counting gRacE!

Busy week but thankful for lots of things.. I really should be doing work and catchin up on sleep but I have lots of things on my mind that I wan to share!

UVic sch system:
it’s a whole different system here at UVic. Students dun pay a fixed semester tuition fee, instead they pay by module. So if u take 3 modules, u pay fees for that 3 modules only. There is no such thing as s/u like that in NUS, if they drop the module halfway, they most prob wont get their fees back. There is a 2.5 weeks try-out period for each module. During that 2.5wks, u can sit n for any class, add or drop modules, but once the deadline is up, u’l have to pay for wad u reali wana take. Most students spend 4 yrs to complete their degree. I see quite a few working adults or more senior citizens taking the same module as me.. haha.. that’s one gd thing abt the system here. U pay to learn wad u really are interested! Yups..

geogies in spore, esp kexin,jaslin, melo, twinee, Gerald ho, I miss having u guys in my geog classes!! I really do!! LY, I hope u are having fun in UK!! Haha.. so yups, im dedicating all these to my beloved geogies!! Haha..

GEOG440: interpreting suburban landscapes
This is one module that I SOOOO WANT to drop!! Haha.. reALII!! When I first went into class, I was sooo super overwhelmed by the course requirement. It’s a level 400 module, so the class is SMALL, like 20 pple onli.. n ya, I need to do a research paper on Victoria!! Oh mann, SOS!! I know nuts abt Victoria, how am I gg to even write a paper on that?? Haha.. I made up my mind to drop the module.. I emailed Dr. Pow but he encouraged me to have a chat with the prof at UVic to work things out.. Dr. Pow, u are the MAN!! Its really nice to receive feedback n greetings from powpow!! Haha.. im thankful that I DIDN’T DROP the module!! Coz im enjoying it to every bit.. y?
1. No formal sit-in the seminar room lecture.
2. Go out on fieldtrip every week!!
Yes, the cars here is very affordable so many students do own a car, so we carpooled for our fieldtrips!
3. Each week, I spent 3hrs visiting the different suburbs (heartlands)of Victoria!
Plus, I dun have to pay any touring fees!! Haha.. its like a mini-day tour every week!!
4. Prof Larry bought the class bagels! So yes, I had my first bagel on a geog fieldtrip!
5. I get to take more photos then note writing!!
yeahs! Wil post photos soon!
Prof Larry reminds me of TC Chang.. awww..

GEOG 385: Environmental Aesthetics
How often do u see a female prof sooo spontaneous as to go shave her hair off for charity?
So she comes to class with a cap every day! Haha.. yups, tats Prof Lisa!! Haha..

GEOG 308: GIS
whats does GIS means?? I bet no one can agree better with this: GIS- Geography Is SEXY!! Hahas.. Prof Ian is nice.. he comes in every week with this HUGEEEE INFLATED BEACH BALL with the globe printed on it!! Hahas.. he has to walk two buildings draggin that huge beach ball with his lappy, n other stuffs!! Haha.. tough eh?? Haha.. n guess wad, he used some gis map n zoom in to show us his lovely house n he happened to b at his backyard when the satellite shot was taken! Lolz.. so he too got a shock of his life.. so much for privacy eh.. haha.. im enjoying his lessons but they are really early.. I always end up dozing off for the last 15mins.. boohoo..
hey kexin, u saw my facebook photos of the GIS lab?? Haha.. very cool!! The screen is HUGEEE!! Sooo much bigger than my face.. I tink one screen can fit two of LY’s face!! Haha.. hope u are coping fine with GIS! GIS can b soo fun! Haha.. jus tat im using all the Canadian maps.. so ya..

MAths 160A: Mathematics for Elementary Teachers!!
YES, im taking this module!! Haha..At first, I tot it would b super chicken feet or wad.. coz elementary sch mah.. haha.. but im soo wrong!! Haha.. I tink im more hardworking for this module than when I took MA1102R Calculus in NUS! Hey, being an elementary maths teacher is not easy!! Haha.. Im like re-learning maths!! Yes!! So interesting and fun la.. I re-learnt problem solving! N oh gosh, LOGIC is damn CHIEM!! Negate this, negate that.. I bet some of u dun even noe wad is LOGIC abt!! Haha.. its amazing wad the elementary sch kids here have to learn.. oki, let mi conduct a test:
1. What is the numerical system that we are using??
2. 5 and 8, which is a bigger number? Which is the smaller numeral?
3. What is a terminating decimal representation?
4. Find a decimal expansion which terminates at the third number?
haha.. u can tag ur answers!! Haha.. n oh, amanda, I always tink of u when I attend this class.. haha..

Oki, need to rest now.. wil blog again..
To those whom I yet to reply ur email, im sorry, give mi some time oki?? Haha..

Jeff, I hope alls well n fine.. take care buddy, miss u.
lily ong, lets aim for breakthrough!
yf, thankiews I enjoyed listenin to joyce preach too.
da, LGLG.
xh, rara, junejune, eve **smiles**
mz, miss u! hang in there babe.
bingde, jia u!
kaiwei, jinshanling!!
teens, preserver. He is Faithful!
LEE family, love u deeply

mixed cai FaN

okie, can doris be "not the soo nice gal" once? I jus needed to vent and get this out before I move on. so if this turn u off or change your impression of mi, den let mi tell u no one is perfect and everyone has temper! so let doris rant n vent all she wans on her personal space can?

to bj, u sometimes can reali be a BIG J!! u turn pple off mann.. im sick of u using ur crying n emo-ing strategy to get comfort n company. im sick off it.. jus coz im nice, doesnt mean i wil forever let u take advantage of mi like this. so pls wake up your idea n stop all your " i really care for u" talk! i dun care if u care! u pissed mi again n again n hurt mi again n again.. u make mi feel so dumb n cheated!! deep down in my heart, im crying n fuming with fire.. "pple who got hurt wil jus go ard hurting others.. " lily thanks for this statement. its stuck in mi ald.. haha..n bj stop trying to get answers out of mi.. its not tat im weak tat i dun wan to fight with u, its jus tat i DUN WANTO! u can fight all u wan with others, i dun care.. im jus not in the mood of fighting n arguing with u.. i got other better things to do n sort out.. sometimes, i reali wish tat u wil leave mi alone n give mi some peace n quiet tat i need.. sometimes i tink i noe u, sometimes i really dun!! ARGHH!! sometimes i feel soo fake in front of u.. u noe wad, i can nv be my true self in front of u.. realii, i cant.. i feel so suppressed when im out with u, and i feel so oppressed when im around u, i feel the stress being your friend, u noe tat? i doubt u will.. now tat tat things to keep u busy, i jus hope tat u wil leave mi alone n let mi have some peace.. for once, im not interested in wads gg on in ur life.. n im not interested in sharing my life stories with u.. bcos u always play this emo game n make believe everything.. i feel so cheated.. im not ready n DEFINITELY not interested to play ur game.. go find ur own playmates n count mi out of this game.. i've got a weak heart, happy? im even beginning to find u a bad influence!! jus give mi some time to cool down?yet on the other hand, bj u can be veri nice.. haiz.. this is confounding n not gg anywhere.. (xh: ROARSSS) no matter wad bj, u r stil a friend tat i wil treasure.. end of bj story 1..

now doris, do u feel any better? i guess i wil resort to my fav activity..oki, lets talk about more hapy stuff!

rara, i attended first ivcf meeting on friday.. haha.. i miss william n shaun.. they reali are gd mentors. i miss conversing with them.. but ya, so how was ivcf? guess wad was ice-breakers? BANANAS! yes, bananas!! hah.. we went on a maths trial to measure anything we can get out hands on n nope, we dint use a ruler, we used bananas!! haha.. we measured tat a full grown bunny is about 2 bananas long, the library face is 67 bananas long, the average height of a bus driver is 10.5 bananas, the gas pump is 7 bananas high, risking out lives on the road, we found out tat the width of a 2 lane road is 56 bananas n etc.. it was a nite of BANANAS!! u r tink im crapping, den u are wrong!! im not laming! mi, aaron n grag went ard UVic at 8pm to measure such stuffs!! so like all of u out there wil b tinkin, so wad happen to the banana after the game? Needless to say, it ended up in doris' tummy of coz!! hahas.. so much for supper eh?? haha.. now tat i come to tink of it, it can b a little disgusting considering the fact that my banana was placed on every corner of the school, floor, wall, grass, or wathaveyou.. oh well, who cares? doris sayin NO to food is rare! haha.. the funnies wil prolly say tat the probability of mi saying NO is zero!! hahas.. xh, rara, june n eve i can read ur mind!! muhahaha..

Yups, take a closer look!! Tats how all the classes in UVic look like.. they use chalkboard!! we wrote all our measurements up on the board..

Grag juggling our bananas after the game.. we figured out that we fared better at juggliingg n eating bananas than to measure them.. coz my group scored the lowest! hahaas.. they shld jus have a swallowing banana competiton, my gro confirm first one lo.. boohooo

oh mann, I LOVE SUNDAYS!! AWESOME SUNDAY!! y? coz im gg to make SUNDAY my ASIAN food day!! hah.. (hhah.. doris is always excited wen it comes to food!!) aaron, u better dun fly aeroplane on mi oki?? so last sunday, we decided tat we had enuff of subway n so we went to chinatown to hunt for CHINESE food!! last week, we went too but the restaurant we went into totally sux, so we came out n we aint gg bck animore..

tis week, we went to ocean gardens restaurant!! i tell u, we were sooooo hungry that we forgot wad we ordered and jus simply accepted wad was given to us.. onli after we paid for the bill, den we realise we accepted the wrong order!! it was suppose to b for the table behind us, but the waitress asked if it was ours n we said yes coz aaron ordered prawn n i ordered chicken n so coincidentally the waitress was holding a plate with prawns n another with meat. oki, but tats not the point, the ONLI point im making here is we HAD CHINESE FOOD!! it was DEEEEeeLICIOUS!!!

our original order: chinese chow mein, sweet n sour pork, dried frie

prawns,baked almong chicken, wanton soup.

VS

wat we accepted: staty beef rice, statay prawn rice.

so different rite?? i told u we were too hungry to realise such a BIG DIFF!!

YUMMY!! FULL! SATISFIED! HAPPY! GRIN GRIN**

oh wells, i duno if the restaurant did charge us according to our original order or the price of the wrong order we ate (which was more ex than our original order), but im oki with it coz it was less than $10 after tax n tip! hahas.. yeah, im gg there again next week!! yipee.. this time round, im GOING to make sure that i receive the right order!! hahas..

its interesting to note tat the 3 tables ard us in the chinese restaurants are whites..n all of them cldnt finish their food n had the leftovers dapao-ed.. after comin here, i finally understand y spore is a food paradise!! i finally trully understand.. coz more often than not, pple here eat bread n more bread .. mi n aaron wonder y after asian food, whites stil like n enjoy eating bread n more bread?? i see no sense to it too!! hahas.. i mean realli, i jus miss all the asian food!! yes, teens help mi eat all the asian dishes can?? haha.. n oh by the way, they dun convenient eating places like kopitam, coffeeshop and hawker centre here!! i miss bedok 85!! hahas.. even their foodcourt sells all the fastfood n bread n more bread! hahas.. they onli have neighbourhood pubs here. its theirs version of kopitiam, jus in a more civilised manner. hahas.. so when ppl gg pubing here, its jus to chill n dine.. im gg pubing this wed for prawn nite! yeah.. so teens readin this post, pls noe how to discern oki? im not telling u all the pub in spore ar!! hahas.. dun ever quote mi!! hahas.. all i can say is tat the pubs here are different from the pubs in spore.. super different atmosphere! hahas..

oops, i sided-tracked too much, bck to sunday.. oh, i BOUGHT a GREEN WATER BOTTLE!! Yeah.. hahas.. now, i wan to shop for GREEN bag!! Hahas.. pls hor, not the ntuc GREEN bag.. hahas.. m i too GREEN?? Lolz.. oh wells, green is in my BLOOD! Hahas..

GREEN is THE COLOUR!!

den we stood at Chinatown to view the lion dance.. hahas.. its nice to see smth soo asian in a faraway land.. hahas..

check out the banner flog- Victoria Kungfu Club!! wu sae one lo!!

wad was for dinner?? subway!! hahas.. lolzz.. so yes, xh this is for u!! my third consecutive sunday eating subway!! i tink amanda wil like it alot.. hahas..

talkin abt food, i've been eating alot of beef (more than wad i eat in spore) coz beef here is the cheapest meat!! im becoming paranoid as a result.. u noe- MCD? ya.. oki, doris jus watch wad u eat oki??