Today is...
~~>Friday 14.04.06<~~
Feeling: genki desu!! ^__~
I am sooo relieved the holidays are finally here!! w000t! =D I have been in holiday mode since the end of Tuesday's exam, which wasn't all that healthy seeing as I still had two exams left to go. Hah.. I know I did really shit on those exams, but it's all good.. You know how you get to that stage where you just don't care anymore? Well that's where I've been since Tuesday =P I don't care how badly I did anymore because the holidays are here, and the overwhelming sense of relief flooding over me right now is enough to override my feelings of shame and guiltiness =D Now there's a logical theory if I ever did see one =P
Last night after my last exam I was in such a good mood I decided to take the 130 and walk all the way home from Pinelands, seeing as I'd just missed my normal bus [Yes, that's how much of a good mood I was in - that I would readily consent to exercise like that =P]. By lucky coincidence Romeo took the same bus, and we ended up stopping off at Sunnybank for pearl tea and food. I like impulsiveness, it's rather fun. I also haven't seen Romeo [or anybody for that matter] in quite a while, so it was nice to catch up a little. A good start to the holidays, I say.
That being said, my inbox has already been flooded with a flurry of emails about scheduling group meetings for the holidays and what not, and once again I feel like crying. I've barely been on holidays for 12 hours, I don't neeeeed this right now! I don't even wanna THINK about assignments or study or anything remotely uni-related!! *sigh*
Oh well.. I guess I'll just deal with it later..
For now, today is aaaall about me. I've made plans for the rest of the day that involve doing only things I enjoy and have been looking forward to doing for QUITE some time now.. muahaha >=D
Happy Easter all, hope everyone has a safe and lovely break. ^^

Bah to false advertising!!
~~>Wednesday 12.04.06<~~
Feeling: restless
Red Bull does NOT give you wings. It makes you twitchy, and fidgety, but does nothing to substantiate its product slogan. I know this because after drinking it, my attention span was still as short as ever and furthermore I had extreme difficulty concentrating for longer than 10 minutes at a time.
Damn those false advertising claims!!

The height of desperation...
~~>Saturday 08.04.06<~~
Feeling: panicky
Allow me to sum up my current situation for you: I have hollows under my eyes that I like to refer to as 'The Deeper Valleys of Sleep Deprivation', I've been thriving on barely any other liquid than Ceylon tea for the last 3 days, and my stomach is incredibly fluttery and tense. Do we all know what time of the semester it is?? *ding ding ding* That's riiiight, it's mid-sem exam time!
I've spent the greater half of today typing up answers to the practice exam questions for one of my subjects, E-Marketing. From week 3 to week 6 [the week that just passed], our lecturer has been releasing practice exam questions at the end of every class, with the guarantee that one of the questions from each week will definitely appear on the exam. In the exam there are five short answer questions, of which we choose three to answer. This has prompted me to formulate a theory. Since one question from each week will definitely appear but we only need to answer three questions, then if I just choose three weeks to focus on and rote learn the answers to them impeccably, I will be able to pass the short answer question section of the exam. Correct? o_O
Ingenious theory if I do say so myself. Theoretically, it all makes perfect sense in my mind. But of course in practice, it's entirely different >__> After typing up answers for two of my chosen weeks [I've yet to do the final set, that's how long these DAMN answers take to formulate! >=(] it has become blatantly apparent how little knowledge I actually have about the subject. Everything that I've spent the last 6 weeks cramming into my undersized brain has gone in one eye and out the other [I say 'eye' because I learn by reading my material silently, not by chanting it out loud to my ears o__o]. This makes me feel like crying.
I'm going to follow the same strategy for my Strategic Marketing exam [as we have the same lecturer for that subject] and hope that somehow I can wing my way through. There are only two more full days left before my exam starts, so it's certainly too late to go by any other strategy now.. =( *sigh*
It's quite sad, isn't it? At the start of the semester I absolutely swore to myself that this year I would turn over a new leaf, study my ass off and get good grades. Now look at me... Plotting tactics that will hopefully get me through just by the skin of my teeth, even though I genuinely have tried to study right from week one. I don't know what's worse.. Not studying and failing miserably, or genuinely trying and STILL failing miserably. What a lousy dilemma. *sigh*
I think the highlight of my weekend will be venturing into the supermarket tomorrow to stock up on Red Bull for my cramming sessions. How sad...

She'd have to be manic... =P
~~>Friday 07.04.06<~~
Feeling: pressed
Ooookay so where has Uncle Yenny been for the last couple of weeks? Oh, only suffocating under a pile of textbooks, lecture notes and media-related artefacts for that stupid campaign I've been doing for work experience. >__>
Yay for me, I get to kick-start next week with a group assignment due on Monday, followed by a rapid succession of mid-semester exams on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Bang, bang, bang, all in a row.. Which pretty much means: Ouch, ouch, ouch, all in a row =P But at least then it'll be over quickly.. lol. Wish me luck sons!^^
My last day of work with that PR company for Walk Safely to School Day was actually on the Monday that just passed [the campaign wraps up today]. I can say with all honesty that I never ever want to hear of the Pedestrian Council of Australia again, nor do I want anything to do with media-related work for a loooooong, looooooooong time. In a way it was rewarding I guess, I mean the work experience was definitely invaluable. I'll be sure to chuck that into my resume and spin-doctor it as much as is legally possible [which is precisely what PR people are supposed to be good at doing anyway, there's no point trying to beat around the bush about that =P]. I also managed to catch the CSA played on channel 10 during Futurama last week hehe. I know it wasn't my doing, because I'd been rejected outright by channel 10 Queensland just the week before.. But it still didn't stop me from leaping off the couch and screaming, "That's my ad!!" and bragging about it to anyone within earshot. For anyone who's curious about the ad, you can get a copy of it here: www.walk.com.au, under the advertising section. [That line became one of my catch cries in my phone calls and emails to the media lol.]
I was shocked when Steph [the chick I worked with mainly, she's really lovely!] told me they were considering offering me more work with different campaigns. Personally I thought I'd done such a horrible, lousy job that they would rather hire an underpaid phone monkey than call me back to do anymore work with them.. Lol. I'd love to get my fingers in the pie for some new avocado campaign they're supposedly working on [because we all know how much I love food! Haha] but I dunno... *sigh* We'll see.
On a completely unrelated note, Uncle Yenny has rekindled her love for Japanese things, thanks to a little help from Matsumoto Jun [aka "MatsuJun"] w000t! =P As a result, I've developed an unhealthy passion for J-dramas which could not possibly have sprouted at a worse time, considering mid-sems are just around the corner.. >__< My latest fetish is watching live-action series, which is where they take an anime/manga and turn it into live action, as the name suggests =P I managed to gobble my way through Hana Yori Dango [starring Matsumoto Jun], and some of Marmalade Boy, and Gokusen. Don't worry sons, I'm attempting to exert SOME level of self-control, so I won't be watching anymore stuff until my exams are well and truly over >__> I really enjoyed Hana Yori Dango, even though it was tacky as anything, and the soundtrack gives a whole Harry Potter vibe right from the beginning. [Funnily enough, they make reference to Harry Potter during the series, which I thought was rather uncanny.] I was also surprised that they hadn't been sued for the whole "F4" concept, as I'd previously known F4 to be a Taiwanese band who did songs for the soundtrack of a show called Meteor Garden. But I later learned that F4 the band had actually originated from Meteor Garden, and Meteor Garden was the Taiwanese version of Hana Yori Dango. [It's amazing what ignorant people can learn huh! keke] Ahh.. Might sound terribly confusing, but if you watch the show then you'll know what I'm rambling about ^__~ I really hope they make a sequel to it, because I'm dying to know how everything pans out between the main characters. I know there's a Meteor Garden II, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Japanese version keke.
MatsuJun is also the inspiraton for my next background/layout, which I'll attempt to work on over the Easter break. Doesn't mean I love Dongwan, or Shinhwa, or any of my preeecious k-pop any less =P But it feels good to be back in the rhythm with Jap stuff again. If that even makes any sense.. o_O It's also sort of given me a little more clarity on where I'd like to be next year, and rekindled my determination to do HHB082 next semester. Let's hope everything stays this nice and rosy .__.
Ngoc-iE left for Japan on Monday. I meant to at least send him a msg or call or something before his plane left, but I got so wrapped up in work on Monday that I totally forgot. Horrible, horrible excuse I know >__> Although I was kind of miffed when, last Thursday, I went to visit him one last time and he didn't really seem to give a crap. That would very well have been the last time I'll see him in two years, given the fact that he's not coming back until next April and also given my plans that span from next year and into 2008. He was more interested in talking to Chris, whom he was going to see on Sunday again anyway, about freaking car speakers than anything else. So I left in a kind of pissed off mood, but oh well. I still hope everything works out well for him in Tokyo.
Enough ranting from me sons.. I've tried to study, but haven't been very productive all day. *sigh* So I guess I'll head off and try to get some more work done now.. >__>
Later days..

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