6 hours and...52 minutes from now, it'd be the 20th anniversary of the birth of <dd>!
If I may steal some limelight and be very obnoxious ( ), all good wishes can be posted here.
I already got some gifts. My good friends have surprised me with a Tascam audio interface - perfect for the Berklee dorm room emergency recordings, if need be. And my twin got me a pink LEGO Pirate shirt! Big yay on that one! And my good friend got tickets for me to watch Video Games Live next week! Front
My company had a photoshoot for the boss who's getting married this December, and offered to take some fun graduation pictures for me. Here's one, hehe.
Gosh, graduation was so fun! Part of the fun was because I was, remarkably, the top of my course. *bragbragbrag* So that got me a few awards and a bit more money too! On top of that, I was one of two valedictorian speakers! Well, I was the reserve at the end of the day, but the other guy got all the fuss and stress while I sat behind him an
So all the hype and hoobla of me going to Berklee is dying down. Good - I haven't been giving that much thought, anyway, because I've been running from school to school, placating kids and admonishing kids - all in a day's work.
But last night brought the whole incident back into thought.
I had a really 'bad' dream about Berklee.
I was already in Berklee. In fact, I was in a classroom in Berklee, doing a proficiency test or interview - it was not very clear. What I did know was that a r
Anywho, me is sadded. My results came back, and they were dismal. For my final performance, my GPA fell from a 3.9 to a 3.8 (3.865 but I'm not rounding up), with 4 B+s outweighing the A and Distinction. At least my Final Year Project got the A, so I'm happy for that bit. Ah well.
But, at least I did myself proud for the two-and-a-half years before this. My lowest grade was a B, and that was just one in a mix of As and Distinctions. That was my lucky scrape, I guess. With 23 of 32 (flip-flop!
Time for a very good reality check.
School's almost out for me. Imagine that - 3 days, 3 more days, and I'm unofficially out of the polytechnic. The only next thing for me is part-time work at my past internship company (They found a nice Japanese restaurant near the workplace and promise me a trip!) and waiting for the dreaded results. I've the feeling I've done poorly for this semester, but I put full faith in my effort that things would come out all right.
More things - I'm now a *someh
I don't really know the meaning of 'Yuletide', though.
Merry Christmas, everyone! My MacBook has been returned from repairs, though I still suspect a few things still need to be tweaked.
And now it's Christmas - on this side of the globe. And I have a small present count, but that's okay. And today, the cinemas released a movie that I reallyreallyreally wanna watch: Ip Man! Kung-fu fighting on Christmas!
Right, now's time for the Christmas church service. Hope that everyone has a goo
School's a pain. A seriously bad pain. The assignments are piling up, my final year project is due in 3 weeks and I still have nothing. My inspiration has dried, and I feel the loom of a comatose ready to swell over.
BUT - life isn't all that bad. I've finally taken an order in my non-existent order by using the 'Getting Things Done' system - and it's been working wonders. I'm actually getting things done!
I also had fun during the holidays I had. I went on a 3-day outing with my boyfri
Yes, I know I'm posting this on the night of Halloween. Everyone of you should be out there trick-or-treating, or at a Halloween party of sorts. I, on the other hand, am at home suffering a bad cold.
No need to pity me, but if anyone has Hack sweets, I'd love one or two.
I've only two things to offer, in celebration of the day of spooks.
Manai's Adventures: A while back, I wrote a line of short story thrillers/spook-tales about an Onu-Koronan girl named Manai, daughter of a trader nam
There was once a time when my whole family was in a LEGO craze - at least for my brother and me. The BIONICLE sets (Olda and Nuva) came, and went. My brother made a horrible MOC of Gali Olda with brown arms, green legs, a clawed foot and 6 arms with weapons attached to her chest. I dismantled that piece before the nightmares could start.
There were other pieces too - some Technics parts (and I don't recall any of those!), some rather old LEGO parts (you know, the City kind and the old ones th
Finally, as of today, after a year and 4/5 months of waiting, I've finally moved back into my old - now new - home.
Even though I walked my rounds around the place over and over, I still am trying to get my bearings down straight. The house doesn't feel smaller, even though it is the result of the old house being halved. Adding a pseudo third storey made this place seem a lot bigger!
During the house-moving, I managed to get permission to sleep over in this gargantuan house between the two
Heeheehee.
I'm sure we're aware that the staff/Moderating Crew are getting their names constantly...renamed. By really fun themes.
But I burst out laughing when I found Omi as Unicron.
And Janus as Laserbeak.
And HH as Moonracer.
And Dr. B as Wheeljack.
Who are the rest? I want to see more Transformers around here! XD
(For those not in the know, I am a TF fan too. Wrote some fanfics for it too, mostly of the humour genre. Kee!)
(And for those not in the know, my holiday
My birthday just had to lie in a time where I was flooded with work - 9 assignments, gasp! - and was stressed to a breaking point.
The general wisdom is that, it's your birthday, it should be a happy day, you should be happy - others are telling you to have a 'Happy Birthday', aye? - but, I don't really feel it.
I felt spent and tired. The gifts did help - got a bottle of Estee 'Super Eau de Parfum' from my mum, a Queen CD from my sister, a tube of seaweed bath gel from a friend of Mum's,
I'm terribly moody in this recent period of time. Been thinking about a recent event that happened in the household of Kevin's that is related to my own.
His grandmother is in her last stages of lung cancer, like my own, but... her family isn't doing much good about it.
While my grandmother underwent treated care, his grandmother opted for pallative care. That's all right by me -
But when I heard that the family had dragged her out of her bedroom and made her stay in the unventilated l
My grandmother has passed away peacefully - just as we hoped.
I've just survived the harrowing graveyard shift, watching over the premises of the wake site and all the flower wreaths. Staying up all night and not partying is not so fun, but the remaining relatives who stayed behind as well made good chat - until I K.O.ed halfway through the conversation.
I'm fine, and am providing support for my family as well. I'm past the bereavement stage, and I hope things can get back to norm soon.
Since I'm not married, here're a pair of virtual hongbaos! What's inside - well, chocolate gold coins are what I can offer.
Gong Xi Fa Cai! It's the year of the Rat, the start of the whole Zodiac Calendar, and let me wish you all:
Ping An Ru Shi: Safety through the year and the situations they bring.
Nian Nian You Yu: Surpluses and excessive bounty in every year.
Xin/Meng Xiang Shi Chen: The realization of your heart's/mind's wishes.
Sheng Ti Jian Kang: A healthy and strong body.
It's been two short nights - really short nights. I had been sleeping at 2, past 2 sometimes, to rush out the first phase of my final-year-project.
I feel a nice, large headache coming my way, and it'll hit me hard the minute I submit this assignment. Even now, I feel groggy...
Who's Janice?
-<dd>
I haven't been able to go online as frequently as I'd like to - I do miss coming here daily.
But, I felt my conscience drift to another matter, of greater importance and worry for me.
My grandmother, a patient of lung (and brain) cancer, has lapsed into her final days. I can feel the gloom hanging above her literally - she's silent, and hasn't taken a sip of water or a piece of food for... a while.
I feel a rant coming on, but it won't help my grandmother get any better.
We thought
I came, I saw, I conquered. In short, I had a blast during this year's Chinese New Year - there were lion and dragon dances this year, something the previous year didn't have. I visited more people - my boyfriend's aunt and her family for one. That was nerve-wracking, but it was fun in the end. And the hongbao (red packet) collecting, and the mahjong-playing.
I wish I could go into more detail, but now's not exactly the earthly hour.
But, just for a record:
Hongbaos collected: 28 (as of
- The Epic Critics Club experienced a sudden jumpstart. Now, it's lagging because I haven't touched it. Yet. I will - once the week's over!
- There're two weeks left of the school term and my time as a second-year student. Ack, the assignments are killing me! I've an avant-garde piece to create out of home recordings, a business to launch and an online portfolio to boot up before the end of the term.
- I'm nervous about my internship placement. It may not have been a wise idea to leave it
If any would recall this entry, I had a nasty encounter with an insect at the outer reaches of my room, where the last I saw of the culprit was its feet going over the staircase directly to the first floor.
9:30pm, after a boring Christmas dinner at a parent's friend's home, and I had just put down my bag - and noticed something brown scuttle on the edge on my bed and disappear behind the blankets.
There was only one thing that was brown, scuttled and preferred hiding places.
I had to
So that guy who liked me and I have been together for a while as friends. Times together were good, times together weren't so sweet at certain periods, but it has come to the point where he popped the question to me.
I knew that this phase in life would come upon me, but I actually hadn't expected it to be so soon! I supposed that I'd get my first boyfriend in university, if you can believe it.
And now this happened.
We've been shooting questions back and forth since then: What are yo
When the doctor mentioned the awful words, I couldn't help but look at him with alarm.
I was sick again - the morning in school went fine, but when I got queasy in the afternoon, it demanded medical attention.
And, lo behold, the doctor thought I need a blood test.
I have a really nice phobia of needles. Hated those things ever since I saw something long, thin, silver and pointy poke me when I was young. That memory never died.
When the doctor further elaborated, with the words
It so happened that my school campus was laid out on terrain that was anything but flat. There were buildings that were more-or-less level in height, but there was that one building which everyone has constantly described as being 'on top of the hill'.
And who knew that the location of my school had, in the end, proved to be a lovely way for a flu to spread.
I believe it started with one or two people who were ill - from the info-tech course, I bet. The spread was inevitable - everyone c
Intellectual Property - the laws of copyright and moral rights - should never be taken lightly. My 'Business of Music' lecturer made sure we knew that - by giving us our toughest assignment yet.
He made everyone in Never-Ever Land downright criminals, stealing the melody motif (Mi Re Do) of 'Three Blind Mice'. It somehow got so twisted that at least 3 songs have been produced out of it: 'Gold From Straws', 'Gold-i-locks', 'Climb These Locks', and all the planned cover versions of those songs,
