My Redeemer Lives

I cannot tell you how grateful I am, Jesus, for the greatest sacrifice of all. Thank you for taking the list of all my sins and nailing them at calvary, to be forever erased from the annals of history. Thank you so much for giving up your life that I may have an eternal one. Thank you for being so mindful of me, though I am just a speck compared to all the wonders you created in the heavens and on the earth.

I know I have offered myself as a living sacrifice a few years back, but many times I have tried to crawl down the altar. I am imperfect, a sinner, but despite that, you still love me and accept me with arms wide open every time I come back to you. I love you Lord...and to see your face on THAT day, is all I'm living for.

over and done with

It is finished.

Thank you God.

Our CE3101 presentation is over already. We are all so very tired. Tomorrow is the start of the Reading Week, and I intend to live up to its name. I seriously haven't started revising for my exams yet due to the project, but now that it's out of the way, I can now mug for my finals. I have an exam next Friday already....oh no!

My reason for blogging today is that I just want to share what Edina said a while ago. We were at the Engin foyer waiting for our presentation to commence, and we were all getting fidgety and restless. Then she said something like she's quite scared or something, then I replied by saying "just be positive" or something like that. Then she brightened her face with that big smile of hers, patted my shoulder, and exclaimed "Oh yeah, with God all things are possible." You will only truly appreciate this statement if you know that we don't usually talk about God in front of our other friends because the rest of them have their own beliefs, and they don't want other people's faiths being shoved to their faces.

I can't even make a wild guess about what our final grade will be, because all the other groups are also very good. But I think we'll be fine because we were able to please our module supervisor and another judge, but there was this judge who was a tough nut to crack. But everyone else suffered from him anyway.

Anyway I'm going to sleep now. I need to recharge myself before intense mugging starting tomorrow. See you after the exams bloggie. =)

Again, thank you Lord.

PS

By the way here is our group's A1-size poster that Rotana and I made. It would look quite tiny here, though. Hee, all the drawings inside the poster were painstakingly made by us (we took our raw materials from the internet, especially the Sentosa cartoon map, and modified them to suit us), that's why I'm quite proud of this. Too bad we won't get to keep the printed poster because it would become NUS property.

surprise

Whoa. I haven't checked my blog for a while and I'm surprised and even more honored to see Mr Teh tagging in my blog!!! My initial reaction was, "whoa! how?", then I went to check my blog counter and there I found Google Finance as the referrer. Well what can I say...hehe thank you for gracing my blog with your words. They mean a lot to the little girl who wants to make it big one day.

Been very busy with the project to die for. Tomorrow's the big presentation day already! I even saw a poster in one of the Engin lifts promoting this event. It went something like "What do Civil Engineering students study?...Come and see how our students envision an integrated resort in Sentosa..." or something like that. Initial reaction: YIKES! They're really expecting a lot from us. It will be at the Engin foyer, and each group will pin up our never-say-die poster. We'll present using our poster and supplementary powerpoint slides, and we'll be wearing business clothes...woooo...

This whole project is a module in itself, which means we will get an A, B,.. (ok I won't try to venture out on other possibilities anymore) in our transcript for this. It is really challenging and much hard work and A LOT of time was really spent on this. Just its sense of urgency and importance kept me going til 6:30 am for many days even without drinking my Red Bull. (I don't know how on earth Sundeep lasts til 8 am.) So yup, presentation day tomorrow, which is well, the final exam for this module.

I must say I'm also very happy and grateful that I'm doing this project with my closest friends in engin. We go through the pits together yet we have fun along the way. As this one-year project is coming to a close, allow me to say..

Sundeep, Edina, Rotana, and Siaw Ling...yoohoo we rock!

God please be with us during our presentation. Please give us confidence and help us speak well while presenting. Please help us answer to the judges' satisfaction when they shoot us with questions. Please don't let all our efforts be in vain. All glory and honor to you alone, Amen.

=p

Paolo!!!

miss ko na rin kayo...

i love you family. i never fail to include you in my prayers every single day.

***tapos na ang hinayupak na lab report!***

ce3101 project naman. weeeeeeeeeeee!

this lab has taken its toll on me

i said goodbye, too many times before.

pesteng lab report. sasabog na utak ko hindi ko pa rin magets. kaya ayan, twice na ako nagblog today at pa-surf surf kasi nahihirapan akong i-enjoy ang ginagawa kong hindi ko matapos-tapos kasi hindi ko maintindihan.

thank you arthur. thank you for all those people who still tag though they get no reply from me. as i have mentioned a trillion gazillion times already, i don't know why i can't tag in my own shoutbox.

ok back to work.

Papa God magparamdam ka naman. alam kong anjan ka lang. tulong.

frenzy

Right now is like, so tempting to just freak out, throw my laptop out the window, pack my bags, stow away on board one of the Star Cruises and venture out into the unknown just to escape from all the pressing deadlines and presentations and those yet unearthed lecture notes and tutorials and the coming terror that is the exams.

And some more, I am so easily distracted these days by always logging on to Friendster and checking out the profiles of people who don't even give a carabao's ass about my life.

I need to focus during this critical period of the semester. I need to have self-control.

So help me God.

On a brighter note, it is always the darkest before the dawn...so yeheyness! My three acad-stress-free months are also coming up!!!

Job Ad

Anyone interested in being a market researcher for Synovate? This is the actual job ad posted in NUS eJobCentre:




Hrmph..too small is it? (My first time to do a screen shot of anything)...Anyway...


Synovate is actually a business consultancy company, so they do market research for other companies, so that these other companies will know how to design and package their products to suit their customers.

Yeah so I applied and I just came from the interview. Basically what you have to do is to call up companies in the Philippines (actually it depends on which country you are assigned to, and it is just sensible to assign Filipinos to the Philippines), and conduct a survey. For this project, they are concerned with the type of lubricants used by companies that require cargo or container vehicles.

Remuneration is $8/hr, and working hours are preferably from 9am-6pm. If you do the math, that's actually good money for a temp job. However, don't expect an easy job...because the questionnaire is super long!!! It is the longest questionnaire I have ever seen in my whole life, and you have to conduct an interview over the phone using that. I almost backed out actually, but they said you are only expected to contact around five companies per day because they do know that it would take a lot of time to finish just one questionnaire. The lady also assured us that it might seem difficult at first, but you'll get used to it. The working environment is also vibrant, as there are a lot of people of different nationalities, and the office itself is colorful. Also, I think this is something nice that you could add on to your resume hehehe=)

Mark-the-recruiter-and-funny-guy said that he's having difficulty looking for native speakers of Tagalog, and asked if maybe I could help him...so there..for anyone who is interested, just contact Mark (hp: 97916971, landline 64306550) to arrange for another briefing next week. No need to apply online I think, just contact him directly.

To learn more about Synovate, click here.

PS

Samahan nyo ako please. Haha.=) Para fun. We can start working in May, after our exams.

Closure

Ito na siguro ang ating kinahinatnan.

Salamat sa mga masasayang araw na tila'y mga alaala na lamang ng nakalipas.

Para sa kanyang minahal ko ng labis at walang katulad,

Paalam na.

Nagdrama ba naman ang loka.

Aja Aja Fighting!

Thank you Lord for sustaining me during this crazy period. Thank you Lord for Red Bull Energy Drink. (highly recommended!!!)

An excerpt from my Soil Mechanics notes:

In general, it is often difficult to obtain mathematically closed-form solutions for most realistic boundary geometries and conditions. Other methods are used instead:

(a) graphical method: flow net sketching. This is the classical engineering approach.

(b) numerical method: finite difference or finite elements. Softwares for such analyses are commonly used these days.

(c) electrical analogue. This method is as obsolete as the dinosaurs and belongs to the Jurassic age.



AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! funny. Prof Lee managed to inject some humour in his technical yacking.