Jolie

Reflection

joliez — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:15:37 +0000

Teaching itself can be an education. There is no student who cannot learn. There is only teacher who cannot teach. I am not sure if I can become a teacher who can really teach. I hope I can become one. It is not easy. I will work hard.

I hate my hair. It is too long and not manageable.

I miss my mum.

All the Motivation

joliez — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:50:54 +0000

All the motivation… is gone. I find myself stucked. I no longer like what I do. I do not see the point of it any more. Maybe I should just quit for good. I feel really exhausted. Dragging myself around is really painful. My surety, don’t worry. I’m not quitting my job. I’m talking about something else.

I actually kinda started to like NIE life now. I still hate where it is, its one thousand staircase, its polluted air and its seriously lousy food. But I enjoy having lesson with all these nice and fun people. Without them, school would be more dreadful. It would have been better if we have less assignments to do. Now I actually feel sad that we are going to be posted out soon.

Before I have realized, we are already in February! And Chinese New Year was over too! The past Chinese New Year was a busy one. I went to visit Leng’s relatives, they came to his house and visit. We visited his friend’s place, his boss’s place. His boss and the wife are really sweet. They actually took a photo of us and printed it out for us. So sweet of them.

There is actually no coherence in the post. Really tired.

Update on Not Updating

joliez — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:50:06 +0000

I have been simply too lazy to update. One and half weeks more before we are sent out for practicum. This week is definitely hell. Essays, presentation, microteachings, reflection, test construction… I seriously should have started on the assignments earlier. Too late for that though.

On the bright side, coming Saturday is V Day! Well, although I’m not a big fan of V Day, at least I have something to look forward too. But… Saturday is fully packed as well.

I was looking through my blog, and realized that my posts on Aussie trip stopped on the 2nd day. -.-”’ I shall do something about that once this week is over. And maybe some recent happenings as well.

Off to bed… ZzzZzzz…

Ha-llo-ween

joliez — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:07:37 +0000

I’m not a party person. It has been ages since I have been to a club. So today or rather yesterday i went for halloween party before I’m too old for that. Which club should you go? Zouk it is… But… There were so many people and old people like us just don’t have the patience to wait till our turn to get into that small door of Zouk. Therefore, after one and half hours in the crowd of people fully dressed up for the party, we gave up and ended up in Helipad.

Probably it was one of few places that were not fully packed for a Halloween night on Friday. I was just surprised that I am still sober enough to blog (maybe tomorrow morning I would realize that this entry is beyond readable). Anyways, just some photos.

Just the gals… The boys’ picture was way too dark to see anybody.

A bit drunk…

Nice view from Helipad…

When we were really drunk…

I really think my phone camera is good! and on a side note… How do you get to Helipad? You take a helicopter… Okay, too lame. Off to bed.

Good night!

Gloomy Monday

joliez — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:08:48 +0000

Gloomy weather for a gloomy Monday. Even the news was gloomy, bombs, ferry sink, plane crash, mudslide, hurricane, typhoon, credit crisis… Hope the sky will clear up soon.

Back in School… AGAIN

joliez — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:58:56 +0000

I’m in school computer lab now. Today we actually learn how to use blog… So… I created another blog. I don’t even update when I only have 1 blog, not to mention 2. lol.

Life in NIE has not been very exciting, partly because of its location. I need to travel 1 hour plus to reach school. The travelling already drains my energy every day. To my dislike, the course is CA based. I have assignments and presentation almost every week. Well, I guess I cannot complain too much since I am paid to study.

Just realized that I didn’t even finish blogging about my grad trip. I guess I should finish that soon. Just upload some of the photos I guess.

Weekends are quite tiring nowadays. Last Saturday I left home at 8am plus and reached back at midnight. I went to watch Money No Enough. It was very entertaining, although part of it made me very sad. It reminded me of something happened in the past, something that I hope never had happened. Well, after the movie, I went to collect my bowling shoe and bought one very nice strap for my new LG Viewty. Then we went to Villa Bali to meet up Ben and Swan. I haven’t been there since 10 July. Since Leng had to fetch me back, the 3 of us finished a bottle of red wine. So by the end of day, I was tired and drunk, and only went home to realize that I still needed to continue my ppt slides. Even though, I cannot wait for my next weekend to come. I wanna play bowling!!!

P.S. the camera of LG Viewty is quite good, even at night!

Aussie Trip – Day 2

joliez — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:31:55 +0000

The activity only started in the afternoon. We went for white water rafting. Overall it was quite fun, not to mention that I was the first one to be thrown into the water. Oops. Well, our instructor also fell into water later that day. According to him, this kinda things happen, although not very often. When the water was calm, we actually had a little swim in the river. The water was nice and calm, but a bit too cold. Too bad we didn’t have our cameras with us for the obvious reason. We only had one picture on bus to the river.

After the rafting, we were pretty tired. So we had dinner in our apartment. The food was… not too good. Mainly frozen food. They were neither tasty nor healthy. Nevertheless, we were still quite happy. I like this shot. Very homely.

[ to be continued ]

P.S. I wonder whether I can finish blogging about the trip before I head back home. I have been quite tired these few days. I think my entries make the trip sound quite boring. Well, more exciting stuff coming up. Got to go and sleep now. Tomorrow I still have big plan to exercise.

Aussie Trip – Day 1

joliez — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:06:12 +0000

Day 1 of the trip was not very remarkable. After the 7 hour plus night flight to Brisbane, all of us were quite burned out. The morning of Brisbane was quite cold, but we were still quite excited. So we were doing the jumping shot while waiting for train transfer to the domestic airport.

Yay, we reached!

After another 2 hours of domestic flight to Cairns, we finally reached our apartment there at 2pm. Luckily, the rain stopped after we washed up, so we headed to the city of Cairns to take a walk. Cairns is quite a small town on the east coast of Australia. It is famous because it is quite near to the Great Barrier Reef. The town is very quiet, and not densely populated. Our apartment was quite near the coast, so we walked along the coast towards the centre of the town. Hmmm, the park was somewhat similar to East Coast Park, but it was so much more serene. We were lucky enough to catch this fading-away rainbow on our way.

The centre of the town was about 30 min walk from our apartment. There was nothing much for us to see and the food there was insanely expensive. I shall not include any photos we took there because all of us looked extremely tired in the photos. After dinner, we walked back to our apartment after some grocery shopping. Day 1 ended quite early with all of us sleeping away at 10pm…

[ to be continued ]

Aussie Land

joliez — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:13:02 +0000

Just came back from Australia last night. Exhausted… Overall, the trip was not too bad. I shall blog about it when I have all the photos in.

I passed my driving test! I can drive now! Haha!

Easy, Easy…

joliez — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:02:23 +0000

This is what I have been telling myself the entire afternoon. I got really pissed by some admin staff from my department. It started with a key to my lab. As an undergrad, I was not supposed to have access to lab without someone to supervise me. But somehow, I was allowed to have one key. Couples of months later, one nosy prof found out about it, and I was supposed to return the key. So I did. I didn’t fancy holding that key anyway. When I returned this key to this staff, I asked her whether I needed to sign any form although I totally forgot about the 10 dollar deposit I paid. She replied that there was no need, then I happily walked off.

3 months later, thanks to my lab partner, I realized that she still owed me 10 dollars. Too lazy to just go down and take it myself, my lab partner kindly offered to help me take. Then I got a call from him this afternoon. The staff said she never recalled me returning the key to her. My lab partner called me and handed the phone to her. So I just explained what happened at that time, but she insisted that it couldn’t be the case and gave me a lot of ‘reasons’ that couldn’t have happened. I was like… She was the one taking care of the keys. If she said it was not there, there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t possibly tell her that what she put it. Then she got angry, and told me that if I just wanted the money, she could pay me. Wth! What she said really pissed me off. She forgot about it doesn’t mean that never happened. She just refused to admit that she was the one being blur and got angry to make it seem like I was the one pushing for that money. Left with no choice, I told her never mind. Since she couldn’t locate that key, she could just forfeit the deposit. She just rudely cut off the call without acknowledging what I have said! And the call was made from my friend’s phone! She didn’t even have the courtesy to hand over the call back to my friend! I don’t really care who is right or who is wrong in this case. But at least I expect basic manner and respect. It doesn’t mean that she’s more senior (just a nice way of saying ‘old’) she got the right to treat me and talk to me any way she wants.

Well, sadly, she’s not the only one like this in the department. I still remember this prof who never addressed me in an email, and started it with this sentence, I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE NOT FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT. All I wanted to ask him was whether it was possible for me to do my attachment overseas if I could find a partner university offering me an opportunity. I guess my classmates should know who I am talking about.

Sometimes I wonder why this kind of thing is happening. Since my university claims that it is a global university that offers chances for students to do intern or study overseas, why didn’t my department even consider giving me a chance? If they are running the university like an enterprise, doesn’t it mean I should get what I want as long as I have paid?

Ok, I guess I’m drifting too far. I think I’m too tired after driving, bowling… Time to head to bed.