AWOL

or in another words, Absent Without Leave.

Sorry that i have been absent from the blog for so long. It feels like forever since i last blogged. It's not that i didn't want to blog, but there just hasn't been very much time lately.

crunch-time is coming nearer and nearer.
day by day, minute by minute. I see the minutes ticking away on my countdown.

I am stressed. but somehow, not quite stressed enough.
Im stressed because i know well enough, how unprepared and behind (in just about everything) I am. But somehow not stressed enough to be able to take serious and concrete steps to really do something about all of this.

And that mere fact is stressing me out as well.

Hence due to time constraints, and my very disorganised brain, at this moment.. this entry is going to be quite dis-connected.

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for you Lord
Morning and evening prayers these past two weeks have been great. It's so lovely to see different people come together each day to offer up some time in prayer together. And having other people to pray with and for you and your friends or family is really something special. :)

Reassurance
A reassuring message came to me on friday morning. In fact, both thursday and friday last week. The daily readings and the masses spoke to me and helped to reassure me that God would see to everything. But im not sure that that's a great thing. Of course it feels nice to be reassured, but i also firmly believe that God can only help those who help themselves. And while i hope that everything will turn out alright, because a chunk of my time is taken up with serving Him.. i know that i also have to put in some effort. Hopefully, the reassuring message helps to push me somehow.

CGs! :)
I really look forward to twice-weekly CSS events - CG and friday mass. And as the school term is swiftly and surely coming to an end soon.. i've come to the realisation that there are only three CG sessions left for the rest of this semester. I cannot even begin to tell you what a ride it's been for me. Three more CG sessions to enjoy to the maximum! :D

stress! :(
aaaahhh. I got back my total war history paper on thursday. That's the one which i rushed out in one day. :( and i did badly for it too. sighs.. B-. Oh man, what a disgrace of a history major i am. Going to see prof Farrell with Amelia tomorrow for post-mortem of our papers. Im scared shitless. yipes! hope i manage to survive it. :( But i need to go.. because i feel bad for letting the prof down and well, it's good to learn how to improve yeah. This can't go on, I must somehow turn into a history major with some "Oompfh" in her writing.

here's the line-up for the next few weeks:
and the reason for my stress]

-25th Oct.... Holocaust Project: research deadline
-26th OCt.... Political Science Essay Outline 'presentation' (in tutorial)
-31st Oct.... Nation-Building Essay Test (MUST SCORE THIS TIME!!)
-2nd Nov.... Political Science Essay due
-6th Nov.... Understanding the Universe MCQ Test (this will decide if i S/U e mod)
-9th Nov.... Dictators Essay due
-week 13.... Universe Group Project due
-17th Nov.... Total War Group Project completion date

Argh!

Awful temptation!
And through all this madness.. online shopping continues to be a perpetual temptation which i need to battle each time im on the computer. Argh. If only i wasn't so broke. sucks to be broke!! :(

Anyway, with all the madness in my life and trouble managing time.. i think it's time to cut blogging entries for awhile.

Hiatus Application
Hence, i hereby attach my application for a hiatus.
pls do not expect to see a new entry for awhile, unless i go insanely mad and MUST blog. And i also will probably not be online very much either, unless i happen to have total war project discussions or something.

just a personal message in the meantime:

char: im so glad we were able to hang out altogether as a group on your birthday. had lots of fun. you rock on gal! will send you the pics at pol sci lect on thurs can? :)


The hiatus is only temporary. I'll be back once the exams end. :)
Anyway, that's assuming i'll be able to fight the temptation to write one or two (or a few) short entries between now and when the exams start.. which i highly doubt. LOL

All the best for your papers, projects, assignments darlings!
lotsa love!!

superbly overdue!!

okay okay. time for updates! :)

i've been playing with the stuff in the side-bar as you can see. there's a new slide pic slideshow. :D it's so pretty.. im damn happy with it. and there's music to go with it. which you can mute if you like. and there's a radio blog thingy.. from which you can play music.. but sorry, not all of the songs load properly.

before i delay further.
i present to you the Arts DOR pictures which i took. :)


germ.me.joyce :]


germs with lanterns! :)


joyce.germs.elizabeth with sparklers!


lantern mania!! :D


elizabeth.amandaL.germs.joyce!


yay.. group pic 1 :D


DOR grp pic 2 :)


yay.. resident tues cg guitarists! gerg and niic :D


cher.joyce.bridgette :D


manda Tan..the birthday gal! :)


magic the driver! :) with four gals in his car on the way to ashley's. disgruntled frm being poked in the neck by your's truly. :D lol


cg lunch at white sands swensen's! :D

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okay. enough photos already! :)
next round of photo uploads will be of my beloved CG. and we're having a CG outing tmr also.. so that means even more pictures! :) woohoo.

-and i've just wasted the whole night on the com again.

and by the way.. just in case anybody was wondering.
it's SIX weeks to finals.

yipes. wanna go and find one of those countdown thingies.. so can motivate and scare myself whenever i come to the blog to waste time. hmm...

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and morning and evening prayers have begun! :)
yayyyy.. happy. :]

announcement:
Arts is having morning and evening prayers at the Arts corner of The Deck everyday :)
morning prayers are at 9.30am. and evening prayers are at 4pm.
we'll be doing The Angelus, bible reading for the day and then end off with a conversational prayer. do join us if you can! :)
handouts will be printed, just bring your lovely selves.

la da de da, la da de da

:)
no worries.. i haven't gone bonkers or anything.
im just.. happy. and cldn't find the words to express it in a title. or well, nothing that's not cliched came to mind. so yeah.

so.. i found 'inspiration' in the tune from the starhub commercial. because.. ryan just showed me this morning.. this starhub commercial that he and his brother did, as part of a competition. and it's REALLY good! :)

must go see!! and watch it over and over kkaes.
starhub advert - first date

and after you've watched it. help him vote for it, cos it's so funny.
click here and search for 'first date' and you'll find the video. then vote for it! :]

i hope my basic html skills allows all this stuff to come out okay. :)

and if they win.. haha.. maybe we can jostle/convince them to give us a treat. hehe jus kidding! :]
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Recess Week!

it's over. so sad. sigh. oh well. it was an undoubtedly good week. despite being too short. i slacked a lot. i came to school just 3 times that week. the first two times.. to get research for my history paper.. photocopying (which i like). but that doesn't mean i read very much of it.

then there was CSS Arts Day of Recollection on Tuesday. and that totally rocked! :] kudos to the arts comm! haha.. and the mid-autumn lanterns and sparklers lol that was fun stuff!

check out this pic.

got it courtesy of niic. :) and in the pic is alex (female), justin, gerg or jem or alex (male)?? (mystery person) and elizabeth! :]


*EDIT: it has been clarified!! the mystery person is none other than our dear niic!! :) so sorry dude!

-unfortunately.. i haven't had a chance to upload my own pics from that day yet. the temptation was GREAT. but in all the madness of rushing papers.. i just couldn't afford the time. will do so in time.
-justin's blog is a good place to see pics from tuesday. he always takes a lot of pics and puts them up. :D go trigger happy on my links.


*and i have an announcement to make: i only tried mooncake for the first time THIS year. hehe only white lotus (without yolk pls)

spent time at home with grandma on thursday and friday. because she's just had a cataract operation done and there was no one else who could stay at home to takecare of her. :) but that was all good.

i like to ask her random things smetimes.. just for the fun of it.
and i love how she likes to twitch her toes every now and then.
she got married at NINETEEN. good god.
im expired already then. lol


and the rest of the week - the whole weekend, basically, was devoted to rushing my essays.

Essay Madness

whoa. never in all my two and a half semesters of uni.. have i ever come so close to the deadline.

i had two essays to do this recess week. one was research-based, for HY3227 Europe of the Dictators. the other was a mid-term take home essay (no research required) for HY2216 Total War: 1815-1945.

i only started proper on the essays on err early saturday morning. [in the wee hours] because of the whole slew of things which took up my recess week. it was a gruelling weekend man. the third time i came to school was on saturday. and surprisingly and comfortingly enough, i wasn't the only one in school on a saturday. :] arthur was around.. and amelia was around. thank god for dear fellow history majors to help me feel less stressed! :] *hugz
and later on.. albert and max came too. haha.. we had our own little css corner within the central library's reference section. sort of. lol

i finished (excl editing) the dictators essay later that night, after having had a wonderful run :). i went for bible study on sunday morning (with great faith that god would give me time) and only started on the total war essay after lunch, around 1/2pm. only to find that it was due 23:59 that day. yipes. and consulted my sis for ideas and a little bit of help. :] yayness.

i submitted the total war essay at 11pm. haha.
and then happily went on to look around blogs cos i felt so much relief.
phew! :)

Online Shopping

oh no. the craze has got its hold on me.
im new to this whole online shopping thing.
and i am absolutely amazed at how students manage to up-keep such endeavours at the same time as manage school-life. amazed.

to date.. i've bought two bracelets. (collecting TMR!! :] heehee)
and i've ordered two bags. :] yummy.
and im going to be broke at this rate. if i keep going to these websites and buying stuff that is. and i just got my allowance on sunday night. haha

there's this website which is superly tempting me with stuff.
but the thing is.. a lot of the clothes are Free-size.
im still not sure if i dare to buy clothes online. as in.. what if it doesn't fit?? and you noehow sometimes, some things may look nice on the rack/mannequin but just not quite right on you?? and free-size??!! what if it's superly big and i drown in it?

haha okay. enough of a peek into my paranoid and frenzied mind.
i'll see how. but my first foray into the world of online shopping. woohoo. exciting stuff. i'll see if i feel like buying anymore after collecting this round of stuff. :D can't wait.

and since this entry seems like one of referrals.. might as well continue. the three sights im currently stuck on and which have gotten me started on the world of online shopping:
-doptadoodle
-fuss over me
-the sisters company

*doptadoodle is by pple from NUS.
and i also dont noe why im increasing competition for myself. lol. but these sites are realli good, go check it out! :]

Back to School

tralala.
im feeling much better now that i've submitted all my papers. and i haven't got any tests or anything much else to worry about for now.

cept for catching up and keeping up. which was the original goal i was hoping to fulfil with recess week. haha.

that having been said. i've had an awakening of sorts. or maybe perhaps revelation is a better word. *shrugs shoulders*
anyway.. i've realised.. half the sem is already gone. and this sem is supposed to be the sem which will pull my CAP up. because im taking one cross-fac and one hist (which is an ss mod). and lately.. that just doesn't look like it's going to happen.

i got a C+ for my universe mcq test.
and it was an open-book test too. basket!
and i dont have a partner for the project. and looks like they might be going to assign for those who dont have. so much for thinking i could jus go it alone. hopefully i get put with someone whom i can work with.

nation-building test has come and gone.
but i dont have any confidence about it. so i dunno. and i haven't been keeping up with readings. sighs.

so, some resolutions need to be made if there is to be any hope at all for salvaging my results this sem. resolutions dont only have to be made at new year you know. :)

1-no more falling aslp during classes.
well, this has been a long time coming lah huh. (yes justin.. i can see you nodding your head vigorously. u awful nag!) should have rectified it a long time ago. i'll snack if i have to (yes, i will have to) but somehow or other, i must stop falling aslp in class.

2-spiritual time stays
i've started a few good habits this sem with regards to spirituality.. and im going to try to keep to them as far as possible. :)

3-make better use of time
argh. this means.. probably less blog entries and (hopefully) less online purchases, less time wasted being on msn and on the gmail and well less stoning and wasting time online basically. i dont know where all my time goes.. but this would probably be the major culprit. general wastage of time.

hmm.. okay. just these few for now.

HIGHLIGHT of the week: being lifted up in the middle of the canteen

courtesy of dear, darling wei ying.
honestly dear! totally caught me by surprise lah. happily hug you then you go and LIFT me up off the ground.. in the midde of The Deck, at lunchtime. in front of kelvin, max, theresa thia and jelene. WTH. lol and they all um-chio (laugh to themselves) down there, pretending not to have seen. lol think i dont noe onli. ROFL


whee. the rest of the week to go. :)
good luck to all those having tests, essays and exams to tackle still.