Guess!

STAT101 G2 Class, Singapore Management University, March 2007

Guess who is my Statistics lecturer?

The first person to answer right will get a special present.. :p

Can’t believe term 2 is coming to an end already….

The Spectular Performance of Symphonia

Last Sunday I went to Singapore Conference Hall to see the yearly concert of Symphonia, a classical orchestra (er, maybe band), one CCA in SMU. Actually I once registered for it but I never came to practice. =P I’m still included in their club’s mailing list though. =P

I paid 15 bucks for the ticket, and I spent about three of my precious hours which actually can be utilized to study OOAD (Monday is the test, remember?), so they’d better be good. Real good.

Fortunately it really was. It was superb. Fantastic. Sophisticated. Whatever the thesaurus is.

And apparently somebody thought so…

And you thought I misspelled my title.

Technorati Tags: symphonia, SMU, SMU symphonia, performance, concert

Deleting Friendster’s Testimonials

Or maybe more appropriately titled “Deleting Friendster’s Junkmonials”.

I won’t even bother to define what “junkmonial” is. But I can give you some examples of junkmonials. Just click here. ha ha. Sorry I’m too damn lazy. =P

And to clarify, no, I didn’t delete my testimonials (or junkmonials) just because of that post. Ha ha.

Friendster now has the feature of “Leave Comment”. Though not using MySpace, I’m pretty sure that the feature has been in MySpace for quite some time. And I guess it’s similar to Facebook‘s wall.

The point is, you can leave (public, of course) comment on somebody’s Friendster profile. Or maybe some glittery thingy along with “Please reply. Muackz!” line, some “I love you darling, forever and always…” line for some person that has been your boyfriend or girlfriend for 2 weeks or so (sometimes even shorter), some “How you doin’?” line, feel free to expand the list……

Thus, with that comment feature being up, we need not to leave the so-called testimonials with the characteristics mentioned above. And we didn’t even have to wait for the profile owner to approve. Kewl.

As for myself, I actually hated it when my testimonial’s page suddenly became the place for my friends to communicate with me. I mean, I was like, “Hello?? I thought Friendster has this feature called messages??”. And if you don’t believe me, I wrote about that. Here’s the link. I wrote in Indonesian and it was just an additional to my real post though.
However, hate it or not, slowly I became like them too. Ha ha. But I got a reason. For me, Friendster’s messaging feature is too slow and takes forever to load. And not because of loading their feature, but loading ads ads ads. Yew. So, long words short, it’s easier to leave testimonials (junkmonials) on people’s profiles rather than bothering to click the “Send Message” link.

So while blogging this, I’m on my way deleting the junkmonials.

However, there is something.

The thing is, when I went through my testimonials, I just realized that actually my testimonials are not only what-people-said-about-me things or some-unimportant-testimonials. My testimonials actually captured my moments of life too. My birthdays (I have passed 3 birthdays since I joined Friendster on January 2004), Christmases and New Years, Easters, even the time of my final high school exam, or even the time when I was being all-out for my individual projects at my first term.

Nevertheless, I stay with my commitment.

So sorry guys for deleting your testimonials.. Yeah it feels like deleting my pieces of life history..

Well no matter. I still have this blog. Heehee.

I used to have 425 testimonials. I’m still on my way deleting while finishing this blog post. Maybe when you see it, I already cleared all the junkmonials. Click here to see.

Technorati Tags: friendster, testimonial

Acquaintances

Main Entry: ac·quain·tance
Pronunciation: &-'kwAn-t^&n(t)s
Function: noun
1 a : the state of being acquainted b :
personal knowledge : FAMILIARITY
2 a : the persons with whom one is acquainted acquaintance
be forgot — Robert Burns> b : a person whom one knows but who
is not a particularly close friend acquaintance>

(taken from Merriam Webster Online)

Hm. I don’t even know if that word matches the thing I want to write about
below. But never mind.

Back at senior
high school times, I really loved participating in various English
competitions. Just name me the English competition and I can assure you my name
is on their list! Ask them about Sylvia from SMAK 4 Penabur Jakarta. *winks* Of
course the reason why changed over time. At the first time, it was because I
was chosen (and I was super proud. Yew). The next time, it was because I wanted
to run off from the super boring classes (thank GOD it’s freaking over now). It
made the perfect reason, especially if I won. Hmm. The next reason was to widen
my networking. It did work. I got many friends from many schools, and
universities, too. The very last reason was to…. Get money. Hahaha. When
winning was already easy and networks had been made, what else should I aim to?

What I want to focus about is the third reason. Through these English
competitions, undoubtedly I met many people. Some stay to be good friends until
now, one even almost going steady with me, but the others… Gone with the wind.

It’s funny. For two to three days, we became good friends. But after that,
woosh. Gone. Disappeared. As if we never met before. As if we never knew each
other before.

Out of the blue, one day when I’m chatting with Nida, the memory of this girl I met a
competition just poured out. It’s not that I and her (the girl in competition)
became really good friends and it left a deep mark, but it’s just.. I remember
her.

I remember this girl I met at NEO 2006.
I remember her accented English (cool.. =p). And I remember that she intentionally
didn’t continue to the next round because she’s got a drama going on in her
school. I wonder whether she still remembers me?

After that quickly I remember many other people I met at the competition.

One that I had a crush with…

A boy from Medan.
Met him at my very first debating competition (which ended up… er.. never mind)
at UPH. Very very good looking
indeed. ( I don’t remember his face anymore but I’m sure that he’s good looking
=p) We talked several times at the competition. Exchanged some..er.. looks.
Hehe.

But given the fact that he lives in Medan,
I decided not to continue. (or rather because I was too shy to ask for his
phone number =p)

Gee. I wonder if he still remembers me? Haha.

One that had a crush with me =p

At the very same competition, I met this guy from Jakarta. He would always try to start a conversation with me, even with small trivial things. Haha. One notable thing was when he removed a carton of water bottles on a chair beside me just to sit on it. Haha. My groupmate quickly asked him “Are you hitting on her?”. And I clearly remember how his face turned super red. Hahahahahaha.

Other other ones.

The girl that made into the Spelling Bee final of E-Com 2005 with me. And other people who also made it to the final. The girl I met at UPH debating competition. My opponents at SMAK 3 debating competition. That girl who won the Spelling Bee competition of E-Com 2004. The list still goes on..

I wonder, can an acquaintance change your live forever?

Nevertheless,
I will always remember them.
Regardless whether they remember me or not.

Do you also have acquaintances?

My Class Is A Quiz Session

It’s all in the SMU advertisement : SMU has a different pedagogy.. Or something that sounds like that.

I won’t bother to recall their flowery words about the pedagogy thingy. As far as I can see, seems like that different pedagogy means one thing : class participation.

For you who is curious about pedagogy thingy, click here to get the definition.

SMU is proud for that. Yes believe me it is. Class participation makes up 20% of our total mark. Yes people. Yes.

So don’t expect dead silence in classes as I experienced for 17 years in Indonesia.

Instead… Expect a quiz session.

The process to get that damn class participation mark is to engage in a quiz. The fastest will get it.

You know the answer? Raise your hand!

But in here, instead of raising hand…

Interrupt.

The classes in SMU are Interrupt-Me-You-Fool Quizzes.

And I guess I still have to play in this quiz.. For 4 years more.

tag: SMU, school, study, education, quiz

The List

Unlike my friend Aditya who proclaimed that he loves to write so-called meaningful (draft) essays to later be published on his blog (besides teasing me, bullying me, underestimating me, whatever-the-thesaurus-is-ing me, of course), I still like to post unimportant things, such as what you will see in not a minute time….

You hate run-on sentence don’t you.

These are the things that have been running through my mind for quite some time..

• While I am writing this, why the hell are there people having a real tour in SMU? In SMU Library? D~oh? I thought Singapore has Orchard Road (with the Christmas trees even it’s only October November. thx maegan :p)
• And I have to switch from my MSN session to this blogging window in order to look more “studently”
• As if blogging is more “studently”?
• Hey look. I just coined a new term.
• Gash. Why did I switch? I just emphasized the image of SMU students are muggers. Or.. To make it more fashionable.. SMUgger.
• Oh. I just realized that the people sitting behind me are sleeping. Okay. That makes an impression how comfortable the couches are.
• I should do my report instead of writing this unimportant list.
• But whatever.
• But I don’t know what to say anymore.

Guess.. GOtta get back to the whole load of assignments. Have a nice day guys, while I won’t have mine. At least for two weeks more..

Not important enough to be posted, you say? Look, people, there is a reason why I have a category called “Trivial Things”.

tag: SMU, school, study, blog, MSN Messenger, , weird things, library

little thing to add

the person behind me is snoring!

I feel like writing something….

just because.

Hmmm.. Lemme reminisce some story. Ain’t a blog supposed to be an online diary? Haha.

So.. I went to the Church of Holy Spirit yesterday.. Despite my direction blindness, I didn’t get lost, and even arrived first than the person who said he had gone to the church before. =P Anyway, thx for the treat dit.. Will pay you back later when we meet again. Back to the church, they just got this beautiful spankin’ stained glass and it was time to bless it.. So.. There I stayed, 30 minutes more than usual, to see the priests sprinkling holy water to the beautiful stained glass.

And I got this beautiful paperweight for souvenir. Note this. Each person gets one. EACH. Just imagine how much the budget is. Hmmm. I’ve started to wonder.

After that I went to junction 8, eating yoshinoya and talking crap with Adit. hahaha. We talked about English, China, ecosystem, persona, and other craps. =P

THen I took MRT, thinking about going to school and mug but… Since my train stopped just below Plaza Singapura.. There I went…. Then eating gelare ice cream… And since PS doesn’t have wi-fi access (crap), i moved to nearby Cathay Cineplex. Eating ben jerry’s ice cream (oh noo.. calories) while playing around with my cute pet internet.

THen finally went to school to…. fill bulletin boards of friendster… hahahahahahaha. =P

Went to dinner to Thai Express at Raffles City.. Nice..

And that’s the end of my day.. yesterday.

Sorry if not interesting enuff. I just got this itchy fingers to type something.

tag: Singapore, church, mall, food, wi-fi, stained glass, church of holy spirit, mass