0 down 4 to go

0 down, 4 to go

This is such a torture I tell you. One whole week of studying and still exams aren't here yet. Not even one paper. Next week is gonna be hell. With 4 papers all crammed up. I have finished studying for Sport Psychology. The very first paper on the 5th. Still have to do past papers. But I'll leave that for the day before coz I have a feeling that I've forgotten everything that I studied and crammed into my head. But not too worried for this... coz I pulled it off during the mid sem where I woke up late, didn't study one chapter and scored a borderline A :p I will have to focus on Exercise Physiology for Special Population which will be on the next day. A harder paper in which I have not finished studying. This paper, I predict a B if I study hard enough, and thus leads to less attention being paid to sport psych. *sigh*

And then there's Mechanics of injury on the 7th. A paper where I have already passed with internals of 57/60. Finals is 40%. This is the paper where I had to do the stupid literature review that drove me nuts. But effort was well paid off... with a 20/20 for it. Wahahahahahaha!! Damn the chances of getting an A+ is rather high for this. But, I'll have to throw that dream away because of Movement Neuroscience on the 10th. This paper, this paper is a big big big nightmare. The thought of failing this paper is constantly lingering in my head. It has affected my concentration the whole of this week. Even when I study my other paper, I kept on thinking of this paper. I failed my mid sem for this. The only test/exam I failed throughout my entire degree. It scares the crap out of me. I've been doing the readings and still I have no idea what it's talking about. And to even think that when I was in 7th form, I was considering doing Biomed in uni and specialize in Neuroscience. Thank goodness I didn't. Coz I'd fried my brain.

My grades this semester is not gonna be good. It has the potential to be rather good but because of the Movement Neuroscience, I have to throw that A+/A thought away and focus to just pass neuroscience! RawRrrRR!!!

On a brighter and SWEETER note....

I went shopping on Monday... and I bought a lot!! over 100 bucks!! Go me!!!!
What did I buy?

This is my so-called brain food for the exams. And before you start questioning if I'm ok and worry that I over-eat and overdoze myself with sugar, let me clarify those photos up there first. It's a combo of mine and karen's brain food. Two of us. We went rather crazy at Pak n Save. And karen can clarify that she's bringing the kit kat cookies and cream bars back to msia. We'll see how well she can control herself :p We got pulled away with chocolates and chips that we nearly forgotten to buy the essentials - milk, bread, cereals, yoghurt. Ahahaha!! This is my version of shopping therapy :p Ahahahaha!!!

And if you see a rather pimply and chubby shermayne after the exams, don't be surprise. But don't worry, I'll work it off right after that and eat healthier (maybe?) as I gotta prepare myself for the Kauri Run 12 days after my final paper!

Good luck to all of you!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!! Ahahahahahaha!!!

happy bday

10 years ...

10 years... 10 years of friendship. Know this person for exactly half of my life! Still remembered way back in std 4, I was the girl who wore my cap in the car before training as I didn't want to waste time wearing my cap in the pool. He was the boy who laughs at me when he saw me coming out of the car. It was then our friendship started.

10 years after ... We've gone our own ways. So many memories, good and bad throughout all those years.... . But.... Thank you. Thank you for that friendship, one that will never end. Here's to 10 yrs of knowing each other and still counting .... :p

Happy 20th Birthday Matthew Lee Yee Loong!!!! Have a great one and take care!!

SM, S, M

And before the hot sexy mama in that photo start to merajuk ....

A very Happy Belated Birthday to her on the 16th of October ... my extra pair of ears ... who's always there to listen to me. Who's always been there when I needed someone to hear me out and keeping it all to herself. Not 10 years but 8 years is very long too!! Shaleeni Jayamani, Happy happy belated birthday!!! Thank you, thank you so much. I wouldn't know what to do without you. Thanks for all your encouragement, your tips and advices too!! Doubt I'll be where I am today without you. Hahahaha!!!

Good luck with your finals, we can do it!! Add oil!!!!! And good luck with ur job application and I want to see you in Oz next year!!!! Muakxxxx!!!!!

DONE

D.O.N.E.

Done with final report last night. The last 10%. Finally over. Relieved. And for the record, I finished it before midnight!!! All referenced, printed and placed in a folder nicely, before MIDNIGHT!!!

So glad it's over now. No more reports, no more assignments, no more article critiques, no more reviews... all of this done for my entire sportsci degree!! Wooohoooo!!!

I feel like I'm on holiday, but in fact, it's not all over yet. Still have finals to study for. One week to study for 4 papers. But bluekkk.... For now, I'm on holiday!!! for 1 day. hehehehe....

frustration

RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's all coming to an end...

And soon ... it'll all be over...

It's all coming to an end. 2 more weeks till lectures are over. 4 more weeks till exams are all over. 4 more weeks till I complete my degree. 4 more weeks till FREEDOM!

Can you believe it? It is THAT soon.

These last two weeks is all about wrapping up. One more 10% lab report due in next week. One more 5% presentation. One more 3% journal article critique. And then that's it!! No more assignments!!! No more labs!!! No more reports!! I'll still be battling it out for the next two weeks. But I'm glad... glad that it'll all be over soon. Glad that it's all the last one I will ever do. Last report, last article critique, last presentation.

And after that, it's the final leg of the race. EXAMS. 1 week of cramming it all followed by 1 week of battle, regurgitating everything. And then after that... forget them all and celebrate ... celebrate with my other half who finishes on the same day of me. 10th november!!!!

Ohh let's roll down the hill :p

Good luck to all of you. We are almost there....

doing good

i am doing fine without my laptop.

i will survive. no money to buy new one. lolx! and no time to go and search where to send it for repair... at least i have my important uni files in my usb stick!

but seriously, seriously there's something going on ...

i had a friend whose laptop crashed on tuesday night as well. and she had her assignments all in it and did not back-up. worst than me.

And today when i went to help my supervisor, he told me the lab's laptop crashed yesterday...but it was only used to run Chart i think.. so that wasn't too bad...

And yesterday during lecture, my lecturer told us that few computers from the sportsci department got stolen... containing works of the phd students... so kesian...

so yea.. i'm actually not in a bad state at all... others are worst than me...

besides, not having a laptop is pretty good. i cleaned the house today and washed the car :p i facebook less too.. haven't been playing my slayer... wahahaha!! and somehow, soon... in the near future... i will study more?? lolx!

I'm all good :D

My laptop is ........ dead ... *sighs*

why does it have to die on me??

Somehow I feel that lots of unfortunate things are happening around. Not only to me but others... what's going on?

hell week is over

And so the hell week is over ...

Yea!! That's right! That freaking 20% literature that left me with 6 hours of sleep over two nights was torturing. But at least it's over now :) Still need to prepare for my presentation on it next Friday but yea.... at least it's not 20%. 5% only :p It's gonna be boring coz majority did theirs on lateral ankle sprain, including me :p

And so there's till lab reports and article critiques and assignments to be done but yea.... it's no longer hell week. The worst of assigments is over I must say. Now even 10% lab reports do not scare me as much after that 20% literature review.

I ended the hell week with a blast! Eating and stuffing myself up on Saturday with a raya celebration in the evening, lots of yummy yummy food. Rendang la.. ayam masak merah lah.... sayur lemak lar... roast duck lar.... char kuey teow la... sambal telur la.... and so many many more. I contributed too... with my kuih bingka which leaves the aunties asking me for recipe :o Teeheee... i feel so proud...hahaha!! And the eating session did not end there. Right after we ate, it was pot luck at Mamasan's at night. Followed with charades and drinking as punishment. Thank goodness I had Karen as my representative for drinking. My excuse... I needed to be the sober driver :p And well, she was a happy girl... saying that it's been ages since she drank. So... that's good. Wahahahahaha! Both sides benefit.

And on sunday... it was a morning of social crazy netball. Haven't had that in ages and it was good!! The day followed on with me starting on my lab report and trying to get back to study mode. Which was... HARD!!! Couldn't think and the results I had didn't make sense making it difficult to explain it. And this resulted in me handing in my lab report yesterday at 4pm on the dot! That was the due time and I popped it in the pigeon hole right on 4pm. For once, it was literally last minute.

What's next?

Week 10
3% article critique
5% lab

Week 11
5% lab
10% literature review
3% article critique
5% presentation

Week 12
3% article critique
10% lab report

Looks like it's not all over afterall huh? It just keeps coming all the way through the final week. But.. seriously, the worst is over :p Need to start preparing for finals because.. I so do not, and cannot afford to fail!!! I've been offered a place in Sydney but in one condition, I need to pass my remaining papers with an average of 65%. And also, offer only stands provided the remainding places are not filled up. Hmmmnnn..... so it's still not confirmed yet till... till i complete my finals and get my results and wait for them to get back to me.

On a brighter note ....

13 km Kauri Run @ Coromandel - 22 Nov 2008

I am so looking forward to it!! Perhaps I should start doing some training now? It's only a month and a half away!!! So excited!! Karen is going to do the 32km one. She's super fit ... nearly everyday, she goes for a run... gosh.. the discipline! respect!!! My turn in doing that will come.. one day.. one day.... When I'm more focused, more fit and mentally stronger. Lolx!!

In the mean time, i'll stick to the 13km course and look forward to that weekend! It's gna be a a run and a mini road trip as well. Wooot wooot!

this is call major procrastination

This is call major procrastination ...

Part 1
I don't care.. from now till I finish my literature review, i'll be blogging constantly and blab. Eve the tiny, little things.. i'll blab too....Wahahaha.... just to procrastinate. Hehehehe...

For the past 5 hours, i only managed 3% of my lit review. That's.... just the introduction. Apart from that, i've been trying all kinds of things just to escape from reality. A waste of time really and it's not doing me good coz eventually, I will still have to complete it.

I've consumed half a bottle of powerade, one packet of mi goreng, a few tim tams, rice crackers, lobak kuih, one mouth of red bull, chewing gum, two slices of raisin bread ... and i've just cooked rice (i discovered a new way of cooking rice using the stove which guarantees no sticking!) and i'll be eating my dinner soon eventhough i'm not hungry :p

I've been facebooking, reading blogs, friendster-ing (tho there isn't much in friendster anymore), slayer-ing of facebook, msn-ing .... you know, the typical net surfing. In addition to those forms of procrastination, i've been doing sit-ups and push-ups, star jumps, frog jumps to escape from reality. This is the only good thing about staying at home and do assignments, you can do all sorts of stupid things coz there's so much space! but yea.... it takes a longer time to complete ur task. Wahahahahaha!!

Thank goodness I don't have work this week orelse i'd be working just now and yesterday. Thank goodness there's no lab tomorrow. I think it's a sign saying that I should make full use of this and complete my lit review, no excuses! The extra time is there for me... but somehow I don't seem to be making full use of it yet. Bluekkk....

dinner time :D

Part 2: 9.26pm

I had dinner. I did more push ups and sit ups. I chat on MSN. I received several texts asking how I wrote my results and discussion for the literature review and I can't answer them because... I haven't even started. *sigh* see how behind i am! I just finished my methods. That's another 3%. Gosh i'm working so slow. and now.. now i'm discussing netball with audrey.. wahahhahaa..... fun! i want to win tmrw!!!!!

living in denial

Living in Denial ...

That's my current status. Trying to avoid doing my literature review. I haven't even found 15 articles that can be referenced. I only started by typing out the topic and my name. Found a few journal articles but not all can be used. At least I started? 20%. Due on Friday. And here I am, hoping Friday will not come so I do not need to hand it in. I've been eating and eating, just as an excuse not to do it. *sigh* Gaining weight but not gaining any words in my review.

And now, I'm hoping Friday to come quick, so that it will be over. Argh!!!

I just need something to get me started. And I do not know what. How how?

I think i'll just go back to eating. Next snack: instant Mi Goreng! :p