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Surprises

Some surprises are good and others, bad. Today we had a pop quiz in my communication history and theories class. The worst thing is I have not done the readings for the week. Bad surprise. I 'tigam' my way through the quiz. And when Dr. D went through the answers, I am surprised that I managed to answer most of the questions correctly. Good surprise. Today was a pretty good day in school anyway. Instead of the usual broadcast journalism class filled with videos of news clips, we had a 'live' (read: huge cameras, bright lights and autocue) forum with the NTU Student's Union. It was quite fun, reminding me of one of those forums with the ministers that was aired on CNA some time ago. Fliming for BJ was quite funny today. We were getting some shots in the school library and captured some of the muggers' attention. I even heard a guy asking another: "Ta men shi zhuo shen me de?" (What are they doing?) "Mass comm de" (Mass comm students la) "NTU you mass comm?" (You mean there is a mass comm course in NTU?) "Han la..." (Yes, or literally where-have-you-been-you-moron? =P) Funny huh. They do not look like first year students to me. To think that our presence in the school is not felt. Hello?! Where do you think you get your Chronicle from? Nanyang Spectrum? Are we marginalised? Just because our school is so far away from the main academic spines? School has been crazy really. Assignments and assignments. I have not set time for revision just as yet. Terrible I know, but for now, I just want to 'relac one corner la'. I have no discipline to study now, not until my assignments are all done. But I think that is too late. =(

Birthday 05

I am finally 21.... Thank you dear friends for organising such a great party! I had real fun and not to mentioned some degree of confusion! The view from Al Dente was fantastic, the delicious food, and lovely friends surrounding me... At that moment, I couldn't help but felt truly lucky and loved =P. I would say that the night out was definitely a good break from all the school work piling up... Actually the morning started out wrong... Haha.. I kept bumping into things and felt very blur. Not to mention the very 'thrilling' chinese media writing session in the morning kept me on my toes and the computer hanging when my group was working in the broadcast journalism clip... Crap, but somehow these incidents did nothing to spoil my day. A green crumpler bag to my name.. Thanks to Becky, Chang, Chitra, Derrick, Gra, Joo, Sharon and Phie... Muacks! Need to thank my dear mummy for planning my celebrations at home. She prepared everything from ordering the cake down to chopping chicken bones to boil the soup for the steamboat. Love ya Mum! Dear ah lian and ding bought me a set of lingerie.. Green too. Thanks to Serene for her Chomel necklace too. Slyvia and mei for the mickey mouse shirt... Ah huiz, dun need to say la. =P Also wanna thank all the people who messaged me. Thanks for remembering. But I am slightly disappointed. No message from a particular person but I am not going to let that bother me. Just wondering if it is really that easy to forget a person. Getting older means getting wiser? Not true for me, I think I am still that restless kid that has too much energy. 'Doesn't act my age' as many people have said... Just cannot believe the fact that if I follow a normal person's route, I'll be married in 6-7 years time. Scary. Let me be forever 21...

A little bit of fresh air

I was typing this entry half way and my Internet Explorer quit working. As I was saying... These 2 weeks had been pretty hectic for me. It is good to know that term break is just around the corner. Now, I am officially the owner of a new currency, a cute-and-generate-instant-laughter photomontage and a broadcast news clip. Not to mention that Darwin, Dewey, Freud and Marx are almost like my friends - I know their lives pretty well now... This week was a high for my T5 mates. Most of them are going away for exchange next semester. Feel really happy for them... It would mean that next semester would not be the same anymore, no more high-tea, no more k-boxing and of course lesser people to do project with. Sharon and I will miss you pals. This is also the time when blogs would come in handy. Derrick - broadcast your blog address la! Chang - start one! (sheesh, it is quite unlikely that they will read this anyway..) Gals - please update your blog okie? Oh well, it will be another 4-5 more months before they leave, but I just want to say that I will miss all of them dearly. Semester break around the corner but I can foresee my self carrying the not-too-small-and-not-too-light DV camera around taking shots of the empty security booth in NTU. Spending hours in the multimedia lab trying to edit the shots and trying to eat in the lab without getting caught. Spending another full day analysing music with Charlene and another 20 hours fulfilling my work requirements. With so many things to do, I would hardly call it a break. The only consolation would perhaps be my not having to wake up at 6am to rush for that early morning lesson and the long-long-long 179 queue. Happy holidays peeps!

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