Life...and other afflictions

The rantings and uninteresting events of my life

Saturday, November 08, 2003

Yay!!! I finally got a mobile! Or Handy, as they call it here. It wasn't such a simple task, as I was to find out.

I went to the O2 shop and handed in all my documents and gave a few signatures and even chose a phone..then the lady told me to come back in an hour...so I did...by which time the shop was like so totally crowded...but I patiently waited, cos well, gonna finally get a phone, right? SO waited and waited...then the lady said, "Sorry, your contract has been rejected by O2" and she said she couldn't give me a reason cos of "Datenschutz" which is I suppose a confidentiality thing in English. But I wasn't satisfied with that answer, so I waited till the shop was less crowded to ask again. Same answer..totally didn't know what could be wrong, but since O2 doesn't want my business, then I decided to go to Vodafone, since their deal seems quite good too and their service is like 1000 times better.

Thank God the contract went through at Vodafone. As expected, the lady serving me there was very friendly and helpful and I chose a gorgeous Sharp phone with camera and high-resolution screen...all for just €49..without GST. At first I was thinking of not getting a phone, but well, that gorgeous phone was just saying "Take me home"! So I have a Sharp GX10i now! Yay! It's supposedly a Vodafone exclusive. I like the idea of a foldable phone...plus, can finally hang things from the antenna!

Haha, okay, so that was my adventure with the handphone today. Now trying to figure out how to cancel my GPRS...hm. Dunno why cannot turn it off! Oh well. Hopefully it'll come to me somehow.

Hey Rach, so glad to hear from you...leave me more messages when you can!

Okay, spent way too long online again. Gonna play with my phone now...ciao!

Friday, November 07, 2003

Weekend's here again..yeah!! But erm, stupid me, I've wasted one whole afternoon online! I don't even think I did anything but chat and read stuff on talkingcock.com! What I was supposed to be doing was researching material for my lesson plan and annotated bibliography! Yikes, where has my self-control gone? My poor CALL partner is in hospital, so I guess our project will be a little delayed. I should study or at least be reading up for next week's lectures, but I can't get down to it.

Collected my visa today! Yay, can go get a handphone tmr! Finally. Don't worry though, I won't become some sms addict too, since I don't have anyone to sms in the first place. Okay definitely have to be more disciplined about net usage man!

But this week's lessons were quite boring...most of them. Some were quite okay, but others were like the ultimate cure for insomnia man!!

Hope next week will be a better one!

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Hmm, supposed to start working on my CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Lesson plan...but as usual, I have no idea where to start. Dun wanna sound whiny, but I'm the totally lost and blur one when it comes to projects and since my partner's sick, I really am quite lost about the whole thing. I have no idea what kind of topics we can choose.

Yeah, I do know you are all having exams...I just wanna believe in something better. Haha an exam-free world! Okay, no need to write lah, only after exams!

Okay, better stop fooling around with my BLOG and actually get work done!
Ciao!

Tuesday, November 04, 2003

Hmm, no comments on my blog for a long time...haha, maybe cos people don't know I'm back...or maybe they've forgotten me already...expected lah. People only remember pretty young things. I only fulfil the young part.

Sigh. Back to school. Tuesday, today, was a long long day. It started with English Lit and ended with English Lit (Lecture and Tutorial). In between there was German Cultural Studies, if that's what the Engl. equivalent is..I think I was totally knocked out by my lack my command or understanding or German or something. I just got lost somewhere during the seminar. Was sitting next to this stupid idiot who kept shaking the chair, so I couldn't sit or write properly! So hot also...but what can we do?

After that, I went to hand in my English Placement test slip at the International Office. Can you believe I waited almost 2 hours for that? I ended up ponning the German Lit lecture for that...sigh, and I wanted to save my 2 ponning sessions for another time, but since I was already waiting, I figured that I may as well wait till I handed it in, since I'd probably have to pon another week to hand it in also. Well, in return, I got a chocolate and some vouchers, so maybe not so bad lah. Still, I should've chosen a better (or worse) lecture to pon, since this one was about imagery, which is a totally central concern to literature!

The Lit tutorial was ok..the guy talked super fast...I have no idea how he does it! TOtally amazed by him. How does he breathe? But he's nice and not boring, so i guess that redeems him. Some tutors are sooo boring and they have no idea. But so far none really like that here lah.

Tomorrow is laundry day! So excited. I'm so addicted to laundry washing cos I love the smell of fresh laundry! I'd wash my clothes more often if I didn't have to pay SGD $6.40 to wash and dry my clothes!

Monday, November 03, 2003

Hi everyone! My IE is kaputt...stupid man. Dunno what's wrong with it. It can't connect to any site at all! Good thing my neighbour sent me Opera, another web browser, or I'd be stuck up the creek without a paddle! Phew. I tried updating and restarting, but neither of that works. I wonder what's wrong with it! Hmm...I don't even know who to ask for help on this...cos I don't know anyone here at all. Help!

Very stressed now...why? Ever since I got internet, I've been spending way more time than necessary on the net...like 6-7 hours at a shot. Not condusive for my studying man...definitely NOT. Well, better use less! Cannot afford to fail out after just 1 semester right?

Oh yes, for those nice people writing me letter, please write "7" with a line across the middle, cos if not the post office people will think you wrote a "1" instead okay? Then I'll take a long time to get your letters!

Okay, time to go...