because….. yeahhhhh - March 12, 2010

Fundamentals of Investment — A
International Finance — A
Consumer Banking — A
Personal Financial Planning — B+
Communication Skills 2 — A
Contemporary French — B

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Results were way better than expected. French for example. Oh man I expected to fail it. I’m not joking around here. First french test I had? 6/20. I guess the RolePlay/Written/Listening & Attendance marks pulled my grade up. At least I didn’t fail and with this, I’m done with all my CDSes. WOOOHOOO!!!! No more extra classes for me man.

Personal Financial Planning, another shocker. I tore up my paper in rage at the end of the paper, that was how enraged I was at the paper for being a load of bullshit, testing crap that no normal human would be able to do. Somehow, I still managed to scrape a B+ which is actually surprisingly well, which means my final exam had at least 75marks. Which is rather surprising cause thinking back, the only way I couldve gotten 75, was if my MCQ and the last question was totally correct. And I mean, come on, what are the odds right?

Commskills2. Haha. I would slap myself silly if I told myself 3 months ago that I’d get an A for commskills. I’d never liked commskills before and my teacher wasn’t any better. Didn’t really like her,didn’t like the subject, not a fan of PBL. Blahhhh. Managed to get an A for a 5 cu subject. Nice.

The rest of my subjects, expected As. Haha. The only 3 I were worried about achieved reputable standings. I’m proud of myself. Ok. More FFXIII now.

May blog about prawning tomorrow or the day after.

because i can breathe fresh air again… i hope - February 25, 2010

Mm.. the final paper ended somewhat over 6 hours ago.

“I can breathe again and the sun’s rays never felt better shining on me”.  Actual words said right after the paper.

So what now? I ‘unno. There’s the TV shows I’m far behind in, the games I’ve piled up unplayed, the other stuff I need to take care of, the exercise which I need to do.  Ahhhhh, dilema when there’s too much free time. Blehh

Anyway, the last 4 days have been 1 helluva ride. Paper after paper. And here are my final thoughts.

International Finance - Phew. The worst is over and thankfully the parts I read through actually did come out. Here I was thinking that PhuaTeckChong was going to pull another ‘consularinvoice’ over our heads for 10+ marks.

PFP - …… I’ll leave this for last.

FOI - YEAHHHHHH!!!! A pretty predicatble exam. The only unpredicatble thing? That I would confuse my formulaes at the very crucial moment. Bahhh.

Consumer Banking - Uhhhh. I’m pleased. I wouldn’t say it was drop dead easy, neither would I exegerrate and say that it’s exteremly hard. It was managable. The questions were essentially replicas of the tutorials except with a few names and figures changed. Haha. But the prep for this paper was crazy. I was literally on the verge of acting mad.

Back to PFP - Ummm. I tore up my question paper after the exam. I think this says enough?

Yeah. Exam exam go away!!! About 2 weeks till March 12. Hope I don’t fail anything.

because it’s just…. oh i don’t know…. a hell lot more to go? - February 6, 2010

not too far from my previous post, I’ve come back again to make my last post until my exams officially end 25 Feburary. Yes. Just 19 grueling days to go. Seems like a short period? Damn straight it is. I’ve got my notes clogging my table badly now so much so that you can’t locate my keyboard unless you’re right next to it.

In the upcoming 19 days, lotsa things happening.

In 6 more days, I’m going to have my last lecture as a Year 2 student. YES! Can’t wait for it.
In 7 more days, the CNY Eve Reunion Dinner
In 8 more days, CNY Day 1
In 9 more days, CNY Day 2
In 10 more days, CNY Day 3
In 12 more days, French Finals (Can I just say I’m gonna fail this now?)
In 14 more days, CNY Day 7
In 15 more days, CNY Day 8
In 16 more days, PFP Finals
In 17 more days, IF Finals
In 18 more days, FOI Finals
In 19 more days, CBK Finals

In other news, COMMSKILLS2 IS ALMOST OVER!!! Almost. Left with the interview role-play. The summative test today…. I’ve mixed feelings. While I’m glad that whatever I studied did come out, and glad that I actually did finish the paper, I kinda feel empty. Alot of what I’ve studied did not come out in the paper. Okok, given that I studied this for about 2 hours, I should be thankful, but I really put alot of studying and braincells into that Jap/American business culture only to come out for 2 small questions.

Then there’s the minutes. “This is bullshit”, my initial thought when I read the dialogue that was given to us that we were supposed to change to minutes. Alot of the stuff they write is bullshit. So much so that I had much difficulty differentiating from the bullshit and the legit stuff.

Either ways, I finished the thing with about 30seconds to spare while a lot of my friends didn’t. Plus point I guess?

Ahhhh. Holidays are coming, don’t think I’ll see her AT ALL during the holidays and when the class schedules change next sem, wonder if I’ll see her again. Then again, I am thinking of dropping the idea of chasing her after what I read. Yes Al, you guessed it right. :(

Ok. That’s the last post for me. Smallville: Absolutie Justice and I’m off to the books…… then to BFBC2 demo on the PS3. Oh, I preordered it as well. WOOHOO!

because i’m distracted from studying - February 4, 2010

yeah. i’m blogging because i’m overly distracted from writing my exam study notes. …. ah crap. I still have homework to do which I just remembered about. (note: do it after writing this post)

yea. what’s new since my last post?

ummmm…..

Gotten back results for the irritating test I had last saturday. Yeah. An A makes for a celebration doesn’t it? Haha. Combined with my MSTs and my supposed other 10%, I think I’ve more or less secured an A for my coursework component of International Finance.

Got back the FOI project as well. Haha. My group barely scrapped an A at 81. We actually did quite well with above average marks for every section. Ah well, an A’s an A. This should as well bring my coursework of FOI to an A. Yes. 2 subjects to worry less about now. Yup. I said worry less, not ‘need not worry’ because I’ve just taken a look at my IF notes and they are looooooooooooong. I’m gonna need a brain upgrade, the capacity in the current 1 is full.

Ummm. What else. Revision has started all around me. I say that because everyone else around me is doing their revision one way or another already. Me? I’m still dawdling here, watching videos there. Totally un-productive, that’s for sure. I’m still writing my notes that are a mess. Ughh.

Oh. There’s that horrid CommSkills2 summative test the coming Saturday. Bullshit paper I can predict. I’m probably gonna study all the wrong stuff. Why? Becuase I have a set of notes that is as thick as A-Math ringfile. That’s alot of notes to cram into my head for 3 days. Yeah, let’s face it, eveyrone’s probably gonna purge it all out the next day. What’s the point ofmaking people force memorize Communication Etiquette and all that crap?

Let’s talk sensibly here. How many of us are gonna be secretaries? How many of us will be the chairpersons? Not many I presume. Teaching a specific skillset item to a general group is not only a loony waste of time, it’s a waste of resources that could have been invested in say, teaching half the school how to do the tango or something. You know, something practical. They could have forced us to do something more productive, but they make us learn useless crap. Brilliant.

Yea. That’s about all the major stuff coming out in the coming week. My french test is in 2 weeks and I am UBERLY unprepared. Awesome.

ok. I’m going to go. This is the 2nd last blog post before I go on hiatus.

ohhh…. 1 more thing. I’m not going to bite off Lee’s ear because I’m in a good mood due to me obtaining someone’s number. :)

because if the distance between my current and last blog post is not more than 1 month old, this blog is not dead - January 24, 2010

mm. yes. my blog was in danger of being declared dead but NOOO! I returned from all the madness in my career as a student to stop more madness from occurring.

Yes. I’m back to blog, albeit for a while only. Let’s see, quick updates.

-I’ve finished my last 2 projects. Yes. Suck it Cons. Banking and PFP. That’s another 2 careers I don’t ever want to trod into. Not wanting to help the average orange do their banking shit and I never want to help the haplessly overly ambitious mike(s) of the world plan their financials.

-I’ve lived through hell week. Ah yes. Hell week. Don’t think Lee and Saman know about it because I’ve not had the time to talk to either of my time-zone seperated friends. Yes. Hell week went on from 17-23January. Well, technically the events before the 17th had more or less resulted in hell week but what the heck, it’s the overall principal that counts.

So yes. 17-23Jan. I Had 1 project due, 1 test on the 23rd, 1 roleplay(presentation) on the 20th, documents submission on the 21st. Mm. Problem is, the project at the 17th was far from being called completed and it was due on the 22nd. Brilliant. Kudos to my team for slogging with me through this hellish period, although I must commend my own stamina for lasting through the 2-hr/0-hr sleep periods during this time frame. The presentation was a bust because we were ‘too scripted’ when that blardy b*tch had went on about being impressed by a play that was scripted sometime back during class. If you don’t like scripts, don’t even mention it and we would’ve winged it. I know I’m all for winging it cause I wouldn’t have to waste time writing the damn script and getting so pent up over it. The project was completed on the night of the 21st and I had to finish compilation works after my 6-9pm class. Yes. Oui oui to learning french. Submitted it on the 22nd and could never have been happier. For the 1st time in my 2.2 life, I was without a single project. Then again, there was still that looming test on the 23rd which I’d not studied for. And…. to make things worse, due to my poor sleep habits, I had fallen sick. Mm, still sick now. Yea. So I went home after school. Fell asleep. Woke up, felt more sickly. Went back to sleep. Woke up at 8 on the 23rd and TADA!!! I’d not studied 1 bit and all I had was the brief studying which I’d did during lunch/after lunch of the 22nd.

Entered the exam hall, looked at the paper and cursed so badly in my head. I’d studied a chapter that was supposedly supposed to come out and it didn’t come out. Not even a single mention. FUCK was i pissed. Once again, my IF lecturer has lied to us in our faces. As if the whammy during the MSTs that ‘Collection’ and ‘Documentary Credit’ was suppsoedly supposed to come out but didnt. Here they go again?! BULLFUCK!!! Ok. That’s enough anger out of me. The paper wasn’t exactly easy for me either. The dumbf*ck of a setter did a swell job at mixing up the rates somehow and only told us about it halfway through the test when more than half the room had finished that sum. Talk about a combo-breaker. The test was about Future Rates, Forward Rates, Foriegn Currencies and all that numbers and jumping and confusing shit just gave me a migraine as think as a walnut. A WALNUT!

Ok. Rant over.

-I’m sick. Yes. As i’ve mentioned in the previous point, I’m currently ill. So if you’d like to make any, any donation at all to help cure my illness, please make it in SGD and the minimum denomination is a $100 at a go. Thank you & come again.

That’s about all the quick updates I have. Coming up in the following few weeks, I have like 3-4 tests, 4 exams and a jolly 8 week holiday long as I don’t mess up any of my other papers. DING DING!! WE HAVE A WINENR! is what I would say the moment I get back all my project results and they all turn up with the letter A. Yes, I will not be contented with anything other than the letter A. I don’t give a rats ass if the lecturer marks the thing and is supposed to use the bell curve system and only award 1 A. An A is in order for all the hard & qualitywork done.

and I need advice. this is gonna make me sound like a real bastard but what the heck. I kinda have a crush on this girl and I’m not sure what to do about the pent up feelings because the extenuating circumstances make it very very very hard for me to do anything without looking like a total idiot. Think I should ask her for her number first. Hope that’ll go well. Although, I’m pretty sure the conversation will go: “Huh? What do you need it for?” in a mild tone of voice. I think her voice is mild. Yea.

Ok fuck it. I’m going to sleep. Blog readers, do overpopulate the tagboard with 200 comments by my next post or I’ll be sad and be tempted to bite off Lee’s ear.

because Lee had a SAMAN-ing moment - January 5, 2010

inside joke,

[M] Aye’ Sir said:
aye sir.
what’s goin on

3169-L said: (Lee)
im starting to rethink my concept of a perfect life
there’s so much going on in the world yet i’m selfishly trying to do something that would throw the tangent right off

[M] Aye’ Sir said:
umm. you sound like saman.

3169-L said:
oh shit. I just saman-ed myself.
oh fLol

because it’s 2010 and I’m already counting down till 2011. - January 3, 2010

Life sucks. It’s mundane, it’s boring and it’s stress filled. I wonder how the whole concept of stress came into the picture in the 1st place. If man had stuck to the “kill sabertooth tiger, get fur, eat meat” routine, there wouldn’t be need for school, work, stress, suicide, birth control and what ever spangled shit we came up with the last 2,000 years or so.

No, we’ll be mating like chimpanzees in the middle of the wilderness like we were intended to. Screw the dumbass who decided to fuck up the system by coming up with numbers, alphabets, a political system and such.

Ok. Ignore the above crap. I was just ranting.

Right. It’s the new year and I’m gonna start the year by just posting whatever I wanna post without splitting it into multi posts. (Oh and Saman, no Hokkaido pics yet. Far too lazy. My mom has it up on FB though. Just use my account to view it.)

Right. Carrying on.

Music. A entertainment source of mine that has been partly english stuff and japanese stuff the past 2 years or so. I must say, I’m getting bored of that shit. So I decided to pick one band at random on my iTunes and just dedicate days of 2010 just worshipping their greatness. And low and behold, I’ve found the band to worship.

Rise Against. Yeah. Awesome band. 1st song I’ve heard from them? Give It All, from their Siren Song of the Counter Culture album. Brilliant song. Spectecular music video.

I’m not really a fan of the work before Siren Song but I guess it’s better than half the crap I’m listening to daily anyway. Been listening to Re:Education Through Labor the entire day now. Song’s stuck in my head.

Right. I’ve just done music. Next.

Television. Now, a topic which I’m very touchy on because I usually need my 27 hours of TV a week before I declare any other work doable. And in 2010, the #1 show I’m looking forward to is……

Chuck.

Yeah. Heroes, Gossip Girl and Scrubs are there but they’re lacking a lot of what Chuck has. In fact, out of all the shows I’ve watched, the hottest female is still Yvonne Strahovski^.
Chuck’s immensely addictive storyline and comedy content is what drawn me to the show initially and I’m glad all that I loved was with the show the entire past 2 season. Here’s to hoping that Season 3 will be a glorious success and that we get a Season 4.

Ok. With Music and TV done. I’m done. 2 things to do in this new year? Worship Rise Against for godly music and watch Chuck. (buy subway, support Chuck!)

because its moments till 2010 - December 27, 2009

4 more days. 4 more days. Till the end of this wretched year. Woohoooo.

So…. lotsa things have kinda happened since my last post. For one, the exams are over. I’ve returned from Hokkaido. Christmas is over.

I would do individual posts for them but Im still busy finishing up projects.

Right.

because the MSTs are here again. - December 6, 2009

Woohooooo~“

^ what was that all about? nothing. just a brief moment of insanity. yes. i’m going insane from studying. i know i haven’t really studied much but ehhh. hahaha i tried. right after my friday paper, ill be packing up and leaving this burning hell hole. woohooooo.

Monday - FOI
Wednesday - IF
Friday - CBK

breaks in-between will be used wisely.

ok. I’m going to stop ranting now. later.

because it’s THE FINAL STAGE - November 22, 2009

FINAL STAGE!!! 6th Feb. Blahhhh. Too near my exams. Would fly to Japan to watch this though. :D Here’s hoping encorefilms brings this to Singapore as well.