

1. daydreaming.
2. thinking about my bed.
3. wanting to read my books.
4. playing spore.
5. playing bejewelled blitz.

I need to get work done because after tonight, here are the plans for the next few days.

• Wednesday – class + going to PA with sister (she has an interview for AYG)
• Thursday – class + CSC meeting (of which I have yet to settle the accounts. Shall do it during the meeting)
• Friday – class + Howl at the Moon with Peanut (Did I mention, I got a pair of free tix to Comedy Night – Sistic sells them for 40sgd.)
• Saturday + Sunday = to gym and work on my Ed Psych individual report (I mentioned the magic word, gym – right?)
• Monday (no class) – continues to do work and meeting the girlS (peanut&sy&roo for durian at goodwood!)
• Tuesday – sleep the day away so that I can go pick up the boy when he reaches Singapore in the middle of the night on Wednesday morning.

There we go, I’ve almost covered the entire week out nicely. Tralala. And I’m still not thinking of work.

Edit @ 10.10pm:

Inspiration is not hitting me tonight, I can’t think of any teacher-student relationship that is worth writing about at this point in time. I need to start thinking about my past and determine which teacher has had a positive/negative effect on me. Then words will come to me smoothly, I know that much. And I can’t stop listening to KT Tunstall. She has been on repeat for the past few days – wooohooo.

For the love of my life

I cannot fathom how people feel more refreshed after an exercise.

After the run and the nice cooling bath, all I want to do now is to snuggle into bed with my book, read and fall asleep.

After a good slightly more than 3 weeks of inactivity, I decided to go for a quick half hour run around the neighbourhood and I nearly died. Partly because I saw my parents on my way back, when we were at least about more than 0.5km and a traffic light apart and I attempted to chase after them, to no avail. That really took the wind out of me. They took a different bend and by the time I rounded the bend, I lost sight of them.

And just to go for this run, I had to put on contacts and then dispose them when I was bathing. What a waste. Now the idea of lasik is really lingering around the mind, and June would definitely be a good time for Lasik, if I intend to go through with it.

Despite the talk of giving up on the idea of travelling with the girls over dinner at Brewerkz last Friday, I’m still itching to travel. To leave Singapore temporarily and see different things outside – partly it could be due to the people around me who have been travelling – the boyf who is currently in Canada for almost two weeks, Eileen being in Europe and Peanut going to Denmark, then Japan. To have one entire month free with absolutely nothing on the mind (except for the impending practicum in July) – that should be a delight for travelling, isn’t it. But instead, I can’t seem to find anybody who is willing to travel with me.

Nada, zilch. It’s quite dampening and sians, truth be told. I would want to try travelling alone, but the parents and boyf are not very for the idea of me travelling outside, alone. I got to speak to him this afternoon (squeals like a little girl – he showed me around his upgraded suite that had an attached kitchenette!) via video call and I bounced the idea of him – he didn’t sound particularly excited about the idea of me travelling alone.

I still want to travel, I still want to go out there and take a look. I’ve always wanted to be the traveller, but 總得有個伴，才比較好玩。難道真的不能自己一個人出去走走嗎？嘿。

Sigh.

I can’t believe myself.

Spore is addictive.

I have moved myself to beyond world domination, I’m looking at space domination. Of course, I have yet to start dominating the space, my spaceship is awaiting my personal design and touches to it. It’s quite madness actually. I think I started sporing last night, continued sporing this morning, and I spored for the last one hour when I reached home after school.

I’ve got work damnit – work! Urgh.

I’ve refound my love for chinese sword fighting novels. Not that I’ve lost it, I just haven’t been reading it. Borrowed 倚天屠龍記 and I’m thoroughly captivated after the first 10 pages. I was uhm, reading and sporing at the same time.

Gulps.WORK.

I’ve got the following to do:

1. Ed Psych I Individual Assignment
2. Ed Psych II Reflection (Part 1)
3. QLK E-learning Podcast
4. Ed Psych II E-learning Group work (which I haven’t went to look at)
5. Accounting worksheets to draft and set
6. Accounting marketing kit (Comiclife)

These are the deliverables for the next 2-3 weeks. Keep focused, watch the to-do list you goon. Stop SPORING. I shall aim to do points 3 and 5 tonight.

I shall aim. Whether I can deliver that, is another question all together.

Horrified.

to find that another group in one of my classes took our template, and some of our points to model after, in their own page.

Don’t know if I should feel pissed or flattered. I’m sure they’ll change their content, but twas rather smart of them to pick our template (together with our answers) because ours is almost done, like 95% done.

I did say I wasn’t going to touch work today right – I failed. Sigh. The list of to-do is too long to ignore. But I binged on B&Js, and I did a silly survey on FB that my sister tagged me to do. Should go read my sister’s version, it’s rather cute!

I went to look at some of them and cleared some, determined the procedure for the rest. I shall slowly start on the upcoming ones, am going to the library tomorrow to do some research for my individual Ed Psych report.