x_x

i'm going on a break Zzz
not like i've written much either anyway
lol
anyway exams coming
dont think i've learnt anything for the past few months
need to catch up withing these 2 weeks
if it's even counted as 2 weeks =S
anyway u get the point
i wont be around for awhile again
n i probably wont write anything by the end of this month either
cuz i'd just collapse n die for a few days n miss the deadline after the exams
soooooo
see u in july~

You know you're in uni when. . .

1. you miss out on blog deadlines!!
2. you feel that there is no logic when you have managed to sit for an exam which tests 2 years' worth of studying over 10 subjects and are now having problems with just 4 over a period of half a year


3. you find yourself in a lecture theatre with 200 other people you don't even know or recognise from your previous class


4. you have multiple lecturers and/or tutors to teach one particular subject within the same semester @@


5. your lecturers go by the name Dr. So-and-So and are usually too busy with administrative work and/or research *this goes the same to those not under science*


6. your tutorial only consists of 10% of the people from the lecture class


7. people you meet are highly dependent on your chances of having chosen the same time slots for the specific class


8. your schedule is too complicated to remember every location of lecture theatre/laboratory/computer lab/auditorium/classroom


9. your timetable is horrendously messed up with long hours in between due to clashing classes while planning which is done online and not on a first come first serve basis


10. hours are just a small unit of time


11. 4 hour breaks don't seem to be enough to finish any form of homework or online quizzes of a particular subject


12. procrastination is not an option and is a matter comparable to that of life n death


13. pre-lecture studies are required for any understanding of lectures to come and you will be tested before the topics are introduced during the lecture and also after the lectures


14. all notes are available either online or in the student drive of the school local area network and you are required to print them out on your own


15. your fees do not cover the printing of notes or handouts but covers RM15 worth of printing credit which only gives you about 150 pages of black and white printing out of thousands of pages you have to print


16. multiple online tests are available before and after lectures of which grades will be taken into finalization of marks


17. online tests have time limits of 12 minutes for 10 questions which comes to approximately 1.2 minutes per question


18. only your uni e-mail address is applicable for correspondence with the uni


19. textbooks cost you up to a total of RM500 for usage of only half a year and if you're lucky it can be used for your next unit and in rare cases one textbook can cost RM500+ but fortunately can be used for up to 3 years


20. the lift alarm goes off when there are only 10+ students carrying a textbook each


21. 3 hour labs are not long enough for the completion of report writing and conduct of experiment


22. labs are conducted concurrently and lab demonstrators aka honours students replace the lecturer


23. lab demonstrators have the rights to bullying and confusing new students who are conductiong experiments
24. odd feelings may occur when one finds oneself free of work
25. sleep hours vary and is dependent on assignment due dates
26. major assignments come in the very first month of uni and are due on the very same month
27. you wish you were dead or at least taking another course, say...pharmacy?
28. in cases where there is a medicine school in your uni: you get to meet a dead plasticised person

note to reader(s): the above list mainly applies to students of the science school, monash and may not apply to everyone and are just personal views; this is a blog after all~

signing off,

emily c

will be back 26 days later; if i survive the second month of uni

This sleepy person says...

26 days 36 minutes to deadline
I'm early this month! No procrastinating this time! Nope, none of that for me! *for now* BUT! before i get into this month's entry, I'd like to sincerely apologise to my poor lil darling for my lack of attention and care. In case if any of you were wondering - not that i know if anyone ever reads this stuff - the darling i mentioned? Is not my bunny, not anyone at all because if i were to be ignoring you, I wouldn't be sorry now, would I? It is but my blog notebook which has been ignored for the entire month of January. Which is why out of guilt I am filling it in now way ahead of when I'd usually be touching any pen or paper for my blog post.
That aside, back to the usual grind. The old chinese year has left and the new has come. Once again another new year's celebration. Isn't it weird how it can be so out of sync? The two perceptions of a year and all the months and days in it. I wonder who was the first to think up of they're version of time and date *although thinking back, some memories of a certain history textbook comes to mind -prepare to shut off memories NOW!* I mean like, who got to decide that there were 7 days in a week and named them all??? @@ I think I better stop before my brain crashes on me.
Well if there were changes in the new year, there were definitely changes in the chinese new year. Like for one thing, I socialise with my relatives more than i did before and i feel more at ease with them instead of the standard: grandma says, guai guai sit down, don't speak unless spoken to, don't run, don't touch anything, don't request for anything. But this only applies for my relatives on my grandma's side though. We're all whole bunch of nutty crazy people when we get together =P and its also fun to see them enjoying themselves as when they were young again. Like how my grandma and her older brother would fight when he forces her to accept an ang pau. I really should post a few photos of my family in their mad moments. This year it's like a sudden rush of realisation of how nice it is to meet up with my distant relatives or maybe I just like having 4 grandmas at once O.o . I never grew up with my cousins or any other kids my age. I grew up with my grandma and her brothers and sisters and their families, and they didn't even have any grandchildren for me to play with at that time =\ all my distant cousins now are only in preschool/kindergarten/primary school and I get along with them better than my cousins at my age on my grandfather's side of the family. With them, we are family as a whole instead of multiple individual families.

25 days 23 hours 38 minutes to deadline
I think I totally missed out on one major thing that inspired my blog. Which is...*drum roll please*
................................HUEI WENN!!! I just realised that my inspiration for every post-writing lies in the very chance of going crazy with her. I only seem to get into the mood to write when the both of us become members of the MPA(that's short for Mental People Association). With her going crazy with college and me having nothing to do, it's no wonder why we both get along so well when releasing stress. Doing nothing can be stressful too u know, it's called boredom. Ever heard of it? From evil mode, to emotionless mode, to sot mode again and now I'm down to silent writer's block mode. All the time suggesting and acting weird and silly to the core, and my mood-o-meter shows evil fluctuating on the scale where i get super sarcastic and sadistic. I'm sick, I got chubby ~_~ as stressed by HWenn, and I just missed dinner when I slept through it. How can one not be cranky when she gets up!?? Anyway...my whole point is....I get my creative literary inspiration from Huei Wenn and I would like to thank her for turning my evenings upside down in the most positive way.

8 days 12 hours 55 minutes to deadline
I think I understand how some people feel after too long of having a study break, and trust me, 3 months is far too long. February's coming to an end, and orientation starts in 2-3 days? I am not prepared for this at all, not mentally at the very least. Well Emily, you are entering the world you have always wanted to be in. You've dreamt about it for like what, 6 to 9 years already and now you you've got it, no strings attached except for my promise of commitment to myself and my family. Finally, a world of SCIENCE~~~ *pictures Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory scuttling across his lab*, and I still want a microscope ==". My bio lecturer found me amusing when I asked how much was one and told me to get something from like Toys R Us. Like, hello~~~ I already have one long long ago that's why I want a real one where you can properly see stuff in a cell. For a bio teacher, she isn't very encouraging. She went, "You sure it isn't a telescope u want?" Me gives, straight face *like, God! You'd think an 18 year old would know the diff between a telescope and a microscope ==*. And after all that, she finds out from the lap assistant that it was going to cost me something around, say.......an expensive laptop??? @@ Dream on, Emily... *sigh*

1 hour 25 minutes to deadline
I feel so weird typing everything above out. Like where did i get so much energy from??? @@ I feel so tired and sleepy now. Went out to TS/SW with sis and we came home with 4 pairs of shoes? 2 of which are for cosplaying, hopefully this year =\. Sis got a pair of black mary janes n I've got a pair of geta! X) The kimonos there....weren't really what i was searching for. So well I gotta start searching for materials now.
V Day: Bunny came over to my house n spent the entire day with me X) then bunny had to leave for dinner with his family. The entire day was like...crashing on the couch... watching tsubasa... went out to lunch... being absent minded erm....lol....i dunno what else to say bout it.
Uni has started... and the orientation, I've got to say, was boooorrrriiinnngggg......that i skipped it for 2 n 1/2 days =\ n the science school is as dead as can be *hopes to make friends when classes start else drop dead within the very first month of uni*, i even looked around to scout for potential buddies but i just froze and thought...i can survive 4 years on my own, i guess. My timetable....sorta sucks....and there isn't a way to adjust it any better. Prays things will change when class starts on Monday 8am @@... Drove there on the first day of uni and the second but got kind of screwed up into a nervous breakdown on Wednesday and my mom didn't see me mentally fit to drive on my own so she fetched me instead. I'll be taking some time to adjust to uni life... it feels very alien to me...
Tomorrow....lol doesn't fall under February....but I'll leave a lil snippet of what's to come...
I'll be following my dad to Rimbun Dahan for a 14 acre garden tour and an art exhibiton =) and we leave....7.45am and i'm so dead sleepy tonight...and i'm still waiting for my bunny to come home from fetching his dad from the airport @@...
Anyway....he's back now....and i'm done for this month...
soo......
31 days from now~
EmilyC

On the First Day of the New Year...

1 hour 10 minutes to deadline
*my bunny is desperately trying to sabotage my entry == trying to delay me and make me late for my deadline!*

Yes, i know this is late but my parents don't have a pc to to crash so they crashed my laptop - for the entire day!!! *wooopiieee*

SO back to continuing the title just like all those essays we had to write back in high school. On the first day of the new year...it probably couldn't have started any worse and it definitely wasn't boring as it turned out to be as stated in my December post. Though i can think of a million things worse than sobbing your heart out as the fireworks go off with your specific someone, i'm sure you can tell by now - it was bad - bad to start the year with a fight. But as always, as many fights as there may be it never changes a thing, which makes me wonder whats the point of fighting anyway =S. I can only imagine what this year might turn out to be.

*phew! bunny's distracted with his game now i can type in peace. now if only i could just ignore the tapping noise ~_~*

Activities done so far for the year? I really need to think on this one. Not in the right order :-

• chinese new year - major reunion with almost every distant, yet close relatives to come to kl *because....my close relatives are so distant in far away lands while my distant relatives being connect through my grandparents' siblings, are people i see often* though ive got to say i love my grandaunts and granduncles families on my grandma's side of the family they're always so much more lively n fun n friendly n family-like X)*
• shopping with xinyun (from bazaar to taipan to pyramid), getting lost with xinyun, ending up somewhere in bunny's house area only finding out where we were*useless info~~* after calling bunny for directions.
• tagging almost nearly everyone in the primary school photos and creating a mini reunion on facebook? pretty surprising how it stirred up so much activity.
• driving for the first time on my own to my grandparents' house to help with cny preparations which took me 10 minutes sitting in the car with the engine not turned on to calm my nerves, pathetic i know.
• got my hair cut with my grandma at my childhood hair dresser. havent seen her in years =P
• slept over at grandparents' house for 4 nights - with no internet @@ except for 2 of the nights where i was lucky enough to detect someone's unsecured network >_< - with no bunny for those nights too.
• celebrated my grandfather's 80th birthday dinner
• and another grandaunt's birthday (with all these dinners coupled with cny, i'm putting on weight and getting. . . ~_~ the f word)

OK.....the list ends there didnt say it was a long one. There's only so much you can accomplish in one month, no? On the night of my grandfather's b'day celebration my cousins stayed overnight at my house watching dvds which they bought from the happy garden pasar malam cause they have higher chances of watching it here as compared to back in singapore. They slept in my room so i camped out in my sis' room and had to share the bed with her and obviously we couldn't sleep because we were too busy chattering and screaming away like monkeys all night nearly sending him deaf and bunny heard everything while he was waiting for 3am when he had to get up and get ready to balik kampung @@ but somebody and his wind up musical lamb *which i might add he still uses to go to bed when he has difficulties sleeping* which my sis and i find it adorably cute yet annoying helped to put us to sleep *oh n bunny has got 9 other beanie babies which he won from kindergarten too =P* and he gets jealous over blinky on my bed ==".

Do not think i do not know that it sounds as if it was typed last minute, cause it was! >_<

Posting in 28 days,
Signing off~

Emily C

Third Time's the Charm?

23 hours to deadline

Ever felt like curling up under the covers or on the sofa and picking up a good book to read or just jot away in your diary with a bag of crisps within arms reach with a mask slapped on your face?
Well i was just lying in bed with everything above except the chips thinking of the boring new year's eve i'm going to have sitting in front of the laptop playing tic-a-tac poker with a friend through msn and a question popped into my head, "Am i just going to let 2008 end just like that!?" Sad i know...
So here i am now jotting down my thoughts of starting over my blog again. Figured that; since i havent had anything to do so far and everyone else is restarting college/school as i continue to rot before uni starts in end february.

• call it a new year's resolution
• call it a waste of time
• call it a desperate attempt to be a more responsible blogger

Heck i dont care. i'd delete it all over again if i have to. I wanna do something that wasn't too much of a waste of time during the holidays. Don't wanna get into monash going, "Shit! Why hadn't i done more???" Especially since this will probably be my last chance of freedom for the next....4 years?? >_<

Back to the point == and i'm just going to give it you straight and clear. Straying away from my convoluted ways as described by...my dear English lecturer, ms angela.

1. This is a monthly blog
2. I'll be publishing only at the end of every month
3. Once a month every month

Resulting in a struggling writer trying to keep to the deadline at the end of every month, and i'm very sure that i'll be doing last minute work for the rest of this blog @@.How predictable ==. "Way to go, em, hell hasn't even started and you go looking for it before it comes knocking on your doorstep starting march in the form of reports and crappy uni work"

Well since it has come to the end of the year, i shall join the merriment with a little reflection over the past 12 months of 2008. I was summing up a list of things to remember and thing to forget but i presume that no one wants to hear about things which are better left alone, i decided to focus more on the happier more important events/moments.

1. Starting a new year in a different environment of college
2. Meeting of my college buddies
3. linking pinkies with someone which lead to a roller coaster ride of events and emotions
4. finding people who do not get too lost in confusion when i ask my complicated questions or voicing my 'convoluted' views
5. taking on my responsibility as a student
6. keeping in contact with some of the most unexpected old pals

Well i guess that's about it. Not that i can think of an entire year's worth of 'blaa...' and never said it was that very eventful either.

It's off to bed for me now, this is a new project but i still deserve some shut eye now, dont i? Besides it won't be published till much later during the day n this book can just be picked up again when i wake with a fresher mind instead of hitting dawn with my hand, blue-stained with ink, and my eyes-red and sore.

14 hours to deadline

Think emily, THINK! Nope, not thinking, at all...The curse of writer's block has struck again...*thinks to herself, "maybe i should go down for breakfast/lunch just to keep my brain's supply of energy running"

10 hours to deadline

Ok back to work. While looking back at this year, although this year brought many new changes to my life, it had its fair share of shittyness *i'm a pessimist! i just can't ignore these things*; for one person, my dad and another, my grandparents. My grandma still feels a little bitter over both the events, so we try to stay away from the topic everytime. My dad? He's quit smoking and he doesn't have to leave us for work for 2 years anymore *trying to be optimistic here*. Hope things get better next year, for all of us and to everyone a happy new year =)

Until 31 days later...signing off,

EmilyC