busy week

i thought i can just work for the remaining few days or so in a relaxed mood, but sad to say my wish did not come true.. ever since shirley left, i need to help serena to consolidate the GST data which used to be shirley's job.. finally yesterday,IT person got me a laptop... and there i was, sitting in front of the laptop copy and paste, copy and paste....... on and on = this is my first assignment. The next 2 assignments are given by my supervisor 1) photocopy all expenses reports of 8 expatriates (i think this will take me at least 3-4 days) 2) consolidate all 2006 invoices that are going to be paid in 2007 in excel spreadsheet. Haiz... so sad right... before that i was like so free, and now i'm left with only 6 days to complete 3 assignments... now i hardly talk at all, and i strained my eyes too much that they turn red already!
At least my thai boss is kind enough to drop by our room and chit chat with us for a while.. he always like to ask me "Yi Lin! How are you today?" What am i suppose to say?! and so i always replied him "Okay loh" in actual fact the answer is "not very good" anyway i doubt he knows that i had so many things to do.. i was quite glad that i had such a good boss who is far better than the supervisor, who is willing to interact with his employees and he seems more like a friend, i think shirley & serena will agree with me =)

Last sunday went to jessica's 21st bday party. wow she's a rich girl lei, 3 storey bungalow and 2 cars somemore... wow wow!!! it was quite fun and her relatives are so funny.. but the heavy rain makes us tired cos we had to walk quite a long way in from the bus stop ( you know rich people drive car)

Results out on 26dec : post- christmas gift from nus haha.. hopefully i can do well this time...

i dont want to organise outing liao

After i told them to reply my sms asap instead of letting me waiting in vain for their reply... This time round, they really did reply very quickly especially sebas & jiahui.. haha.. But, this time the planning of outing goes haywire again... my goodness, i've been wasting so many sms.. maybe we are just not fated to have an outing =( but hopefully we can still meet up to go to minds cafe next week..

12 Dec, huifen, huili & i met up for a supposedly planned steamboat dinner, but the rain spoil our mood + huili said 3 people eat steamboat not very worth it and so we changed our plans to have dinner at marina square, cafe cartel. erhem, huili & i spent quite some time to walk from bugis to marina sq cos we want to save some transport fee. Anyway we reached marina sq finally, settled down and start eating.. huili & i were looking for the cheapest main dish on the menu... hahah.. after that we had cakes but when we were going to pay the bill, we then realised that cakes were no longer half price after 9pm... and so we each spent almost $20 for dinner. but overall, the time we spent together is very worthwhile =)

today, i get 1 whole day pay without having to work! Shocked!!! i was shock too... the company is celebrating high sales order achieved this year and so the whole company went to Changi Village Hotel to celebrate... No work today!!! hahah... i'm lucky that my boss allows me to go and still being paid. End up their celebration is almost 3 hours of meeting and 3 hours of friendly bowling competition. The remaining 2 hours are spent eating breakfast, tea break and lunch. my boss keep persuading me to join in the bowling competiton.. no way! i dont even know how to bowl and may end up causing the team to lose and furthermore i dont want to embarass myself.. haha.. i dont know what's the result as i left early

Irritated

All this while, i volunteer to help coordinates outings for friends but sometimes people tend to take things for granted. Sms-ing is the quickest way to pass a message, but still people take a long time, up to half a day to reply a 'Yes' or a 'No'. i couldn't take this kind of attitude anymore and decided to say this out loud and give them a good scolding...

It just happened today.... we're planning to celebrate xinhui's belated birthday, venue is settler's cafe. And of course, the birthday girl has to be free if not this outing will be meaningless. xinhui has to work and can only let me know when she will be free the day before, and she only inform me today afternoon. As her FOC secretary, i sms them and only 2 reply; until 10 pm still no reply from the rest. It makes me so so irritated, and this has not happened for the first time. previously i will sms them again thinking that they did not received my sms, and only until i met them, then i know that they had actually received it, just that they had not made up their mind yet!!! This is utterly irritating. i volunteer to help coordinate, but u guys just did not cooporate.. coordinating a outing is not an easy task especially when it involves more than 5 people. Now that i had said this out, i hope next time such things wont happen again! =)
{it's sometimes best to say it out loud instead of building up the anger inside without anyone knowing it}

Putting aside these unhappy things, i should say some other happy things. i went back to schlumberger to work again on thursday.. so happy to see shirley and serena again.. they still look the same.. angie, my supervisor was on leave for 2 days and yeah, it's gossip time for us threesome again.. when i start work the 1st day, our dept financial controller(boss), Bert treat us for lunch. We suggested going to changi airport to eat sakae sushi, but i guess my boss doesn't really like jap food (he's a thai) and so we ended up eating thai food, Sukhot Thai Express @ changi airport. He was really generous, guess he earns too much $$$ already... haha.. and so lunch including ice-creams for 4 of us costs a total of $107. Lunch takes for then 1 hour, and yet our boss doesn't seem like he wants to go back to work at all.. and he keeps asking serena if she wants to buy anything.. and what's more, there's a huge xmas tree at the airport, and he took photos for us threesome.. but he does not have good photographic skills, the photos are blur! (upload it when i get the photos)
feeling abit sad when i knew that 19dec is shirley's last day, she's going be HDB taitai, taking care of her daughter. i'll definitely miss her especially her laughter, it's contagious... i should get something for her, but what should i buy for her?(she's moving in to her new home in Jan)

{when i saw *** blog and learnt that *** is so closed to ---, i have mixed feelings... i dont know why }

The end of the semester

Yeah... finish my exams yesterday. But it was a total disaster. Sigh... The financial maths paper was do-able, similar to tutorial questions but if I was given another 1 hour, I would be able to finish it!!! I doubt anyone can finish the paper cos there was just too many calculations and all the time we were just punching the calculator for the answer.. On the other hand, the quality control paper was not as bad as the previous papers BUT we were unsure of the way we work out the answer. And when we compare each other answers, we had different types of answers. But what's done is done, I've did my best and hope that this time my CAP can improve.

That day at the volunteer tea, it was held at nussu suntec guild house.. Wow, guess the membership should be quite expensive.. activity they plan is ...... making noise by beating different instruments... my goodness! "noise pollution" lasted for 1 hour plus. It wasn't enjoyable(for me), i couldn't stand all the noise. but after that is eating time!!! yeah... We've waited for so long and our stomach were playing drums already ...fried beehoon, fried chicken wings, spring rolls, satay, money bag... Yummy =p Hey people, anyone able to eat chicken wings with only the fork??? Ok, I wasn't able to do that and of course I use my hands. and YH commented the way I eat and compare me with jiahui who is able to eat in a more ladylike manner by using fork... Fineeeee... this is ME ok..

After that is lucky draw, I won an organiser. almost everyone win something except for a few.. those who did not get anything were invited up to the stage. jiahui, huimin and phuihoon thinking that they may get a consolation price but haha.. they ended up being supporting actresses. A 19-year old boy who also did not win any price was asked to think of 3 ways to ask the 3 supporting actresses for marriage.. and of course they were so embarrassed... but overall it was a fun event.

And now is time to start planning for eating-gathering with huili, huifen and hopefully ying. hmm, Steamboat buffet we saw at the bugis and what else??? suggestions anyone? yum yum =p
cheers~

Finally back

It has been almost 3 weeks since I last blogged. Just mange to finish my first project and my laptop decided to rest!!! And according to the IT person, I have to wait for about 2 to 3 weeks for the hard disk to arrive. No choice but to wait... so I had to spend my time in stats lab completing my final codes project. Hmm... spend 2 full days in the lab, never get to see the sun set when going home.. so sad =( But our hard work paid off, we got full marks for the project. Yeah! During these weeks without a laptop is also a good thing.. I dutifully finish all my tutorials and assignments and also started revision for my exams early this time..

This coming saturday will be having Volunteer Appreciation Tea.. It's going to be fun, I hope..

Good luck to all my friends! =)

More codes to come

As planned, we went to Yum Cha this morning; reached there at 9:10am. Guess what!? We are 2nd in the queue waiting for tables and the queue is getting longer and longer... I've being there quite a few times, and this is the first time I saw such long queue. Maybe, tomorrow is public holiday and these people had taken time off to go there to have dim sum for breakfast. More shocking things happen after that... the waitresses were too busy to serve us that, people starts to self-service in a very kiasu manner. People were waiting at the kitchen door for the dim sum, and once the food are just pushed out, the next minute the food are gone! hahaha... that is how horrible it is today. And of course, those who are slow, will not be able to get the food they want. Since we undergrads are unable to compete with those aunties, we lose out. Everytime we join the crowd to wait at the kitchen door, we came back with only 1 or 2 plates. And of course, a few of the customers complaint; since we are paying for the service, why do we have to self-service?

Had a terrible time working out the codes for financial math module. Another project coming up! Codes again! And now this is for QC module.. and we have to run a total of 45000 iterations for simulations.. According to the lecturer's demo, his 10 iterations took up 5 minutes. Now I understand why he says group members have to take turns to stare at the computer!

I guess after all this programming codes and thousands of iterations, I will become expert in computing.. haha Hopefully, I will not have crossed eyes... X)

On the Go - eating and project-ing

I just have to blame myself for all the last minute work, and now... I need more time! Someone please help me. Among all these tortures in finishing my projects, I still manage to squeezzze some of my time to enjoy myself. hehe =)

Thanks to Dora, I'm going to Chinatown Yum Cha for the 3rd time! They were so excited when they heard about this breakfast dim sum buffet which is only abt $13plus per person and is very worth it. And yes, we are going there this coming monday!(before they close for renovation til 18Nov)
Before that, we were planning to go to Chomp Chomp for dinner cos Dora has never gone there before and the next minute they discard the plan and decided to go Settler's Cafe instead.. haha. And now it is because of me, since I have not gone there yet! My group of stats friends are just so funny... we can get soooo excited about food.

Yeah! 2 public holidays are coming up.. Suppose to go Gelare with my RWM friends this coming tues but just realised that no half-price waffle promotion on a public holiday! But.. almost everyone's not free except for a few of us.. No fun =( Hopefully xh can make it.(cross my fingers X)

Anyone heard of VBA.. I need help! Have learnt so many different programming codes but this is the worst i guess. Imagine, writing codes for a finance mathematical formula.. faint...

Ok that's all.. wish me luck for my projects!

The Launch

Hi everyone! It has taken me quite a while to decide whether or not to start a blog. The main reason why this blog is created is due to the fact that this year 0607 will be my last year of study in NUS. Soon i'll be starting my worklife which means there will be no fun, no play and of course no time to blog. haha...

My 21st year in life has been really fulfilling. I get to know more friends in school and spending more time outside instead of cooping myself at home with my sister and cousin(speaking of my cousin... makes me faint!) =)

To begin with, I post the result of a personality test I did many weeks ago. Some parts are quite true while some have overestimated my traits. Anyway these results are for fun or maybe is to point out some characteristics of mine that are waiting for me to discover.

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.
Your views on education:
Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.
The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.
How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.
What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.
Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve

Interested can visit http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx to try the test.