Last First Week

This is the end of the last first week of school (no Friday classes). And I just found out that my Design project is 5 MC instead of 8 which I initially envisioned it to be. That means I'm only taking 15 MC worth of modules this semester. It does make me wish that I could take more. But then again, the remaining one module's time can go to job-hunting, doing more work for all my other modules, and doing stuff that I love.

Maybe I need more time to prepare myself for the road ahead too. I'm going to work hard for this semester's design project. To feel what it's like when you have a chemical engineering project in hand, and to be so near to being an engineer at least once in my life. :D

Modules are OK so far, stuffed with biology stuff, and chemical structures for once. Everything is fine for the first week. Life was pretty tranquil, apart from an email for Anna to give us the group's week one assignment for design project. And besides the fact that I still need to update my TB write-up and handle CNY songs for Andrew.

I attended this semester's first RHCME meeting. It was all random jamming and noise, but it was fun, apart from everything being quite messy. I always loved our practices. I may feel super reluctant to come down each time but every time I'm in the band room I don't feel like leaving. Now my biggest challenge is to find out what a Gu Zheng sounds like, find out what it's scores look like, and write Chinese songs for CNY for it. Been Googling CNY songs because of that, and I feel that M-girls really have potential, their acting is relatively natural compared to some other singers of their age. At least their producers have, they managed to synchronize all the movements, and dresses so that each time the girls look fresh. But still it's Malaysia - and so they are not really making it big here.

End with two versions of the song 雨天. I like both versions but Mable only likes the guy-version (which is not the original haha), because she doesn't like Stephanie Sun's pronunciation. I'm neutral regarding that though, but I agree that the non-original version does have a larger dose of emotions in it. Don't really like his facial expression though. But still, if it's really natural - it can't be helped.

The INTI Arrival

Today is Mable's first day in INTI. We reached there a little past 2.30 p.m. There was a whole crowd of people queuing to register/pay fees/get timetable etc. Not just the freshmen, but everyone else too! Hence we had to wait for around 100 people before we could get her fees paid.

After paying tuition fees, we went to get keys for her hostel and unload. Mable was (sort of) one hour late for orientation but still I don't think she missed much. The main agenda of the day was more or less ice-breaking. It was raining cats and dogs outside, and I didn't really regret our wearing shoes into her room, else if our shoes were left in the corridor they would be soaked. Daddy and I unpacked what we could and got her 'clothes line' up. Mopped the floor up before leaving the room, ridding the room of ugly black shoe prints, that might cause severe depression when in solitude.

Hope this is the beginning of new beginnings! On a very separate note, IVLE have been intimidating me today with the influx of new lecture notes and the design project description, which turned out to be at least as bad as I thought it would be. I am very thankful for not taking up an extra breadth module after all. Hello Semester 8. You might just be the toughest semester of all.

Thought Transfer

I just transferred my archives again for my blog at Windows Live Spaces. Reason being Windows Live Spaces is going to be converted to WordPress anyway and if I don't transfer I will lose all my archives. And whether you view this as being narcissistic or not, I treasure all my archives, and don't want to lose them. However, I lost my beloved green-tea theme that I have stuck with for years, AND the list of blog links I have compiled across the years. :( I haven't settled down with a new theme though.

Now I'm trying to get my review paper write-out out before holidays end. Thank God for EndNote. Why did EndNote not exist in my life years earlier?! It would have made citations a breeze. :( Well, better late then never. For the sake of myself, and those whose fate is tied with this review paper, I will get this out no matter what!

Mable is going off to INTI tomorrow. Makes me wish I could start Year One, or even Secondary One all over. It really feels weird to only have one more semester of school life left only! But then again, I'm not getting younger, so I'd better start working instead. Hope working life won't be too bad. As for tomorrow, it will spent loading and unloading, cleaning, hanging, and saying goodbye to all her toys.

First (short) post in 2011

Just attended a wedding of a sister in Christ in church. Apart from the bride and groom looking very sweet together - and some rather tear-jerking moments, I am really thankful for all the memories we have to share together in this church. It's like growing up in a mega-sized family, where we share many things together - growing up, growing old, celebrations, baptisms, marriages, births, and even deaths.

This is something I wish I could really feel for GLCC too - which to me seems much of an organization rather than a church, firstly because it is really much bigger; secondly because I don't know too many people there (mainly due to lack of initiative); and thirdly, because I didn't grow up there. But Campus has gone through a lot with me, much more than they think they know, and has walked me through an important phase of life too. I wish to create and preserve more memories with my home church still, and also in GLCC and with Campus group.

By the way yesterday I watched Despicable Me at home. Story-line was quite interesting, though not mind-blasting, but everything was a mixture of just-rightness, more or less like the feel Tangled gave. However, unlike Tangled, the theme of this story is more centered towards family warmth and over-whelming cute-ness, coming from two potent sources.

The first:

And what bowled Dawn over: