Life
Saturday, May 31, 2008
alright. I actually had plenty to update didnt I? to make up for the previous few emoish and mushy posts, I will do a proper life update. even if no one reads it, its for personal future reference.
if the following feels like a blame game, I am not. just thought its kinda funny to jot down nuggets of stuff friends are telling me.
quickly running through the extremely madnessly busy week 6..
Japanese Speaking Test
due to a particular attempt-to-act-hero moment, I hemmed and hawed my first line. thanks luh edmond. watashi wa doyoubi wa tempura otabemasu soshite kaimono oshimasu indeed.
other than that its pretty fine. its quite amazing I actually uttered the time properly without realising it myself. the power of your subconsciousness must not be underestimated.
DSS Class Test
um. simple. not being egoistic, just being honest. I expected a bit more actually. anyway, I made a careless mistake with the 8% markup for sales amount or something though. must thank jiayan for bursting my bubble with this one.
DSS Presentation
my group, thanks to a tip-off by Inez, was dressed for the occasion and got some points just for that. it invoked quite a rage in the other groups. sorry =(
we did alright methinks. the role play involving big boss visiting turning out to be his assistant flopped due to the chronic lack of preparation time. we just ended up representing different employees of Super Cars and touching on a small part of the presentation respectively.
I did question 2 as per arranged, then question 4 when hup song didnt prepare for it cos he didnt know he had to.
Mr Yang said I started out smoothly but stuttered at the end, not really knowing what to say (lol I didnt prepare question 4 remember?), and that guiding the audience with the mouse pointer is good. will keep them in mind. thank you.
POA Quiz 1
only knew its an open book test on the day itself. I wanted to slap myself for spending so much time preparing for it there and then.
the preparation kinda paid off at least. I didnt have to refer to the notes many times. blessing in disguise? quiz was quite alright overall I suppose..
LMS Group Assignment 1 Presentation
this was the thing that kept me nervous for the week. we only really prepared on 9am that day, and even then I was polishing up the powerpoint all the way into the wee hours the previous night. had to an expresso to protect myself from the zzz monster.
christine injured her foot and we ended up at her condo a short distance away from NP. fully airconditioned houses and private lifts are like, wow. at least to average HDB dwellers (whose lift is only being upgraded now to serve every floor no less) like me. imagine stepping into the lift and going "ahh... home" and having that literally happen.
there we scaled down the role play quite a bit to keep within time limits, found the sound effects, beautified the powerpoint and rehearsed. all within about 3 hours (we only went to christine's place at about 10).
I must admit its my first time pulling off such an impromptu presentation. knowing myself, I spent some time thinking typing out some points in the ppt. christine and jiayan are born actresses and they did really really (and I really mean it) well for the role play.
of course elizabeth's role in the ppt initial research and beautifying as well as ian's effort on bgm and sound effects must not be forgotten too.
I am actually kinda glad to be in this LMS group. hope we can stick to this in IAC too.
and now for this e-learning week and POA common test...
monday was for BMGT project. sent mel to school early in the morning (and wish her luck for her jap speaking test), rushed to JW for breakfast with parents and to cut my hair. then rushed home to prepare to meet group at Orchard MRT (kiasu me am the first to arrive as usual), went to taka B1 for lunch, a short briefing by boss (hannah) and its off to pairs for work.
swee mun and I were supposed to comb citylink mall, suntec city and marina square. all in all we checked 12 cafes. unfortunately we were not detailed in checking and only mainly recorded the prices of their latte, cappucinos, mocha and some interesting side or main dishes they offer.
hup song and wen yi literally did their 5 cafes questionnaire style (of course good) and hannah and jacqueline found like 15 or 16 cafes with brochures to boot. no wonder both of us were reluctant to share our findings.
the exploring in suntec and marina is kinda fun actually. chatted a bit here and there. like someone being an arcade addict. after all we didnt really talk to each other before this. just that. no other feelings ok.
the day wrapped up with a meeting at the food court of raffles city with the completion of the organisation chart and a review.
on tuesday I went to do some stuff for my aunt's workplace again. this time to rescue data from a failing hard disk. copied out what I could (two folders worth of stuff didnt make it). shall not elaborate on the technical details so you all dont sleep. then its off for jap that started at 6pm as usual.
I managed to complete my POA quiz 2 and an ungraded DSS week 7 quiz on tuesday morning as well since I woke up early. not too bad.
wednesday was for the SYF opening ceremony briefing at 5.30pm or something at LT5A. went to school at 2 plus and tried to study for POA. accomplished a little. its basically for admin: the indemnity form, the shirt sizes, the dress code, confirmations, trainings, blabla.
at first I was worried about clashes with LMS presentation and first IAC lesson. but now LMS presentation shifted to week 12 (in fact no lesson on week 11 to let us prepare) and we only had to leave at 1pm (IAC from 10am to 12 noon), it is a good example of 船到桥头自然直. haha.
thursday I went school since zp said he wanna tour NP. ended up he didnt come since his mother fell sick. so I ended up finishing the BLAW group tutorial there as well as to add the narrations for BMGT group tutorial while waiting for mel. basically we went for a dinner and movie. reached home at like 12.30am.
friday was LMS again. so had to go back to school. briefing for group assignment 2 and selection of topic. my group also tried to come up with a more concrete plan on meetings during june break. we more or less did.
then studied a bit at the library with mel. continued and chionged like mad at home for POA since apparently I didnt study much thanks to my schedule for the week.
apparently my e-learning week didnt make me any more free.
and today its POA common test already. thanks to all the crazy last minute studying it didnt go so bad. at least for the quantitative questions. the balance sheet is balanced in my first attempt. woo. and I spotted and quickly corrected my mistakes in the adjusting entries too.
though I smoked through (with industrial strength thickness kind of clouds no less) my definitions. didnt even study about that double-entry accounting lol. good thing its only 4 marks or so.
and I just wasted hell a lot of time writing this when i should be preparing for macroecons. SHIT. I will talk about today in my next post. dont ask me when.
if the following feels like a blame game, I am not. just thought its kinda funny to jot down nuggets of stuff friends are telling me.
quickly running through the extremely madnessly busy week 6..
Japanese Speaking Test
due to a particular attempt-to-act-hero moment, I hemmed and hawed my first line. thanks luh edmond. watashi wa doyoubi wa tempura otabemasu soshite kaimono oshimasu indeed.
other than that its pretty fine. its quite amazing I actually uttered the time properly without realising it myself. the power of your subconsciousness must not be underestimated.
DSS Class Test
um. simple. not being egoistic, just being honest. I expected a bit more actually. anyway, I made a careless mistake with the 8% markup for sales amount or something though. must thank jiayan for bursting my bubble with this one.
DSS Presentation
my group, thanks to a tip-off by Inez, was dressed for the occasion and got some points just for that. it invoked quite a rage in the other groups. sorry =(
we did alright methinks. the role play involving big boss visiting turning out to be his assistant flopped due to the chronic lack of preparation time. we just ended up representing different employees of Super Cars and touching on a small part of the presentation respectively.
I did question 2 as per arranged, then question 4 when hup song didnt prepare for it cos he didnt know he had to.
Mr Yang said I started out smoothly but stuttered at the end, not really knowing what to say (lol I didnt prepare question 4 remember?), and that guiding the audience with the mouse pointer is good. will keep them in mind. thank you.
POA Quiz 1
only knew its an open book test on the day itself. I wanted to slap myself for spending so much time preparing for it there and then.
the preparation kinda paid off at least. I didnt have to refer to the notes many times. blessing in disguise? quiz was quite alright overall I suppose..
LMS Group Assignment 1 Presentation
this was the thing that kept me nervous for the week. we only really prepared on 9am that day, and even then I was polishing up the powerpoint all the way into the wee hours the previous night. had to an expresso to protect myself from the zzz monster.
christine injured her foot and we ended up at her condo a short distance away from NP. fully airconditioned houses and private lifts are like, wow. at least to average HDB dwellers (whose lift is only being upgraded now to serve every floor no less) like me. imagine stepping into the lift and going "ahh... home" and having that literally happen.
there we scaled down the role play quite a bit to keep within time limits, found the sound effects, beautified the powerpoint and rehearsed. all within about 3 hours (we only went to christine's place at about 10).
I must admit its my first time pulling off such an impromptu presentation. knowing myself, I spent some time thinking typing out some points in the ppt. christine and jiayan are born actresses and they did really really (and I really mean it) well for the role play.
of course elizabeth's role in the ppt initial research and beautifying as well as ian's effort on bgm and sound effects must not be forgotten too.
I am actually kinda glad to be in this LMS group. hope we can stick to this in IAC too.
and now for this e-learning week and POA common test...
monday was for BMGT project. sent mel to school early in the morning (and wish her luck for her jap speaking test), rushed to JW for breakfast with parents and to cut my hair. then rushed home to prepare to meet group at Orchard MRT (kiasu me am the first to arrive as usual), went to taka B1 for lunch, a short briefing by boss (hannah) and its off to pairs for work.
swee mun and I were supposed to comb citylink mall, suntec city and marina square. all in all we checked 12 cafes. unfortunately we were not detailed in checking and only mainly recorded the prices of their latte, cappucinos, mocha and some interesting side or main dishes they offer.
hup song and wen yi literally did their 5 cafes questionnaire style (of course good) and hannah and jacqueline found like 15 or 16 cafes with brochures to boot. no wonder both of us were reluctant to share our findings.
the exploring in suntec and marina is kinda fun actually. chatted a bit here and there. like someone being an arcade addict. after all we didnt really talk to each other before this. just that. no other feelings ok.
the day wrapped up with a meeting at the food court of raffles city with the completion of the organisation chart and a review.
on tuesday I went to do some stuff for my aunt's workplace again. this time to rescue data from a failing hard disk. copied out what I could (two folders worth of stuff didnt make it). shall not elaborate on the technical details so you all dont sleep. then its off for jap that started at 6pm as usual.
I managed to complete my POA quiz 2 and an ungraded DSS week 7 quiz on tuesday morning as well since I woke up early. not too bad.
wednesday was for the SYF opening ceremony briefing at 5.30pm or something at LT5A. went to school at 2 plus and tried to study for POA. accomplished a little. its basically for admin: the indemnity form, the shirt sizes, the dress code, confirmations, trainings, blabla.
at first I was worried about clashes with LMS presentation and first IAC lesson. but now LMS presentation shifted to week 12 (in fact no lesson on week 11 to let us prepare) and we only had to leave at 1pm (IAC from 10am to 12 noon), it is a good example of 船到桥头自然直. haha.
thursday I went school since zp said he wanna tour NP. ended up he didnt come since his mother fell sick. so I ended up finishing the BLAW group tutorial there as well as to add the narrations for BMGT group tutorial while waiting for mel. basically we went for a dinner and movie. reached home at like 12.30am.
friday was LMS again. so had to go back to school. briefing for group assignment 2 and selection of topic. my group also tried to come up with a more concrete plan on meetings during june break. we more or less did.
then studied a bit at the library with mel. continued and chionged like mad at home for POA since apparently I didnt study much thanks to my schedule for the week.
apparently my e-learning week didnt make me any more free.
and today its POA common test already. thanks to all the crazy last minute studying it didnt go so bad. at least for the quantitative questions. the balance sheet is balanced in my first attempt. woo. and I spotted and quickly corrected my mistakes in the adjusting entries too.
though I smoked through (with industrial strength thickness kind of clouds no less) my definitions. didnt even study about that double-entry accounting lol. good thing its only 4 marks or so.
and I just wasted hell a lot of time writing this when i should be preparing for macroecons. SHIT. I will talk about today in my next post. dont ask me when.
