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13 November 2009 @ 11:39 pm

May this term pass quickly so I can cross these assignments out one by one:
(this post will stay on top until week 13)

Week 5
EN3262 - email topic for long essay

Week 6
EN3223 - Presentation 17 Sep

Week 7
EN3262 - Class test (30%) 29th Sep
EN3232 - First essay due (20%) 1st Oct
EN3262 - Presentation 2nd Oct

Week 8
EN3223 - Test (25%) 7th Oct
PC1327 - science of music mid term test(25%)

Week 9

Week 10
PC1327 - Essay(20%)

Week 11
EN3223 - Essay due (25%) 26th Oct
EN3234 - Presentation 26th Oct

SC3101 - Term paper (30%) 28th Oct

Week 12
EN3262 - Essay due (30%) 2nd Nov

Week 13
EN3223 - Test 2 (25%)
EN3234 - Second essay  (30%)12 Nov
EN3262 - Independent project (30%) 13 Nov
PC1327 - Project (20%)
PC 1327 - End of Term Test (25%)


 
 
09 November 2009 @ 09:50 pm


All deleted now.
Empty empty empty empty empty.
And I'm happy.

I had the intention to do that this morning actually, but for sentimental reasons I couldn't bring myself to. When Moses drove Pam and Mart over to sample his awesomely heavenly cake, she did the deed for me:D So as of 9th November 2009, I'm no longer disgusted and disturbed by my ridiculous emotions. I am free!

So that issue's over.

The highlight of this post should be Moses' cake actually. One of the most awesome oreo cheesecake I've ever ever had. I could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner. Technically, it was Pam's and Mart's dinner for tonight. I love the base, it was better than the crushed oreos I used the other time and Pam loved the soft cheese :D Yummy!



Back to Post-Col now. At the rate I'm going, I'd be doomed.


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08 November 2009 @ 06:37 pm

"... nothing lasts. I can say that now and it doesnt shock me, but i think it was the hardest lesson of all for me to learn.  We arrive so eager to learn, to adjust, to participate, only to find the monuments are plastic, agreements are annulled. nothing is forever, nothing is so terrible, or so wonderful that it won't disintegrate"

- Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee

With no reference to every issue but with relevance any issue.

I've been doing a little thinking in my attempt not to think. Lit students tend to overthink issues just because that's how we are. We analyse actions, create situtations with reference to other other situations and make what is unreal seem real.

So it took me years to realise what I could achieve in a month, I decided to put aside things that I wasn't sure of in my life and constantly asked myself what it is that I actually want. What I want now is no longer what I had wanted then. 1 month of distancing made it clear what I could live with and what I could live without, what is important to me what wasn't (nope, no typo here. I meant it that way).

What I was 2 years ago, I no longer am. Because like Pete wrote it seems that it is only when you go through pain that you are changed. So I have changed and what I try to keep for myself now is what I'm sure I want. What I don't need, I've given it up, all up.

Of course, periodically, I drift back into that state of ambivalence but it's becoming clearer now, what I'm moving towards to and what I'm moving away from.

There's just one more thing that I need to ask myself. Just one more.


* Keith * If it's worth having, it's worth fighting for says:
Tho self-realisation makes me more jaded and bitter

celine * says:
yea, that's why you need this other factor - you need to move on after self-realisation
it doesnt end there

* Keith * If it's worth having, it's worth fighting for says:
HAHA

I dont know how people do that
Self-realisation can be paralysing


celine * says:
i just managed to move on
YOU CAN TOO 

 

 
 
04 November 2009 @ 03:17 pm

Name: celine
Date: 11/4/2009
Colorgenics Number: 54203617


 

You are in a state of constant expectation and want interesting and exciting things to happen to you. But in fact, you are a 'Walter Mitty' at times - a dreamer - over-imaginative and often given to fantasy or day-dreaming. There is nothing wrong in 'dreaming' - how boring life would be if one just followed the doctrines of everyday life - but one must not continue leading a life of continuous fantasy. You need to face reality in spite of all its possible shortcomings.

You are a fighter and always on the defensive. You always need to be sure that your position is safe and established. When you finally make a decision you will pursue it to the bitter end in spite of all opposition.

You are confined and trapped in a distressing or uncomfortable situation and seeking some way out. Whatever you seem to do to resolve the problem hasn't worked out. Fortunately you are able to gain some aspect of relief from someone close to you.

It would seem that an existing situation or relationship is unsatisfactory and you feel that there is little that you can do about it without 'some help from your friends', but you have no desire to show the world how vulnerable you really are and therefore you consider it inadvisable to display affection or be over demonstrative. You regard this particular relationship as a depressing tie and although you would like to be independent and unhampered, you don't want to run the risk of losing anything. All this leads you to react 'touchily' and with impatience, while the urge to 'get away from it all' results in considerable restlessness and stress. Your ability to concentrate may suffer.

You don't like conflict and you endeavour to avoid criticism. You want to do your own thing and to be able to decide what is right for you. You have considerable personable charm - and this is used with considerable effect on those that keep your company.



Hoho! this is so accurate it's scary. Anyway, if you guys are interested, here's the link
 
 
02 November 2009 @ 11:43 pm
Birthdays shouldn't be ruined by tests, that's why I planned this little surprise with Kailing to brighten up her day. We sneaked to her block with a birthday cake (when I say sneak, I meant that we really tried to keep our voices down). Pretty ridiculous things happened in our attempt to move about stealthily and find the right house but we succeeded in surprising the hardworking girl who was studying for her tests at home anyway:D Yay!

Hey Edith!
Now that you've hit 20, I'm on my way to 21:( You're so much younger than me! Anyway I'm pretty glad we managed to brighten up your day.





Meeting Charmaine Tay definitely brightened my day too. On top of that Moses brought his awesome strawberry cheesecake for me to sample (okay, sample's not a good word cause I definitely did more than sample the cake).  Charmaine Tay tried some and smashed the nicely cut slices with her spoon in her attempt to scoop the cake. Even Kailing was at a loss of words for her actions:D That's my Ctay!

Okay and I'm having this ridiculous conversation with Derrick (because of Keith's influence, I keep meowing nowadays too:/)  but it's rather cute and funny:D

celine * says:
meow

derr says:
ROAR

celine * says:
:(

derr says:
go slp

celine * says:
so mean
i meow-ed you
and you chased me away

derr says:


no
it's a friendly ROAR
like u know
a lion can only roar what u expect it to do
an unfriendly roar will be like this
ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 
 
02 November 2009 @ 04:16 pm

I've been composing essays after essays and striking them off my to-do list. So basically all I've been seeing is words words and more words and will still be seeing them the next few weeks or so. This kind of explains my absence from here, not because I don't have things to write about but it's just that I don't want to write - a general distaste for words.

Anyway, last week I had a terrible ear infection which meant going to the doctor's for the 3rd of 4th time this year. I haven't been such a sickly child before. Went shopping with nao for a short while, met up with moses and james for lunch at novena and had the most fun on saturday since school started.

Fabian's 21st -

I really like this picture because it seems to tell unspoken stories(:
Posed pictures seem really artificial at times and candid shots are more telling.






Here's the Queen of Diamonds that I was tricked into sacrificing during a round of indian poker:(


This picture makes me laugh. He really looks too much like an ostrich.



Slap jack:D



My closest CJ friend in lit!



Once upon a time, we were all sop 1s




The birthday boy



The CJ group

Televen Pirates @ Dbl O








Loved the way we threw all sorts of random things on Lesh just to get him in for free.


Can't wait till the sem's over for more of such meet ups and parties:D
 
 
28 October 2009 @ 10:10 pm
I honestly think I'm allergic to school. I've been plauged with strange ailments since school began. Now, I'm temporarily deaf in one ear - the right ear. It's just a ear infection but the pain's a bitch and it's damn uncomfortable. Vincent's comment cracked me up though - "Ear infection is for dogs I thought?"

Anyway, I've cleared quite a few assignments this week and I think I need to start working on the next few because I have a hell of assignments/tests due on week 13. But I can't seem to sleep/work/eat with this throbbing pain. Yes, I'm hungry now but I don't want to eat.

Thankfully, the pain went away for slight while when I went back to CJ with Audrey, Keith and Shar. Noodle King was awesome. We had took an impromptu stroll around all the blocks of CeeJay in search of Mr Pang who was having a lesson somewhere but I think he was hiding from us:/ 

Ah. I need to do something about this throbbing pain. I'm tired and hungry but I can't find any comfort in sleep or food.
 
 
27 October 2009 @ 04:01 pm

it's so hard to walk away. i want to, very very badly, but there's sth blocking. predisposition? i imagine you must be feeling the same, yet ironically different. you understand, when you shouldn't, since we are so different. yet the same. makes everything seem like a cycle of oppression, in which we oppress ourselves. then again, i am not telling you anything new.

i cant tell you anything you dont already know.

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26 October 2009 @ 06:37 pm
Week 11

The week begins with a sleep debt that will probably accumulate till Week 13. Handed in the 19th C essay that was written without much thought or effort. I'm not going to get a good grade for that, I'm pretty sure. Then came Asian Am presentation which was just something I couldn't wait to get over and done with.

I just woke up from a 2hr nap. I didn't want to because waking up would mean that it's time to complete yet another one of those essays that's due on wed. No more half-baked efforts. I'll live through this!
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22 October 2009 @ 04:58 pm
You suck it up!

19th Century tutorial was hilarious. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my lit comrades? School would be awful without these people. So Keith delievered a fantastic presentation despite the "I can't pronounce the word because my tongue is swollen" factor. And while the tutorial discussion carried on physically in front of D Pan, half the class was on MSN carrying out another discussion about her cheongsam and sunglasses on her head. Jerry tried to imitate her with his specs:D We've decided to turn up for lesson with sunglasses on our heads during the last tutorial. Of course, we were discussing the text as well on MSN because Vincent was repeatedly silenced by her in real life, he had to find a voice somewhere else. Then Sien spotted a cat outside and Keith meowed. Xinhui and I almost died of laughter.

And tutorial finally ended on a very pessimistic note because Thomas Hardy writes dismal novels that tell us how life sucks. D Pan metioned that someone in another tutorial group had said to "suck it up" and finally dismissed us telling us to "SUCK UP OUR LUNCH". OMG. That was the last straw. The minute she strolled out of class I burst out laughing.

Ah! These 19th Century tutorials crack me up.
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21 October 2009 @ 10:39 pm
"And now the ultimate horror has come - her giving herself like this to what she loathes, in her enslavement to forms! - she, so sensitive, so shrinking, that the very wind seemed to blow on her with a touch of deference..."
 
 
20 October 2009 @ 12:12 am

Who says only lit students can write poems?

Here's an attempt by Derrick Shakespearean Liao

derr says:
i love celine
she's so mean
eating's a sin
but she eats like a bin

celine * says:
WHAT
HAHAHAHAHA

derr says:
she eats so "kin"
yet still so thin
oh, jin
*finish*
*applause*


/Edit

Anyway, my fellow lit majors are probably the most hilarious bunch of people I've ever met. Everyone's always up at 2am bitching about lit books, discussing what they're reading, bitching about lecturers on facebook. Misery loves company - I'm starting to see how this is true:D

Hello Keith, I'm looking forward to an awesome and entertaining presentation this thursday when you speak to Dr Pan with your pierced tongue!

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15 October 2009 @ 09:12 pm



My sister officially thinks tertiary students (okay, maybe just me and some of my friends) are stupid.
We look like we ran out of an asylum.
 
 
14 October 2009 @ 10:27 pm
Looking up from her email regarding a make-up test

Shar: How long is 1pm to 245pm??

Me:...... (silence)....

Shar: It's 1hr 45 mins right?

Me:.....(pause) ya, I think so.

Lina looks astonished.




In our attempt to name the planets ...


Shar: it's Mecury Venus ....what's the third planet ah?

Me: ERM.

Shar: My Very what Mother???

Me: My very pretty? Understanding? Kind?

Shar: You realise that the first letter of the word cannot keep changing right?

An exasperated Lina goes to her geog text book, flips to the page on planets and bursts out laughing uncontrollably.

Shar/Me: WHAT?

We look at the book and realise that the third planet was EARTH.





 
 
12 October 2009 @ 11:04 pm


You know, when life gets boring and when people don't live up to your expectations; your friends are just one sms away from keeping you entertained with the most random activities. The past few weeks have been awesome. Besides the interns, Shar, Isabel and some others that I havent caught up with for a long time, I even managed to meet up with Song, James, Moses, Buns with Pam due to some very random and last minute texting.

And here, are the people who have been colouring my life with their crazy suggestions over the weeks.










 

 
 
10 October 2009 @ 10:52 pm
"The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs"and "if someone wants to be in your life, they'll put the effort to be a part of it"
 

What ravages of spirit
Conjured this temptuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rules of love
And fate has lead you through it
You do what you have to do
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do ...

And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
Trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
But I have the sense to recognize

That I don't know how
To let you go
I don't know how
To let you go

A glowing ember
Burning hot
Burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence
Of existing for only you

I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
And I have sense to recognize but
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go

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07 October 2009 @ 12:02 pm

During tutorial, we couldn't keep our eyes from wandering around her room, overwhelmed by those huge shelves of old books. Then, we saw this


"Grant me the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Grant me the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people that I had to kill today because they pissed me off, and help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may well be connected to the ass that I will have to kiss tomorrow."

 
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It was really really bad. I've never had a lit test in such a format. And I'm proud to say that I'm not the only one who failed it.
For the benefit of the CJ people who'd like to test their knowledge, I'll type out some of the questions that came out for Great Expectations and some hilarious answers my coursemates wrote. Well, if you can't answer the questions, at least try to be funny right?


Q1. In 1858, Charles Darwin published ___________ ( many people misread this and wrote "Great Expectations")
Q4. The clock in Satis House showed the time as ______________ (there were many variations. someone even wrote the time of the test in desparation)
Q8. Estella's mother's name is ___________ ( friend turns around: ESTELLA HAS A MOTHER?)
Q9. Wemmick calls his father _______ (friend: eh tell me pls pls. if not im going to write mr wemmick)
Q11. Pip was abroad for ________ years (many years)
Q14. In the original ending of Great Expectations, Pip meets Estella in _________ (someone actually answered "in poverty")
Q15. Magwitch's other name is __________ 
Q18. The "pale young gentleman" Pip first meets at Satis House is ____________


Some other questions that weren't related to Great Ex but had funny answers were:

Q3. Wuthering Heights was published in __________ (some smart person wrote English)
Q12. "Ah! ____________ Which of us is happy in this world?" ( the blank was filled with a variety of answers that included "Dr Pan!", our prof. haha)


10 of us had tutorial in our prof's room today. It was like walking into another period in history altogether. The place resembled everything else that surrounded her - like the 19th century. She had bookshelves all around that were filled with classics. Someone commented that walking through the door to her room was like going through a time machine. But cosy tutorials like these are enjoyable though.

So, my dear friends who took Great Expectations. How many of those questions there can you answer without opening that book?
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04 October 2009 @ 10:52 pm

Literally.

Of all the things that happened this week, this is the most blog worthy. A sudden decision to relive our childhood and celebrate mooncake festival!





And all was going well until Nao opened the box of sparklers that we bought. The moment they were ignited, fire shot out everywhere and the entire floor was filled with sparks of fire, sparks sparks sparks!  And of course, this didn't stop us (okay, maybe not Pam and I. We were too humji to get near the fire) but the rest continued lighting the faulty exploding sparklers. At one point of time, there was such a huge combustion, I came to a full understanding of the word "boomz"




But we had our fun and cheap thrills with those life-threatening sparklers/sparkles or whatever you call them. Never really dared go near them as a child and I'm still afraid to light them. But in all other sense, I tend to play a lot with fire.


Last week was so packed with activities, school was almost given second priority (I mean, since when was it not anyway?). Tuition sessions packed my schedule because of upcoming exams, played squash for the first time in my life, movie, met some interns which I haven't met up with in quite a while; choir choir choir.

Next week's gonna be worse. I just hope it'll be awesome fun again.
Squash please:D


 
 
30 September 2009 @ 03:12 pm




Okay, so obviously we weren't studying.

 
 
 
 

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