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K. dramas WATCHED:

1. Autumn in my Heart 2. Winter Sonata 3. Sad Love Song 4. Full House 5. My Girl 6. Kim Sam Soon 7. Which Star are you from? 8. The Daring Sisters 9. Lovers in Paris 10. Goong 11. A Love to Kill 12. Princess Lulu 14. 18 yr old Bride 19. Snow Queen 20. Jewel in the Palace 22. Smile Again 23. All In 24. Coffee Prince 25. Jumong 26. On Air 27. Lovers 28. Boys Over Flowers 29. Princess Ja Myung Go 30. Time of Dog and Wolf 31. Gourmet 32. Iljimae 33. IRIS 34. You're Beautiful 35. Lobbyist 36. The Legend 37. Beethoven Virus 38. Be Strong Geum Soon 39. East of Eden 40. Witch Yoo Hee 41. Air City 42. Cinderella Man 43. Robbers 44. Hello Miss! 45. The Devil 46. When It's At Night

The one


Jas
12 Oct
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NUS FASS
Major status: sociology.
end of study week le~
12:31 AM, Saturday, September 29, 2007

oh hO..it's the end of study week for this sem..
i realised i've been rather diligent for the past few days; going 2 skoO in the morning & seriously studying(didn't dare foOl arnd cos i kept feeling i dun hav enough time)..

haha or mayb cos i dun hate the subs sO it was oOkie loOking at them.
i jus hate 2 memorise..but i know i carn escape that.haiX.

i'm going to read shawn's psychology boOk during my holidays after exams! becOs i'm really still undecided about my major...i can jus forget abt this psy thingy & choOse soci but part of me wanna giv it a try..
besides i'm nt confident abt writing good soci essays; in fact all essays regardless of sub.

i think tt's the most worrying thing..ack.
writing essays.

and i maybe taking korean lang toO! soO i dowan toO much pressure...
i wonder whether korean lang will b available next sem or year 2008/2009.

currently watching & waiting for it load finish; 2nd last ep of Noon Eui Yeo Wang a.k.a Snow Queen...
ahHH..it's sO terribly sad; typical tearjerker but i prefer it to winter sonata/autumn in my heart becOs the characters & plot are not sO straightforward..

haven tried watching Stairway to Heaven tho...heard that it was super x5 sad. oh goshhh...
after snow queen, mayb i'll start watching Lovers featuring my fave. actress (always cannot rmb her name hahas.) & there's this epic drama Ju-Mong..said to be better than Jewel in the Palace..ahhHHh..

Okie i shall list the dramas i've watched + ratings/ watched halfway
1. Autumn in my Heart ***
2. Winter Sonata ***
3. Sad Love Song ***
4.Full House *****
5. My Girl *****
6. Kim Sam Soon *****
7. Which Star are you from? ***
8. The Daring Sisters *****
9. Lovers in Paris *****
10. Goong ***
11. A Love to Kill ***
12.Princess Lulu ****
14. 18 yr old Bride ***
19. Snow Queen ****
20. Jewel in the Palace *****
21.Keep it Up, Geum Soon! ***
22. Smile Again ***


23. All In
24. Coffee Prince
Movie:
1. I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok ***
2. 200 Pounds Beauty ****
3. Daisy *****
4. My Sassy Girl ****
5. Windstruck ****
6. My Tutor Friend ****
7. My Boyfriend is Type B ****

Yups yups this is collection of korean tv i've watched so far..hahaha..if u really wanna try, i recommend those 4-5 stars!


study week!!
10:40 PM, Tuesday, September 25, 2007

this weEk is study weEk..
ohhhHHh...but at least i'm sorta following the schedule..
dunno whether wad i'm doing is right sO far~

as usual woke up at 7+ prepare 2 leave hse at 8.45am & reach skoO before/@ 10am..

ytd had dinner with the judO jie-meis..
ate at this newly opened jap restaurant @ PS next to ajisan..
oh oh oh..the egg omelette is niceeeee & only $3.80~
and the salmon sashimi was really fresh!
love the ambience toO..must gO there again hahas.

but i better not hav toO many jap foOd =X
been eating tt frequently..

today had the most no. (8 of us studying~)
studied till 3pm then we went SRC to play badmintOn..
sO long nv exercise le..i'm glad i'm nt much of a slOth pheWww...
apparently aloy lost the showdown betw him & nadya lOlx..
he wasn't very happy that we kept praising taffy (Cute & everything lOlx..)
"but taffy was FAT in jc!"

lOoks can b deceiving, that's the remark i gave aloy when he talks about himself..
"well, becos i'm sO goOd loOking that's y i have an evil heart"
*awkward silence* haha..

almost forgot until vicki reminded me..
the steamboat after 4pm!
there's this ma la steamboat after 4pm @ sichuan stall in our canteEn..
it's $5 & u get quite a lot of stuff..
soO 4 of us shared 3 steamboats + 1 xtra bowl of rice..
lOve the pork..it was very fresh & succulent~

after that we accompany shawn cOs he needs to smoke..
OMG. i tot he was pulling my leg when he said that..
cOs he hid it rather well & seems very boy boy to me except for the sometimes unkempt hair & unshaven goatee *drug addict* image lOlx..
this is no luffing matter anyway~

then nadya showed us how tO get bottled drinks for the price of 1 from the vending..
lOlx..was successful got a coke & 100 plus hahax..
& dey're only $1~
we even got 2 packs of biscuits for the price of 1 frm vending as well..
tsk tsk... lOlx.

soO tired when i reached home..then tml have 2 wake up early again..
time really flies..arghX.


the humans.
10:05 PM, Friday, September 21, 2007

are humans forgetful creatures?
yes you might say altho we coin the term as "absent-mindedness"
no we're not! some pple are apt at bearing grudges!!

hahas...
i'm a forgetful person...i forget what's suffering like when it's over..
sOo i hav this throbbing headache now & i really wish it'll just gO away..perhaps after a while it'll b gone & i'll completely forget what it's like to endure such pain~

but i seldom forget people's names & the topics we talk about..and the homework/ readings i have to accomplish.

sO are we practising selective forgetfulness/ accidentally things jus slip off our minds because dey're not impt/ not worth rmb-ing?
but has it occur to you the more u wanna forget smth, the harder it gets off your head? when you relax & let things pass, you'll soOn forget what you attempt to rmb.

in a sense, this part is ironic. We choose to but we're not granted unless you tried extremely hard to put the past behind you (which is difficult for alot of us because painful they may be, dey're after all our precious memories & experiences in life)

that i'm referring to painful relationships/ traumatic past...nOt some superficial headache lOlx..
for stuff as deep as these, it's better to embrace than to forget because forgetting will only make you worser! Embrace means to carry on with your life with the past in your mind.

How is tt possible?
1. take the neutral approach
2. hate it to the core of your soul until there's no more hatred/ sadness left anymore. I mean you can't go on doing it forever..

Life still goes on.

How would forgetting make me worser?
Wells, if you choose to forget smth (but in your heart you can't let go), doesn't it make you feel worse because you're in a caught in this awkward situation?

Why embrace then? They're not worth keeping either.
Embracing isn't really keeping ,in my opinion. It's more of using it as an experience & to come to reality that everything can't be perfect. You face up to your troubles instead of running away and after some time (depends on indiv.), they don't matter anymore. Life is about the bigger picture (unless the memory you're trying to forget is you're once a POW. This is not applicable).

oOkie i really cannot stand my headache! arghx!


test test test...
10:18 PM, Wednesday, September 19, 2007

OMG ahHHHhh...
i hav tests..1 on 10oct (soci) & another on 4Oct (sn)..zZZ...
and a philo essay on 1st oct more zZZZzzz...

and i only hav 1 freaking weEK to work miracles~
oh manXx..sObx sObx i'm jus worried i hav nothing to support my essays..

oOkies enuff of grumbling..
today had our sOci lecture on 'Family'& Paulin Straughn was our guest lecturer..lOlx..oh man she's damn funny & even more biased than Dr. Tan (whom i tot was quite crappy already)

She started gossiping about her own frens (Tan & Angelique which will b our guest lecturer on aging after hols) about Tan keeping kidney stones in his office & Angelique being extremely short lOlx..

i think the funniest thing she said was "If you all are not fussy finding the right one, we'll b able to get everyone a partner in the LT & then the leftovers shall go to engineering!"
hahah..oOps no offense...

I think she started asking this guy "What do you think is family?"
then guy said "Erm..family members" -_-'''

G: As in what you think are family members, like to me my father and mother...
P:Ok, so let's imagine you hav a guy partner..
G: nono..
P: Just imagine lar..
G: nono cannot!! *shakes head vigorously*

hahaha..
sO i think this lecture is worth 10/10 hahahs..


last week before mid term break~!
12:23 AM, Monday, September 17, 2007

went out wif OG to for dinner @ cafe cartel..
i shldn't hav ordered tt pork chop..got sick of it after i finish 1 & 1/2 piece (yes there's 3 BIG pieces!)..
i think the most worth it one is pork ribs...
beEf lasagne was surprisingly a big portion..yeA but now i know why most restaurants have it small...u get sick of it after a while lOlx..

soO gossips going arnd...
and tt ching feng keep asking whehter he's anybody's eye-candy lOlx...
i wonder why he's sO eager tO know & not ashamed 2 ask abt it..
and aloysius kept toking abt taffy being fat when he's in JC..

the choc fudge that dey ordered was goOd..
frm Rive i think @ taka..oh manX but super sinful~~
soO i tink i need 2 exercise right soOn le (i've postpon-ing it for more than 1 year haha..hard to find pple that have the time 2 play racquet games~)

feel that lecturers are very mean haiX..
at least for my modules (except philO)..dey dun bother putting up the lecture notes before the lecture day itself..
dey only did like a few hrs before the lecture OMG..not everyone brings a laptOp 2 skoO manx..
+ it's sO troublesome 2 gO print it at the lib/ AS7..
i hav a printer at home..i shld jus put it to use instead of having 2 pay for my printed nOtes..
cOs i dun really like last min preparations/ changes hEhx..

and i dun hav a habit of coming to skoO a few hrs before zZz..

i suddenly realise i hav a philO test/ assignment which i hav no idea of wad/how to write lOlx..
but i guess it's not as troublesome as my other modules~
i think i shld work harder..sObx.


i hate documentation.
12:18 AM, Thursday, September 13, 2007

i can't get the whole documentation thingy..
sO far my jap rxn paper has none of those! i'm sO afraid i'm sued for plagiarism...but luckily we're told 2 analyse frm the readings..soO the primary source we hav naturally are the readings..& ichi sensei already told us not to commit the same mistake..soO i guess i'm safe this time? lOlx..

he seems sO nice..i tink he won't penalise me.. i hOpe!

we all suddenly rmb-ed we hav a mid term test on oct 10 fOr soci..
arghX..jus 1 essay 1 hr..sounds easy but it isn't becos of documentation again!!
and cOs it's closed boOk..soO i hav 2 memorise those references by hard omggg..
the concept itself is already complicating..add in this; it's even more stressful..sObx sObx..

and the weirdest thing is dey nv taught us abt such stuff & expect us tO do it..dOts while that is except for lit dey gave us a spreadsheet of wad to do..but for lit u just hav the poem 2 loOk & study the boOk soO basically u noe how to refer..but other subs wif tons of readings & outside sources (if u intend 2 put in)..ahhHHh!
soO if u dun take lit, how are u supposed 2 noe all the dos & don'ts???

soO i guess almost everyone is pretty confused & screwed.lOlx..
it's 2 more weeks 2 the hols & i have 2 mug for my sOci...
i hope u guys will b studying in skoO?

came to skoO in the afternoOn..shawn said i loOk like goldilocks jus tt my hair is black lOlX...
and sixiang was hoping i'll come 2 skoO on tues so tt he could seE...i tink he jus wants to luff at me..hmpf i'll prove to him he happens to be wrong!

oh well my head is jus filled wif that lit essay & 2 jap rxn papers...
i hav nO more roOm for other subs; soO sorry philo, south asia & soci..
i tink philo was the best 2 me so far..he didn't mention abt the documentation part yet~


sO far sO...
9:23 PM, Saturday, September 08, 2007

i read both blogs & now i shall comment on both (sounds like some weekend assignment u need 2 dO? lOlx)..
1st is jade's blog; the other is shiyun's blog.

Alright, 1st was on the entry of being skinny.
YEA I BEG TO AGREE! (for those of u who know, if u wanna tease me by calling me fat, u're actually embarrassing urself hahs.)
it's nt like thin pple are out to starve themselves (yes, there're girls who do that for the sake of beauty but let's not generalise everyone into tt categOry)

soO i rmb-ed farhan said to me "I don't understand why girls wanna make themselves sO thin!"
It's nt like i have a choice, i told him. "I HATE salad!"
and that comment astounded a few individuals & yes, i LOVE meat esp beef steak~
soO then came another generalised comment when i told jw that i drink milk quite often..
"Oh ya but i think don't drink low fat milk lor.." or smth along that lines
I HATE low fat milk! that made her O.O...which is true cOs i personally feel low fat milk isn't milk..it's sO diluted & the milky taste is lost..sOo yeaps, i drink full cream milk/ pure milk..
don even start on skim milk; dey suck.

but can't blame pple when dey make such comments cOs when i see girls that're thinner than me; i wonder the same thing toO but i guess i will only voice it out when i notice her eatings habits are irregular & too lil for human consumption..
i wonder whether the chi stall auntie gave me lesser cOs i'm a girl & i'm thin. hmpf..

on to the 2nd entry: one's future
Only a handful of us are actually determined in getting into the profession dey want. Many others including myself just get into a uni/ faculty but have no idea wad path lies ahead for them..or even whether we like wad we're doing..

i have friends doing econs not cOs dey like the sub but rather it's smth dey're familiar wif/ better prospects in.
oh wells i've had my fair share of econs in JC & perhaps i got into NUS cOs of it & my GP, i wasn't ready to take on it again; it was just not worth my time..

Ever felt like u just wanna laze around & when u see the pile of assignment u had to complete, u groan? That's the prob wif me & econs & wif math & wif chem...that isn't my purpose in studying in uni; something i'll not like doing in due course..

soO peeps! if u have such trouble, try looking for a sub that u wouldn't groan when u see it but instead tell urself "i love it enough for me to complete it"!I guess you're pretty much enjoying youself already~ Smth taken frm jade's blog; being a nerd isn't that hard after all!

As for me, it's tO settle 1st things 1st..
it's good 2 have a dream but it'll b better if i have one & stick to it which i cannot guarantee!
since sec 4, i along wanted 2 do some psychology cOs it kinda attracted me..
soO which means i'll end up in FASS? did that.
then when the real orientation talks start coming in; alot of us are swayed by wad we initially believed in...i was oso interested in a couple of modules but i know i'll never major in them; so when it comes to psychology, i was all ears..
oh it was fun & all but i didn't take it in the end cOs the bids points were toO high & cOs i tink i mistoOk the psy i've been tinking of since sec 4 as sociology!

that's 1 prob..the other prob is the only sub i had the most fun doing sO far was philosophy...
which really is ridiculously interesting & makes u think deeper into life (and oso a sub where u can irritate the hell out of pple)...

soO there!
u're free to express ur views on the 2 topics~


workload...ahhh!
9:55 PM, Wednesday, September 05, 2007

oh gosh...i can feel the stress rising up..
had lit quiz today on a poem by Edwin Thumboo called "Gods can Die"..
i dunno wad crap i was writing hahaa...it uses simple english but the poem is harder than those cheem shakesperean ones.

we also learn accented & unaccented syllables on mon's lit lect.
mark x for unaccented (unstressed)&/ for accented (stressed)for eg:
x /
Timing
/ x
Today

soo when u read these words aloud u can feel the difference..
then i told nadya this usually for such a sentence

x / x / x / x / x
"I have the brains to go with my looks" goes like this...
however in aloysius case, it's somewhat distorted ahaa:
x / / / x x / x x x / /
Oh, come on...I have the brains to go with my looks."

anyways he kept saying "u're messing with the wrong kind"..feel like punching his face lOlx..seems like he's not very happy tt there're pple who are better than him like sixiang & taffy haha...

soci lecture today's on race & ethnicity..according to the prof, there's no such thing as races cos all humans hav the func. of interfertility: that is we can mate & produce offspring with one another...and our offsprings can do the same unless it's for eg betw. a tiger & lion.
sure a liger is produced but then it is not reproductive..

oh wells on such a sensitive topic u noe wad kind of remarks he make lOlx..
then halfway during lecture he had 2 state his stand that he's really nt prejudiced haha..



Ratatouille...yummy!
12:47 AM, Sunday, September 02, 2007

went suntec today for comex fair & ratatouille (let's jus call it rat...)
comex is extremely crowded & Sony was having the biggest roadshow...
went 2 epson 2 buy printer ink (desperately in need of it)...then there was this saleman toking abt their printers..soO he compared his prices using a mic with other companies (how bold!)..Sister, Dua Pao & Low Price(Brother, Canon & HP respectively) hahaha...

watched Rat. after everything..hhaha it has quite an interesting plot (A rat that can coOk!)..many funny bits & a very happy end (yes for the rat toO!)..it puts the love (food..everyone likes food) & hate (rats yucks) tgt~
and it makes me extremely hungry after watching it..
apparently Rat. is a dish in France..it has nuttin 2 do with the main character in the story..that is until the last part lOlx.

Ratings: 7.5/10 stars~

for eng lit tut we were given qns 2 analyse a singaporean poem...soO the teacher told us 2 gO home & print smth related to the poem..soO i read a bit on singlish & i found wad amazing beings we are having a vocab of a lang like this..haha i was explaining to jade..

for eg, the use of "can":
"Can lah" = rest assured it can be done
"Can hor?"= it can b done rite?
"Can one"= it can be accomplished
"Can wat..."= it can be done...shouldn't u noe this?
"Can meh?" = um...are u sure it can be done?
"Can ar(low tone)..."=so, it can really b done?
"Can ar (rising tone)"= alright then, don't come asking for help if problems arise

lOlx...


yay~!!!
12:16 AM, Saturday, September 01, 2007

yay~!!
gOT my lappy today frm it co-op...was quite surprised dey called me ytd...tot i had 2 wait for 1 more week~
miraculousy, my comp recovered & can operate normally lOlx...

tot could get some customized lappy skins at the forum...but the boOth's gOne..in fact i've nv seen the booth before..only heard it from shawn...shawn were u dreaming lolx~

gOt the basic stuff installed...won't wanna stress the notebook too much; after all it's nt a terminal; carn jus throw junk like i used to~
the box tt contained everything was so big & bulky as compared to the others...zZz..it's like a small luggage! pple tot i'm lugging a monitor or smth haha...
& becos of the immense weight & dreadful hunger pangs, i went 2 call si xiang only 2 find out he's already at home...zZZz..

"next time u mus book me" tt's wad he said.
soO jian wei & i toOk turns 2 carry it..thanks girl!

south asian tut today was nuttin much..haha
had philo nuts and bolts at 9am today & he was telling his secrets of setting exam papers..
then there was the actual philo lect at 2pm where the commotion is abt "what is virtue? can virtue be learnt? is learning also recollection?"

then socrates tied virtues with geometry lOlx...bizarre.
becos math is a form of recollection..in a sense socrates could prove tt a slave boy who didn't know math could discover how 2 do math thru the process of questioning him & allowing him 2 grasp certain ideas & deduce a math question..

soO learning hence = a form of recollection in socrates's perception.

then again, can this be applied to all areas of life? Because math is a 1 answer only, there is no such thing as another answer & by leading a person the right way, he could come to a conclusion where he comes to the correct answer.

on the other hand, intangible things like virtues; can it be learnt so easily?Is there only a set of right answers for virtues?

here's smth ridiculous & confusing with regards to learning by Meno, the guy Socrates questioned the meaning of virtue:

P1: With regard to everything, either you know it already or you don't.

P2: If u noe it already,then u carn learn it (since u carn learn wad u already noe!)

P3: if u dunno it already, in which case u won't b able 2 find it(ie: learn it) becos u won't b able 2 recognise it when u see it!

Hence, learning is impossible.

LOLX..

here's another theory:

Actually, the mind doesn't bother abt reasoning! If u give someone an idea, it is nt necessary 2 convince him the truth of it if u keep conflicting ideas tt are arising from his mind.The mind can actually believe wad is being told but becos of the power of suggestion, pple tend to question!


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