Thursday, January 9, 2014
#417: ARP should just die in the depths of hell
I REALLY NEED TO RANT OR I WON'T BE ABLE TO STAND THIS ANYMORE.THIS 3-MEMBER TEAM FEELS MORE LIKE A 2-MEMBER TEAM. BECAUSE 1 MEMBER HASN'T DONE A SINGLE THING FOR THE REPORT AT ALL. NOT A SINGLE PART. NOT EVEN THE PART ASSIGNED TO HER. SO. 2 OF US FINISHED UP THE REPORT NICELY. SENT TO PHD STUDENT TO READ THROUGH. RECEIVED "COMMENTS" WHICH WERE REALLY JUST EDITS TO OUR REPORT. I EDIT THE REPORT ACCORDINGLY AND SEND IT BACK TO HER. AND THEN SHE SAYS: "I think you just accept the changes without going through it!" DUDE. FIRSTLY, ALL SHE DID WAS SPELL OUT THE NUMBERS, AMENDED ONE OF THE CHEMICAL'S NAME, REPHRASED STUFF AND OTHER TECHNICAL STUFF. IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH OUR DATA ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION AND WE JUST ACCEPTED HER EDITS. SECONDLY, WE ARE RUSHING FOR SSEF. DO YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT YOUR REPHRASING??? THERE WAS ONE PART SHE REPHRASED SOMETHING GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT INTO SOMETHING GRAMMATICALLY WRONG TOO. AND THERE WAS THIS SENTENCE SHE ADDED WHICH MADE NO GRAMMATICAL SENSE AT ALL SO I HAD A FREAKING HARD TIME TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS TRYING TO SAY. I MEAN SHE'S A FOREIGNER SO I DON'T BLAME HER FOR HER ENGLISH, BUT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY "I think you just accept the changes without going through it!"??? HOW DID YOU EVEN GET TO THAT CONCLUSION??? WHAT DID YOU EVEN WANT ME TO DO ABOUT YOUR "COMMENTS" HUH. ASK ABOUT YOUR /REPHRASING/???
gosh.
And now i'm struggling really badly with chem. It's like i never really studied chem before, seriously. I can't tell if a compound is acidic/basic/soluble/insoluble etc =.=
I decided to take the CM6207 module to right my chem foundation, but i hope i won't regret taking it... uhhh.
Why isn't everything else as easy as math T_T
And SSEF is really annoying. A whole bunch of forms to fill up and you even need passport photographs wtf?? And then when you don't even make it past the 'first round' after all that trouble... -.-
sigh,
just a few days into school and i'm already this fed up.
and uni doesn't seem any better either.
誰か助けて
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
#416: Towards 2014
... which is the year where i become a Year 6. not nice.2013 was awesome:
- Meeting WEAVER at the airport!!♥ Twice!!
- Nanao exchange program!!♥
- (my memory is so bad nowadays gosh)
- Oh yes boarding was fun. (It feels like it was so long ago???)
- Tioman was fun too. I LOVE THE SEA OMG. and cats :3
- Went for Natsu Matsuri for the first time!! Bon Odori!!
- Went for Waseda Shibuya's High School festival for the first time~
- Passed NAPFA with a silver LOL
- Mouse on the keys with Michelle!
- Topping my class for math test :p
It really feels like each year is getting better and better. Well, hoping that 2014 will be a fun year.
And it'll be time to go crazy thinking about uni. Dug out my career fair stuff LOL.
Also, idk what made me do it, but i actually made my own planner out of a notebook from Daiso haha.
Fell in love with grid notebooks~ ♥♥
Last day of the year and i'm working on ARP report :<
So happy with the diagram i made for the setup~~ using Photoshop to draw it was kind of hard but all is good because it turned out really nice :DD
Oh well at least i'm going to Marina Bay for countdown with Michelle~ :D
Time for some night photography~ xD
2014 resolutions:
- Try to find out what uni course suits me the best - Design/Psychology/Japanese Studies, SG/JP uni?
- Study Japanese.
- Save up for a grad trip to Japan.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
#415: Overwhelm.
Yep, now i'm obsessed with stationery. (oh back-to-school woes)Got one of those staplers where you can close it completely flat. \o/
Wanted one of those for a long time. Popular had the Japanese ones with pretty designs but it's super expensive as usual...
Also i suddenly became obsessed with planners for no reason... I got this A5 2-ring binder from Daiso, and was planning to use it as a planner, but now i think it's too big orz.
But then i got a sudden realisation that the Japanese bunko covers i have are A6 which means i can use them for normal A6 notebooks!!
I think i'm gonna just get a normal lined/grid A6 notebook after all.
Even though i had all those ideas to make my own planner pages...
Gonna go check Daiso if they have A5 covers so i can use them for normal notebooks!!
(got bunko-sized and manga-sized covers the last time i visited Daiso~)
I keep feeling so overwhelmed by my own thoughts argh. (and the Internet. my Chrome tabs HAHA)
Discovered 2 new bands just the other day... getting overwhelmed by all the music i wanna try listening to...
And also, ALL THE BOOKS I WANT TO READ. (the numerous Japanese novels i bought but have still yet to read ummm)
Monday, December 9, 2013
#414: WEAVER feels ;-;
I got to see WEAVER off at the airport for the first time!! (because the staff released their flight details :p )Their flight was at 9.40am (so early!) so i had to take one of the first few trains to reach the airport in time...
I woke up at 5am, changed and got ready my stuff because i had ARP later -_-
Bringing my Handmade album was a last minute decision and gosh i'm so glad i brought it!!
Got WEAVER's signatures on my Handmade album!!
While my dad drove me to the MRT station he kept asking me where i was going (and i refused to answer until we were nearly reaching because you'll obviously ask even more questions after knowing that i'm going to the airport -_-)
I reached quite early i think, about 7am or so? Waited for a while, before somehow magically spotting WEAVER checking in~ Then i half-ran to where they were, the end of the check-in row near the departure gate.
I was like the first to find them HAHA. But i went alone so i was too shy to approach them (/ω＼)
After a while, 2 more girls came and that was when WEAVER started walking towards where we were...
Awkward greetings aside, they signed our albums!! At this point there were only 3 fans haha.
One of the 2 girls brought a proper camera so i got a really nice photo with them!!
With WEAVER!! Be-chan so cute xD
Honestly i'm really really happy that this photo turned out really nice orz. Yup. Another photo of myself that i quite like. This photo is like my treasure now HAHA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH ELIZA FOR HELPING ME TAKE THIS PHOTO♥
But sian i didn't manage to say what i wanted to say, was too nervous and spazzing over them oops.
Forgot to say Happy Birthday to Sugi and good luck for their live in Thailand!! :( Oh well.
Group photo with all of us who came to see them off! (I look really derp here orz)
Meh i would have worn something else if i didn't have ARP after this >.>
Be-chan is really nice!! When he was signing my album he asked me in English "Where did you get this?" and i said "ネットで買った" (from the internet).
And then later after we took the group photo, Be-chan was like /pats my hand and said ありがとうね ASDFSDDLKGHSLKDHGLKSDJHG. Probably thanking me for buying their album... though i was hoping something else haha. I don't think they remember me and the Kawasaki roses i gave them the last time i welcomed them at the airport ><
Also i tried calling Okuno O-kun but i don't think he got it HAHA. Decided to call him o-kun ever since he appeared on Twitter as -kun xD
Sugi was the first one to sign my album so he was trying to write "To Fangyi" xD
I was pronouncing my name the Japanese way until he said 英語で (in English please) hahaha.
Oh and o-kun pronounced my name wrongly the first time hahahaha. For some reason quite a few people pronounce it as Fan-GYI instead of Fang-yi =/
Then i had to pronounce it the Japanese way and he got it xD like, ファンイ (fan-i) hahaha.
Didn't manage to get individual shots with each member because they went through the departure gate really fast!! We had maybe, 15 minutes with them? :(
If only i had just mustered up my courage to say hello to them when there wasn't anyone else yet ><
Also i was wearing my handmade WEAVER bracelet but i don't think they realised :x
Oh well, hope they'll come to Singapore again soon!!
And i will get individual shots with them next time!!
Okay after all that fangirling.
I had a fever again orz -_-
1 month after having a fever in Japan... ><
I really have no idea what happened, but my fever reached 39C ugh.
The first day, i was literally lying on the sofa all day long ><
Eat medicine, drink water, drink lingyang, put ice pack, rinse and repeat. Gosh.
My fever didn't go down even after taking medicine, drinking lingyang and using the ice pack!
Seriously don't know what was wrong man. My mum was worried about it being dengue fever or radiation sickness or something... (since i went to Japan recently)
The second day was significantly better, still on the sofa but i was using my phone while sitting up hahaha.
And then today, fever's gone but my temperature's still ~37C and my forehead still feels a little warm :(
I had to miss a graphic design workshop due to the fever argh T_T
N2を目指せー！！
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
#413: Nanao, AFA, ARP, uni, BnS Sendai Nika
Long post ahead haha. This is why i should just blog whenever there's an event and not wait till /this/ long orz. Not that detailed because some events are kind of old already orz.
First off, Nanao. IT'S THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED IN MY LIFE.
I really had tons of fun even though i had a fever for the the first few days and had my period during the 2nd half -_-
Seriously man, i really felt like crying when i first felt the fever coming on at the airport... Luckily it was after the heat sensor so i could at least still go to Nanao... I joined in the school activities even though i was having a fever haha. Only skipped the night performance practice to sleep early... i was familiar with the dance already anyway. Still had to suffer from cough for the rest of the trip though ;-;
Nanao's a really nice place, with lots of greenery, buildings are not everywhere...
It was really cool to walk across the railway track while walking to the school haha. Doesn't happen in Singapore. Also got the chance to sleep in a futon and try my host family's ofuro (bathtub)! The ofuro water is heated to quite a high temperature, about 40 degrees. It was really nice though. My buddy's house was really pretty too! It's mostly made out of wood!
This year's AFA wasn't that good... or maybe it's just me getting less and less interested in anime and spending money on that... I mostly spent in the Artist Alley, as usual. Got another Einlee artbook whee. And some pretty bookmarks! There was a life-size (?) titan head on display haha. Itou Kashitarou (utaite) performed at the Mini Stage but i kind of missed it haha. So glad to see more Japanese people coming to Singapore, utaites, bands etc. :D
Now i would be SO happy if HSJ/KAT-TUN/Kisumai held a concert in Singapore T_T
Because recently i went down memory lane and kind of got obsessed with some Johnny's groups again HAHA. And now i love HSJ more than ever ;-;
But seriously, they sing, dance and even do random acrobatics... appear in all sorts of TV programs... you can really see how much effort they put into their job...
KAT-TUN's MC in one of their concert DVDs is super funny xD They are so lovable.
And Kisumai on rollerblades is the best.
Bought a copy of Myojo during a Kino 20% discount and got a jumbo poster of HSJ/Kisumai haha.
Probably putting up the HSJ side xD
ARP. I really don't like ARP. It's like we've only got 2 months or so to work on it. I hate how they don't give us the relevant information early. And hostel should be from Year 5 Sem 2 to Year 6 Sem 1. It's mostly during the holidays that we will go for ARP really often isn't it.
And i don't like my group members i'm sorry. One barely does any work, and i can't work well with the other... Guess this is like a challenge for me, when i go out into the world and start working.
Though i can't say that i'm very enthusiastic about ARP. I've barely done any literature review. (though partly because there aren't much articles about our topic...)
The other day i just did one whole day of ARP, 10am to 5.45pm, on my own. Gosh, i was tired out man.
And then the day after the tiring ARP session, i went for a programme called BnS (Brothers and Sisters, lol) where i brought 7 Japanese students from Sendai Nika High School! It was a good experience. Made me realise, again, how socially awkward i am orz. I'm bad at this kind of thing man. But it was still fun! Though my legs are now dead. We went to the Peranakan Museum, Chinatown (Sri Marimman Temple, street market), had delicious chicken rice at Maxwell Food Centre, made a wasted trip to Little India (they wanted to go shopping but they ended up not buying anything) and finally Bugis, where they got some food as souvenirs at Cold Storage. They were quite excited to go to a supermarket LOL. Man i wish i spent more time at the supermarket in Japan :( The first time we ended up spending most of our time taking neoprints and the second time was just following my host family to get groceries for dinner... I think i will raid the supermarket the next time i get to visit Japan LOL. Really hope i can visit the Nanao students during their graduation...
Recently i've been worrying quite a fair bit about uni... T_T
Like looking at my choices and being unable to decide.
I really want to study in a Japan uni if possible, because i want to stay in Japan, even if it's for a few years or so. If i'm going to a Japan uni, it'll be nice if i could study (Graphic?) Design... while studying uni Japanese. But all the procedures look wayyy too complicated D: And then there's the cost to worry about too.
Otherwise, i'm probably gonna stay in Singapore, hopefully NUS if i can get in with my /average/ CAP. But i can't decide whether to study Design, Japanese Studies, or Psychology in NUS ugh. And not knowing how uni works is scary. Really scary. And again, i hate how information is not readily available for us. It seems to be like a modular system, so i guess i could take all 3 kinds of modules during my first year or something? UGH.
The ONE OK ROCK concert which i chose to skipped ended recently...
If the coming RADWIMPS concert next June isn't that expensive then i'll go =v=