Monday, January 31, 2005
MY NEIGHBORS ARE SO NOISY.
WHO LET the dogs out..
who who who who?
and a tiny voice in my head chimed. 'so why don't you go over there and tell them to shut up? you keep on complaining yet do nothing about it.'
sometimes this blog thingy gives me a heart attack.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
the first tear i cried as a 19-year-old came from my left eye.
i agree with missy. 'the best things in life aren't free. it pays to be me.'
yes, i have changed. i have changed a good deal. i am not anymore the fragile little girl i once was. i have become stronger. i have learned to depend on myself. i have learned to put my happiness in my own hands, so that it would always be within reach. i have learned not to love too much, because anything in excess is just as bad as not having enough.
in retrospect, i still consider my high school days the happiest days of my life. now, it seems that everything then was perfect. those were the days i would thank God because I am alive. those were the days i felt complete. those were the days i had wished for every single person in the world to be happy just like me. i always had good grades, i had great friends who are as emotionally high maintenance as i am, and best of all, i had the best boyfriend in the entire world. too bad, good things always come to an end.
i am not saying i am not happy where i am now. i feel richly blessed, having been given the chance to study in one of the most prestigious and most recognized universities in the world, or just plainly being here in singapore while numerous others of my fellowmen struggle their way out of my country to seek greener pastures. right now, i am enjoying a very high standard of living. i have already bought for myself a personal computer, a digital camera, a printer, a laptop, and loads of other stuff i couldn't yet afford if i just stayed in my country. i had even gone to malaysia just to have my hair fixed. and i just turned 19. sure i enjoy these things. but in life, you really can't have everything at the same time.
sh*t. why did i even start all these drama? i got an email from niel. i wrote him a lengthy email too but i just deleted it. i do not know what to tell him.
all i know is that i have never loved anyone else as much as i have loved him.
and we are a living testimony that life is unfair.
just came from the most interesting physics class i've ever been to. see here, my current physics professor is undoubtedly the best one i've had so far. no wonder he's one of the recipients of this year's teaching excellence award. he comes to class armed with all those props for his demonstrations, or just stuff to sustain his students' interest until the last nanosecond of the lecture.
this time he brought along a board with nails (like the one that physicists use to demonstrate you could actually lie on a bed of nails), a dozen ping pong balls, a dozen tennis balls, etc....but the most blogworthy thing he brought to class was a magnetic plate on a stand plus a tiny superconductor. he wanted to validate that a superconductor could actually levitate above a magnet. he brought out the tiny superconductor and placed it on top of the magnetic plate. nothing happened. that was because the superconductor would only work with very low temperatures right, and the lecture theatre we were in wasn't cold enough (though i was freezing already).
that's when he brought out the jug of liquid nitrogen. i've never seen liquid nitrogen before (and so do most of my classmates due to the ooohs and aaaahs elicited). i got so excited that i was sitting on the edge of my seat already. he poured out some on a plastic cup and submerged the superconductor in it, and after a few moments, he placed the thing on top of the magnet. voila! it floated above the magnet and even 'ran' along the magnetic track. as he was doing this, it is important to note that all the while, the liquid nitrogen was also changing to its gaseous phase, and thus the overall effect was like that of a magician performing magic tricks and leaving the audience entranced.
this demonstration concluded our lecture, but even so, many remained (me included) to have a closer look at the liquid nitrogen and play with the superconductor. our lecturer incessantly reminded us not to dip our finger in liquid nitrogen, or else...hehe=)
so there. i want to see dr sow chorng haur's face again on the poster displaying the winners of the teaching excellence award for next year.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
summary of what happened a while ago:
woke up, had breakfast, dressed up. went to UCC (University Cultural Center) with Ivy. stood in awe while watching the ceremonial procession of the bigwigs. noticed that his excellency president sr nathan looked more like a sultan, while the sultan of brunei looked more like a character in some cowboy movie. scanned the room for the other dignitaries and VIPs like prime minister goh chok tong and members of the cabinet. remained standing for giving of respect to the national anthems of both singapore and brunei. listened to the speech by NUS president professor shih choon fong. listened to the dean of the faculty of law as he babbled about the achievements of the sultan. (his majesty became the crown prince at 15, and his father sort of gave up the throne so he would be sultan already at such a young young age of 22!). tried to listen intently at the speech of his majesty sultan haji hassanal bolkiah mu'izzaddin waddaulah. stood up again for the national anthems. joined the queue for food, glorious food. (grand hyatt hotel catered the food for the reception. i guess. was printed on the tissue.) ate the food, glorious food. went back to hall to change outfit. blog about the summary of what happened a while ago.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
ang gwapo ng kapatid ko. promise.
hay ngayon ko lang nabasa..tama talaga sabi niya.
Hello ate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAppy Birthday! 19 yrs old ka na ngaun, syempre alam mo un.
Sori eto lng mabgay ko sau, isang e-mail. Sana happy na happy ngaung birthday mo.
Baka mabasa mo 2 la8 na mshado, 2lad dati. Dpat kc check mo regularly email mo. HEHE!
Godbleass ate, mor birthdays 2 come! Kita tau by Nov or Dec. We love you so much & we miss u!
D ko mahabaan tong email ko kc nasa net cafe lng ko lapit na timeover. cge ate, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ULI!!
leni chan.
so smart.
so friendly.
so YaNdAo.
me.
so lucky.
Monday, January 24, 2005
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
yeah, that's why i have to take CRITICAL THINKING and writing because my brain is already rusting due to stagnation.
i'm so sorry. how to say sorry? HOW how How?
i'm drowning.
in shame.
i'm sorry.
it's different when you have a teenybopper crush on a person and when you genuinely care for a person. the former looks at a person, the latter sees through a person. they are light years apart.
i have a teenybopper crush on a myriad of cute guys.
yet..
.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
i woke up in horror thinking i would be late for my crtical thinking and writing tutorial. i was already freaking out and getting ready to dress up and go to school, pronto, when suddenly it dawned on me that today is in fact, sunday. THANK GOD. i am so relieved.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
sundeep must really think i'm a little girl. he gave me a pair of pink fluffy bedroom slippers the size of the feet of a 10-year-old. hehehehehe.=) but it was really thoughtful of him, yeah.=) since i can't wear those slippers, i just placed them alongside my stuffed toys for display. quite nice actually, blends with the color of piggy long legs and with that of my pillowcase too.
dinesh says: (10:14:02 PM)
u back?
*korinna* THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =) says: (10:14:41 PM)
yes i am back..
dinesh says: (10:14:54 PM)
so how was ur day?
*korinna* THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =) says: (10:15:24 PM)
it was very fun..ya my friends prepared something for me..then went to the park to watch the sunset..nice
dinesh says: (10:15:41 PM)
thats nice
dinesh says: (10:16:04 PM)
so where is ur birthday treat for me....
*korinna* THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =) says: (10:16:45 PM)
haha..i don't even know you
dinesh says: (10:17:07 PM)
hehehe so how long will utake to know me....?
*korinna* THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =) says: (10:18:02 PM)
i don't know..i'm not really into getting to know people through the internet u know
dinesh says: (10:18:23 PM)
oops
dinesh says: (10:18:27 PM)
well then ?
dinesh says: (10:18:45 PM)
meet up and get to know
dinesh says: (10:18:57 PM)
*korinna* THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU =) says: (10:20:29 PM)
hehe..erm, that's part of it. i'm not into just meeting up people. i can't be certain ur not an axe murderer. so im just being careful.
dinesh says: (10:20:46 PM)
hehe
dinesh says: (10:21:05 PM)
well i make sure i murder u after u said thi
dinesh says: (10:21:09 PM)
this.......................
dinesh says: (10:22:03 PM)
nus....comin tonight to murder u....beware....
this is the whole of our last conversation. if he's just kidding, i'm not laughing. see, this guy keeps on pestering me. SH*t. when i go online and he's online, he would bug me. i already told him that i'm always busy. that's why my status is always AWAY you know, for people like him. arrgh. i don't know if he's just dense or what. but he's doin his MBA or whatever. i've never blocked anyone in my contact list before until now. sheesh. and yeah, never mind if i have one less friend in friendster.
GUESS WHO GREETED ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUST NOW??
i could have died.
i don't know what to say. but anyway, here goes.
THANK YOU.
thank you God for another year. for everything. i feel so blessed.
thank you mama n papa n dimple n paolo n yc. i love you guys very much.
and thank you for my friends who chose to be with me on my birthday.
especially for the extremely awesome personalized stuff you guys gave me.
i've never been a calendar girl before. hahaha=) thank you wayne.
ivy! thank you thank you rin sa butterfly thingy. ang ganda ganda. ayan naubusan na ko ng english hehhee=)
thank you jashep capirig for the funky handphone accessory na nagmatch sa outfit ko kanina hehehhee=)
thank you gelo for the mini purse na kakulay ng blog ko hehe=)
robin mcdonald, ostique, jayson, ferron, jeunesse..thank you.
THANK YOU RIN kuya pheng, ate cla, missy, chin, erika, maybeline, rovin, shaider, kuya mark, shamoy=)
and for all the people who greeted me through sms, email, friendster...thank you.
and for those who have forgotten or deliberately didn't greet me, in behalf of you guys, i greet myself a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
and of course, i want to thank myself for putting up with myself. haha=)
nirotanavutuk jodivy!
(nirorn, rotana, navuth, tuk, joseph, diana, ivy) =) =) =)
i can't thank you enough. really means a lot.=)
wow..im speechless. salamat sa big hug na pinabigay mo through ivy. naks ang sweet naman=)
Elo Kor!
Happy happy Birthday!
Its 1:12 AM as I'm writing this...
Gawas me pra mag-net to greet ya!
Hehehe!
Sana Happy Day mo ngayon...dapat lang noh!
Oy...ga tan-aw ba kag Lovers in Paris tung naa ka dri?
Waaah...ka martyr ni Martin uy! Samuk!
Hehehehe...
Nagpa amnesia-amnesia sya kunuhay pra isipun nla Vivian nga okay na...
na wla nang hadlang s love nla ni Carlo!
Samuk...kc...I wouldn't have done that myself...dakila!
Nywyz, wla pa gyuy lettering ning keyboard n akong na tsempuhan...so
bare with mispelled words kung meron man...index-finger-typer ako eh!!
Hehehe....
Basta...Happy Bday
God Bless You parati...
Olwayz hinumdum that ako here pirmi for imu...Oki? Oki!
Text txt lng kng naa prob...k?
Love you prati...Salamat sa tanan!
Friday, January 21, 2005
if it's not that apparent yet, my favorite guy name happens to be 'mark'.
just came from the lounge and watched american idol. they have a new judge: mark mcgrath, the man behind the voice of the band sugar ray. i hope they make him a regular on the show.
i can hear gerald's voice again. ****. The gaiety i got from watching american idol has now evaporated.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
i was about to eat my dinner when i saw the nauseating photos of aborted fetuses in the forwarded email sent by a former classmate. i was tempted to post the photos here so you too may understand how i felt. but no, i am not about to soil my blog with those gruesome images.
those poor decapitated babies. they didn't deserve to die.
ok, enough already.
erratum.
My CN1111 lecturer is not French. He hails from Belgium. And why not, he is as delish as Belgian waffles topped with whipped cream and blueberry syrup. and as sweet as Belgian chocolates when he talked about his wife. yep yep, so it's confirmed. hahaha=)
i am sooooo happy! i just checked the forum for math lab 1. we are free to post our activity 5 animation, so i did. wee! a classmate commented that my animation is interesting..he asked if i could post the formula. ok, later.
but what really made me happy is that my professor commented that my work is 'nice!'. and he hasn't told anyone else that either. haha. yey!=)
ok fine, maybe because out of the 1506 students registered in MA1506 (the magic number!), 1504 people haven't posted their work yet.
haha=) but still, feels good to be an early bird.=)
P.S. Forgive me for my being overly enthusiastic. It's just that this is the first time a professor has commended me ever since i set foot here in singapore. and a maths professor who's had his Ph.D. in UCLA at that. bwahahaha.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
I wanna watch this movie.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
we were tasked to make our own animation in activity 5 of math virtual lab 1. i looked at the samples and got interested in a plane deforming into a cylinder then back to a plane from the other direction.
i modified some of the equations here and there..and voila! my first geeky animation.
animation generated using
WIMS
i can overlook gerald's being the biggest snob in the face of the planet(an empty stare in exchange for a hello), but this one takes the cake. i now officially dislike him.
shut up gerald i'm trying to sleep here. save your booming voice for the ihg.
Monday, January 17, 2005
joseph, i'm proud to say that i belong to the hopeless-romantic demographic too. mushy people unite! hehehehe=)
either last year's hall play raised the bar a bit too high, or this year's hall play was, well...just ok. not that i don't appreciate the play at all. in fact, i do. it was a bit shaky at first, added to the fact that i'm not really into musicals. but i've come to enjoy it somehow. i liked the songs (which were all original), and the way they incorporated contemporary lingo into shakspearean spiel. most of the cast members portrayed their roles quite well too.
i also appreciate the fact that behind that hall production is a lot of hard work; though sometimes, things just don't turn out the way you expect them to be. some people who have everything going perfectly for them may not understand this fact about life.
i do NOT think that going to the play was a waste of money, or a waste of time. that play was for a cause. i know that my twelve bucks would go a long way for those children with cancer. letting me watch a hall production was just the cherry on top of a sundae. cherry or no cherry, a sundae is still a sundae. it was not a waste of time because i spent it with my friends. raise an eye brow at me and i'll just wink at you.
i DO think that complaining about the play within the premises of where it is being held AND within earshot of those who relentlessly worked hard for it is improper and a waste of saliva and energy. but then, that is just what i think. it is perfectly valid for other people to think otherwise.
oh yeah, what victor did was really SWEET. he kissed his girlfriend (who was the producer of the play) on stage during the curtain call for everyone to see.
Friday, January 14, 2005
the DJs just reminded me that Valentine's Day is only a month away.
What's your sappy love story? Call 1-800-blahblahblah..
i'm actually having dinner right now. and blogging. and listening to the online radio. talk about multi-tasking haha. actually i'm just waiting for my tummy to have some space for more food. i saved all the best parts for last, then i suddenly got full even before finishing off everything. so i have to wait and relax for a while. and then pig out again.
i went to clementi this afternoon. i was to have a class at four, so i only had about 1.5 hours to spare. i went to DBS to apply for a mastercard debit card. i had planned to get one a long time ago but was just too lazy to act. since this is a new year, and a fresh start, and since joseph already has one, i might as well drag my butt to DBS and get one too! then i went to UOB, another bank. i opened a new savings account and applied for a campus (visa debit) card too. i plan to partition my savings so at the end of the day, i could actually have some savings. i once read in
Rich Dad, Poor Dad some tips about getting rich (haha!). the author suggested setting aside your savings first, and then budget whatever's left. something to that effect. hehe.
oki..chow time once again..ciao.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
In Utopia, all lecturers would look like my CN1111 (chem eng principles) lecturer. He's French, by the way. And his name is Mark. He could easily pass up as an image model for Calvin Klein or whatever high-end brand whose products are yet to find a way inside my closet. His wife may be one of the luckiest people around to wake up with such a pleasant sight beside her each morning. Yep, his ring on his (left?) ring finger mockingly spells out M-A-R-R-I-E-D.
i got an interesting email today. wee!
Dear Students
The National University of Singapore will be conferring an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree on His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah and Yang Di-Pertuan of Negara Brunei Darussalam. The award will be given in recognition of His Majesty's role in leading Brunei Darussalam in its development, as well as for His Majesty's outstanding contributions to bilateral relations between Singapore and Brunei Darussalam.
The award ceremony will be held on Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 10 am at the University Cultural Centre. NUS Chancellor, President S R Nathan, will preside at the ceremony. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and other Cabinet Ministers will also be present. The ceremony is expected to last about an hour and will be followed by a reception.
All students are welcome to attend and witness this ceremonial event. Please contact Ms Mala, providing her with your name, matriculation number and contact number either through tel: 68742455 or email: osamg@nus.edu.sg by 19 January 2005. An invitation card will be issued to you in due course.
Regards,
Newz Dezk
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
he used to be every girl's object of infatuation back in high school.
his mere presence used to instigate shrieks of titillation among the female species.
i checked up on him on friendster.
good Lord. whatever happened?
it really pays to talk things out. there's no use of harboring guilty feelings over what turned out to be nothing (not in any way related to the previous post).
yeah. what a relief. this is even better than hogging the toilet seat and liberating everything when you're having diarrhea.
my conscience is eating me.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
happy birthday pancoy (my cousin)
happy birthday don king (my cousin)
happy birthday balong (my cousin)
happy birthday daddy (my lolo)
happy birthday hannah (my cousin)
happy birthday korinna (my oh my)
happy birthday cheska (my cousin)
i'm back in singapore. last sunday pa.
Friday, January 07, 2005
May matabang bata dito. Kukurutin ko na talaga to hanggang mapiga lahat ng taba sa katawan. Pigilan niyo ako. Eh ang kapal kapal naman kasi ng mukha. Pun intended. Nilait ba naman ang tv namin. Porke mayaman siya. Sipain kita palabas ng pamamahay ko eh. Kung hindi ka lang bisita ng pinsan ko na nagbday sa bahay namin. Wala kang karapatan manlait ng gamit ng iba.
You're nothing
But a second-rate
Trying hard
Piggy bank!
Nakuha ko yan kay ethel booba sa extra challenge. Wala lang.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Monday, January 03, 2005
remember that whale movie that made waves on the big screen a few years back? it was on cinemax a while ago.
it made me cry again.
hot.
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Please contact the System Administrator
i've been having sleepless nights lately. the other night i have been seriously pondering on what i really want to do with my life. i realized that i have been pursuing an engineering degree for all the wrong reasons. i chose to take up engineering because i knew it was going to be tough. maybe i got so proud that i wouldn't settle for anything less than what i had perceived as one of the most challenging courses available. money was another reason. after having read an article about the most lucrative college degrees, i found out that chemical engineering graduates sat at the top of the list of college graduates with the highest starting salary.
but heck, i don't think that i would even get that degree in the first place if still remain like this. i am not at all happy with where i have gone so far. i am bombarded with doubts every step of the way. my mind is telling me that this is the wise decision. my heart is telling me that this is not what i truly desire.
when i close my eyes and envision myself in the future, i see myself working in a cosmetics company. i would like to make safer cosmetics that people with very sensitive skin like me can use. or maybe work in an art museum and restore the great works of art by my favorite painters. i would like to literally get my hands on van gogh's starry night, or any of da vinci's works mentioned in the controversial best seller 'the da vinci code'. in short, i would like to have a career related to chemistry.
that is why last night, i had seriously considered saying goodbye to the faculty of engineering and say hello to the faculty of science. maybe what i wanted all along is to be a chemist, not a chemical engineer. i almost made up my mind and looked up on what i should do to change faculties. but when i googled up the career options for chemical engineers, the word 'cosmetics' also popped out. with all the fuss i would have to go through to change faculties, then maybe i should just stick to my present course. but wait, i don't know.
this is the best time to make use of the counselling services offered by our university.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
woooohoooo!
michael jackson is doing his grooves in a tv special right now. i wanna watch.
erm, I'M SO HAPPY.=) because.
