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Sunday 31 May 2015
@23:58
When he wanted to take her picture, he didn't tell her to smile, but told her "I love you" and her smile was more beautiful.Aww :)
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@16:57
What's a fruitful day to me?
Honestly, I don't know...
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to make my day fruitful, but this I know for sure, I do not want to be at home. Because when I'm at home, I'm usually just watching drama/variety show/anime or surfing the net. I enjoy doing them but I don't find them fruitful.
I had expectations that I'd be going out with Ni Yi tomorrow but we can't because our plans clashed. Then now I'm left feeling really empty.
What am I supposed to do tomorrow?
Yes, very very very empty feeling.
I don't want to waste this precious public holiday away. Okay, at least I have dinner plans tomorrow. But what do I do in the day?
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Saturday 30 May 2015
@22:41
It's been two weeks since I started internship.
I've been mostly observing therapy sessions and there were two occasions where I had to facilitate the activity :O It was really tough for me. Doing the therapy don't seem too difficult until I really had to do it myself. Omg. Heard that I will be conducting some parts of the therapy. I'm scared actually. Hope I'll be able to do an acceptable job.
Since internship started, sometimes I feel like I have no life? Wake up, go to work, come home from work, sleep. HAHA. I'm outside more than 12 hours a day because Bukit Timah is really far!! So when I reach home, I'd eat dinner, bathe and soon after, it's time to sleep. I try to get my 8 hours of sleep, or minimum 7 hours at least, so that I'd have energy to observe and absorb skills.
The past two weeks at the centre made me learnt quite a bit about child growth. Giving and sustaining attention and imitation skills are so crucial for learning in the early years. And yes, these abilities are lacking/deficient in autistic children. But even in just two weeks, I saw how going for the therapy almost everyday had helped the kids to gain better social skills and other cognitive skills. It's really amazing.
I'm sure I will observe many more amazing changes in the children :)
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Met a couple of friends over the two weeks as well. The sad part is that if we meet in the weekday, I could only spend about 2 hours with them and I gotta go home to catch my beauty sleep :(
On my first day of internship, I met up with Emm and Kevin to have Ramen dinner! I felt quite bad that I couldn't stay with them longer because I wanted to go home to sleep. I was really tired that day because observing the therapies was tiring (cannot underestimate observing!!) and my period and cramps just wasn't helping at all.
And then on Wednesday, I was supposed to catch Pitch Perfect 2 with Cass, Emm, Jaime and Joshua but... I just had to fall sick :( Fever and a bad headache.
And then on Wednesday, I was supposed to catch Pitch Perfect 2 with Cass, Emm, Jaime and Joshua but... I just had to fall sick :( Fever and a bad headache.
Boohooooooo. I was really looking forward to the movie. But I was afraid that if I continued to be sick, I wouldn't be able to turn up for work the next day and that's not nice, considering that it was only my third day of internship :/ So had to go home and sleep. I remembered myself having 9+ hours of sleep. Haha. Likka pig I know.
Kinda finding a friend to watch Pitch Perfect 2 now. Anybody? :(
Overall the week wasn't a good one, because my period had to come on my first day of work and that sucked like hell because of cramps. And then I had to fall sick and give Pitch Perfect a pass...
But well, I guess the weekends made up for it.
On Saturday, I went JB with Chings and Sylvester!! It was fun hanging out with them, shopping, playing at the arcade and singing K! And guess what, we couldn't wait any longer for the bus from Woodlands Checkpoint to JB Checkpoint, so we walked (I honestly didn't know that we could actually walk).
Proof that we walked. Hahahaha. And look at the cars on the right side of the picture!! The jam at the linkway was really bad. Cars barely moved.
Singing K with them was fun but I don't know if I was dominating the remote control too much or if Syl was feeling bored. Then we went to the arcade! Haha I seldom go to the arcade because nothing really interests me there except the music games. When we were there we played Dance Dance Revolution. Hehehe funnnn! I usually only play this overseas, like back in my hometown or Malaysia. Anyway, arcades in Singapore switched to the hand movement one - which I have never tried before but I think I'll be too paiseh to play in Singapore. In case meet friends? HAHAHAHA. And we played anther drumming game also. And yea, similarly, I suck at it. Still fun though :)
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Weekends, usually only Sunday, is also the time I get to see Ni Yi! My happy happy day. I was so used to seeing him almost every day, but now we're only meeting about once or twice a week. Kinda sad for me I guess, but yea can't meet that much because he's working as well, he should eat with his family more often and I need my 8 hours of beauty sleep. Haha.
Mm, guess it'll be like this for the next 7 months. This arrangement is good in fact, I feel more appreciative when I get to meet him. Not that I wasn't appreciative before, but now I am more appreciative of the little time I have with him. Don't know if he feels this way, but for me definitely yes.
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Oh yesss, I went back to DK last Sunday! :D I was very touched that the staffs there still remembered me, even after more than 9 months!! :) And the Kolo Mee there was good! :) Should have taken a picture of it. But it's okay, I'll be back again definitely!
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Overall I think the past two weeks have been okay for me. I'm a little tired. But yep, I got my rest today. I'm glad I managed to meet up with a few friends here and there!
I usually feel quite tired after a long day out of the hours (3+ hours travelling, 10 hours at work) - that's why sometimes I also feel like I have no life when I don't meet friends. But I also can't meet friends every day because I'll be very tired if I don't get enough sleep and anyway I don't have that many friends. Hurhur.
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Saturday 16 May 2015
@18:45
Today I made Peach Tarts! It's not too difficult to make!
Waiting for the tarts to be chilled. Can't wait to try it! But somehow I'm not too confident about the taste even though I followed the recipe very closely. Hope it'll turn out ok!
Doesn't this look good?! HAHA.
Spent a bomb buying the ingredients, and some wrong ones as well. And I wasted a small carton of whipping cream because I beat it too much that it turned to butter. Oops. I just beat maybe extra 10 seconds and it turned lumpy and all :O But luckily, I had spare cream. So yup, still managed to make these tarts ^^
Felt like I spent my time well, instead of rotting in front of my lappie watching drama/anime. Hurhur.
Now that I'm done with all the cooking/baking, I'm back to face boredom again.
Gonna make lots of sigh-pies now. Ciaos
Felt like I spent my time well, instead of rotting in front of my lappie watching drama/anime. Hurhur.
Now that I'm done with all the cooking/baking, I'm back to face boredom again.
Gonna make lots of sigh-pies now. Ciaos
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Thursday 7 May 2015
@19:53
Taken my last exam of the year :D
I'm happy beyond words!
I have two good pieces of news to share!
Firstly, I found today's paper really manageable. I think it's one of the rare occasions where I come out of the exam hall feeling confident about the being able to answer most questions correctly. I can't be more thankful to Ni Yi, who spent about 6 hours testing me on my memorisation of the content. He had to bear with how boring it is. He could have played his games, watch his videos, but he chose to help me instead. And occasionally explain concepts which I am not sure of :P It's like he's an econs major, but he is super capable in explaining psy concepts to me somehow. HAHAHA. Smart then like that la! And I also forced him to listen to me explain concepts in my own words. I wanted to make sure that I was clear about the concepts and that I would be able to pen it down during the exam. And yeppp, all these really helped me.
Thank you my dearest Ni Yi for all the help and support you gave me!
And at some point, I felt so amused that I was putting in so much effort (at the very last minute) that I started laughing. I laughed so much till I cried. HAHA I was exasperated and tired with the memorisation. I find this amusing. I laughed for about 30 seconds and suddenly it turned into crying. Funny huh.
Secondly, I got a good comment for my Reflection on a concert for my module :) I was worried about not being able to do well, but I'm glad that I got a good comment.
I did quite badly for my first reflection entry. So I'm happy to see improvements!
Anyway, yay. Exams are over :) Time for real celebration!
Oh, but one can't always be happy right. Some people just like to ruin my mood. So an OSA stuff dealing with YEP matters emailed just now to ask for a missing document. This document would require the signature of all members in the team.
I mean I really don't mind obtaining the signature, after all it is a necessary document for reimbursement purposes and I can understand that it is my responsible to get it signed. But what I really hate about this is that this form was previously submitted to OSA already, in hard copy. But somehow, the freaking hell, they had to lose it and now they want us to get the form signed again. It shows neglect, lack of communication among OSA staffs etc. And their neglect, caused trouble for others. This is what I am very unhappy about.
What can I say...
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Tuesday 5 May 2015
@15:11
I've decided to post about my Productivity Tools too!
Dedicated this post to Jac because my replies to her post couldn't get through!
I have 4 tools that I use:
1) OneNote 2013
2) OneDrive
3) Momentum
4) Simple Calendar
Mass Schedule
I do up this mass schedule for my whole sem too! I only started it this sem and it looks like I'm gonna continue with this in the future too because I feel that I have more control over my work schedule. By knowing what I need to do by when during the semester, I can decide to start doing some stuffs earlier. And with the mass schedule, I don't have to keep looking at IVLE to check for deadlines and all the deadlines are condensed in one page. So it's awesome!
School Documents
I use OneDrive to keep all my school stuff. OneDrive is a cloud drive, which means that I can get access my files anywhere, even on my phone (I download the OneDrive app for my phone too). And sometimes if I decided not to bring my laptop to school, but realised that I needed to print some assignments or whatever, I get just retrieve the file from OneDrive on some com and send it to print.
I started using this cloud drive ever since I bought my new tablet for school use. I wanted to have access to my readings on that tablet in the bus/trains. So yepp.
In each module folder, there'll be some common folders such as "General," "Assignment," "Project," "Lecture," "Tutorial," "Readings." And if the module requires other folders I'll just create accordingly la. But yep, I park all my lecture notes, tutorial materials, assignment materials into the respective folders.
Urgent Things To Do
I downloaded Momentum quite many months back and I use this app to write my to-do list for urgent stuff. Usually things that need to be completed within the next few days or week. Currently I don't have anything because it's the finals period, so it's just studying for PL3239 for me.
You can add as many to-dos as you want and once it's done, you can give it a check as well. And check-ed items are cleared at the end of the day!
This app was supposed to stop people from procrastinating. HAHA. Once I try to open a new tab (maybe to go FB, YouTube or wherever), Momentum will appear on that new tab, showing my to-do list, quote of the day, and HUGE numbers in the middle of screen which shows the time right now. I guess the person who created it really wanted to help people get back on task? Idk. I like this app anyway. Every day the quote changes, the scenery/picture changes. And they're mostly really beautiful photos of nature:)
If you're using Chrome, and you wanna try this app, you can download it here!
Day-to-day Events
I use my phone calendar to keep all my dates and appointments with people, deadlines for projects and assignments. I used to sync my timetable (which includes lesson time and exam dates), but this semester I'm too lazy to do it so yea, it's not reflected in my calendar here!
I really can't live without my calendar because I can be quite a forgetful person. So I'll try to immediately add the event to my calendar once it's confirm
Those are my productivity tools! :)
To the rest who are reading this, what's yours?
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