OMG HOW RARE.
For the first time in over a month, I have a few hours (well, over a few hours) to do whatever I like before I need to sleep and get ready for a very intense next day. Today has been one of the days where I've actually kept to my personal schedule in going to lecture, coming home, eating lunch, taking a nap, hitting my personal target in getting coursework done and now I'm here, chilling like a penguin with nothing to do. It feels good, damn good.
So, I'm just taking some time to reflect on this month so far, I can't believe it's mid November soon, I remember the last time I blogged on here, I was all like "I can't believe it's November already". Today, I came to the realisation that I'll be turning 22 in less than a month. Ouch. I don't want to be 22 because like being 18, being 21 was awesome. I felt invincible, especially with graduation - you know that feeling of going onwards and upwards... Until I came back to education and decided to pursue a masters of course. But hopefully the same will apply once I graduate again, onwards and upwards into a career specialising in HR.
Submitting my first piece of coursework on Sunday was a relief, 1 down 3 to go in a sense. This is the first time I've submitted anything using the Turnitin system, I've always heard of it was never used for my undergrad. I find it quite cool that you can essentially see how much you've plagiarised in your essay before you submit a final piece haha. Once you submit something, within minutes it gives you a % of how much of the essay can be found online. Luckily everything that was highlighted as potential "plagiarism" was the whole of my references part. So now I'm onto my next essay which is a literature review and it's easy as pie because I must've done about 100 of these throughout the 3 years of my undergrad. Woo.
For the rest of tonight, I'm bringing out the snacks, tea and dramas that I've missed so much. Goodnight world.
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Thursday 7 November 2013
When you don't sleep properly for a week, it kinda catches up.
And it hits hard.
I've been having crap sleep all this week, mainly because of my boyfriend coming round at 8am and me sleeping at 5am meaning I've been getting, on average, 3 hours of sleep on the odd days. When it gets past 12, I get some suddenly burst of energy and wakefulness that the whole "sleeping early" idea just doesn't work. I would sleep when he comes round but since his sleeping pattern is reversed because of his shitty job (which I have been trying desperately to get him to quit) he stays awake bothering me for a few hours before he can finally fall asleep. Then when he falls asleep, it's time for me to do my assignments... hopefully tonight, I'll have the best sleep ever even though I need to be at 8am fo my stupid workshop tomorrow at uni :(
I'm such a wonderful girlfriend sacrificing sleep to make my boyfriend breakfast when he gets home from work.
Monday 4 November 2013
Wow November already?
Can't believe how fast October flew by. For me, it was a month of lectures, workshops, dates and of course, starting coursework that is due soon. Which kinda explains why there's been such a huge gap between the last time I posted on here and this entry.
I think I've said enough about my early experiences at a new university as well as studying the all-so-intense masters course, so I won't ramble on about its difficulties. Recently, I've been feeling these 3 hour lectures more and more though, before, I didn't really mind them early on in the course but nowadays, I always find myself checking how many slides are left, checking my watch to see how long is left, doing other reading rather than paying attention to in-class discussions. Some lecturers just ramble on way too long, like my lecturer in today's class, he spent around 20 minutes talking about one slide. Sure enough, things are explained very well but to others (like myself), we just want to move on. The thing that annoyed most people was the lack of breaks, it was pretty much a solid 3 hour lecture without breaks and too much discussion.
Went to see my boyfriend's place after class, with that said, I don't think I mentioned anything about meeting his parents. I met his parents for the first time a few weeks ago and ever since then, his dad has always been wanting me to come round for dinner. The first time I met his mum as well, she gave me a brow threading session haha. His dad is so adorable, he speaks random Cantonese words to me and my boyfriend tells me he gets concerned that I don't eat enough during dinner. Typical Asian parents though right? On my boyfriend's birthday, I had a skin reaction to the lobster we had and today I saw my boyfriend's dad staring at me when I took my first bite of dinner and he was like "he's really concerned about you since you got a reaction last time" ahaha, his dad is too cute. I quite like his dad's cooking though, he can really make a nice family meal, he made Vietnamese curry today and it was really good, there was potatoes and chicken in it. There was one time he made pho as well, it had been a long time since I've had pho so it was a nice experience to have it again. I love how there's always something new to try when I go round to his for dinner =) my dad was all like "that's like your second home now isn't it?" aha damn right it is. It's been too long since we went out to eat though, I kinda miss it :(
Another aspect of my life other than my love life and uni is work. I've been permanently moved (yet again), to the home dept. At first I was kinda apprehensive about it because I wasn't a big fan of home because every single time we were expect to tidy the department on our own and it was just borderline possible most times and impossible at other times. But my manager assured me that there's going to be departmental changes and new staff will be joining the home dept to help out so closing won't be too bad. I just want to know when exactly these new starters are starting because at the moment, there's just this one girl who I've been with and for some reason, my hours are doubled the week after next =/ hopefully it's only for one week because I can't do 16 hours a week even if I was desperate for money. Got deadlines, man. Also, I'm on stocktake this Sunday so I start work when the shop closes and end work at 10pm *cries* stocktake will be so much fun, counting every individual piece of home-ware. Fun fun fun. Luckily the new girl is with me and we get along so it shouldn't be too bad. I'm taking pleasure in the fact that I won't have to deal with any customers that day. Retail is stressful but just think of the money, just think of the money. Also, I'm working xmas eve and boxing day, should be heaps of fun with heaps of rude customers - yay.
I've been back into watching K-dramas as well, I have a couple I want to watch after the current one I'm watching. I like watching dramas after they finish because at certain episodes later into the series, they like to leave a cliffhanger WITHOUT a preview of the next week's episode so you're just left there like "UGHHHHHH" so for me, I can never watch dramas whilst they're airing. Good thing and bad thing since each episode is one hour long, it eats up a lot into my procrastination time =/
So just to wrap this entry up, nothing exciting again going on in my life, probably won't be anything majorly exciting until I finish this degree and start job hunting. This week is full of essay writing and socialising because my parents are jetting off to Czech Republic for 4 days - gives me an excuse to do things slowly and see my friends without my mum being all on my case like "DON'T YOU HAVE AN ESSAY TO WRITE?" as soon as I step one foot out of the door. 4 days of peace - hurrah!
I think I've said enough about my early experiences at a new university as well as studying the all-so-intense masters course, so I won't ramble on about its difficulties. Recently, I've been feeling these 3 hour lectures more and more though, before, I didn't really mind them early on in the course but nowadays, I always find myself checking how many slides are left, checking my watch to see how long is left, doing other reading rather than paying attention to in-class discussions. Some lecturers just ramble on way too long, like my lecturer in today's class, he spent around 20 minutes talking about one slide. Sure enough, things are explained very well but to others (like myself), we just want to move on. The thing that annoyed most people was the lack of breaks, it was pretty much a solid 3 hour lecture without breaks and too much discussion.
Went to see my boyfriend's place after class, with that said, I don't think I mentioned anything about meeting his parents. I met his parents for the first time a few weeks ago and ever since then, his dad has always been wanting me to come round for dinner. The first time I met his mum as well, she gave me a brow threading session haha. His dad is so adorable, he speaks random Cantonese words to me and my boyfriend tells me he gets concerned that I don't eat enough during dinner. Typical Asian parents though right? On my boyfriend's birthday, I had a skin reaction to the lobster we had and today I saw my boyfriend's dad staring at me when I took my first bite of dinner and he was like "he's really concerned about you since you got a reaction last time" ahaha, his dad is too cute. I quite like his dad's cooking though, he can really make a nice family meal, he made Vietnamese curry today and it was really good, there was potatoes and chicken in it. There was one time he made pho as well, it had been a long time since I've had pho so it was a nice experience to have it again. I love how there's always something new to try when I go round to his for dinner =) my dad was all like "that's like your second home now isn't it?" aha damn right it is. It's been too long since we went out to eat though, I kinda miss it :(
Another aspect of my life other than my love life and uni is work. I've been permanently moved (yet again), to the home dept. At first I was kinda apprehensive about it because I wasn't a big fan of home because every single time we were expect to tidy the department on our own and it was just borderline possible most times and impossible at other times. But my manager assured me that there's going to be departmental changes and new staff will be joining the home dept to help out so closing won't be too bad. I just want to know when exactly these new starters are starting because at the moment, there's just this one girl who I've been with and for some reason, my hours are doubled the week after next =/ hopefully it's only for one week because I can't do 16 hours a week even if I was desperate for money. Got deadlines, man. Also, I'm on stocktake this Sunday so I start work when the shop closes and end work at 10pm *cries* stocktake will be so much fun, counting every individual piece of home-ware. Fun fun fun. Luckily the new girl is with me and we get along so it shouldn't be too bad. I'm taking pleasure in the fact that I won't have to deal with any customers that day. Retail is stressful but just think of the money, just think of the money. Also, I'm working xmas eve and boxing day, should be heaps of fun with heaps of rude customers - yay.
I've been back into watching K-dramas as well, I have a couple I want to watch after the current one I'm watching. I like watching dramas after they finish because at certain episodes later into the series, they like to leave a cliffhanger WITHOUT a preview of the next week's episode so you're just left there like "UGHHHHHH" so for me, I can never watch dramas whilst they're airing. Good thing and bad thing since each episode is one hour long, it eats up a lot into my procrastination time =/
So just to wrap this entry up, nothing exciting again going on in my life, probably won't be anything majorly exciting until I finish this degree and start job hunting. This week is full of essay writing and socialising because my parents are jetting off to Czech Republic for 4 days - gives me an excuse to do things slowly and see my friends without my mum being all on my case like "DON'T YOU HAVE AN ESSAY TO WRITE?" as soon as I step one foot out of the door. 4 days of peace - hurrah!
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