The night rantings

Lets blog a little about my korea trip. I climbed a 900m mountain, and did some shopping. A typhoon was heading to korea prior to my arrival but apparently my presence diverted Dianmu to Japan instead. And I enjoyed 7 days of clear skies which was abnormal in korea. It was the first time I went into a casino where 2 croupiers were sleeping and another three playing card games by themselves. Of course I left hastily. Another casino ion korea I actually saw blackjack cards being shuffled by hand. Yes, by hand, I even get to cut the deck.wahahahhahahahaha. I only saw one cute korea girl in my entire trip there. The plastic surgeons mus be not doing a good job in my opinion. The theme parks were a letdown. oh well, back to dreaming abt disneyland. Overall it was only a so-so trip but it did allow me time to get my life back in perspective. I should do this more often. If only I have the moolah..........

Argh, coming back to humid and hot Singapore after cool and dry korea, makes me real hot, bothered and sticky. Now dun take this the wrong way. :) Reading my mail, I had another request to interview me for a junior college project. I am becoming a celebrity. wahahahhahaha. It seems they picked up my name from the newspaper article I was consulted on some time ago. On the pther hand, Still no news from the journal I submitted the article to.

Going for a jog later, need to get my life back on track after the holiday. Hope to post some pics of my trip when I have uploaded the fotos into my com.

Hi ppl......

Just came back from Korea so I am sorri if I missed any of your calls and did not reply to emails.......

Let me try to cheer everyone up after the gloomy exit of the supposedly top 5 teams in Euro 2004.

Lets see.....
Top 10 ways to get your future calls rejected or directed to voice mail:

1) "I was wondering whether you are interested in a fabulous insurance/timeshare/MLM plan/product."

2) "Can I please do a short 2 hour survey with you?"

3) "........ *Heavy breathing/panting*"

4) "chu tai ji liao. ji ku diao chui lai ang mo kio. tua le ay parang."--- Got trouble, call all to come down to Ang Mo Kio and bring your parang.

5) "Hello, you seems to be doing pretty well lately, can I borrow $0.50/5 meeellion dollars."

6) "I have AIDS/SARS/EBOLA/Super contagious disease."

7) "I just escaped from IMH(Woodbridge)/Changi prison."

8) "Can you help me dump some luggage into Singapore River/Mac Ritchie Reservoir?"

9) "Interested in joining the Young SDP/WP/any opposition party?"

10) "I have your mother-in-law, prepare $100000 and wait for my call. If you do anything stupid, I will kill her."

Okie. Will do another top 10 way to get your call picked up when I am in the mood. Call me up for food mahjong,kopi, etc b4 I am back in wage slavery. muahahahhaha. ~Denny

yay. Finally going on my korea trip, plane leaving in less than 14 hours. Bags still not packed though. Why the heck am I blogging at 7a.m. in the morning. Coz I have not even slept the entire nite. Too excited? nah. Coz I am those people who sort of has an attachment to my bed. Cannot really sleep in buses or planes or foreign beds....... unless I am dead tired. So guess what am I doing now in preparation for my 7 hours flight late? yep. Draining my batteries, so I can be knock out like a log. Just gonna catch a 3 hr beauty sleep after I am finished with this. still need to pack. So half-dead will be enuff. wahahahahhahaha. I decided that if I win a casino- read win a casino as in win over the whole casino, I may get a new face since korea is a plastic surgery capital. wahahahhahaha. new boobs, errr I mean pecs. :) Okiez. time to sleep. No blogging for a week. Sayonara. oh tts japanese. Not tt I care......... check back for updates a week later.

Finally got my paper laser printed. Now comes the hard part. getting my bags packed. Argh, I am those people whose rooms may look messy to the naked eye, but trust me, we know where the things we want are, most of the time anyway. So packing is such a chore for me. Now, if someone would just invent a packing machine or sumthin, I would help market it. In fact, I will be the first customer. Imagine just stuff your clothes into the machine and it comes out ironed and folded. Maids, housewives and lazy buggers like me drool at the thought. And another sore point is, why am I so bloody accurate when I decide not to bet on Euro2004 matches. Why does this happens to me!!!!! No matter, I resolve not to bet anymore. Need to save up. Another note, the bloody tour agency has the gall to call me to pay for some additional fuel tax after I paid for the trip in full a mth ago. Would they refund me money if the prices of the tickets fell?!!! Ignoring their calls....... Have a mind to give the caller a dressing down but decides I need to use my time for more constructive stuff. I need to bloody workout and my injured leg is preventing me. So I am acting PMS like. Feel my muslces losing their tone and my stomach getting bigger. Wahahhahaha. Not to mention I need to maintain my fitness to take IPPT and get the money.

hmmmz...... discover that I have plenty of spelling mistakes in my posts. But I dun really care, its just someplace for me to write down my tots. Do not want to go thru all the hassle of spellcheck and grammar checks. I make the rules here and: There are no rules for me. wahahhaahahaa. I can write whatever way I want. If you dun like it, dun come in.

Went to see Harry Potter today, was not fantastic. Guess its because I read the book and knew the storyline. Thats pretty much why I did not catch any of the LOTR. MAnz these idiotic ppl only go and read the book after the movie. Dun they know the value of a good book. And do they even know the concept of originality. Why watch a remake? Why do I watch H.P.? Mainly coz gfrd wanna so bo pian. Gonna get all the journal stuff laser printed and pack my bags before I leave for korea. Pray I have good luck at the blackjack tables ppl. Or I might just have to sell my kidney or sumthin. wahahhahahahaha. I better go and watch stephen chows movies again to brush up on my card rubbing techniques......

Okay, with the ranting and grouses outta the way lets talk about more serious issues. Counselled a cousin regardcing education and career choices just now. Sometimes If eel as though I need counselling too. :) The lost feeling and fear for of the unknown furture are kept supressed during this pre-mba days. Am I putting too much on the line? --> Two years, $$$, friends, family, girlfriend,..... Is it the right step? Am I good enough? ITs one of the few times if not the first when I start harbouring doubts. Guess my confident facade never betray it to others except those few close ppl. But the answer I have to all of these question adn doubts is: "Its somethingI have always wanted to do. So what if I cannot get a cushy job after finishing the degree. My aim is for self-growth. If worse come to the worse, I can always not write down my mba when applying for a job (overqualified), or settle for lower pay." I will follow my dreams.

But sometimes I always think, what if I go inside interviews after my MBA and shout "Show me the money!!!" Wahahaahaahhahahaa. They talk to me in the solemn Donald Trump voice in the apprentice or call the funny farm.........

Been a week since my last post. And many things have happened. Strain a muscle or sumthin during my last work out session. Leg still feels funny and I am grouchy without my exercises. GROUCHY!!!! Was supposed to write an article for a local paper but the cheapo paper only wanted my comments and views so they can quote me for free. Oh well,guess getting your name in the papers and not committing a crime may be something good. Still sore about how more than half the article was my contribution but did not receive a single cent for it though. Nearing the finish line for the article I am going to submit to the journal. Not as good as I would have liked but I need time to do other stuff, mainly earn more buckaroos in preparation for my MBA and readings. And my backdrip is acting up on me. Argh. Haiz.......

A little about my MBA application

Yay. My webcounter is gonna reach 3 digits!!!! Although about 90% are my own views. muahhahahahha. Okie, I should write a little on my MBA application promised. First, applied for MBA at MBS in April 03. I thought if I am offered a place, I would save the one year doing my honours year in NUS. Took me a month of intensive work to get my application ready. E.g Write essays, get referees and get all necessary transcripts verified. Now back to the GMAT everyone is worried about. Before the test, I did quite a bit of research but could not fathom why everyone was worried about a test essentially to gauge your general skills and abilities. Was pretty spooked by the ppl who said they studied 2 years, but true to my nature, registered for the first test date I could locate which was a weeks time from registration. I just downloaded the test prep from their site and spent three days doing the questions. End result: 32 for verbal and 49 for quant, with a total score of 680. Not too far from my pratice scores. So maybe I could have easily add another 50-100 to my score with another month of practice but I reckon my score was enough for the schools I was interested in. Just in case you are interested, I scored a 5.0 in my AWA. So from my point of view, its bullshit that says you need years and months of practice to do the GMAT. Even I who have not touched maths for more than 6 years managed a 49 which is 91 percentile. Could have done a better job with my verbal though......

I got fantastic referees from my boss and lecturers but end result was---> I got a ding. I did receive a place and scholarship in a U.S. university but it was kinda.......obscure..... plus it was not a full scholarship, so I pass. Was just a bit disappointed. After all, I spent a month of intensive work crafting out my application. But life goes on, I changed my plans to finishing my honours year, get a job in a MNC before reapplying 2 years later. Its my dream to do an MBA and I plan on doing it be it earlier or later.

But guess what, I received a call this year in Jan from the school saying that someone withdrawn in the last minute and that they have a place for me provided I fly there within two weeks. Boy was I excited. But after consulting with my prof, family and boss, I reckon I have too many commitments to fly off on such short notice.

It took me all my resolve to write the rejection email but I asked if I could do a deferment. The answer was "No", I have to reapply. After thinking it thru and heartened by the fact that I at least made it to the reserve list the last time round, I reapplied. And I got in. Yeah!!!!!!

So the moral of the story is: Believe in yourself. Go for your dreams and never say die! Wooohooo heading off to Melbourne for their class of '06.

I have gone over to the dark side. Been eating all the junk food and playing games instead of doing my journal. Okie, I did do a little journal....... Haiz. I need to set my feet down and start organising my life a little. I badly need the holiday. need to get away and find myself. This is not good....... losing myself, too much time and too little time. A paradox? I have plenty of time but not enuff time to do impt work. TTs abt it. Guess the correct word is procrastination. "By the power of grayskull" heheheheh. gimme some power, or red bull for that matter. Gonna buy wedding gift for my cousins wedding which I am going to missed while in korea. feel a bit bad but bo pian, I book it in april. He announced too late. Cometh 20th!!!!!

Hmm, apparently the war is not over. I wrote a five page long letter to the newspaper. And just as I predicted, they refuse to print it. Oh well, guess it requires more than a local paper to print my letter. Maybe I will post it on my blog someday. And then I wrote two more letters, one to the registrar and one to the provost. The stoopid registrar foward the letter back to my faculty deans office. Duh. The provost is looking into my case. Hope she is not just humouring me. Anyway, the dean told me only one person appealed. ME. hahahahhaha. out of the thousands. guess I am not one to accept unfair practices. I still have a few hidden moves. But will wait for the provost decisions in the meantime. Did a bit of work on my journal article, but not much. At least its a start. Gonna send parents off for their China trip later in the afternoon. I can monopolize the car. mauahahhahahahahaha.

Have you ever been asked the question of whether you would want beauty or brains in your partner? The question just popped into my head during lunch and I have a fantastic answer I tot to share with you- I will take beauty for the first 15 years we are together and brains after that. muahahahahhahaa. Why is everyone getting a gmail account accept me? *waves* to google. Gimme a gmail account, I promise to write whatever it takes to lure unsuspecting readers in. will try to pepper my blogs with keywords like "porn", "xxx", "wmd", "Iraq", "I am young and sexy"...... watever it takes. Gimme a gmail account!!!!! :|

Met the Three and they basically fed me a load of crap. Oh well, at least they did not show me any airs. And the dean personally walked me to the door and offered to write me a testimonial. Pity it was just not a good enough offer. Shot three more letters out. Basically should be taking a break from this unless anything big happens. Got to start working on my journal article soon...... Going on my Korea trip soon. 17 more days. Yeah!!!!!!!!! gonna call to check up on my gown. Hope I look pretty in a dress, muahahahahhahaha. well, I always tot graduation gowns are kinda dressy. I promise to start writing on my MBA application process soon. After my journal article is done. Just gimme some time k. The thick books that I borrowed are an eyesore. Coopetition was nice. But the kolter marketing book and the other one are kinda mind boggling. Got past the preface and I feel sleepy already. I must read, I must read- self hypno. I still need money. Read in the papers that someone actually set up a internet begging site and got enough donations to pay off her shopping debts. This is a good thought. Or maybe I should start porn articles and charge for pay per view. :)