My thought

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post. Lol

Last night, I suddenly had this motivation of re-learning all of my Statistics courses. Went through the courses names and realize that I did studied interesting topics which I have forgotten most of them. Gosh.. so the first thing is to contact my ex-coursemate if she still had our notes. I think I might have thrown them away. How stupid, I should never have thrown them away. Would have been very helpful. So since my ex-coursemate is busy on a conference (oops wrong timing to reach out to her) and then she is going on her holiday back to her country (wrong timing again), I decide that I would just borrow a textbook from the public library or if I could try the university library, I will hav a look through to refresh everything. I am going to make this a project for myself so I can fully prepare myself for another job interview (as Statistical Analyst) and going into the role.

Continued here

Right, I shall continue where I left off in. It has been a few days and I can't remember what sis has said exactly. She was a bit down on her study. Mentioned that she puts so much of effort in her study and if she make it through and decide not to go for medicine or dentistry, she thinks it is waste of effort.

Other sis said to balance study and fun otherwise you will find yourself sick of studying. Now I know why everytime I txt her, she mentioned of going to parties or hanging with friends. Some of the time, she said she is studying so yeah I guess all balances out and she is enjoying herself.

Anyway, I told her that first year is only the beginning of whatever courses she wants to do. Actually she doesn't know what she wants to study. Well, I don't blame her. I didn't figure myself out till third year. Maybe she should talk to the person who deals with students. I don't know what is the position title for that person. I did went to see one but she only helped me to decide what courses to take in order to graduate.

One of darling's friend talks to students so maybe could get her to web conferencing with the friend. Hmm.. I suppose they could use ActConferencing.com web conferencing? Not sure what are the details but will have to find out more so they can use it. Hmmm.. something there to do huh.. =P

Vietnamese Beef Noodles

Went to a friend’s house for beef noodles this morning. This friend of mine is  originally from Vietnam but she lives in US since young. This is the second time I went to her house for beef noodles and is looking forward to go again. She can really cook delicious beef soup, I think she must have a secret recipe to come out with such nice dish. I only know one of the reason includes stewing of the fresh beef bones for many hours. Anyway, I had a full big 10- inch bowl of the beef soup plus noodles plus taugeh (bean sprout ) plus corianders. After that we had this yummy ice cream plus yogurt plus fig dessert made by a Singaporean friend. After consuming all these delicious food, I came back and took a nap which lasted for 2 hours ! What a life ….hahaha !

My youngest is feeling a bit down since she started her university life, maybe she has not yet adapted to the get-up-earlysleep-early lifestyle, advice for her :

Let go of negativity, take control of your mind and just do it !!

To be continued

Anyway, was thinking of renting a trailer to carry the bonding sand since we want to do all at once and save the trip back and forth driving the bonding sand. The only thing is our car doesn't have the tow bar. Sigh, might need to borrow friend's car which has the tow bar. Maybe in the future, we have to think of getting car that has tow bar. Then at least we can think about getting curt trailer hitches for the trailer to be hooked on to the car. Or maybe for something else instead. Doesn't have to be for the trailer only.

I have got another topic to share. Youngest sis was saying that she thinks that she is wasting her life by studying something that she thinks she might not think of studying. I think she meant she is wasting her time for something she knows she is not going to do. Some more she feels pressured by the amount of study she has to do.

In short, middle sis said you need to balance your life out with study and fun. I totally agree with her. I never thought about it when I was in uni though. I didn't feel pressured to study what I study. My first two years, I just study for the sake of studying. Then, in my third year, I realise that I love the subject of what I studied. Daddy even said he will sponsor me for honours degree if I continue. But I know myself. I won't be able to make it through because I suck in writing essays. I really can't write. I can tell you a lot of things I study but I cannot put them down in words.

To be continued. Lol I am going to bed now.

I have qualification

You do not have to go to university in person. This is just how technology works nowadays. You can go to online university. How great is that? I wasn't sure if I could trust it or not but really, it does work out. The university I went to has distance learning where students can study from home. But I think there are limited courses provided. So it is time to check out the latest online university that provide more online degree programs. It is mainly for people who are working during the day and wanting to study in their own time. It is actually a good idea for those who are wanting to make their life easier. I see there are a lot of range in the online degree programs. I did think for a moment, to take up some of those programs. Maybe I would take up some business management? Hmm.. something for me to think about, yea?

Sharing is caring

I just want to share something that darling found from the news press. It is something that impact others. For me too, you know.

This article tells about what university degrees pays well. Everyone knows that the more you study, the more qualified you are. If you are studying specialization study eg medicine, engineering, accounting, sure you will get a job and higher pay. I studied a science degree which is quite general so finding the job that I want is really hard. Right now, I am not only for a job in my field but other jobs in other field. Of course, not the specialized jobs because I do not have knowledge in the field.

But guess what, this article told me that my statistics major is one of the best job in the world. I did try to apply for statistics job but I just haven't got any interviews yet. It is still early in the days of hunting for jobs. Of course everyone will feel the desperation while on the job hunting and unemployed. I felt that in the previous month. Now that I have temporary job, I do not feel that. But hey, I do need to find a job before this temporary job ends otherwise I would unemployed.

I was considering to study more. Not honours or post-grad. Seriously, I do not think I could excel in them. Not that I am not confident that I won't excel. It's just my way of writing academic essays which made me not to go ahead. Now, why do I feel like I want to study for another degree? I think I just thought I couldn't find a job. Really, I should try to find part time job where I can gain more skills and experience. Now, that is where I am stuck at the moment. I am looking and because I am not experienced, no one wants to hire me.

I recommend those who are looking for part time jobs to go into retail. The retail experience is really important. I see that there are more retail jobs which are easier to find. I think teenagers, if they can, start from younger age to get into any kind of part time job. It will be easier when they graduate from university or college and looking for full time permanent job.

I like to share this site on interviews, job hunting etc. I really think the website is good since it did help me for my interviews so far. Though I didn't get job offer.

To continue studying or not

At one point of your life after you finish studying, you would think to continue studying more or to find a job. I had the thought to continue because I thought maybe I would get a better job faster. Studying honours or master sounds good and better. Phd sounds like you're very brainy. I was thinking of trying it out but I was told that I would struggle very hard considering that I have been struggling throughout my studies. Ish.. I am just not that brainy hoh..

Right.. if you say you study master, I will go wow.. but if you say you study master of [insert here], my face expression will change drastically. It depends on what you study. If you say engineering, of course I will go triple wow. For me, I think it is a hard subject and to study it, you will need to be very smart. If you say Masters in organizational leadership, then I will probably double wow. I think there is a difference. But getting this masters, will get you into most jobs because most jobs require employees to lead their teams. So I should really triple wow as well. Hehehe.. So really, studying masters is actually good for getting a better job. That is what I think so.

Finally

Finally I am done with exams. I dare not say so much about exams, just hoping that I pass everything. That is what that matters for now. =) It has been hard to login to blog. Not sure what happens as cousins have been able to blog but I cannot. Well, maybe because I still had exams.

Hmm.. time to catch up with friends before start full on on tidying up the room. I shall not do anything but online tonight. =) I finish all my energy drinks too and shall not be drinking too much from now on. Not good for health. Talk about being health conscious, I don't even watch what I eat. As in I should put veges in my diet and not eat oily food. Well, I shall try now that I am more free-er.

It's also time to start looking for jobs permanently. I haven't exactly started hard out looking for jobs and already I got rejections. I expected that so I shouldn't feel bad about it. A friend mentioned that someone he knows, took 6 months to find a job. Looks like I need to do something about it. There should be more jobs coming up since it's summer. Hopefully.

Another done

I finished another exam yesterday. It was alright considering what I studied came out. =) Hopefully I get a pass and that's enough for now. I still have another one on Tuesday. It's so annoying hoh... when almost everyone has finish and you still have exams. It really does dampen the mood. I shouldn't be feeling like that though, a friend mentioned 3 more days and 'merdeka' from uni. Kinda funny how she mentioned that.

Then, I shall be starting to clean and tidy up everything in my room into boxes. Getting ready to move again. Sigh.. At least it's not cross country moving and no need to call the cross country moving companies to help. Calling a moving company is just when you needed to move the whole house from one place to another, I guess.

Some friends are also leaving for good to go back M'sia so I think I should go visit them and take photos with them. They are moving on to a new job environment while I am here, looking for a job environment. It will be a whole new experience for all of us.

Avulsion

I was going to write out a model answer for one of the question and need definition for the term, avulsion. So I googled it and there was this image of injury that looks so disgusting came out. (Knowing me, whenever I see lots of blood coming out or deep cut injury, I would say disgusting.) Go google it then you know what I mean.

Anyway, it is a geological term that I wanted to look for. It means the rapid abandonment of a river channel and formation of a new channel.

courtesy from google

Now I gotta write about how rivers shifted and what makes them shifted, blah blah.. must be boring for some people. Hahaha.. now break ends and I shall get back to writing the story of a river. =P

Memorizing is taking my cells away

It is annoying that I cannot seem to login to blog in firefox. Something is really wrong. I am actually using internet explorer. I can't be bothered to browse and finding out what is wrong. Still trying to memorizing. It is working though I am not memorizing my sentences, just the facts. I am also tempted to stuff biscuits into my mouth too. I guess I get a little stress after a while of memorizing. There is always the feeling of nervousness that the exam is coming soon and worrying that you cannot remember all the facts that you just studied.

Sis should be in S'pore already with her friend, I am assuming. Update me if you read this. I won't respond you till I finish exam after Tuesday next week but I would like to know if you arrive there safely. Hmm.. I guess I do get protective. Hehe..

Got this v shot from sis too. It's so bitter and I don't like it. I prefer the normal one. It doesn't do anything too. I don't feel hyper and wanting to study. Oh yea, I saw this article from news website. I don't understand why people are out of jobs when there are jobs posted up at seek.co.nz.

Gone back

So sis came on Monday night before she was due to fly home 2 days later. Now, the room feels quiet and I am being mute again. Anyway, she helped me to cook lunches for my next few days and dinner so I have more time to memorize my study. Studying was fine but when it comes to memorizing, I am dreading it. I feel that my brain cannot take anything in. Sigh.. I know I can but I guess I feel lazy and procastinate.

I know she is going to want to eat a lot so I prepared extra for her to cook. She did not manage to finish her part since she was too full. I had it the following day. Lol..

Why I always say frustrating

It's annoying when I have all the information in my head and I can't put them in words. It's for the upcoming exam. I look through all my notes and when I started reading the exam questions, I went 'aah.. I know how to write this', then the moment I started to think of how to put them in words, I got stuck. That's the annoying part. So actually, I know how to ace my exams but but.. there's the wording part that got me stuck. Ish.. I am stuck on one question which is why I am here blogging. Oh, there's the short span concentration too.

I took 5 minute break after a while and went to seek.co.nz to browse around. Guess what, most of them require experience, I was looking at the geology jobs. There's none in Christchurch though. Sigh.. it's going to be hard to get a job since I will be a fresh graduate by December. I can do administration job I guess but it means that it's not what I studied. But I guess that will be the starting. I don't mind as long as I can do something to progress upward. =) Sigh.. if it's so hard to find here, I should probably look at Jobs in New York.

Overdue photo

This was a long overdue photo that I want to put up. I think it was 2 or 3 weeks before study week that darling and I decided to buy this to drink. He wanted to see me high but I ended up sober. Hahaha.. I like to but I don't want to go through the pain of puking and having sore sore throat the next day. That's what makes me staying sober. Hehehe.. speaking of having fun, I see a lot of advertisements on holiday packages. It's so tempting to go on holidays. It's been a while since my Europe trip. Maybe checking out myrtle beach hotel deals would help. Save money when there are deals and somemore, it's beach trip. Hehe.. time for change of location. As in instead of walking in the cities, I should go out to the sceneries and check them out. Sigh.. it means that I have to walk more.

First exam

That was what my coursemates/friends and I do for the past 4-5 days for our exam which was today. We wrote so much on the board and also on papers that I think we should have bought office supplies of these earlier on before the study week. Colour markers for the white board are needed since we drew quite a bit of diagrams. Come to think about it, we always have diagrams to draw for our geology exams.

Anyway, my right hand hurts from writing so much. Sigh.. sometimes I wish that I could write with my left hand. That way, I can rest the other hand while writing with the other one. Hmm.. I wonder if there is such people in the world who can write with both hands.

Right, so it's one exam down and two more to go. I actually only need to pass this coming up exam to finish off my entire degree. Don't need the last one but I wouldn't want to fail it. It would look bad on my internal transcript.

busy

Almost everyone is busy with their life and study. I am too.

I have been at uni almost everyday since Thursday. Helps me to study and focus a lot. Doing questions with friends was also good because they helped me to focus and get me to think more. I can study at home but my concentation span is short. I will end up doing something else after half an hour. Serious. Even sherp complained that she has short concentration span. I wonder if veep does. She probably gets told off for not focusing when she is studying at home. Hahaha.. at least sherp and I don't get that anymore. Well, I do actually get it at times, from darling. Told him that I have short concentration span. He understands. =) It's annoying because I can't help feeling like that and I wanted to study. Really!

Anyway, darling scared the life of me when he asked me to play some maze game. I knew something was going to happen but I just wasn't sure what. I think sherp played it before. So when the image came out scaring me, I cried. I know my reaction is lame but hey, I have scary phobia. I couldn't stop crying for about 5 mins. Ishk.. I probably need eye cream to put around my eyes to cover up.

Gah..

So far, it has been four days of studying. Sometimes I feel so tired doing the exam questions. I do understand my notes and know what to write but putting them down in words are just horrible. It's really frustrating when you don't know how to write them and when you ask more question from lecturer, more facts are being thrown at you and you get even more confused. Sigh..

So apparently, I have to move out from my flat this summer and move to another flat. Move as in move everything out from my room. I did expect that to happen but this happens when I was feeling really frustrated about exams. So yea, I feel disappointed. I already have a lot of things to move out from my room and somemore, when I moved the stuff out, I will probably have no help at all (everyone would be away by then). I am not complaining about a friend putting her stuff in my flat, am complaining that the fact that I have a lot of things to move out and most likely have to move again in February. Ishkk.. I just have to get this piece of news when I am super frustrated.

Beach field trip

It's a long overdue post. It was two weeks ago that I went to another field trip to the beach. I went for the fun of it. Just thought I took some photos to show off. =P

It's near Sumner beach actually. In fact, just opposite of the beach above. It would be really a long walk if I were to walk from the beach above opposite to Sumner beach opposite because apparently, you have to swim across and I wouldn't want to do that. I don't like to swim in the ocean. A phobia, I guess. I guess I could get some weight loss if I walk from the beach above to Sumner beach. =P

This week is my study week. I shall make full use of my time and study the best I can. I thought I should study when I am awake. Afterall, I have to do my best.

Teas

Sherp sent me these teas last week. I already started drinking some. =P I love the green tea natural. I don't have to add sugar and this might sound psychology in the head that I drink tea for caffeine so that I can focus and work well. Finals are in a week and few days time so I will be starting the caffeine marathon.

I went to classes like usual this week. A friend/coursemate told me that this is her last week of going to lectures as she will be going back to M'sia for good after finishing exams. Then just now when a coursemate came to pick up textbook for report reference, he commented that two more days till uni finish for the year. Then, it dawned on me that it is my last two days of uni provided that I pass all three of my courses. Then maybe I can go for Myrtle beach vacation rentals. Hmm.. sounds interesting since summer is coming up and beach will be the favourite place to hang out. =P

On another side note, I bought this perfume early last year and have been using it since then. I think it finishes already when the spray doesn't want to come out. =P I am so beat from doing my report, meaning that I am quite tired from writing sentences and this blog post may sound weird if any mistakes are found.

Usual

It was quite sunny and warm on Saturday so did groceries as usual. Sunday was good, we just stayed in almost all day. It was so nice to sit in bed and relax while onlining. Hehe..

Anyway, I took some photos of what I did in my Monday lab.



Not sure if can see the colour on my work or not. I am supposed to look at these seismic profiles and decide the boundaries of the sediments. Yes, this is from the sea floor sediments. The work is easy to do but looking for the boundaries are hard. This is the third lab assessment and it has to be accurate.

Oh yea, I got mum's parcel. Yay!! It's supposed to take 3 months but arrive early. I even took a photo of it. I got clothes, heels and my contact solutions. Oh the custom opened it to check on it too. There's that tape on the parcel saying that that they opened it and pass it.



I love getting parcels, but the only thing is I don't have anyone to send me parcels and it is expensive to send overseas parcel. =(