I’m typing this while watching the 9pm show on Channel 8, THE OATH!!!

Catching this show every weekday is already a routine for me since a week ago or so! :> AND I’m loving it! Its my break time every 9-10pm! :)))

ANYWAY. I heard the serial is ending soon!! GAHHH. I roughly know the ending as well. =(

Whatever it is, JIAYOUUUU studying all my dear Uni friends! :) :)

ALL THE VERY BEST!

WE WILL TIDE THROUGH THIS!

*Taken some time ago, before I permed my hair*

Again, balloons give me hope! =))

Hello people!

Are you ready for school? Especially my fellow NUS friends who’d started our semester coming Monday! I hope you’ve all bidded and gotten your modules successfully!

Anyway, with the start of the new semester, I’m sure many of you would be worrying about getting your textbooks! We all know new textbooks are expensive; so 2^nd hand books are actually the best way out for students like us!

Last semester, I had a terrible experience of trying to get a 2^nd hand book via the IVLE portal. (NUS’s system!) Firstly, in order to find the textbooks I’m interested in, I had to go through a long list of postings like this.

That’s not all. After I find the book that I want, I have to either email/sms/call the seller (if hp no. is provided).

Here comes the problem. First and foremost, most of the sellers DO NOT update the status of the availability of their books i.e. after they sell their books away, they don’t update the postings.

I scrolled through many many of those pages above, to find 6-7 sellers, and texted them ONE-by-ONE. Urghhhhh.

& Being a super last minute person, I only started looking for books on the 2^nd and 3^rd week of school, and by that time, the best deals are already gone. Urghhh x2. Not only that, some kind sellers reply to say it’s sold, others didn’t even bother replying.

Guess what, I end up not getting the book for that particular module. (I’m serious! I just gave up.)

BUT NOWWW. I’ve been introduced to this super awesome site to buy/sell 2^nd hand textbooks! :D

& Oh, its not only for NUS students, actually anyone who need textbooks (be it poly/uni) can try finding the textbooks you need via that portal! So buyers/sellers, you can actually reach out to anyone who wants/has the book, not just students from NUS in particular!

Let me tell you how it works!

To buy a book, its as easy as 1-2-3!

(Because I’m a Science student, the example I’m using is of cause related to science!)

There you go!! Just type the book you want, it can be very general. Eg, economics/ accounting. All the books available will be shown! :) Easy yeah? They also tell you the lowest selling price, and condition of the books! So you can decide yourself and choose which seller to buy it from.

After many years of school and taking different modules, I’m sure your books are piling up! It’s time to sell those that you know you wouldn’t need any more before they get all yellow-ish! & Get back some $$ to buy other books for your coming semester!!!

Hehe. In order to sell your book, all you have to do, is to type in the ISBN code of the books!

They can be usually found in the first few page of the book, and/or, the back cover of the book! More info can be found here: http://bookinbookout.com/qna.html#isbn

Just type it in, and the book you’re intending to sell will appear! SUPER SPECIFIC and easy, so you don’t need to type out the author, edition, blah blah blahhh. Save us all the trouble!

See, the book I want is out. With the author and all the details! :D

LOL, they even tell you how much other people are selling at! So if you want your book to be sold fast, you can make your price like $0.50 or $1.00 cheaper if you’re willing to let it go at a little cheaper! HAHAHAHA. CHEAPO ppl like me will sure choose the cheaper one, provided the condition is the same lah! :P Else I’d think twice.

Isn’t it extremely convenient to buy/sell your books?! This semester onwards I’ma quit scouting my book through IVLE man!!! So troublesome!

So people, start going to this platform!

I assure you the experience is much better than through IVLE or any other forums you go to. Super easy to use, like I’ve explained above. & just FYI, it is used by over 60% students from NUS, NTU and SMU. (people like me are slow, I only got to know this site while doing this ad) So it’s highly likely that the book you’re looking for will be available there!

Another plus (+++) point is, your privacy is protected! The platform does not have to display your name, handphone no, email publicy for everyone to see. (Remember I sms-ed all the sellers to try to get my book? Imagine the SMS spam especially after your book is already sold – irritating ttm!.)

If you’re worried that no one ever checks that platform- it is now connected to Facebook as well!! You can see what your friends are selling and choose who to buy the books from! & the prices are typically 40-60% of brand new textbooks- cheapest way to start a new semester of new modules! ;)

Most importantly, BookInBookOut.com is giving away free iPad and iPod Touch to celebrate the launch of this new system! (More details here: http://bookinbookout.com/giveaway_notice.html)

HEHE! Good luck with the giveaway, and I hope all of you have a good experience buying and selling 2^nd hand books now! :D I’m so gonna be hogging by this website soon once the recommended texts and all are out! ;)

Head on to http://bookinbookout.com/ now! :D

Life isn’t smooth sailing at all. I stumble alot. I can’t ease myself whenever i think of 8 more weeks down the road. Its the exams. I can barely remember what I’ve learnt. Wait. Before that, the week after next marks the start of all the mid-terms. Goodness me i have a cramped week full of CAs!!!

Anyway school kinda sucks for me, really. I got crazy thoughts of transferring to NTU. No one assured NTU would be any better, but at least I know I have my dearies over there, and I learnt the lesson of not choosing my electives just because of my timetable. Even coming to school for 2 hours lectures a day for a module I like, is damn worth it.

YES I LEARNT MY LESSON, God, would you pull me through this semester?

Anyway. I’m back to using my netbook quite abit and I just realised I have my Vietnam trip’s holidays photos here! Teehee. Its been more than 9 months! HAHA!  

On the airplane!! :D

Hotel for the first night, i think! HAHA!

Younger brother & I! I think we looked so young then. HAHA, what happened within months? ;)

Aunties, Momsie, Daddy, and ME! <3

Brother & I.

Nice photo! :)) But got those emo feel.

Momsie & I! I love my pink jacket! HEE. Haven’t worn it much since the trip; should wear it more!!

This is somewhere in Vietnam. Apologies,its 9 months back. Even if it were 2 months back I wouldn’t be able to remember already.. >.>

But yeah, for this i know!! To house on stilts turn left, and to mango road, turn right!! :)

They have BBQ Chicken there too! A mega outlet lolol!

HAHA I look so retarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Momsie & I again! Realised I didn’t take any individual photos with Daddy! At least not on my camera! =(

Hehee, love this! We were on a ‘cruise’ I think. Towards somewhere offshore.

This is some natural cave which were eroded naturally to become like this? Yesss, we were on the ‘cruise’ to reach this cave! I think!

This must be their emperor or something. HAHA! I really don’t know!

Aiya. NO idea why I took this photo! Nothing significant!

These statues got those Terra-cotta soldiers feel. haha, but of course its not! This is Vietnam, not China!!

See the HAPPY NEW YEAR banner? :) We spent our last few days of 2009 and first few days of 2010 there!!!

The most left is daddy, and me! :)

The

The whole group of us! :))) I love the people I met during the tour!!! :D

Some lil local kids I met at the lobby of the hotel!! The one I’m holding with my left hand is the CUTEST!!! My favourite. But also the most mischievous!

Another tourist spot. Some old place, which apparently was quite famous, but I can’t remember!

This is our tour guide’s grand daughter. HAHA. She brought her along..

& These are KFC’s egg tarts!!!! So awesome, they have it way before SIngapore had it! :D I still love KFC egg tarts!!!

I can’t wait for our next family trip!!! :)

But I’m home, waiting for daddy to come home before we head out for dinner.

I was contemplating whether to go for a badminton game with cousins, or to join my parents for dinner. & Mommy convinced me to stay. HAHA. The date today is the 23rd July. In less than a month’s time, school is going to start, and judging the way I’m going to arrange my timetable, I’m pretty sure I’ll never be able to be back on time on Fridays to have dinner with my parents anymore.

I think alot, huh?

Its ironic how I don’t fail to complain how boring life is currently, and I know that once school starts, I’ll start missing such carefree and stress-free lives; where I can have breakfast with parents early in the morning, and go back home to sleep. Haaa.

I don’t think we can have the best of both worlds, do we? Humans are never perfect, lest to say, our lives. Its more about living your imperfect lives to the most perfect way..I guess.

Full of reflective thoughts.

So guys, if you’ve come to a point of realization like me, take some time off, and have a meal with your family! ;) All it takes is a an hour or two, probably during the weekends. Its never too late to show you care. :)

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*Digress abit*

Jay Chou is featured everywhere, on the newspapers, on magazines!! Haha. While some auntie was flipping her newspaper on the MRT just now, I caught a glimpse of Jay’s news! Hahahaha!

& I bought this week’s issue of i-weekly with Jay Chou being featured inside. How I wished it was all in English. But for him, I’ll read it all! :D:D

Its a Jay Chou week over here in Singapore afterall, so its also not suprising to see him all over. Haha!

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Anyway, back to arranging timetable for school, its giving me a headache! Thank goodness I’m comforted that it gets easier as the semesters goes by.

I can’t really adapt to the change from polytechnic to university life.

In polytechnic, we’re given a timetable, and just one whole range of electives for you to choose from.

Now in NUS, we’re only given our cores, and a zillion DIFFERENT kinds of electives to choose from, within or out of your faculty.

Confusing much?

I am so not used to it.

Someone remind me that it’ll be worth it in the end, please?

I really hope uni life is going to be enriching and manageable for me. I’m very paranoid about everything.

Goodness! I just needed this PUNCH! :] "Get ready for the time of your life*

This is comforting too! :DD

Because it’ll all be okay in the end. :)

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I’m missing my long tresses like crazy. I feel totally ugly with my current hair! The length just feels neither here nor there. =’

Dearest darling hair, will you please please please grow faster? ;) Please be healthy too!

With loveeeeee, xoxo.

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My favouritest snack♥ from Thailand! HEHE!

This is the contents of that package! :)) *yumssssss♥*

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Shyan Ni darling and I! =)) When we went to K!

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I made many many cupcakes for Mommy love♥ on her birthday! HEHE.

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Brother extremely proud of the summon he paid. -___-

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Omg this is like 4 years ago at least. I look so different!

Haha, best friends!!

:)))

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Months back, I went for physiotheraphy with my mommy every week.. My feets are treated with ice packssssss. *Brrrrrrr*

See my ugly bunion (the bulging part at the inner side of my feet near to my toes)? SO UGLY. :(

Another one.. Its a torture, in fact!

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Took this at work during Roadshow @ Taka!! A colleague drew this on an Acer Touch Screen desktop, haha! So cute!

Doraemon!

Notice the two fingers. HAHA, a colleague pointed this out to me too… Hideously incredible, as in the kinds of things people think of/do..

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Another favourite snack! I can finish a whole packet within hours if I don’t control myself. Pretty much explains my weight.

Magnum Mini!! Infected by brother who loves magnum alot!

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Taken during camp, while we were on the way to Butter Factory♥! Hehe

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At a furniture shop.. I really love such grandeur sofas!!! So majestic, so sophisticated!

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HEHEHE. =))

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Graduation 2010!!!

I spent 30 bucks on this frame thingy + huge-ass graduation photos! Okay, once in 3 years, still considered worth my money! ^^

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My BFF♥ during Union Camp!

Guess who I met during UC?

TAN SZE HUI! =) Totally unexpected HAHA!

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F.I.R. Concert! It’s My Life 2010 World Tour!

The lady is red was Faye(?) and the black one was Steffanie Sun.

She was GORGEOUS!!!

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& Yonex-Sunrise!

Hehe, guest!

Gateway to seeing Lee Chong Wei! haha.

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Got some Garnier samples from a friend. Gonna start using them and see if they really help to whiten me!!!

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Dedicated to all my dearest friends;

Whom I have yet to meet since long ago! (I know it feels like forever already since we wanted a meet up.)

WE NEED TO MEET UP! :))

& Yes, I appreciate you guys for being in my life! :D

15th of July is finally OVER! Its a date that’s bookmarked on my phone calendar since eons ago..

I can’t reiterate how worried I was about this silly QET test, and no matter what is the outcome, I’m glad its over.

Its feels as if a rock (that weighs a 100 tonnes) is off my chest. I can finally breathe at ease, enjoy myself guilt-free. The few days before the test was a terror. Knowing my usual self, I really couldn’t help but procrastinate till the last minute. Urghhhhhh. Totally hates myself for that. BUTTTT. Its alright, everything’s over, and I’ll resign to ‘fate’ to decide. HAHA. Oookay, my senior asked me to *have faith*!!

Life’s easier and happier like that, isn’t it?

:))

I’m in an awesome mood nowwwwwwwwwww.

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ANYWAYYYYY.

YESTERDAYYYYYY, I caught a movieeee (feeling totally guilty!!) with Suet Yin and Nic!!! SUPER LOVE THEMMM FOR WATCHING KARATE KID WITH ME AGAIN!! Yes, Karate Kid. I know I’m slower than anything. But hey, there were like 3 rows of people in the theatres too okay. So at least 3 rows of people as slow as me. 

It was really a good catch! & I’m so super duper glad I caught it at the very last minutee! Because even the cinemas in JB are not showing it anymore.. Mommy’s gonna be so disappointed.

AWESOME MOVIEEEE.

I’d give it a 4.5/5 stars..

It was so touching, the part where Jackie Chan was reminiscing about his wife and son. Oh my! :(

& Extremely heart wrenching when the super evil and arrogant coach wanted to break Dre’s legs. Ouchhhhh. I feel for him! :(

AIYAAA.

Definitely worth the watch. But if you missed it, wait for the DVDs to come out and watch it at home, I guess? :))

But at the same time, I missed a few pretty good movies too.

• The legend is born: Ip Man
• Toy Story 3
• The Backup Plan
• Triple Tap
• She’s out of my league
• The A-Team

Omg I feel super demoralised and depressed. 

I missed out so many great movies. And my only chance to catch two out of the six here is tomorrow. I found out one cinema in JB that’s still showing a single slot of Triple Tap and The Backup Plan, tomorrow. Sighhh. The other 4, its either I manage to catch them last minute like how I caught Karate Kid, or I’ll never watch them. Sad ttm.

I’m so going to catch the movies I wanna watch before they are removed from the screens again! :((

No matter how lousy Eclipse: The Twilight Saga was said to be, I think I’m still going to watch it. HAHA.

I wanna catch Eclipse, Despicable me, Inception, Street dance for now.

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And…in no time, it’ll be time for school!

I’m having mixed feelings about school.

At times, I can’t wait for it to start because my boredness is really filled to the brim. But on other occassions, I wished I had more time, to have fun, watch movies, go K with friends, meet up with friends, go partyyyyy, etc. But then again, it will become boring again.

Okay I shall anticipate the start of school :) I wonder how university life is going to be like, for me..

No one says its going to be easy.

But at least, its going to be worth it. (:

I just received another letter from the SEGi University College and this really heightened my curiosity level.

THERE YOU GO.

The question is HOW DO THEY GET MY NAME, and ADDRESS, and know that I’ve just graduated? — My biggest question mark (?).

Thing is, I’ve been schooling in Singapore since young. To be exact, since Primary one. I’ve been educated in Singapore all along and I really wonder how they found out I just graduated from Singapore Poly. I’ve NEVER applied for local universities in Malaysia before too.

After discussing the issue with my brother, we came up with a conclusion – someone somewhere must have sold our particulars to these local universities. Brother mentioned that he had letters years back too.

Without much thoughts, in our opinions, we could only boil down the culprit to IDP Education Pty Ltd (JB, Malaysia). (I’m just saying, you don’t have to agree, or you might wanna update me about how it works in Malaysia.) It is a nation wide association that helps international students apply for Australia universities.

IDP is the number one choice for international students who study in Australia. We offer a free service all the way through the process from deciding on a course to applying for a visa to pre-departure seminars.

as quoted from their website.

IDP is the ONLY “company” that should know we graduated because both of us applied to Australia universities and they are the ones who have all our particulars, results, etc.

Do you fellow Malaysians studying in Singapore applied for Australia Universities via IDP receive letters too? Let me know!

Disclaimer:: We have no proof that IDP is definitely the culprit but like what I’ve mentioned, its highly possible, in our opinions. :)

anyway. i love my life now. i’ve never felt more carefree. the past three years had been so busy i hardly have any memory of what i’ve done. i call this time of my life, bliss. i have no worries, literally, about spending too much time having fun/slacking and no time for revision, etc. basically thats the worries of almost every student, i believe.

within a few months, such bliss will be robbed of me again, probably for another 3-4 years. boooo. so i am enjoying to the max. (:

and yes. previously i mentioned about where i want to head, to pursue my studies. can’t believe within these few weeks, i actually changed my mind. been talking to a few peopleee, and i think they all make sense in all different ways. so i’m going to give it a go!! :)) being afraid of the uncertain sometimes just limits us.

because it often ends up with nothing if things are not done willingly, full-heartedly.