Whee just completed my only exam paper in NUS. But it was #$%&@! Wah liew so little time and the questions were rather tough. Totally blanked out on some. Worse is I remembered the answer to one 6-marks question 1 min after the lecturer said stop writing. 0_0 I shall just convince myself that no one managed to complete the paper anyway, except perhaps for the silly guy who walked out 15 min before exam end -_-!
Feel like sleeping. Didnt sleep again last night. This semester seems to have much more nights when I didnt sleep. Probably this semester I really work a lot at DC, trying to earn $$, and hence always have to rush homework in the middle of the night. But actually for the last last 2 days I have been sleeping more than 10 hours a day and still feel so so sleepy. T_T Sleep too much I think. Need to catch up on some sleep when I get back. Yawns!
Why am I still blogging when I should be going home and sound asleep on the bus? Because I wanted to print some stuff & return books and hence I am now in the Central Library, and so shun bian blog and get rid of all those thoughts in my brain. ^^ Heng no need to go Business Library to return one of the books! This semester I have been borrowing/photocopying books instead of buying. Save $$! But then, the photocopied one I only read one or two chapter? Quite waste of paper. =X
Ok lar shall do what I came to do, else I will be stuck here forever. Its a Saturday and CL is still bustling with people.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Phantom
Miraculously after yesterday night at Phantom of the Opera, my W800i phone is no longer lagging like mad. Must remind me not to plug the phone into the laptop lest the same thing happen again. Now I am depending on the slow infrared to send the pictures, wlos but compared to having to endure a laggy phone, its rather fast.
So Phantom was yest. $145. Whee sorry Drey had to endure the tall big headed guy in front of her that keep shifting for whatever reason and totally spoilt her Phantom experience. Grr. Anw I think despite all the bad review on Phantom that I have heard, my manager at DC actually said in his words "first class tickets for third class show", I actually quite enjoyed it, except for the messy scene when they received letters from phantoms and started singing together and probably for the not-very-impactful chandelier crashing to the stage. I heard they up the speed abit already but erm I think technicalities of having to lower the chandelier below the proscenium before able to crash the chandelier on stage, that totally spoilt the whole impact. And I didnt hear any traces of mouthing the songs, as my manager had claimed, maybe it was two different Christine. Drey also say she didnt. I love the river scene and what wondering how they 'row' the boat in and how the sets shifted in by themselves. Budget must be the key to it!! And I think the Phantom quite poor thing.. have to run up and down climb up and down appearing in the most unbelievable places. One of the usher once asked me why did I go to watch Phantom on stage since it was already shown on TV? And I insist that watching on stage is so much nicer, and that I would spend over $100 for a musical I liked. She said she wouldn't spend that kind of $$. I feel that on the big screen and on stage there are intrinsic differences, and I love how the drama unfold before my very eye rather than being pre-shot. The dynamics of theatre is something that film cant beat. At least thats how I feel. Now there is just this one musical I would like to catch on stage: Les Misérables!
So now every projects have been done. Finally! This semester projects seems to stretch for soooo long and its like never-ending. Now for my last paper. >_< 
Drey & Me at Esplanade. There's an angel behind us!
我自拍的技术越来越好了！
The fabulous line art at Esplanade by Joshua Yang & his students.
Rule #1: Lines are continuous. Rule #2: Lines cannot overlap.
Yin & Yang. I can just imagine how much time is needed for drawing all these with much planning and the varying thickness of lines. Super nice!
So Phantom was yest. $145. Whee sorry Drey had to endure the tall big headed guy in front of her that keep shifting for whatever reason and totally spoilt her Phantom experience. Grr. Anw I think despite all the bad review on Phantom that I have heard, my manager at DC actually said in his words "first class tickets for third class show", I actually quite enjoyed it, except for the messy scene when they received letters from phantoms and started singing together and probably for the not-very-impactful chandelier crashing to the stage. I heard they up the speed abit already but erm I think technicalities of having to lower the chandelier below the proscenium before able to crash the chandelier on stage, that totally spoilt the whole impact. And I didnt hear any traces of mouthing the songs, as my manager had claimed, maybe it was two different Christine. Drey also say she didnt. I love the river scene and what wondering how they 'row' the boat in and how the sets shifted in by themselves. Budget must be the key to it!! And I think the Phantom quite poor thing.. have to run up and down climb up and down appearing in the most unbelievable places. One of the usher once asked me why did I go to watch Phantom on stage since it was already shown on TV? And I insist that watching on stage is so much nicer, and that I would spend over $100 for a musical I liked. She said she wouldn't spend that kind of $$. I feel that on the big screen and on stage there are intrinsic differences, and I love how the drama unfold before my very eye rather than being pre-shot. The dynamics of theatre is something that film cant beat. At least thats how I feel. Now there is just this one musical I would like to catch on stage: Les Misérables!
So now every projects have been done. Finally! This semester projects seems to stretch for soooo long and its like never-ending. Now for my last paper. >_<
Now watching: Hana Kimi & My name is Kim Sam Soon (I noe I super lag >_<) Now listening: Jewel! Pieces of You. (Suddenly got the urge to listen to her songs. Damn nice!)
Drey & Me at Esplanade. There's an angel behind us!我自拍的技术越来越好了！
The fabulous line art at Esplanade by Joshua Yang & his students. Rule #1: Lines are continuous. Rule #2: Lines cannot overlap.
Yin & Yang. I can just imagine how much time is needed for drawing all these with much planning and the varying thickness of lines. Super nice!On another note, need to get a new mouse and somehow dunno why the cbox at my blog is not working T_T! The rest of the cbox at other sites are working! Grr!
Friday, April 20, 2007
Rusty
Struggling now to finish the website for NM3217. It should have been easy for me, but I realise it been rather long since I designed a website. Getting so rusty. With all the new web 2.0 and AJAX stuff coming up, I got an itch to try them out. But then again, I wonder do I have the time, and most importantly the heart to learn. And right now I am stuck at designing the navigation bar for the website, the ones I did look so ugly. Still have no idea how the site is going to look like. Plus I got to do it in tables. Goodness I dont think I have ever designed a website using tables. I hate tables. >_<
Today or rather yesterday was my first paper. The first time having an exam in a lab, using a computer to type, in Chinese some more. I think my typing is slow, especially with the keyboard which cant seem to register the 'n's I type. Grr. Dont think I will do well in this paper, bcoz I haven't written much. The 2 hours are just not enough. Well hopefully the weekly assignments that I think I did quite well in will help. Anw only need a C and above since its NTU module. Reminds me that all my As from Korea University all become Ss and cannot help to pull my CAP up. So wasted. But of coz I still do want to score well on the NTU module lar. Oh and I met Kaili when going home today. She was talking to a friend about the U.S gun incident, describing some of the details, which got me somehow quite disturbed. Actually I was just eavesdropping on their conversation after some brief awkward chat with her. =X.
After 5pm today, I will have only have one more project and one more exam left. But right now I still need to write the goodness know what printer specification, do the stupid dummy and the art package. I hope the print job for my brochure turns up ok. Gotta pick it up later.
The laptop is so w-o-l-s. Especially when I was doing the brochure at 300 dpi. Think there is just too many programs in the lappie. I have thus far installed Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft Office 2007, Clubbox, FlashGet this semester. On top of ImageReady, Photoshop, Flash, Maplestory which was already installed. Would have installed Premiere too if lappie had allowed it to run.
Need to get back to finish the damn website. Last minute work again. Like what's new.
{In the end we didnt watch the movie. In the end we had a game of Daytona. In the end we ended up at the bus terminal. And then suddenly because the bus that came wasnt 69, we ended up at Macs eating ice cream. In the end I am glad that you came back to us. Thank you for telling your story, though I didn't help. You will be loved by us. Thank you for coming back.}
Today or rather yesterday was my first paper. The first time having an exam in a lab, using a computer to type, in Chinese some more. I think my typing is slow, especially with the keyboard which cant seem to register the 'n's I type. Grr. Dont think I will do well in this paper, bcoz I haven't written much. The 2 hours are just not enough. Well hopefully the weekly assignments that I think I did quite well in will help. Anw only need a C and above since its NTU module. Reminds me that all my As from Korea University all become Ss and cannot help to pull my CAP up. So wasted. But of coz I still do want to score well on the NTU module lar. Oh and I met Kaili when going home today. She was talking to a friend about the U.S gun incident, describing some of the details, which got me somehow quite disturbed. Actually I was just eavesdropping on their conversation after some brief awkward chat with her. =X.
After 5pm today, I will have only have one more project and one more exam left. But right now I still need to write the goodness know what printer specification, do the stupid dummy and the art package. I hope the print job for my brochure turns up ok. Gotta pick it up later.
The laptop is so w-o-l-s. Especially when I was doing the brochure at 300 dpi. Think there is just too many programs in the lappie. I have thus far installed Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft Office 2007, Clubbox, FlashGet this semester. On top of ImageReady, Photoshop, Flash, Maplestory which was already installed. Would have installed Premiere too if lappie had allowed it to run.
Need to get back to finish the damn website. Last minute work again. Like what's new.
{In the end we didnt watch the movie. In the end we had a game of Daytona. In the end we ended up at the bus terminal. And then suddenly because the bus that came wasnt 69, we ended up at Macs eating ice cream. In the end I am glad that you came back to us. Thank you for telling your story, though I didn't help. You will be loved by us. Thank you for coming back.}
Monday, April 16, 2007
Unforgettable
I expect this very song to be the next trend of DC ushers. Lol. Managed to watch Blithe Spirit on my 4th duty after swapping positions with Shu Jie. ^^ Quite an amusing show. Though there is quite a lot of dialouge, but still rather entertaining. Must say they are really good actor/actresses. Love Pam Ooi as the maid. Lol. The two wives and the husband (Tan Kheng Hua, Neo Swee Lin & Lim Kay Siu) are so good too. Had a really good laugh. FYI Blithe Spirit is actually a famous play from 1941, didn't know until one of the usher told me that =P.
So now school has officially ended. Yay no more classes until Aug! But still got 2 more projects to do and 2 more exams to endure. The ethics essay has been handed up and now I am just fearing about the grades I would get. It quite unbelievable what As, Bs and Cs can do to students, & I am just one of them.
Sat started with some clearing up. Wanted to clear my room but after like 1/2 hr gave up. It like there is so many things to keep and so little space and I know that half the things I wanna keep I most prob most wont rem about them after I throw them away but somehow I just wanna keep them? Over sentimental I guess or you can call it insecurity. It like how you need things, physical and tangible things, to remind you that some things did happen and it not your hallucination? Or perhaps you need some thing to hold on too. I equal that to photographs, how we alway wanted to keep those good memories with us, snapping down the moments of joy and happiness but then again never touching or looking back to the gigabytes of photos stored in the hard disk. And when they chalk up to much space you just burn them into CDs and soon you realise you got one whole load of CDs with dust.
Ok I shall stop ranting, the cleaning probably got into my head or something. Anw managed to clean up the computer table a bit. And swept away a lot of dust. And handwash some of my clothes and such. Actually wanna go support nuSTUDIOS at Lib@Esplanade one but then it started raining heavily and so I decided to stay home & cont to watch HanaKimi =x. Lol and then night was work at DC in which I got blamed for this one incident. Not that I wasn't at fault but aiyah long story. I should have been more alert. I just hate to make mistakes because it just eats into me. Grr. And like Yati says, how she hate it when all along she been doing fine and then one day she make this one mistake and all everyone rem is that mistake and dismiss of the good work, thats how I feel too. Working at DC is quite different from working at CBTL or the chocolate shop, you work with much more people on one duty and get to know a lot of different people from different stages of life. The more you work there, the more you are amazed at how can these people work together in the same environment. Yet somehow we managed to, despite all the differences, despite all the gossips, despite all the cliques.
On another note I have finished 3 storybooks in two days! 2 Chinese ones and 1 English one. Ushering (& bus rides too) is a good time to read books when you don't get to go in to watch the show or in work terms to make sure patrons behave. You'll be flabbergasted to know how patrons who dressed very nicely sneak ice cream into handbags -_- or take photos in the theatre. But of course there are nice patrons who make your day =). Anw the English book (shall not write about Chinese ones since most ppl wont know abt them =x )is.. "For Another Day" by Mitch Albom. Very nice! I finished it like an hour ago. Just bought it like 7 or 8 hours ago during dinner break between the shows. 20% off the soft cover version at kino so it only cost like $12.55. =) Also bought another Chinese book by 深雪. I can still vividly remember the day when me and Huiyu found this book by her on our class bench. Didnt know whose was it and we totally fell in love with the morbid story. Sometimes chance can be so wonderful, if it wasn't for that book on the table, I might not have become so fascinated by 深雪. Of course not all her books are nice, but still she remains one of the Chinese author whose books I like to look out for.
Seems like today I am quite is a chatty mood. When tmr comes, I mean when after I go to sleep and wake up again, I really need to get started on projects soon =x Going to sleep le. Thinking of whether to go watch 23 with Drey and Loo. Prob will. Though I have no idea what is the show about. Except what Drey smsed me that its a thriller with Jim Carrey in it.
0_0 Yawns.
So now school has officially ended. Yay no more classes until Aug! But still got 2 more projects to do and 2 more exams to endure. The ethics essay has been handed up and now I am just fearing about the grades I would get. It quite unbelievable what As, Bs and Cs can do to students, & I am just one of them.
Sat started with some clearing up. Wanted to clear my room but after like 1/2 hr gave up. It like there is so many things to keep and so little space and I know that half the things I wanna keep I most prob most wont rem about them after I throw them away but somehow I just wanna keep them? Over sentimental I guess or you can call it insecurity. It like how you need things, physical and tangible things, to remind you that some things did happen and it not your hallucination? Or perhaps you need some thing to hold on too. I equal that to photographs, how we alway wanted to keep those good memories with us, snapping down the moments of joy and happiness but then again never touching or looking back to the gigabytes of photos stored in the hard disk. And when they chalk up to much space you just burn them into CDs and soon you realise you got one whole load of CDs with dust.
Ok I shall stop ranting, the cleaning probably got into my head or something. Anw managed to clean up the computer table a bit. And swept away a lot of dust. And handwash some of my clothes and such. Actually wanna go support nuSTUDIOS at Lib@Esplanade one but then it started raining heavily and so I decided to stay home & cont to watch HanaKimi =x. Lol and then night was work at DC in which I got blamed for this one incident. Not that I wasn't at fault but aiyah long story. I should have been more alert. I just hate to make mistakes because it just eats into me. Grr. And like Yati says, how she hate it when all along she been doing fine and then one day she make this one mistake and all everyone rem is that mistake and dismiss of the good work, thats how I feel too. Working at DC is quite different from working at CBTL or the chocolate shop, you work with much more people on one duty and get to know a lot of different people from different stages of life. The more you work there, the more you are amazed at how can these people work together in the same environment. Yet somehow we managed to, despite all the differences, despite all the gossips, despite all the cliques.
On another note I have finished 3 storybooks in two days! 2 Chinese ones and 1 English one. Ushering (& bus rides too) is a good time to read books when you don't get to go in to watch the show or in work terms to make sure patrons behave. You'll be flabbergasted to know how patrons who dressed very nicely sneak ice cream into handbags -_- or take photos in the theatre. But of course there are nice patrons who make your day =). Anw the English book (shall not write about Chinese ones since most ppl wont know abt them =x )is.. "For Another Day" by Mitch Albom. Very nice! I finished it like an hour ago. Just bought it like 7 or 8 hours ago during dinner break between the shows. 20% off the soft cover version at kino so it only cost like $12.55. =) Also bought another Chinese book by 深雪. I can still vividly remember the day when me and Huiyu found this book by her on our class bench. Didnt know whose was it and we totally fell in love with the morbid story. Sometimes chance can be so wonderful, if it wasn't for that book on the table, I might not have become so fascinated by 深雪. Of course not all her books are nice, but still she remains one of the Chinese author whose books I like to look out for.
Seems like today I am quite is a chatty mood. When tmr comes, I mean when after I go to sleep and wake up again, I really need to get started on projects soon =x Going to sleep le. Thinking of whether to go watch 23 with Drey and Loo. Prob will. Though I have no idea what is the show about. Except what Drey smsed me that its a thriller with Jim Carrey in it.
0_0 Yawns.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Grr..
Argh I am so dead for my final ethics essay! I cant see how am I going to pull through the 2500 words essay when I haven even really decide on the topic yet. And whatever I have written so far looks super crappy to me. And yes it gonna be due in class tmr, or rather in like 12-hour time.
Actually ethics is interesting. I really enjoyed class though it can be chim to me at times. But I am just not good at presenting arguments or writing it. Haiz.
Last minute work again, but that is just so me. Procrastinator. Well I did plan to start writing earlier but somehow never got to it.
Cant wait for the essay to be handed up, it will essentially mean that 2 out of 6 modules (only!) officially ended. Oh yes except for the fact that I probably need to post more forum posts, though I tried yest and posted like 2 posts each.
However though, gei kiang me went to sign up for usher job at DC tmr nite thinking that I am a superwoman w/o needing sleep knowing vv well that tonite there will be no sleep for me due to chionging the essay. -_-!
Need to start writing again. This is just a breather.
Actually ethics is interesting. I really enjoyed class though it can be chim to me at times. But I am just not good at presenting arguments or writing it. Haiz.
Last minute work again, but that is just so me. Procrastinator. Well I did plan to start writing earlier but somehow never got to it.
Cant wait for the essay to be handed up, it will essentially mean that 2 out of 6 modules (only!) officially ended. Oh yes except for the fact that I probably need to post more forum posts, though I tried yest and posted like 2 posts each.
However though, gei kiang me went to sign up for usher job at DC tmr nite thinking that I am a superwoman w/o needing sleep knowing vv well that tonite there will be no sleep for me due to chionging the essay. -_-!
Need to start writing again. This is just a breather.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Datelines
Today: NM4202 paper and presentation down.
And the looming deadlines are..
3/4: NM4210 paper prototype (just a short chat with Reddy)
9/4: CS3265 paper (lucky change dateline and no presentation!)
10/4: NM3217 exam in class + NM4210 final prototype presentation
12/4: NM4204 ethics (:\) essay due
13/4: Last CS228 assignment in class
Not to forget the damn forum posts (NM4202, NM4204) for the participation marks.
And it stretches to study week..
17/4: NM4210 refined final prototype presentation
19/4: NM3217 website + folder
20/4: NM4210 portfolio (blog and other documents)
But exams dates are slack!
19/4: CS228 @ NTU
28/4: CS3265 @ NUS
With work to earn $$ here and there
7/4: DC (An Evening of Children Opera)
8/4: CBTL and DC (An Evening of Children Opera)
12/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
14/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
15/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
22/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
25/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
Tentative:
20/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
21/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
26/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
29/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
[probably more jobs will come along when the slots are open.. $$$.. I actually did 20 shows out of the 40 Titoudao shows in March.. almost all the ushers there can act/sing out the show!]
And Phantom of the Opera (or Gui in the theatre) with Drey on 24/4
And after that.. its off to U.S which I think is on 5/5. My passport is still with gasi plus housing deposit not paid =\
Of course, I will have to meet up with my friends (Wendy, Cheryl, Bingkai, Munyew?, Hoiting, Terry, Wei Jian, Audrey, Eunice, Maggie, Wingyan!!, Louis.. etc etc) before that. And yeah I intend to pack my room before I leave too which is a big project 0_o.
You know when you have seen too much of Titoudao when you keep saying...
"Ahhh.. 你是不是那个Oun Ah Chiam (or sub with any usher's name).. Ahhh.. 我很喜欢你.. 签名签名.. ok my turn.."
And the looming deadlines are..
3/4: NM4210 paper prototype (just a short chat with Reddy)
9/4: CS3265 paper (lucky change dateline and no presentation!)
10/4: NM3217 exam in class + NM4210 final prototype presentation
12/4: NM4204 ethics (:\) essay due
13/4: Last CS228 assignment in class
Not to forget the damn forum posts (NM4202, NM4204) for the participation marks.
And it stretches to study week..
17/4: NM4210 refined final prototype presentation
19/4: NM3217 website + folder
20/4: NM4210 portfolio (blog and other documents)
But exams dates are slack!
19/4: CS228 @ NTU
28/4: CS3265 @ NUS
With work to earn $$ here and there
7/4: DC (An Evening of Children Opera)
8/4: CBTL and DC (An Evening of Children Opera)
12/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
14/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
15/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
22/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
25/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
Tentative:
20/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
21/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
26/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
29/4: DC (Blithe Spirit)
[probably more jobs will come along when the slots are open.. $$$.. I actually did 20 shows out of the 40 Titoudao shows in March.. almost all the ushers there can act/sing out the show!]
And Phantom of the Opera (or Gui in the theatre) with Drey on 24/4
And after that.. its off to U.S which I think is on 5/5. My passport is still with gasi plus housing deposit not paid =\
Of course, I will have to meet up with my friends (Wendy, Cheryl, Bingkai, Munyew?, Hoiting, Terry, Wei Jian, Audrey, Eunice, Maggie, Wingyan!!, Louis.. etc etc) before that. And yeah I intend to pack my room before I leave too which is a big project 0_o.
You know when you have seen too much of Titoudao when you keep saying...
"Ahhh.. 你是不是那个Oun Ah Chiam (or sub with any usher's name).. Ahhh.. 我很喜欢你.. 签名签名.. ok my turn.."
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