If this works, i'm gonna sleep now. Gotta prep for tml's exam. Night people!
~ Joel Tan ~
--- Sent from my E63 ---
If this works, i'm gonna sleep now. Gotta prep for tml's exam. Night people!
~ Joel Tan ~
--- Sent from my E63 ---
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!
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!
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!
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...
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! :)
Taken from http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1061663787330_2003/08/26/pieface.jpgWith a free coffee and free mini pie, i begin week 7 of the last semester of schooling [of possibly my life]... it's weird to think that in a few months time, i'd have graduated [hopefully] and entering the workforce. :( i'm not looking forward to ending my schooling life i'll be dead honest with u and i'm more looking forward to a new change in life but not looking forward to the need to self sustain myself. :(
Talking about self sustaining, this marks my 3rd week working at Vict Market Comm. I'm glad that i've got a good patient boss and i've been working enuf hours to pay for expenditure and even rental if i wanted to... i got $275 last week and will prob be averaging $260 a week with taxes and all. that still leaves me bout $80 per week extra after paying rent for expenditure and that's more than enuf. :) so right now, i technically can afford to stay in melbourne.
which brings me to my next point. I am considering the idea of getting a PR here. i know i've been throwing the idea back and forth but i suppose there IS an option of working part time while i wait for my PR and seek full time employment. considering how i'm only working 3 weekdays a week now and i have enuf to survive, i could work a 2nd job and have MORE than enuf to survive... so that's a real possibility now... and that's considering rental in the city itself where rent is about $200/wk. :) so it's not a closed door to stay here.
I just want to take this time once again to thank God for the blessings He's given me the past few weeks... with this job and all... i really am glad for it coz it's weekdays and it's mornings. so that still gives me time at night to do work and spend time at home... and the weekends to go to church and spend time with friends and hannah. I think it's just awesome how God has blessed me with this 'relatively' easy job and yet allow me the foresight to consider this option for my future plans... and of course for a good boss that is willing to employ me now and after dec.
School work has been good too. with the added time i have on the weekends [coz i try to go church on sat evenings so i have the whole of sunday to do work] i've been keeping up on the workload and making sure i complete weekly assignments and deliverables earlier than necessary so i have more time to do anything i might have forgotten or came up last minute. :)
Had a moment yesterday that I really did miss the YF and the youth... i went thru some photos on FB and it made my heart long to fellowship with everyone again. It pained me and disappointed me a bit too about how my future plans might no longer include ministry in Singapore [at least for the near future] and that kinda made me re-think whether i wanna be here or back in Singapore where i can continue the ministry for the shalom youth who always have a HUGE place in my heart and mind... but i guess i'm glad that the YF is currently in good hands and God is always providing for them. :) sets my heart at ease.
Also, lastly, thank God for 29 solid years of ministry that Shalom has enjoyed. they celebrated their 29th anniversary yesterday and i was just glad to see how God is continually giving them/us blessings and providence. :) i miss my church. :( haha.
with that, i should stop coz i dun normally like to think too much about singapore lest i start missing everyone. :)
Take care peeps.