IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT
This is important. Really. It is.The past couple of days have been exhausting.
Xuan’s birthday was tonight (or yesterday) and the rush to get all the games ready as well as the video and buying the present… Woot… Glad it’s finally done and everyone’s happy. I hope. =)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY XUANY!!!!
We had to distract Xuany today before his big party. So we headed to PS to play arcade and have some lunch.
Lunch was teppanyaki at that Sakae place in the basement. I didn’t really have much of an appetite today (coming to think about it). But we still guzzled down lots of food.
Dear came along too! And went nuts playing the funny sweet-scooping game in the arcade. She ended up scooping up a big bag of sweets as well as a couple of toys…
And the jackpot prize! Lol… She won me a big fluffy grey elephant. =) So cute…
Flappy the Elephant on the way to dinner! Squished between the seats of the car.
And mesmerized by the sights and sounds of the world outside of the storeroom he was kept in for ages and ages.
Flappy comes home!
His welcoming party arrives.
And gives him a big welcome hug… As well as a check for flu-like symptoms.
When all’s clear, it’s bed time!
Yeap… Today was really long… Glad everyone had fun. =) Will blog more tomorrow. Tomorrow is another long long long day.
Thank you dear. =) For Flappy, for coming today, for supporting me when things got tiring and for being with me through it all.
So… Now I’m jobless again. This time by my own volition. Due to a whole bunch of reasons concerning my mounting disatisfaction with myself, I made the rather silly decision of leaving a possibly great job with a definitely great company.
The people at the office were just awesome.
Lol. Awesome.
But really. After one week, I feel like these guys are my friends. I learned alot about roto and matchmove though I was never in those departments. I have a much clearer picture of what it takes to work in this industry. Plus, I’ve made lots of great friends.
Overall, same applies. Nothing learned is ever wasted. No experience is in vain.
I hope to be able to finish my showreel by mid this week and let Oli and Sam take a look. Though, to be frank, I dont think my work can compare to the reels that come through the door every day.
Someone changed my soap again a couple of days ago.
Who is this person who changes my soap? And dictates what I will smell like for an indefinite period of time? Does this person know the power he/she wields?
Need to go pick Hua from the airport later today. And study to give tuition tomorrow. I’ve been missing an entire week! And Prelims are coming up. Need to start re-reading my GAMSAT book too. And getting out some physics questions to ask Hui Qiong.
Lots of studying to do.
Lots of things to do as well.
-Roars-
So we’ve made it. The half year mark.
There’s still that crazy flurry of excitement. There’s still the tingly buzz that lingers after every kiss. There’s still that soft ache whenever you leave. I still love you.
Happy half anniversary dear. =)
Been pretty busy these couple of days. I expected our 6th month to be a little more extravagant than just a quick and slightly late dinner. But I was recently hired by Double Negative as an anything and everything assistant.
The people in the office are great. My little room consisting of 5 desks and my single chair has a great view. The food isn’t too bad. The company is amazing. But…
The job, not as emotionally fulfilling as I thought it would be.
Will blog more about it come end of the week.
I’m on a one week trial to see how I like the job and how they like me. It’s only been two days and I’m already exhausted. And miss my girlfriend to bits.
Have been trying to squeeze in some time to look up graduate diploma courses as a backup if I don’t get into med school this year. A grad dip would give me the year’s worth of sciences that I need to apply to anywhere in the world, freeing up my options horrifically. And also, gives me better grounding for the GAMSAT and MCAT.
I think it’s a pretty good next step. But the trick now is finding a course which will take me, someone from a non-science background. The only courses which would let me do something as outrageous as this is in Monash, but it’s closed to international students… Need to check with them if begging helps..
Sigh…
Yesterday, together with Denise and Jie Ying, I headed down the horrifically convoluted streets of whampoa to seek out Serangoon Broadway studio.
The place was slightly easier to find than expected. The gown was slightly more depressing than expected too. The entire getup turned up to be an entirety of different colors: Navy blue gown, aquamarine trim, rusty brown hood, black hat… Now all that’s left is to get a white shirt to add to the color mix and some bright purple pants.
Admittedly, the place was very efficient. We were all brought off by different salespeople who made me an offer in fluent, ceaseless mandarin I found literally impossible to reject.
Not entirely sure why this post is entitled as such. The words just kept wafting about in my head while the cursor lingered over the title field.
So…
Despite being school-free and jobless, I still find myself rather and surprisingly busy. Juggling between giving tuition, preparing for tuition, looking through video archives, compiling videos, job-hunting, panicking over universities, panicking over jobs, and acting like a generally school-free and jobless person kinda takes up most of my waking hours.
Next week will be exciting, I envision.
The word exciting teetering between that and utterly depressing.
If I get word from the Universities, I would start hearing from them next week. Next week also marks the end of the June holidays for most kids in Singapore and hence one of two things:
- The malls will be suddenly quieter and more peaceful
- I’m going to start work
I’m starting up my revision on the GAMSAT material as well. Whether I get in or not, always good to have that all down to a pat.
I more or less am pretty confident that I won’t get a shot a medical school this year. Or ever, for that matter. Sometimes, really really really really really wanting something, doesn’t make it so.
The worst is probably the wait to find out.
Some photos from last week’s Father’s Day.
We headed to China Club for some good ole chinese food. The place itself was over 50 floors above the ground, making for some great views shrouded in a blanket of haze.
A running theme in the restaurant was this red communist star. I should have worn my Vietnam shirt here!
DBS is so short from here…
Strange scallopy, egg rowy, brownish, whitish thing we ate. =\ Some liked it, others didn’t. I think it tasted overall kinda funky. Strange… Strange thing.
Giving papa his present! Not sure why his mouth was open during this shot. Hahahaha… We got him a mini golf bag thing with wheels to put on his desk (need to remember to give him the astroturf that comes with it too) and a set of pajamas.
This is upstairs! It’s a different decor from the rest, sporting a more oldish, Shanghai-ish kinda feel. It also smells like old lanterns.
Unfortunately, China Club (according to mama) isn’t open to the public. Need to check that out again though. The meal left us with a rather hefty pricetag and not too satisfied tummies.
Right then. Enough updates. Time to get ready for tuition.
Congratulations to Daphne on the birth of her son yesterday!!
Such an adorable baby..
Lol… The wonders of facebook. Now we all know!!!
Some photos from the wedding. Not sure what I can or cannot put up, so it’s mostly not related to the couple.
The bridal car going to the bride’s house in the morning! And trailing photographer cars. (yes, all three at the back are part of the train. plus one more already at the bride’s house)
Ian kor kor in the shot we took in the high speed car chase down the PIE.
Horde of photographers
More of the horde.
The Grand Ballroom at Hyatt.
Macs in action! All of us rushing to import, edit and sort thousands of images in a couple of hours.
Family photo!
The family now twice as big!
So we just got back from Ian’s wedding.
Despite it being a totally tiring day lasting over 16 hours non-stop since 7.30am, it turned out great anyway.
First things first though.
Today (or rather, yesterday now), marked our fifth month!
=D
Sorry we didn’t get to do anything special. We both had horrifically busy days respectively. But the half year mark will be awesome. lol..
Hopefully I’ll get to put some photos up tomorrow. Pretty funned out now.
Wore my red dress! Shall let you see some pictures in a bit (though I never figured out what you found so fascinating about a kong long in a dress) once I get to hunting down my iPod wire which has miraculously gone missing again.
I was put in charge of creating two videos, scanning through literally thousands of photographs, hundreds of video clips, and coming up with a 6 minute presentation within 2 hours. Stress. Not to mention the song they chose was only 3 minutes-ish so I had to set aside time to cut the song so it would last 6 minutes (with some nifty fiddling with waveforms and such).
Now with my two older cousin’s married, I’ve already begun getting the “Oh you’re next” comment from the previous generation. I still have another 6 or 7 years to go before getting around to their age. Plenty of time. To earn enough money and move to somewhere where I’m not an illegal being.
Weddings make me sad sometimes.
Knowing I would probably never have something like that makes me sad. I’ll probably never have all my family and relatives around me, supporting me and the one I love. I’ll probably never wear a white gown and cut a styrofoam wedding cake. I never dreamt of being a bride when I was growing up. But I guess, seeing people close to me getting married, the smiles on the faces of others, kind of makes me wonder.
Of course I wish I could make my parents happy. I just wish what made me happy and what made them happy were the same thing. But they aren’t. And probably never will be.
I’m happy now. Having you to love and love me back. I just wish I could share this happiness.
I’ve had a good 3 weeks of freedom now, having completed my degree and with no immediate plans (or at least, none that are set in stone). Feels rather floaty, waking up in the same foggy haze that I fell asleep in, going through the day eyes charged with the same pointless gaze till they close again. Now that the excitement of freedom has worn off, only sheer sepulchral boredom remains, showing me with very little effort at all that this is what it is like to be a zombie.
I’ve started on studying Social Studies again to help tutor Yuan in preparation for the dreaded exams later this year. It’s a whole easier going now I’m not at the business end of the O Level knife. I’m endeavoring to finish the entire syllabus (inclusive of question answering techniques) in 9 weeks (with two sessions a week, that brings it to 18 sessions in total). This would leave me with another 2 weeks before his prelims to tie up any loose ends.
I haven’t tutored in FOREVER.
Forever sounds long, but in today’s context, it barely covers a year.
Especially with all these people running amok, flinging around like confetti, deluging unsuspecting passersby in a torrent of “whoopee!”.
The sanctity of “forever” has been reduced to a “maybe we should sit down and talk about this”.
Which brings me to something I was discussing with Sara Tan the other day. What of these fairy tales, still implanting delusional theories of love and romance and happily-ever-afters in the impressionable minds of your young? Girls (and some boys) grow up to become women (or men), heady with subconscious dreams of a knight (who may or may not be a man) on a white steed/motor vehicle/transportation device, sweeping them off to a happily ever after in some castle. Or mansion. Or terrace house. Or government flat. Perhaps it is these very seeds of things-that-will-probably-never-come-to-pass that are the cause of unhappiness when said women (or men) do not find their happy ending.
Let’s get to writing some real stories. Ones with realistic endings. Like having the prince and Snow White go back to their grand castle, only to find out after a couple of dates that it isn’t going to work out because he has unresolved issues with his family, leading to a nasty teary breakup. Or Prince Charming realizing that Cinderella has an insatiable shopping addiction and squanders away fortunes on gowns she will only wear till midnight and shoes she tends to forget while leaving a party. Or Beauty finding out the castle she now lives in is littered with decades of furballs.
Something along those lines.
According to Xuan’s economics lectures, persons who are unwilling to find work cannot be listed as unemployed. They are simply cut out of the equation due to their lack of name and tendency to ruin the numbers. Perhaps the term “self employed by a really bad employer” is a more accurate description instead of “ “.
So, my last week was pretty spectacular for a self employed by a really bad employer person. I did get to finally meet Dr Chow and talk to her about my concerns about medical schools and the career path of a healthcare professional. And it was the first time anyone’s heard my reason for why I wanted to pursue this rather ludicrous sounding dream of mine.
If I had known she was a medical school interviewer, I wouldn’t have said anything…….
But after pouring out my heart and naiveté onto her and her lunch, she said she was convinced.
And I’m a much happier camper.
Today I heard of another case from a distant aunt of mine whom I was meeting for the first time today. Her daughter was accepted into medical school despite her really dismal grades.
Little bits of info like these make me that little bit more hopeful of getting into medical school next year.
But what if I don’t? What then?
I’m not entirely sure, to be brutally honest. My ultimate goal remains unchanged, but the pathways to it wind deeper and deeper into muck and thick undergrowth of confusion and pandering about. My choices stand as follow:
1. Sit for the GAMSAT again
And hope for a better score. And in the mean time, take up some part time work here or there while doing some voluntary work at the hospitals (though my mom isn’t too keen about it now that H1N1 is going about)
2. Take up a graduate diploma in Science or Biotechnology
It’s a 1 year course in Melbourne University and covers all the course prerequisites for the Melbourne MD to be opened in 2011. I’ve just sent an email to them to verify if a) I am eligible for that course to begin with, and b) if courses done there can count towards subject prereqs. If it’s a green light for both those questions, then it might not be too bad a next move if I don’t get into med school next year.
3. Sit the MCAT again in June and apply for Duke NUS
Really really really not sure if I should do this. It’s a 4 year intensive course with it’s clinical year (oddly enough) placed in the second year and not the third or final year like other medical schools I’ve read about. I would very much like to focus on the clinical side… The research year might kill me…
4. Join the SCDF as a paramedic for 3k a month
Okay… I’m making that up. I did email them to ask how much the entry pay would be in the paramedic career path given that I have a degree (degree holders can get 3k entry pay with the qualifications I currently hold, I think) but the pay for paramedics on the site is listed only up to poly diploma and A levels. With a 1.5 year training period and a 2 year bond after that, it’s more or less the option if I’m giving up on med school.
Depending on what happens this October, we might spend a really really really long time apart.
=(
Sigh…
Let’s go skiing!
The sun is shinin’ everyday
Clouds never get in the way for you and me
I’ve known you just a week or two
But baby I’m so into you
Can hardly breathe
And I’m in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin’ so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you, I love you
I never knew that I could feel like this
Can hardly wait till our next kiss
You’re so cool
If I’m dreaming please don’t wake me up
Cause baby I can’t get enough
Of what you do
And I’m in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin’ erratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you
I can’t believe that this is real,
the way I feel
Baby I’m gone head over heals
And I’m in so totally
Wrapped up emotionally
Attracted so physically
Actin’ so recklessly
I need you so desperately
Sure as the sky is blue
And I’m in so electrically
Charged up kinetically
Actin’ eratically
Need you fanatically
You get to me magically
Sure as the sky is blue
Baby, I love you
Baby, I love you
Do you love me too
Baby, I love you
