That's All Folks!

Maybe some people have had enough of me posting about how busy I am these days, because yeah, it's quite annoying sometimes when people boast how hectic their schedule is and stuff, as if people who are not as busy are wasting their lives wallowing in mediocrity. Maybe some people haven't thought about it this way, and now they discover that yes, this is the way I think sometimes. Pardon me for this, or shoot me if you want, because really it'd be easier for me if I go to Heaven now.

So anyway, without further ado, I'd like to bid farewell again. I have decided to cease from blogging because I look at my NUSSU Diary and I shudder now more than ever. I won't be posting again til all my final exams are all over. Should any interesting and blogworthy event arise this moment henceforth, I should learn to channel my precious time to doing more productive things rather than contributing towards making my life an open book. I'd be more or less complaining in my posts anyway, and I don't want to spread any negative energy to people who care to read my blog.

But for the last time til 25th of November, just please allow me to cry out once again because I'm very much frightened about what I'll be going through for the next few weeks. This will be the last time I'm wasting my time whining about these things.

1.) For this week I have three assignments due. These assignments are a far cry from the 'assignments' I used to know in highschool whereby one could finish them in an hour's time at most. Now I know that come university days, assignments can be finished for one whole day at least, and that is if you are super smart. For struggling students like me, I have to allocate a week for preparation, plus ask peers for help because I'm almost certain I cannot solve structural analysis problems on my own. Two structural analysis assignments with 6 problems total. The other assignment is about conducting a literature research whereby I have to review at least three case studies about geographic information systems in civil engineering. Of course I still have the usual tutorials every week for each of my five modules, but honestly I'm behind in doing all of them.

2.) I also have tasks due this week for the various CCAs I joined. For Cuisine Fiesta, I'm part of the logistics team and I have to write an article publicizing our event to be submitted to the Ridge and Hooked for February 2006 issues. I hope my article gets published. For NUSSU Welfare Marketing, I don't know what my specific task is yet, but we'll be meeting this Thursday or Friday to discuss. For AIESEC, we're doing this PBox thing (Project Based on Exchange), and I have to make cold calls to companies this week to promote our trainees from all over the world.

3.) Next week I'll have my last lab for this sem. The beam we designed and fabricated will be tested for maximum load capacity.

4.) Week after next is what, I don't know how to describe it.
Oct 27- Engineering and Uncertainty Analysis test,
Integrated Infrastructure Project deadline for this sem
Oct 28- Structural Analysis test
Structural Analysis assignment due
Oct 29- AutoCAD final exam
Oct 31- Infrastucture and the Environment test

Of course this means I have to revise and prepare as early as now for these events. But starting now is already late I suppose. Never mind.

4.) Week after that I have three more assignments due. One of them is an online assignment.

5.) After that is reading week, whereby all NUS students become zombies from caffeine overdose, lack of sleep, and information overload as they preapre for finals week.

6.) Finals:
Nov 22- Engineering and Uncertainty Analysis exam
Nov 23- Hydraulics exam
Nov 24- Structural Analysis exam
Nov 25- Infrastructure and the Environment exam

After that, YAHOO!

I also have this other project but I still don't know when's the due date. But it will be towards the end of the semester.

I've already stared at these things written in my planner about a hundred times, but now it's about time to start getting them done. As I want to focus on these things now, I shall now officially fight the urge to blog, because blogging takes a lot of my time.

I'd very much like to express my gratitude to those who care to read what I write here. And even more thanks to those who tag and make their presence felt. You guys never fail to make me smile.

Jia You everyone! God bless!

P.S.

I love you Mama! I love you Papa! I love you Dimple! I love you Paolo! I love you YC! I love you FRIENDS! I love you Rooch! I love myself! I love NUS! I love Engin! And most of all, I love you God!

Advanced Happy Birthday IVY!

I'll email you soon Cyril! May utang pa akong email sa yo, diko pa nakakalimutan...sorry talaga super delayed na...take care okay!

"I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me"
Philippians 4:13

lovelove

i love my churchmates. i love my wyldfire. actually i'm feeling super stressed and super tired, but when i think of these people, i smile. thank you God for them.

congrats to testigo cast! sorry i wasn't able to come because i had to do my tour-guiding duties...anyway i know you guys did great.

P.S.

one stress-inducing thing. for our hydraulics right, my goodness no wonder i cannot understand one single thing during lectures nowadays, because our tutor who is doing his post-grad degree just told us that he was surprised to see our lecture notes with stuff he's also currently learning in his level 6000 modules. *^*&(^$!!! but this module is only level 2000! the prof for this part of the sem is new, and he revamped the syllabus altogether. for last sem, the seniors said it's very easy. now it's martian language disguised in letters of the greek alphabet i haven't seen before and intimidating high-level mathematics. all i understand from our professor's lectures is 'Ok! Ok! Ok!' because he has this impulse to say 'Ok!' after every sentence.

Never mind. God will help me get through this. Please God, I don't want to fail any subjects anymore.

Ok! Ok! Ok!

tito

ang tito aldwin ko nakakainlove.

ang bait bait nya. yeah i know i was so kapal muks, nagpahatid ba naman sa PGP at 2 am. LONG story. but the thing is, he was like, defending me in front of his mom (my garndmother's sister) and making me feel it's okay for him taking the trouble to drive me from thomson 800 to PGP. while his mom is like, making me feel exactly the other way around, what with all the sighing and loud yawning and making comments like 'ang layo naman', 'malapit ba sa zoo ang dorm mo?','malapit siguro sa jurong bird park ang tinitirhan mo'.

i was at the backseat of their car and i was squirming like mad. sana nagtiis na lang ako na walang toothbrush, walang ligo bago matulog, walang palitan ng underwear, etcetera... and never made the request. but they volunteered to take tito glen and tito jun back to their hotel, so since we were already out in the streets and it's already almost 2 am, i asked for them to drive me back to PGP instead of me staying at their condo for tonight. again, now i wish i just slept in their condo because auntie baby made me feel so bad about my little request.

basta si tito aldwin mabait, mayaman, doting dad to nadine, pogilicious husband to tita dina...

pogi, pogi, pogi, pogi...

do they still manufacture guys like him and my very own dad?

happy boitday

Happy Birthday Mama! I love you so much!

My family does not have any idea of how my boyfriend really looks like. Til now, that is. He hates this photo but I don't really have much photos of him. Mama, Rooch wants to greet you a happy birthday too. Yes, another nickname for him. Haha.

clique

I am very disappointed with you two. You could have been more open-minded and anti-cliquish. You could have given those people a chance because they deserve it. "We don't really know them" is a lame excuse, because in the real world out there you have to learn how to deal and work with people whom you do not know initially. What, you think all the people in our class know each other when they formed their groups? We have the least number of group members, and we could accommodate two more. Tomorrow's the deadline of the submission of group members, and how could you sleep tonight knowing that there are two of our classmates still left hanging without a group? The three of us have tried to reason with you to give them a chance, but since when did the majority succumb to the power of the minority in decision-making? I feel so bad because I allowed this to happen. But we were just being very careful in arguing with you two because we also don't want our group to break apart. And what's more, our friendship is precious to us.

But still, I cannot take it that we rejected them for our own very selfish reasons. They humbled themselves greatly just so we would consider them to be in our group. They did their best to prove that they will not be free-loaders. They presented what they could do for the success of our project. They literally wooed us for about a week, and now this.

I know I didn't do my best to persuade you to give those guys a chance, because I knew you wouldn't listen anyway. See, there's already three of us for them and only two of you against them, yet you throw this tantrum to shut us up.

I wish those guys all the best in finding a group and in their project, and may not the Heavens punish us and put our grades at risk for being a bunch of egocentrics.

perstaym

Oh before I forget, for the first time ever in my NUS life, I got full marks for a midterm test. Infrastructure and the Environment. All glory and praise to God. =)

my self-proclaimed affiliation with Muggers, Inc.

My goodness. I look at my NUSSU Diary and I shudder. Turns out this week will be the last week I can afford to slack, because from next week onwards, EVERY WEEK there's a deadline for something, and this goes on til I say bye bye Singapore and hello Philippines for the holidays. Wait, Dr. Chew just told us that the December holidays is for us to work on our engineering firm website, so that by first week of January we could submit something like this.

The website is for partial fulfillment of our Integrated Infrastructure Project, which will run for 3 semesters. We will be designing an Integrated Resort in Sentosa. Yes, very timely if you ask me. For this semester, the main deliverable is an engineering firm website, whereby we showcase our technical expertise and achievements in order to persuade the government to hand the project over to us. So basically we write crap - only for this time we are permitted to legally fabricate fictitious articles about ourselves and claim that we built the Petronas Towers, Taipei 101, etc. And of course the website should look inviting too. Happy holidays!

1 more lab, 1 online assignment, 1 autocad practical exam, 2 projects, 3 written assignments, and 3 more tests before my 4 final exams. and let's not forget the CCAs needed to chalk up points for campus accomodation.

My goodness. I will have to go through the eye of a needle for 5 more semesters to get my degree.

P.S.

thanks ivy!

kristia, i don't know any sundeep satwani hehe=)