3 months sem break coming to an end

2.43a.m.
Raining now. Intermittent lightning and thunders.
Alone at my home just like usual but super have the feel to blog at this moment.
Maybe because... today marks the 1st year 8 month of sweetheart's death anniversary.

My last blog entry was on 18 April 2016... And today is already the 21st July 2016. So it has been more than 3 months since I last blogged.

So many things have happened during this span of 3 months and I don't know which to start writing about. And if I really were to sit down and write about my thoughts on all of what have happened... I think I can sit here all day and all night to do so... Haha!

Basically the more major events are:

• Krabi trip with sec sch friends
• Organised birthday bash + housewarming at my house & it was a success =DDD
• Erina's wedding + Tuesday suppers with Erina, Sihui and Qihang (some others sometimes)
• Trisha's baby bash
• Pretended to be the "mother" of my little sister and went for parent-meeting session
• Gathered and brought my ex-students for a trip at Sentosa to have fun! =DDD
• NUS union camp 2016
• Joined NUS volunteering team (in charge of helping out orphanage in Cambodia this coming December)- bonding days, lesson planning meet-up(s), etc
• Admitted to hospital for being allergic to alcohol(?)
• Started teaching back some of my ex-students (Sophie, Kayvier etc) + started teaching Amaths for the first time (Junpeng!)
• Registered for Class 2A practical lessons and passed practical lesson 1. Left with 2 more pracs to pass before I can go for TP! :)
• Bought a ukelele and started ukelele lessons every monday (:
• Started going to gym regularly again but California Fitness suddenly closed down >:( (I paid 2k cash upfront for my 2 years membership omg. I'm still left with 1 year membership!!!!!!)
• Got to know several new biker friends =DDDD and I really like how brother they are hahah
• Met up with primary sch friends to catch up on our lives (Alson, Carmen, Yeeting)
• Met up with Joseph before he flies off for overseas working stint
• Met up with JC girls to catch up (Cassandra and Xinting)
• Started using snapchat every day and it seems to have become a part of my life now
• Tuitions, tuitions, tuitions

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Some reflections on how I have spent these 3 months:

I'm glad that I have really utilised my sem break to do all the things I planned out to do =DD

Ukelele has always been something I want to learn.. and I finally kick-started this learning process! I still have a lot to improve though... and I will try my best to make out more time to become better at it :))

Here are some snippets of snapchat videos I saved!










I've also made many friends throughout this period. =D Whether or not they would become mere acquaintances or not.. I guess that's fine as long as we have enjoyed one another's companion during those times we spent together :))
Also went out of my comfort zone to join events that involve group settings such as union camp, volunteering team for cambodia trip etc...and I think I am starting to get better in group settings. Slowly...but surely.. I have faith in this :')




















I'm so so so so so happy to gather some of my ex-students to bring them to Sentosa!!!!!! They are still as cheeky as ever. Haha =DD

I remembered organising this blind-folding game at the beach whereby the catcher has to be blind-folded and use a stick-like item to catch the rest of the people. A boundary is set by 4 slippers at 4 corners.


This is Nicole hitting the air and I snapchatted this down :P

When it was my turn to be the catcher, my ex-students were so naughty and they ganged up to play a trick on me. I remembered trying my best to keep running around but I couldn't catch anyone, not even 1 person when the boundary was so small!!! When I took out my blindfold, I found out they went to take the 4 slippers and expanded the boundary until SO big!!!! No wonder I cannot catch them! Lol! Roar!!!










 Still remembered those days when I first started teaching all of them.. I was taller than all of them! Now I am the shortest one already T_________T
Really love and miss all of my ex-students so much. Am always wishing they are doing good in their respective schools and growing up well :')


I know that when school starts and I have to juggle with school and work, it would be very difficult to catch up with many of my dear friends even if I want to so I made sure I meet up with them in my sem break and I did it! Teehee =DDDD


Dinner with primary school friends

Catch up with Joseph



VOGUE~


Baby tyriel's first month baby bash~ XD


Secondary school friends~


As it is my sem break and I have more free time, I took up additional tuition sessions with some of my ex-students again for the time being since their parents requested.

One of them is Kayvier!
Here is a short video of his cute response when I tried to give him clue for the answer. hahah.



To sum up my sem break... I feel this sem break is a really happening & fulfilling one for me. ^^
Thank you to all my old friends, close friends, new friends, students, ex-students, family members, whoever you are who made semester break such a meaningful one ((:


And it is approximately two more weeks to the start of a whole new semester of year 2 life in NUS.

Time to unfold a whole new chapter of my life (:





Stay strong and live on for those who lost the privilege of life, for life itself is a gift. <3
Live, to the fullest, everyday.

Tuition every Thursday

I realized I've always been blogging about school and other stuff... and rarely on my tuition job!

So today, I'll like to spend some time posting about certain interesting things that happened in my work. XD

Today, Lynn (parent of a child I am currently coaching) was happily telling me how her daughter has scored well in her composition and her teacher even wanted to photocopy her composition and share with everyone in the class... As she continued to rattle on how glad she was because Reanne's weakest component had always been Chinese composition... I suddenly interrupted and said: "That piece of composition... I did it with her during tuition!"

Her lit-up face suddenly toned down drastically and she screamed in a seemingly amused manner: "REANNE!!!!!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME TEACHER BOON MAY TAUGHT YOU ONE!!! GRRR! MAKE ME HAPPY FOR NOTHING!" 

Hahaha XD Her reaction was so hilarious! 

I also went to teach Jovan today. He is a mischievous, inquisitive and cute primary 4 boy whom I have been teaching for 1 year plus for now... I always laugh at him narrating his stories with lots of sound effects. He always like to ask very weird, you can say out-of-the-box yet hilarious questions... 

I remembered once.. our conversation went something like this:

Jovan: Teacher Boon May, how do you know a person is a boy or girl?

Me: There are a lot of ways to see it. Obviously for your age, the hair length would be the most obvious characteristic to determine a person is a boy or girl, right?

Jovan: But teacher! I have this Indian classmate who has long hair but he tells me he is a boy. 

Me: Ahh, then maybe you can see if he goes to the male toilet or the female toilet?

Jovan: But teacher! Maybe my Indian classmate is a girl but this Indian classmate just wants to go to the boy's toilet?

Me: Easy! If he is using the urinal, the thing that boys pee on in toilet.. then he must a boy because he can "aim" his urine there. Girls cannot "aim" when they stand up and pee! 

Jovan: Teacher, you are wrong. Guys cannot aim when they pee one. Like me ah.... when I pee... "WOOOOOOO" the pee everywhere one!!!

Hahahaha. I swear the way he described the sound effect in a very animated manner was really so cute and funny =D

Today... I got a shock when he asked me if I had a "gang" when I was in primary school because he has a "gang".

I laughed and said: "I wouldn't say I have a gang, but I would say I have groups of friends! Jovan, gang is usually used to refer to a group of people who do bad things, really bad things, like hitting innocent people."

While he nodded and seemed to completely understood what I meant.. He still continued using the word "gang" to describe the group of friends he had in school and all the mischief they had been up to.. as though he loved the word "gang" so much... Lol.. Kids XD

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Share a song that I heard from a busker outside Yew Tee mall today...

Was actually running late for my work but this song managed me capture my attention. Ended up, I stood there to listen to the entire song and was so satisfied with the song that I went up to contribute some money to the busker haha.

Well.. why I was so intrigued by this song was because... if you listened to the song, you would realise.. the lyrics are really depressing. And somewhat they relate to my life experience a lot.

YET...

That happy melody and the way the song is being sung... are a complete contrast to the depressive lyrics!

"Just like the flowers, I'm growing wild" - this part of the lyrics seem to illustrate an implicit meaning together with the melody associated with positive connotations. This is the part I like the most haha.

Amazing ((:

As I was slowly passing 
An orphan's home one day, 
I stopped for just a little while 
To watch the children play. 
Alone a boy was standing 
And when I asked him why, 
He turned with eyes that could not see 
And he began to cry. 

I'm nobody's child, 
I'm nobody's child. 
Just like the flowers 
I'm growing wild. 
 no mummy's kisses 
And no daddy's smile. 
Nobody wants me, 
I'm nobody's child. 

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Happy things worth remembering/mentioning:

-Mimi accompanied me to eat at my favourite Xin Wang Cafe after work today! =DD (Our jolly "hello", remember? Hahaha!!)

-Rai agreed to lend me his DSLR so that Derrick and I can film a short video to try to apply for being a travel intern next Monday! =DD

-Next Friday is coming! And that means I get to meet my girls soon. Miss them so much

-Week 11 of university. Heading nearer to the end of everything and this means... 3 MONTHS OF FREEDOM!

-Done GER1000 executive summary with a bunch of efficient groupmates on Wed ((:

-Teacher gave really useful insights on my NM2101 assignment so I have a clearer vision on how to approach it

-Parent from my tuition (Eugene) bought me a handphone stand that can be mounted onto my motorcycle. SAY BYE TO BEING ALWAYS LOST WHEN I TRY TO GO TO A NEW PLACE.

-Was so hungry and sleepy yesterday after a long day in school but I got a pleasant surprise when ZW drove down to dapao me some really delicious food =DDD

Why we should speak up

Last semester, one of my professors asked for feedback openly in class. Thinking that since she values feedback so much that she could ask in class, I gave an honest negative feedback in front of my classmates. To my horror, she immediately snapped and some people in the class even made sounds like "orh hor..." which kind of made the entire atmosphere even worse.

I went back, pondered about what exactly did I do wrong - was it misunderstanding? Did she interpret wrongly? Or did I just phrase my feedback too flagrantly?

Later on, I couldn't stand the feeling of leaving things hanging (since now we are in bad terms but we still need to see each other in tutorial classes). So I took the initiative to clear things up with her and offer my apologies.

Thankfully, she's cool and over about it.

In fact, our relationship became way better than any typical student-teacher relationship in university after that.


Now.. that's not the point of why I am talking about this incident in my post today....

To get to the main point.. let me back track a bit..

During the period when I told my friends about this incident - I remembered very vividly some of my friends said, "Boon May. You need to learn to live in the reality. You should only bootlick the professor, never argue back and ask less questions so you won't annoy him/her so much."

What they had said struck me. Not because I feel that what they say were true and I should change the way I am to "adapt to the reality" but.. because what they say were strongly against my consonance.
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Firstly, I don't bootlick, and have never booklicked anyone else in my life before. I think that it might be due to the some high ego in me that I never booklick others.. This can be a big disadvantage in my life.. I know that long ago - but I won't concede. Because I always feel If you can build good relationships with others through sincerity and goodwill, why do you have to booklick?

Another reason is that I grew up treating everyone the same and this isn't something that can be changed within a day or so.


So yeah. Bootlicking is a big NO-NO for me.


Secondly, if something is wrong, I will always speak up. Some people see this as "arguing back" but to me, there is a fine line of difference in these two.


Thirdly, I always believe if we don't know something, we should always ask questions. Or else we will not get anywhere. Even if after asking questions, we may not get the answers we want.. we may appear stupid..


But the thing is, at least after asking questions maybe from person X and person X couldn't give the answers we want.. we would now know that we have to find other ways to get answers.

It means we are taking a leap forward and becoming clearer to where we should get our answers, isn't it?

This brings me to the point I want to talk about today - Asking questions.

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This semester, I met the toughest, most sarcastic and most unhelpful professor I have ever met in my life.

Every question I posed to her was rebounded back with sarcastic or harsh comments.

It is no wonder nobody has asked her questions during and after class except me all the times.


While I have to admit, sometimes I do ask questions out of convenience.. But most of the times, my questions are really legit.

I remembered doing something really meticulously and wholeheartedly.. spent the entire day and came up with something to show her and asked if what I have done are alright. and I got the harshest reply from her in something like this: "I won't entertain things like this. Why are you spending so much time doing some thing that will waste your and my precious time? Please make use of your time wisely."


First, my heart sank. And then later, I got angry. I felt like... all my efforts have gone to waste. Instead of providing me constructive feedback, why did the professor have to sound so mean? My dislike for this teacher started to build up.

I started to doubt myself - Am I really wrong in asking questions? Because every time I ask a question, all I get back from her is a harsh or sarcastic remark and it felt like I got slapped in the face every time and it hurts.

Until today.

We were supposed to have a make-up class at 2 p.m. today. Having been released from my second tutorial early, I decided to go for the make-up class half-and-hour early.

To my dismay, I found out that this professor I dislike also went early.

"Should I just leave and come back at 2pm?" this question sprang into my mind.

"No, let's just have a talk to her and see how it goes," I thought.

And so..

I greeted her, sat beside her and we chatted for 30 minutes.


To my surprise... her demeanor when she talked to me 1-1 was so different from how she was usually like in class - that angsty and sarcastic tutor whom perpetually seems to have this "come near me and you will get it from me." that kind of aura.

When she spoke to me 1-1, she was cheery - all smiles and courteous.

Somehow, she knew that I was working and studying at the same time (which I don't know how come she knew) and asked how I was coping with my studies.


I replied, "Average" and what she replied me was something I have never expected coming from a professor...

"Coming from my experience, results are really nothing. Really.


"Remember the two things that you would always need: First, you must be able to accept feedback.. feedback from anyone, your boss, your colleague, your partner, whoever. Second, you must be thickskinned. Very thickskinned.


"And you know what Boon May? From my classes I have with you... the way you dare to ask questions... I can see you are a very strong girl. And I'm sure this will bring you a long way ahead even after you graduate from university. Believe me."

I was speechless when I heard her saying that.


My impression of her took a reverse turn drastically.


From what she said about "must be able to accept feedback", a sudden realisation came to me -
So all along... she was being mean for this reason!


She wanted to train her students to be able to take criticisms and be more resourceful.


And.. all along, I felt like I appeared stupid in her eyes because of her harsh comments.

Yet I was so wrong.


Contrary to that negative and silly interpretation of my side, I appeared to be "strong" to her for daring to ask questions.


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So... this brings to the conclusion and the morale of why I want to share this experience of mine..


Sometimes... why we choose to be passive - because being passive is within our comfort zone. We don't get hurt, don't appear silly and in fact, we appear like we know everything.

But actually, we have a lot of things we do not know. But that's okay -

And it's okay to appear silly to ask questions even if these silly questions might hurt us. Because we learn. We learn to ask better questions. We learn that if we can't get answers from asking questions from a particular someone, we can always be resourceful and get our answers elsewhere than to be stuck at the same stage. And most importantly, we learn to accept negative feedback so that they won't hurt us anymore.

Because ultimately.. I strongly believe we will become the clever one emerging from all those people around us who think we appeared silly.




Ending off with this quote that I concur with =)

3 more days to starting of school again!

WHY DID MY RECESS WEEK JUST FLEW BY LIKE THIS T_____________T


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Right now I am reviewing the persuasive speech which I am going to showcase on 10 March. Taking account of the feedback that Miss Cardoza had given me, I am going to edit it and present a new version on that day. Gonna get this done by today so at least I have about 2 weeks to practise!


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HAPPY NEWS: Received an e-mail informing me that I have gotten accepted for being part of a volunteering event in NUS! The happier news is that Sheryl would be joining me for this XD

I can't wait!




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Met up with yiqun to study yesterday. But other than studying, we played bball, played stress, watched less than half a movie, and eat. It was quite fun haha. He is such a noob at playing stress but somehow he can always find the chance to "stress" me and make me lose. Lol!

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Went to work today - Natalie's and Celine's tuition.

Celine and her family is going to move to Shanghai soon T___T gonna miss them. They are such lovelies.

Meeting up with sec sch mates :-D

21 Feb 2016

Been so long ever since I met these crazy, bubbly and as usual nonsense as ever peeps from secondary school :P

We had lots of fun eating the fried chicken, potato wedges and maggi and talking to one another as well as playing "stress" and "in between."

It was so funny - the way the game was like. I'm basically the one who always throw in all my money and say "ALL IN" and either win a lot or lose a lot. 

Cheryl is the one who would be like, "20cent only" "20cent only k" hahahaha, as usual her pattern :p

Belle is one whom I don't know why ended up losing until left so little money and qihang kept giving her chances. LOL.

In the end we just said, let's not care about the money and call it a game. XD

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22 Feb 2016

Went to school to finish about 6-7 psychology research participatory experiments for my PL1101 at one shot; headed to work; came back home; studied with qihang 

:P

23 Feb 2016

Planned up a list of things I gotta do today, let's be productive, GOGOGO.

Finished NM2220 Assignment 1!!!!!

WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Thanks to a friend who helped me to reduce the word count and edited it together - doing the news story doesn't feel stressful at all. In fact it was quite fun hahaha.

SAY HELLO TO RECESS WEEK! =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Wednesday blues

Ever since I started this sem with lectures as early as 8am on Wednesdays... I have been suffering from insomnia on Tuesdays' night.

I think it is a psychological thing...

I kept telling myself, "I need to sleep early, I need to sleep early, I need to wake up at 6a.m. Do not study. Do not do anything else. Need to wake up at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Sleep early. Sleep now."

And I'll go rolling on bed for hours.. and finally get up to do things until I feel physically too tired and catch about 1~2 hours of sleep before heading to school.

It is already week 6 of school and this cycle has happened repeatedly for 6 weeks... And only on Tuesdays. :-(







Drinking green tea before trying to sleep

Nothing can bring me down like before

Was talking to my mum today and she told me that she thinks that I have changed a lot ever since sweetheart has passed on. She said I seemed to laugh a lot much more often and never get angry at all.

This brings me to agree with this quote:






Went to work today and came back to finish up some assignments and did studying til now.
Gonna sleep now! Nights~ =D


Warm and cozy feeling

Valentine's Day at wala wala

This singer is an indian... yet he can sing mandarin song! How swag is that xD

Today was awesome~ =D

NUS ODAC cycling event

This morning I got woken up by my little bro claiming that he was hungry.

So I went down to the market to buy some healthy ingredients to cook for him. I also bought a watermelon which he dislikes and wasted it :( At least he ate the meal I prepared for him though >:(

He had been sick for about 3-4 days now. One thing about my mother is that she cares for him a lot - kept waking up every few hours to check his temperature, bring him to see doctor, make him eat medicine at the right timings..

But she doesn't really care about what he is really putting into his stomach. She even lets him eat pineapple tarts and ba gua! >____<

Luckily, today he just recovered. 

BUT. I just returned home only to find out that mama and bro have gone back to their own home because it became my little sis's turn to fall sick...So mama has to go back to attend to her. She is currently running a fever. Sigh...

 With all these going on, my mum is one who is suffering the most. She is hardly taking a rest and she has to work. 

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After going for a short 1.5 hour tuition, I came back home to prepare for an outing organized by NUS ODAC - a cycling event from East Coast Park to Marina Barrage + picnic + some games 

(I specially changed one of my tuition sessions on Saturday to Monday for this.)

I joined it because I wanted to have a "feel" of making friends through interactive activities/games. I feel that the friends I make in my school are mostly in a very stressful context because either we have to work as a group to solve a problem or we have to work together for projects which would determine our grades. And I didn't like it.

Who would be in the mood to know about one another when what we are supposed to focus is on the work/project we are doing? Yeah... So I decided to give this event a try.

While I only managed to know some acquaintances here and there (as expected), I still thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Here is a short video I took when I was cycling in tandem with Fabian!

The route from ECP to Marina Barrage is sooooo awesome right!!!!!!!! 

I really don't mind going there every weekend just to do this if I could.

In one of the games, I was supposed to be blindfolded and touch the guys' arms and select Fabian out of all the guys there.

And you know what.....

I CHOSE CORRECTLY IN MY FIRST TRY! Hahaha. So unbelievable. I'm still surprised until now.

Oh yes!!! And picnic at Marina Barrage was so relaxing.

When I lay down on the mat and just stare at the sky.... I feel so calm and happy for some reasons.. =D

One of the best things today - unexpected fireworks from our view there!

I remembered someone called Hayden, the event organiser was like saying "We prepared this firework for all of you," and I'm laughing at what he said because obviously it was not true but it was funny how he credited it to the organising team. LOL.

Anyway... it is 3.20a.m. now.. I'm gonna head to bed soon and study tomorrow.
Might need to head to mum's place to take care of sis if she is still sick.


Goodnight~
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Happy Valentine's Day sweetheart.

My thursday

Went to teach a tuition session today.
And then headed to gym - to study, and then took part in a spinning class. (Since another tuition was cancelled)

Was doing my CL2220 translating document there.

Had dinner at Bugis, shopped a while and went home.


Missing mama, bro and sis so much, especially mama.

Gotta focus May....STUDY!

NM2220 assignment 1 is not progressing well T________T

Ｄｅａｔｈ

Having really hard days recently despite it is CNY.

Had a close shave with death today because of two reckless drivers...

Went to mom's place and told her if anything happens to me suddenly, rent out the house I'm staying and earn about 1k plus rental fees to 养老 so I can leave in peace．




我好累。

Could it happen?

Can I sustain in doing well in my studies
Continue working
Join a CCA
Be healthy
Eat well
Sleep well
Exercise regularly
Have time with family
Have time with friends





No matter how I think and how I try to plan out, it seems impossible :(


CL2280's lectures/tutorial isn't really helping me to gain any knowledge about translation.
Most of the things I'm learning are through my self-study by finding my own resources.
I'm really disappointed in this module. 

Tutor in NM2220 is really strict. Many of the questions I asked her were rebutted with the same answer - "Find the answers yourself." And then I'd be spending hours away thinking of solutions. Mostly empty solutions. Her tutorials are fast-paced and straight-to-business. It's a steep learning curve going for her lessons. But I'm struggling with my assignment with a whole list of questions I am supposed to find "solutions" myself!!! :(

I gave up going for PL1101e lectures since the 2 hours really can be better spent studying the textbook.

GER1000 so far is very interesting to me. I like what I'm learning there and I like to think about how to apply those things that are learnt. Lots of math/technical stuff - something that is lacking in my modules since all my modules are mostly "language" related.

Enjoying NM2101 so far. Tutorials are a breeze since not much preparations are needed in advance but i still try to prepare before going. 

Discovered a gem place near my house - 24H HANS!!!!!!! My love <3

Gonna be camping there frequently to study :P


CNY break is a great time to catch up with all the studying I have been missing out due to work commitments -

忍得住寂寞与清贫

学校是知识的殿堂， 是一座象牙塔， 虽然赏心悦目， 却要忍得住寂寞与清贫。 还有一个现实的问题。。。钱，

但是工作以后可以赚钱，真是鱼与熊掌二者不可兼得。

《大学生一定要做的100件事 - 真敬》

做好每一件事。。。

最好每一件事，
第一重要的是信心。
第二讲究的是策略。
第三还要有技巧。

Stress is directly proportional to nearing of assignment deadlines

Just called up Ministry of Health, Chiropractic Association, Dr Prem Pillay's clinic to request for interview with regards to my follow-up article.

They told me to write in with some of the sample questions instead. And I did.

Now I just have to patiently wait for their responses.

First time I'm taking the role of a "journalist" - felt stressed instead of "refreshing" because I am too worried about the deadline. I mean, what if they reject me?

I would perhaps need to turn to others or start a new follow-up article instead.

 It isn't that easy to start on a new article counting in the fact that I would need to research on all the backlogs on the content of the new article to find out what are the new perspectives I can cover and what are the old perspectives I should not cover again. Interview questions need a lot of elaborate thinking too.


Now I'll just keep my fingers crossed and pray for the best.

Honestly I could have chosen a simpler article to do a reaction piece to it - since it is only worth 10% of our grade.

But I guess it's just me. Something in me that always tells me that If I am going to spend efforts doing something, then I should spend my utmost best to doing it to produce something more impactful and useful.


Recently I have been feeling sick and today I feel a lot better - maybe because I had a good sleep!

I made a promise to myself that I must treat "sleeping" as something that I must "do" just like how I "eat", "bathe" etc. I have a tendency to put everything and anything above sleeping, which is why my health is so bad now.


Off to do household chores before I continue on my assignments - till then! >:)

Feeling grateful & hopeful

Woke up in the middle of night feeling grateful & hopeful. <3


It was an incredible feeling to feel like being truly alive again because I started to have dreams -

Things I want to do




Thank you to people surrounding me who are making me feel this way again.  :)


Will be really busy!

But I'll try to come here and update when I have time.


Til then,

xoxo

Done for week 1 & 2 GER1000 Quiz!!

Woke up when my mum and sis were already going to head back to their own home. Mum bought some groceries for me.

Spent 5 very stressful hours in watching week 2's webcast for GER1000, understanding the concepts there, analysing the problems given, summarizing the the entire content and also did quiz 1 & 2.

After studying for GER1000, I felt like going to the bar, listen to music and wind down my brain processes.

Even my Korean drama can't save me today.


I'll try doing some yoga now! Maybe that might help. >:(

Last day of tuition with Kayvier

Today marks the last day of tuition with Kayvier, a student whom I have been teaching for up to 2 years now. I didn't expect him to hug me before I leave! He also gave me a small box of chocolates.

I thought we didn't have much attachment with each other because I had been adopting the kind of  "straight-to-business"  stance during all the tuitions with him. (Cos his mum has very, very high expectations for his results) Also, he was mostly cantankerous in lessons. Paradoxically... there seems to be a type of lingering feeling between us when we said our "last words" to each other.

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Returned home to do my CL2280 translation assignment. (English -> Chinese) An article reporting on the world's economy. It was very tricky... Thanks to a friend who guided me quite a bit since he has some experience on that. Took me about 5.5 hours to finish it although the article was a short one. It was because I wasn't very familiar with all the Chinese economic jargon so I had to research related Chinese articles to get a "feel" for it before I start doing.

I've got a long day at work tomorrow!

Ending off with my favourite picture of the day haha

Nights >:)

Good weather today!:D

The weather is really good today - the sun is not intense and the air is so breezy. It was a joy to ride my baby honda pcx today :P

Had tuitions that spanned from around 4 to 11 (Including travelling time) and I was so physically tired by the time I reach home.

I didn't have enough time to eat much during my short break at 6pm and I starved til I reach home at 11 :(

The consoling thing is that I got to eat my favourite twister fries as my sis and I decided to walk to nearby macdonalds to buy those to eat tgt :D

I'm just done studying for about 2 hours. There are so many studying workload & assignments I have to clear!!!! 

For now I'm mentally too tired to continue. 

* I wanna watch my korean drama before I sleep now *

Cheese in a Trap, here I come!!

Totally loving that drama now - it depicts the life of a female university student who has to juggle with the demands of her studies, financial woes, and relationships with her friends 

Relates to me so much.

This is a picture of my mom and her friend at her annual company dinner. My mum is so cute in white specs, white dress and white handbag and showing a two sign lololol

Love this picture so much haha my mum looks so happy