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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

♥ lab report

pretty devo about my lab report mark...

i was really debating whether i was appeal for a remark..

i just sent an email to the unit coordinator... so yeah see how that goes

*sigh*

one last exam tomorrow...

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dt
7:30 PM

Sunday, October 24, 2010

♥ lab report

wow finished my lab report already!

really should do this time management and planning ahead thing more often.

yay for a good nights sleep tonight xD

anyways i was walking past the tv, and on top there's this photo of my parents...

and it reminded me of this photo i had seen of my boyfriend while he was in america last year...

yuuup..... see what i mean?


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11:08 PM

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

♥ on it's way to completion

so i've been working on this psyc lab report that's due on monday, worth 35%

and totally happily said to my boyfriend
"i've finished nearly 20% of it and it's like a whole 5 days more til it's due!"

and he gave me this weird look and said that shouldn't it be a bad thing that i haven't finished it yet and there's only 5 days left.

haha. i guess it's because lately i've been leaving my assignments to the last two days (usually the weekend) to begin and finish (in the early hours of the morning on the day it's due) so i'm pretty happy that i've set aside time to do it earlier.

it's called time management! and i'm learning. slowly but surely!


645 / 2500 :) 26% done man! pretty happy with that.

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6:11 PM

Monday, October 11, 2010

♥ the essay.

you were a pain in the butt...


so glad you're over and done with!

i was up at 6am finishing this thing. i rushed to bed after i realized that the sun was up and my dad was going to get up soon (didn't want to hear a lecture...)

yup surviving on two hours sleep today but surprisingly i'm not THAT sleepy (yet)

i quite hate this unit :( gotta make the most of it though..

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11:21 AM

Saturday, September 11, 2010

♥ progress

this assignment is slightly killing me.. 

number of papers read: 6
number of papers that are useless: 2
number of papers still need to read: 2

number of papers i have written notes about: 4
number of papers i still need to write notes about: 2

number of words i need to write for literature review: 2200
number of words written so far: 0

progress stats:

research: 90%
reading: 66%
note taking: 66%
writing: 0%

time left to go:

1 day, 19 hours, 47 minutes, 5 seconds


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update.

2am, Sunday the 12th September 2010


number of papers read: 8
number of papers that are useless: 1.5 - one is completely useless.. another half of one useless.

number of papers i have written notes for: 6.5
number of papers i still need to write notes about: 0  (i think?)

number of words i need to write for literature review: 2200
number of words written so far: 0

progress stats:

research: done
reading: done
note taking: done
planning: 50% 
writing: 0%
edit / reviewing: 0%

note: i love how i go from four "steps" to six... it's like i give myself extra work to do..... T__T

time left to go:

1 day, 9 hours, 56 minutes, 15 seconds

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update.

2pm, Sunday the 12th September 2010

update.

2am, Sunday the 12th September 2010


number of papers read: 8
number of papers that are useless: 1.5

number of papers i have written notes for: 6.5
number of papers i still need to write notes about: 0

number of words i need to write for literature review: 2200
number of words written so far:643

progress stats:

research: done
reading: done
note taking: done
planning: 80%
writing: 20%
    - introduction: 80%
    - theories: 5%
    - findings / argument: 0%
    - conclusion: 0%
references / editing / reviewing: 0%

note: i love how i go from four "steps" to six... it's like i give myself extra work to do..... T__T

time left to go:

0 day, 22 hours, 12 minutes, 5 seconds

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update.


9:12pm, Sunday the 12th September 2010


progress stats:

research: done
reading: done
note taking: done
planning: 90%
writing: 65%
    - introduction: 90%
    - theories: 85%
    - findings / argument: 50%
    - conclusion: 0%
references / editing / reviewing: 5%

time left to go:

0 day, 14 hours, 47 minutes, 2 seconds

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4:12 PM

Friday, September 3, 2010

♥ update in dot points

x. about half way down on my back... on the left side... it hurts. it's quite uncomfortable

x. been having a locked jaw the past few days too... uber annoying

x. lips are becoming dry... and i haven't been drinking enough water

x. finally got stat assignment done and completed... only to recieve another one today due in two weeks

x. really need to get started on that psyc lit review..... like very soon

x. can't blog as often anymore because i'm not bussing haha and driving nowadays

x. beginning to really hate peak hour traffic... i should really try to avoid driving in those hours - especially when i don't need to.. i could just stay back at uni, or come late to uni..

x. i'm quite exhausted. this week's been pretty full on for me. hopefully this week will lighten up slightly... but i've got a lot of catch up work to do.. and that lit review.. arghh

x. my boyfriend and i have two separate lives, but it's was pretty intertwined at the start of our relationship... but now it's sorta becoming more separate. which isn't necessarily a bad thing i guess, i'm just not use to the whole barely seeing each other / barely doing anything together anymore thing

x. had an interesting convo with rob today about religion. generally most people i talk to respect what i believe and wouldn't mmm... attack me haha. my last convo about religion with rob ended up pretty heated so this time i didn't try to justify anything, but rather tried to see what kind of perspective he had and why he thought those things... and i tried to challenge some of his thoughts. but yeah they were pretty negative but at least i kinda understand why he thinks that way now

x. continuing on with that.. we also had this convo about kids with developmental disorders. and i was surprised with he view on it, considering he's studying psychology too... like he was saying that kids with developmental disorders just shouldn't be born and if his kid ended up developing autism or something he'd give the child up to an orphanage... or if his wife was pregnant with a baby where they knew something was wrong already and she wanted to keep it.. then he'd probably leave her and stuff. so in my opinion i thought that was pretty crazy! because my heart pours out to these kids - it's not like it's their fault or that they did anything wrong. but i'm glad that he's at least gearing towards more the industrial psychology aspect of things rather than anything to do with clinical because i'm not sure how his attitudes would fit in very well. but yeah. isn't that crazy. it took me by surprise that some people thought like that....

x. so yeah i guess my eyes have been kinda opened to how people see the world so differently from how i do...

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11:51 PM

Saturday, August 21, 2010

♥ die book die

*stab stab stab*


this textbook must be one of the most worst textbooks i have ever had to read.

it is colourless.
             pictureless.
the chapters are 30-50 pages long.

it's so bland,
                dry,
                    and BORING!

*dies*

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3:47 PM

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

♥ exams

so exams are drawing near...

my first being 2212 (social psychology) on saturday... THIS saturday........

and seriously, i don't know how to study for my 2212 exam! all i can do is go through the chapters... and try to remember everything. but cummon man........ completely short answer?!?and 12 of them!?! what happened to good old first year psychology where it was 125 multiple choice??!! sigh, i misss MCQ!


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8:36 PM

Saturday, October 31, 2009

♥ two down, three to go

hbio practical
psychology
hbio theory
chemistry
statistics

it was alright, can't believe i forgot the footindoor/doorinface techniques T.T even after gabriel tested me on it only a few days ago.. GAH!

but 125 MCQ, can't really go wrong with that.

hoping i can pull off a 77 for that exam and scrape a hd... to make up for hbio/chemistry which will pull me down >.<

oh dear. hbio theory on thurs. chemistry on friday. hbio being the "new" subject, and chemistry being the "difficult" subject... and they just had to be next to each other =[

this morning, before my psyc exam, i sat at my favourite spot, and had some lemon V to wake me up :)




anyways... must also work on being less cold... and less awkward... and more 'normal'... but it's hard okay =[..
edit @ 8:04pm: i am going crazy. there is only so much i can take. how will i survive the next five weeks? it feels so lonely... so weird. like such a big part of me is missing. i sound stupid. i know. but i don't care. it's so hard...

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6:57 PM

Friday, October 30, 2009

♥ vodafone interview

12:30pm ~ walk into the science library 2nd floor toilets to put on foundation, mascara and eyeliner

1:10pm ~ catch the bus from uni into the city

1:36pm ~  reached mum's office. went on a hunt for the first aid box. in major need of bandaids for the horrific blisters i got from my shoes *shakes fist* i don't remember them ever being THIS bad.

1:50pm ~ take the bus from mum's office back to the city. then walk to interview place.

2:06pm ~ arrive at interview place... 24 minutes early. soo.. ate my lunch - a sandwich.

2:13pm ~ enter interview room, register, recieve I♥VF bag and 3 pen... xD also engage in a good conversation with the other lady in the room who was applying for the job, her name was melissa, and she had a canadian accent!

I thought the interview structure was pretty good. I'm not a fan of "group" interviews you see, so I was really glad when they took people out for "one-on-one" talks. It really gave me the opportunity to tell her about my past work experience and how i would be good for the job xD.

It started off with introductions. introducing the person next to you after getting to know them... Then this activity in groups of 4 where you had to arrange cards, that had customer service statements on it, in priority. The next task was like a role play between 2 people. one was the sales associate, the other was a customer. then you switched. it was very casual. Then was filling out feedback forms and the one-on-one interviews.

3:37pm ~ finished filling out feedback forms and group interview is concluded. talked to melissa on the way out and found out she was actually a vodaphone manager in Qld! But she was going for a position at SOR. phew!

4:00pm ~ reached mum's office and started going through some psyc stuff. had a debate with jordan about the scaling/difficultly of discrete maths.

4:49pm ~ recieve a call from the lady at vodaphone :) and she offered me the job. saying she has to still contact my references on monday and will call me again to confirm everything next week.

5:48pm ~ dropped by kmart on the way home because mum wanted to check something out. at this point my feet were absolutely KILLING.

anyways. in the car ride home i was thinking about how much God takes care of me... like when the lady from angus and robinson didn't call back i was a bit =[ abt it. but now looK! so much of a better job - location wise, long term prospects, $$$$$$ wise and it's actually something i know about and like!

I think as humans we will never know the endless possibilities for our future...  but i know i trust in a God who's always looking out for me... and sometimes life doesn't go my way. but there's always a plan. God's plan :)


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6:48 PM

Thursday, October 29, 2009

♥ new people turn into friends


♦    the other day i emailed my mum telling her...
            i got a three & vodafone group interview offer today.

and her response?
            It should be UMAT interview instead!

♦    in the car today we were talking about uni fees and i was like "but my course isn't that expensive anyways" and my mother said my science degree is rubbish. and that i screwed up. thanks mum. you make me wanna study SO hard for my exams... ...

♦    ry's webcam has awesome functions. reminds me of a mac. i like it.




♦    if i think about it... i met An (right) by purposely sitting next to him in the first week of uni, and then introducing myself. i remember being like "WOAHH I HAVE A MATE WHO'S NAME IS AN NGUYEN TOO" then i found out he was ALSO vietnamese, left handed and plays dota and yes, got a tad freaked out xD.

♦    i met victa... during chemistry. again, first week of uni, i was doing the whole "sitting next to new people and introducing myself" thing... and sat next to Rina. and next to Rina was Victa... haha. I remember Victa asking Rina if she knew me x) because we were just talking here and there. And since... xD we've been sitting next to each other in chemistry all year!

♦    there is a guy called josh in my chemistry class. he's friends with chuan. and he has cool hair. once he wasn't sitting with us and i asked chuan once "where's your friend with the cool hair!" and he looked at me funny. haha.

♦    i have done 2 chapters out of 9 for psychology. T____T... but i feel like i really absorbed everything in those two chapters.

♦    vodaphone/three interview tomorrow....... =/ hmm... *dislike* group interviews.

♦    shouldn't have worn it today, just made me think about it even more to the point where i couldn't take it.

♦    heading out with the girls tonight for mels' bday... :) must reward myself for all the hbio study i've done... *green tea icecreammmmmmmmmmm* yuM!

♦    i think i have decided what my new blog link will be... was listening to a song and it sorta clicked :) will have to tweak it a bit because it's already taken *shakes fist*

that's it for now~

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dt
6:28 PM

♥ one down, FOUR to go

my mind has exploded.

way too much hbio.

it was alright though. i knew more than half the stuff :) or at least i think i knew more than half the stuff, ahaha.

psyc next! 9 chapters... 30 pages of definitions.

yay...

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10:26 AM

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

♥ six weeks

  • my hbio exam is tomorrow at 9am!
  • criminal minds starts in 10 minutes :)
  • i've been studying all day, with the "occasional" facebook break.
  • i'm getting a lil nervous about my three/vodaphone interview on friday. "smart business attire" - what to wear?!
  • we're on a six week break. yes thats right. six weeks. but suprisingly i'm doing fine. pretty good actually.
  • must write up a list of things to accomplish in the next six weeks.
  • will need to study hard for psyc which is on sat. going to mels bday thurs night, interview is on fri arvo... yess, i feel like i'm underestimating the psychology 125 multiple choice question exam.
  • my mirror has become an array of notes and diagrams. must invest in some working whiteboard markers.



  • i have decided to export my blog to another address... so people will have to ask me for the link, then at least i have a better idea of who reads it, not that it matters... but yes. must think of a new link hmm.


    and criminal minds is beginning :) til next time...

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9:42 PM

Saturday, October 24, 2009

♥ windy pathways

is the naive the word i'm looking for?

i was studying social pscyhology the other day and it talked about how first impressions usually last, because if they're bad then we don't usually associate with that person anymore and also avoid the people around them.

lasting impressions. usually with someone we know well, when they say something or do something you don't like, you often let it go, because you believe you know them well enough that maybe they're just having a bad day or whatever.

but i guess people change. or rather, we continously get to know them more, and maybe it was more than just a bad day, but it's really what they think or who they are.

and maybe thats still okay. i think friendship is flexible like that. everyone changes after all.

but when it comes to relationships i think its different.

my husband and i will become one. we will share the rest of our life together.
he would need to be one who respects me, cares about, loves me and wants to be with me.
he will need to share the same values and beliefs as me...
maybe not always the same attitudes...

david asked me the other day if i thought josh was "the one".. *DADDADUMM*
and without hesitation i said yes.

technically i'm still a teenager. a teenagers naivity maybe?

i don't think a husband will treat his wife like he would have treated her when she was his girlfriend.

i'm starting to see and learn about the views josh has about marriage. and to be honest, i'm not sure if i entirely agree as such.

i'm starting to question what kind of husband he will be. and i'm not crazy. at least i think so.

but i think for now i should stop being so sure about things. so straight pathed about things. so simple minded. so naive.

kinda like medicine i rekon. i was so sure. and i thought i knew how to go about it. but the path isn't straight. its actually taken quite a few bends...

and i still don't know yet if i'd end up where i thought i would.


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10:20 AM

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

♥ hot weather is coming

i can't believe its forecasted to be 32 degrees this saturday...

and i will be stuck at reddot working from 10 - 4pm.

=[ instead of hanging out at the beach.




thinking of canceling looksmart on sunday. was going to work 10.30 - 3.30, but might need to study instead. even though double pay is so appealing, i don't particularly NEED the money... esp since i'm working heaps this wk at reddot :) still not in debt, so yay for financial freedom. will open one of those online saving account thingys soon so i can start getting interest!

exams are looming close. closer than i thought. sixteen days in fact. will try to average a fgpa of 6.5 this semester. but really, i'm happy with anything above 6.2. i hope my hbio mark is better than my anth mark last sem, or else i will be disappointed.

will try to keep everything over a 70 this sem (if anything, chem and hbio will be close)
neeeeeeeed to scrape a 80 for statsss (it's maths! I MUST maintain my love for it!) and hopefully for psyc too! because i didn't really try so much last sem for psyc. and it's not a bad unit, i quite like it.. even though i rarely go to lectures... it is interesting.

i still haven't figured what i'm doing next year. but yeah, it's not the time to lose motivation! must focus on exams... and not let it be a repeat of yr12.

attempting to use my uni breaks more constructively, and it's working. it's difficult when i only have one hr breaks most of the time... so it's not much time but at least we get through some stuff :)

waking up for 9am lectures is becoming increasingly difficult. i'm almost to the point of giving up and just ilecturing. but NO. MUST AT LEAST TRYYYYYYYYYYYY. gahgaghaghah.

that's it for now, i'm exhausted... was falling asleep in my chem lect today.

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10:27 PM

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

♥ s e v e n

after a full day at uni, i was exhausted, because i didnt fall asleep til after 2am.

it's the last day today. i 'bumped' into him at the anhb lab place. i actually had a purpose of being there, and it had to be at that time too. but then again, i dont think i would have gone out of my way to "avoid" him anyways x)

we also talked on the phone for a bit about tomorrow. so yes. really, its just been getting slacker as the days progress, whoops >__>. but i'm feeling rather satisfied from this break. it's given me the space that i needed. and it's helped me make up my mind abt a few things. and i'll keep reminding myself that its a good option to go when things aren't going well.


i have a pretty cool surprise set for tomorrow. but i don't know how 'cool' it is anymore. hopefully it all works out. i'm quite excited.

i have realized i have no money. actually wait, i do have money. but not as much as i did a month or so ago. i shall have to spend wisely. esp since i'm not working so much anymoree due to weddings/holidays etc coming up...

i leave for ballarat in like ONE week. i didn't realize it was so soon. oh dear. should really begin speech writing.

human bio quiz nxt wk, it's on like SIX topics, compared to the usual two. arghhh!

marks all come out nxt wk (except psyc report) for the midsems/assignments... hopefully that will give an indication of how i'm going, and what subs i need to work on the most.

anywayssss, less than ten hours to go. i sound like a kid going to their first bday party :) excited much?

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dt
11:59 PM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

♥ s i x

i am the biggest tool LOL.

so today i finished my stats lab early and headed home on the bus. but sometimes the bus doesn't go all the way into the ct, it terminates at esplande.

and the bus i got on, did just that. so i got off at esplande and jumped on another bus (the 107), thinking it would go to the city, because usually, the end bus stop heads to the city...

instead, i got on the bus at the wrong stop. and even thought that bus number goes to the city, it was going outbound instead of inbound! hence. LEFT the city altogether. and i ended up on my way back to uni.

T_T" i of course, didn't realize this til 10 minutes later i look up from fb phone and see the water and am like whattheee?! and realized what i had done.

soo...... got off the stop at uni. walked the the OTHER bus stop across road and there was a bus there also terminating at esplande. but instead. i sat. and waited. until the next bus came, that was heading into the city..

yes i am a tool. ahaha.

but going back gave me a chance to take a picture of the ad i saw the uwa bus stops which made me puzzled... i dont know why they would stick that ad at another university's bus stop?!


anywayss.. found some awesome craft stuff at my favourite little shop in the city today. will post photos of my creations later ;)

anyways on the bus to uni today i spoke to a girl in my psyc lab. i dont even know her name, but i recognised her face, and she recognised me. and she told me something that i thought was so cool. but it's a secret :) for now anyways. i'll tell you once i've let a few people do it. but it made me extremely happy and excited that i had to check if it was true! and lo and behold it is x)

anyways. that is all.

oh we skyped before, so i could pray for his exam tomorrow. it was slightly awkward but funny. not long to go!

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11:16 PM

Monday, September 14, 2009

♥ midsems overRrRr!

chem mid sem - FINISHED. OVER. DONE.
psyc report - DONE. COMPLETED. HANDED IN.


IT FEELS SO GOOODDDDDDDDDDDD.


*note to self, another stat test in wk 11*

okay, so i did stay up to study yesterday. til like 2am until josh asked me why i was still up and made me go to bed. even though we're not meant to be talking? lol. glad to know he's still looking out for me.


slept at 230ish.
woke up at 8... got up at 830ish. yes...

went to uni, handed in psyc report.


walked around the library looking for someone who does chem too. found allan and steven. and thankyou God that i saw them / went looking in the first place. because they had the most awesomest practice questions that helped SO MUCH, that i am so sure i did pretty well :) ahh God is so awsomeeeeeeeee
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

yes, i'm sleep deprived. but that hot chocolate in the morning lasted til my exam x)

anyways, i've got lots to catch up on now (since ive been focusing on chem and psyc so much!)

but i think i need a nap. so sleep deprived x)

P.S. asia cocktail on fridayyyyyyy and i actually know who's going now =] was kinda worried not many people were going. but yes. shall be a good night out with the girls! yay!

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6:07 PM

Saturday, September 12, 2009

♥ t h r e e

yipeeeeeee, finished psyc report :) just need to get someone to read it, so i'm bringing it to chuch tomorrow for nathan to read... and hopefully some other people too ^^

argh, but chem midsem... 30% is SO MUCH. for 35 multiple choice questions! thats like 0.85% per question!!!!!!!!!!!!! =[ gah. but at least its MCQ and marks aren't taken off if u get them wrong (like last sem gah-ness)

and i only got 66 as my final mark for chem last sem =( and i really need to be hitting that 75+ / distinction line this semester to up my fgpa... instead of making it go down! but chem will prob be my lowest mark this sem x)... like last sem ahaha, i shouldn't be happy about that!

sigh, uni marking is so slow, i really want my hbio essay back =( and my stats mark (even though i dont think i did that well)

the next week will be pretty busy to begin with... psyc report due & psyc lab & chem mid sem all on monday... i hope i can wake up early =[ because my sleeping patterns are a bit wack (yes, slept at 3am yest)...
weds i've got hbio lab, so must rmb to do the prework on tues...
thurs we're going for more letter dropping i think...
fri i'll prob go uni to study then sma then driving, then tutoring, maybe dinner?, then asia cocktail.
saturday is tracy and laps wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! eek, so excited, must figure out what i'm wearing mmm :).

time for bed i think!

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dt
11:27 PM

♥ psyc report progress

2:12am

psyc report progress : 150 words over, still need to do 120 word abstract (excluded from word count), think of a 10-15 word title and a 2-3word running head.

this is the part where i usually ask my boyfriend to read it for me. but when i mentioned this to louis he was like "seeee dependence again"... err, i don't agree with him but fine =( i will somehow cut 150 words myself, even though to me, everything should stay in there x)

i want...

oh i made a mistake in my last post, i'm so silly, of course its pandan -.-" daymn google got my hopes up that it was green tea = healthy... >__>

oh dear, 2:24am... i think i should sleep soon. but i'm not even sleepy T.T

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2:09 AM


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