First Day of School

5.45 a.m. - Woke up reluctantly

6.30 a.m. - Mum drove us to downtown.

7.00 a.m.- Reached JB checkpoint. A HAVOC Monday as usual. Dad insisted to travel by bus '11' but I insisted to take the real bus. I loudly claimed how bad hair days spoil my mood the whole day. But it was too jam ( regardless of motorcycles, cars or buses) so I gave up & we walked along the causeway.

7.30 a.m.- Reached Woodlands checkpoint. There was no queue at the access card lanes. I couldn't even see the end of the crowd. Hence, I forced myself to squeeze into that pool of sweat, bad breath & sticky figures. It was horrible & maybe this is one of the most terrible time ever.

8.20a.m.- Dad drove me to Nafa in light speed. The lorry had to pass 3 ERPs. Bloody Hell.

8.56a.m.- Reached Nafa. Tried to search for Room 6-03 & Mimi and the rest of the Fine Art Students.

9.15a.m.- Still being confused by the ridiculous lift. There's actually two parts of Campus 1. Some rooms are at the left side, while some rooms are at the right. We're all at 6th storey, and the only way to get to the other side is to take the lift down to 3th storey and walk across the corridor. And there's 10 THOUSAND people trying to get the very convenient, accessible lift.

9.30a.m.- In the end, we still couldn't get to 6-03, the meeting was cancelled as mentioned, and we went to 6-12.

9.40a.m.- Lesson started. We had to finish 10 line figure sketches. Gotta know Angela, a very pretty classmate and we sat to together to do our work. The class was FREAKING quiet. I could only hear the screeching of pencils writing on papers. Later, there's little murmurs and quiet conversation between everyone. Angela and I started to chat too.

11.15a.m.- Completed the sketches. Went for lunch with Angela, Rashmi, Photography Boy ( I didn't know his name), Danya and Wenfung at Fortune Center. Had a fun time with them. Like what they say, you don't need to try very hard to get friends ( cuz we met someone being OVER friendly), it's just the click together factor and that'll make the day.

12p.m- Headed to Parco Bugis Junction. Rummaged through every shop, chit chatted, gotta know each other's background & stories ( seriously all of us are sooO different!) Rashmi came here 3 months ago with her HUSBAND ( Nus PhD! Double Exclaim!!)! So cool! While cheerful Danya was from Temasek JC, NUS Financing Degree?( I think so), worked for two years and a half told herself not to regret for not learning things she loved, hence she came to Nafa.

1p.m.- Headed to Bugis Street. Trying to find the cheapest leggings for Rashmi. Yet in vain.

2p.m.- The gang left. Angela and I continued slacking around the busy street. She bought a cute blouse while I got mum a belt =)

2.30p.m- Went back to school and AGAIN, we couldn't find our classes. Panted & sweated horrendously.

3.00p.m.- Class started. Miss Tang will be teaching us History of Visual Arts. I hate this subject cuz I never do it well in JC. Well, as assumed, it's sheer BORING. I kept copying all the notes while Miss Tang continued ranting her non-melancholic pilgrims. Eve, our class rep said that we should have handouts ( AGREE totally!) rather than just copying blankly.

5.30p.m.- Class ended!!! I went to Post Office but it's closed. =( Gotta send the parcels on Wednesday then. Babu came & fetched me while I bought him some Healthy Tuna Buns from 4 leaves.

7.00p.m- Reached Singapore Checkpoint. SUPER JAM just like the morning. Repeated the same routine as what is written at 7.30a.m.

9.00p.m.- Reached home. EVENTUALLY. Bathed, Ate dinner, went to Pasar Malam. Bought mangosteen & durians. Chatted with dear Jeffrey.

11p.m- Applied a good Skinfood Cucumber mask & headed down to the pile of shoes.

2p.m.- Jumped into my bed and dream of you....z..zZZZ...zzz

Module registration did not make my day

Before the title above, AT LAST I EVENTUALLY found out my class, and maybe I'm the last to find out. I've been asking thousands of people around! I am so dumb! It's just right there at the online module registration page!!

=O Thank you Mimi & Xiaorui. Paiseh man!!!!

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When I reached the campus around 2, everyone was there! Really gotta be that kiasu in order to got your ideal module.

So today's the module registration for Semester 1, and I thought I just went to a wet market. Everyone was talking in loudest volume, some seniors giving out the application forms and everyone was trying to snatch the papers.

& if you're late, you will get the rotten vege & fish. My first choice- Intro to illustration design is full, fuLL, FULL. I was berserk, cuz for half an hour I'd been queueing at the Design & Media line, now I gotta change my plan!

So I rushed down to the next stall, Fine Art Room, and I chose Intro to Gong Bi, and I was the second last to register for that module! Everything just seemed like a market war to me.

All the finest fish had been sold to the kiasu ones, while the rotten stuff is all left on the floor, you got no choice but to pick up the leftovers. Not a very good system ( Can I say this system is awful to the core??) You pay so much to study here but in the end, you can't even get the modules you are really interested. What if within these 3 years, all the things you get are not your desirable ones?

Mimi came at 3, and guess what ( ok no need to guess actually), everything's full. She'd got nothing besides the fixed modules & photography. No more modules hanging around. & I really couldn't stand at one male senior that is horizontally challenged. Very rude to the crowd. I know it's not a very pleasant thing to announce to us, where alot of us didn't even know what was actually going on, can't you be a bit more patient?

Nevertheless, Mimi & I parted from the campus, & I was feeling a bit mixed up. But she taught me to think of a better way, lesser modules are better too! YeahhH~~~~ she's partly right, cuz there will be no school on Tuesday & Friday!

Still, I'm really disappointed today. Not at myself, but at this module system thingy. Rewind back to the first few paragraphs...Miss Josephine took away my application form ( meaning approved)yet she didn't even write my name down until the staff reminded her!)


For goodness sake...

Visit to UTM

Zenzen and I, and I think we do look alike. Big button noses & minute eyes. We went to UTM ( M'sia Technological University Johor branch) that bright afternoon... to... just to send the shoes to my customer lah -_-''' And because this Sabahan is so 38 and wanna explore more about the place where I'm currently living in.

I asked Zen to take a good picture to model the shoes. Not bad, but too bad I look awful =(

The board reads, WARNING NO GUYS ARE ALLOWED TO ENTER THIS PLACE... BLAH BLAH BLAH... UNLESS PERMITTED. So you can say my brother is definitely illegal right away.

I realise that big campuses tend to have fruit trees planted around the hall of residence. Not a bad idea actually, cuz you can grab all the rambutans & starfruits to eat. But if it's durian, the students should better wear a helmet!

Dilemma in my shoes & school

As the title mentioned above, I was in a deep sea of dilemma right now.

A lot of unpleasant things happened in Tenladytoes. There was delivery failure by Poslaju, customers claiming of nice designs but not the perfect size fit, & customers requesting for many draft designs.

I'm not blaming them. They are my customers & customers are always right. But doing draft designs again & again is really tiring & saddening. It's like... once again, your design is rejected...again & again. Just like how last year the Art Elective Teachers treated us.

Hope that I should take this as a challenge instead of a disappointment. Can someone cheer me up?

I know Jeffrey never comes up here too... It's devastating... It's so not me. It's a different kind of upset feeling this time, I don't know why...


----- Ok fine, so end of part 1----

Morning's a sheer disaster. Nafa orientation started at 9:30a.m. I woke up at 6 but I still got late! The bus was awfully late, jammed at Danga Bay for an hour, furthermore it's not news for jamming along the causeway & checkpoints too. When I reached school, it's already 9:50a.m.


Thank god they're still registering.


The speech from the big people were kinda long, but it's alright for me ( which was unexceptionally peculiar). I guess Fine Art people are kinda good, there's even a new coursemate Rashmi who emailed me the day before! That's such a sweet thing, if you're here, thank you Rashmi for the warm welcome, even though I didn't see you face to face haha.

But ya, as usual, 1st day of schools & orientations, to me, these kinda of things really were not my forte. From the first day I entered Tshung Tsin, from the first day I entered Woodgrove ( Ainon & Jo were the first two to talk to me!), from the first day I entered Nanyang JC, from the first day I entered Nafa, it's just the same. I will stay cool & calm, not a word from my mouth, trying my best to lift up the corner of my lips to throw out a smile. But I still think that people around me look nice though.

& & & the first friend I knew was Mimi, a pretty Japanese who speaks fluent English. She's from the Japanese School and she majors in Western Painting too. Good start huh.

As for the module thingy, I've really gone bonkers about this cuz it's totally different from the JC system. But it's alright, cuz we two girls eventually figured out what it what. I don't really mind what I take, cuz every modules seems interesting, I just wish to reduce my school days.

Hence, reaching for the mouse, my finger clicked on the button for Photography. Yay, and that means no school for Tuesday! But yet yet yet, the cool HoD told us that we were not allocated to our classes.

Yea right, I've been a tad too early to be happy.

& it's a tired day, & it's a day with lots of thinking, lots of swirling in my mind. For 8 months I've taken my holidays, and now I'm back to school again. So I shall forget all the sorrowness today, tell myself that business is not an easy thing to deal with, and it's just the starting of small matters, and it will lead you to a higher level.... all those craps.

That's how all the craps lighten up my mood again.

Touching day

I had a very happy yesterday.

Special thanks to ...
1.Babu who fetched me to Jurong East
2. Jasmine Foo, a great buddy & movie go-er
3. Red Cliff the Movie part 1. It's a bit laggy in the middle, but I swear it's definitely way too AWESOME!!
4. Hueyjia & Auyeong, the twosome of I don't know where to start & to end, cuz they're too cute ( as usual), less bitchy ( not very usual), but still that close to heart!
5. Mr Goh to give me my pretty A level certificate ( though it's relatively useless)
6. Meng whom I also don't know where to start * end, cuz she's too sweet ( as usual), and I always love our heart contented chat.
7. Dream's Elegance so that that pair will make Meng happy.
8. Hueyjia's BIG letter & Auyeong FUNNY letter, to make me smile in heart & lips.
9. Jeffrey's phonecall when I was struggling along the causeway back to JB. I miss him a lot...
10. Mum & Zen to fetch me
11. Oh yes, and Louis to help me wash my hair to mark the day from a bad hair day to a good hair day!

I was exhausted, but it's a touching day. I shall talk about it more next time, cuz...
1. My laptop's spoilt!
2. Our dining room pc's burnt!
3. Our upstairs common room pc's gone bonkers too!

Heck! That means no updates. Buh-bye everyone, till then...