20060828 - First day of classes
First day of classes has officially ended! Got quite confused abit halfway through cos i got enrolled in a class i was on the waiting list for, so that kinda made me rush abit. You'll see why!
So that was the old schedule above, the new schedule on the right. Used to end at 7 almost everyday! With huge breaks in between. But, now i end at 5 on Mon/Wed and 7 on Tue/Thu and i've still got huge breaks in between. WOW. Friday's a good day though, end at 12:05 (the waiting classes doesn't mean anything..unless i get them of course). Let's see, I'm takin a business presentation class, finite math, sociology, psychology and a telecommunications class which i just heard is boring. Great.
The schedule gets worse! 2nd eight weeks of the semester (ie: october to december) i'll have this accounting class that starts at 8 in the mornin!! Now, how am i gonna wake up esp when the temperature's gonna be low. Woooo probably end up hibernating and storing fat over the winter (but cannot! i wanna win money on the previously-mentioned wager). And i thought wakin up at 815 in the morning today was bad enough...
So i had finite math in the mornin. Its all bout stats and probability actually. After a brief overview for the first 10min of class, we started learnin sets and venn diagrams! Yawwnn what a great way to get the day goin. Plus on top of that, i was quite tired from my walk to the building where class was at from my dorm...and i think i covered at most half the campus walkin there. Had psychology after that, which was a 5min brisk-walk away keepin in mind that i had to fight for seats with americans who walk at twice my speed even though i had 15min after math to get to psychology. Ahhh psych was kinda dry, almost dozed off a couple of times.
So classes were done at 11! And i got back to my dorm to catch people online who were still awake. Did that for abit and realised instead of 5:45 class, i had a 4pm class! So went to meet a few singaporeans with common breaks and had lunch before hoggin the comp at the comp lab to kill time and reply emails. Headed to my first business class and wooots, it was the honors class that i just got enrolled into. Quite intimidating compared to the other classes. Math had 50-odd people, psych had easily 200 ppl...but the honors class had 20. And expectations are much higher! Plus its a business presentation class!! Grrr..cannot be shy cannot be shy.
The most irritating thing happened. Realised i had to iron a shirt..so i assembled the sit-down ironing board and whipped out a supposedly trusty Black&Decker iron (both bought over here on the cheap) to get some ironing done and prove to myself and i can live on my own.....guess how that worked out huh? No prizes for anyone who guessed that i didn't come out of it with a nicely pressed shirt. I was too used to havin a good iron at home and didn't really occur to me that not all steam-irons are as good as the one at home. So after awhile of steam ironing it got real hot and i even thought i burnt my shirt! But yeah, it started simmerin down and after awhile, i was gettin NO HEAT from the iron at all. Hmm, i think it died on me. Eh but lemme get a point across to all you doubters out there (gives a scrunched up face) i can iron! It's not my fault, blame the iron!! Heeeehhheeeee. *Insert sheepish smile*
On a more serious note, the weekend was an emotionally draining weekend. Bahhh i miss people back home.
Looking on the brightside, i've been here for a month...soon to be a month! Heh jialing hasn't even started her journey to London! But at least she's got the winter break to spend back in Singapore (by the way jia, where's that email you were talkin about...?). One month down...hmm...8 more to go? I think it's 8 anyways.
Time to get some beauty sleep to get rid of the dark rings, time to get some hugs from my body pillow.....
schlogged at 5:41 PM
