this week

Lots to do this week... and next..

Spent the last 2 days making love letters.. now, my body aches, especially my butt (for sitting on a small round stool for more than 5 hours each).. Really feeling my age.. :(

Anyway, we'll be making a few more types of cookies in the weeks to come.. plus some spring cleaning and decorating expected of CNY.. As I wasn't home for the last CNY, some of the stuff was not done last year.. so time to make up for it..

On top of all these, I need to complete my weekly translation quota and do my research readings.. and there's the usual US dramas to follow up and magazines to read.. not to mention quality time with my family, especially shopping with my sis.. :p  so time is definitely not enough..

Sunday Serenade: wide awake

This week, let's enjoy a song by one of the best selling female artists.. I like her MVs as they always seemed to have a story-line of sort which made them more fun to watch..

Wide Awake
by Katy Perry





Have a great week ahead!! Be safe and stay happy!! :)

Poetry Solace: Of song

Another poem from Adrienne Rich...

Song (1971)
You 're wondering if I'm lonely:
OK then, yes, I'm lonely
as a plane rides lonely and level
on its radio beam, aiming
across the Rockies
for the blue-strung aisles
of an airfield on the ocean

You want to ask me, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely

If I'm lonely
it must be the loneliness
of waking first, of breathing
dawn's first cold breath on the city
of being the one awake
in a house wrapped in sleep

If I'm lonely,
it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore
in the last red light of the year
that knows what it is, that knows it's neither
ice nor mud nor winter light
but wood, with a gift for burning




Enjoy your weekend! Be safe!!

3rd sem.

My semester officially ended Jan 11 with the last week being final examination week.  I took 5 subjects this semester with a total of 14 credits. There's no final exams for me but I had to submit 2 reports. They were both pretty rush but I did manage to write around 1,500 words for each. :p

Anyway, the results were out last week and here they are..

For those who can't read Chinese,
Methodology - 93
Strategic Human Resource - 91
Management Academic Paper Writing - 95
Applied Statistics - 93
Seminar - 90

My feelings for these results are mixed. I'm happy that I've managed to secure high grades for some of them but felt I deserved higher marks for the rest of them.. Somehow my getting these low marks fed into my paranoia of intra-departmental squabbling between faculty members that has sorta spilled over to us students.. In any case, all these are just my personal perception which may not be true.. So all in all, I'm moderately happy that all my grades are above 90.. :)

Updates - Jan 20

Sorry for not updating for so long.. lots have happened and I shall (hopefully) catch-up with entries about those happenings..

Anyway, I am now back in Malaysia. Yep, it's winter holidays now and with CNY in mid Feb, I will be home for at least 4 weeks.. :) Have yet to buy my ticket back to TWN, as the prices are insanely high. Already told my adviser about the possibility of my missing classes for the first 2 weeks of school and he was ok with it, so no hurry for me to get back.. :P

Even so, I've promised to read 2 books and do my own research on my topics. Thus no REAL holiday for me.. but it is good to be back and be with family.. not to mention nice WARM weather..

Shall write more in the weeks ahead.. that's all for now.. take care..