Tuesday, August 30


Things I learnt from university days:

- NEVER blog at night, when you are on LAN sharing, no fighting for bandwidth. Argh.

- You are on your own baby. Seriously. No one can have exactly the same schedule, or the same set of things you need to do. There will be at one time when you need to break off to settle your own stuff. That includes paying your own hostel and tuition fees, understanding certain administrative processes, and buying your own course books and notes.

- It's sure gonna be boring not knowing anyone around, especially if you are the only one you know that's in your particular course. Sure pays to have friends studying the same course with you. (That way you can copy tutorials, and have your friends copy lecture notes for you. Heh.)

- Be prepared to sleep at 2am every day if you stay in a hall, unless you don't want to continue staying in your next year. Join more activities = more friends = better popularity = better chance at getting posts in main committees = get good points (ECA, if you'd call it) = better chance at retaining your hostel room. Pretty political if you'd ask me, but that's survival I guess. We are getting more and more primeval.

- You will NOT survive a week without any access to a LAN or wireless. Trust me. Every single piece of your lecture notes is online, and there goes your lunch time when you are squeezing in the printing room, looking at the print queues on screens like watching the market stocks. Solution to this problem? Buy a printer la.

- For effective slimming sessions, take a roundabout trip around NTU's famous North and South Spine. Each session includes a 10 minute trek from the tip of South Spine, the Main Lecture Theatre, to the other tip at North Spine. (Bear in mind NTU is built on undulating land.) Results become gradually visible after the 2nd month of therapy. For faster results, trek back towards Hall of Residence 4.

- Don't try printing notes when you are distracted by stuff like blogging. Most likely you will end up with the wrong pages or you miss a page or maybe the entire set of lecture notes. (FYI, that just happened to me.)

Posted by Isabelle at 6:17 pm

Monday, August 29


Argh, nowadays the connection is dirt lag in the night. Can hardly log into blogger. Darn, and all I wanted was some quiet time late night to write.

Anyway. SAW FIR YESTERDAY! WOOT! Hehe. We were rehearsing for today's NTU 50th anniversary performance. Damn shagged. We were there since 11 in the morning, and stayed to about 9.30 at night. Some rehearsal eh? Can't blame them though, with guests like PM Lee, who can afford to screw up?

Muahaha. Gonna be up front with all those VIPs. Muahaha. PM Lee, FIR, Joanne Peh (she's final year senior in NTU, but I haven't seen her around campus), Diana Ser, Rui En (she's really chio). Muahaha. So glad I'm with the chinese orchestra.

Updates later, if the darn blogger would let me do that...

Posted by Isabelle at 11:57 am

Sunday, August 21


Argh. Lagging badly behind time. Don't even have much time left to blog. It's been a hectic week for me, coping with studies, and my weekends are choked full with the Hall 4 Annual Dinner and Dance thing, not to mention JY's birthday.

Ai.

I hate being so busy. I barely have time for myself. It's troubling. I'm lagging behind my work, I have cello to practice for the upcoming 29th performance, and I have a bio quiz this coming Friday. I'm exploding. Help me!

Gotta start mugging. All my nights have been occupied by inter-block games, and late night suppers. No time to breathe. I didn't come university just to wreak havoc in hostel. I'm so dead.

It's time for me to sprint.

Posted by Isabelle at 8:39 pm

Friday, August 12


Oh right. Haven't blogged in a few days. Finally got back my phone (It's in working condition!), though the cd drive still isn't fixed. Think I'm gonna get a better one, preferably a dvd-burner. Heh. Realise I haven't had much time for the com anymore, not really on all the time like I was back when I wasn't schooling. School's taking a huge chunk of my time, plus I needa get more active with hall and cca stuff. (Need those precious points, damn it!) Yeah. The number one niggling thing that's been eating at my brain, though I don't get it why I'm worrying so early in the semester. Gonna be in here for another year, will have a lot more chances at earning my stay.

Engine's not rolling yet, but I'm slowly picking up. Gotta try studying already. Bio and econs are absolutely killing me, and I have no wish to fail. Argh! *stressed out*

Oh well. Hostel life's not bad, I know people, people know me, we get along fine, though I'm starting to feel a tad bit of regret I didn't join the freshman camp. No bothers though, I'll fit in, slowly.

(I'm doing random blogging, so all my points are scattered. Just saying whatever pops into my head.)

Think I'll stop for now.

Posted by Isabelle at 1:09 am

Saturday, August 6


Stupid week for me, I guess. My handphone had to conk out on me midweek, so I was stuck without a phone for... 3 days. I was lucky enough to have people lending me their old ones, so at least I'm not stuck alone detached from the mobile world. Crap. Gotta bring my phone to repair tomorrow, and I'm not entirely sure it will turn out fine.

Plus, my cd drive conked out on me too, so there's no cd drive at home. Gotta use my notebook. I wonder why suddenly my electronic stuff starts conking out on me.

I missed the Xinmin 60th anniversary on friday. Been an old bird for... 3 years? Omg, time flies. Haven't been back for quite a long time. Sometimes it's either I don't feel the attachment as much, or I'm simply too busy or too tired to go back. Either la, it's up to you to look at it. I'm trying to make it a point to go back once in a while, but yesterday was seriously a no-no. They had to make it a weekday, of all those saturdays and sundays they could pick. I was jammed packed with lectures. Couldn't make it. You can say it's an excuse, but nah, I can tell you it's not. Doesn't matter whether I'm MIA or not anyway.

Right now I'm just busy trying to adapt to a lot of changes that's coming my way, not that I'm saying others aren't, but I need a lot more time than them. I might appear to be very flexible, but it takes a great deal of effort for me to be that way. I'm trying really hard. Just give me time.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:17 pm