Thursday, February 28, 2008
A very long post
This will be a post with many overdue photos and updates.
Despite this week being a recess week,
it is still awfully busy.
What with accounting quiz,
projects deadline just round the corner,
and many others.
Of all the projects,
Markstrat is by far the one that demands the most time.
We worked till 11pm @ Glenda's house on Tuesday.
Markstrat is this online stimulation game,
whereby my team takes on the role of product manager.
So every week we have to look after our ROI, stock price, market share etc.
Whatever the results of our 'company',
will be reflected upon our actual school grades.
Every week we're subjected to this competition among 5 'companies',
which are in fact just 5 groups in our seminar class.
The results are released every wed afternoon.
Just this wed,
I received a msg from Esther stating:
"OMG girls, we've to work hard to stop others from taking over us!"
My heart almost drop out.
I thought we had lost.
Called Esther immediately,
turned out she was just pulling our legs.
Gosh.
A competitive game like this just brings out the desire to win.
That's the clever bit by our lecturer.
Make anything competitive,
and you've got the students' full efforts.
Oh, and I managed to get the internship at BBDO advertising agency,
came as quite a shock,
the Planning director initially told me he'll get back to me 2 days after the phone interview,
but I didn't receive anything from him for the whole week.
Thought all was gone,
till I received a call yesterday at 7+pm.
Hope the school approves the internship.
One of the top 4 agencies in the world,
a chance that is rare to come by.
Pray for the best.
Some long long long overdue photos from Chin Hao's birthday.
Celebrated his birthday over steamboat.
Yum yum I heart steamboat.
But they make you incredibly full.
Up till the point of bursting.
Not a good sign for me as I burn calories at the rate of snails crawling.
Happy birthday Chin Hao!
Valentine's day!
Sean surprised me with a sweet balloon in school.
by pretending to ask me down to Canteen B for breakfast,
then coming up from behind with the balloon.
Sweet :)
In the end I brought the balloon along to shop with Esther,
and everybody probably thought we're a lesbian couple.
Lol.
Had dinner at Sun with Moon Japanese restaurant over @ Clarke Quey.
Their portions were so incredibly small!
The scallops and prawns I ordered were barely enough to fill 1/4 of my stomach :(
When we went back to Central,
I received a call from Song Yu,
of him asking us not to go upstairs.
Turned my head up and saw him and his gf just right along the corridor on the 2nd floor.
S'pore is just so small. Haha.
After dinner and slacking around,
we went to meet his friends at Clinic bar,
had a lychee martini.
That drink is heavenly.
Pardon my superstitions,
but I just thought the wheelchairs that Clinic bar had in place of real chairs,
were rather pantang to sit on.
Finally, last event of today's entry.
My very first networking night.
Handshakes, exchange of name cards, making small polite conversations,
all part of a glimpse into the corporate world.
Can't say I'm looking forward to it,
but its not something I can avoid either.
Especially not if I'm venturing into business marketing as a career.
Before going for the networking night,
we were at our product and pricing seminar class.
Our incredibly cluttered table with left overs from lunch.
Us engaging in some self entertainment,
Fun came after the event itself,
where we took some real silly pictures at the top of york hotel.
Time is still the best when you let your hair down.
That's all for my very long post.
Bye!
Despite this week being a recess week,
it is still awfully busy.
What with accounting quiz,
projects deadline just round the corner,
and many others.
Of all the projects,
Markstrat is by far the one that demands the most time.
We worked till 11pm @ Glenda's house on Tuesday.
Markstrat is this online stimulation game,
whereby my team takes on the role of product manager.
So every week we have to look after our ROI, stock price, market share etc.
Whatever the results of our 'company',
will be reflected upon our actual school grades.
Every week we're subjected to this competition among 5 'companies',
which are in fact just 5 groups in our seminar class.
The results are released every wed afternoon.
Just this wed,
I received a msg from Esther stating:
"OMG girls, we've to work hard to stop others from taking over us!"
My heart almost drop out.
I thought we had lost.
Called Esther immediately,
turned out she was just pulling our legs.
Gosh.
A competitive game like this just brings out the desire to win.
That's the clever bit by our lecturer.
Make anything competitive,
and you've got the students' full efforts.
Oh, and I managed to get the internship at BBDO advertising agency,
came as quite a shock,
the Planning director initially told me he'll get back to me 2 days after the phone interview,
but I didn't receive anything from him for the whole week.
Thought all was gone,
till I received a call yesterday at 7+pm.
Hope the school approves the internship.
One of the top 4 agencies in the world,
a chance that is rare to come by.
Pray for the best.
Some long long long overdue photos from Chin Hao's birthday.
Celebrated his birthday over steamboat.
Yum yum I heart steamboat.
But they make you incredibly full.
Up till the point of bursting.
Not a good sign for me as I burn calories at the rate of snails crawling.
Happy birthday Chin Hao!
Valentine's day!
Sean surprised me with a sweet balloon in school.
by pretending to ask me down to Canteen B for breakfast,
then coming up from behind with the balloon.
Sweet :)
In the end I brought the balloon along to shop with Esther,
and everybody probably thought we're a lesbian couple.
Lol.
Had dinner at Sun with Moon Japanese restaurant over @ Clarke Quey.
Their portions were so incredibly small!
The scallops and prawns I ordered were barely enough to fill 1/4 of my stomach :(
When we went back to Central,
I received a call from Song Yu,
of him asking us not to go upstairs.
Turned my head up and saw him and his gf just right along the corridor on the 2nd floor.
S'pore is just so small. Haha.
After dinner and slacking around,
we went to meet his friends at Clinic bar,
had a lychee martini.
That drink is heavenly.
Pardon my superstitions,
but I just thought the wheelchairs that Clinic bar had in place of real chairs,
were rather pantang to sit on.
Finally, last event of today's entry.
My very first networking night.
Handshakes, exchange of name cards, making small polite conversations,
all part of a glimpse into the corporate world.
Can't say I'm looking forward to it,
but its not something I can avoid either.
Especially not if I'm venturing into business marketing as a career.
Before going for the networking night,
we were at our product and pricing seminar class.
Our incredibly cluttered table with left overs from lunch.
Us engaging in some self entertainment,
Fun came after the event itself,
where we took some real silly pictures at the top of york hotel.
Time is still the best when you let your hair down.
That's all for my very long post.
Bye!
Clare [9:12 PM]
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
This semester has been awfully busy.
Coupled with the never ending projects,
sourcing for internships,
tuitions,
blah blah blah...
I barely have time to get my usual 7 hours of sleep everyday :(
Sorry for the serious lack of updates in this blog.
I will do a proper entry coming Monday with photos from Valentine, a very long due post on Chin Hao's birthday and if I can, photos from Azhar's 21st birthday this Saturday and Florine's 21st birthday this Sunday.
All right,
back to tutorial questions.
Bye!
Coupled with the never ending projects,
sourcing for internships,
tuitions,
blah blah blah...
I barely have time to get my usual 7 hours of sleep everyday :(
Sorry for the serious lack of updates in this blog.
I will do a proper entry coming Monday with photos from Valentine, a very long due post on Chin Hao's birthday and if I can, photos from Azhar's 21st birthday this Saturday and Florine's 21st birthday this Sunday.
All right,
back to tutorial questions.
Bye!
Clare [10:38 PM]
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I took a shot of my mum in her traditional cheong sum,
so to make it even better,
I applied some photoshop skills,
and gave the picture a very 60s feel.
My cousin says it looks like the cover of some mooncake box.
My brother came with this weird hairstyle,
that makes him looks like Sonic the hedgehog.
He said it was for the GL (guai l**) hairstyle day,
that he and his friends made up.
Young boys these days have weird ideas.
He told me to take a photo of his side profile,
so as to show his porcupine-looking hair.
Since I was already editing photos for this post,
I took some time to edit his side profile,
and gave him a Apple Ipod poster look.
Took me quite awhile to manipulate it,
especially since he's not holding on to any Ipod but just some postcards.
I quite like the end result =]
We had 3 tables altogether,
and all the cousins,
or the youngest generation,
took up 2 tables.
The waitresses were all wearing this tribal-like hair ring,
and since everyone just love my dad's hairless head,
they made him wear it to see how he looks like.
And they were pretty amused by it.
Lol.
After dinner it was off to my uncle's place to play our yearly tradition -
Lunar New Year gambling.
I'm happy to say I won quite some money.
And had continued winning today.
Whee...
Hehe.
Love the feel of seeing your money stack higher and higher.
Today didn't end very well,
misunderstandings lead to bigger things.
And when miscommunication occurs,
both party gets hurt.
It just takes a little calm thinking to realize,
how both may not be at fault,
but words can snowball to such an extent,
that we end up getting upset with each other.
Whatever it is,
Lunar New Year is still suppose to be a festive season.
It is not a good start to a year to feel upset,
so dear friends,
I hope you've enjoyed your new year!
Thursday, February 07, 2008
This year's reunion dinner was rather special,
instead of our usual steamboat,
we had it at Urban East restaurant @ Esplanade.
It was a 10 dish course,
similar to those wedding dinner kind.
Some dishes were nice,
some were not.
Regardless of that,
what was nice about it was the gathering of all,
getting together with all my cousins,
fun and laughter and just..
family warmth.
Some pictures taken last night:
instead of our usual steamboat,
we had it at Urban East restaurant @ Esplanade.
It was a 10 dish course,
similar to those wedding dinner kind.
Some dishes were nice,
some were not.
Regardless of that,
what was nice about it was the gathering of all,
getting together with all my cousins,
fun and laughter and just..
family warmth.
Some pictures taken last night:
I took a shot of my mum in her traditional cheong sum,
so to make it even better,
I applied some photoshop skills,
and gave the picture a very 60s feel.
My cousin says it looks like the cover of some mooncake box.
My brother came with this weird hairstyle,
that makes him looks like Sonic the hedgehog.
He said it was for the GL (guai l**) hairstyle day,
that he and his friends made up.
Young boys these days have weird ideas.
He told me to take a photo of his side profile,
so as to show his porcupine-looking hair.
Since I was already editing photos for this post,
I took some time to edit his side profile,
and gave him a Apple Ipod poster look.
Took me quite awhile to manipulate it,
especially since he's not holding on to any Ipod but just some postcards.
I quite like the end result =]
We had 3 tables altogether,
and all the cousins,
or the youngest generation,
took up 2 tables.
The waitresses were all wearing this tribal-like hair ring,
and since everyone just love my dad's hairless head,
they made him wear it to see how he looks like.
And they were pretty amused by it.
Lol.
After dinner it was off to my uncle's place to play our yearly tradition -
Lunar New Year gambling.
I'm happy to say I won quite some money.
And had continued winning today.
Whee...
Hehe.
Love the feel of seeing your money stack higher and higher.
Today didn't end very well,
misunderstandings lead to bigger things.
And when miscommunication occurs,
both party gets hurt.
It just takes a little calm thinking to realize,
how both may not be at fault,
but words can snowball to such an extent,
that we end up getting upset with each other.
Whatever it is,
Lunar New Year is still suppose to be a festive season.
It is not a good start to a year to feel upset,
so dear friends,
I hope you've enjoyed your new year!
Clare [9:16 PM]
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Hello dear friends!
Happy Chinese New Year to all!
So far, new year has been off to a good start,
won some money from the traditions of family gambling during new year.
Pardon for the lack of updates, my laptop was away for a little trip to the repair centre,
Sad to say, the keyboard has yet to be changed.
I need to send it back again when the keyboard they ordered arrives.
Some updates!
Made an apple crumble.
Was pretty disappointed because the crust below was made too thin,
in the end, the pie couldn't be lifted up.
The lattice top looks good,
but not really practical for cutting.
The washing part was the worst,
especially the paste for the apple which sticks to the pot.
Last week there was a Hall 3 midnight fiesta.
Went there with guru.
Felt a little out of place because everyone there was from Hall 3 except for me.
Seldom went to Chinatown during New Year coz I dislike crowds.
Even though,
it was a good trip there with guru.
Bought a nice red necklace for $2!
That's all for tonight,
Will be posting new year eve photos tmr!
Happy Chinese New Year to all!
So far, new year has been off to a good start,
won some money from the traditions of family gambling during new year.
Pardon for the lack of updates, my laptop was away for a little trip to the repair centre,
Sad to say, the keyboard has yet to be changed.
I need to send it back again when the keyboard they ordered arrives.
Some updates!
Made an apple crumble.
Was pretty disappointed because the crust below was made too thin,
in the end, the pie couldn't be lifted up.
The lattice top looks good,
but not really practical for cutting.
The washing part was the worst,
especially the paste for the apple which sticks to the pot.
Last week there was a Hall 3 midnight fiesta.
Went there with guru.
Felt a little out of place because everyone there was from Hall 3 except for me.
Seldom went to Chinatown during New Year coz I dislike crowds.
Even though,
it was a good trip there with guru.
Bought a nice red necklace for $2!
That's all for tonight,
Will be posting new year eve photos tmr!
Clare [1:39 AM]
