Correction!

Juz realised my previous entry - deferment is not an option! =x lol.. Opps..

Motivation? =]

Having trouble staying motivated with your studies?

Did you make resolutions to "catch up" or "get ahead" during the recent semester break and it just hasn't happened? Are you feeling like you haven't had a real break and now there are heaps more assignments to hand in and lectures and tutorials to attend? Perhaps you can't quite remember why you thought that doing a degree was a good idea in the first place or are wondering how you are going to keep hanging in there.

If you're still reading this column there's a good chance that you're serious about getting a degree. Remember that you wouldn't have been offered a place at university if we didn't believe that you have what it takes. Motivation requires a goal and maybe one of these suggestions could be useful.

• Think about things which motivate you and acknowledge that this changes over time. If you need small rewards or someone to take an interest in your journey, try to put some external motivators in place. Offer to help someone in the same predicament in exchange for them helping you.

• Stop talking down your achievements. You may be really, really good at being your harshest critic but would you try to motivate anyone with the thoughts you are telling yourself? Of course not. Try self-encouragement instead of self-condemnation.

• Discover your "peak times". Don't expect to begin the hardest tasks at those times of the day you feel least motivated. Be aware when you feel most alert and save the more mundane tasks for your sluggish periods...everyone has them!

• Recognise your self-defeating behaviour. How realistic are those excuses? Use some of that procrastinating activity as a warm-up to settling down to study. That way, you are still in control.

• When you feel tired or physically unwell, motivation flies out the window. Be sure to look after yourself by eating healthily, exercising, getting enough sleep and taking time to relax.

• Motivation is specific to a goal and a time frame. The work will have to be done at some point if you're going to complete your course. (There may be things going on in your life which make you doubt whether this is the right time for you to pursue study. There's no shame in deferring your study if you believe it's the right decision for you.) (not applicable!)
  

Taken from: My Uni's Newsletter! =]

Human Resource Department

My last HRM tutorial this morning.. Its a group presentation - assessing the effectiveness of HRM..

Poor HR Department.. Whenever the economy is bad, 第一个被拿来开刀的就是 HR Department de ppl.. =x Coz ppl dont usually see how HR policies contribute directly to the profit.. Shall not elaborate too much.. But yah, glad that i took this module and learnt alot of new things.. =]

Exam's coming in 2 weeks times.. =p lol..

Lizard

Killed a lizard this morning.. Using Shieldtox.. Felt guilty as I only use a small amount of it.. So it kinda struggled for a long time.. =x Felt even more guilty when it climbed climbed climbed from my room all the way to the window.., then fell off from 14th storey! =x

Guilty guilty.. =x

Hope it will have a good afterlife.. *bless*

Bonjour

Didnt even realise that i finished one whole loaf of Bonjour bread while i was reading blogs.. =p lol.. Not too surprising lah... But yah.., i still hungry though. =p lol..

Shall continue with my revision.. =s lol..

Found out that a lot of my friends took off their tagboards from their blogs.. Dont know why.. =x

Anyway busy term, and will only get more and more busy for the coming weeks.. Kinda stress but still coping well.. =] I need some solar panels now..

Anyway June Holiday over liao.. All juniors are now busy with their exams. Hmm.., honestly I couldnt recall what i did around this time last year. Meaning there was a high chance that i was slacking? =x Okie i very 该死.. =x Shall not repeat that mistake again. Studying hard now, hopefully can get the scholarship for my honours year.. *cross fingers* haha.. Anyway, though dont think that they all will be able to read this now, but still "Good Lucks and All the Bestz!" =]

Oh yah, i realised thatwhat i always said to my juniors have become a popular consoling words.. =x lol..

It doesnt matter how slow you walk. As long as you never stop walking, you would always be one step closer towards your goals than you were yesterday.

Anyway i got a class photo! Even though i looked retarded and somehow i feel that i am always that spoiler in all my group photos.. Sad.. =x lol..


Lessons learnt today:

1. Dont stay up until too late.. Dont want to miss any lesson anymore.. Must force myself to wake up as soon as I hear my alarm phone calling for me! =x
2. When you are done with your assignment, plz print it out asap. I was in the school library this afternoon, and when I was able to print my assignment, my sch de comp all hanged! =x
3. Always inform other people your intention asap! One of my HRM groupmate told me that he would be in overseas when I was able to talk him that i want to meet the group tml for discussion.. Shiok! =x lol..
   

Pathetic.. Me..

The heavy rain in the afternoon made me realised that no one really understand me.. No one really understand why I had such a big reaction this afternoon.

“We are just joking ard, he doesn’t nd to have such a big reaction wad. He is juz so petty!”

“Yes I am..”

But is that all? Is that all that u all can see?

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Some tried to understand after that, but still… I appreciate their efforts though..

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I hated myself for acting that way.. I was angry not bcoz of wad u all did, but to what I had did to u all... Bt again, I was wondering did any of u all realise that..

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None I guess?

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In the end, I am juz a pathetic clown that have failed to entertain ppl…, not even myself..

Ironically, I was laughing at my ending..

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I am wondering if I am to go back to myself.. I think that will be better..

Ignorance and Arrogance..

Sch are getting busier.. =x I wondering why, but when I was not really motivated to study, I would go study.. When I was motivated to study, I dint study much! =x Wad happened to me.. =x Nvm.. I shall pick up myself once again now! =]

Anyway, here are some of quotes that I find quite interesting over the week:

• “Let be fair ppl! We shd not let our biases to distort our judgement. Ignorance and Arrogance are twin sisters.”

By my sch’s Dean, Dr Gian

• “After their exam some people would just forget what they have learnt – that was a complete failure of education.”

• “We are tested not only during the exam, but also being tested by other people on daily basis.”

By my HRM Lecturer, Mr Chan

• “I need brain juice to dissolve all these info, mix it, and churn out the (perfect/correct) answers. say hello to four walls, a table and piles of notes + books”

• “How I wish I can swallow textbooks - hunger and thirst for pages and all. Three full meals and extended meal times to feed the brain...”

• “To make the best out of situations I’m thrown into, to have the mental strength to finish what I started, to fight for what my heart desires.”

By my classmate, Li Min

Happy Day! =]

So happy ytd.. Went out with my gf.. Shop shop.. =p lol..

Went to watch “What Happens in Vegas” in Bishan.. Nice show.. plus v funny also.. All ppl like kept laughing like that.. =p Haha.. From a lady who was dumped by her fiancé to a man who was fired by his own father, to act like a husband and wife to share the $3m that they won in Vegas de jackpot.. The whole process was rather fun.. So yah, couples out there, it can be a nice movie choice for u all to watch! =]

Along the way, we went to PS, bought a shirt and jean for me.. =] lol.. Happy happy gt new clothes to wear.. =p The best part was: I don’t nd to wear tight jeans anymore.. =p Hahha… Coz apparently I hav expanded horizontally, so my old jeans were kinda tight.. So finally no nd to wear tight jeans anymore.. =p lol..

One Week

My new school term started one week ago. Until now, all things went fine. =]

Has been bombarded by my new accounting lecturer.. She talked like machine gun like that.. Kept talking and talking.. =x But then she was a nice lady lah.. Haha.. The management accounting seemed to be quite hard.. =x Let see how it goes.. =]

Finance modules were quite interesting.. And apparently my tutors for Finance and Business Finance were classmate before.. Kept po-ing each other in the lecture and tutoirial.. =p lol.. Finance modules like quite fun like that eh.. Minus all the maths.. =p haha..

My Human Resource Management de lecturer (and my tutor as well) v funny loh.. I enjoyed his class the most o far.. He was a Hongki.. So after lecture some of my friends talked to him in Canto.. Then I didn’t noe how to speak, so I could only say, “wo em zi arh” and teased my friend, “lei em zi arh”.. =p All were laughing.. =p lol..

Next week onwards things will start goin.. All the tutorials and assignments will come soon.. Can see all the tutors are v helpful that kind.. Looking forward to do well this term with all my friends!

Bye, my honeymoon week.. =p lol..

PS: To all my other friends who are enjoying ur 3mths holiday.. Rest and enjoy urself well!!! =] Do some planning bah.. If not stay at home rot v sad one eh.. =x lol.. Happy holidaying! =]

Familiar Faces

Was not able to slp well ytd.. Dreamt of weird weird things again.. But then this time round I totally didn’t rmb wad were those dreams liao.. Yes, DreamS! =s Haha.. Lots of dreams.. Woke up several times last nite.. Slpt, woke up, slpt again, woke up again… =s lol.. So didn’t slp well.. =x

Anyway, ytd when I was in NTUC buying things, saw a familiar face, walked forward to confirm again, and I was rite! =] He was Desmond! My sec sch classmate! Lol.. As handsome as last time.. =p lol.. Grew taller I think.. He could recognize me at a glance.. Haha.. Thought my sec sch classmates wont be able to recognize me since I not wearing my spec now liao..

Then this afternoon when I went to amk to meet my friend, I saw two familiar faces again! One was on the bus, I thought I saw Corrine, another sec sch classmate of mine.. Another one was when I was waiting for train in yck station, I thought I saw Ai Ling, one of my sec sch mates last time.. Haha.. Didn’t noe why out of sudd met so many sec sch mates.. =x Haha..

Food Crisis!

I am v grateful for every meal that I can have everyday. Sudd hav this thought when I was eating my dinner few dayz ago…

I was eating my dinner at the coffee shop as usual.. Then when I was abt to eat, I realised that I ordered one meat, one tofu and one veggie. I felt weird.. I also didn’t noe why, but I juz felt weird. Perhaps bcoz usually I only ordered two side dishes instead of three (this was especially true during the end of the mth when I was broke.. =x lol.. But tts not the point here).

My friends would have know that I always finished all the food no matter wad.. They also nicknamed me ‘Rubbish Bin’ bcoz I would nag them to finish their food and sometime even helped them to finish their food.. =x Haha.. Sometime I would juz feel guilty for not finishing the food, especially when nowadayz food are getting more expensive and there is food shortage.

Actually I also don’t noe how to express my points here.. =x lol.. Hm.. To say it in simple ways:

• Only bought the amount of food that u can finish. If u know that the seller will give u more rice and u cant finish it, then ask for less rice.
• Make sure that u finish all the food, don’t waste.
• And also, encourage others to do the above as well! =]

Lets do our small parts to reduce food wastage! =] Wad we saved might make differences in other people lives. Even if it is small, we shd help as well! =]

“No matter how minor you think it is, never do an evil act. But never avoid doing a good act; a small difference goes a long way!”

(Special thankz to Pamela for the translation! =])

Save Food Save Food! =]

Anyway, talking about food, I am going to join the 30 Hour Famine Camp for the 3^rd time this coming June. For more info, u can go to the Famine and WorldVision websites. =]

Char Kuay Tiao + Iron Man =p lol..

Went to MDIS today.. Not to transfer sch but to walk ard.. =p lol.. So cool they gt chartered bus to the sch, even though the sch was actually within walking distance.. =p lol.. Anyway meet up with Qian Ling, my JC friend. Then she toured me ard the sch.. =] The sch quite nice actually, every facilities bigger than our sch.. =p lol..

Anyway, don’t noe if she too nice or wad, keep asking me, u wanna try this, wanna try that, juz in case I was bored.. =p haha.. Then we went to eat char kuay tiao at one coffee shop near Queenstown MRT station. Luckily we went there earlier, so not so many ppl (but if I not wrong we queued for ard 20 mins =x lol..). By the time we finished the char kuay tiao, the queue was like so so long like that, hm.. abt 15 persons? She said ppl might nd to wait for one hour for a plate of char kuay tiao.. =x Coz the uncle cooked plate by plate, and the uncle was nice and friendly, and apparently he was there for a long time (QL said she ate that stall since she was a kid, could see from her face how happy she was when the char kuay tiao was in front of her.. =p haha..) so quite popular there. When I mentioned that stall to my friend Yi San later, he also knew about that stall.. Wah.. Quite famous I guess? =] lol..

Thankz Qian Ling for being a nice host.. Made me feel like I was in visit another country and u introducing the culture of the country like that.. =p haha..

Next stop: Iron Man.. =]

After Queenstown I left for Wlands, reached Causeway Point at 8pm, meeting at 9.30pm.. =x lol.. Reading books at Popular.. =p haha.. The movie was so so cool! And funny also.. =p The cutest part is when The Iron Man was on the phone while being chased on locked down by two F-22 Raptor Fighter Jets.. So cool sia.. =p lol..

By the time the movie ended, it was 00.05am! My last train was like 00.26am and we was like on the 7^th floor! =x and we walked all the way round and round from the car park to 1^st floor.. =x and hor, when we saw the train in the mrt station, Yi San said that, “See, the mrt so near, u juz jump over then can reach liao!” “-.- Hallo, I don’t hav the iron man suit okie? Even if I have, I wont jump okie? I might as well fly back straight to my home!” =p lol..

Anyway, he managed to pass his driving test! =] Best of all, he managed to get Starhub de scholarship! =] Good Job! Jia you!!! =]

Monster..

Have been watching this anime for the past week! V nice anime!!! =]

Actually hor, when it was first aired on Arts Central I wasn’t interested at all.. =x lol.. I was like so boring anime.. Or to be exact, I didn’t really understand wad the story was abt.. =x lol.. The same case as ‘D.Gray-Man’ last time.. =p lol.. But only when I was free then went Crunchyroll and checked then realised they both were good animes to watch.. =] lol..

The storyline is sth like this:

Dr. Tenma is a Japanese man working in Germany. He has it all, incredible medical skill, a great job, a beautiful fiancee. He becomes disillusioned with the hospital politics though, when one day he's ordered to forgo operating on a critically injured man in favor of someone who was more famous. After this point, he decides he will do what he thinks is right, regardless of politics.

One day, a young boy and his younger sister were brought in. The boy had a bullet in his head, an operation that the doctor knows only he is capable of completing successfully. But soon after a politician was brought to the hospital and the high ups in the hospital want Dr. Tenma to leave the boy to operate on the politician. Dr. Tenma decides that he'll do what's right and save the young boy's life.

The young boy's operation was a success, but the surgeons operating on the politician fail, prompting his life to fall apart. Dr. Tenma is passed over for a promotion and his fiancee becomes cold to him and eventually leaves him.

But soon after, strange murders begin to occur, ones that benefit Dr. Tenma greatly and though he becomes the no. 1 suspect, they have no evidence against him. But it seems that the boy whose life he saved has a hand in things, and that he is much more than he seems...

(the description is from Crunchyroll)

It has 74 episodes! So juz nice for ppl who juz finished their exams, not working and rotting at home! =p lol..

Below is the story that can be said to be the basis of the whole anime, quite scary if u think it deeply.. =x U will know what I mean if u watch it.. =] lol..

Acknowledgment:

Photos and the video are from:

• http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/sfbuzz/Wallpapers/MonsterWP800-600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sciencefictionbuzz.com/animewallpapers.html&h=600&w=800&sz=101&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=oYadDEkmfSYJiM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMonster%2Banime%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
• http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/429/asmonsterlb6.jpg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk8Il0gKhig&feature=related