Thursday, May 28, 2009

Closed Chapter

When results was out on monday, you have no idea of the mad circus that goes behind it. I got to know about it when crossbun called me frantically. However, at that time, I was working. I'm indisposed to answer calls.


So what I do was, I secretly text her asking bout her call. Then she told me about the result's out etc. As happy as I was for able to check my result finally, but alas, I was working, hence indisposed. Undeterred by my predicament, I asked her bout her result; was it good? bad? was it better than expected? or was it within her expectation?


And this is her exact reply: "Good.. it was better than i expected! I'm beyond words... ;)



It kinda boost me up hearing that. Firstly, I'm so happy for her because she totally deserved it. Secondly, I hoped her good fortune will rub on me too so that I can get as good result as her. It kinda give me a preparation before I can go home and check the result.



So finally I was home and logged on to the computer. There I was so ecstatic about the whole result thing and BAM! I can't logged on to my uni website portal! Damn!


I've tried logging on to other websites such as Facebook, Email etc. everything else was working fine. So it is definitely my connection problem because my internet connection seems to be in perfectly working order.


Then My girl was calling and asking bout my results and we chatted for awhile. She too was anxious bout my result. She offered to check my result for me but i declined. Simply because I want to be the first to see my own results with my own eyes. I don't know why, but it has been this way since years ago.


After I've seen it, then I don't mind telling others bout my result. I guess I want to keep the suspence for myseld haha! Is it just only me? Or do others feel the same as me?


So there I was trying the whole night to logged on to my uni server with futile result. I tried again the next morning. WTH??!!!! I can't even logged on to the internet because there's no internet connection!!!! It seems that SOMEHOW my telephone line went dead!


Stress! Stress!! Stress!!!! STRESS!!!!!!!


I called up Rachel to see if I can check my result at her place and after lunch, I went over to her BF house. Finally, I was able to check my result. Phew!


What can I say? I am contented with my result. It does not exactly make me feel as though I'm beyond words or anything, but I guess it's within my expectation. Or better yet, it did not fully hit my target but I'm happy nontheless. Really contented. I'm at peace now.



Just as predicted by Mary, everyone seems to get quite good results this time. Almost everyone did well. Some even went beyond it.


All in all, result's out and now we can finally closed this chapter of study+exam in our lives. We should find peace with it, and move on with the next chapter, the working life.


Speak of next chapter, I have an interview set at tomorrow morning. BUT I am so under prepared now. It is so sudden that i only got the news today and I don't have time to prepare anything at all! I have not photocopy anything at all to save my life and I'm running out of time. I still have to work today, so getting everything ready today is out of the question!




I'm so not ready for the working world.




The world is so not ready for me...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Teacher's Day!

Sigh! My CPU is not back yet so I cannot upload any pictures for the time being.... Kinda sad...There's just so many pictures I wanna share with all of you..but then...i guess that gotta wait...


Ehem! Now that I have finally upgrade into higher level, I am officially a tutor! Woohoo!


Hahahaha now, all the students have to call me 'teacher'. Ngek ngek ngek...I am guiding the lower level students in their class work and I'm to test their ability. In fact, I have free reign to grade their performance woohoo!!!!


And the best thing of all, I can reprimand students that are naughty or don't respect me. *rub my hands gleefully*



But then again, aside from teaching those students, I am actually also learning along with them. There are just so many things to learn everyday!


You'll be amazed at what children learns nowadays. It is so much in contrast with what I learn during my time. It is just...different.. The level of proficiency is also different. Children's education standard nowadays are so much higher compared to my time.


It is tough to be kids nowadays. Unless you are born smart, or else die trying. I can see how some children can effortlessly do their work whilst some other children are struggling so hard, that they cry out of frustration and fear.

Yup, in my short span of working days (barely a week) I have already seen two kids cried. It's really sad that they still can't grabs the language even after all the trying and hard work and effort put into it.



At times, I think I salute kids nowadays. It is just not easy being kids. Kids two decades ago were definitely having more freedom and fun than kids today.


However, kids two decades ago do not get to travel to Indonesia & China & Australia under the age of six! Nor do they have at least one "kakak" at home to serve their every needs and wants!


Talk about "ho mia" kids-.-" (ho mia = hokkien for good life)


Oh, and tomorrow I'll be celebrating Teacher's Day! Haha I'll be celebrated as a TEACHER!!! How cool is that? Haha I've sorta celebrate Teacher's Day plenty of times back in primary and secondary school, but as the one being celebrated? This will be my first time hahaha!


So what if Malaysian Government fix May 16 as Teacher's Day? My boss however fix tomorrow for our celebration! Haha My Boss, Ms. Lee, coincidently same surname with me, is gonna hold a feast for all the teachers there. Oklar, to be honest I wasn't expecting big luxurious feast anyway, but the thought of doing "noble" thing and being celebrated for it....Hmm sounds nice.... I wonder, in school where most students were forced to perform or chipped in money to celebrate their teacher, how does the teachers feel? Was it an euphoria kinda thing?


Snoopy lamented what a lucky brat I was for I just started work not long and now I'll be able to join the celebration. Haha, well, I agree I am. Maybe it's a small gift from God because he know I still don't have a real proper job yet. So He send me some 'luck' instead. Whatever it is, I am still grateful for what I have ^^

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dream

Damn! I was having this fantastic dream and wham! the next thing I know, I woke up. Bummer. Why do all dreams end up like this? Why can't I complete my dream? Even after i continue sleeping, this same dream don't continue anymore wuwuwuwuwu....


Usually, I don't really dream in my sleep. Even if I do, I have the vaguest idea about it. Rarely I'll remember the details of it. And this is one of those rare time. Everything was so perfect, of course until I wake up that's it. It's kinda like the Cinderella story kinda dream, but in 21st century setting in Malaysia too ^^


Haha I shall not divulge too much of my dream or else the dream won't come true hehehehehe (pssst, i learned this from Cinderella cartoon).


Sigh, what we can't have in reality we might as well enjoyed it in our dream no?


I wonder, tonight if I sleep earlier, would I be able to continue back my very own Cinderella dream? At least, let me know the ending lar, or continue the flow of the story? Hehehehe and of course, my charming dream hubby!!!!!!!!


Okay, I shall go to sleep now hahahahaha or maybe not cuz it's only mid-noon now....sigh...




Come to me, my dream hubby, come to my dream tonight~~~

Thursday, May 14, 2009

I got a job!

Hahaha don't let my title freak you out. What i really meant to say was that I found a job, a part-time job to be specific. Hahaha really not the real, real 9-5pm kinda job. With my current predicament, it is hard to find real proper job. Yet.


Moi, currently is working as a part-time tutor (err soon to be tutor) at a learning centre. All thanks to Rachel that got me the job easily. I went for the interview this afternoon (which did not take me more than 10 minutes really) and voila! I got the job! *ting!*


In fact, my job starts with immediate affect. i don't even have the chance to tell my mom. Like, how am I supposed to know that when the boss asked me when can I start and my shrug that means anytime and which she really take my word for it and she interpret it as now? Like I will know? Duh!



But then, I am available lar to be fair. Still, it strike me off balanced lor. Kinda surprised of course not to mentioned, I think i kinda overdressed there. Apparently when Rachel says "smart casual" she really mean "casual" -.-"


Oh, did i mentioned that my current employer sounds like some Digimon Monster? Hahaha it has a cool effect but as I read the history, it's actually the founder's surname -.-"
of course I didn't mean that the founder is a Digimon Monster, how can you even think of it? *eyes open big big*




So my first day as a book marker (yet to be upgraded to tutor) brings two revelations:

1) It is trying to sit uppity right straight for the whole day. My spine really hurts now. Stiff and sore. (Can't slouch, cuz its so ugly *-*")

2) Whoever thought that marking books will be that much a challenge? Please don't underestimate it man! My hand are now sore for having to maintain at "certain" position whole day.



On the brighter side, it's quite near my house (10 minutes drive) which i can even drop by home for dinner everyday if I want (which i really did today haha) and I only need to work FOUR days a week!

How cool is that????



The pay is not bad also lar considering it's part time job and short working hours compared to many other jobs. It's relatively quite simple as well and I can practically take leave anytime I want provided I give them notice earlier.


See? Win-win situation for me since i need to take a few days off for my graduation trip. Which real companies that offer real, stable job will allow its employee which is still under probation to take leave so that she can enjoy her graduation trip you tell me?



Aaahhhhhhh, now you get the picture ^^


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On a random thought, even my mom's physician in encouraging me to enter the teaching profession. Unfortunately, moi don't have much patients with kids. Nice, smart and good kids nevermind lar, but naughty and loud ones? Just take a knife and kill me first before i kill them! I really can't stand kids that screams at the top of their lungs which is often misinterpret as crying/wailing whichever you prefer to call it.

It. Is. A. Scream. OK? Just accept it!




Imagine if I enrolled in a school and they give me the lousy class, I wonder who would die first? me or the students??? Hmmm........... *ponder ponder*


I think I die first lar.

Course there's only
me one lone ranger against one whole blardy class of monkeys (if not more) *shudder at the thought*



So I think if I still have options and alternatives, I won't jump to that profession. At least not yet. I need physical and mental preparation which might take time. A long, long time.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

@ Home, @ Peace

I'm all home alone with nothing to do.


Okay, so maybe not really alone, and not really nothing to do...hehe^^


Right after exam's over, my friends and I head up to Penang and spend our weekend there. Haha, I did some calculation for Snoopy and it seems that every TWO months Snoopy will go back Penang once. This is in huge contrast to two years back where he probably only go back to his hometown two to three times A YEAR. Hahahahahaha if last time his gramps would say "Wah very long din come back liao, we miss you la", now the conversation would likely be replace to something like this instead, "Wah, you come back again ar?Very frequent hor?"


Hahahahahaha.......




Due to time constraint, we didn't manage to do much. Poor Ruth, next time we shall spend longer time there and bring you tour every nook and corner of Penang ok^^


Oh ya, this offer is extended to CCSY as well.....Wait til you come back, then we shall have a road trip again^^ We never been to any trip together before....*pout*



Went to Snoopy's friend wedding reception. Quite fun, not too much different from those weddings in Klang lar. But it seems that they always have a small token of appreciation for all the guests present like maybe mini cakes, cupcakes, chocolates etc. While us Klang people don't really have this sort of things. We know how to save money hahahaha!


But then, wedding photos in Penang is really quite reasonable (read: cheap, but in a good way). Their photos are all quite nice and not those "sei pan" (boring & old fashion studio photos). For the same price, in Penang you can get very good quality photos whilst in Klang, you may still get the most basic if not boring photos.


Snoopy's friend's photo are really cool, with many real sceneries such as beach, garden, waterfall etc whereas in Klang we can only get "studio scene" hahaha. True la, in Penang it's easy to access to the above places as compared to Klang la...So they have the advantage.


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Lately, i'm addicted to online game. Yeah call me late, call me outdated, but here I am. Me---> online game. In fact, i was addicted right before my final paper (yeah you guess right, my last paper is doomed) *wailed*


It's not that i don't want to stop, or rather to start later after my exam, it's just that at that particular week, this game just have to came out with a new server! OF course everybody wanna be the first few to play new server right? I mean, come on, there's so many advantages takkan lah I should lose out meh? Double EXP lor.....


Hehehe so here I am, engrossed in my new love, online game. If you must know, I am playing Wonderland : The Curse Palace.... new server---> Sagittarius


I like Wonderland because it is cute and colourful, quite like Maple Story. I like games like these, colorful, fun, cute and cartoon-ish. I don't those so called 3D reality games where the colours are all so dull and depressing! That's why I am not interested in Cabal, unlike Rachel & May *slap on the forehead*



Few years back, I used to rolled my eyes (it's very mind boggling you know!) at NKL, Rachel & May for their addiction to RO (Ragnarok Online). Their addiction were so severe that I'm surprise they managed to pull out somehow. Haha but now, I have official join them as I can understand how they feel back then. Though my addiction is not as severe as them, but nevertheless, I understand how online games can be addictive.


Toodles people, I'm off to go find my new love ^^

Friday, May 8, 2009

A closed chapter of my life

I sat for my final paper today. My finally final finale paper. And thats it. Now my uni life is officially over and i don't have to step into my uni anymore. This a weird feeling im having now.


Mixed feeling.



A part of me is happy that finally everything is over, all the struggles, assignments, cat fights, deadlines and exams...all this are finally over as we are all graduating soon. I don't have to. . . . . . . I don't have to do anything that I always do for the past three years! Wow, what a revelation!



It seems that a chapter in my life is closed, and now I'm about to embark on a new journey to write another chapter of my life. This is kinda scary as after spending years and years of studying, now I'm finally over it and about to venture into working world.


Just like every young people, I always wished I can grow up faster, finish my degree faster and get an employment faster. However, now that the time has finally arrive, I'm not how I thought i would be. I used to think that I shall be ecstatic about being able to finally work and all, but now, I'm not so sure. Suddenly the future ahead seem very uncertain. What am I suppose to do with my life now?



Now, the working world seems very intimidating to me. I do not know if I will be able to fit in. What if I'm the sore one left out? Then again, being able to find a job at this time of economic situation I would count my blessing already. Everyone has been telling me that it's hard to find job out there due to the economic recession.


So how long am I supposed to stay at this stage? Being jobless I mean?


After taking today's paper, I now officially join the category of "Unemployed Graduates". Congratulation!



Oh! By the way, today's paper sucks big time! Well, I mean I suck big time, not the paper. So I don't think I shall fare very well in this paper because I cannot managed to finished it off. And I do mean I cannot manage to finished a BIG PORTION of it off which carry a very SUBSTANTIAL marks with it.



Not only that, today alone i received too many bad news that I think my future will look even more dimmer than as it is now (as if it could but it could) with my CGPA dropping like nobody's business. As hard as I wished that this final results will not damage my CGPA badly, but then,

well I refused to give up hope as well!

Monday, May 4, 2009

What is becoming of me?

After going through three papers last week (with one being worse then the previous one), now i'm officially left with one more paper to go. One more paper that separate me from graduating.


But since my third paper has been a hell to me, i dread to think what this coming paper would be. Probably wrath of God? Oh dear...The third paper was absolutely hell to me because i don't know how to attempt it! It's like, what have i read? Why everything seems like can't be applied in?


In the end, what i do is i crapped my way through the WHOLE freaking paper. I vaguely remember feeling the same thing back in Y1S2 where there's a killer paper and majority scored badly which yours truly was one of them. I remembered i crapped through the whole paper and it gets me a freaking C! Now that i kinda feel deja vu all over again so i think this time im really screwed now.


The fact that i always have to rely on munching something during lectures doesn't help a lot here. Nor is the fact that i'd always space out in his lecture, and at some grand time, i actually have the nerve to sleep during his lecture. Now, with all this antics, how am i supposed to sit for this paper then? Even at those rare time that i actually tried to pay attention in his lecture, i don't understand a single thing that he said!



This is just great! In three days time, i am supposed to sit for a paper that i have absolutely no idea what is it all about. Great!



Not to mentioned that i frolicked my weekends away doing absolutely everything other than studying. I think the evil side of me probably planned it this way. Now my rational side of me is screaming "DOOMSDAY!!!!!!!! That's for not studying as i should be"


Did i mentioned that i went to the MPH warehouse sales twice during the weekends? Hahaha i have a wonderful time there buried with all those books and dusts but i really cannot say the same thing for my bro and Snoopy though. They kinda unsubtle-ly dropping bombs telling me that they are dead bored while i'm enjoying myself, they don't find tombs of books and dust anything near amusing. Oh well, boys!


I even had my FYP printed and sent for hard bound. It bloody cost me RM120!!!! Now i'm so penniless that i don't know what im surviving on. In fact, Mother's Day is near, and my penniless wallet is stretched even further by a wonderful idea from bro and Snoopy. They suggested a wonderful Mother's Day gift that's just so perfect except for the hefting price.
(FYI, it is still rather pricey even after divided by three cuz Snoopy gallantly offered to share as well *wink*)



Sigh, but then we only had one mother, don't we? So how can i scale the value of my dearest mommy with cold hard cash??? So i went to the bank to withdraw money today and we planned to purchase the gift later in the evening.


We'll see how it goes later. In the meantime, i think i gotta hypnotize myself to go read my newly bought romance novels for my coming paper.


GAMBATE EVERYONE WHO IS ABOUT TO SIT THE SAME PAPER AS ME THIS THURSDAY!