first of all, let me welcome you to my bastard of a past week.
as in last week carried on to this.
it has been one heck of a week,
'heck' in this case being the bad kinda heck.
i'll be brief.
(there are fotos at the bottom, u lazy asses who dont like reading about my moanin)
1) we planned to start testing participants for our experiment on tues,
(yes, remember the piece of shit group project?)
but bloody ethics wasnt approved until the tues morning.
and then my bluddy lecturer wanted us to change one of the information sheets,
blah blah blah.
so we ended up havin to test all the pple that day,
as 'control participants'.
control VS experimental group was supposed to be random selection.
so much for valid experiments.
and no we dont plan to tell our lecturer we did that.
2) we frickin got 7/10 and 4/5 for our proposal and ethics application, respectively.
piece of &*(!.
if your memory is not like mine you'd remember i took credit for doin the proposal,
coz no one else gave a shit.
takin credit as in complainin to my friends lah ok not to the lecturer or anything.
i literally did everything lah ok.
printing the dunno how many million copies of forms also i do lah.
so now that the mark is so damn shitty,
i am beginnin to wonder if i am really becomin stupider.
since last sem i also got a ridiculous 68 on that abnormal exam.
i think God is tellin me to stop being proud coz He doesnt like it.
the psyc 316 lab report is out.
we shall see if i flunk the bluddy thing or whatever tmr.
this time i wouldnt be surprised.
3) MY FRICKIN CAR DIED.
was all ready to go out and meet the boys in northbridge last night for supper and then to go to the ruby room at burswood with them,
and my car wouldnt start.
i cant be bothered with tellin u how and why my key got stuck in the ignition and wouldnt come out,
coz that would take the whole damn day for me to type out.
but suffice it to say it was stuck in the ignition, but it wasnt doin its job coz the bluddy car wouldnt start when it was turned.
in the end the poor things had to come all the way here and troubleshoot.
so after disconnectin their entire car batt,
gettin the cables out,
connectin them to my car's batt etc etc etc,
they figured it was a batt problem.
bluddy #*@)(*)(!
and of all times my dad left for singapore that mornin.
i shd be called rachael suey tan.
stead of kimberly.
anyway now i am screwed coz i have no car.
well im exaggerating lah ok.
i have the CRV to drive.
i just have to deal with mum complainin that she has to drive the jag.
no one likes to drive the jag except dad.
bah.
anyway so here are last night's fotos.
the ruby room sucksssss.
as i have always said. been there once and =/
but when there's good company,
and willing dancers,
it always ends up being a good night.
erm..damn i am horrible.
ok i dont know the guy on the left coz we werent introduced,
the second guy i forgot his name =/
so its Z, kenny and i.
=P
and my mouth looks like shit there hence the wordart.
the lot.
and i dont know any of the girls.
not that i am complaining.
the stupid bugger who took this foto was this dude from ireland.
he kept shouting "say IRELAND!!!"
and then he'd press the camera shoot button either way before or way after we said it.
his cue was so totally temporally invalid lah.
so most of us ended up lookin like crap.
look at z william and kenny. lol.
poor william had too much to drink and was feelin headache-y all the way to supper, during supper and after supper.
he used me as head rest in the car.
i used that as opportunity to saboh the poor bugger.
after that my camera got confiscated. until we reached my gate.
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cant be bothered bloggin now about last nite's other event.
to do with this random girl at the club.
bleagh bleagh bleagh.
remind me to blog abt that.
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here we go. another shitty week ahead.
where assignments dont get HD-ed,
essays get typed at 5 words/hour,
and i am tranport-less.
Lee you are a stupid, stupid car.
i cant wait for the weekend.
Later ; 11:48 AM ;
Saturday, April 21, 2007
yay. tonight was fun.
have been wanting to get out and do stuff for a while.
a while being a week.
its that time of semester where everythin is due,
and where exams are not too far away.
i have been stuck at home (besides goin to school twice this week)
with my assignments and essays.
and really, it is NOT funny when your lecturer requires you to do this:
SSI*S/G = Σ(X- Xs – XGI + XIG)²
= (3-8-5+9.75)²+(9-13.66667-5+9.75)²+(6-9-5+9.75)²+(9-13-5+9.75)²+(1-6-5+9.75)²+(7-11-5+9.75)²+(3-8.66667-5+9.75)²+(2-8.66667-5+9.75)²+
(16-8-16.25+6)²+(20-13.66667-16.25+6)²+(15-9-16.25+6)²+(19-13-16.25+6)²+(13-6-16.25+6)²+(17-11-16.25+6)²+(16-8.66667-16.25+6)²+(14-8.66667-16.25+6)²+(5-8-8+9.75)²+(12-13.66667-8+9.75)²+(6-9-8+9.75)²+(11-13-8+9.75)²+(4-6-8+9.75)²+(9-11-8+9.75)²+(7-8.66667-8+9.75)²+(10-8.66667-8+9.75)²+(7-9.66667-8.625+10.875)²+(10-12.66667-8.625+10.875)²+(4-6.66667-8.625+10.875)²+(7-9-8.625+10.875)²+(10-12.66667-8.625+10.875)²+(8-9.33333-8.625+10.875)²+(12-15-8.625+10.875)²+(11-12-8.625+10.875)²+(13-9.66667-12.625+10.875)²+(15-12.66667-12.625+10.875)²+(9-6.66667-12.625+10.875)²+(7-9-12.625+10.875)²+(14-12.66667-12.625+10.875)²+(12-9.3333-12.625+10.875)²+(18-15-12.625+10.875)²+(13-12-12.625+10.875)²+(9-9.66667-11.375+10.875)²+(13-12.66667-11.375+10.875)²+(7-6.66667-11.375+10.875)²+(13-9-11.375+10.875)²+(14-12.66667-11.375+10.875)²+(8-9.3333-11.375+10.875)²+(15-15-11.375+10.875)²+(12-12-11.375+10.875)²
= 69.3333
BY FREAKIN 'HAND'.
which means type it all out for him to see.
i dont even know if my 'working' produces the correct answer,
(i just put that answer there coz thats what the stats programme said it shd be lah ok)
but after doing 10 of these things,
i ran outta patience calculating them with the calculator.
i never got a single one right, btw.
thank goodness for people like charlotte who are damn good with numbers and who are willing to share answers with number-illiterate dumbasses like myself.
so anyhowwww.
i have been dying for a beez neez since goodness knows when
(but then again i can drink that whenever, wherever. oh and we also discovered that its bluddy cheap. $5 for a middy!!!!)
and i finally got it tonight!
and a whole lot more!
supper at the moon with pasta, chips and a toblerone shaker (baileys, tia maria, contreau, milk..i could not ask for more. that thing is heaven, singaporeans are so missing out!)
time crisis4, house of the dead4, ddr (!!!), percussion freaks, daytona...
hangin out at the car with music (i never knew my sound system was that loud. really),
lifts and piggy backs...
all with three of the sweetest boys that one can find.
i was so not ready for this foto.
now kenny looks spastic, and william!!
caught checkin me out mannnn.
hahahaha.
kenny says he is checkin the beer out, not me.
Yay finally!!
now arent we all cute. pfft. but urm Z..is ur hand at my ?????
and u all scold me for touching my (those) body parts when i talk about them!!!
and what sia.
today i dress normally and the guys are like "hmmmm"
man, you said we are not clubbin what. then u expect me to wear what i normally wear out when we club meh?!
clearly we have been clubbin too much lah. until when i dress normal they all think its weird.
-_-
well, happy birthday for thursday Z.
i hope you enjoyed acting like a retard (literally) tonight.
and please note i only fed u the pasta coz
1) you were too damn far away to reach it
2) tonight's meant to be your night.
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i guess it is time to sleep now.
i have to get my wisdom teeth out. frick.
Later ; 4:59 AM ;
Sunday, April 15, 2007
today i had the pleasure of taking 2 boys out to dinner.
at the same place we went last night for dinner.
the weather was horrible all day today.
as it always decides to be when i decide i want to go out and do something.
today it was supposed to be gai gai plus food day.
the gai gai happened, but it involved walking from one end of perth city to the other tryin to look for food.
because by the time the boys got to my house, and i drove us down to the city, it was already like 4-ish,
it ended up being no shoppin for raE.
anyway we ended up goin to the moon again.
which we had food/drink at last night, with the boys' instructor.
and then we ended up goin ktv-ing at like freakin 1am or so.
today it was just dinner and drinks.
and FINALLY these boys let me pay.
i like the idea that i brought some boys out =)
or men, i should say.
its nice when youre drivin and u look next to you and behind you,
and see 2 full-grown men sound asleep in your car.
well, nearly full-grown.
well boys, tomorrow its back to being princessy.
because i want to enjoy your gentlemanly manners as much as i can while you're still here.
today i learnt that, when a pilot tells you the weather is goin to be bad,
the weather IS GOIN TO BE BAD.
Later ; 10:45 PM ;
Thursday, April 12, 2007
UPDATE UPDATE!!!!
look what came in the mail todaaaaaay babaaaaay......
Dear Super duper intelligent UWA Psychology undergraduate,
Thanks for your interest. I am running a longitudinal study onkindergarten children's reading and spelling and do need a part-time RA (research assistant lah) to collect and help analyse data. Perhaps you can commit to 6 months?
Contact me (or Steph Yeong who is coordinating <---gmail.com> ) as soon as you get back to Singapore so we can fill up the forms (think it's about $12 per hour for grads).
whooop dee doo.
$12 an hour. not bad what right?
actually i dunno, is that bad?
i suppose it is.
but i am currently overwhelmed by the excitement of havin been offered a job 12hrs after applyin for it.
i suppose i could be gettin like $40/hr for givin english tuition =/
oh well we shall see what happens when and if i get the other replies.
is the fact that she didnt ask to see any academic qualifications or a resume or whatever,
a good thing?
does that mean my email is sufficient proof of my ability?
now what man, am i supposed to ask if she wants it or what...
bah..
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waking up early, comin to murdoch, and spending the entire day here because i am car-less since my mother is the one who drives us here,
is gettin overly-productive...
the aim was 1500 words on my psyc316 essay, and i hit that within an hour of being here.
and now i am bored and sleepy and re-studying yesterday's stuff.
id better be gettin at least 3 HDs this sem.
or freakin else.
Later ; 1:18 PM ;
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
ive just finished sending out applications for a job at NUS.
i sent the same email to like 4 or so (i think. cant remember already how many i sent to) lecturers whose research interest descriptions caught my attention.
i very much doubt im goin to get any offers coz july is bloody ages away.
but oh well.
never know if u never try right?
and who knows, might land a job.
i am quite pleased with myself...
sigh..the joys of being able to write. well.
(PS. i had time to do this shit today coz i went to murdoch with mum and it was amazingly, one of those extremely productive days today.)
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Dear Professor/Dr/Sir (whoever it is the current email was sent to),
Re: Enquiry about application for laboratory research assistant role
I am a Singaporean who is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Western Australia (UWA), and will graduate at the end of July 2007 with a Bachelors Degree in Arts, double major in Psychology. I intend to continue with my study of Psychology, however, enrolment in the Honours programme at UWA only commences in February 2008. As such, I will be returning to Singapore for this time period, and am hoping to find a job that is of relevance to my academic interests.
I have also completed first and second year units in Linguistics at UWA, and what I have read on your research webpage indicates to me that your research would provide a great opportunity for me to pursue my interests in both fields at the same time.
I am not quite sure if you are looking to hire someone to assist you in your current research projects, but I would like to express my interest in working for you should you require someone to fill any positions that you might have available, and for which you think I may be qualified for.
I would be most glad to provide for you any past academic results, referral letters, written assignments, CV or any other documentation, should you require these for consideration. I have not included these in the present e-mail as I was unsure if you were actually looking to hire someone.
Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
The super-duperly amazingly intelligent undergraduate Psychology student you will regret not hiring if you dont decide to.
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HAH nah i signed off with my full proper name.
alrighty. wait and hope for the best.
best being 4 out of 4 offering me a job.
i am damn good a sounding pro lah. muahaha.
Later ; 9:53 PM ;
Sunday, April 08, 2007
ok fotos.
it having been saturday night and all yesterday.
its a long story how we ended up where we did and why and with who and whatever,
but i am too lazy.
so heres just fotos.
nicole and i at her place.
after finally deciding what to wear out.
first time im wearing that piece of underwear out.
muahah.
btw ive lost 5kgs to date.
but its depressin coz i am still fat.
and i think my boobs are gettin smaller.
like honestly,
where the heck did the 5kgs go???
how can one lose that much weight and still look fat?
the puzzles of life.
vanessa (the boys' friend visitin em), me, tze, william, nicole and stupid jonathan.
finally!! a foto in which william doesnt look depressed!!
the handsome boy (trust me he is gorgeous in real life) was rather happy last night.
i wonder why. haha.
no really. i am wondering.
nicole and her best friend seanny boy.
who is also my friend and ex social work unit tute mate.
the world is really small.
i had fotos with him also but i look like shit in all of em so theyve been deleted.
whatss newww.
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today we got dragged by my mother to go to church,
it being easter and all.
last week her 'excuse' was that it was palm sunday.
i put excuse in inverted commas because goin to church shouldnt even require a reason,
much less an excuse.
anyway long story short,
its our first time at this church coz dad didnt want to go to mum's normal one coz very far etc etc.
after the praise and worship,
the kids got dismissed to go to sunday school.
while on the way out, one of the ladies (whom i assume is in charge of kids)
turned to raE, who was obediently sittin between her sister and mother,
and asked if she would like to join them!!!!!!!!!
LIKE WHAT SIA?!?!
do i honestly look like i am still eligible for sunday school??!?!
did she really think i was 10?
did she look at me and realize i was bored and wanted to offer an escape?
did she think i would be of help to sunday school?
until now i am still wondering what happened.
and my family will be laughing about this for a long long time.
unbelievable.
happy easter everyone.
Later ; 8:52 PM ;
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
i had this crazy idea today,
that like i could possibly maybe perhaps get a job at NUS in the psyc dept.
so that when i graduate this sem with my lousy-ass degree,
i will have a job for the months that i am plannin to be in singapore,
before comin back to do honours.
yes i am assumin i WILL get offered honours.
ideally it'd be as a tutor lah, u know, teach first years how to write lab reports etc.
but i decided i will settle for whatever they offer me should i decide to apply.
or like research assistant, or write psyc papers etc.
i dunno how i am goin to prove to these pple that i am worthy of hirement,
coz i mean like, how right?
bring my lab reports show them ar?
or ask my lecturers write recommendation letters?
i really dunno lah.
everyone knows arts degrees are usless,
and psychology arts degrees are especially useless.
they are lookin for associate professor, but i dont think they will hire me for that lah.
har dee har har ok not funny.
anyway as long as its not mop floor make coffee i think i am fine.
so anyhow in preparation for what i might do,
i decided to compile my psyc-related results.
and i am like damn depressed lah now.
WAH LAU EH.
last sem SUCKED ASS LAH.
which everyone already knows.
oh yar i didnt get my mark changed in the end.
coz it was too much of a hassle.
see this person see that person.
bah. couldnt be bothered.
i look at this now and i think maybe i shouldve bothered.
want to to clinical psyc, then get this kinda marks for ABNORMAL UNIT?!
10 high distinctions, 4 distinctions and 1 wonderful credit.
gonna look damn good on my transcript. pfft.
i wouldnt hire me if i were NUS.
shit.
Later ; 11:59 PM ;
i was so not ready for this foto.
now kenny looks spastic, and william!!
nicole and i at her place.
vanessa (the boys' friend visitin em), me, tze, william, nicole and stupid jonathan.
nicole and her best friend seanny boy.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology,