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June 23rd,
2009 7:03 pm
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Ya know, when I decided to work AND study full-time, I didn't really realise what I had to go through. Trust me, if I knew, I would not be going through what I'm going through right now.
And the thing is, I'm not really enjoying doing my assignment as much as I should right now...I know a few of you might find this weird. Enjoy doing an assignment? But the thing is, my assignments now are very "hands on". It's a lot of case formulation, treatment plan etc. VERY INTERESTING STUFF. But, because I'm mostly preoccupied with making sure that I meet the deadline, I'm not enjoying it as much as I should? And I hate that.
BUT, semester is almost over. I just need to submit all those assignments in. I'm glad I managed to get through this semester in a piece...though I haven't received news about my grades yet (more about that later).
But yeah, judging by workload for this semester PLUS the fact that I'll be starting my practicum next semester, I gotta make some changes. So I guess I'll go back to my "poor student" mode again in July or August!! Hopefully I wouldn't be too poor coz a few of my classmates have provided me with some sorta work opportunities already (teaching, therapy etc).
But yes, some apologies are in place here.
People, I'm sorry if I've had to miss some gatherings!!! Trying to churn out an assignment a week whilst working at the same time is not fun. I promise next semester will be better!!
Oh, and dear QJ, thanks for the help for the assignment!! I got my grades back for that module already and I got a Distinction!!!! Mwahahahahaha....I owe you one gal. Hope you did good for your assignment too!!
I'm going for a holiday on Friday!!!!!
Somewhat excited....I said somewhat because of the darn H1N1 shit that is going on right now. Disgusting! Hopefully everything will be fine! We've got masks, hand sanitizer and Vit C tablets ready.
Hong Kong here we come!!!
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| As busy as a bumblebee! |
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April 11th,
2009 10:28 am
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Ok, this will be a short entry as I'm at work now. Can you believe I'm working on a Saturday? Yucks.
Anyway, Uni has started and I'm extremely busy. I'm not kidding about the extremely busy part.
See, my classes are on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, for the whole freaking day. Then I'm back to work on Monday....and the cycle continues. This burns away 3 weekends and I'll have to work on the remaining Saturday (some work arrangements that I did to accommodate my study schedule). This literally means that I only have 1 Sunday per month to do whatever I want...which will inevitably be spent at home, either rotting around or doing my assignment. The little boxes in my organiser is being filled up all the way to June already...and it's only the beginning of April. How disgusting is that?
So yes, apologies in advance to everyone if I can't make it for dinners/ gatherings etc. I'm not being anti-social....I just can't find the time!!!
Class has been interesting so far. My class is very small so we're all quite close and chummy already. Off to a good start since we'll be seeing each other quite a fair bit over the next 2 - 3 years.
Till next time (which will probably be quite a while), toodles!
ps: I can't believe it's April already...time passes by so quickly! I feel old now...crap.
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| Jason Mraz's Tix |
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February 27th,
2009 9:59 pm
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Ok, yup, dun say I'm not a generous and nice fren.
I HAVE A PAIR OF JASON MRAZ'S TIX!!!!!
Yes, I'm giving it away for free!!!
See, the story goes that when I bought my cutesy phone, the cashier sneakily put in a pair of tix....so yah, I got them for free...hahahaha
So anyway, since it's free and all, dun expect good seats lah.
It's going to this coming Thursday, 5th Mar, 8pm at indoor stadium.
So if you want the tixs, let me know!!!! They will go to the first person who contact me :D
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| Procrastination Bug is in the air!! |
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February 24th,
2009 11:23 am
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The procrastination bug has been clinging to me like nobody’s business…thus explaining the lack of updates. I’ll just do a summary, so please pardon the jumping of thoughts.
(1) Went for orientation for my studies. As expected, very small class (if I’m not wrong, only 12 or 13 accepted this year?). And yes, with my “luck”, no cute guys to ogle at…and I appear to be 1 of the youngest in class….again. This is like a repeat of my honours year again!!! I gotta quit hanging out with older people man! I’m slowly evolving into an old hag lor (it’s not like I’m very young to begin with). But then, they all seemed like nice people :) And because my field is such a small circle, we soon found out that we know each other’s colleagues in one way or the other.
(2) Timetable for lessons is superbly disgusting. It’s gonna take up most of my weekends!!!!!!!!!!!!! But at least I dun hafta rush for class after work lah. I’m seriously considering now whether to still take up my Doctorate or just stop at Masters first. Mainly because the bloody Doctorate will require me to do another dissertation (cannot remember offhand whether it’s a 30,000 or 50, 000 words dissertation). PIECE OF MAJOR CRAP!!!! That’s like double the suffering I went through for my Honours year thesis lor. The lecturer is like “After this, your honours year thesis will look like a piece of cake”……….Thanks ah, that’s like so reassuring…NOT! And I dun like to eat cake lor….how?? Ok never mind, will need to sit down and reconsider. No hurries there though, I have the whole of this year to consider..haha :D
(3) Chalet overdose. Seriously. Not 1, but 2 chalets within the span of 3 months. To the JC peeps - I seriously think we’re out of our minds lah. Maybe we were all possessed by the Costa Sands spirit or something. But really lah….I’ve had enough of chalets to last me for the rest of the year. And *middle finger* to the evil neighbour this time round. If you want to sleep, GO HOME!!!!! Come chalet for wad??? Bring your pesky lil kids back home and sleep!!!!!!
(4) Ok, can’t think of anything to update liao….Oh oh! I got myself a super cutesy phone…lazy to search for pic, but it’s the SE W595 in PINK!! Can you imagine me with a pink phone?? My evil sis (aka Barsai…lol) is filled with jealousy and rage…wahahahahaha.
(5) I logged into MSN yesterday!!!!!! *gasp gasp gasp* I think only Barsai and Ron saw me online. Lucky them!!! Go buy 4D!! Buy yesterday’s date or something =D
Btw, gals, are we still on for HK trip??? QJ, will your timetable be able to make it?? Must start planning now! *Is super kiasu*
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| Disastrous visit to the Neurologist |
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January 14th,
2009 9:42 pm
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So yes, finally got off my lazy ass to pay a visit to the Neurologist yesterday. For those of you who don't know, I have a die-hard stalker in my life since secondary school (might be even earlier, but I cannot remember). My stalker's name is Migraine. Such an irritating ass he is.
So anyway, the whole visit was such a fiasco that I don't know whether to be laugh at the whole thing or be pissed off by it.
Anyway, am too tired to continue blogging now. Will post up the whole thing by this week. I promise.
( Super-duper long entry )
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| 50 Books Challenge - 2009 |
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January 14th,
2009 9:35 pm
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Only read 42 books last year (which was the closest I ever got to 50 books *sigh*). Hopefully (again) I'll get to 50 books this year, with the longer route to work and all. But then, I'll be busy with uni this year as well....we'll see.
Jan
1) The Secret Diary of Adrain Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
2) Julie & Julia: my years of cooking dangerously - Julie Powell
3) My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
4) Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
5) The King of Torts - John Grisham
6) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Feb
7) The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
8) Gypsy - Lesley Pearse
9) Sunflower Forest - Torey Hayden
10) The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
11) Amazing Grace - Danielle Steel
Mar
12) Johnny Angel - Danielle Steel
13) Young Wives' Tales - Adele Parks
Apr
14) Sisters - Danielle Steel
15) Husbands - Adele Parks
16) Bungalow 2 - Danielle Steel
17) Ghost Girl - Torey Hayden
18) Damaged - Cathy Glass
19) The Other Woman's Shoes - Adele Parks
20) The Importance of Being Married - Gemma Townley
May
21) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
22) Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife - Niamh Greene
23) Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
24) Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Total: 24
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| Happy (not so) New Year!!!!!!!!!!! |
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January 3rd,
2009 7:44 pm
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Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I was late for the customary New year post last year as well, so let's just say that I'm keeping up with traditions yeah? ;)
2008 was quite an eventful year, work-wise. Need I say more? Other than that, nothing much happened, which is a good thing if you look at it from a different angle.
Got to travel to Taiwan & China (Shanghai & Jiangnan). LOVEDDDDDDDDDDDD Taiwan to bits. The food, shopping & company was wonderful. I think I'm still suffering from post-Taiwan depression. Shanghai was ok. Didn't do much shopping, but that's one good thing about travelling during winter...you get to save money :)
As usual, not going to have any new year resolutions. I'll forget all about them a few days later anyway, so what's the use?
Hopefully, 2009 would be a better year coz I'm going back to school uni (school sounds so juvenile)!!!
Yup, I'll be doing my Masters in Clinical Psychology starting from next year! And if you're wondering, I'll still be working as well. Would be interesting to see how I cope with these 2. Hopefully I wouldn't turn into a total stressed-out bitch during assignment/ exam period. We'll see.
So yes, 2008 is over (where did those 365 days go anyway?) and hopefully 2009 would be a much much better one!!!
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| Leaving for Shanghai |
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December 4th,
2008 6:32 pm
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Will be leaving for Shanghai tomorrow.
And I haven't pack!!!!!!!!!
My luggage is still in the storeroom!!!!!!!!
Ok, erm, that's it from me. I obviously need to pack.
Toodles & take care!
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| Where the hell do I start |
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November 8th,
2008 7:23 pm
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le sigh
This is what happens when you procrastinate for so long without updating your blog......you don't know where to start anymore.
Ok, first things first.
Job
Remember the crappy shit that has been happening at my work place?
Well, many things actually happened thereafter, involving 3 directors, lotsa individual sessions with them, many colleagues pestering me about my decisions and lotsa time spent thinking.
Anyway.
I've finally made my decision and chose to stay with my present organisation, with a change in "department", meaning a change of boss! And, most importantly of all, I don't hafta face those 2 dickheads (pardon my language) anymore. Total coolness.
However, this new place is now further away from my place. I now hafta wake up at an ungodly time of 6am and can only reach home at around 8pm everyday. Also, I can foresee more late nights in the office (due to a different setting) and many Saturdays spent working. Oh wells, there are no free lunches in the world, I guess. At least I'll have more autonomy now (no more of that breathing down on my neck shit).
So, the past few months have been hectic since I need to prepare my handover reports and preparing my clients for the change. So losta questions like "Why are you not working here anymore?" and stuff like that.
I also predict that my next few months will be super duper hectic as I need to readjust myself to a new clientele group.
Studies
So yes, I've been saying that I wanna go back and do my masters/doctorate next year. I'm still planning to do that, but it'll be part-time though. My current (new) boss is aware of this and she's quite supportive of it, so that's one less thing to worry about.
Ok, this entry is getting too long already.
Don't know when I'll update again...so erm...till next time (when I stop procrastinating) I guess.
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