ありがとの歌

lala first entry in two months. finally decided to log in to my lj accound and start writing a proper entry. (proper? haha i hope so!)

been quite sick for the past week, down with some flu bug that wont go away (dont worry though, its not H1N1, thank goodness). didnt go to work this week (and wont be going the next week too) so its a major stay-in-at-home-and-be-a-otaku. didnt watch as many japanese dramas as i thought i would though, wii caught up and i decided wii's more fun. haha played House of the Dead with my eldest sister and she really liked tt game (all the gore and blood, lol) she didnt expect wii to have such life-like games; she was expecting all mario-karty games. but then again mario kart is fun. oh my im rambling again.

july is coming, oh man, and that means school's gonna start really soon too. two months' worth of holidays just went past can you believe it? :S i can't at least. kaisiang and some of the guys are thinking of planning a taiwan trip this coming july but its really too close to school already, and 7 days seemed kinda long. (i know i know, but taipei is the only place i really want to go so 4 days of taipei should be enough for me.) and at least me and the other nus folks could still come back in time for bidding. i know we could just bring a laptop over, but its just too troublesome i guess. i would really wanna shop so bringing a laptop over is just going to take up my luggage space. haha

oh and mj is dead at 50. i was really shocked and stunned when i saw the news. i think i was stunned for at least one minute. its just tooo sudden already. its just kinda weird now that he's dead. no more new songs from the pop legend, no more world tours, no more mj. its just funny thinking about it. i think that's what death does to the living. even if i dont really know mj personally nor do i listen to his stuff (except for the really really popular and the really really catchy ones like beat it) but yea, i still feel a little sad, just like everyone else (i think)

man, this cough of mine is getting a little irritating. shall go play a little sims for now. take care everyone, and update more okay!

its really embarrassing but i thought it was pretty funny too. gross kind of funny.
i threw up while taking bus 96 out of school today. it was 4pm and usually the buses are not tt packed at that time but alas, somehow the Higher Being behind the heavens wants more people to witness this unglam event. >.<

it actually started in the morning. i woke up with a headache, and i thought, well its just pure lack of sleep so i didnt really care and tried to do my assignment. went to school and was early so i went on to finish my assignment (spent like 2 hours? just getting it done. copying >.<)

went for my LAST lab session for this semester! (it was supposed to be a merry event..but my headache only made me feel miserable.) waited for the viva in charge to ask us some questions, before we could go home. fought the urge to yawn during viva lah, i wanted so badly to yawn in front of the prof.. :S tired. then we went separate ways, me going home and em had to continue to do her group project (our projects due tmr >.<) so i went on to take 96 and saw sister yang. sister's my savior lah. if not for his DFS plastic bag, i think i would have puked on someone and the bus captain will hate me and i will incur the wrath of everyone around me on the bus >.< and the strepsils too, that made me feel slightly better.

sigh.what a day. cant wait for the weekend! long one this week, but it just means more deadlines approaching :(

*edit: my friends page is super interesting. Three different persons in japan, talking abt the same things yet they sound so different. different perspectives :P flame_angel88 , na9ek and holyknight17 , thanks for giving me a chance to reminisce the days i had in japan! :P

hey hey! check this out :D

*gives myself a congratulatory handshake.

i passed my grade 8 exam! but it really wasnt impressive, i just made it to the 100 bar.

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Marking Scheme     Applicant Number:2781169     February - March 2009

Candidate Subject Grade Mark Cat   CHEN  JIADI KARIN PIANO 08 100 P

Marking Scheme Mark Category 130-150 D = Distinction 120-129 M = Merit 100-119 P = Pass 0-99 F = Fail PRE - Present For the Prep Test and Performance Assessment marks are not awarded. Instead, constructive comments are written by the examiner onto the certificate that each candidate receives at the end of the assessment.

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sigh..disappointing, but at least i passed.

i can be a qualified (grade 1 to 5) piano teacher now! :D

gah. i think i screwed up the most important exam (or at least the most meaningful one) in my life :(

*praying hard that it wasnt not as bad as i thought it was.

just a short entry for this, hmm, semester. haha i realise my blogging is so inconsistent (and my entries are often incoherent too :X)

year two semester two has been..hell of a ride so far. one less module compared to the previous semesters but i feel so much more stressed. reason being out of the 5 modules im taking, 4 has project work. and the other module is chem eng lab 1 which means report writing with my lab partners which also translates to more staying-back after school to complete lab report. emily is my lab partner though (cheers and hurray cos our surnames start with ch :D) and we are trying to minimise the time spent on lab reports because projects are just pain in the a**.

i have wonderful project group members too. so even though project work sucks, we always try to get certain things done. haha partly cos they are due soon i guess.

ehh sorry for sounding so inconsistent. hahaha my train of thought is so warped these days. maybe its short-circuited somewhere in my brain.

my list of to-dos this week:

1. CN2125 project outline on friday to be completed
2. CN3124 WHOLE matlab program to be completed this tuesday
3. CN2116 presentation to be finished up this week with the prototype
4. EG2401 project outline done!
5. CN2108 lab session this week. jiayou emily! we can do it! :D
6. my 5 hours of CN3124 webcast. O.M.G
7. 3 tutorials to complete
8. CN2125 Assignment 1 done!

my list of to-dos every week from now:

1. practise piano. my grade 8 exam on 10 march 2009. O.M.G
2. 3 tutorials every week T.T
3. mid term tests are coming.

jiayou everyone! and hope you guys had a great valentine's day/weekend.
haha i had a good one this year :)

DEAREST Angelina Ponyo Hon-Jackman Xiao Qiao the Comm,
I, Normal Being of SACO, wish to take this opportunity to say SORRY! to Comm Hon for forgetting to sms/email you on your birthday. (hotmail refuses to let me log in now.. was hoping to use the SACO yahoo groups mail to email you but i thought maybe a public apology would be more sincere). sorry! i just don't know how and why it didn't occur to me that it was your birthday already, although i have always remembered your birth date. FORGIVE ME PLEASE! and demote me/ put me on probation/suspension. whatever that make you happy, but please, forgive me for being so late! but nothing will stop me from wishing you a HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY! it's still your birthday week so may many good things come your way and have a great year ahead!

SORRY FOR BEING ONE OF THE WORST-BEHAVING MEMBER IN SACO. :(

Yours,
jiadi

* being singaporeans, we shld be multi-cultural and multi-lingual (haha maybe not ><) so here are the translations for the above message.

in CHINESE:

亲爱的潘主席，
我，萨酷普通人民，希望能借此机会向您说声对不起！我忘了在您的生日当天寄电邮给您，对不起！（暂时还不能联上我的热邮。。。其实希望能通过电邮说声对不起，但是又觉得在这里说对不起比较有诚意）我真的不知道为何会忘了是您的生日，因为我记得啊！请原谅我！您可以让我降级，做什么都可以，只要您开心就好！希望您有个愉快的二十一岁生日，天天开心，事事顺利，鸿运当头，过一个即快乐又美好的一年！
真得很抱歉，我真是个差劲的会友！

佳蒂上


in MALAY:

Angelina Yang YANG DISAYANGI Ponyo Hon-Jackman Xiao Qiao Comm,
Saya, Normal Being SACO, diharap ambil peluang untuk mengatakan SORRY! kepada Comm Hon untuk terlupa untuk sms / emel anda pada hari jadi anda. (Hotmail sampah sarap untuk menyewakan saya log masuk kini.. sedang berharap mengunakan SACO mel kumpulan kasar untuk emel anda tetapi saya kemungkinan pemikiran satu meminta maaf secara terbuka akan lebih ikhlas). kesal! saya baru sahaja tidak tahu hendak dan mengapa ia tidak terlintas di fikiran saya bahawa ia adalah hari jadi anda telah, walaupun saya telah selalu diingati tarikh kelahiran anda. MEMAAFKAN SAYA SILA! dan menurunkan pangkat saya / meletakkan saya dalam percubaan / penggantungan. sebarang rekaan anda gembira, hanya sila, maafkan saya kerana menjadi begitu lambat! tetapi tiada akan berhenti saya daripada berharap anda satu HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY! ia adalah masih hari jadi anda minggu supaya mungkin beribu-ribu perkara-perkara baik datang cara saudara dan mempunyai satu tahun yang hebat dahulu!

KESAL KERANA MEWUJUDKAN SATU DARIPADA ANGGOTA WORST BEHAVING DI SACO.

Jiadi


in INDIAN:
BOOO i can't find. :(


and since you know japanese:

最も貴重なAngelina Ponyo Hon-JackmanシャオQiao Comm、

I、残念言うこの機会を取ることをSACOの正常なあること、願い! smsへ忘れていることのためのComm Honにまたはあなたの誕生日の電子メールを送りなさい。 (hotmailは私が今ログオンすることを可能にすることを断る。 私は電子メールを送るのにSACO Yahooのグループ郵便を使用するように望んでいたが、多分公共の謝罪がより誠実であることを考えた) 私は私があなたの生年月日を常に覚えていたあることがが既にあなたの誕生日だったことそれが私になぜ起こらなかったかいかに、そして知らない。 私を許しなさい! そして私の置く試験期間に私を階級を下げなさい。 それが幸せ作るが、喜ばすものは何でも、とても遅いがあることのための私を許しなさい! しかし何も幸せな第21誕生日を望むことから私を停止しない! それは今でもあなたの誕生日週従って多くのよい事あなたの方法来、過す前方のすばらしい年をかもしれない!

SACOのWORST-BEHAVINGのメンバーの1があることのために残念。

Jiadi

and french:

PLUS CHER Angelina Ponyo Hon-Jackman Xiao Qiao la COMM.,

I, devoir normal de SACO, souhait saisir cette occasion de dire DÉSOLÉ ! à COMM. Hon pour oublier aux sms/envoyez-vous sur votre anniversaire. (le hotmail refuse de me laisser ouvrir une session maintenant. J'espérais employer le courrier de groupes de SACO yahoo pour vous envoyer mais j'ai pensé que peut-être des excuses publiques seraient plus sincères) Je ne sais pas comment et pourquoi elles ne se sont pas produites à moi qu'elles étaient votre anniversaire déjà, bien que je me sois toujours rappelé votre date de naissance. SVP PARDONNEZ-MOI ! et rétrogradez-moi me mettent sur l'épreuve. celui que cela te fassent heureux, mais satisfassent, pardonnez-moi pour être si en retard ! mais rien ne m'arrêtera de te souhaiter un JOYEUX 21ème ANNIVERSAIRE ! c'est toujours votre semaine d'anniversaire ainsi peut beaucoup de bonnes choses viennent à votre rencontre et ont une grande année à venir !

DÉSOLÉ POUR ÊTRE UN DU MEMBRE DE WORST-BEHAVING DANS SACO.

Jiadi

***Above translations thanks to Yahoo Babel Fish and Citcat. Please pardon all inaccuracies!
 

made that painful decision. not taking LAJ1201 this semester anymore :(

i love hana yori dango. watching the korean version just made my heart flutter. im still a young girl at heart. woohoo!
*wants badly to re-watch the japanese one too.

stay-in day with womanly woes :(

BACK FROM JAPAN! :D

the trip sure was fun! saw real snow when it started snowing heavily on the way to Nagoya, went up Mt Fuji, saw the harajuku girls, saw ayumi hamasaki's van for the second time, did many crazy things with my sisters and so much more! the trip certainly deserves a 10 page entry or smth - but somehow i lost the mood, the energy, the interest to blog abt such stuff anymore :(

more like im getting lazy but doing these things really require quite a bit of energy (and time of course). but still, im going to upload some pictures i took while on the trip and try, at least, to write down the interesting things that took place during the trip and i know i will be thankful for this in time to come :)

( JAPAN! )( JAPAN! )


 </div>TO BE CONTINUED! *off to meet james and yy for dinner!

been lazing in front of my computer more often than not, in fact. (kailing and yat, i didn't disappear okay!) but let's meet up soon anyway :D

hahah been selected as a calefare for the mediacorp production in nus on the 16th of december! oh my, i will be seeing tay ping hui and rui-en! even though it's hell early (8am in school, oh my goodness) and we are unpaid (talk abt cheap labour) but i see a few familiar names in the email! so i hope i wont be too lonely there (going to lectures without my friends...how lonely.. >.<)

didnt see any virra names though, oh no, i hope they sent a separate email cos i heard mediacorp wanted 100 volunteers..i see less than 50 names in the mail! shall go around asking.

i think the newspaper publishers hire really bad weather forecasters, cos they said it shld be quite cold in the coming days (after one very cold monday). quite the contrary now, its really warm ><

quite bored now, can't wait for my drama downloads to be done! watched narnia (prince caspian) the extended version on monday, not too bad! the show reminded me of lord of the rings, thinking of watching the trilogy all over again :D i really liked the first installment, i think its the best out of the three. at least frodo looked least emo then, hahaha

how's everyone doing this holidays? :)

*does a triple somersault and throws confetti around

EXAMS FINALLY OVER! 
YAYYNESS TO THE COMING WEEKS OF JOY (abt 19 days before results day. blah)

and congratulations everyone! for surviving the exams! woohoo!

saturday kbox with some of the 4e7 folks and
sunday breakfast! with SACO yishun branch xD

exams are starting tomorrow, can't help but feel a little jittery. i can feel the butterflies forming and flying around now... BLEH. i felt that i was alot more prepared than the last time but somehow i couldnt ease the sense of uneasiness.

doesn't help when i can't focus for long either.

my exam schedule:
CN2121 THERMODYNAMICS! TOMORROW! 1pm to 3.30pm
EC2102 MACROECONS!! the day after, 25th of Nov, 9am. you can say its the least prepared :(
CN2122 FLUIDS!!!♫ 26th of Nov, 5pm to 7.30pm

you will probably see me online after the 26th! cos it will be a few days' wait before the next paper starts:
JS1101E japanese studies ♥ on the 1st of december. its really difficult to score in this paper though..
LSM1401 biochemistry. negative-marking,pain :( on the 2nd of december!
CM1501 Organic chemistry. tons of memory work to come, another pain. on the 3rd of december!


but anyway it's raining now! i wonder how it feels to be standing under the rain now. the rain is really really heavy, plus there's strong wind. took interest in the weather since last week, cos i kept looking out of the window once in a while. it rained like this for three whole days last week! the reservoirs must be quite full now, hahaha. good for singapore!

i secretly wish i dont have to study at all and still get my A's. hahaha

games included:

Bridge! our all time favourite even though i really hated james for taking so long to "warm up". >.<
mahjong! i didnt really play it (but it would lead on to our next game)
mahjong jenga~ first of its kind. hahaha and its really alot more challenging than the original one, since the way we stacked the tiles is the way egytians built their pyramids. but pure fun, really.
the home-coming contest! mr home-coming goes to yours truly. :D
lots of chatting, photo taking.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2! even though we neglected the tv soon enough for mahjong, food and talk. hahaha


THANK YOU HOST XUEMIN, CO-HOST CUM MISS HOME-COMING LEE WEIQI, BEST EFFORT(S) AWARDEE SOOK, YENNEY, YEAN, JAMES, WARREN, ERIC AND KAISIANG! :)

let's have another theme party this coming holidays! :D
and remember our chalet okay! 20th 21st and the 22nd of DECEMBER~

i'm bored at home :(

i didnt really want to dedicate the entry to anybody but special mention to jie-mei-turned-caveman kevin for his series of unfortunate events. hahaha. a short-circuited macbook pro, a spoilt handphone and a broken-down bus to complete the week. life's got its ups and downs so consider yourself lucky that your down is only THIS. *you can watch pursuit of happyness to feel better. Not being able to watch House/Ugly Betty/Heroes/Gossip Girl is nothing compared to Will smith in that show. hahaha i shall not rub more salt into wound (you probably cant watch pursuit of happyness as much as you want now. there's no comp. >.<)

i was on the 95 when it broke down :S waited for the next 95 and it was packed. and so was the next. so kevin decided to cab down to orchard and omg the uncle was so hostile over the 50c ERP! (if only i insisted on taking 96 with calvin..BLEH. its not everyday i see calvin in nus lah)

ohh and to FELILI! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR EXAMSSS! :) you and i both know you can do it! yea!

i shall spend the coming weekend practising appegios. hahaha

sigh. 19 more days to go. *counting down!

my favourite food + my favourite cake + my favourite people = memorable day!

went to watch fireworks last night at marina bay. the fireworks were great! (so was the company :P) the photos i took just dont do them justice so i guess i wont be posting them up :( i wish there could be a printer that zaps the images in your mind!

i have to say, even though i wasnt watching the beijing olympics closing ceremony live, the fireworks tonight in beijing were far more exceptional than the ones i saw last night. fireworks are just such pretty things. (they pollute the environment though. but what's a celebration without fireworks?)

but still, fireworks look best when you are there to watch it live. the lights just seemed to be within reach, its so so close. spectacular!

sigh back to reality. the weekend always passes so quickly :(

and i took a picture (my FIRST PICTURE!) with mrs ang! haha damn 失败 right, councilor for 1 year and hwachongian for 2 years and i didnt take a single photo with her >< thank you siqi for the photo!