Post Exam Rant

やっと。試験が終わりました。

Exams are FINALLY over. Well. Ok. They finished yesterday morning, but I've been having minor problems with the internet since yesterday so here's a delayed update.

The Electronics paper was surprisingly easier than I anticipated. There was only one question that I had to give up on. I may actually get above a CAS 15 for this particular course. As for the other two, Maths I should get either 19 or 20. Structures... My confidence was shaken a little when I blanked out on a simple formula. But hopefully won't be below 15 either.

So that's exams for the first term of my second year in Aberdeen. Things are looking good so far I guess. Heh. Went over to G & PL's place after the exam yesterday to do some online shopping from Japan Center. Hohoho! Although I promise I didn't spend over 20 pounds. I did that today shopping for Classical/Opera CDs and cheena DVDs... (>_<)

I can't help it!! I'm addicted to DVDs & CDs!!! And it's after exams! I should be allowed to have some kind of release!!! 发泄发泄！

LAST PAPER!!!

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Tomorrow is my last paper. Blurdy Electronics. Why do I have to study electronics??? Bah!

Dunno how it's going to go tomorrow. But well... Watch this space...

Why so Sian...

I am SO BORED of studying. (>_<) *pui*

Stupid exams. Can't wait for the last one to be over. *grumble*

On a bright side, salsa and hip hop classes are quite fun. Very different crowd though. Think I prefer the salsa class. Older, more mature, not so clique-ish. The hip hop class... mostly young teenage girls, some of them regulars. So you can imagine.

Year 2 Term 1 Exam Schedule

Exams. Again.

Engineering Mathematics 2
17 Jan, Wednesday 0900-1100
Confidence level: 99% (Cannot say 100%. Segali people say I hao lian.)

Materials & Structures
19 Jan, Friday 1500 - 1700
Confidence level: 60-70% (Huge difference, huh. Well. The topic is interesting enough but the course was (>_<))

Electronics & Programmable Systems
23 Jan, Tuesday 0900 - 1100
Confidence level: 50% (Seriously. Fuzzy logic? Really fuzzy.)

Wish me luck people. First paper tomorrow. お願い！m(_ _)m

2007 Random Flat Conversation 1

[D came back to pick up some stuff, and of course, being landlord and all, got made to fix various bits of the flat]

Me: Ah, D -- The fixer of things in this flat. That's why we keep you around the house.
D: Gee, thanks.
N: Yeah, Jim's great. I'm going to call you Jim now.
D: Wha..?!
Me: Why "Jim"?
N: Coz Jim fixes things!
Me: Why not "Bob"?
N: Coz Bob's already in there. *points to R's room* And he doesn't fix anything.
Me: No, no. As in "Bob the Builder".
N: Well, he builds things. He doesn't fix them. Jim fixes everything!
("Jim" is chuckling away at all this. After a bit he moves on to fixing the light in the hallway since "Bob" couldn't do it.)

D: (fiddling with some loose part) What did Bob do to it??
(as the light comes on, "Bob" comes out to go to the bathroom.)
N: Hiya Bob!
R: Hello, er... (pauses in the bathroom doorway)... I'm trying to think of some snappy come-back here. Er...
Me: Jim did what you couldn't do, Bob.
R: Who's Jim?
D: Hi. I'm Jim.
R: Why are you Jim?
Me: N named you.
N: No, I didn't.
Me: You named Jim.
N: Yeah, ok. I named Jim. But you named Bob.
Me: But I was referring to "Bob the Builder"!
R: ... (closes bathroom door. You can practically see the (-_-''') expression)

BTW, Happy New Year.

Ha. Yes. A bit late. Oh well. Better late than never I suppose.

So yeah. Start of a new year, I'm back in Aberdeen. Presumably busy revising for my upcoming exams. Maths has been progressing quite well, Materials & Structures... Not as fast as I would like, and Electronics is... uhm... sitting somewhere in my room.

Airport Post

Ho ho! My first ever Changi Airport Free Internet post!!

Yes. Here I am in Changi Airport, waiting for the boarding gate to open. Flight's been delayed about 30min due to late arrival. Well... Gave me time to buy little keychains. Now I need to find some candy to suck on to stop my ears from hurting.

As always, the Christmas stop back home has been short. Couldn't meet up with everyone. Next time k? At the moment my next return is scheduled for next December. Dunno what's happening in the Summer just now. So see how.

But please, everyone keep in contact. I do miss you guys. Always wish I had more time at home. Well.. Just keep watching this space I guess. Heh (^_^)

What AUFAS Members Do For Christmas

Apparently, stuff our faces... or at least, we watch other members engage in the activity. Watch this...

Uhm. Oh? I Have to Say Something Don't I?

Uhm. Yes. Oops. Let's do this bullet point style.

1) I am back in Singapore for a bit. I have been home almost a week now. And I'll be leaving again on the 3rd of Jan. Oops. Oh, and I'll be in Kuching 25th-29th.

2) I am FINALLY updating my flickr. So go see. Yes, I realize that I have not touched it for almost a year. Yes, I will try to be faithful about it.

3) I've said similar things to the above about my art blog haven't I? Damn.

4) Don't think anyone will be so kind as to sponsor a Flickr Pro account for me right? Yeap. Thought so.

5) Blogger keeps telling me to convert to the new Beta-version blog with Google. I keep refusing. I'm for some STRANGE reason completely freaked out by having to change to a new system. Oh wait. That's not strange. I'm ALWAYS freaked out by something new. Geez I need help.

6) I have done ZERO Christmas shopping this year. So just in case anyone thinks I'm trying to drop hints about what I think about you, it's just general all-rounded I couldn't be arsed to go Christmas shopping.

7) Uhm... More to come? Watch the Flickr.

Something's Bubbling Over

I'M GOING HOME ON SUNDAY!!!
I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dammit time is going too slowly. I wanna be home NOW NOW NOW!!!

Right. I think it's time to be more active next term. Here's what I plan to join:

1) University Choral Society -- NO MORE PUTTING THIS OFF!!! I don't know HOW I've managed to survive 1 1/2 years without being in a choir at some point! My vocals are probably shaite by now.

2) Archery Club -- Bow and arrows?? Oh HELL YEAH!!! Always wanted to take this up again.

?? 3) Kendo Club -- This is a VERY big maybe. I have NO knowledge of kendo, or any other kind of martial arts, even though I've always wanted to take up some form of martial art. Plus I am a COMPLETE weakling.... So maybe I'll just... erm... continue to think about it. ??

Random Flat Conversations 5

Place: Oh, come on... You should know already.

[R is cooking up his tea]
R: This is going to be the BEST cheese sauce ever!
Me: Yeah? What's in it? [trundle over to have a look]
R: [extremely proud-of-himself-ly] Doesn't that look just FANTASTIC?? [stirs his... sauce]
Me: Ehm...
Sauce: "bloop"
Me: Yeeeah... Looks... great! ... Looks quite... chunky.
R: Ah, well that's they say about me. So this and me will get along nicely.
Me: What? Who's chunky?
R: Me!
Me: Well... Where are all the chunks? [R is SCRAWNY, ok? Not exactly Hugh Jackman... Ok, maybe I'm being mean. He's... Slim? ...Lanky.]
R: Heh?
Me: Chunks! [pokes his arm] Where are they?
R: [Beams] In ME!!! [Beam beam beam]

(-_-''')?

[couple minutes later]
R:... I've had better cheese sauces.

*snigger*
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Eh. Yeah. Sorry about the long break in updates. Last couple of weeks have been mad. Had a second round of class tests, more lab reports to hand in.. And well... Other things. Thanks to all the flatmates (new and old) though, and Nekoweenie back home for the tremendous amount of support. (^_^) Might have had yet another nervous breakdown if it weren't for you guys. *hugs* Thank you.

Random Flat Conversation Part 4

[It's dinnertime, I am brandishing my one lone leek and moaning about my general lack of vegetables]

Me: What can I do with a leek?
D: You could feed it to a rabbit. (D doesn't like vegetables)
Me: Hey! Leeks are nice!
D: Yeah. For a rabbit.
Me: (gives up) Well, I'm not going to feed a rabbit.
D: Mm. You could feed a cow.
Me: Haha. First, I'd have to find a cow.
D: Oh, so you already have a rabbit?
Me: ........
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I could probably start a whole new blog dedicated to these random conversations...

I no longer know what I should say to you.
I don't know if there is anything that I can say to you anymore.

Maybe there never was in the first place.

Random Halloween Flat Conversations

Setting: Where else?
Time: After tea, N and I watching random tv sprawled all over the couch and R is getting ready to go out.

R: [walks into the kitchen in a Superman costume and socks (whatever for??) in hand] A-HA!
[N & I burst out laughing]
R: What??
Me: [choking on laughter] I have to take a picture of this!
R: Oh, but you have to do me up first!! [turns to present me with an open back]
Me: There's no zip. [N continues to giggle]
R: No, no. There's a bit of string up here..
[I tie him up securely and rush off to find my camera, as I leave I hear R asking N something that sounds like "Does my croc look big enough?" Wha...?? But I'm deaf and the tv's on so I probably heard it wrong. I come back and...The socks are gone.]
R: Here, does my crotch look big enough?
Me: [gawks in disbelief. After a shocked second of silence there is uncontrolled guffawing]
R: Well??
Me: [look at R to say something, but collapse in laughter yet again]
N:Heh heh heh... It looks like you're wearing a giant nappy. [I'm howling by now]
R: Ahh, it just needs some shaping. [Start patting and shaping his Superman undies, I am beyond redemption] How about now?[turns to his side]
Me: Bwahahaha... It looks like you're pregnant in the wrong place.
N: Maybe if you rolled up the socks...
R: Maybe... [Goes off to enhance his "Superman equipment"]
[In his absense P shows up and everyone's just waiting for Superman to get his groove on, then he returns...]
R: [His hand is rummaging inside his costume] How's this look now??
[N, P and I are just sniggering like there's no tomorrow]
N: It looks really... [R continues to "fondle" his costume]
Me: It's a little disproportionate... [*fondle, pat, fondle*]
P: It looks... .... [*pat, pat, shape, fondle*] Ok, Superman. Ready to go? [Steps out the kitchen, I swear her shoulders were shaking in attempts to suppress more laughter]
R: [as he follows, he begins to pull something out from Superman's crotch] Oh all right, maybe an extra t-shirt was just a little ambitious.
N & Me: ... ...

Evil Homework

Begone, Evil Materials Lab Report!! Hence from mine sight!!!
No more shalt thou torment mine eyes with thy abominable graphs and calculations!!!
Begone! Begone!!!

More Random Flat Conversations

Setting: Flat kitchen
Time: Around 6.15pm

[R comes in whistling and singing "All You Need Is Love", I am not-so-desperately wolfing down my dinner since I have to go for an exercise briefing at 7pm]
{Note: Dinner is commonly referred to as "tea" in these parts. I'll never understand why}

R: Tea, tea, tea... [Sees overgrown leek] My leek is growing on its own!! Oh no!!
Me: *sniggers*
R: Hope my mushrooms are ok... [looks at mushrooms] Ohhh...
Me: Your fungi growing fungi?
R: My fungi have got fungi.

[A long process then begins where R rummages through the recesses of the fridge and the freezer compartment and throws out random things which have by now gone way off. "It's not the 13th of October anymore, is it?" "No." "Is this my meat??" Asks the fellow who one day, very kindly fed me with my own chicken. ('twas a case of mistaken chicken-tity) Then he almost blows up the microwave by leaving the freezerbag-tie (you know those little metal twisty things?) on the freezerbag (in the first place... isn't plastic NOT supposed to go into the microwave?) and then very nearly sets himself on fire by adding water into a pan of hot fat.]

Gotta love the kitchen. Everything happens in the kitchen. Like this morning.

[After getting up late at 8.30am, I'm eating b'fast and watching the news when D comes in]
D: Hiya, how're you.
Me: Not too bad. Where were you last night?
D: Aw, I stayed over at P's.
Me: You know, we could probably sublet your room to someone else. [D is my landlord btw. 20yrs old, a student, and he's my landlord...]
D: !!! I'm around!! Sometimes...
Me: Sometimes...
D: Besides, what would you do with all my clothes? [Eyebrows wiggling in defiance, challenging]
Me: [Thinks for a second] You could live in the closet.
D:... I don't like this plan.

Lazy Saturday

I should be working on my Materials lab report. But here I am in the kitchen, sprawled out on the couch, BBC NEWS 24 on the telly, my logbook open on the coffee table and me blogging about my lack of motivation instead.

And I'm hungry. But it's only 4.45pm. And I feel like snacking. But I don't have any snacks and I SHOULDN'T be snacking in the first place.

It's so quiet in the flat... D's off sailing somewhere, R's off romping around in Skye and N works weekends. Can't stand this absense of human presence. Which explains why the telly's been on a good half of the day.

Argh..... Where has all my motivation gone... I was doing so well up until a couple days ago...

*quietly fizzles*

Random Flat Conversations

Setting: Flat Kitchen
Time: After a considerable amount of sugar and some dead silent time staring at textbooks

Me: We should have a flat party some time!
N: Yeah! That'd be cool. But I don't know if D would allow it though...
Me: Ahh, he will. I mean, he's young right...
N: Yeah, that's true.
Me: And he's got his whole life ahead of him.
N: ... ...

*uncontrollable laughter ensues*

Hence, it has been decided that at some point, there will be a party in celebration of D's youth. And that day shall then on be known as D's Day. I believe that a committee will be formed to petition for D's Day to be decreed a public holiday.

What?!?

She is actually still in class! It's a bloody miracle. How did this happen? Thought she'd be retained in first year but NO! She's in 2nd year with the rest of us!!! Maybe something went wrong in the school administration... No... It's just a miracle that's what it is... (O_o) Armageddon must be approaching...

(p.s. this is the one who during the start of first year, had to ask what a hard-drive was... (>_<)

Back In Sunny Aberdeen

Yeap. Back in the City of the Grey Buildings. Landed yesterday at about 8.40am (about 3.40pm SG time) and prayed like mad that at least one of my new flatmates were going to be in when the taxi pulled up. The rest of the day was spent unpacking everything - from the luggage I brought back from Singapore to the stuff that I'd left here over the summer. By the evening, say around 7pm, I finally had a room fit for a siewmai. I have photos of the chaos-ridden version. These will be posted soon along with the "acceptable" room once I've taken photos of it. It's smaller than my old one in Elphinstone, but somehow nicer. Cosier, would be the word for it.

Today was no less exciting as I set off to get registered and finally start life as a 2nd year engineering student. But before gaining official student status, there is the obligatory merry-go-round, run between the same few buildings game thought up by various administrative staff to torture poor students who don't know any better. The sequence kind of went like this:

Engineering office --> Advisor's office --> Engineering office --> Advisor's office --> Senior Lecturer's office (in charge of the MEng interviews, the nice man gave me an informal interview on the spot without me having to make a separate appointment! :D) --> Engineering office --> University Office Registry --> Late Registration booths in the NEXT building (?!?) --> Registry --> Cash office --> Registration booths

So after about 2 hours (maybe slightly more), I finally collected my student card for the next academic year. In fact I almost had to go back tomorrow morning since the wait for authorization (for my fees) at the cash office took about 30min. And by the time I rushed back to the registration booths for my card, they'd just closed up. Was about to turn back, defeated, when the lady in charge came out of the computer rooms behind and made an exception for poor ole me. Yay! I must've looked really pathetic and desperate by that point. Heh heh.

So! It's back to school for me, now with internet in my room. Hohoho! But don't worry. I will still be the good student that I've been for the past year. I will do my homework and I will refrain from watching tv (don't know what there is to watch anyhow) and wasting time on the internet (CHALLENGE!! (O_o)). The aim will be to continue with the straight A's.

Oosh! がんばります！

P.s. I hope everyone realizes that I'm being sarcastic in the title. Own up all who had no idea until they read this... Be honest now... :p