Going home :D

Going home in 2 days! Busy packing! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

USB Found!

Found my USB! Wheee! Thank goodness psychology students are honest people. I left my USB in the lab on Tues and it's Thurs today. I was very worried yesterday cause I had a lot of information in there. Phew. Feeling very relived now...

Got reprimanded during placement yesterday. My supervisor had asked me to call someone from Monash about something but I haven't done it yet. It is my fault cause i am procrastinating. Well, for people who know me well, U should know that I am not very good at speaking. Sigh. So yes, I have been procrastinating speaking to this person and got reprimanded for it. I dun blame her, just myself. Oh well. Anyway, after the reprimand, I immediately decided on the questions to ask and let my supervisor go through them. So now, I will be speaking to this person on Monday. Wish me luck.

Basically I think my report is done. Will be sending the draft to fennie to vet over the weekend. The only part that is missing is the one from Monash which I will add in after the call on Monday. Hopefully after I get everything done, I will be able to do other stuff and dun have to worry about placement stuff anymore. The draft is still very draft. Still have quite a bit of paraphrasing to do, but the main idea is there. Just glad that I got it out.

Will be going home soon! So excited about it! hehhehehe...

eeek, gtg for class. 9.05am o.O Have a good day!

Happenings recently...

Today is Labour day holiday. :) Nice! have 1 day holiday that I did not know about until last week. Thank goodness someone told me if not I would have rushed off for work this morning.

Still lots of things to do and progress is very slow. Will have to pick up pace if I want to finish stuff on time. I have made a plan and timeline. Must stick to it! So far havent been able to due to som last min changes. Grrr. Oh well, I must stick with it!!! So today I have to finish up draft 1 of HRM, which is mostly there but I see some duplication, CB journal and draft 1 of part 2, and decide on DM. Considering it's 5.30pm now... I am not sure if I can... dang. Looks like a late nite tonite!

DM is still bugging me. I cant settle on a topic which is bad. Humph. More reading to do.

Have been distracted by mud lately cause of some new changes that were implemented. Bleah.

I went on a no-chocolate 5 day bet with myself. Haha. I am amazed I havent died yet. So I ate chocolate yesterday and today. o.O Will start another no-chocolate bet with myself and see how long I can last. I suspect I am becoming addicted to chocoolate, which is not good cause I am gaining weight....

ok, off to do work now!

People should learn to keeo their mouth shut... and I learnt who's a "loudspeaker"

Yesterday a friend said to me, "hey, I heard about your questions dilemma. So what are you gonna do about it? Asked her any more questions?" My first reaction was... how did he knew about this?! The "question dilemma" is an email exchange between a lecturer and me, where I asked questions about an assignment and she replied that I am rapidly running out of questions I can ask cause the max no. of questions she will respond to for an assignment is 4. I was like.. HUH?! when did this regulation came about? And how come we did not know about this!? and didn't she said during lectures that we can feel free to ask her any questions any time? I was quite pissed with the who situation and complained to a... I wouldnt even say friend. More of an acquaintance who was present. This person... is the "loudspeaker". She met my friend and told him about my dilemma. Sheesh, goodness knows how many other people she has told by now. I hope she has not told the rest of the class, because come to think of it, it is very possible!!! I mean I am unhappy with the lecturer, but I dun want this whole incident to float around the class and eventually find its way back to her! sheesh.

Frankly, people should learn to keep their mouth shut. This is directed not only to Ms. Loud, but also to myself. I should have known better that she will not keep this to herself *roll eyes*. Anyway I learnt. Let's just hope this will not be an "expensive" lesson. Now whenever she ask me how my weekend went, how things are, I must remember to only tell her about mundane stuff, like yeah, it was good, went for a jog (maybe this isnt mundane. Who knows what she will interpret from me going jogging. That i'm getting fat and want to lose weight etc. etc.). I think in the future I'll just keep it to Uni stuff, like I'm doing assignments. But then again, she will jump to the conclusion that I finished my assignment. Last week she made a comment about me finishing Consumer Behaviour when in reality I havent really done much about it. Hmmmm... I think I'll just stick to weather. I dun think there's much u can infer from weather, and not much of a conclusion u can jump to so I think I'll be safe.

Ok, enough ranting. Need to prepare to go work. I need to finish up the report associated with my project. Then maybe I can do other stuff! :) Weekend is coming!!!

To-Do List

I realised to my horror that I have 5 weeks left to the end of Uni and LOTS to do. Look at the new to-do list that I made up! OMG! How am I going to finish everything!!!! Gasp... not good o.O

Photos from Quiz Night!

Some photos from Quiz Night!! Still amazed at how enjoyable the night was :)

Drinking at the Uni Staff Club before the event

Us pretty ladies! :)
From beside me: Jane, Linda, Deb

At the library, where the quiz nite was held

Chris, our team leader

Other people from HR... not too sure of their names though >_<
But they are nice! :)

See the food on the table! and the books behind us!
This is my fav place in the library. It's the Reading Room.
Kinda reminded me of Harry Potter :)

Our structure for craft and technology class. Not bad eh?

The winner of the structure comp o.O it was really really high up!

Our price for getting 3rd last in the quiz... a wine stopper

Sunday Mail City-Bay 12km Walk

Today was the Sunday Mail City-Bay 12km walk/run. Being the no-stamina person, I opted to go for the walk instead. I mean I cant even run 400m... dun talk about 12km run. So I entered together with the OHS people =) We had about 30 people altogether from the Uni. Not a bad crowd. So here are some photos!

About 28k people came for this event...

Komal & Me. I "persuaded" her to go for the event with me... hehe...

My fencing mates.. Rusell, Jo, Kit & BobMy placement boss, Gerald

My placement colleagues, Linda & Deb

Me at the starting line...

3km to go...

Almost there!

1km... that's about half of the group ^^
Quite amazing how we can get this many people to stick together

Us at the finish line! We made it after 2 hrs!

At Glenelg Beach. Gonna go get food and then go home

Some entertainers that we saw along the way...

Some Dressed Up People :)

Quiz Fizz Night

Today was the Quiz Fizz Night and the theme was Back to School. It's an event that was organized by the social club of the services branch. Initially when I was sent the invite, I wasnt that keen to go. In the end I decided to cause 1) all proceeds donated to charity 2) could get to know my colleagues better 3) never been to a quiz night before and thought it will be fun.

And manz, it was FUN and HILARIOUS!

Firstly, I didnt think too much about dressing up. I mean come on, where am I going to get something to wear!? My school uniform is back in SG! but then today one of my colleague couldnt wear the uniform of another person's, so it was passed on to me. So yeap, in the end, I had to dress up in a high sch uniform. LOL. I thought to myself, no big deal... just wear loh.

Then, my colleagues from the Unit decide that we will dress up after work! but before dinner! So after work at 5pm, we all went to change into our sch uniforms and went to dinner! LOL. The looks people gave us! MUAHAHAHAHA. Hilarious! I havent got the photos, but I will get some soon. Once u see the photos, maybe u can understand why people were stunned. Lol. I mean 4 women, age from 26 to 50+, dressed in uniforms is bound to turn heads. Hahaha.

After dinner, we went to the Staff Club for a drink... and got laughed at again. LOL. Crap, that reminded me I havent paid my boss for my drink... zzz. Oh well, will check with him again.

After the drink we were on the way to the library, where the event was held, when we met our leader... who didnt dressed up! the first thing he said when he saw us was... Oh my f***ing god, I cant believe this... and he put his head into his arm and laughed. HAHA

When we reached the library, people were laughing again lah. But then I can imagine it. If I was sitting at a table waiting for the quiz to start, and see this group of people come in wearing sch uniform, I would laugh too. Haha...

The quiz was quite fun. It's structured as a day class. So we had the following (that I can remember)

• 2 assignments. One is to work out what things like 24 H in a D (24 hours in a day) mean, and the other assignment is to match mascots to olympics
  
• Maths class, where we had to do some algebra, subtraction, multiplication etc
• Geography class, where we were given some really tricky questions. Cant remember much about this though. Haha.
• Drama class, where we watch extracts from videos and answer some questions. Quite tricky! they asked things like how many enemy ships did u see, how many beards were hanging at the back etc.
• Craft, design and technology, where we were given a stack of newspapers and a roll of tape and had to build a free-standing structure. The tallest one win. Ours didnt win, but it's impressively high.. about 2.16m. =)
  
• History, where we were asked questions about events that happened in... the last 2 days. Quite funny cause all of the answers can be found in the newspaper that we had used to build our structure... people were destroying their structure to find the answers. Lol.

All in all it wasnt too bad. It was $10, but for that we get free flow of beer/wine/soft drinks/water. And each table had a bag of chips, sweets, and quite a bit of light finger food (crackers, dips, ham and sausages). There were also some sandwiches at the front which I had some during our "lunch break". Haha. Oh! and we won the best dressed so all of us got complimentary cinema tickets. Hahahahhahaah. I must say that tonite was very fun. hehehe. I enjoyed it much more that I thought I would have. Hahahahaha

Whee! tomorrow is the weekend! I have group discussions from 11 to 5 I think. zzzz. Then on Sunday is the City to Bay 12km walk. Will prolly take 3 hours? o.O but the Uni paid for it as I'm considered as staff ^^. Part of the Uni's wellbing promotion program. hehe. And I got a free Uni shirt too! :) should be a fun weekend! (and probably tiring too....)

Photos from Royal Adelaide Show

Ok, internet seems to be a bit better today... here are some photos from the show!

Entrance to the Adelaide Showground

Mosiac Winners (the ones with the blue ribbons are first prize)

I believe this is the first prize from the painting category

One of the quilts on show. What I find interesting about this quilt is that it's actually 50 years of the persons life. Every square depicts part of her/his life. There's photos of the person's family, kids, growing up etc. Very nice.

One of the first prize from the Quilt category. Must take them a long time... every different color that you see is a different piece of cloth. o.O imagine the time put into this!

Special and first prize for Embroidery category. Intricate work done here.

First prize for jewelery category.

Forgot what category is this. But these are the eggs...

Apples ^^ Nice design. Heh

My favourite category from the show... the Cake Decorating Category! It's always nice to see how nice they look!!!

Junior Category

Carnival

One of the dog from the dog pavilion. They have show judging for the show. Havent seen this dog before o.O

This dog is the winner of a lot of cateogries. See those cards behind him? 8 Cards. It refuses to look at me. Sob

One of the winners of the cat category :)

Another winner. This cat was really frisky. hehe.

Weird looking duck. There's a patch on top of its head o.O

Coloured chickens... ^^||

Piggies :) These animals are part of the farm experience that they have on the show. It's interesting! and the kids love it.

Showbags! This is the part that everyone love! U buy these bags that are filled with stuff... candies and chocolates for me of course. I remember last time when fen and I went to the Easter Show in Sydney, we went crazy buying showbags. And of course the inflatibles. But I controlled this time... bought only two.

Huge cow. :P Dairy farmer is the sponsor of the fireworks.

Taste SA. Yep, they have a part of the show for u to taste produce of SA. Very nice. Spend quite a bit of my time here tasting

Sunset at the show

And of course, the fireworks!! =D There were a lot of performances before the fireworks, which I wasnt really interested in. And the fireworks nearly didnt go ahead because of the strong winds. Thank goodness the wind became weaker :)