Monday, March 16, 2009

Rollercoaster Luck

Been rather stressed lately but which Singaporean can claim they are feeling relaxed?
Here's my list of complains, pls skip the whole chunk and enjoy the pics at the bottom yeah?

Stupid unfair system at EC*-SM* somehow arrange different weeks for different groups to their presentation. See beh sueh our group is one of the first (some groups have like 3 weeks extra to prepare compared to ours). Very damn squeeze for time to prepare everything. Not to mention this is not the only presentation. Suddenly during our class last week, tutor announced that due to unavailability of rooms in the stupid SP*ING building, our presentation had to be brought forward 1 week. Which of cos leaves only 2 weeks to complete our presentation. As though 3 weeks ain't short enuf already. What is worse: pulling the schedule by 1 week early just happen to coincide with my reservist training. Perfect timing. Not only do we do not have suffcient time to research and do our slides, I now do not have enuf time to practice our speech(that portion carries major pts). Not to mention the first day of BEC clashes with my outprocessing. Haiz.....

Shi* happens in everyday life but the attitulde of the tutor is beginning to get on my nerve. The previous 3 tutor from last semester was not that helpful but they do their part when asked. This current one deserve some of the treatment like that of a recent N*U incident. Except this time, he should be the one to jump off the bridge too.

Signing up for an appropriate CPR course was a 3 day challenge. Dun wanna type it out here. Can take up 1 entry's space. & maybe make me vomit blood again.

My Hard Disk decided to suicide itself on me on Friday night without warning. For those who knows what sort of treasures in my collection will know what sorta impact it caused. Already trying to rush the presentation and this gotta happen. Good things comes in pairs. Bad things knows exponential arithmatics. All I can say is seebeh stressed week. Hadly had any sleep. Was damn cranky at Wednesday class for more reasons than one.

Some relief today:
Made a trip to laoda Runzhou's place for an attempt to salvage my hard drive. It was a SUCCESS!!! Ran to Challenger Tiong Bahru Plaza for another hard disk. Ouch to my wallet but at least it's a load off. A huge load. Now all I gotta do is wait for another month for him to help me extract all the data out. Gotta really treat him and Lili for this. Also damn paiseh to intrude on this couple on a Sunday. They are both learning German now!

Now on to some backlogged photo posting:
My 'Bdae' gathering back in January organised by Joyce. Thanks alot girl, too bad you gotta cancel ur upcoming one due to the NIE workload and nice effort on the home made cake and jelly too. Also gotta thank Shipei for the homemade "chicken graveyard" shepherd pie.

It was a good outing where I can just 'nuah' on the grass and randomly take some B&W pics (Nikon F50, AF 50mm f1.8- Kodak 400TX) while the rest play at the beach. The hip hop dancer opposite us were not too bad either. Oh yeah I forgot to bring out the stupid battery yet again and had to ask Jianyang to get it. Wasted another $10 and now I'm stuck with 2 and I doubt I'll be using the it again soon since the F80 is here.

Taking a pic of a guy taking a pic of his gf....

Lazy breezy afternoon. So relaxed I can feel my bones softening and no it's not osteoporosis.

To me, this shot is reminiscence of a 70s beach scenery. Luv it. At first I thought it would be over exposed. It was quite bright and the F50's max shuttle spd is only 1/2k and I dun wanna stop down beyond F8 for fear of refraction softness.

Yet another effort to spam finish the roll at 'the wave'

Long forgotten swimming complex. Used to freq there when I was in primary sch. The wide angle distortion at the roof is very pronounced but i kinda like the effect.

The children changing/bathing room. All the cubicles are damn small and cute.

Entry toll booth now kept at the basement. Which was kinda an eerie place to be alone. The pic seems bright because of the bounced flash.

HUAT AH!!! yeah I got nothing else better to say.

This year will be a "year of certification" for me. Here are the list of certs I hope to attain by yr end:

1) CPR- BCLS
2) Basic Exercise Course
3) Fitness Instructor Course
4) Aust Sports Trainer
5) Diving ( just for recreation)

Already kicked started physical preparation for hopefully some marathons or fun runs in the second half of the year. Despite a hell of schedule in my life, I will succeed. For I have determination, motivation and finally some goals. 1 of which I know is the strongest but also will have the greatest chance to shoot me back to last yr's level of depression. I must tread carefully and learn from my past.

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