| I've been coughing for the whole week and more, its one of those things when you think that it's going to get better, then it deteriorates again... I think my organs are gonna explode... I tried hot coke with ginger and it seemed to help, well at least it was pleasant to ingest...
But does anyone know what to do so that i can get rid of the weezing, coughing and yellow phlegm once and for all. I don't visit the doctor because I believe the body's immune system is good enough to fight off the virus but hell, I'm coughing my lungs out.... Does anyone know a good remedy that soothes the throat... and basically makes me feel better enough to survive the cough... | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment   |
| When you are down and out, and feeling stressed, its good to know that there are friends who are in the same situation to work it through with.
I think my greatest gift this semester is knowing the new friends in my major. Makes me feel less flustered mugging with them during this exams... | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Sigh, was feeling so good about my cognition paper this morning. Knew how to answer most of my questions, but i missed out a crucial piece of information on top of my essay section.
PLEASE RESTRICT YOUR ESSAY TO ONE PAGE.
WTF...I happily wrote 4 and left early some more. The lecturer must be thinking, what an idiot.....Sigh, there goes my only hopes of an A.....
I'm such a dumbass..... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Can't believe how busy it is at level 6. Since the library top level opened 24 hours, there has been many students using this facility. It's a saturday night but everyone's mugging. It's as busy in the night as it is in the day. But numbers dwindle as the morning comes. I bet most of these people stay in hall. About half of them are foreign students..... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Guy: Here.
Ger: What’s this?
Guy: A birthday present.
Don’t be sick anymore.
That cures everything. Everybody in Seoul knows it.
One a day, okay?
Don’t overdose it.
Ger: Sorry. Excuse me.
(Ger runs into room and starts to weep. She opens the jar containing capsules. She breaks each open to find a little note in each one and reads on.)
“Wondering why I like you I miss you. It’s a disease.”
“It’s raining…the rain can’t cool down my love for you.”
“If he stakes out a house for an hour, he’s called a stalker. And I did that for two.”
“Come on, don’t follow me into my dreams.”
“When I’m with you at night it feels as if it were day.”
“Now I believe that phrase that you can see with eyes closed.”
Guy: Fool, I told you not to overdose on it.
Ger: I was afraid. Afraid that I might die before reading all these. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yay, today is the last day of exams. Must be my worse paper ever, expecting a D for the first time in my whole NUS life but heck it. It's over. I'm finally free from stress and can go do whatever i want again. First activity was to go out with my friends to just window shop and waste time. Walked around suntec and marina square to browse some handphones with Wenwen first before meeting up with Alex who came from school.
Ate a sinful buffet dinner at Pariss before going for some pool. Played for a while before coming home. Fun to talk about our plans for the holidays though most of it will probably be occupied with work. Need to earn some money before we can go travel. Next forecasted activity, mahjong at wc's. Yipeeeeeeeee..... Anyone who's free and wants to meet me is welcomed to make an appointment. Provided i'm free from work, my time is all yours...... Hopefully i'll get to cycle to the wonderful place at east coast that i saw off fotofinish's blog sometime. Have been hiding away from the sun for way too long, white as snow... | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Glad. Glad that my second psychology paper is over. Glad that i showed, i conquered and i left. Time was 11am when i printed the yellow form for consideration of students who didn't show for exams. I printed two copies thinking if i didn't make it past the first doctor i would try the second. I walked to the clinic, thinking of how i was going to feign illness to get myself out of an exam. It was shameful. Shame on you seow boon. You almost gave up. But thank god, i stopped myself and thought, if you did this once, you are probably going to do it again. So i took a cab down to school and read all that i could. I stepped into the exam venue 10 minutes late after taking a final look at my notes. The information was foggy, but i managed to churn something out. Relieved, damn bloody relieved that i didn't chicken out. Imagine the grief and disappointment i would be in now for giving up on myself even before i bothered fighting. Damn it feels good.... Now for the final paper.... Human sexuality.......
Thank you Lord..... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Sigh, another day nearer to doom. Got my free ice cream yesterday from ben and jerry's and met up with wanjing at great world city. Met up with Wandi at 9 and headed to the chalet at Loyang to meet my police friends. Can't believe how much have changed. So many little children at the chalet. Saw people i haven't met up with for years and a few generations of NS men from the team.
Though it is in the midst of my exams i guess it was more than worth it to get down and have a good time with them. It was damn funny to see how they try to get each other drunk by coaxing each other to drink more and more and playing drinking games. Everytime we ran out of alcohol, someone just went out to buy more. That was the culture in my team and it still is. Got back at 5am and slept till now.
Man, I'm so screwed. 2 papers in 2 days' time. I hate exams.... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Just watched this TAB TV on channel 5. The obvious theme of today's show was on teenage sex and abortion, and how gay sex leads to HIV.
The show was so skewed in its judgement on teenagers today and the view that they were trying so hard to drive home is really sad cos all it does is make parents even more worried than ever and yet, not in the least teaching teenagers on how they should protect themselves amidst having sex.
The first part of the show talked about this girl who kept having abortions after having sex and changing partners, which i thought was really stupid. Shouldn't the narrator advocate something at the end about having safe sex and using condoms? Pretty duh right????? Instead of driving the message that promiscuity is bad, and that teens shouldn't have sex at all, they should teach teenagers to use condoms, engage in safe sex and save money on abortions and unnecessary trouble. I'm not an advocate of promiscuity, in fact i think sex is pretty sacred, and that you should only have sex with people you really love, but my point is that teenagers want to experiment, and its the time when their hormones drive them wild, so trying to get them to abstain and be celibate is almost impossible. So why not just tell them to use condoms? Is Singapore THAT PRUDISH ABOUT SEX when ironically, we are one of the most westernised states in Asia?
In the second part of the program, they interview a male teenager who visited a prostitute, a female blogger, Izzy, whom they called promiscuous and i thought pretty directly branded her a slut and lastly, Daphne, the Singapore Idol wannabe who is on the other extreme (though I think she is pretty limited in what she can say given that she hosts a children's show now), this virginal figure who holds the sanctity of sex just for the sake of procreation. There's absolutely nothing wrong in being religious and celibate and all, but for goodness sake, this is TAB TV. Everything is supposed to be stark real, unedited and upfront. The way they edited the segment, with the guy's ramblings about fear of having HIV after visiting the prostitute and Izzy, the poor girl who was treated with the derogatory, "OMG, i can't believe you are sleeping around with everyone you slut! Gasp Gasp" tone from the interviewer and the guests most of the time, and then the pure, chaste virginal Daphne who pretty much says that i have been taught well by my mother to stay a virgin till I'm ready to have children and have a family.
What is this man??? What's your bloody point? Teenagers should abstain from sex? NO!!!!! IT IS SO WRONG. Don't make Izzy look like a slut! Don't punish her for her agency and bravery. Just address the risks of unsafe sex and tell her to use condoms when she is having sex. Don't question the motive behind the act itself, but question the way it's done and what kind of consequences that might result.
TAB TV is such a useless show. Waste half an hour of air time for nothing. Nothing didactic, educational, or even instructional. Just create moral panic and hold a 'holier than thou attitude' towards teenagers. HAH, get a life. Stop showing trash on tv, as if its not bad enough that there's bad local dramas showing all the time. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, carry on deluding the public and yourself. Teenagers are all going to be turn celibate and become monks and nuns pretty soon. See how you address the dwindling birth rate issue then.
The third and last part of the show re-enacts a young guy who contracted HIV after having promiscuous gay sex by frequently soliciting for sex on IRC. Again, putting gays in a bad light, creating the link that all gay sex is bad and leads to HIV, and then once again, not telling anyone anything about the practice of safe sex. Why? Why is it that only 30% of HIV positive people are gays and yet they put all the emphasis on punishing gay sex, while ignoring the 70% heterosexual HIV positive adults and also innocent children, giving them the idea that HIV only happens to gays.
HIV is real, so are unplanned pregnancies and teenagers being more and more sexually mature and active. So address the problems by advocating safe sex and regular check ups, don't take a moral high ground on these issues and leave them unresolved after creating the moral panic, because all you try to do is provide an unobjective view point and leave people even more confused and misinformed.
Don't judge people! Take a practical approach by offering information on how to prevent unplanned pregnancies and HIV by educating the public on the advantages of safe sex, and the use of contraceptives. Gosh, how dumb can producers be? Arrrrrggh. What's worse, they treat viewers like idiots....
P.S. I'm not an advocate of promiscuity, I'm not against the government, I'm not even a rebel. I just think that for a society to progress, the quality of our media needs to improve, so do attitudes about issues like sexuality and teenage sex.
Face the truth, don't force these taboo topics to go underground. Be upfront and address them. Teenagers' attitudes about sex have evolved, so be it. Children aren't innocent anymore.
Parents shouldn't force their own views down their children's throats, but rather be supportive and teach them how to be responsible when they are doing it, so that they don't have to clean up after them. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 12:20 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/goth_boy/sleepy.gif) tired |
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| So bloody relieved that my mcq tests are finally over. 20 chapters of psychological information spread over two mcq tests with negative marking tested in one day. Arggggh, to think I just had a test on monday. Don't you just hate it when shit lumps together into a big pile and comes tumbling your way. Gosh, just glad that hell's over for now. Temporary relief till the final exams come in about less than 20 days. Shall slack while i can. Then prepare for sleepless nites.
Met up with James (thanks for coming with me) after my sceond paper to catch a play, yes the play that everyone's been talking about, " A Language of Their Own." Seriously brilliant acting by all four of the actors, really compelling. Been pretty long since i last watched a play, and though the seats aren't all that comfortable, you'll be reverted to the actors as they deliver their lines with such sincerity that you can't help but be moved by them. I could not recognise Koey at all. Seriously impressed with his delivery of the character of Oscar, and his co-actor Phin was pretty convincing as well. The casting was just perfect. If you can't imagine how four people on a stark white stage can bring people to tears, then come down and experience it for yourself, cos i heard a fair bit of people sniffing around me.
Please go catch it before it ends on the 9th April.
Got to have a little supper with Koey and his mates at Makansutra for a short while. My pleasure to meet mister elvin for the first time. Had a great night out with you guys. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| What do you do when you know that you caused your whole group a C for a project due to your bad editing?
What do you do when you left only ONE of your group mates around to take in all the evil, mean, awful, nasty criticism from your demanding lecturer who practically bulldozed each and everyone in the group and made really nasty personal comments about all of you in front of the class and almost failed you because of ONE sentence in the whole project? (I was late for class for 20 minutes, while the other 2 girls skipped class.)
I can't imagine the humiliation the poor girl had to take in front of the whole tutorial group. This is all due to your bad editing of the final project for overlooking that one sentence or it may even have been you who added it in?
You have caused unhappiness and discomfort to your group due to the nasty lecturer who adds salt to the wound by saying really personally nasty things that may or may not have anything to do with the project after almost failing you. Basically he was out to insult you.
You left one person to take the blow, and basically he was mega nasty to the girl and you are totally disturbed by what could have gone on in your absence. You, the person at fault, was not there to take the blame, and you left some poor girl to take the blows for the whole group.
Wow, you sure are a piece of work.
Seow Boon, you suck big time.............
My ego is bruised, my grades are affected and worse of all, i single-handedly ruined the grades of three others. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 03:12 am | | Current Mood: | sleepy |
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| Went to school for a business survey to fill credits for subject pool today. Part two of this survey and i must say, the experimenter was really damn chio. Drool, couldn't stand it when she wore the ultra short denim skirt showing off her nice legs and they barely covered her ass lah. Today she wore this spaghetti strap top with a lacy bra. Wah lao, I think all the guys taking the experiment must be thanking their lucky stars. Business girls are hot! She even left snacks on the table for students to take back after completing the surveys. Plus.... there's a prize of 100 dollars for a lucky winner out of the people who did the survey. Man, i so hope to win the cash man.... Shall start praying very hard........
Next was social cognition lecture, before I proceeded to Far East Plaza to meet sharon, yati, yati's husband, minhui and her boyfriend for dinner at this place called Nana Thai. Food wasn't bad at all, really liked the Tom Yam Soup. Pleasantly surprised when sharon decided to give us a treat.
Went shopping around for a while and unfortunately i spotted the white shirt that i wanted to get from Domanchi and bought it after trying it on. Didn't get the last piece at Marina Square Domanchi previously because it was defective. Thought that it wasn't fated for me to spend there but sigh, money kachink away from my pocket into Domanchi's cash register. More money kachinking away from me when i got another two t-shirts from freshbox at far east level one.
Sigh, wasting money on clothes again. Not a good time to splurge considering that i'm not working these days. Hope i'll get employed in the holidays, if not i won't have money to spend overseas. Hoping to go to hongkong with my school mates and then to shanghai and meet my friends who are over there for industrial attachment.
Oh yeah, my friend Koey's going to be acting in this play called, "Language of Their Own" so any persons interested in watching high quality theatre acting please get tickets from sistic, showing at the esplanade from 30th March till 6th April 2006. Please go watch it if you are free...... | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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| Dang, overslept. To think i actually prepared for the presentation. Luckily i have intelligent, outstanding group mates like Chris who actually signed my attendance for me and the other worthy mates who held the fort up. The tutor apparently didn't notice my absence. Absolutely brilliant. Though i wonder how she grades the group.
So much for the presentation, now to meet Kiat for lunch and proceed to WC's for mahjong. Woot... Thank you Lord for wonderful group mates. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 03:24 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/goth_boy/happy.gif) pleased |
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| Had my social cognition test today. Sigh, wasn't easy at all. Damn the negative marking. Glad that its done and over. Went to watch 'Evocation' at LT 13 to support some of my friends who were dancing. They never fail to impress me with their above average standard, but i think this time round, they involved too many dancers and fail to synchronise their steps in many items. Nevertheless, its still damn impressive this dance ensemble. Been a pleasure to watch.
Met up with yvonne and gang for a drinking session at west coast park. But due to Grace who was like damn late, we spent of our time eating at mcdonald's. It's an evil place, bought a lot of bad stuff. Damn i hate mcdonald's, just couldn't stop binging. Drats. When Grace finally came, we settled down at a sandless playground to have our drinks. Thanks to Yong Kiat's Bailey's and Grace's Absolut Mandarin, i got really tipsy. So embarrassing to go back into mcdonald's with a flushed face and bloodshot eyes to get more ice. What's worse was that i ordered a Beef Fantastic meal to go along with the ice. Sinful, sinful. Hate my gluttony.
Oh well, its just lovely to have a few rounds of drinks with close friends, played the usual drinking games to get everyone to drink and we managed to finish the half bottle of Absolut Mandarin but the Bailey's wasn't so nice without ice. So we had to stop after our ice was gone.
Feeling such relief now, two tests over for the week, now for the last hurdle which is the presentation at 10am later before i can seriously lie back, relax, watch a movie with rainia and james and then on to mid term break to catch up on lost time. So need to hit my books. Think nerd, think nerd. Hopefully the priming works. High achievement, winner, success, determination, intelligence, k k k, save these words for next week. MID TERM BREAK, I'm waiting for YOU.......
Now to prepare for that presentation................... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Sigh, when will the rain ever stop. Things are not going well. Didn't get all the modules i wanted and worse still, still have to continue bidding. Shitty semester ahead. Only have myself to blame for not planning in advance and work during important bidding rounds. But at least i got my sexuality module. Interesting quote of the day during sexuality lecture,
"Bisexuality doubles your chances of getting a date." Woody Allen
This course looks promising, well worth the bloody 800 to 900 points i spent on it. Bidding sucks when you don't have enough points for all the modules that you want. Tough fact of life, not all things go your way and sometimes, NOTHING goes your way. Got to fight for scraps now. Hopefully someone drops a gem along the way and let me get it cheap.
I need to look at things positively man. Got to realise that though i may have a sucky 5 day week and no money to spend if i stop working, i can fully soak in the life of a student. I will appreciate it if the sun comes out for like more hours in the day though, the day is as dark and gloomy as night time. Hard for the body to determine when is day or when is night. Makes me sleepy all the time.
Oh yeah, something i didn't blog about but totally enjoyed was my trip to MOS last friday. Totally fun and digging the huge place. Lots of people but better still, lots of space. The best thing was not having to queue for two hours to get in but in ten minutes, thanks to lex's brother who got us in as VIPs. Zouk is facing stiff competition man. Can't wait to go there again..... | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Just came home from a really nice gathering at weiching's house. A lot of us turned up for this new year eve's gathering this time around. Met up with grace, weiching, yvonne, weilun at jurong point for dinner first before heading to weiching's for a mini celebration. It was suji's birthday as well, so we bought him some hair assessories to doll up and keep his hair neat and tidy. The rest who turned up were sinlong, liyan, lirong, chris and yvonne's boyfriend. We actually rushed out in front of the tv to do the countdown which was pretty lame, considering the lag of the 'live' tv program while everyone else in boon lay already did the countdown. But lame as it was, we still pretty much got into the new year mood. Played cards and chatted in weiching's guest room. Poor suji who fell asleep had his legs vandalised with markers and nail polish. They even took down a video clip of the deed on sinlong's handphone. I think no one else in the room dared to fall asleep after that.
Left the place earlier to rest for an activity i have in the morning. To the people who still read my journal, have a fantastic year ahead. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 04:51 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/goth_boy/confused.gif) confused |
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| Haven't been updating much. Some important events that just passed, Roy's birthday party, which was pretty enjoyable though i didn't know many of his friends, Christmas Eve gathering at Lex's, realised that its nice to have a quiet place to chill with friends on important days in the years. But seriously, any day is worth spending quality time with friends.
Came home from supper at West Coast mcdonald's with some of my primary school gang today, and how they were talking about their industrial attachments and school stuff has got me a little worried with how uncertain my present future is. What might possibly be my last semester before i'm hit by the harsh working world leaves me wondering what a general arts degree can get me? What modules to take in this possibly last semester, six modules maybe? Whether i should seriously stop my part time job as a promoter to enjoy my remaining school life though the job has brought me a good stream of pocket money and temporal financial stability. Such important decisions at this point in time. I need to get some serious As in order to get me to consider honors year. Can anyone out there with an arts degree who has an idea what one can do other than be a teacher, and still earn a respectable income? Sigh, teaching is so un-original (no offence to serious passionate teachers out there).
Side tracking, one of the topics arising from supper was about how our good close primary school friend, ying is getting married. Exciting. Finally, one wedding we can actually attend as primary school friends, probably held next year end. We already missed some of our girls' weddings. Ying's ecstatic over it of course, for she has been waiting to tie the knot so she probably told the whole world when her bf proposed a few nights ago. Alas, some happy news amidst the gloom of school woes. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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| | Just checked my results, got two Cs this semester. Getting from bad to worse. Though my cap's unaffected, i guess its time for me to consider graduation next semester. Going to have to sort out my emotional trauma and do some heavy thinking for the next few days. May have to make some major adjustments in my life for the coming months ahead. Now that i'm faced with the option to graduate earlier, i need to look into some job options and how i wish to spend my impending last semester in NUS. Should have waited for the snail mail. This really sucks. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 08:57 pm | | Current Mood: | happy |
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| Can't believe i wasted an entirely good day but something good to blog about today. Was in the library for a short while before meeting Rainia. She told me to meet her at AS6 walkway because she 'sprained' her ankle. So i got out of my comfy chair at level 3 to meet her.
Upon seeing her at the bench, she asked me if i liked mango. Wahahahaha. So nice of her to get me a slice of mango cake and a candle. Was quite embarassed to be blowing out the candle for a while. Hahahahha, but it feels good to have friends like her. Not such a bad day after all, though i didn't manage to study much for my paper on thursday. What's exams anyway?
So sick of exams, and this is like my fifth semester. Sigh...... Can't wait for thursday to be over........ | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 01:11 am | | Current Mood: | lonely |
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| One year older, one more paper to go....Sigh........So tough to find the motivation to work for the last paper. So nua.......... Arggghhhhhhhh. Let me see, what's new? Glad that my friends are still around, but still alone in the universe.........It's gonna be a long day...............
" Behind the masks of confidence and competence, behind the proud ideology of individualism and self-determination, perhaps every human being yearns to be truly cared for and to care." | | comments: Leave a comment |
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