Well, as you guys may know already ( from my earlier posts), I have decided to leave my hair long until after Chinese New Year (CNY). This is the first time I'm not getting a haircut before CNY, and I expected many relatives to comment about my really long hair. So here's what happened during CNY.
Reunion Dinner
This was a much smaller gathering but still there were some who did not know I had been keeping my hair long. Once again, the same comments to leave my hair this way as it looks really nice.
CNY Day 1
I received several rather interesting comments about my hair today. This was a much larger gathering of relatives as compared to yesterday so it was likely I would get more comments about my hair. Anyways, their sentiments were much the same. All said to leave my hair long. I received comments saying I looked "groovy". "feminine". "nice"
Just before I left, someone even shouted randomly " Keep that hairstyle! And buy some Korean clothes!"
Laugh My Fucking Ass OFF! Hahahaa
Tomorrow's CNY Day 2 with another round of gathering. I shall see what they think.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Spring is near!
Heys guys! I'm back again.
I've been feeling kind of light and relaxed these last couple of days actually, which has also helped improved my mood too. I'm also not feeling as stressed up over my revision as I think I ought to be, since Prelims are only two weeks away! You might think that I am likely very prepared for my Prelims already hence I'm feeling so at ease. Unfortunately, I'm not. Which makes it all the more surprising that I am in the mood to feel so chill and cool now. I've sort of thought about this a little and come up with three possible reasons.
Firstly, Chinese New Year is approaching!! Haha, it's not like I'd have much time to celebrate CNY really seeing as I would likely be busy preparing for my Prelims examinations. Still, how can I not feel the CNY atmosphere all around me with all the red and gold decorations coming up on every shop and street, and even in people's houses too? Just knowing CNY is coming and that spring is arriving is enough to lift anyone's spirits. Don't you agree?
Secondly, all my lectures for this semester are going to end this week! That means no more classes. Doesn't that sound like music to the ears? Hahaa... Not really. Classes may have ended but there is still lots of revision and studying to be done, no thanks to the upcoming Prelims of course. Hmm, I think I better get used to this idea of CNY being "burnt" as this is going to be the case for the next two years. This is due to me taking a University of London(UOL) course and Prelims will be taking place around the same period for the following years. Still, the idea of lectures ending is still something to be joyful about.
Lastly, I think this relaxed mood could be due to the cooling weather that has been the norm this past couple of weeks, especially at night. Thus, this cooling weather might actually be what's keeping me so chill and cool of late.
Ahh... good mood aside, I am feeling really tired now. So till my next post, ciaoz!
I've been feeling kind of light and relaxed these last couple of days actually, which has also helped improved my mood too. I'm also not feeling as stressed up over my revision as I think I ought to be, since Prelims are only two weeks away! You might think that I am likely very prepared for my Prelims already hence I'm feeling so at ease. Unfortunately, I'm not. Which makes it all the more surprising that I am in the mood to feel so chill and cool now. I've sort of thought about this a little and come up with three possible reasons.
Firstly, Chinese New Year is approaching!! Haha, it's not like I'd have much time to celebrate CNY really seeing as I would likely be busy preparing for my Prelims examinations. Still, how can I not feel the CNY atmosphere all around me with all the red and gold decorations coming up on every shop and street, and even in people's houses too? Just knowing CNY is coming and that spring is arriving is enough to lift anyone's spirits. Don't you agree?
Secondly, all my lectures for this semester are going to end this week! That means no more classes. Doesn't that sound like music to the ears? Hahaa... Not really. Classes may have ended but there is still lots of revision and studying to be done, no thanks to the upcoming Prelims of course. Hmm, I think I better get used to this idea of CNY being "burnt" as this is going to be the case for the next two years. This is due to me taking a University of London(UOL) course and Prelims will be taking place around the same period for the following years. Still, the idea of lectures ending is still something to be joyful about.
Lastly, I think this relaxed mood could be due to the cooling weather that has been the norm this past couple of weeks, especially at night. Thus, this cooling weather might actually be what's keeping me so chill and cool of late.
Ahh... good mood aside, I am feeling really tired now. So till my next post, ciaoz!
Econs coaching
I've been helping out a classmate with Intro to Economics revision for the past few weeks, about twice each week. It's not that I'm really good with the mod, just that I had studied Econs before in JC so I understand it a little better. Frankly, I was not too confident of actually coaching him initially. Still, I thought I could try to help so I just carried on with it until now. I guess I can say I'm not doing too badly? I'd rather call it studying the mod together than coaching him. I don't think I'm competent enough to be considered coaching haha.
After studying the mod together for the past four weeks or so, it sure has helped both him and me. For me, having to coach him means I have to know the topics well. As such, I've been revising Econs in more detail than I usually would, and even more frequently too. I've also finally started doing my tutorials as a result... hehs.
Anyways, I just came back from another studying session with him, and he mentioned that he is now able to follow revision during lectures better. Haha, that sure is a relief to me. At least we are both benefitting from this.
The exams are less than two weeks away and I'm sure we would have finished revising the content by then, plus completing some past year revision papers. That is my plan anyways...
After studying the mod together for the past four weeks or so, it sure has helped both him and me. For me, having to coach him means I have to know the topics well. As such, I've been revising Econs in more detail than I usually would, and even more frequently too. I've also finally started doing my tutorials as a result... hehs.
Anyways, I just came back from another studying session with him, and he mentioned that he is now able to follow revision during lectures better. Haha, that sure is a relief to me. At least we are both benefitting from this.
The exams are less than two weeks away and I'm sure we would have finished revising the content by then, plus completing some past year revision papers. That is my plan anyways...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Success in Socio essay!
Just got an essay back from my lecturer. It was one which I had spent at least two weeks writing and submitted quite recently. To my delight, my efforts paid off and I scored quite well for this assignment.
To be honest, I had been pushing back completing this assignment due to the fact that I just didn't know how to begin writing. As the deadline for the submission drew nearer, I then contemplated rushing an essay out just for the sake of submission, or even not to submit it at all. I sure have serious issues with procrastination eh? By the way, I did intend to hand my assignment in. I just thought of taking my time to do up a proper piece of work before submitting it to have it checked at a later date.
However, the lecturer was nice enough to extend the deadline for another week. I guess the number of assignments submitted was very little. Still, whatever the reason, I then decided it was time for me to really sit down and give some thought how to complete the assignment. For one, I sure had some more time to prepare the assignment so I should be able to produce a pretty decent essay. For another, the lecturer was nice enough to give us more time to complete the assignment and I sure didn't want to disappoint her. Moreover, I also realised then that I didn't have many more lectures and thus there was little opportunity left to get feedback on my writing. So I decided on a day to read up my subject guide in detail and to do more research on the content and studies so that I could understand the content better and hopefully be able to better plan my essay.
After spending the time to find out more about the various sociologists and the studies that they had done, I found writing the essay to be much easier than expected. Of course, there were still times when I faced a mental block due to not having done much writing recently and so the language didn't flow as smoothly in my mind. By the time I was done, I was quite happy with my work. Well, I was more relieved that the essay was finally done actually. I rewrote the essay a second time to tidy up my writing and the essay was finally ready for submission! I was still not too clear of some parts of the content and so the essay was not as well as I would have wanted it,I just used information from the subject guide on those areas, with little research done by me.
Fast forward to this morning, my essay was returned to me and I was really delighted to see that I got 71% for it. Not only that, I saw the word "good" written next to a few paragraphs and the word "well attempted" at the end of the essay;)
So now I've finally got a decent essay as a benchmark for future writings. I've still got lots to work on of course, and this isn't much to celebrate really, since I took weeks to complete this. I sure am not going to get the luxury of time during my examinations.
Oh yes, before ending off, I also finally had a "consultation" with the lecturer at the end of class today and she has requested for me to drop her an email so that she could provide me more readings for the content which I had problems with. I'm definitely going to be putting in more effort for Sociology after today.
Okay, it's late, I'm going to bed.
ciaos...Zzzzz
To be honest, I had been pushing back completing this assignment due to the fact that I just didn't know how to begin writing. As the deadline for the submission drew nearer, I then contemplated rushing an essay out just for the sake of submission, or even not to submit it at all. I sure have serious issues with procrastination eh? By the way, I did intend to hand my assignment in. I just thought of taking my time to do up a proper piece of work before submitting it to have it checked at a later date.
However, the lecturer was nice enough to extend the deadline for another week. I guess the number of assignments submitted was very little. Still, whatever the reason, I then decided it was time for me to really sit down and give some thought how to complete the assignment. For one, I sure had some more time to prepare the assignment so I should be able to produce a pretty decent essay. For another, the lecturer was nice enough to give us more time to complete the assignment and I sure didn't want to disappoint her. Moreover, I also realised then that I didn't have many more lectures and thus there was little opportunity left to get feedback on my writing. So I decided on a day to read up my subject guide in detail and to do more research on the content and studies so that I could understand the content better and hopefully be able to better plan my essay.
After spending the time to find out more about the various sociologists and the studies that they had done, I found writing the essay to be much easier than expected. Of course, there were still times when I faced a mental block due to not having done much writing recently and so the language didn't flow as smoothly in my mind. By the time I was done, I was quite happy with my work. Well, I was more relieved that the essay was finally done actually. I rewrote the essay a second time to tidy up my writing and the essay was finally ready for submission! I was still not too clear of some parts of the content and so the essay was not as well as I would have wanted it,I just used information from the subject guide on those areas, with little research done by me.
Fast forward to this morning, my essay was returned to me and I was really delighted to see that I got 71% for it. Not only that, I saw the word "good" written next to a few paragraphs and the word "well attempted" at the end of the essay;)
So now I've finally got a decent essay as a benchmark for future writings. I've still got lots to work on of course, and this isn't much to celebrate really, since I took weeks to complete this. I sure am not going to get the luxury of time during my examinations.
Oh yes, before ending off, I also finally had a "consultation" with the lecturer at the end of class today and she has requested for me to drop her an email so that she could provide me more readings for the content which I had problems with. I'm definitely going to be putting in more effort for Sociology after today.
Okay, it's late, I'm going to bed.
ciaos...Zzzzz
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