The one about missing his gf who's in Vietnam

I know this should be a blog post about my recent roadtrip to Ballarat with Calvin, Lynette and Phyllis which was... AWESOME. :) but i'm waiting for work now and i dunno whether i'm in the mood to blog about that.. but it was a great experience and place to visit... that said, i'll post up an update later on today about it maybe... or tomorrow. :)

Right now, i'm honestly dreading work and the day in general... why? maybe becoz it's a full day of work and that means the chance to get scolded by my boss or for me to do sumthing wrong, to not close a deal or to mess up someone's screen protector or sumthing. so many factors that can go wrong... i'm jus praying for a few factors... for instance thanking God that it's raining so hopefully there'll be a drastic drop in the number of customers coming in today. that would be fabulous if there are less people coz that means less serving and more housekeeping like pricing and sorting out the wall of products. :) i dun mind doing that, i just hate that my boss pressures us to make sales and makes a fuss when they walk out of the shop without buying anything.

Praying also that Nat would be around coz that means that it's not just my boss and i but also my 2nd level boss and he's not too concerned with selling... i think it's the pressure that i really dun like... but i'll take it all in my stride and strive to be a better christian worker. :)

Also, i feel quite down now coz Hannah's in Vietnam with her family.. she's on a holiday and that means i can't see her online or stuff. i'm hoping coz she has internet there that she can still email back coz i miss her quite a bit and i am REALLY REALLY trying so hard not to think about 20th Jan coz that's just to far to think about. i gotta take each day slowly and if i dun watch the dates, it'll be 20th jan so quickly.. i pray... then at least i'll be on my way back to spore and then i can see her and hug her again. :( yeh, i'm needy like that... hannah left on the 19th, that's only been 6days [not even a week] and i'm already pinning for going back. :( lolz... will try my best to just keep praying for her safety and our relationship in general whenever i miss her, i bet i'll be a very prayerful man these 2 months. haha.

Yep, so chowing down on my custard almond dessert/breakfast thing now. :) bought from ballarat from 'the best bakery in australia' apparently. hahaha hmm :) but yeh, pics of the trip are on fb... go see. :)

Coz i haven't written poetry in the longest time, let's jus try to whack out one now... just for kicks.

Into God's arms i'll run to,
Because He's the only one that holds true.
The Lord's love wipes away,
All the pain and longing so i can face my day.

God, watch over her and keep her well,
from dangers, hurt and pain none can tell.
Help her to have a good holiday,
So that she can return home safe and okay.

lolz... oki that's enuf. i can't do this with my 'tenth avenue north' playing in the background.

The one about taking the last exam of his uni life... hopefully

So I prepared as best I can and went to take my QM paper today... real bad experience coz i didn't know how to do quite a few... it was harder than the sample papers but sum were quite ok... so i jus did what i could and prayed for grace for the ones i guess/tried and sobbed for the ones i didn't know how to do at all. hahaha.

Sat there the whole duration and was still trying till they said pens down... so i'm glad i didn't waste any effort... of course, not saying that the effort i put in at the end would do any good coz it was jus desperate writings of stuff i knew was already wrong but hoping they'd give pity-marks for workings... or sumthing. hahaha.

But yeh, that concludes my exams. now to party!!!! and settle a TON of other things... syd trip, next year's accommodation and loads of other things. :( lolz.. but first... OCF!

oh.. and thank God hannah arrived home safely. :) always feel it's so cool that people can leave here and arrive in a totally diff country in a few hours time. :)

The one about sitting in the Sun waiting for Davin

so here i am, sitting in the hot hot melbourne sun waiting for my housemate to finish his exams so i can head back together... Today's paper was alrigHt. 30% so i'm not too stressed bout it and i think my answers were pretty alright. :)

Jus glad that i'm 2 exams down and 1 more to go... 1more exam till i end uni life.. Weird though but great feeling when it's all done i'm sure. Worried bout the last one though... QM. :( i hate it with a vengence. :)

Ah! The sun is so hot. :( come out nowwww fasterrr. Haha. Should be anytime soon la...4.15 already. :)

Also, been studying with hannah around and jus spending time with her before she flies back to Spore tml... The next time we're going to meet again is 2 months from today so that's a bummer. Jus thank God for the ability to be with her now . :) she's such a blessing from God I thank Him for. :)

~ Joel Tan ~
--- Sent from my E63 ---

The one about my Professional Issues exam paper

Woo! the first exam paper is done and done... it was real easy... thank God for that and I think i hit the nail on the head on a lot of things... that's Asian memorizing for you aussies!!! :) esp the definitions, i dun see why she won't give me full marks for quite a number of them considering how it's literally word-for-word according to the lecture slides... awesome possum. i'm real glad the studying paid off...

Now, 1 more paper tomorrow [my open book one] and finally the dreaded Quantitative Methods [math] paper on friday then i'll be DONE WITH UNIVERSITY!!! :) awesome... can't frigging wait. :)

Really just want to thank God so much for helping me do this paper with confidence and ease... i'm glad everything i studied came out and for the things i didn't study coz i must have missed it, God helped me recall stuff from during the semester. :) coolio.

The one about testing my mobile blogging thru email

Sorry, this post is just to test if i can blog thru my handphone straight to blogger thru email. :)

If this works, i'm gonna sleep now. Gotta prep for tml's exam. Night people!

~ Joel Tan ~
--- Sent from my E63 ---

The one before I sit for the last few exam papers of my Uni life

It's finally here... the night before my first paper... i have been dreading the exams and at the same time looking forward to getting it done. It's weird coz these 4 days and 3 papers will mark the last few moments of my life as a Uni student and as much as i want the exams to come and go and let me have my fun holidays, i can't believe that at 4.30pm on friday, i would have finished my last official act as a uni student [minus me collecting my results online and graduating in dec]...

But i'm glad i guess that it's gonna be done... at least the exams... i have been studying and studying and i jus want it to get over and done with. esp QM on friday coz that's the last paper... and the paper i'm most worried about... haiz. only God can bring me thru that one. hahaha

Also, helped hannah pack just a bit today... she basically packed while i studied on her bed and then i'd help when i wanted a break from studies.. and she's gonna move tomorrow [thanks to our dear fren calvin who's mel's bf]... he offered to drive her things to and fro from hannah's old place to mel's house [hannah's new place] thank God for friends like him who really go out of their way to help... but yeh... hannah's leaving on thurs back to spore. :( one day before my last paper... TOTAL bummer.. but i'm glad she can go back and spend solid time in singapore with family and friends. :)

Alrite, time to go to sleep. got a paper tomorrow!

The one about Pancakes

I think i'm gonna try to name all my blog posts from now on jus like how they name friend's episodes. haha so funky. helps me keep track too...

Yesterday i had pancakes for breakfast and i think i've mastered the art of making golden brown pancakes. Used to always worry when i flip them over whether they'll be nice and brown or yellow or even worse, blackish... but so far, i've done 8 or so and they've all been beautiful. :P i'd say the key to that is timing [duh], BUTTER not oil.. and low heat... problem is mine isn't fire... so it's a bit hard to figure out what's low heat for an electrica l stove... but i've got it!

thus, i'm making pancakes again this morning coz the pancake mix still haven't finished yet. haha prepping to go to church. it'll be the last sunday hannah and i will worship together in church before she flies back to singapore... that lucky girl. hahaha :)

oops, better go make sure it's ready to flip!

Hannah's Dance Performance 2010

A few of us [Davin, Phyllis, Selena, Jillian and I] went to watch Hannah's end-of-year dance performance last nite and it was so good. :) I'm really just glad that God is giving Hannah talents in not just ballet but in other forms of dance as well. Dance styles such as Contemp and all, she's pulling the moves off really well and i'm really proud of her. She danced so well last nite. There was one part where she had to run 3/4 of the stage to match up with a girl who was running only 1/2 the stage and hannah jus BOLTED to her mark and executed the moves in-sync with the other girl. SO AMAZING... she did so well for that and for so many other things as well. :)

Also, i recognized the part where they danced in 2 diagonal lines. They practiced it during Open Day in Aug... and i remember sitting there in the dance studio watching them rehearse that.. so it was pretty neat. haha... but i was really impressed... the dance was 19mins long... and they were so good. :)

 

Today's Friday... and in a week's time... i'll be taking my LAST exam paper of my uni life [hopefully]... it's weird to think that 2 years have flown by and what awaits me is work till i die or retire... whichever one comes first. :S and on to study now! gotta claim the day and get as much studying done... :) see ya!

Thursday Work

Sigh, i am trying to find joy and enthusiasm about working on thursdays... i guess it's not so much about work but more like how long the work day is and how tiring it'll be.. and possibly also how there'll obviously be chances for the boss to scold me for doing something not to his favour [notice i didn't say doing something wrong but doing something that's not like what HE does... all of us who work with him know that about him, it may not be the right way but if it's not HIS way, it's wrong... and we just gotta work with that]... but yeh, i'm going to face this day as how i always face this day... with prayer for my boss, co-workers, customers and basically anyone I will be meeting on this day... and then CHOOSING to stay positive, not to take things personally and to learn. sigh.

Yesterday was Hannah's first performance for the her end-of-year production and I heard that it was really good... thank God that Auntie Rina's flowers got to her too... was stressed that the delivery man wouldn't be able to find her and stuff. :) haha.. but it's all good. And I'm looking forward to going tonight to see my gf dance her heart out. :)

Yeh, but studying is going too slowly and a part of me is getting stressed that my exams are fast approaching [next tues - fri] but i'm also looking forward to getting them done and done with. :) yep...

Waking up slow

Sigh, told myself to wake up early at 9am today and ended up waking up, smsing the gf, switching off my alarm and going back to sleep. Woke up at 11... as predicted yesterday and wasted 2 hours of possible study time. sigh. i really dun like myself sumtimes. :(

Today's wednesday, i better make the best of it and study hard coz tml i know i'll be too tired after work to put in real good study... so today's kinda a full day of study i don't wanna be wasting away. :) can't wait till next friday though. this semester's exams are so fast i'm so glad. like no exams till 16th then WHAM BAM and i'm done on the 19th... eeps! :)