wow. i only realised recently that i have a limit for people's non-stop nonsencial ramblings.
usually i don't have an issue. i'm quite okay with listening to people talk.
but when it's waaaaaaay too much, i just want to yell "for gods' sake that's enough!!"

oh that, and the lack of tact is quite amazing too.
-roar of frustration-
luckily the character is still relatively good. if not i'd have pulled all my hair out.


anyway, there's something quite addictive about being a mugger :)
doing tutorials ahead of time, actually bothering to revise the notes after the lecture, studying for the accounting quiz which didnt happen in the end. (i actually did study! much unlike what i did for stats last sem. maybe then i wouldn't have gotten that embarrassing grade - deadpans- yeah, like my not doing of half the paper didnt contribute haha)
only drawback of course, is that by the time the tutorial actually comes around, i've already forgotten my answers.
but never mind! perservere i shall. it does feel good to be hardworking.


and for my weekly grousing about biz law tutorials, i seriously have a problem with my biz law tutor, as you all know.
i cannot stand it when she comes up with one stand, states lots of points to support it, then gives another stand, stating lots of points to support that, then coming up with points who came from god knows where - by this time i've already lost track of all the points and i've forgotten which side she's taking. THEN SHE COMES TO NO CONCLUSION. ARGH!!
the biz law lecturer makes me like biz law, and then this woman has to come along. :(

but i had nothing to complain about electives today. haha man, it was another of its ultra short sessions of only 1 hour. and even though it was boring (as usual), jiayin and i were entertaining ourselves with BINGO. haha!
and afterwards we hopped over to yuexin's bio in popular media. and we were lucky enough to be able to catch the awesome movie Gattaca! i loved that movie when mr chew first showed it during one of the GP lessons. great storyline and of course, gorgeous actors, ethan hawke and jude law! :) (though i thought that ethan hawke actually looked better in the show heh)
after the class i caught a ride home with yuexin and cousin. and honestly speaking, i always look forward to these rides because we would always end up laughing our heads off for one lame reason or another. yay for dunmanians!




remember a couple of entries back i mentioned the story of a small world? (jingying's nus good friend is my nbs friend's best friend)

haha yes another venn diagram, but this time much more pleasing to the eye. (the previous time i drew it was when we celebrated seah's birthday with the xyz guys and vj jrs.)

well last friday we actually took the time (eh. they took the time. i made time by skipping comm management -grins) to meet up and went for a round of board games at Mind Cafe. and it was, for a lack of better adjectives, FUN!
like i always say, once there's no language barrier, the possibility of clicking with one another would definitely be quite high (and of course there would be exceptions but that's not the case here).
haha it's just so cute isn't it. the idea of coming together to meet simply because we're all linked to one another in different ways.

hopefully we would be having more such crazy afternoons :)

my straight and attached friend: "sometimes i wish i was a girl just so i could wear the wide variety of clothes you all get to wear! guys' clothes are so damn boring lar!"


me: "................................................................................"

ok. i don't quite hate wednesdays after all. i just dislike biz law tutorials at 830 in the morning that's all.
it really doesn't help when the tutor is boring as hell, and the tutorial room is freezing and tiny and makes me claustrophobic.
but once we get to accounting tutorial my mood makes a swing for the better :)


man, it was such a busy weekend! all my tutorials were completely pushed to one side and i had to rush like mad to complete them on monday and tuesday. i do not like this. i need to be a mugger. 5.0 GPA this sem so i can switch to accountancy yes? heehee.


anyway i mentioned last week that the weekend would be an interesting one remember? and i steadfastly refused to tell ah mol where i was going when he called me on saturday and asked me why i couldnt entertain him on the phone while he made his way to town -_____-.

baah. it was no big deal actually, i just got dragged by seah to the NUS bash at st.james.

eh wait what am i talking about. IT IS A BIG DEAL. BECAUSE I PREVIOUSLY SAID BEFORE THAT I CANNOT STAND THE IDEA OF CLUBBING. and i was one of the few funny people left who have never ever stepped before into a club. (seah went before like, 3 times lor. i'm such a mountain tortoise. hahaha)
anyway the gist of it was that seah's friend dragged her, and so she dragged me along.
(ooh just let me digress a little with a story about how small this world is. seah's good friend's best friend is my tutorial mate! and she's my saviour in FM seminars!)

well what can i say about it? it wasnt all that bad lah. it actually turned out to be quite fun. saw a number of familiar faces (and also faces i'd rather not see. -rolls eyes-) a long lost friend (i used to have friday dinners with him sianghan and jh!) and also saw a girl from school totally wasted in the toilet, later on puking by the roadside. -shrugs-. it's one thing to be mildly intoxicated by alcohol but a whole other issue when you completely lose control of yourself.
yes it could have been more fun if it had been with the dhs peeps. because you gotta say it's just awkward at first when you go with a bunch of people whom you did not even know prior to that.

ok so now i'm no longer so completely against the idea of clubbing, but i'm not about to turn into a clubber because i have no money (such a damn bloody expensive habit), i don't want to choke on smoke too often, and i'm just too old to stay out past 2am. i get tired after 10pm :(

obligatory club bathroom shots

so in the end i only got to bed around 4am. i woke up at 12, stared dazedly at my lecture notes, ate breakfast and crawled back to bed. before i knew it, i had to drag myself out of the house for the CZY concert at 5. i know, i'm obliged to go.

wanyier!

but after that it was all good because it was study group birthday dinner at Surf 'n' Turf!
ahh.. another couple of hours of yuexin-jiayin-mj squabbling. i swear i laughed til i cried, and after that could not eat anymore.
haha. laugh until full. what a literal translation.
oh we could never get tired of it can we? the jiayin-mj wedding plans we drew up since the JC days, imagining a certain person trying to thwart jy from marrying mj, and discussing what it would be like if yx married mj. HAHAHAHAHA. so damn funny. i'm chuckling as i type this :D

yuexin and her cool new haircut!

mj attempted to make it look like i have my hand around his arm BUT FAILED. HAHAHA.

sorry mj the other picture turned out worse so i have to post this. heehee. CUTE LA HOR.

haha a gleeful huizhi!

this weekend i will dedicate it wholly to mugging.

hi i just need to grouse a little, bear with me.


ok so i said pan's labyrinth is one awesome movie. yes indeed it is.
but i should have put a disclaimer on it.

it's only fantastic WHEN you actually understand it.

man, don't come and complain to me that i lied to you about it being a great show when it's actually your lack of interpretation skills and imagination that caused your own waste of 2 hours. and a waste of the movie on you, i should add.

(no eric i am not talking about you!!)

and then after i have to explain the movie to you (which i cannot stand. because that spoils the whole essence of the movie! you're supposed to get it and then we can all discuss in awe together!), don't ask me how the hell did i know that and "the movie got say meh??"

"wa lau. you're supposed to interpret yourself lah!"


haha. obviously i am being very biased and this is not just over a movie.
DON'T ASK ME THE SAME BLOODY QUESTION FOR THREE TIMES IN A ROW AFTER I'VE ALREADY ANSWERED YOU CAN??


sometimes i wonder if the person is really slow or is just having a laugh at our expense by acting dumb.


and anyway it was irritating enough (combined with the fact that it was a bad bad day on wednesday because with some ill fortune i got chucked into a class of people who already know each other. bloody hell. why so unfair. oh that and the fact that my biz law tutor is so incredibly boring. ARGH!) for me to have a sudden desire to switch to accountancy
which wouldnt have been that bad an idea. accountants make lots of moolah, everybody needs accountants and my good friends are all in accountancy.

ok obviously it was just a fleeting thought. why would i want to pit myself against those crazily smart people with their 5.0 GPA. :)

as i said. am just complaining a little.


it's going to be an interesting weekend. -glares at seah-. hahaha.
more details soon.

this is one funny story haha. have a little patience and read it.
i copied it off from one of the emails sent in the public folders in the school's email system. yeah there are actually people bored enough to do things like mass send email jokes.




At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death.

Here is the story:
On March 23, 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus, and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide.
He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.
Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned
"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "Someone who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."
That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun.
The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.
When one intends to kill subject " A" but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B."
When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded.
The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.
It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.
Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.


Now comes the exquisite twist.


Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus.
He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window.

The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself. So the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.



A true story from Associated Press, (Reported by Kurt Westervelt)




anyway. why do school weeks always seem so long and neverending. why does last sunday seemed like 3 weeks ago??

if there's one movie you have to catch this year, it has to be Pan's Labyrinth.


and if there's one phrase that aptly sums up the movie, it is this: hauntingly beautiful.
i only ever said the same thing about Neverland, and i think this movie is even better.
and it's definitely for all you arty-farty people out there who love to come up with your own analysis of the movie. (lyd! go watch the movie and give me a 1000 word report on it! heh)


anyway. one week of school down, eleven more weeks to go.
i am looking forward to the long weekend.

hmm. i really shouldnt judge so quickly.
the last time i did, those people turned out to be quite lovely after all.

well hey. time would tell.

and I AM GOING TO DO MY FM HOMEWORK NOW. HA HA.

it's the last day of my holidays :(

but i have to say, this is by far one of the most enjoyable holidays i've ever had. i slacked to my fullest potential (i stayed home for one entire week doing absolutely nothing but watching my favouritest shows in the whole wide world, eating, sleeping and reading.), had many meet-ups with many many good friends, splurged on clothes, good food and kbox (the 3 weeks worth of saving during the exam period came in handy!). well basically, it was GOOD. and i'm happy, but not happy enough to want to go back to school.


and today i had the traditional meetup with seah before school reopened where we whine and sulk in the comfort of starbucks.
(okay lah the previous sem i also whined and sulked two days before school reopened because i had blardy CCO performance on the next day and i was just dreading school)
saw some people -waves- (it was funny because i did the 'i can see you, you can't see me' call to my friend then later in the evening my colleague did the same thing to me -_-)


oh! anyway i must paste this paragraph from some guy's blog that seah found.


speaking of duets, which means guy and gal. first thing which comes to your mind is BF and GF. relationships, love, blah blah..

and my gang is really getting abit cranky lately becoz we've been single for too long. why? i can't think of any excuses. we're all friendly people, average-looking (im actually tempted to say handsome) and the nicest lot of boys you can find in yishun.

we're sick of finding each other for movies, sick of spending saturdays playing winning 11, sick of planning what to do.

obviously, we're sick of one another. of coz, we're great buddies but you know, a balance has to be struck somewhere.

(eh in case this guy actually reads this here (not bloody likely though) i'd just like to say that your blog is very funny and sorry for copying that entire bit)


HAHA. it's funny because that's what me and seah like to complain about! (okay lah, i'm not sick of my friends, though) and it's just hilarious when you find that guys are actually lamenting about the same things too.
(right. before we start to sound desperate, i'd just like to clarify that we usually complain about the fact that some weirdass people are actually attached and we're not. heh heh. where's the fairness in this world)


and during that cookie baking session the other day, we were watching this jean yip slimming show on tv where this particular contestant had terrible stretchmarks, which prompted jieying to tell us about how next time after we give birth we must get our husbands to press against your hips to prevent it from being wide (or something along these lines. hahaha). to which seah sulkily (hahahaha. ok i just added that for the effect) that "but first we must get boyfriends you know... like you"
hahaha. that was funny. jieying was momentarily rendered loss of words. :P


i should really get off this topic. we could go on for ages.


and can i just say that there's seriously something very wrong with the school's admin system.
what's the point in telling the biz students that they're only allowed 18AUs and any overloading would require appealing when you allocate them electives in the end anyway?
and then nobody tells us anything about when the tutorials are actually starting. really doesn't help when the course outline is also ambiguous.
and then no email telling us when results were coming out either.
man. i want to work in the admin department next time. no need plan timetable, no need do course outline, just send random emails every couple of days :)


anyway here's the picture from that day's disastrous outing. this picture was taken under extremely embarrassing circumstances because we were blocking the entire pathway and people were standing there waiting for the guy to be done helping us take the picture.

okay lah. at least i managed to get 8 people for that couple of hours :(

i don't know why but i suddenly felt like typing something.

i saw the trailer for The Day After Tomorrow to be shown next sunday, and boy am i looking forward to that! never mind the fact that i've already watched the movie about 5 times. i'm still loving it!
mentioned to seah before, i don't know why but i have a penchant for blockbuster movies where lots of things get destroyed, whether by aliens or natural disasters (that's why i love Independence Day, War of the Worlds etc. will watch it again and again)
yeah. perhaps it's a sadistic streak heh heh. but i just LOVE the effects, especially when you're sitting in the cinema, looking up in awe as the tornado/humongous waves/aliens with laser guns destroys new york city (it's always new york, isn't it?)

and of course it was this love for disaster flicks that caused me to force seah to go watch the Sinking of Japan with me, resulting in a waste of 2h, 15 dollars and two very displeased souls. man, the effects sucked to the absolute core!!
you know your movie is in trouble when people actually commented on how lousy the plot was in the midst of all those special effects. DISASTER MOVIES NEED NO PLOTS! YOU'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO ENJOY THE EFFECTS AND NOT THE STORY!
and unfortunately, there was absolutely no effects to speak of.
once you've caught The Day After Tomorrow, nothing else can match up to it.


well anyway. today was a baaaad com outing because yours truly organised it. man, NO MORE ORGANISING! :(
and it just went downhill after the lunch because we rented a total disaster of a movie: meet the fockers.
now, i don't have issues watching movies that i've watched before. but it was ONE HORRIBLE SHOW. it was bad enough when i watched it a year ago, it was worse when i watched it again today.
it's probably the worst movie i watched in 2005. gawd it's just so unfunny!
eh. i fell asleep ok.
and so this adds to my list of Movies You Should Never Watch: meet the fockers, you me and dupree, the nun, pulse, sinking of japan, any other horror movies that did not scare me (quite a feat, considering)
so after that depressing show, i was just sulking internally because i couldn't believe the outing and the movie were so disastrous. DAMN! luckily mj hz and i had a good dinner so all was forgotten by then :)


ah. and school's starting. i do have one extra day of holiday, but i'm just so not in the right state of mind for school.
and not it's not helping that the modules this sem are so... accounting-ish. bah. biz law better be something that i can crap at.


ok lah. too tired. will continue tomorrow.

now that school's going to start again, we SHOULD TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO GO OUT AND HAVE FUN!


hehe yeah. so yesterday was a day of cookie baking and movie watching at lyd's lovely new house! (in addition to being lovely, it's also just two bus stops from my house, so doubly lovely! :))

the cookie baking turned out all weird because they ended up like mini pancakes with large chocolate chips. but heck, it still tastes good.
and in the meantime, we watched shutter (the classic horror movie, as seah puts it. heng ah. luckily i know the plot beforehand and seah's on hand to warn us before the ghost pops out) and the jackie chan and cute baby show.

got atmosphere right!

but after watching the two movies, we had nothing better to do because it was like 5pm and there were only crap shows on tv. so what do bored girls with a nice macbook do?

CAMWHORE! (shouted akin to HOEDOWN! yes some of you know what i mean la. haha)

after that it was another round of crap-tv-watching - project superstar and that hilarious channel8 show at 9pm. HAHA. some of the acting was so excruciatingly bad we were laughing at all the wrong times. lyd says that it's just like watching Star Idol all over again. HOW TRUE.

ok anyway i'm very sad because the site where i download my precious episodes of whoseline and the drew carey show is GONE. :( well, it's been fun while it lasted. now it's back to youtube.

i was going to go to bed (pissed off over the fact that my internet explorer closed down three of my downloads which took freaking long to load) at the shocking time of 11pm (yes i have NOT slept earlier than 2am since.. i cannot remember when. before exams i suppose?)
but then i realised that it was too damn unrealistic and i'd probably wake up at 6am.

well anyway. am just rambling.


this is my resolution for the year 2012 (and beyond):


to earn enough money to own a place like this/to furnish my home like this

in the meantime, i'll just dream that i stay in this place.

yeah hi. happy new year.