Saturday, April 29, 2006

confusion

went for the health care tok on fri.. there was 2 toks abt pharmacy and lab med, whic i felt were TOTALL BORING. not the speakers, (although they were) but the career itself.. eeks! besides, i wldn't have the grades to get there (sa only had 6 ppls gg to pharmacy in 2004) ya, finally the last speaker came on to tok abt physiotherapy.. i think it's really quite interesting lor.. it's not like the job requires much of those chemistry and complicated stuff.. i mean, the body is complicated.. but i'd rather work on helping people than researching on some new drug... i noe, i may not appear as the super sociable kinda person.. but i feel that i would wanna have a career that allows me to interact with people, rather than being in the lab!


ya, e speaker informed us of the routes to that physio. includes gg nyp(the only local option) for 3 years to get diploma before converting to a degree which takes 1 yr, either overseas or local. there's a scholarship too!! my gosh!!! i want! for speech therapy, which i was also kinda keen.. there are NO LOCAL institutions, so MUZ go overseas.. (no way).. THEN, the most shocking part(worrying, actually), is that she say the the competition for the course is pretty stiff.. 50 outta 200!!! i was like, jaw totally dropped! at that moment, i tot, there is absolutely no way i can make it there. no way. and then i was like, shit.. if i dun take physio, what am i gonna do?? oh no!!! i'm so freaking worried and disappointed and rejected...


how how? on the way back, angeline and i were like saying, we shld study very hard, so we could both get into the course.. i'm like.. er... 'if u get in, i can't get it liao.' oh sshit. how?! if i really wanna get into the course, i'd have to really STUDY VERY HARD!!!


but then again.. what if i dun like it? wat if i get into nyp and then realise that i dun like physio.. wat am i gg to do?? 4 years leh! i dun wanna waste my life away studying for smthg i;m not interested in. personally, i dun think we shld juz 'see what our grades are first'.. i think at this stage, if we each know the direction we wanna go, studying for the rest of the year will be so much 'easier' cos we'll keep our purpose in mind and not give up until we reach that goal.


it is very impt that i figure if phsyio is the path that i wanna take... hmm.. i'm so confused... then again, if i really want physio, can i get the grades? i'm soo freaking dejected now.. only abt 10 weeks to bt 2.



bio spa sux!!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

bleh.

the sch say they'll do smthg abt our pw grades.. hopefully they'll review how our stuff are graded, and regrade it, so tt they'll give a more 'deserving' grade.. and they did gave a good reason for their 'slow' response- saying it's becos of the long weekend break. ok fine. i'll see what they do...


went for blood donation today.. had a full meal at 1 plus.. then waited for ping til 3.15.. surprisingly, there were alot of ppls at the bloodbank today.. alot of male workers... ya, so i was kinda nervous abt whether i'll faint.. cos i DID felt dizzy and faint the last time i donated blood... so, the first 'injection' the staple shot - was actually quite painful... i was like... ouch! ok, not so loud la.. then went into the room... waited for quite long, before the nurse came to help me.. and the first anticeptic(i can't spell!) shot was also quite painful... i was supposed to relax the stressball, but i still squeeze it, then i saw that the vein(or wateva) kinda swelled.. hurhur..eeks! then afterwards, she inserted the needle.. also abit pain, cos she seem to have forced it in more.. aiyoyo..

overall: PAIN


after the donation, immediately after e nurse took out the needle, my heart started pumping really hard, and ONCE AGAIN, i felt dizzy!!! it was so argh! headache, cold sweat breaking out(due to low blood pressure, NOT the hotness). i was thinking to myself : I AM SO NOT DONATING BLOOD EVER AGAIN! ya.. the nurses came over.. the doc came over... fanned me, gave me drink... ya.. made me feel better... then the nurse say, 'next time u come, tell the nurses to give me a smaller pack for donation...so, u dun really have to stop donating blood, juz donate lesser'. that makes sense.. and so i felt.. ok maybe i'll give it ANOTHER shot.


then i stood up, and walked to the cafe. surprising i was feeling OK.. very good. no dizziness.. i could get my own refreshments w/out feeling dizzy... and i took a BUS home!! haha...i wanted to take cab, but all hired... and ya, i didn't faint on the way.. i felt normal...


so, overall, it was good and bad.. bad, becos my dizziness was immediately after the needle was pulled out(the first donation, i still have time to tok to ping before i felt dizzy).. the good thing, i recovered very much faster from my dizzy spells.. haha...


i'm starting to rethink abt the 50 donations... BUT i'm willing to give it another shot...

Saturday, April 15, 2006

feeling the heat already.

rahhh... juz started doing the math revision hw for those who've failed bt1... i can't do!!! i feel so useless... i juz can't rmb stuff... it's mid april liao... next week is gonna be super busy.. got napfa, chem test, LOTS OF ASSIGNMENTS to be handed in, 4 shifts of cip, tuition... my gosh... THIS is wat JC LIFE IS ABOUT.. except that i lack a proper cca(which i replaced it with cip).. then, i still need to train for 2.4, cos i hope to pass at the end of the month(which seems abit too fast, now that i look at my fully packed schedule- it means i only have a week left)


block test 1 results were horrible even though i sounded relieved at my previous entry.. i'm really at a loss as to what i can do... so much to study. so little time... 18 years old... it means i've been in the edu system for like 11 years!!! my gosh... suffered so much... i wish i could juz end it at As... unfortunately, in such a MERITOCRATIC country like spore.. As will get me NOWHERE.. and it's not like my As result will be fantastic anyway... wat to do?!


yh told me she may be gg for overseas studies... i'm so envious... if only my folks were WEALTHY... (i'm contented with what i have liao, tho..)


i'm at this phase again-i'm really clueless... i dun wanna study for the sake of studying... i need an aim... but like what yh says, reality is more than often different from what we really want... studying marine animals is what i'm interested, but my grades and financial status are saying 'impossible. be realistic'.


hmm.. it's 9 now.. i shld prob snap back to reality - finish up my hw.. go to bed... and hmm.. stop thinking abt pw and start dreaming of jeff wong!

Friday, April 14, 2006

argh!

yesterday, we went to get our pw results.. i was telling shuwei that i'm expecting a 3 cos ms soh already said our class did badly. and yup, i was rite, the whole class except deb got a 3. i was feeling ok abt it lah.. 60% of the sch got 3.. so, maybe we really screwed up.. "MOVE ON", i told myself.

last nite, i went for dinner with ap, wl, simin, yh, des, xinyi. i asked abt their results.. and they were like mostly 2 except dunno who get 1.. and i was like!!!!! what the hell?!?!?! ok, i dun tok abt jj and pj. but, ap, wl, sy and yh all got a 2!!!! no offense to them... but if they got a 2, shldn't i get a 2 too?!!! afterall, fr wat i heard fr them, for each component of their work, it seems like there's alot of mistakes even up till they hand up the last draft... and mine is like, most requirements were fulfilled... so why issit i get a 3???? i dun usually make this sort of statements, but i seriously feel that I DESERVE BETTER THAN A 3! like, c'mon, i did 5 PIs leh!!! some of the others did like only 2 at most?! and ms soh was definitely pleased with my final PI draft... and for the rest of the components, i did until the comments given were satisfactory before i hand in. so i was really pissed with this shit result.


today is my bdae.. i didn't wanna tok abt pw... if fact i was fine with my results UNTIL i heard the other ppls.. i'm so ARGH!!! my class got a 3.... 28 outta 29!!! like, isn't it WEIRD???? how's that possible??? if like one third got 2.. then ok , wateva. but 28 of us!!! and it's not like deb is the only one who's eng is gd.. other ppls like jac and sw, their stuff always got praised in class.. what happend???!!! IN MY OPINION, there is seriously something WRONG with the TEACHER!!! whoever that teacher is.. my goodness, can't she/he like rechecked everything if she realised the whole class 3s??!! it makes no sense at all... it's NOT FAIR! if they wanna make it fair, get cambridge to grade us instead! that i'll have nothing to say!

and poor ms soh and gary and whoever in the class who blames themselves. it's none of our fault.. and it's definitely not ms soh's fault! in fact i think she did a wonderful job in explaining the requirements for each component, and she was so nice that she marked ALL of our drafts(there's alot cos everyone kept redoing in order to fulfill ALL the requirements) ... so i feel sad for her too... she did so much work, all of us did so much work too! and this is the kinda grades we get???!!! c'mon.. there muz be smthg wrong!


complain to the sch?! oh forget it!! all they gonna do is find some way and juz shut our mouths(like they always do).. it's so ARGH!




ANyWAY, now that i'm done shooting my mouth off.. i shall lighten things up.. first of all, i wanna thank my class ppls, angeline, lj, sw, cheryl, eve, mel, surong, sheena, jo, huixin, wm, amanda, for the cute pink/grey le coq sportif jacket they gave.. nice jacket, nice price... hehe:) and then there's the whole other gang : simin, ap, xinyi, yh, wl, des, for spending the nite, till 1130 with me at orchard... and the presents they gave.. thanks alot ppls!!! love u all!!!

Monday, April 10, 2006

...

today was supposed to be a good day.. there wasn't supposed to be any 2.4.. at least not for the few of us who didn't do 5 stations last week. so i was feeling pretty good.. no tummyaches in the morning...


so we had chem lect... i muz say - mdm lee is really a very effective lecturer.. .she may be very fierce at times.. and her voice can be quite sharp and loud.. but she can really drill the stuff into our head.. it's like, we dun really have a choice but to listen. hopefully she'll lect us more often... unlike for other lectures, like math.. i'm super easily distracted cos i dun understand, and the lecturer is so slow and soft, and she juz doesn't get things across...


anyway, the not so good part abt the day is pe. mr ho casually said that everyone will be running for 2.4.. so i was like.. hmm.. 'can't be.. i dun think so..'. then he got kun to lead us to doing warmup..at that time, it was pretty dark, and looks like it was gg to rain anytime soon. so i kept praying it will rain, so we no need to run. Next, someone ask him 'are we all doing 2.4 today?' and he was like 'didn't i say already? we are all doing 2.4 today!' oh shit!!! what the hell?!?!?! i'm so not prepared.. he blew the whistle. and off everyone went... no choice lor.. juz run... and i was praying so hard that it will NOT rain.. cos it'll affect my running... in the end, it did rain.. not v heavily, but my glasses were covered with raindrops, and i felt as though i was crying, when it's juz the rain drops. yup, so i took 18.24min.. fail, but still an improvement from my 19.50 in my first trial... so it's ok.. i'm alrite.. actually, i kinda predicted my timing... it's gg according to my plan.. so HOPEFULLY, i'll get a better timing at end of the month.. maybe bronze... that's my aim anyway...


yup... that's abt all that happened today.. anyway, i juz realised that i was actually the one who asked jeff wong to take a pic.. hehe!! and before that, on day 1, i our eyes met a couple of timess when he was getting ready for the match!!! yea! ya.. he looks super cool in his tight jersey, and super cute in his casual attire.. (sigh) i juz can't stop thinking abt him..

standard chartered singapore sevens

okok.. i'm so happy!!!! i've got loads to tell..ok, went to do cip at national stadium for the standard chartered spore sevens.


on fri-briefing/dryrun = blah blah... we were late...(i was rite abt the timing tho..hehe).. so, were were told our duty was to bring the teams to their holding rm before their game starts.. simple. btw, we also saw ronald susilo running, on the outer perimeter in the stadium.. oh, and we all spotted this cute guy whom we all agree is cute.. (according to eve, she caught hime staring at her 3 times. hmm...)


sat= got our teeshirts.. dryfit x2. so we started.. the canadian team was early.. they were warming up, rite in front of the voluteers(us).. and i saw this cute part where they lift each other by their butt!! so cute!!! i got it on video!!! haha.. yup, china was early too.. and then the rest of the 16 teams start streaming in..

so, i was in charge of these few teams on sat - scotland(nice coach, we tok abt the weather).they quite auto.., i haven't say anything then they move to holding rm liao... that's not the same for korea, and japan tho.. can't even communicate w the ppls... ya.. so.. while i was outside the holding rm, ALOT of players passed by... and i was juz like.. trying not to make it obvious that i'm look at them.. some of them even wrapped in towels and then come out of changing rm.. so embarrassing!(for me!).. haha.. but i saw that they actually wore smthg inside.. yup.. so that's abt wat we did.. during our break, we also went up the grandstand to watch the games.. ok, so at the end of the day, we were all sitting at the volunteers area.. watching the players sign autographs for the ppls... and i wanted to take photos w them!!! but i was SO SHY!!! i didn't dare too... ya... so many cute and gorgeous hunks! AAAHHHH!!!! there's this canadian one, the hongkong no.9!!!! er... ya.. can't rmb liao... but the hongkong one was the main one, cos he's so extremely cute... he pass by me like a couple times!!! (sigh.) ya.. so basically.. tt day i was super exhausted.. and very upset and disappointed at myself for not taking any photos WITH the players.. ( i did took photos OF them... )


sun= bad start! the ic was like.. 'today is gonna be v impt.. we're gg to cut down on the no. of volunteers.. if u're not needed, go up to the gallery and watch the math.. and DON"T take photos with the players cos their matches will be very tight..(blah)'. ya, so i was super sad and down when i know i can't take photos with them... argh! and then during noon, we heard that mel and eve took pics with one player! i was so jealous!!!!

BUT THEN, at ard 4 plus 5... somehow, i went to look for eve and wenmin, who were hiding out at the holding rm area.. and i reluctantly yet excitedly stayed.. (cos when i enter, i heard the ic scolding some guy) ya..so we waited.. and finally! i took photos with some of the guys.. a few only la... eve and wenmin took with almost everyone who were not getting ready for the match.. ya.. but i wasn't sure of their name.. and i cldn't rmb their faces.. so there was 1 guy, who we took with, and i almost wanted to take with him again! hahaha..


then afterwards, we went for dinner.. the best meal so far.. cos everything was WARM. ya.. at that time, i was like.. still hoping to take pic with hongkong no.9. his name is jeff wong. but by the time we went back, i didnt see him liao.. we went to the carpark.. thankfully hongkong's bus was still there.. i wanted to stake out there one.. but eve wanted to watch the finals between england and fiji(fiji won). so AT THE END of everything.. we were like all looking for players to take photos with.. (we=me, wenmin and eve) security was prett tight.. but we still managed to get a couple of photos.. thankfully, the ic wasn't at that area where all the players were... [oh, there was this england player who DIDN"T take photo with me, he says to do so after the match, but in the end, no time, and i only saw him wrapped in a towel, and walked to the bus:(]


ya, SO, we were all waiting at the area, waiting to take pics with the england players.. and the next thing i knew - jeff wong!!!! woohoo!!! he walked out with a couple of frens..playfully hitting one another... i hurriedly nudged at wenmin... and i took a photo with jeff wong! yay! at first i tot wenmin was too fast, cos i saw the flash before i was standing next to him, but then went i got into position, he placed his arm ard my back, and i manage to nudge closer to him(eeks, i juz rmb my face was super oily! haha.. hope he didn't feel that) yay!! i was so happy la!! And after that, he smiled at me and said 'cheers!' my gosh!!! AAHHH!!! So cute!!!!! [He's on my display pic, ya.. he's abit short.. in fact, one of the shortest players.. but he's extremely cute please!!!!! I can feel his bubbliness and friendliess and everything!!! ]


yup, so tat was the main part... all in all, I took 5 solo shots with the players... ok lah.. although I didn't take with that Canadian and new Zealand players..nvm... I've got JEFF!!! Hoots!



So that's basically all.. I was so freaking happy the whole way home.. when I reach home, I cldn't sleep at all!!!! Cos I juz cldn't stop smiling and thinking of jeff… (sigh.) I think I finally fell asleep at 1 plus and somehow I woke up way before the alarm clock rang(at ard 5.30) and yes, I was smiling!
Oh my.. I'm juz so crazy over him rite now.. he's like my latest obsession.. oh my gosh!!! I love jeff!!!



random stuff- 1)i saw a player's naked butt!!! not on purpose!!!! they didn't close the door.. and i juz happened to glance in.. and there it was.. hmm.. so embarrassing.. lucky no one saw me seeing his butt... 2)alot of players from fiji and england juz wrapped a towel around their waist and walked to their bus at the end of the day.. 3) the england player i wanted to take with looks ABIT like andy roddick.. aiya.. i really can't rmb...


overall= an experience i'll always rmb!!! esp jeff wong!!!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Unbelievable!!!! woohoo!!!

i've got so many good news!!! i dunno where to start from!!! haha...

let's start from.. bio. okay, so for the bt1, i've got F for math and E for chem. so i tot i'm basically a goner and will have to meet parents cos there's no way i can get a B for bio to get 30 pts overall.. so.. (this part abit kiddish... will sound like a 3yr old being praised for getting the abc right. but i insist on writing cos it juz made my day).. Yup, so, ms ng was gg thru the mcq, then she was asking which statement was incorrect.. so there were 4 statements rite.. she asked me the first which i couldn't ans.. and then she asked the class abt the 3rd statement, which no one ansed.. and she said 'hmm, let me see who did well for the cardiac cycle'. so she looked at her list, looking at the bottom few,(thinking it cld be liyuan), then looked from the top, and then she said 'joyce, it's you again.' woohoo!!! it meant i did well for the que!! i was so overjoyed.. haha.. but i was thinking.. maybe it's only that part of the que... okay.. then she return the structured which i failed.. but still managed to pass if i add it up wif the mcq marks.. THEN she returned the essay part... and i got 15.5 for one of the que!!! haha.. i was so happy.. i calculated and found out i got a C..(which deb considered as anti-climax cos ms ng made it sound as tho i did excellent.. ).. anyway.. i'm happy.. cos i got the highest for tt particular que... (see, i told u.. i sound so immaturish as i write this sort of pri sch stuff... can tell how depressed i've been.. so anything, no matter how small, that makes me happy..has made me happy!).. ya, so at that pt, i got a overall of 25 pts.. C E F


then came to gp. i wasn't sure what i'd get.. esp for compre.. cos eve said mr pang didn't like those with long ans, and mine were pretty long.. so i was kinda worried.. ya.. so for compo, i got 28.. and shuwei got 30(highest), and she was saying before tt in the toilet, that she may not do so well.. bleh. ya.. then ms soh give out the compre.. according to marks. starting fr the highest.. so she was like ' cheryl(yip), vic.. .. joyce! you also!!' i was like - so shocked !!! and can hear that the class is shocked & surprised too.. cos they were ''woah!!!" quite loud.. ya.. everyone including me, were surprised... i got a 32(+1)..so happy:) yup, so that was a B4. which means 5pts.


so overall, i got 30 pts!!!! on the dot.. dun have to meet parents!!! my goodness... i can't believe.. this has happened 3 times!!! i was juz so close to failing to meet the 30 pts, since CT1, and promos(which i failed if not for the small tests here and there) and now the BT1!!!! i really dunno how it happend!!! i juz feel so overjoyed rite now.. it's like some sort of miracle.. hmm.. maybe there's some guardian angel out there looking out for me... either that or i shld have more confidence in myself.


i noe i noe.. 30 pts! can't even make it into any uni lah.. but still.. i managed to do better than what i've predicted.. phew.. i feel like the luckiest girl on earth!


so that was happy event no. 2. after that, me, sy, and aiping.. we were deciding to go to TOUCH community.. to ask for the stamp for our proposal.. but we made a call first.. the ic wasn't available until after ard 4.. so, me and sy decided to make a trip to mac first.. and see how it goes.. at ard 4 plus.. we called sharon, the ic, but to no avil.. so sy called may tan(another person) and asked for the email add of sharon. but then maytan said sharon was back but she's juz on the phone.. so, she asked for my no. instead.. so, i was v. worried and.. at a loss.. cos i scared when she calls me, i may not know how to tell her abt our proposal... then 5 min later, sharon called back.. and since we were in the area and she was free, we went to the office to meet her.. me and sy were like so nervous!!! sy had wanted to leave, after giving my no.. but luckily sharon called back before sy had time to go..

so.. we met her! so, at first we were waiting at a office.. then both of us were like.. oh no.. oh shit.. how how??? then i was like.. 'calm down.. treat this as a learning experience.. we're amateurs.. but it'll do good for our future..'
so sharon came in, and she's actually quite a nice lady.. she explained to us abt how the Touch com operates and stuff.. so.. at first it was kinda long.. and i was wondering when she'll look at our proposal.. finally.. ard 20min later, she allowed me a chance to present.. i was not v good.. but i managed to get the idea across... and she seems okay wif it.. she added a few stuff tt we cld add on to.. and then she said.. "okay, so can you'all fill up this form? while i go get the stamp." i was like?!!! that's it??!! ohmygosh!! so easy!!!! i was so happy and on top of the moon, sun and wateva!! it was really an easy deal.. and sharon was such a nice person.. like ms soh.. cos at first, i tot these ppls wld be v strict and diff to handle.. but then it turn out okay.. phew! so, we got the stamp!!!! yea!! and we were so worried that we wldn't even get a stamp and then we won't be able to submit to ymca.. but now that that's done.. all we have to worry is whether we'll get selected or not.. i am super anxious.. cos on one hand , i'm afraid it might take up alot of our time, but then since we were able to get the stamp, it feels like we shld do something in return for the favour they have done for us.. and at the end of the session sy was saying she was feeling cold all the way(nervouse).. only to find out that i was my skin was colder than hers.. haha tt means i was more nervous than her..


so.. that's everything that happened today! so happy... i dunno wat to say.. hahahahhaha yea!