long working weekend..

it's a sunday, but i'm tutoring for 8 hours.. from 8.30 am... wahhhh... and yesterday i had to wake up early too, to make my way down to Sengkang (the other side of the earth) to collect toys from a kind-hearted man.. now i need sleep...

but many thanks to this kind-hearted man and his family, for giving me so many toys.. too bad my box is too small for the children's table that he wanted to give.. but still, many many thanks.. and to biyun too, for helping me carrying all the toys back to my house.. =)

and for the first time, i received my first birthday present so many days ahead.. haha.. thanks auntie! it's not even November.. haha.. and people, please please please don't get me any Sudoku books.. so silly!! haha.. i can play the game online for free you know.. =P

ahhh.. time to rest my eyes..

i'm the Sudoku queen..

yeahhey!! i won! i won!! =) i won the Sudoku competition!! hehe.. although there were only 20-odd participants, but i still came in first!! FIRST!! wahaha.. and they were all so amazed that i could finish all puzzles.. *smirks*

but i thought i would get some big prize (think big money).. but only got vouchers.. aiya.. small competition, can't expect much.. at least the vouchers give me the excuse to go shopping and have a hearty meal.. hehe..

anyway i went to take the vaccine for chicken pox today.. don't laugh.. so old already still haven't got chicken pox before.. (>_<) it always seems to me that chicken pox attacks kids.. and i've survived 20 years without getting it.. and i'm not going to allow myself to get it.. so i went to take the vaccine.. but very expensive.. $65 for a jab, and i need 2 doses.. -_-""

never mind, i'm in a happy mood.. call me the Sudoku queen!!! haha..

jobs..

i'm troubled, by an assignment.. most of my assignments only require superficial brainwork, and i will be fine from all the brain damage after submitting them..

but this one.. i need to write a job resume for submission.. and it has got to be a real job offering.. i searched the newspaper and some online sites for one, that i would probably want to do when i graduate.. but i realise, that there is nothing out there that interest me..

i saw one offering by WorldVision asia regional office, for their regional humanitarian work.. it could be one kind of job i would wish to do, but then i was disheartened by the requirements that i would need to have..

flipping through the thick stack of newspaper, yet there are none that i want.. and many jobs need "at least a good honours degree" and "with years of experience".. hell, how am i going to get a job when i graduate..

back to the assignment.. i could have just choose any jobs and do the resume and submit it.. but i don't want to.. this is a prelude to a real-life crisis manz.. and what if i need to get my tutor to write a reference letter for my real job application?

oh man, life sucks..

lack of sleep..

the last time i didn't sleep for a night, was during my preparation for exams last semester.. that was about 5 months ago.. now the vicious cycle is coming back.. and i couldn't take it.. >_<"" i was rushing one stoopid lab report last night, and i didn't catch a wink.. and i felt so terrible in school.. wanted to sleep, but yet had to force myself to keep awake.. worse still, today's lessons were from 10am to 6pm.. non-stop.. no proper time to rest, no proper meal.. i could only get 10 minutes of sleep during the break of Prof Ip's lecture.. oh man, that was so pathetic..

and the rest of October is going to be a killer.. more reports, more assignments, more tests, and my kids' exams too.. arghhhhh..

enough of ranting..

everytime when people scold somebody else "cuckoo bird", it means that poor person is stupid.. but do you know that cuckoo birds are actually a smart bunch of birds? they practise something called "boot parasitism", where the mother cuckoo bird will replace her eggs in some other birds' nests, and let some other birds to take care and feed her babies together with theirs..

now, the smart thing is, when the baby cuckoo bird is hatched from the egg, it will push the other birds' unhatched eggs out of the nest!!! wah!! get rid of competitors in this way.. smart right??

so now you know, cuckoo birds are not stupid.. and never use "cuckoo bird" to scold people stupid.. haha..

mid-autumn festival..

happy mid-autumn festival!! =)



what a great way to start the day, with 3 hours of sleep, non-stop lessons from 10am to 6pm, a test which i think i fared badly, and long, tedious lab assays.. and to end the day with another tuition..

at least i got to eat a small piece of mooncake.. and tomorrow, i will chomp down more of them.. =D

it used to be quite eventful during the festival when i was a kid.. i remembered, there were big family gatherings, where all the kids came together.. i even remembered once we all went to the Chinese Garden to see all the lantern displays..

there were even activities organised by the community centre, and all the neighbourhood kids came together to play.. walking around the neighbourhood with our paper lanterns lit up, and then to burn them up.. haha..

children nowadays are luckier.. now they can have fanciful lanterns with mickey mouse, winnie the pooh on it, or those battery-operated lanterns with music and lights.. what we used to have were those plain and old-fashioned cheapo lanterns.. X)

but as we grow old, we tend to forget, and reminisce about those simple, happy things that we did when we were kids..

what i'm trying to say is, there are many things out there that will tie us down, but there are other things, simple ones, that are just as important.. =) would you rather be happy, or get stressed over things like results? haha.. sounds like the nonchalant me, when it comes to studies.. haha.. =D

now i wish i could play with lanterns for a little while during the weekend.. but i have my practice, projects, reports and the packing.. =(

but even if i could, i won't be burning the lanterns.. i'm not going to worsen the haze condition here.. i can't even see the factories' lights behind the reservoir!!

homemade mooncakes..

i woke up in the late morning, to hear knockings and hammerings in the house.. i thought my dad was doing some repairing or sorts.. with my eyes still half-closed, i walked out of the room, and into the kitchen... ... ...

oooh~~ my dad is making mooncakes!! hahah.. a yearly activity for him.. haha.. and of course he has been through many times of experiments and failures to master the "art" of making mooncakes.. haha..



drooling yet? =D