I missed 2 NaBloPoMo days. Not because I wanted to. I was in school, doing my assignment of Enterprise Web Solutions. Basically it’s to create a portal using Microsoft SharePoint.
Let me tell you, this course and Microsoft Sharepoint suck ass.
Usually I would do my NaBloPoMo after I got home, which is usually around 10 PM. So I typed a post very fast and published it before the tomorrow comes.
But I missed 2 days. Coz I got home at almost midnight.
Dammit. It really sucks. Don’t you think it’s weird, after terms and terms spinning our head around doing Java, suddenly they want us to create a website using C#. Fine, you can always google, but there’s just so much you can google.
Anyway I don’t want to talk much. I’m freaking tired, drained, and unmotivated. I’ll tell you why I think the course sucks later.
This term, Tuesday is my longest day ever. I had one Monday about 2 terms ago that was also so long because I had 3 concurrent courses at one day. This term’s Tuesday doesn’t have 3 concurrent courses, but equally, if not more, tiring.
So I have a morning class at 8.30 AM. People who know me will surely know that I’m just not a morning person. Don’t get me wrong, I CAN wake up, but whether I can “function properly”, that’s a whole different story. Today was worse than ever. My “best friend” called insomnia kept knocking on my door again last night, and I could only fall asleep at about 5 AM. And I had to wake up at 7 AM! Darn. So I did. Unwillingly I dragged my ass to school.
Class finished at 11.45 AM. Usually after class, I would have a meeting from around 12 PM to around 2 PM. However I didn’t have any meeting today, meeting was cancelled coz the groupmates couldn’t make it. This explains the (slightly) in the title. Hehe.
It didn’t mean I could slack though. Went to the lab to do stuff. And class (at the same lab) finally began at 3.30 PM. Tried so hard to catch what’s being talked about but gave up. La di da. La di da di da.
“Please go outside to enjoy the buffet”
Wha…?
Whoa seriously! My kind professor (and now I feel bad for not listening….) treated the whole class a buffet dinner! Om nom nom nom.
Couldn’t remember what happened between finishing eating and finishing class. Hahahaha. Anyway, after class finished at 6.45 PM, it was time for choir practice. Argh.
Don’t get me wrong, I like singing in choir. After all I chose to be in the choir and had been staying for more than a year. It’s just that.. The practice time just doesn’t suit my body time. You want to know the other practice day for choir? Saturday morning. Argh.
It was election day to select new choir exco and we’re so excited to know the results this Saturday!
And now here I am, typing this, and will proceed to finish this hellish long day.
While I’m finishing my long day, our folks in USA are also having a long day.
I just hope they’ll vote wisely and whatever the crowd’s decision is, it’s for the best.
Since moving to Singapore I sometimes face difficulty of finding a church to go to. Well back in Jakarta my siblings and I (plus my cousin) will all go to this one church nearby our place at one time. So never once I missed church.
However it’s hard to be that discipline in Singapore. After so many projects and whatnots I tend to oversleep on weekends. That includes Sundays. So it’s like a very familiar scenario for me to wake up on a Sunday afternoon and ohshitting coz I missed the church.
However, the wonderful thing is that there are many Catholic churches in Singapore (I’m a Catholic and thus can go to any Catholic church to attend the mass) spread around the island. The next wonderful thing is that since it’s spread around, you’re bound to find a (Catholic) church near your place and that it’s easy to travel there.
The next wonderful thing is the website Veritas that is the official website of the Archdiocese of Singapore and lists the Catholic churches in Singapore, complete with the address, phone number, the names of the priests, the website of the church, and the directions! This is not an advertisement. I really respect their effort to list all of the churches.
So what I usually did is to browse around Veritas for the churches that has a mass on later time (since I missed the earlier one, you see..). However, it usually took damn long coz I needed to open the churches’ pages one by one to check the schedule.
Boy did they answer my prayers or what! Or maybe I overlooked the feature when I first surfed the revamped website. They actually DO have this nifty section called Mass Schedules.
Categorized into sections based on the day and the time of the mass!
Yayness!
I typed this after finding a church to go to for afternoon mass (yes I missed the earlier masses…). Found it here! Will be going to Cathedral of Good Shepherd’s 6 PM mass.
A big kudos to the team that revamped the website!
I wish you all a great Sunday and a great week tomorrow!
And so NaBloPoMo starts. Here I am with the first post for this month!
It was, like usual, a busy day. I’m always busy on Saturday. Choir at morning (which I attended late because of my stupid morning stomachache that made me go to the toilet back and forth). Sang 2 tango songs. Very emotional. And tiring.
Then I had brunch at a dim sum place in Sunshine Plaza. I think it was called Victor’s Kitchen. Great dim sum although it’s sad that the waitresses can only speak Chinese. Bah. Went back to school to do EWS (Enterprise Web Solutions) assignment. We’re supposed to create an enrichment course portal. I realized we started late and I realized there’s SO MUCH to be done, but I hope we can strive anyway.
OTW to EWS computer lab (which is, strangely, located in School of Economics/School of Social Sciences. Huh.), I remembered that there’s Podcamp Singapore going on. I intended to attend the event religiously but hell the things that I need to get done was just eating me up. So I thought, ah hell I’ll just drop by and say hi to some blogger friends and then go. So I went to the room. Saw DK, Farinelli, Miccheng, Claudia present. Daphne went out to talk to me (and to go toilet) and told me that I should just go in. It was 12.56 PM and the talk is supposed to be over at 1.00 PM so I thought, again, ah what the heck, just barge in and wait until it’s over, and then I can mingle around with blogger friends, and go.
“Sorry it’s already 1 PM and time’s up”
“Ah sorry, just 1 more question. Very short.”
La di da. As I checked the clock, it was 1.25 PM.
Immediately went off from the room and said hi-bye to bloggers and rushed off to the lab. Helping to search for automatic way to create website after an event happened (in Microsoft Share Point – the urgh thing, I might say).
A friend, Olivia, came to the lab and told everyone that today is another friend, Edwin’s bday! She bought a cake and told us to go out and celebrate.
She took picture of my EWS group and the cake!
Yes I know my hair looks hideous. GAH.
Happy birthday Edwin Tan!
And it was time for my piano lesson! And guess what! I didn’t bring my piano books to school! Yeay!
Sigh. Lucky I realized it quite early so I rushed off from the lab and went to the bus stop to catch the bus home. Waited and waited until at least 15 minutes. I turned impatient. Checked SBS Iris and HA HA HA, GUESS WHAT. SBS Iris next bus : 10 minutes. You gotta be kidding me.
Anyway bus came and I went home and took my piano books and I quickly flagged a cab to get me to the piano lesson place. (this is an attempt of shortening sentences. I realize I did too many things)
Piano lesson finished, bf picked me up and we ate at Ayam Penyet Ria at Square 2! YEAY! <3
Ayam Penyet! Photo by Shellfish
Photo by Shellfish. Hehe! I didn’t have time to take photo coz I just tucked in!
Oh well.. What a busy day it was! Imagine how busy the rest of November will be! I have another blog to update for NaBloPoMo so I’ll leave you guys with a video of one of the tangoes I sang : Adios Nonino.
Background of the video : it was played during the church wedding of Prince Willem-Alexander (of the Netherlands) and Maxima Zorreguieta. Maxima was born in Argentina and Adios Nonino (meaning : Goodbye, Father) is a popular song from Argentina written by Astor Piazzolla after his father passed away.
Search the thesaurus for the similar words of “busy”.
Say at least 10 of them.
That’s the state I’m in now.
Bear with trivial and unimportant entries for a while. Just a bit more.
Anyway, I’m setting up a new blog in SylvGee.Wordpress.Com for my assignment in class COMM215 : Digital Media Across Asia. Do come there and drop a comment or two, ok? I’ll be delighted to see you there!
Rehearsals after rehearsals left me feeling bleh and super tired, and being the last group in line to perform didn’t help. And hearing Samba Masala (this samba percussion group) practicing their piece over and over again made me cranky. I mean, of course their piece is good and energetic and everything but when you hear them over and over and over and over and over again you just want to throw tomatoes (or anything more “bloody”) to them. It’s not that I don’t like them. Really.
So we sang this song “Go the Distance” from the Disney movie Hercules. It was supposed to be a soloist song which was weirdly purported into choir song. Oh well. Never mind.
I like performing. So when I’m performing I’ll let out my soul free and I’ll express it in the ways possible. Sadly my other choir members might not like performing as much as I do. Oh well. Now I wonder whether I should not have been so expressive since I seem to overpowered them last afternoon.
But all in all it was over and I could get back to my normal life without vigorous rehearsals and late-night blocking practice with all the performers.
I missed a choir rehearsal on Thursday.
The president demanded an explanation for the choir.
This letter explains the reason, and also explains why I haven’t been updating regularly.
And to show my sincerest apologies.
Dear choir members,
This is not the best or the most satisfactory or sensible explanation ever, but this is the true account. I encountered some big hiccups in internship and as a result I had to put a lot of effort to mend them. Yesterday was the worst day and I left the office at almost 7 PM (my office hour is only until 5.30 PM), and went to home straight, totally forgetting about the practice I should be attending.
However, I’m really sad that no one bothered to call me or sms me yesterday. I just checked my phone logs whether there were missed calls from one of you. I just checked my phone inbox amidst my many unread messages whether there were any messages I miss. There weren’t any. Forgetting is a lame and unacceptable excuse, I know, and I might seem to be shifting blame to my work/internship problems but if somebody had just called me or smsed me I most probably would have come, even late and all. Hell I’d jump off the bus and go to the nearest bus stop that has buses going to school. Really.
I’m very sorry to miss the practice due to my absent-mindedness. I regret that fact. I admit these few days (or weeks) I’ve been very messed up. I don’t even organize my appointments in my agenda anymore, which is very rare for a person like me if you know me very well. So I beg you all, please, call me, sms me when I don’t show up. Trust me, I won’t intentionally miss a rehearsal just because I’m not feeling like it. I have been coming to most of the rehearsals and practices, despite being late for my inability to wake up/function in weekends’ mornings, or despite being wary and tired after work. I tried my best to come on time for Saturday rehearsals and I did succeed. I always come to night practices, even when I had classes until 6.45 PM, even when I had work. You know you can trust me.
I hope you’ll all forgive me and help me learn the steps/moves/positions.
Sorry.
To readers, please note that I’m not blaming them. It was solely my fault and my absent-mindedness from the first place. I just wish that they had told me, so all this thing would have been avoidable. But I admit it was my fault anyway… So stupid for not even putting it into my agenda. Guess there’s no way to fix this but to show up at the next practice, and learn the steps fast. Wish me luck.
After the piano exam yesterday (by the way, it went quite ok. I guess. Wasn’t my best though. Was shivering >_<"), I went around Singapore Garden Festival (photos will be up soon!) and Marina Square.
Saw this dress in Dorothy Perkins..
Very cute no?
But it was $103!! WTF!!
It’s of a good material though… Very nice and not itchy… The cutting is also very nice. No unnecessary creases. I sound like a fashion geek. My mom’s in garment industry.
Sigh.. I hope the next sale for this batch will come soon!
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