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i think i'm getting sick. can't stop sneezing, constant headache... oohhh...i'm going to have a horrible weekend in bed.

FINALLY!!! i've finished my exams!!!!!!!!

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i'm back to complete my blog. i had actually just finished my exam and was waiting for my friend to finish his, when i was blogging. i went to the labs to blog while waiting and he came out just 5 minutes after me, not giving me enough time to finish blogging. so here we go....

such a treat to be at home now, i've been in school most of my waking hours mugging for exams. the last one was uncommonly simple. we were hoping that it would be similar to last year's paper cos that was easy and straight forward enough. turned out that 80% of the exams were exactly the same. It was a real hoot. i've got no reason not to get a HD for this java exam, seeing i've already taken the more advance java unit in undergrad. i wish all my papers were this easy... i just hope the rest went well as well.

Finally!!! i've got hot water running in the taps!!! for the past week, i had to boil water in a pot and shower fomr a bucket cos the hot water tap broke and we had to switch the main off. called the landlady and they took ages to get the plumber in. called so many times to bug them and finally it's done!!! i can take a good hot shower now... esp cos now is winter, it horrible to have to take a bucket shower.

hi girlies,

nothing much to blog about... last exam tomorrow and i'm constantly in a half dazed mode. drinking red bull not helping that much.. sleeping patterns all screwed up....slept for 4 hours last night from 11pm to 3 am... i think my body thought it was a nap and not proper sleep....stupid bodyclock. spend the rest of the day like a zombie.

was studying in the uni labs yesterday and there was this couple sharing the labs with me and they were gross!!!! i honestly didn't know what to do.... i had my headphones on and was head banging to my CDs (to wake myself up) when i noticed at the corner of my eye something was going on. they weren't just kissing. you go figure the rest. can't see exactly what was going on, but i know it's something dodgy. and the security camera was pointing right at them!!! i refused to leave that lab cos the other labs were all sooo noisy and i didn't want to be bullied into leaving. finally a friend came to join me and was shocked to find me in that lab, of all labs. some people have no shame. someone said they prob just have a fetish about it. GO GET A ROOM FOR PETE'S SAKE! SOME PEOPLE HAVE THEIR DIGNITY AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE EXAMS TO STUDY FOR!!!

can't wait till tomorrow. i'll be free!!!!!...i'll sleep for 2 day 2 nights and go clubbing and watch dvds all day....bwahahahaha!!!!

life's full of dramas. My apartment building just caught fire about 2 hours ago. one of the apartments at the other end of the building was coughing up sooo much smoke. i was washing my face in the bathroom and i thought i smelt smoke but looking out of my bathroom window i saw nothing. moments later, ben and i heard knocking but couldn't determine what it was and assumed it was our neighbours having a tiff. a few minutes later, i heard sirens. i looked out of the window and saw the fire engines turning in, i was shocked and started shouting for ben. i just wanted to catched a glimpse of them going past my place, i didn't expect them to stop here! we went down to take a look and the fire was quickly put out through a window. there was no one home and the fire was contained in the one apartment so no one was hurt. but the poor neighbours above that unit have an exam in a few hours and everything is smoky and smelly now. a few neighbours lost sleep and have to get up in an hour for work. 6 of us stood outside for a while chatting about the fire and about the lousy landlady, it was almost like a social gathering. i guess we were quite light-hearted cos we were on the unaffected side of the building. phew.... exciting few weeks i've been having......

i think it's time i get to bed. hope i didn't bring back too many unpleasent memories for you, angie.

I met this wonderful person a few months ago and last time we met , i learnt something shocking about her.

i knew she had to go for an operation a month of so ago and i've been concerned with her health and last time i met up with her, she confessed that she has cancer. and she's only 24. she's young, extremely smart, pretty and simply an amazing person. i already admire her and when i learnt of that, i was simply overwhelmed. how she manages to look so happy and work so hard at everything is beyond me. she works full time and studies full time and tutors her sister and scores top marks and is always so positive. i felt ashamed of myself for whinging about the smallest things and of not appreciating my life more. she's gotten over the cancer now after a few chemo treatments but there are some complications that she doesn't even know what they are. the doctors and her family refuse to tell her until the exams are over, and that sounds so ominous to me. and she's been told the cancer can come back anytime. she was telling me of the pain and trauma she went through and the possibility that she will never have kids etc..... my heart just broke. i wish her all the best.

you hear of people our age getting cancer but often we think of them as news stories or research statistics. we don't expect these things to happen to us or people we know. such cases seem to be getting more and more common and i truly wish no one has to go through all that. another friend of mine's father is striken with cancer as well and he's always lived the healthiest lifestyle. at this moment, he is on his deathbed. sometimes i wonder why do people bother living or having kids when the world we are living in seem to be so barren and diseased? with all the advancement in science, instead of making life simpler, it seems to be making life more and more insufferable. at the same time, my friends' experiences will be a contant reminder to treasure what i have while i have it. and it's an affirmation to me that i shall continue living everyday, expecting to die someday of a painful, cancerous death.

1 down 3 to go!!

I got 2 of my assignments back today and my multimedia project was a HD, thank to mich, who provided the flash graphic to make it look professional. Thanks, sweetcakes! lecturer was happy with it except i had some problems with my navigation styling...but i was aware of that and couldn't really do anything bout that. screen real estate problem. so i'm happy as a goat now.

other assignment on e-commerce got a HD too, this time thanx to Sharon who recommended her textbook which had the case study i was looking for in it. phew.... no thanks to one of my groupmates whom i suspect did not even understand the assignment. and was thinking on a undergrad analysis level.

what would i do without friends?

Thank god for the blog! i swear i can't keep track of the days that pass already. i've been spending almost all my time studying. but i seem to have a few unaccountable hours everyday, hmmmmmm.....

my exams are such a pain, as all exams are. but for some reason i feel i've got less time than usual to study. i'm so tired already.. hardly productive. the blog is my only way of unwinding now... so, strange as i am, i'll prob be blogging a lot more than usual during the exam period. however, emailing will be a prob for me cos i can't access my email account from uni. so BLOG, BLOG, BLOG!! for my mental health's sake..... shit, i had to go through this post 4 times cos i'm so sleepy i keep missing words or repeating words here and there.

my sleeping pattern is so eratic that i'm resorting to sleeping pills to make sure i sleep alright and will be able to wake up for my morning exams. we've all had tough exams periods to get over but i've never felt so confused and demented as now.....

am i making sense at all? back to distance vector routing........

hi girls, got the results to the lottery ticket that i bought on my birthday. 1st time i bought a lottery ticket. haha... anyway, the website was getting such high traffic it was impossible for me to find out the results for hours till just. i dun think i won anything. i'm not too sure how it works but i doubt i have enough hits to win anything. what a waste...the pool was 23 million bucks. thought i could get a slice of it. at least when i study now, i won't be wondering if i'm a millionaire...haha...sorry mich, looks like i won't be flying the gang over to visit you in london.

i finally found out the number to call the police last night due to an incident.

i was up late last night studying in uni and got home at about 2.30am. when i got home, i was getting ready to sleep. sat in bed with a book when i saw ben rush into the toilet with a huge torchlight. a few secs later, he came out and said he saw a guy crouching down behind a car in our carpark downstairs that was visible from the toilet window. and when he shone the torch at him, he ran off. we knew whose car it was but we didn't know which apartment they were from. and we couldn't possibly go knocking on every door 3 o'clock in the morning. we decided to call the cops and while looking for the number (we didn't want to call 000 cos they put you on hold all the time and this isn't really an emergency), we heard a car horn. we ran to the window and the guy was back!! ben shouted at him and he took off. he looked smallish, like a skinny teenager, with bushy hair. so we called the cops and but we were told we really couldn't do anything cos we really shouldn't touch the car and they can't really report it as a car break-in cos the owners have to do it themselves. i gave them the license plate number and hope they actually contacted the owners. they sent patrol cars around the nieghbourhood pretty fast. cos we saw both cop cars and unlabelled cops cars zipping round. pretty soon but it took them ages to actually get one to stop and check in on the cars... not that they did anything anyway. i keep thinking about the poor owners. they'll get such a shock in the morning when they go to their car and find the doors ajar. we think the guy was trying to hot wire the car and activated the horn instead. if that's the case, at least the car is still here now.

i'm thinking of moving end of this year to north of the river. i think it's safer. apparently there has been arson attacks to some houses on the street behind mine. not that my house is at risk cos it's an apartment block and a lot harder to burn down, but it gives you an idea of the kind of saftey your neighbourhood has. i can't wait to move.