so in love with sodagreen [21 Jun 2008|09:21pm] [ music | sodagreen ] i started liking sodagreen after i saw them on 100% entertainment. the songs are really different from the pop songs in the music scene right now. its like a whimsical mix that makes that makes me feel happy whenever i listen to them. some songs are light and carefree while others tug at my heart. i love the tunes and lyrics. and because sodagreen is a band, they are an immensely talented bunch who play their own instruments and write their own songs. i like the violinist/pianist (yes, its the same person) because, i think those small little touches add so much detail to the songs and make them so much more special. the lead singer is even better. he can sing for 3 whole hours and not get tired. some singers are so lousy that you can hear their voices tire after 1h. and his voice is quite unique because he can go quite high. he can really sing (unlike those pop idols who can't sing very well), he has the stamina and he can hit the really high notes. actually, i just like the band and pple who knows me know that i'm not the crazy fan girl type who goes hysterical over idols. but i'm really impressed with sodagreen. i went to their singing session on thurs and their live performance just blew me away. they sounded even better live then recorded. which means they are really good! some pple tend to rely on technology to make them sound good on record (eg britney) and others sound good because they do many takes. however when it comes to live performances, these singers tend to falter because its a one take performance without any chances for mistakes. hence these singers tend to go out of pitch, run out of power or are unable to hit the high notes. sodagreen is just wonderful, they sound even better then they did on the record. so now i'm just head over heels besotted by them all over again.  i'm looking forward to their concert! 1 thought | what do you think?

[12 Jun 2008|09:31pm] haven't been posting cos i'm very tired out from work. been studying and reading up all the finance info cos i'm totally a finance idiot. even if i'm not, i would still need to brush up cos sch only teaches me 1% of what i am supposed to know. plus, i'm still not used to waking up early. i used to have 10h of sleep and now i have 6-7h. just v lethargic... what do you think?

still procrastinating on japan blog [29 May 2008|04:34pm] i was planning to blog abt my jap trip sooner but i spent 3 days clearing up the photos. hidden's photos and mine totalled up to a massive 3gb which is ard 3000+ photos, of which 2/3 are taken by hidden (obviously). the reason i took so long clearing the pics are because i had to delete a lot of redundant photos frm hidden's sd card. examples of redundant photos include: 1. photos of 2 toilet bowls, 1 sink and 1 bathtub 2. 15 shots of a single television screen 3. multiple shots of the exact same thing with the same angles and same size 3. photo of her shoes and the rubber soles (because they came out during the trip) 4. shots of really weird things 5. every process taken to eat an onigiri (the front, the back, aft opening, aft wrapping with seaweed, aft taking a bite) haha, ya now my pictures are reduced to the size of 1.7gb. i'm so proud of myself. (it just shows how many redundant pics there were). 2 thoughts | what do you think?

very very angry [27 May 2008|10:47pm] i am so seriously angry. i have 2 debit cards with this bank, one mini debit and one campus debit card. yest, i called them up to cancel my campus card cos i've graduated which means i might get an annual fee charge as i'm no longer a student. today, when i tried to use my mini card, i was told that its been cancelled. i was freaking pissed, the whole thing didn't even make sense. read the conversation and judge yourself. bank: hi, ur card isn't working because u called to cancel it yest. me: i called to cancel the campus card, not the mini card. bank: according to our records, u do not have a campus card, the only card u have is the mini card. me: how can it not be in the records when i have the card in my pocession and its not expired yet. besides, i get sent the monthly card statements so how can the records not have it? bank: according to our records, the only card under ur name is the mini card. me: in that case, when i called up to cancel my card, i had to verify certain information such as my name, ic, dob and card number. the card number i gave was the campus card number which is different from the mini card number. since the number is different, how can you have cancelled the wrong card even though the other card is not in ur records?  bank: i'm so sorry, i'll reactivate ur mini card. it shld be activated in 3 working days. the worst thing is that they asked me loads of questions to verify my identity such as name, ic no, dob, mother's name, hp no, card no. if i had given them the card no and they cancelled a card with a different no, it seems as if the qns they ask are quite pointless since no steps are taken to check the information thoroughly. which means that fraud can easily occur in these security lapses. if i had given a different no, the logical thing to do would be to raise an alarm and to check all the information properly, or call me back to confirm the no of the card i want to cancel. how can a bank make these mistakes? and the worst thing is that they have no record of the campus card? then how did they issue it in the first place? when it happened, i was trying to buy a file at popular and the cashier said there was some problem with my card. then the manager ran some checks and stuff then he called the bank. i spoke to the bank in popular and i scolded him in front of the manager lor. so embarrassing can. i think i kind of directed some of my anger at the popular staff as well. hai, think they will prob complain abt me btw themselves. and condemn pple frm my sch also. stupid bank! 1 thought | what do you think?

[24 May 2008|02:19am] [ mood | dazed ] getting very blur. i haven't accomplished much since i returned from japan. haven't done the impt things i shld have done. kept on delaying and wasting the whole day. today, i was late for my lunch with sharon cos i slept late, forgot to set my alarm clock, woke up in the middle of the night to set it, only to realise the next morn that i nv set it properly so it didn't ring. so i woke up 15mins b4 the meeting time. hai made sharon wait for super long plus she was alr quite sian because of a screw up with the company she is applying for. so felt v bad.  she called when i was in the train and i was so engrossed in the conversation that i left my handphone pouch in the train. really sad. its my favourite pouch ever and i attached the hp strap that my cousin got for me frm japan. so it really meant a lot to me and i liked it a lot cos the strap matches the pouch and both were japanese influenced designs. quite sian that i lost it cos its not the type that i can easily replace. than later, i called fel cos of a missed call and when talking to her, i sat the train in the wrong direction and ended up missing my chance to deposit some documents cos the office closes at 6pm. super blur. i feel like i'm in a daze or something. i'm supposed to complete many things but time seems to fly by and a day passes without me accomplishing anything. somehow, i'm feeling a bit stressed. first day of gss and i spent loads of money again. genius right? will not buy anything for the rest of the sale period. must save up for investments. what do you think?

before japan post [05 May 2008|03:03pm] [ mood | happy ] will leave on thurs night and return 2 weeks later. but if u need to contact me, just sms or email me, i expect that i'll be able to check my mail at least once or twice and my phone is usable in japan. very happy. managed to settle the impt things before leaving. hope everything goes well. =) what do you think?

pain [29 Apr 2008|12:50am] [ mood | worried ] have been in pain for the past week. on bad days, the pain hurts so much that i'm unable to sleep and i stay awake the whole night. i'm totally incapacitated by the pain, when it hurts, i can't think straight and i cant function. so there goes all my free time since i'm not able to do anything. anw, i went to the dentist and found the source of the pain. basically a cavity got too deep and my nerves were exposed to the germs. to rid the pain, i have to clean the nerves which is a lengthy process of root canal treatment and whatever which sounds extremely painful and laborious. i'm on antibiotics now, hopefully, that will kill the infection so that i'll be pain free when i go japan. currently, i don't even feel like going. and i cant eat and talk a lot too. sian. i realise that whatever ailments i have seem to involve pain. like migraine, gastric flu, appendicities, etc. why pain? i have a low tolerance for pain. is it possible to be sick and not be in pain? anw, i have not heard from the company, so i guess my interview wasnt successful. which is kind of expected cos the interviewer hinted that she was 'not sure' if she wanted to hire me and that 'maybe a contract position' would be better and that 'the interview process is to allow us to be frank with each other'. reading between the lines implies that she does not find me suitable for the job. kind of disappointed cos i really really really want a job and i've made it thru the rounds only to fail at the last hurdle. really sian cos its like a so near yet so far thing. waiting for my results, given my current luck, my results are bound to be lousy too. life sucks. what do you think?

post school life [22 Apr 2008|12:41am] haven't been practising my keyboard and japanese lately. feeling guilty. better start now that sch is over and i have no more excuses not to do so. nv study for my jap exam, ended up guessing the ans because i did not know the meaning of the questions. still must submit my intern and comms svc report. sian. why am i still stuck with sch stuff even though sch has ended? yeah, must go make time to send in job applications. did a 185 questions personality test today...i hope i don't get rejected on the basis of the test. my personality is not exactly glowing. there were a few iq qns at the end. quite fun. it reminded me of pri sch maths paper where they test u on the pattern. there were a few vocab stuff though. like choose the word that doesn't fit in with the rest: likely, probably, possibly. i googled the ans. lol. a bit stressed over trip. scared that something will go wrong. somehow there seems to be so many things to do that i can't slack yet. why?!? went to hard rock on sun with zai, fel, may and keng to celebrate may's and my birthdays. we got the exact same table that we got when we went there 4 years ago to celebrate zai's birthday. so nostalgic. thanks for the treat guys! we ordered 2 combos. good. still loved the mash! what do you think?

appreciation to all who remembered my birthday [17 Apr 2008|11:13pm] [ mood | touched ] this post is specially created to show my appreciation for everyone who remembered my birthday, smsed me, left messages on msn for me, asked me out and treated me.  to all those who smsed/ msned me: thank you for remembering my birthday and taking the effort to send/ leave me a message. its always nice to receive birthday greetings from friends. to sharon: thank you for taking a day off your exams preparations to celebrate with me. appreciate it cos everyone is so busy with exams and also cos not everyone is willing to go to a ex place for a meal. and thanks for treating me to the k session. to hidden: thanks for arranging a meet up. its nice of u to take the initiative to plan it and contact everyone else given our custom of postponing birthdays. thanks for the dinner and hong bao. to chrysan, shiy, rach: thank you for taking the time off your busy schedules to have dinner with me. and thanks for the dinner and hong bao. to wei: thanks for asking me out to celebrate despite feeling ill. and thanks for treating me to lunch and cheesecake. i feel really touched. hugs and kisses to everyone. muacks. what do you think?

birthday ex post [17 Apr 2008|10:38pm] to my horror, when i tried to call myself (to test my new phone), hidden ans the call. then i realised that when i lended her my phone the day before, somehow, we took the wrong sim cards when we switched back. don't ask me how come when we switched back we could still take the wrong card. see, i told you that my suayness from the day before was carried forward. after jap cls, it was raining heavily and when i crossed the road, some person stepped on my slipper so hard, it came off and i walked bare footed for a few steps before i stopped. it was so embarrassing to stop in the middle of the road bare footed and turn back looking for a slipper that was 'stepped off'. luckily i managed to retrieve it and cross the road safely before the traffic turned red. met up with wei for lunch and i was treated to fish and co. then we shopped ard orchard cos wei wanted to buy a dress. then we went to hilton hotel for chessecake. i had the american cheesecake while wei ordered the blueberry one. wei also ordered the birthday special (the name of a tea) for me. the cheesecake i had was good. it was smooth, rich and just melted in my mouth. it was creamy with a hint of sourness and you could really taste the cheese. it wasn't those type of cake where u could only taste the cream. i really liked the base. most cheesecakes really neglect the base but this one was made of walnuts and was really fragrant. it wasn't dry and powdery at all and the walnut base was a really nice foil for the cheesecake. its quite similar to the coffee bean cheesecake and since the coffee bean version is obviously much cheaper, i would rather go get the coffee bean one for my cheesecake kick. the tea was really ex. so i had high expectations of it. i added sugar in it initially and it tasted like a more fragrant version of lipton tea. then i drank it without sugar and it was really different. it had a really nice smell and was really flowery. i think they used flowers to brew the tea instead of leaves. there was a bitter taste at the end which made me feel like i was a good girl for drinking something so healthy. haha. its a nice match with the cheesecake because the tea took away the richness of the cheese. ah but wei was a bit sick, actually she was really quite sick. she practically coughed every few mins and even felt faint while we were walking towards hilton. i got a bit worried. later i went home cos wei was meeting another friend. it turned out to be a nice day.  blueberry cheesecake, american cheesecake and birthday special tea   what do you think?

birthday post [17 Apr 2008|10:01pm] suay day... very stressed over interview. everything just went really badly. first i was late for 5mins. super bad impression alr. then somehow, when i answered all the qns, it sounded really wrong. i got whacked quite badly. its just a suay birthday lor... interviewer: oh, your exams are next week? so how are your preparations for the exams? me: i'm halfway through. huh lor, wad a lousy ans! it just gave a totally bad impression. like its nxt week and u're not prepared? interviewer: so why are derivatives riskier than equities? me: i'm not really familiar with them, they are riskier because they are more volatile? interviewer: why are they more volatile? me: ??? in the end, the inerviewer told me the ans that they are risker because the investment needed is small but the loss is huge. interviewer: what do you think of the sub prime crisis? why do you think sovereign funds would want to pump funds into the banks? is it a good decision? me: maybe the banks are not doing as badly...... interviewer: actually they are the worst hit. me: (oops...) they have a good reputation and the funds can restructure them and make the whole system more streamlined such that they will return to profits. interviewer: actually the funds are not allowed to have any say in the running of the banks so there will not be restructuring because the funds will not put anyone on the board of directors. i got whacked. badly. whatever i say, the interviewer would explain that right ans to me. and during the whole time they just looked really bored. in fact, one of them seem quite irritated at having to explain the ans to me. they definitely don't like me.  to make matters worse, when i was asked why i nv apply to other companies, instead of saying the politically correct ans, i forgot and say i nv apply because the datelines are alr over. which makes me seem super irresponsible. anw, hai, no hope le. i don't think i'll get this job liao. then i went to compass pt with my mom to buy my new phone (cos my number is supplementary under my mom). and i paid for it myself ok, its not a gift. i wanted to use a voucher which was under my mom's number but because the phone is 3G, i had to get a new sim card. so because the voucher was under my mom's name, the plan upgraded would be her plan which technically mean that the sim card would be her number. thankfully, the nice pple at m1 made an exception for me and allowed me to have the sim card with my number. during the night, i met hidden, chrysan, rach and shiy for dinner. wanted to go sushi tei but it was too crowded so we went to menotti. i got a bit pissed at hidden cos her planning was in my opinion a bit screwed. hai but thats expected. dinner was good and the gals treated me. there was even a mini cake later which was cute.  crab linguine (one of my faves at menotti), lamb shank on mash, salmon my birthday cake after dinner, hidden had to submit some work stuff so we waited one hour for her at starbucks and i had to lend her my phone cos her phone ran out of batt. and it turns out she couldn't use mine either cos her contacts were saved in her phone.  then it turns out her work could have been submitted earlier. hai...don't ask me... this lousy day was even brought over to the next day...sian... what do you think?

the weirdest exam ever [17 Apr 2008|08:47pm] today is my last day of exams, so i've officially ended school. i must say that today's exam is super super weird. basically cos its the first exam in school that i've completed within 30mins and its supposed to be a 2h paper.  i regretted studying for it. cos the questions were exactly the same as the practise qns we were given (the prof did not even bother changing the figures) so all i had to do to score full marks for the paper was to memorise the ans. which i did not. still i think the whole cls shld do extremely well on the paper. i wonder how we're to be graded if everyone does well. doesn't the prof realise that we have to be graded according to the bell curve? 2 thoughts | what do you think?

quick update [15 Apr 2008|08:31pm] my head was feeling so bloated from all the chapters i've been reading that i decided to come online and surf on eating places. 2 weeks ago, sunday times featured an article on 50 yummiest cakes and i've been wanting to go on a cake trip since. anw, i've been checking out some places that i heard/ read are good online and i realised that they're all so freaking ex. the thing is, the reviews are so glowing and the food sounds so delicious that i can't wait to eat there. then i find out that the prices are usually abt $100 pax. ouch. so far i've researched 3 places and all three are expensive. sian. i guess i'll have to wait till i get a job or something, wait i have to wait till i get promoted in my job before i can start checking out these places. if anyone wants to give me a treat, i'm all for it! i want to go sage, mezza9 and the line. ken, if you have a discount for mezza9, must tell me ok? haha.  oh btw, have quite a bit to post regarding my birthday eve, the day itself and the horrible days spent studying. will have to do it after exams cos i'm quite behind in my reading. ja then. 1 thought | what do you think?

bad times before good times? [09 Apr 2008|11:20pm] today is quite a weird day. i think i'm sick. i woke up feeling weird and i kept thinking that i'm seeing spots in my eyes. i went to school to study cos the unit below is undergoing renovation so the whole house shakes and the drilling sound is like surround sound. its continuous and its freaking loud and annoying. there is no way to block out the sound and i get a headache after a while. the sound lasts from 930am to late afternoon. how to study? this is like the first time in my life that i'm forced to study in school. i was having a running nose the whole time. in the end, i came home from school because i couldn't concentrate and i've used up my packet of tissues. i felt so drowsy and weak. anyway, as i'm typing this, my nose is still running and i've been blowing out blood. sian. i had really wonderful plans for this fri. i was supposed to watch a movie, go for lunch then sing ktv with sharon. its just to have fun on my birthday more than celebrating it so i didn't tell sharon its my birthday cos i didn't want her to feel like she has to get a gift or treat me or anything. haha but she found out abt it anw. in the end, the plans were spoiled cos i had a call asking me to go for an interview. so now its double buggers. not only are my plans spoiled, i have to spend time preparing for the interview and i'll get very stressed in the run up to it. and the most irritating thing would be that i won't get the job anw, so its kind of dumb to spoil my plans for a useless interview. anw, i went online today and saw a comment from shiy. so i called my aunt about it and she told me to ask my dad. bottomline: we had a big argument and i cried. again. sorry, i can't help it, its a defence mechanism but its a super embarrassing one. so its a lousy day. 4 thoughts | what do you think?

thurs and fri [06 Apr 2008|04:00pm] [ mood | happy ] i'm currently listening to 哭不出来 by a mei and i'm laughing although its a sad song. haha, i guess some people knows why. update: i tried and my voice broke...... this week is like the last week of school unofficially. no more lessons or projs and presentations, just exams left. then i'll have to get a job and start working. =( but lets not talk abt such depressing issues today.  on thurs, i met sharon, yen and ying shan for dinner at the singapore art museum's alio dome for dinner. the food was not bad, normal, but relatively reasonably priced. i had beef lagsane while yen ordered teriyaki chicken pizza and sharon and ying shan got the seafood pasta. the teriyaki chicken was the best. it was unexpectedly good and the sauce was really fragrant. then we had loads of fun chatting about ktv, discussing the songs we sang and how hilarious they turned out. we also talked abt our chalet plans and what we'll do. i got laughed at for suggesting bbq-ing mushrooms and sotong. hey they were pretty good hor. haha.  ying shan, sharon, yen and me on fri, met derrick and ken for a play called national language class. its based on a painting depicting chinese learning malay in 1959 as singapore was to be part of malaya. so the setting was a classroom and there was quite a bit of interaction. at 'teacher' was making actions and he spoke in malay so we sort of have to guess what was going on. then there was a part where the 'teacher' and 'student' quarreled and a part where they talked abt lovers walking along a beach with only eyes for each other as the sun was setting. i got a bit lost because my malay is non existent thanks to this lousy prof and also cause it was hard to understand the themes and message the play was trying to put across. like later, i found out from derrick that the lovers walking on the beach thing was meant to represent singapore and malaya's merger. uh huh. after the play, we went for dinner at this hong kong cha can ting. lol, we ordered this mango ice thing and i was a bit paranoid cos the last time i ate it with wei, the top fell off and i screamed. so it was quite embarassing. haha this time i didn't make it fall off. haha and when it fell, we even managed to catch it, support it and put it back on top. quick reflexes sia. but since the top had broken off, it was quite shaky so when i touched it and it wobbled i got quite kan cheong. and the top fell off eventually. i think i screamed at one point. then ken and derrick started laughing at me. you know, the 'laugh so hard till tears come out of eyes' laugh. then ken still go and re-enact the scene and imitated me screaming. then we just kept laughing. i have a feeling that this re-enactment will happen whenever we have gatherings in future. hai, why am i infamous for this sort of thing? whoa, i had fun. will miss these good times. looking forward to k-ing and movie nxt week. hidden says she might arrange a get together on fri or sat too. happy! what do you think?

health experiment [03 Apr 2008|12:47pm] [ mood | drained ] as mentioned before, my stomach has been hurting. i think i have all sorts of health problems because i havent been taking care of myself. ya, my fault, basically, i deserve what i get. so now i'm gonna do a health experiment. i'm going to see if my health improve significantly if i take care of myself for a week from tmr onwards to the end of my exams. taking care includes: sleeping early, drinking enough water, having proper meals, some form of exercise. will update again in a week. 1 thought | what do you think?

my last presentation in school [03 Apr 2008|12:16pm] [ mood | relieved ] after i was unable to find a group for my emktg mod, i got kind of desperate and started emailing and asking ard. alas, the grps either reject me on the grounds that they alr have the maximun no of pple (some are fake) or that they have alr started on the work and it will be unfair if i joined in at that time. so i got extremely extremely desperate and resorted to begging this friend which i knew to let me into her grp. then this friend suggested that i can do it as an individually as its allowed. so i decided to do it alone. and i procrastinated and delayed till week 12 when i panicked cos its due it week 13 thurs so i only have a week to do it. plus in that week, all my free days are taken up by comms service. the only day i could do it was sunday which i spent watching youtube. seriously i deserved to be whacked right? i think so too. plus the proj takes up 30% of grades and is supposed be be a comprehensive marketing plan which means that a lot of work has to be and i'm doin it alone. plus, i hate presentations because i get nervous in front of pple and i stutter and my mind gets blank. i avoid presenting whenever possible. i get stressed presenting in grps let alone this time i have to do it by myself. so i'm seriously stressed. lack of time, cannot finish ppt, presenting alone...urgh! in addition, since last week, i have been getting a pain in my stomach. its usually the pain i get before the onslaught of gastric flu comes. so i was quite freaked out that the attack of the gastric would be upon me again. its not a good time because i usually have to recuperate for a week and i cant cos i have to work on my ppt and exams are in a week. so i religiously took medicine and thankfully, the pain did not escalate to full blown pain. i think the pain comes on due to stress. previously i thought it was because i skip my meals but now i think that its either stress or some stomach disease or something. well, if the pain stops after today, its definitely stressed induced cos i have nothing else after today cept for exams. yest, i spent the whole day just doin the ppt and worrying what i left out and what i shld do to improve the ppt. doin it alone is scary cos there is no bouncing of ideas and there is no reassurance that if you did not do something, someone else in the grp would cover it. at 11pm, i was still working on it, it wasn't even close to being completed. in the end, i managed to finish it. phew! i slept at 4am in the morn though. woke up at 7 plus am after only 3h of sleep. was late for morning cls but since i'm the last one to present, its fine. so how did the presentation go? i think i lucked out! thankfully, there was not enough time so by the time it was my turn, its alr the end of cls so the prof suggested that i just present to her alone. i was like so thankful! so i didn't have to face the cls and ans diff questions. it was so much easier and relaxing to present for the prof alone and she didn't give me any hard questions and seemed genuinely interested in what i was doing. but ya, i think she was just too polite to point out that i missed many crucial parts. but i'm just happy that it turned out better than expected. hope my job search goes as well too. basically i know that i shouldn't have left it too late when looking for a grp and i shld have started working on it earlier, then i wouldn't have all this stress right? yea, i know, i totally deserve what i get. but somehow, i'm not disciplined, i don't know why. i can't seem to be able to change for the better.  this evening, am meeting some friends for grad dinner and tmr, i'm going for a play that looks interesting. =) am so relieved now that everything is almost over. 1 thought | what do you think?

spop disappointments [25 Mar 2008|09:09pm] on sun, my cousin in law called saying that she had 5 tickets for the spop gala concert at 730pm. at that time it was 2 plus pm so i frantically called up my friends asking if they were free to accompany me. unfortunately the replies are as follows: not interested in the concert, want to watch the big soccer match at night, prefer to stay at home, already have plans. either that or they did not answer the phone. after calling abt 10 pple, and getting negative replies, i got a little discouraged that none of my friends seem willing to accompany me to the concert and decided not to go.  sometime later, kang replied that she can make it and hidden finally answered her phone and replied that she can come along. my parents decided to join us after seeing that my pathetic attempts to get friends to go are unsuccessful. so here we are, a group of 5. (really like to thank kang and hidden for accompanying me to the concert. hope it wasn't a waste of your time. thanks!) the concert was kinda sucky. not only were there no top billing stars (cept for jj, jam, kelvin and elva), the fans were quiet, there was no atmosphere to speak off and the sound system was so horrible that the music overpowered everyone's voices. fann's singing was totally cringe inducing, ah du and daren were kinda soundless. the only plus points are being able to hear jj's, kelvin's and jam's singing. their live singing is really good. exactly the same or even better than the recorded version. oh, and we manage to see what goes behind the scenes at tv recordings. like how can the stage be swept clean so quickly and how can the props disappear so quickly when another artiste comes onto the stage. angles and diversion are extremely important tactics. haha. most of the time, hidden and i were testing the zooming capabilities of our cameras and comparing who has the better shots. haha. ah, but it was a nice experience. enjoy the pictures. inside the stadium quan yi fong, eric moo, fann wong lin jun jie, elva hsiao what do you think?

LOST and the others [20 Mar 2008|11:12am] lost, i resisted watching it at first. it didn't appeal to me as i was more into desperate housewives at that time and seriously i thought that lost was overhyped. there were so much ravings abt it, it seemed like the next in thing and i didn't want to follow the crowd and watch it just cause everyone else was doing so. i got curious eventually after all the reviews and good comments that i gave it a chance and watched a few episodes just to see what its all abt. well, needless to say, i got lost (pun intended). the plot was convulated and i couldn't understand what was going on. so i just gave up on it and decided that its just overated. recently, while serving my jail term comms service at the national museum, i met a fellow student volunteer who is a fanatical lost fan. she was gushing about the show's themes and how the creators are geniuses in incorporating the various elements of mystical themes, philosophical themes and sci fi themes into the storyline and character development. this got me interested as i'm reading sophie's world currently and its a philosophical book. some of the philosophers and their theories mentioned in the book are supposed to be in lost too, i liked the book, so i was thinking of giving lost a try since some characters are named after philosophers and their lives are also modeled on the lives of the philosophers that they're named after. maybe with this background, i'll be able to understand the drama better and actually like it. hee, am going to borrow the dvd from a friend. (thanks for lending me the dvd and the book too!)  regarding the others, i'm actually refering to the other dramas that i'm watching. i've finally completed romantic princess. its quite an ok show, angela and genie are cute and wu zun is just absolutely droolicious. other than that, the storyline is actually quite draggy and predictable while the funny and romantic moments are few in between, it wasn't even laugh out loud funny like hana kimi. but the first few eps were quite touching cos i cried. hahaha. so watch it only for the actors. i saw the preview for it started with a kiss (iswak) 2. it looked super nice. i actually watched iswak and i was quite entertained. this sequel looks quite promising. am going to sneak in some youtube time while working on my indiv proj. =) what do you think?

week 10 in review [18 Mar 2008|10:46pm] i went for an interview last week which i think i screwed up. its a finance position and when the hr person asked me if i get conflicted over my majors i ans yes and even said that i did not know what to choose. i was also asked a lot of "why apply to this company", "why apply for this position", "why not choose the other alternatives" and "why shld i be employed" questions. i can't really ans those cos sometimes its hard to explain why, basically u just felt like it, its instinct, end of story. so i think i wasn't able to convince the hr person that i was suitable for the job. today was quite a tiring day. i had a field trip in fuji xerox at tanjong pagar, then had to go to sch for cls, then had to go to aljunied for an interview before returning to sch for a meeting. totally exhausted. cls was fun though. the prof showed us a movie called "barbarians at the gate" and it was hilarious. its a real life story on a leverage buyout so its quite finance and strategy stuff. but it wasn't totally technical and the writing and situations were so witty that funny scenes were aplenty. we just laughed and enjoyed ourselves. this must be one of the better classes i've attended this term. the prof added to our amusement whe he muted over a scene saying that "the language is not suitable for us". hahaha. i'm so entertained that i'm thinking of getting the dvd or something to watch at home. aft cls i went for another interview, this time its for a marketing position. the interviewer was really nice and volunteered a lot of info like culture, description of position, what the process is like, what i'm expected to do, intro to the company, etc. somehow i don't think i did very well, and apparently he was interviewing many applicants so i'm not really hopeful. plus i'm not sure if i want this job because i dunno the pay, its in a ulu place, its a small company and i may have to go thailand for 2 years. but the job itself sounded really interesting.  then i went back to sch for a meeting and it was quite productive so i guess all's well that ends well. oh and my ezlink is finally working. previously, i was unable to buy concession because it expired on 18 march. i was quite pissed cos how can it expire when i'm still a student plus none of my friends had that prob. and when my mom called up the helpline, she had to wait for 30mins for the operator to get on the line and the operator told her to contact the sch as they cannot do anything on their side. anw, she complained and suddenly it appears that it can be settled on their side after all. so yay, i can still buy concession. what do you think?

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