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Monday, May 26, 2008

It was grandma's birthday yesterday. She was still at St Andrews community hospital yesterday and due to be discharged this Friday.

So instead of the annual birthday dinner at some restaurant, had her birthday celebration at Changi Hospital's foodcourt. My 1st uncle brought apple pie, 2nd uncle bought old chang kee, my mum brought fruits and a cake and my grandpa ordered roast duck, char siew, roast pork and steam chicken at the foodcourt at 4.30pm! To think i just finished my lunch at 2pm. Of course with all the food my grandpa also ordered 11 plates of noodles and 2 plates of chicken rice and everybody went like "woah!" cuz nobody's that hungry and there were a whole spread of food on the table. Once the food were on the table my grandma helped herself like *snap* and she ate like she hadn't eaten for days, i guess hospital food is not that great..haha! Finished everything at 6pm and was so full that didn't even have appetite for a planned supper later in the night..haha.

I'm down with nothing to do, at least for the next 2.5 weeks til church camp. Now i'm just sitting around reluctantly waiting for results to be out next Wednesday, i think the results will be out earlier, probably by this week in the RMIT website. I just hope it'll never be released. I'm just really afraid i'll have to repeat commercial law and business stats. If i have to retake both then i'll have to drop a paper next sem and if i fail at least 1 paper, i'll have to go back to school next month to get all my papers sorted out AGAIN next sem. Haiz...

joce blog dusted at 11:40 am -

Saturday, May 24, 2008

I PASSED!! I PASSED!!

*Jumping up and down screaming at the top of my lungs!*

I passed my driving practical test by the skin of my teeth and now i'm a....Qualified Licensed Driver!!!

I've got 18 points for the test and just 1 more small mistake and i would have failed it. Actually almost had an immediate failure but praise the Lord the tester decided not to give it to me in the end. I was so relieved. After i passed they made us all go watch a short video before we could apply for the license...waste my time.

I'm just so happy, now about making dad get a car for my sis and i to share (i think we'll fight over who and when to use the car alot! haha!)...hmmm....

joce blog dusted at 1:51 pm -

Friday, May 23, 2008

Gonna be sitting for my driving test in about 11hrs at 10.15 am, warm up starts in 10hrs at 9.10am and i've got to be at the driving centre by 9am to get some documents settled before i start.

I'll be lying if i ever say that i'm not nervous because i'm in a nervous wreck right now. I guess i'm worried about some things, stuff like getting an immediate failure. I'm more worried about getting an immediate failure (eg mount kerb) because 1 immediate failure striked and i fail the test on the spot as for demerit points i only fail if i accumulate more than 18 points.

I guess i'll just have to have a lot of faith as worrying can get me nowhere but failure. Let Thy will be done, not mine...

joce blog dusted at 11:07 pm -

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Watched Accuracy of Death yesterday. Takeshi Kaneshiro is soooo cute!!
The movie wasn't that bad, except that some parts were really slow, dry, boring and what may seem a bit ridiculous.
The show is very much about the grim reapers and more specifically about this particular grim reaper - Chiba played by Takeshi Kaneshiro. It's all about doing the job that he is assigned to, following the subject (person) assigned to him for a couple of days and decide if to "proceed" (death) or to "suspend" (life) and somehow there are this linkage in all 3 jobs he had.
What i really like about the movie is the comedic touch to it that showcase the grim reaper's "sua gu-ness" and how he sees music as "one of man's greatest inventions". Haha! Takeshi Kaneshiro's just so cute and funny acting as a sua gu grim reaper.

Somehow this movie does bring out some relevant points. The question that was kept constant throughout the show was "How do you feel about death?"
I guess most of us are too ignorant or just want to dismiss questions about death. Most of us (me included) act like there's always tomorrow to live for and never really thought on what's our take on death and more importantly what is our purpose in life and what do we actually live for.

Had my final driving lesson (hopefully) this morning. Gonna take my driving test on Saturday and feeling quite nervous about it. Am praying everything will go well during the test and that includes the traffic on the road (traffic at ubi is horrible!).

Can't really think of anything else to blog about so i'll just leave it as it is here.

joce blog dusted at 11:37 pm -

Sunday, May 18, 2008

I've been sitting around quite a lot this past week hearing disaster after disaster hitting places around asia. The first - cyclone in Myanmar; the second - earthquake in China. It's like there will be a deadly disaster each year ever since tsunami and tens of thousands of people will perish with it all and how many more of them will turn to poverty. God must have a lot of wrath to exert His anger in this manner. Been thinking amidst of all these on how blessed we Singaporeans are who do not really have a real natural disaster-ing threat to us all. Sometimes i do wonder why are we all complaining about everything when there's really nothing to complain about.

A week into the holidays now, i've been wii-ing most of the time away. My sis rented a car for the past week and offered to send us around, so had a week of her chauffering us around to wherever we want to go to. I've 2 more driving lessons this week and then the big test on Saturday! Will be praying all will go well, if i have to retake it and i will be made to pay the 2nd test by myself (as threatened by the mummy) and that's $160 (that means no spending $$ for at least a whole month or 2!).

Will be going to church camp this coming June to Malacca in some 5* hotel. Kind of disappointed some of the girls aren't going, it won't be as fun without them. The bus, group and room listings are out today. Grouping wise, the youth group is still alright. At least there's Joanne whose 4 yrs older than me and was from my former careteam and Cassandra whose 2 yrs younger and in my current careteam and i'm quite comfortable around them. The problem is the room sharing. They won't put me together with my brother and put 2 other girls with me and both of them are 13 year olds!! I'm like 7 years older, i know 1 of them but don't really talk to her and i don't even know the other. Both of them are in my brother's class so am trying to squeeze out every bit of info that he knows about them if not i'm gonna have a terrible time sharing rooms and taking care of them. Gah!

joce blog dusted at 10:11 pm -

Monday, May 12, 2008

BRING IN THE WINTER HOLIDAY Y'ALL, I AM SO READY FOR YOU!!

Winter holiday's finally and officially here!! yay!! Yeah i know it's supposed to be summer, but it's an Australian degree, so it's winter. Haha! Gonna play the Nintendo Wii whole day and night long and continue going to frequent movie trips as always.

Countless appointments to begin with and immense amount of money and time gonna be spent on just that. My holiday's schedule almost full - filled with appointments and what nots. Set aside a few days for myself - rest and to enjoy the enormous TV in my room with a cupboard filled with movies. Set aside another set of couple of days for job hunting too.

joce blog dusted at 12:22 am -

Friday, May 09, 2008

At last! Exams are officially over today! For once after 2 weeks of studying and 3 weeks of exams (that's 5 weeks!) i'm able to breathe freely again.

One thing i really dread now is the day when exam results are going to be released. It's been a tough semester - fun modules to sit through but definitely the toughest of exams to study and sit for. I don't think i did well, but am certainly praying i'll at least be able to pass them. Out of the 4 papers i guess i'm most confident in passing the accounting paper, probably 70% confident (which isn't very high). I'm sitting on 50-50 for business stats and prices & markets and not much confident i'll get through comm. law (prob 25%? haha!). So yeah, i'm both relieved and worried.

My parents bought the nintendo wii yesterday, so after exams this morning came home to play the whole day away like nobody's business, seems like eons ago was able to do that..haha.

I'm gonna take the week off, i can sleep through 3 days 3 nights just to cover for the loss of sleep over the last few weeks. Then the week after will be preparing for my driving test (hope i don't panic!). After which will be casually looking around for part-time job see who's offering what. Then prepare for church camp and will go into full scale job hunting after the camp.

joce blog dusted at 11:57 pm -

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Last paper tomorrow! (At last!!) I am all set to kick the books out of my path and retrogress into my sofa glued to my gigantesque tv whole day long and just slack away.

Up bright and early today to continue studying for tomorrow's Management Accounting paper and hopefully will be able to finish everything by tonight. May or may not be going for a short movie trip later, but certainly going to E! Hub (again) Coffee Bean to plod my way through the infinite theory and formatting of work through a cup of coffee, hot chocolate and freshly brewed tea (and i reckon i'll get a tummyache at the end of the day).

Well, got to get off to revision now, til after exams when we meet to blog again. ;)

joce blog dusted at 8:41 am -

Monday, May 05, 2008

Finally the last week of exams and the final 2 papers. 2 down and 2 more to go. I just like it all to end right now, it just comes to a point where it's the 3rd week of exams and mental exhaustion is starting to kick in. So far i don't think i'd done well for the exams. I'm sitting on the fence for business statistics and i feel that i'm gonna fail commercial law. Just taken the commercial law paper on Friday and it was tough alright, at least that's what the others felt too and i guess a lot of us are mentally (but reluctantly) prepared to retake it next semester but i certainly am hoping and praying not.

This semester i'm finding myself spending more time studying at Downtown East and E! Hub more than at Changi Airport. I've no idea why but that's just it. I guess i just needed the walk there and back to wake myself up than the (sometimes) squeezy bus trip to the airport.

Gonna take the Prices & Markets (microecons) exams tomorrow afternoon. Finally finished studying, that's why i'm blogging now, but yet to practice on the tutorial questions (gonna get it done after this!). Management Accounting paper on Friday, finally something to do with accountancy! I've been fighting through math, law and econs but i've yet to touch anything that has to do with accountancy.

I'm gonna do some practicing right now before i regret (as always) not having enough time to practice. Til then....

joce blog dusted at 11:47 pm -

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