Hmmm.. my last post finally appeared.

Oh well... I think it had to do with the template. Guess it's better this way. Saves me the trouble of changing the blogskin of my old blog (I was getting sick of the black background)

Cya at my new place! :)

4 more posts short of the big 8-0-0. But i've moved...

Look for me @ http://purelysimple.wordpress.com

I'm still in a kind of transitional-ish state... so may still end up posting or double posting here and there. Some loose ends to wrap up to complete my memories over here. :)

I feel like moving over to wordpress... But I've had this site for years... 5 to be precise.

Let me think a bit more about this first. :)

Midst of studying for my last paper on Sat morning and the jobhunt. Taking my time, but not sure what I should apply for. Haven't exactly looked at the HR postings yet. Maybe I should start looking there soon.

From the relatively unblocked view from my room window, I can actually see the streaks of lightning instead of just flashes of it...

Study break... I can't seem to find my ethics notes. Haiz...

Hmmm... my mind is in a blank after my last presentation at SMU.

It went pretty well I think... or so I hope. And it's probably the first time in a long while that I prepared so much for a presentation and did up cue cards - insteead of writing my script out. I can't even remember when was that last time I used the cue cards...

Slowly floating back to earth... 1 more paper and 2 more exams to study for.. and I don't even know when my first exam is on. How brilliant...

So many things to blog about... I've moved, last week of school, last class in SMU...

But.. i'm still busy with school stuff... will try to retain those memories and blog them down later..

I'm preparing for my last presentation in SMU.. and it's MAJOR... Oral defense for my thesis.. May my brain be able to work at 9am tomorrow and I hope my examiners won't throw me tough questions that I can't answer.

Oh.. another reason why I'm blogging this...

Random trivial:
Just read that Jay (Chou) stayed up till 6am the night before his Taipei concert. And he was sick. Plus, right after that, he filmed 通宵 for the MV for one of his songs - i think it's 扯 - before heading over to China to do sth else.

This i gotta document... bits and pieces of undergraduate life to store and file away...

Am writing up my thesis now. Started 2 days agom still writing due ot distractions like Viwawa, erm... viwawa and more viwawa. (Check it out if you dunno what it is yet! www.viwawa.com )

Ya... and as I write, I have stacks of papers on both sides of the laptops. Most of them are journal articles... or hastily scribbled notes/outlines for particular sections... I would turn to a pile, flip through them, get some inspiration... and then continue writing... and I actually enjoy it... I like it when words flow.. but I've been stuck for the past 1 hour... I need to finish this section.. and another one... by tonight. How?

I know what to write, but not that sure how to write it. shows that I don't really read the discussion section of journal articles very carefully...

Moved house last Monday or Tuesday depending on how you look at it. The place still smells of newness... I have a prety unblocked view from my room. Neat! :) Now.. to finish the thesis so that I can unpack properly...

hmmm.. for some weird reason or other, i don't see my newest post when i visit my blog.. but I know you all have commented... so I guess as long as u all can see it, it's fine! :)

This week has gone by in a blink of an eye... Ok.. I felt that this week was so much mroe relaxing than my break week... Hurhurhur... had time to chill, do my own stuff... Maybe a normal school week is better...

The past few weeks have been busy with me running my study to collect data for my thesis, going for networking in week 8 and rushing my Wednesday presentations.

All not very good excuses for not blogging huh? What about just not feeling like? Since there is nothing very much interesting going on in my life except for school work... The job hunt is not moving very well and I don't really have the time nor mood to really start looking... and the one mega thinge... I'm moving in mid March!!!

Ok.. So I did spent a couple of days here and there packing my stuff into boxes. Well.. it's been certified. I'm a hoarder... Tons of stuff that I packed away into my cupboards, never really knowing they were there until I start digging them out.

Was supposed to go to school today.. but I decided to clear out a cupboard until I forgot the time. and then decided it was too late to go down... Heh... I found boxes of the letters we exchanges in secondary school (I have a shoe box and a test tube box full of them!) Christmas/Birthday/Festive/Just-to-say-Hi cards from beloved friends. Programme booklets of concerts I attended and the list goes on...

Packing also unearthed some of my grandmother's treasures. Scraps of clothes that she had cut into squares and triagles, so that she could painstakingly sew them into a patchwork blanket/quilt for us. Looking at old photos of me when I was a wee little tot... More photos of grandma. Miss her so much! :)

It's gonna be a somewhat hellish 3 weeks... Rush data, rush thesis, rush ethics presentation, rush packing. Best to enjoy my last sem as much as I can.

I am a psychology student. I'm writing a commentary on political leadership transitions.

The topic is interesting. A word limit of 600 doesn't get me very far even though I have different things to explore.

Busy busy busy. Preparing for thesis... running thesis, rushing presentation for Psych of reasoning... running studies. It's a vicious cycle I say.

Updates updates updates...

Well.. one week ago, I went for HIS concert!

Jay Chou!

Hahaha.. this is what seats at ROW 6 yielded! Hahaha... to be able to see him walk past you like barely one metre away and the chance to his sleeve... as that's what Yuanshan did... Yeah... just wanted to note that I was at Row 6!!!

Doesn't he look good playing the drums?

Ya... so I spent the past 1 week in lala Jay Chou land... but I'm glad to say I'm snapping out of it... After a mega Jay Chou ktv session with the gassy gals...

So... on the school front, I'm proud to say that the first draft of my Thesis study is up!!! Yep! managed to put the study on this computer programme... SO just need to troubleshoot it, make it more aesthetically pleasing and I'm ready to run my study!!! yeah!!!

Taking 3 mods makes me more slack... Or rather, it gives me the illusion that I have a lot of free time! But at least I make use of some of them to do my Ethics reading... I think Ethics is a rather 'crappable' subject... Give a company an ethical dilemma.... and then... who to consider? why should you consider this and why not that.... Principles and theories...

For Psych of Reasoning and Thinking, we have to read 1 journal article a week... and then prepare a presentation explaining the study conducted in the article. We would then be randomly picked to present the article. I was 'lucky' enough to be randomly chosen to present for the past 2 weeks liao...

Capstone has been stagnant cause we haven't had any talks yet... So now.. time to start doing some revision and what not...

Ok.. ending this post with yet another of the pics taken... I dunno whether I love my camera more or the seats I had. Hahahaha...

Ok... I need to snap out of this fangirling stage... At 23, it's a bit late no?

Been on a Jay Chou high after going for Jay Chou's concert on Friday night. And been prettty obsessed with it for the past two days. (try going on youtube to search for a million and one fanclips). It doesn't help that we discussed him when we met yesterday. Hahaha... Wild thoughts of getting to meet him or sth has been flitting in and out of my mind. (Never thought I could be so crazy over a celebrity.. hurhurhur...)

Need to shift my attention to some other stuff. Maybe I should go to town and return my library books (in the hope of being able to meet him! Wahahahhas...) Like Siyi said, I'm gone!

On another note, went to the career fair yesterday. Eh.. nothing much lor... I felt pretty much cheated. I might as well have applied for the jobs online. Other than that, week 3 of school is starting now. In the midst of getting my study up...

Heh.. realised I haven't posted much (or rather, anything) about my HK trip~!~ So here's a short short summary...

Highlight of the trip would be I guess.... HIM!!!

Yeah.. Went for a Jay Chou concert... which we decided in a spur of madness at 3am one night.

And I liked it so much... that I'll be going for his concert on the 18th! Can't WAIT!! IT"S NEXT WEEK!

hmmm.. so what else did we do with a 9 days, 8 nights trip in HK? Like the advert said... 买东西, 吃东西, 卖东西, 吃东西。。。and have loads and loads of fun...

Here's Siyi jumping into the picture at the Tung Chung factory outlets. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we only managed to get stuff from Esprit... Pretty nice tops there. Some of the things there are not rock-bottom cheap, but cheaper than what you get at the stores. So yeap.. after that, we headed to Disneyland!

Minnie at the entrance... and look!

Mickey and Minnie greeting us during the Christmas parade. And that sadly was the only shot I got of these 2 iconic Disney figures.

Mabel, Ade and Siyi... with our boarding passes for a ride...

And here's Sleeping Beauty's castle all lighted up. They set of fireworks at 8pm everynight.. Beautiful! S omagical.. but yeah.. you can just spend half a afternoon there. So I dun think the entrance ticket will be very much worth it. But then again, it is nice to go and see them... Some sort of a childhood thingee...

We also made a trip to Ocean Park! 2 themeparks!!!

Watched the seal and dolphin shows. I heart dolphins! And the good thing was that we did not have to queue very long for the rides. So yep... we took the roller coasters and what not...

Also went into the aquarium... WhootS! loads of nice and huge fishies... Makes me feel like going to pick up scuba diving. How I would love to dive into the sea and swim with the fishes. And it reminded me of the time I went to the Underwater World after my internship with Zhumei and Val. Hahaha...

And yep.. we saw the pandas. They were cute and very clumsy if I would say so...

And then Ocean Park was also where we got Bat Man and Schwein, seen on the left and right shoulder of gingerbread man respectively.

Ok... so much for the fun thingee... what about food? Heh... loads and loads of desserts.

But first.. the main course...From left to right on top, the first is a plate of sliced beef for steamboat. See the soup pot bubbling in the middle of the 2nd row. Yep.. it's from this place called 有骨气 and the soup base is damn good! Yummilicious!

And then how to forget dim sum... har gow and siew mai being served up next... And then we have egg tarts - you can get very good ones from practically everywhere! :)

The last picture is of a crepe we had at this revolving restaurant at Wan Chai. We went for high-tea (so tai tai right?). Hahaha.. good food aplenty! As for desserts...

One of my favourite dessert to have in HK is 杨支金露. It's mango puree with mango cubes together with pomelo. and i declare the one sold at Lucky Desserts (发记) the best simply because they are very generous with their mango! another one would be the Almond paste dessert. And so... I think we went for desserts like at least 5 times during our trip.

Hahaha. by some stroke of luck, the top row of pics are all from Lucky Desserts. We have the Durian Pancake which is pretty good as the durian is rather fragrant. Following that, Almond Paste and finally, 杨支金露.

Next, we have steamed milk which is oh-so-delicious! I had the ginger one and it's just so soothing. 杨支金露 from 许溜山. and then almond paste dessert again from another rather good dessert place called 满记. And finally, there's some red bean paste(?), Mango sago dessert and Walnut paste.

Yep.. shall blog till here... we also went up to the Peak where it was brrrr cold... went into the wax museum there, walked the Avenue of Stars at Tsim Sha Tsui and visited Mabel's uni. heh.. more pictures the next time! :)

Week one of my final sem in uni came and went. Although only doing 3 mods this sem, but deadlines seem to be pretty tight with my thesis, commentaries and papers all due very close to each other. But must cherish this last semester...

What else have I been busy with? Nothing much actually. I got a new phone! Wahahahhas.. it's a Motorola v9. Pretty ok.. and I like it cause its slick and I like the rather unique mahagony colour.

I finally got approval to run my thesis study! Whoots!!! Haven't been that excited at receiving an email for some time liao. Cause I have been worried that they would reject the proposal and stuff. But all's well in the end!

A whole new sem ahead.. looking forward to meet some people whom I haven't seen in a while. Yeah.. that means you Val! Hahaha.. taking modules with many friends I've made over the past 3.5 years, every class is like a gathering. Here's to a funfilled sem!

Happy New Year!!! Ok.. my new year greetings always comes a bit later than the 1st Jan.

I was just looking through my archives... I've been blogging for 4 and a half years. That's quite a lot of things to say. From the 2nd half of my JC years to now, when I'm entering my last sem at Uni.

Well.. wishes for the new year...

• I guess to be more focussed - work on my thesis and the last 3 modules of my undergrad life
• To find a job - hoping, wishing, maybe an overseas posting? More importantly though, I hope it is work that I enjoy and in a company where I will be given opportunities to grow.
• To better appreciate and love the people around me - family, friends.
• Try not to procrastinate too much...

And now... looking back at 2007 so that I can draw a close to the year...

Having spent almost 5 months out of Singapore, I guess the highlight of the year would be my exchange to Switzerland... Looking at these pics of gorgeous scenary never fails to make me smile... :)

Bellinzona - in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.

Rheinfalls

Interlaken, Switzerland

And then, there's the thrill of working on my senior thesis albeit all the hard work. Getting approval, working out the kinks and details... another sem to slog it out...

My recent trip to Hongkong with Siyi and Ade, meeting Mabel there and meeting up with Sea and Charlotte, friends I met on exchange. Heh... Watching Jay Chou which set me off on a mini Jay Chou craze...

And I think more importantly, having quite a bit of 'me-time' for December. So apologies if I seem anti-social and stuff. First, I got a handphone that loses my smses and can't msg very well. But I had time to recharge and slack... A wonderful Christmas and New Year.

And now.. onward to a New Year! I just have to settle that dratted IRB application... heh...