hmmz..blogging frm my uncle's place in jb...coz i cant go back to singapore..haha! came over to jb to renew my international passport...but they said tt they needed to keep my old one for 24 hours...so i cant go back to singapore..sianz...but going back tml once i receive my new passport..btw..i dun have a restricted passport to use..coz when it expired..i didnt bother to renew it..lolx! maybe it wasnt a smart choice after all
but anywayz..my uncle's place here is fine..will be staying till nite when my god-mum will come and pick me up to her place..haha! yupz, will be sleeping at her place tonite.
well..tt's it for now..oh ya! my licence is already ready...so hopefully when the car arrives this sat..i can drive! yoohoO!!!!!!lalalalalala!
to my marketing grp..sorry ahz..cant go back on thur for discussion on fri..but i doing my work now..so dun worry!

sumatra experienced yet another earthquake measuring 8.7 on the ritcher scale...once again, our house felt the tremors..i was not ard then..my bro was at home...he said tt the windchime was ringing when all the doors and windows were closed and complained of giddiness....
i wonder y our home so prone to the earthquake tremors..think this is a cause for serious concern...this is the 2nd time tt our home has been hit by such tremors...the 1st was the 26th dec 2004...the tsunami day...the windchime was ringing too...for details..pls refer to my blog on tt day..haha
anywayz..just hope tt the tectonic plates settle down and stop shifting! can imagine tt it was so serious tt my bro felt giddy...quite hard for him to feel giddy unless he falls ill....
time to educate ourselves on how to cope wif earthquakes and not take out geographic position for granted...

feeling so tired now...just finished reading 4 chapters of marketing text....tt's abt 140 pages of the textbook i think...took me 2 days to read...now i need to read another library book tt sarah/jac borrowed for the assignment...dun think i can finish reading all those relevant parts...sigh....
still need to brainstorm the marketing assignment qns 1 and 2...mana ada masa??!!! haiz...not complaining...just groaning..lolx!
to my grp members..if i dun manage to complete my work..pls understand..i still need to go do passport somemore horz..hahaha! tt will be 1/2 day gone liaoz..i think
anywayz...i still like my marketing assignment grp!
is there any flow in my blog today? i dun think so..anywayz dun care oso..just take it as me 'updating' the blog..haha

toopid toopid toopid! hate my instructor..hate him hate him...almost 3 weeks since i passed my driving test and still have not gotten my licence...toopid slacker!!! wanna strangle him....cant drive at all...toopid guy....ok..run out of vocab liaoz...

had trade finance tutorial today. our professor had given us a newspaper article to read on a few days back and wanted someone to explain the article to the class, linking the concepts of wat we learnt to the article.
so i volunteered and became very engrossed in my explanation. at the end of my presentation, the professor was seemingly impressed and kept saying "excellent, excellent". when giving feedback on my presentation..he only gave me a pointer..."when u present, stand on 2 feet. coz when u lift up ur leg, the audience will be distracted." my response : -_-|||
haha! i have not noticed tt i was moving ard a lot and lifting up my legs! lolx! but anywayz, tt was a good joke for the class to laugh at..hahahahahahahhaa!
after all, not many professors praise u being excellent...lolx!

zoom! and it is now the 4th week of uni. i have gained into the full swing of uni already. this are some thoughts abt my units i m taking this sem
it may be early to say but i feel tt i may have an easier time this sem than last sem. coz i dun need to work so much like last sem where i had business law and money capital markets subj..these 2 units took up a lot of my time.
this sem, i love all the units i m doing. so i guess it's the passion i have for these subjects tt r making my life easier. applied mico/macroeconomics is no prob to me so far. quite interesting. i have an excellent professor lecturer teaching trade finance and forreign exchange..making me love the subject. more confident in finance than b4 thanx to this professor. data modelling is the subj i love most, being a business stat subj. it requires the least amt of reading and work..lol! all i need to know are the basic concepts and how to solve probs using excel..very fun and easy!(for now..)
but i cant really say the same for marketing...taking consumer behaviour. i gotta admit tt theoretical subjects like management and marketing are not my type...it's not tt kind of critical thinking kind of subj...i dun feel so comfortable in consumer behaviour. after so many lects, i cant really link the concepts tt well in my head.. neither can i see the big picture...crapz....my past academic results have proven tt i cant take this kind of subjects. my management and marketing subjs in the past 2 sems were the lowest scoring marks relative to my other subjects..
i dun think it's how i study for it..but rather how well i can see the picture..
but anywayz..i m feeling more relaxed this sem than last sem...so i think tt's good..more time for myself this sem...starting to like my timetable too..although waking up is a HUGE problem every morning...lolx! u can get sarah to testify tt..lolx!
yupz..tt's my thoughts so far..hopefully i can carry on my passion and momentum on for another 10 weeks..haha!

happie burfday to u, rachel! lalallaa! hope u enjoy ur 20th bday in australia and hope it will be a wonderful experience! frens always~

~JasOn~

wow..been a long time since i blogged. been very busy this week wif assignment but i m glad tt i have finished it. m feeling good till now and hope this momentum can carry me on for a long period of time. came across a nice teaching abt stress management. hope u enjoy!

Stress Management

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an
audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how
heavy is this glass of water? "
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The
lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't
matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. "

"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I
hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right
arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an
ambulance. "In each case, it's the same weight, but
the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. "

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress
management. If we carry our burdens all the time,
sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly
heavy, we won't be able to carry on. "

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down
for a while and rest before holding it again. When
we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. "

"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of
work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up
tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let
them down for a moment if you can. " "Relax; pick them
up later after you've rested.

Life is short. Enjoy it!

yoz ppl! well the 2nd week of uni has just passed and i have quite a few thoughts on my mind. actually, i only went to uni for 3 days in this 2nd week coz i skipped one whole day's of class on mon due to the driving test and tue was my off day ( no classes on tue..hehez).
but anywayz, look at wat 3 days can do to me. right now, i feel that i have not swung into the momentum of uni. maybe i have, just tt others have swung better into the momentum of uni? haha! let me explain.
i thought i have always been quite ok wif my revision and preparation. so when i attended my data modelling class on thur, i tot i was 'prepared' for class. well, actually i didnt do any tut qns as i thought the tutor will bring us thru the tut, showing us how to do the work on excel. i prepared by revising the lect notes abt the tut topic. however when i attended the lab session, i was surprised to see some students prepared with their work on excel! they had done their work and saved it on diskettes and brought it to class! impressive! so i felt quite out of place in class..haha! gosh, i have underestimated monash's business stats students. frm now on, i shall not think i m not the best student..haha! okie..i admit tt i once thought i was the best business stats student coz i scored the highest mark in my exam thruout the level..hehez! i WAS invincible..not now..lolx! results dun prove anything..the process does
with regards to my econs assignment, quite a no. of students were already asking the tutor abt the assignment during the tutorial. again, i had not prepared anything abt the assignment then coz i only printed the qns out tt day and had not read it at all...some of them had even borrowed books frm the library! gosh...i tot monash students would only do assignments at the last minute? haha
i spent the whole day doing my econs assigment qn 1. somehow, i felt rusty doing the assignment. though i had a written draft in front of me, i took 2.5 hours to finish typing a 500 word part question. maybe i m a perfectionist, coz i kept looking at the draft, kept rethinking on how to rephrase some points b4 i typed it out. i tried to make all the points link very well. i oso kept thinking whether i was writing in point coz i was afraid tt i may overlap some content into another qn...tt would be bad assignment writing. anywayz, though i have finished typing tt part, i m still not satisfied..haha! i dunno y...maybe i m not confident enuff of my ans...just feel tt the qn is quite vague..not too sure wat it wants. the qn sounds so simple but yet so hard to ans...feels odd for sure.
anywayz..to sum up, i m not quite satisfied with my performance this week. hopefully i would do better frm tml onwards. one thing i have not given up is my confidence to accomplish things well..so i hope u do not too! i believe tt if i keep pushing myself, i will become better and better. do u believe it too?

FINALLY, after 3 months and 2 days, i have finally taken and passed my driving test!!!!!!!!!! i m so delighted and happy! all the hard work have finally paid off. i never felt so good driving before.
my road driving was good. one thing to mention is tt i was one of the earliest candidates to take the driving test. so i was not too prepared. but as soon as i started driving on the road, i felt so much at ease. i felt no pressure at all. in fact, i felt more comfortable driving during the test today than my practice lessons.
after passing my road driving with a score of 17/20, i had to wait another 4 hours b4 i was called to take my slope, side parking and 3 point turn test. the wait was agonising and i was hungry too! but i had to tahan lorz..no choice.
lining up for the slope test was a woman before me. however, upon seeing the car tt she was to drive for the test, she refused to drive it and i had to take her turn. the reason y she refused is becoz the car was very old and hard to handle. i tot so too..coz earlier in the morning, i had noticed tt many ppl who drove tt car failed!
when i got into the car, the 1st prob i had was the clutch paddle. it was so freaking hard to press down! i oso couldnt gage where was half of the clutch paddle as it was very old! the accelerator was oso so loose! press a little bit and the engine makes a roar!
as i was not familiar with the clutch,as soon as i started driving up the slope, the car was jerking quite violently coz i cant control and feel the clutch tt well..it's old! but luckily for me, i was able to stop on the yellow line..phew! but the wheel was on the front part of the yellow line..coz i took a little bit more time to press the stubborn clutch in b4 pressing the brake.
being an old car, i was quite worried abt my balancing on the slope due to the stupid clutch. (i.e. making the car move again up the slope.) fortunately, all the balancing experience tt i gained from traffic jams saw me thru it and it was flawless. this was how i passed my slope test! phew! no need for me to mention the side parking and 3 pt turn tests as they were easy..hhehez!
i m so glad tt all these are finally over. all i need to do now is to wait to colect my licence next week and i can start driving..but the prob is..i dun have a car now..sigh....but at least i can drive! hahaz

i went to the bowling alley at pyramid yesterday. there was a competition...if i m not wrong, it's a sort of interstate bowling competition. there were categories for under 12, under 15 and under 18. when i arrived, it was the under 15 Masters event..meaning tt the top 16 (just putting a no.) of the whole field of abt a few hundred bowlers bowl a game of 12 games.
whenever a bowler bowled a strike, there would be cheers erupting frm their supporters. i think the largest and loudest group of supporters were frm penang. they were cheering for jonathan chan..i watched him bowl and trust me..he was really good..
but anywayz...the thought tt came into my mind was the time when i was a competitive bowler in 2002 and 2003..representing my school in competitions. it was the same..when i was bowling, there would be frens cheering me on. when i bowled badly, the coach would offer me adivce and my other team mates would encourage me. and when i bowled well, i could feel the adrenaline rush in me..wanting to excel and score high games..i realy loved tt feeling..
i really miss tt atmosphere...schools competing against each other...bowlers exchanging strikes..not wanting to be outdone by the other..at the end of the day, all of us were fighting glory for our school. the whole bowling alley would be crowded with supporters, teachers and banners...the alley would also be filled with cheers! the crowd oso moans sometimes when a bowler didnt get a strike or misses his spare..
well, i guess these memories would always remain dear to my heart..coz i know never again will i get to experience such situations again...i have long lost the competitiveness in bowling i once had...i just bowl for fun now...maybe sgn up for a few competitions here and there..but it's only for fun..

i had my data modeling (business stats unit) lecture today. guess who i saw in the lecture theatre...yes..it's tt fat guy who i hate to the core!
i cant believe it! i m gonna be wif him for 3 whole damn semesters??!!!!! how unlucky can i get?!
i can forsee the problems ahead..he's gonna ask me for tut and assignment qns...always bugging me over stupid and reduntant qns.
he's has already started pestering me today.
after the lect today, i went to the staff room and was waiting to see another lecturer wif sarah and rachel (another rachel..not the rachel in aussie..lol) when suddenly he began calling my name. he didnt just call my name. he called my name as if he was stalking me. he was whispering my name behind me for so many times. i pretended not to hear him.
i quickly approached the lecturer and asked something b4 leaving. as i had no choice but to walk past him as i left, i pretended not to see him. he called my name again and asked another stupid qn.. "Jason, how was ur exams??'
wat the heck?! he had already phoned to me during the hols to ask me this qn and he;s asking it again???? besides, can he ask me something more constructive??? ahz..better still, dun talk to me.
if he pesters me again, i would have no choice but to tell him to leave me alonE ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!! he is not a good promoter of Bangladesh, is he?

but anywayzx, the lecture i had on data modeling was good. seems challenging to me..need a lot of thinking..hehez! the lecturer is good too. unlike dr soo, the lecturer speaks at a much slower rate and takes pain to explain the concept in detail. she makes sure tt everyone understands wat she is talking abt...she takes her time! tt's good! no need to rush like dr.soo..lolx!

so..after 4 months of rotting, Uni finally started today. shall count my blessing as i did not have to wake up so early today since the 8am lect on mons start next week only..haha!
so the only lect i attended was trade finance and forr. exchange. was really surprised when i found out tt kean yew and shen oso took the same unit as me. i thought only sarah and i were the ones taking this unit. apparently, i didnt understand shen tt time when i asked wat units he was taking...haha
our lecturer is a professor..dun play play...ang moh person some more..haha! coolz! well, he's quite humourous...and can teach quite well..just tt i cant understand some words at times due to his accent. think the only flaw he had today was starting the lecture so early. i mean, there was no introduction to this unit at all or himself . neither did he distribute any booklets or watsoever. he just jumped straight into the content and started teaching..assuming tt all of us had the lect notes and textbook...someone forgot to tell him tt this was the 1st day of uni??? web ct is not updated yet!!!!!
finally saw the renovated cafeteria...i felt no sense of joy though...perhaps i was quite disappointed. the old food stores are still there..meaning tt they give little servings and charge u a bomb. the only addition food stores were AunTIE Anns and 1 jap stall with a sit ard table...i doubt i would eat the jap food as the cheapest food is Rm6.80. given the stingy me in food, i will give it a pass...
tt sort of sums up the uni day today...really feels weird without jean and rachel around...and missing u...haiz..but nvm, i still have good frens ard! hahahaha!
FUMOFFU!!!