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Saturday, September 30, 2006

The recess week is coming to an end. ok, it's not much of a recess week to begin with. More of a work week.

Guess what, I finished my report. Haha. So I decided to give myself a break before the start of the second half of the semester. :)

Have been using Nokia 8310 for the past few days. An old model, but nonetheless, a good phone. Long lasting battery, easy to sms, snake, radio... I really regretted trading in my old nokia phone for the current motorola v878. Haha. When I looked at my motorola phone, I could understand why I bought it two years plus ago. Till today, I still think it is one of the nicest looking phone. Shall be passing the nokia phone to wq tomorrow. And I'll be back to the motorola phone.

There's tuition tomorrow. Haven't met my student for two weeks. I heard she got an E for her prelims. Sigh. I wonder what I can do for her. Hmm.

Surprisingly, my msn is working fine now. Haha. It's like outsmarting the machine to make it work. I hope it'll continue to work for the next few weeks. Yahoo messenger doesn't work too. So there's no replacement. Unlike IE and windows media player, I can use firefox and realplayer instead.

ok, shall go and surf around and watch a few episodes of anime... haha. take care people.
Thursday, September 28, 2006

For now, my computer is working fine. Except that I can't log on msn and can't get into internet explorer. The super old version of windows messenger is fine though. Oh well, I guess I shall live with it for the time being. Using firefox now. It seems good, for now. Haha. And like what some of my friends had previously commented, my nemo page can't load on firefox. Yes, so I have no choice but to change the layout to this doggie one. Haha.

Shall work hard to correct my thesis tonight. Hopefully, I'll be able to send the file to my supervisor tomorrow. Yes, and start working on my report for harmonic computational harmonic analysis as well. Sigh. Seriously, I didn't expect myself to have so many presentations and reports to do during masters year. But oh well, even if I knew all these, I would choose to do masters anyway. So it makes no difference. Haha. And I believe, after the problem of finding sureties, it makes me only more determined to take up the course. :)

Oh yes, haha, here are some pics of some cute mooncakes. Hehe.







Had been out for the whole of yesterday. Haha. Too bad kayjin is not around. I remember when I was in my third year in nus, I was telling my friends over lunch that I'm very impressed by this group of guys from the senior batch. True enough, this group of guys proved my conjecture. Haha.

Time to go. Sigh...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Comp down with trojan horse. Using my dad's comp now. Sigh.

Can still type my masters thesis on my comp. As long as I don't go online, it'll be fine. On the contrary, once I log on, the hidden virus will start multiplying itself and I have to go through the trouble of scanning the comp again to remove the affected files. Sigh.

Just see this as a way to make me concentrate on my typing. Haha. I've typed more than 30 pages already. :)

AODE tutorial next week. My group is supposed to be in charge of it. Oh well, and unluckily, I've to present the first question, and basically, my group can't come out with the full solution for this question. I'll try to give the class my sweetest smile, and hope that they won't start bombing me with questions. Haha.

ok, I'm pretty stressed with the workload. There's like so much stuff to do. I like neither reports nor presentations, but I have to do several of them this semester. Sigh. Everyone is busy and stressed. So the good thing is, nobody is struggling alone. Though I feel sian and stressed, the good thing is, I'm not depressed over it. :)

I'll be productive this week! Or so I hope.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Hardly any time to blog these days. Difficulty level of assignments increases. They take up more time. Started typing out my masters thesis. Everything is fine as at this point of time. Luckily I've more or less recovered from my 8 weeks old flu. :) There's like so many things to be done, yet, there's like so little time. Have to submit a report for the seminar module at the end of the semester. All the assignments for the computational harmonic analysis course will be due by then. Sigh. Masters year is more bout time management than anything else.

Still haven't gotten my stipend. Sigh. Which means I'm still dependent on my parents for free meals and free shelter at home. They have stopped giving me allowances though. And the phone bill is now deducted directly through giro from my account. I pay for my own transport fees. I just hope to be financially independent during my masters year. And it takes so long for this wish to be granted.

I guess this is hard for all to understand. It's fine. I just want to make some noise bout it. :)

It's amazing that we could be close friends last time, but all of a sudden, we're behaving like complete strangers nowadays. Maybe there's no longer any common topic? Mmm. At the same time as I try to figure out what's the problem between me and these friends, I truly appreciate all those who stayed by me all these years. Haha. As my mum was saying, there was so much difficulties talking to me last time, because I used to be so childish. Haha. She thought the turning point was after my second year in uni. Maybe mixing with people from the senior batch helps in maturity?

Surprisingly, I'm in contact with more people from people in the senior batch, as compared to my own batch. Mmm.

Sigh. Have to rush off to meet my parents soon. I don't know when I can find time to blog again. Gonna meet two of my lecturers for consultations this week. Sigh. Lots of typing to be done during recess week. Argh.

Haha. But, in the midst of these complaints, I think it's never a mistake to embark on this masters course. We should face challenges, and not stay in our comfort zones all the time. In these few months, I see many turning points. No matter how much we dislike such changes and how upset we get, at the end of the day, we always have to face them and adjust accordingly to the changes.

I've some cute pictures of mooncakes. And a picture of my new doraemon puppet. Haha. Shall post them up when I have the time. :)
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Had been sick for the past 7 weeks. Every time when I'm about to recover from a cough, I catch a new flu bug. The cycle of fever, sore throat, running nose and cough starts all over again. Promised my friend that I would attend his lecture to give him comments. By the time I finally recover and make it to his lecture, it'll probably be the middle of the semester.

My table in the graduates' office is finally clean and tidy. Haha. I'm kind of touched that the people in the room responded to my notice on the white board, and helped to clear all the junk away. I thought it was really nice of them, as they could simply leave the stuff there and pretend not to know anything. :) Yet to get to know them.

My friends are getting their next stipend in one to two weeks time. And I haven't gotten a single cent yet. The agreement signing has been postponed once again. >_< Oh well, things are just not within my control.

I just want to get well soon, so that I can quickly catch up with all those lectures and tutorials and start typing my new thesis.

Before I go, here's a picture of the new poster I got when I purchased the new Twins album:



I'll go and rest. Then study. Yawn.

Everything seems tough at the moment. But I believe I'll survive. :)