June 2005 Archives

- announcement -

I have gotten my first class honours in economics, all glory to the Lord our God! :)

Few will actually realise that my final semester was a make-or-break case for me. While most final year students spent their final semesters rest assured of their class of honours, I spent mine battling the odds of an Honours Thesis and my remaining modules, trying my hardest to achieve my best grade for each of them, impossible though it seemed throughout the semester itself.

All I wanted was to maintain a 4.5 CAP and score an A- for my thesis, the requirements of a First Class Honours at NUS. But it wasn't as easy as it sounds. I was working at a rather difficult Level 4000 module and also working (enjoying myself a lot nevertheless!) at a heavy-workload USP Course-Based module (CBM), on top of my thesis workload.

To cut a long story short, any mishap (less than an A- final grade) to any of the modules I was doing would cause me to lose my hard work and determination of the previous 7 semesters of my university undergrad career, and dash my dreams of a first class, all in one semester. Picture yourself in my shoes: it would have been a devastating blow, to say the least.

But God has proven once again to be miraculous and He has once again shown me that He is taking care of me every step of the way. I don't know what I would be writing here if I didn't get my first class honours, but I do know that without the Lord, I would not get my first class at all! How do I know the Lord miraculously intervened? Well, for 3 reasons:

1) I pushed my average CAP to 4.56 instead of the 4.5 I needed.
2) I got a perfect CAP of 5 this final semester, something that I have never ever dared to dream about in all my 8 semesters in NUS.
3) I got an A for my Honours Thesis (one grade higher than the A- that I needed) and also got an A for the very difficult Level 4000 module that I was battling with. To top that off, I got an A+ for my USP CBM, which I really really enjoyed taking.

So what else can I say? My dream came through, erased the pain from my JC years which I still felt even after graduation, and made me feel more worthwhile. Such joy and personal self-satisfaction I have never ever felt in such a long time.

Thank You Lord. I wouldn't know what I would have done without You.

haven't been blogging for some time, not because nothing has happened in my life, but rather, the things just pass me by and moments to blog just pass as well ...

was down with a bad bout of illness after i came back from sentosa, a full package with mouth ulcers, sorethroat, cough and high fever of 39.4 degrees ... so was sick for 2 whole days before antibiotics and fever medicine from the doctor left me a lot better ... now all that remains is slight mouth pain (can still feel my tooth even if my mouth is closed) and cough ...

so you can understand why i didn't feel like blogging lately, but there's something i must write about, something like a dream come true to me ... i've tossed and played around with the idea of blogging it, but didn't want to make it sound like some self-conceited proclamation or anything, but i feel that God should get His proper acknowledgement here, so do check out the next short entry to find out more!

just a quick check in from sentosa, where i am having my makeshift holiday =p been having fun though all of us have been sick in one way or another on this trip ... it's a blast and wish i could extend our stay for one more night man :)

we're checking out tomorrow from the Costa Sands Resort (extremely good deal for accomodation - only $50 per hut (note: not per person) per night in not-at-all lavish surroundings but nonethless a cosy little air-conditioned hut which i love) and i finally have access to the internet along the beach at the Delifrance cafe ...

yups, this is a substitute for the graduation trip for the time being due to the severe lack of family finances ... so i will probably postpone my grad trip to a later date when i've gotten my stable income =p

more updates when i return cos the wireless rate is 12 cents a minute!

till next time, ru-tian, you have a great trip in italy! have fun and take care! and have a safe flight tomorrow! you blessed gal, wish i could be there too =)

alrities, logging off now from wireless@sentosa!

inspired by my dream attic surroundings - i just had to blog, couldn't stop myself =) finally got to exercise again after the last cycling around my neighbourhood, which was like a week ago...

just had a great time playing badminton with hongxian, rutian and hong juan =) i haven't played badminton like since the last time the lot of us (hongxian, ade, hong juan, rutian) played together, which was nearly 6 months (or is it a whole year ago?) and man i love badminton =p

a little rusty though, and i discovered that the lack of practice has resulted in several blind spots - like net play, and near shuttles, which i missed quite a lot today ... nevertheless, guess what, my smash still comes instinctively *yay* BUT of course, i still get too excited and miss easy shuttles, and my service was a tad rusty today =p

at hongxian's place now just after a nice cool shower in this sweltering hot weather, waiting for hongxian to take her shower, cos she very graciously allowed me to take my shower first =p

and in her really cool room at the top of her house (rather like an attic thingey, my dream room that i always wanted), suddenly found the urge to blog ... and so i'm now typing on hongxian's lifebook, which is incidentally very nice to type on =p

rutian's gone home to shower and she'll be meeting us here soon, in about 25 mins, and then we'll go for dinner at Orchard =p *yay* okies, just checking in and letting my fingers do the talking for a while =)

gotta run =p hongxian's out! now to catch up on old times =)

what do you guys think? went down to change alley after my last day of work to rebond my hair, added a tinge of highlighting and gave it a nice trim ... it was getting really messy ... comments please, how do i look? do i look better or worse? =p

once again, this is the front:

and this is how the back looks:

alrities, gonna grab an early dinner, and a shower now ... ciao! the PCK musical awaits ... woohoo! :)

i can feel my gum skin splitting inside once more. in fact, when i was telemarketing this morning and even now, my jaw is starting to ache again (horror!)

oh man, i need to stop this job soon or i am gonna end up with a bad case of jaw/gum infection/ache again... the question is when? today, tomorrow or wednesday?

yes i am still alive.

but i am so sick of work, of having so much to do, of having no time or money to have fun or to rest (which are ironically the two things that i need).

i'm still thankful for what the Lord has given me. very very thankful indeed =)

and i really shouldn't be complaining here because the Lord has fulfilled a dream that i have been praying about for so long.

but i can't help it. i am grumpsy. have a headache. feel crappy. at work and telemkting and data entry just got tougher this morn.

no holiday/grad trip. lotsa admin stuff to settle. unhappy. very very unhappy and miserable.