Pelican trying to eat the fish. Took a few attempts, but it finally managed in the end.
Ducklings!! And parent duck! :P
Baby swan and family
Ducklings again :)
Greedy ducks going over my foot trying to get to the bread...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Feeding ducks at the river...
Went to the river to feed ducks with my bf. Ducklings were so cute!! =) Here are some photos from that day... 3 Oct
Ducklings!! And parent duck! :P
Baby swan and family
Ducklings again :)
Greedy ducks going over my foot trying to get to the bread...
Ducklings!! And parent duck! :P
Baby swan and family
Ducklings again :)
Greedy ducks going over my foot trying to get to the bread...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Updates
Hmm, haven't written anything in a while! Well, I have a reason! I was busy with my thesis. Note: WAS. Haha. It was submitted last Tuesday! =) So yeah I have been free for past week or so. What have I been doing? Watching tv series, anime and reading books and manga. So this is what I've been up to recently...
THESIS
Yes! This is over and done with. Finally. After several months of hard work (and it is hard when you have to chase your supervisor plus trying all sorts of way to get participants) I finally submitted it. So glad it is over... now hopefully will get a good mark out of it. Our thesis is 33% of our marks. Considering that I did pretty well for my coursework and placement, I am positive I pass overall. =) Now just waiting for the confirmation of results, which should be out early December.
WORK
I will be starting work at Locher Human Resources on 23 Nov, after I come back from Singapore. Should be good... and I hope to learn lots from it. Must remind myself at all times though that I LEARN stuff from it. So all the best to me!
Have been doing some casual work at Santos. Not paid much, but the work doesn't require much use of the brain so all's good. They have free coffee, tea and biscuits there though :P
SEMINARS
I attended the first of three seminars today! It was great! And I get accredited in Genesys after the 3 seminars so that is a bonus. Today, I was taught to think of every psychometric assessment as a mini-experiment, since the aim is to get data out of it. Frankly, I have not thought of psychometric assessment this way, and it is a different perception. I mean, think about it... when you are conducting an experiment in your honours, you would want to make sure certain things remain consistent for your participants right? Like the setup of room, instructions etc. to ensure that your results are valid. Interesting way to think of psychometric assessment right? =)
EVENTS
Let's see... where have I been for the past month:
11 Sep - International Food Festival by the Medical school. Was invited by a friend for this event. As it's a food event, lots to eat! and it's $10 for 4 dishes. Pretty awesome. Only thing was there were so many people in that small hall that we felt suffocated.
20 Sep - City to Bay fun walk. Walked 12 km for this event! Went with a few good friends and it was enjoyable. The weather was good, and well, the distance is not a problem when your friends are with you. Did have muscleache after that though
26 Sep - Ying's Birthday. Had great food! about 12 dishes in all =) Will put up photos soon... when I reduce their size. Heh. Coincidentally, 26 Sep is mum's birthday too.
10 Oct - Animania. Friends from Sydney were organising this function so I went to help out. Cosplay wasn't as good as I thought it would be though, so that was disappointing. However, the other events were pretty good. And I get to see how much effort is required to set up and clean up for an event. Brought them (about 20 people!) for hotpot after the event...
Will put up photos soon... after I have sort them out :P
BOOKS
Book I am reading now:
Think! Before it's too late by Edward De Bono
Interesting book (so far) about lateral and creative thinking.
Books I want to read (which I will prolly go sit at Borders and read):
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Have a little faith by Mitch Albom
Books that I have read recently:
Obsidian Prey by Jayne Castle
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan
Knockout by Catherine Coulter
I can see you by Karen Rose
Seven deadly sins by Agatha Christie (collection of stories)
ANIME
Vandread - Rewatched it. Still think it's a great series. haha
Saki - Mahjong anime... well, it's anime and interesting and funny. Japanese mahjong have different rules to the ones we play in Singapore. And the calculation for their winnings is complicated. Check out wikipedia. I think their mahjong players must be very good at maths
Kenichi - Funny, at times irritating, but quite good.
FFVII Advent Childrent - Finally watched it. hehe
THINGS THAT I FIND UNBELIEVABLE
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. That is just so... unbelievable. When I saw the headlines, my first reaction was... huh? he won? but what did he do? Considering that the nomination ended when he had only been 12 days in office, how could he have won!? This result makes me doubt the credibility of the prize committee. Think about it... Gandhi DID NOT win this, because the committee think that he wasn't worthy of it. Gandhi, who freed so many of his people. Not worthy. And yet, the American president got it... for doing nothing. I was looking at the comments on the news article, and one of them asked: So does this mean that if I SAY I will write a critically acclaimed book, I will win the Pulitzer? Oh well... dunno what the world is going on anymore... but this... this is shocking to me
Disasters happening around. Flood in the Philippines, Tsunami in Samoa, Earthquake in Indonesia... all on the same day. The Earth is angry with us?
Winter is still NOT gone. It's suppose to be SPRING. But but why are we still having 11-16 degrees in Adelaide? Where is spring!? I want the nice weather!! like 20 degrees! Not cold and wet weather. Sob.
THINGS TO DO
Shopping. Yep, need to go buy clothes to bring back. And I need to shop for a dress for Fen's ROM!! Have to buy food stuff too... like choco and wine. Hahahahahah
Renew passport. The thought struck me yesterday... when I renew my sg passport at home... what will happen to my working visa? It's current a label in my current passport... oh well, will sort it out.
Long post... lalalalala.... back to Genesys....
THESIS
Yes! This is over and done with. Finally. After several months of hard work (and it is hard when you have to chase your supervisor plus trying all sorts of way to get participants) I finally submitted it. So glad it is over... now hopefully will get a good mark out of it. Our thesis is 33% of our marks. Considering that I did pretty well for my coursework and placement, I am positive I pass overall. =) Now just waiting for the confirmation of results, which should be out early December.
WORK
I will be starting work at Locher Human Resources on 23 Nov, after I come back from Singapore. Should be good... and I hope to learn lots from it. Must remind myself at all times though that I LEARN stuff from it. So all the best to me!
Have been doing some casual work at Santos. Not paid much, but the work doesn't require much use of the brain so all's good. They have free coffee, tea and biscuits there though :P
SEMINARS
I attended the first of three seminars today! It was great! And I get accredited in Genesys after the 3 seminars so that is a bonus. Today, I was taught to think of every psychometric assessment as a mini-experiment, since the aim is to get data out of it. Frankly, I have not thought of psychometric assessment this way, and it is a different perception. I mean, think about it... when you are conducting an experiment in your honours, you would want to make sure certain things remain consistent for your participants right? Like the setup of room, instructions etc. to ensure that your results are valid. Interesting way to think of psychometric assessment right? =)
EVENTS
Let's see... where have I been for the past month:
11 Sep - International Food Festival by the Medical school. Was invited by a friend for this event. As it's a food event, lots to eat! and it's $10 for 4 dishes. Pretty awesome. Only thing was there were so many people in that small hall that we felt suffocated.
20 Sep - City to Bay fun walk. Walked 12 km for this event! Went with a few good friends and it was enjoyable. The weather was good, and well, the distance is not a problem when your friends are with you. Did have muscleache after that though
26 Sep - Ying's Birthday. Had great food! about 12 dishes in all =) Will put up photos soon... when I reduce their size. Heh. Coincidentally, 26 Sep is mum's birthday too.
10 Oct - Animania. Friends from Sydney were organising this function so I went to help out. Cosplay wasn't as good as I thought it would be though, so that was disappointing. However, the other events were pretty good. And I get to see how much effort is required to set up and clean up for an event. Brought them (about 20 people!) for hotpot after the event...
Will put up photos soon... after I have sort them out :P
BOOKS
Book I am reading now:
Think! Before it's too late by Edward De Bono
Interesting book (so far) about lateral and creative thinking.
Books I want to read (which I will prolly go sit at Borders and read):
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Have a little faith by Mitch Albom
Books that I have read recently:
Obsidian Prey by Jayne Castle
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan
Knockout by Catherine Coulter
I can see you by Karen Rose
Seven deadly sins by Agatha Christie (collection of stories)
ANIME
Vandread - Rewatched it. Still think it's a great series. haha
Saki - Mahjong anime... well, it's anime and interesting and funny. Japanese mahjong have different rules to the ones we play in Singapore. And the calculation for their winnings is complicated. Check out wikipedia. I think their mahjong players must be very good at maths
Kenichi - Funny, at times irritating, but quite good.
FFVII Advent Childrent - Finally watched it. hehe
THINGS THAT I FIND UNBELIEVABLE
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. That is just so... unbelievable. When I saw the headlines, my first reaction was... huh? he won? but what did he do? Considering that the nomination ended when he had only been 12 days in office, how could he have won!? This result makes me doubt the credibility of the prize committee. Think about it... Gandhi DID NOT win this, because the committee think that he wasn't worthy of it. Gandhi, who freed so many of his people. Not worthy. And yet, the American president got it... for doing nothing. I was looking at the comments on the news article, and one of them asked: So does this mean that if I SAY I will write a critically acclaimed book, I will win the Pulitzer? Oh well... dunno what the world is going on anymore... but this... this is shocking to me
Disasters happening around. Flood in the Philippines, Tsunami in Samoa, Earthquake in Indonesia... all on the same day. The Earth is angry with us?
Winter is still NOT gone. It's suppose to be SPRING. But but why are we still having 11-16 degrees in Adelaide? Where is spring!? I want the nice weather!! like 20 degrees! Not cold and wet weather. Sob.
THINGS TO DO
Shopping. Yep, need to go buy clothes to bring back. And I need to shop for a dress for Fen's ROM!! Have to buy food stuff too... like choco and wine. Hahahahahah
Renew passport. The thought struck me yesterday... when I renew my sg passport at home... what will happen to my working visa? It's current a label in my current passport... oh well, will sort it out.
Long post... lalalalala.... back to Genesys....
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