Two down, one to go!

Had my Tax Quiz on Monday night which I have to give my Tax tutor some credit for! The last question was pure genius: Carrie B Pte Ltd is a company that sells stilettos. A customer called Charlotte Tan wanted to buy 1000 shoes for a charity event. Good right? It made me crack but I was wondering, where was Miranda and Samantha?!

IT presentation today was, how should I put this? The slackest presentation ever. I didn't really prepare for it. I merely typed out my script, brought it up and read from it! The whole time my tutor was just looking at the slides so we weren't required to have any eye contact or anything! Awesome stuff.

Comms presentation is the last one left. Asked a classmate how the first 8 presentations went down and it seemed pretty manageable so I'm feeling a bit better. It's time to reclaim my Comms God status. Last one left, let's end the last week of school on a good note!

Apart from school stuff, Parlez Vous came today! I must say I'm a bit disappointed mainly because I played it up to be this amazing perfect smokey purple in my head and I simply created too much hype. The real thing looks nothing like the swatches online! It's not that it's not nice, it's just really different from what I had expected!

And Friday's a day closer! Can't wait to collect my babies from Estella, head down to Chanel and swatch Riva (LIKE FINALLY), Orange Fizz and Paradoxal. I have a feeling I am going to cave at Chanel. Again. And the catching up with S! Celebrating the end of a school term (omg, can't believe 3 months just flew past like that!) before I have to start studying for the exams!

Exams start next week! Holey moley! Then as soon as I know it, it'll be over and it'll be the holidays! It'll finally be my turn to hog up the train and be a noisy prat and run around the estate screaming in the evenings while you suckers do your homework because you start school in January! HAHA!

Also, I just made a startling discovery! My stalkerish ways came back despite my best efforts and I found out the eyecandy I cut relations with (on Saturday) is actually in the same accounting group as me! HOHO! Maybe I'll see him in my other classes next sem! :D I shall be on the lookout for him next semester whenever I step into the FAL!

Okay, stopping here because I have to go bathe and start preparing to rock my Comms presentation! Wish me luck!

This was the grey I used but uh, I mixed in a little purple from the above franken to make it a grey with a slight hint of purple. Best of all, the bottle shows this amazing duochrome effect which you can notice at the bottom!


And this is how the above two frankens look like on my nails! I used the same colour on my ring finger and pinkie btw. I'm a little bummed that the polishes don't really show off their duochrome effect when applied on the nails! But regardless, I'm in love with the two colours!





This was another crazy thing I did one night, again, while studying. I think you should get the hint that I get bored really easily while studying! I was inspired by Harry Potter! So tape, tape, tape and on with the yellow polish!

End result! It looked so rad, I swear!

I was in a pretty despressed state during the whole train ride and I think my iPod has proven it knows me best. It was constantly churning out song after song that helped improve my mood. Note that my iPod was on shuffle, these were the songs it played: Human (Jon McLaughlin), Dark Blue (Jack's Mannequin), Move Along (All American Rejects), Wash Away (Joe Purdy), Crazy (Seal), Always Where I Need to Be (The Kooks), Why Does It Always Rain On Me (Travis), Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles), Hopeless (Train), Knocking on Heaven's Door (Avril's cover version), Lost! (Coldplay), City of Blinding Lights (U2) and Naive (The Kooks).

I was really pondering what would happen if I jumped. Would people be sad? Would people even know? Will people remember me? And then Move Along played and in case you didn't know the story behind Move Along, Tyler Ritter wrote Move Along after his good friend commited suicide. The mysteries of life and the wonders of my iPod's shuffle.



When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through

I know I should be stressed out but I just spent the entire day on Communications. Did up my slides, script and outline for Thursday, and I just read up on the dos and don'ts for tomorrow's (hopefully) persuasive writing test.

I planned out my schedule so I only start studying tax again tomorrow, after the quiz, but why is it that everyone is so kan chong and is stressing out? I know I should but I'm not. Maybe it should be the other way around. Maybe, I should be asking why is everyone so hardworking and I'm sitting here, relaxed as ever.

Don't worry, stress is going to bite my right in my ass tomorrow and Sunday. For now, I just need to concentrate on pulling mt Communications grade up. How did a Communications God fall from grace? Because in a classroom full of Gods, this God ain't that Godly anymore.

I'm starting to feel very inferior. Like I pale in comparison. Maybe it's time I get serious. It's time to buck up. It's time to charge.

I was trying to make a Chanel Paradoxal dupe because I do not want to shell $35 on it and I was mixing a grey that I previously frankened with this shimmery eggplant purple from The Face Shop (PP409) and I ended up with this smokey purple with a duochrome sheen. It's definitely nothing close to Paradoxal but I'm so happy with my second franken! I wish I had more empty bottles to franken in!

One day, I will franken Chanel Jade. One day.

I'm like the big fish in a little pond. I was good at what I did, at where I was. Then I was thrown into this massive ocean, where the fishes were all as big as me, some even bigger. And there are sharks, great white sharks, with teeth so sharp they could sever my head off in seconds.

So how do I step it up? How to I keep being good at my game? How do I survive?

Got back Accounting quiz results today. I must say I'm fairly pleased. I'm not afraid to say I performed below average but I wasn't expecting much because I missed out the entire last part! So to my surprise, I actually did pretty decently! We also got back our Communications group report. We got an A! Every group got an A, although one group did get an A+ but that was because they had a master writer.

Feeling as stressed today as I have been feeling. The datelines are looming nearer and nearer! Thankfully, I managed to swap my communications final presentation day with Jian Wei and I got Thursday! Less stressful although that means I have a 6 hour break on Monday to study for the Tax quiz at 6.30pm! 6 hours of Tax can drive one nuts.

Random happening today: After finishing our food in the canteen, Sze Xia and I looked down to look for possible cute guys and I thought I spotted my eyecandy. There was no way to be certain though, because he was seated back facing me and all I could see was his back and the top of his head (I was seating on the second floor of the canteen). I really kept looking at him, wanted to find out if it really was my eyecandy. Bag, check. Hair, check. Watch, check. I was certain it was him. And then he turned around. I WAS RIGHT. Haha, I felt so stalkerish to be honest. Like how I used to be able to spot G from crazy distances back in JC! G was the ultimate passive stalking because we always crossed paths in school. Back to my eyecandy, I got a glimpse of his wallet today and I must say, I like it! It's a good leather wallet and I could even see what brand it was from the second floor. (I'm that pro a stalker okay!) And I really hope having a nice wallet isn't the same as having nice shoes. Oh, then we proceeded to the FAL to print our stuff and slack, and we saw him again! Of course, I saw him in class again afterwards! HAHA! Three times a charm today!

My bonito package came today. I must say, I'm rather disappointed. I guess I waited to long and all the hype faded away. Now, I'm waiting for my polishes!

Just saw Benedict Goh on the 9pm Chinese show! Haha, he still looks as cute as he was in his Pyramid Game days. I wish Mediacorp would give him more English roles on Chanel 5 instead.

Gotta do my IT project now :(

''There is always a way. When things look like there’s no way, there is a way. To do the impossible, to survive the unsurvivable, there’s always a way...In the face of the impossible, be inspired. Today, if you become frightened, instead, become inspired.''

- Grey's Anatomy

My tax tutor just assigned us four new questions to do this morning, due tomorrow. All I can say is thank god I checked edventure in the morning. If I checked it at 1am, I would have not bothered to do the questions.

It's going to be the last 2 weeks of school. One hell period. I haven't even started on my comms final presentation preparation yet! I still have no idea what I'm going to present! And it's one week away (maybe, or 10 days away).

I still need to study tax because of the crazy tax quiz next monday. I haven't even covered half of the materials yet. I would have if I wasn't sprung with 4 new questions to do. That has pushed my schedule back a lot! Guess I'll have to study on the train rides this week. No more snooze time for me.

My dreams of tomorrow (okay, not of tomorrow but in a month's time)? Going back to watching shows and looking at polish swatches all day. Catching up with my friends - sleepover parties with several people. Guitar lessons with Dani (I hope I'll go through with this because I keep pushing learning the guitar to another time). Starbucks alone time maybe, just me, some music, and a good book. Those shall be my motivation for the next hell month!

Top: You Don't Know Jacques, Bottom: Etude House Brown

Top: Particuliere, Bottom: Etude House Brown

Right off the ball, the Etude House Brown wasn't a complete dupe for any of the 3 taupes. It was close to YDKJ but still, it was visibly different. It was from the $5.90 range and the bottle ain't exactly big so I'd still rather get YDKJ. Comparign it with Particuliere, I think it was closer to Particuliere than Over the Taupe was!

My nails after 3 days of wear. Ironically, Particuliere experienced the most tip wear even though it costs the most. I wore 3 thin coats of each colour without any base or top coat, fyi.

Now that I'm done with the polish post, I can rant.

Today was an unproductive day for me. Reached home and ate lunch at 3pm. I was eating while watching Gossip Girl so I only got cracking with schoolwork at 4.30pm. By the time 5.30pm approached, I was feeling sleepy and I napped, intending to wake up at 6.15pm but I only woke up at 7.30pm for dinner! And I watched TV after dinner till 10pm! Sigh. My total lack of motivation is seriously disappointing. So in the end, I only managed to provide my comments on the other group's AB214 group task and finish my accounting outline. So many things left to do but the knowledge that I have the weekend is making me lazy.

I'm meeting Brudder tmr to have lunch and go to Watsons! Wheeeee, can't wait! Haven't had time to sit down and catch up with her since our last lunch meeting in school months ago!

Alright, I'm going to sleep now because I'm beat and I shall try to wake up earlier tmr to get some work done before heading out for lunch! Bye now!

With flash

Finished the AB214 group task and sent it in already, and I worked on the IT report today, so at least I got some work done. I still somehow feel like I'm lagging behind, like I should have done something more.

I did get a little bored and restless during today's activities so I painted my nails with OPI Over the Taupe, You Don't Know Jacques and Chanel Particuliere to give my take on whether the two OPIs are good enough dupes for the coveted Chanel! Plus I did up my pinkie to look like a chocolate chip cookie! Already took pictures but I think I'll only post them this weekend, so look out for the pictures!

Oh, and just a quick shout out to my most awesomest fetch gurlfriend, S! Thanks so much for the presents! I love how symbolic the pearl pendant is! And it's definitely going to last long enough! We can get our long awaited manicures soon (but after my exams)! Riva though, it cannot wait so long!

Oh, and can I add, I hate it so much that the secondary school kids are having their holidays now. I'm not really jealous that they don't have to study because my holiday will come in due time. It's the fact that they're disturbing my train rides that is irritating me. I got stepped on by this punk ass who was spotted with black skinny jeans that were so skinny on his thighs but were baggy at his butt. What kind of shit trousers is that? He was wearing white havaianas (that were clearly too big for him) and I really wanted to step on them as payback to dirty them. Plus he was carrying a turquoise windbreaker material haversack that no one above the age of 7 should be carrying. Did I mention his girlfriend was wearing a black polka dotted tube top that looked like some umbrella material and a short short denim skirt despite her thighs being almost as big as mine? And her footwear, omg, it was a kitten heeled thong slipper. God, she looked like a 15 year old aunty. SERIOUSLY. I looked better dressed than her in my NBS dry fit tee, cotton on shorts and new look gladiator sandals. Anytime.

Oh, and yesterday, I had to endure standing on the train from Pioneer to Tanah Merah. Plus I got stepped on FIVE freaking times. There was also this guy next to me who was pretty big sized and tall, who was carrying a backpack, and he kept tapping his feet violently to his music. As a result, his whole entire body was shaking non stop and his backpack kept rubbing against me. The train was really squeezy and he kept moving in some more, until I totally had no space and almost fell when the train stopped. Really dude?

Idiots should not be allowed on trains.

OOOOOH, and I want to head over to Watsons on Friday to make use of my 5X Watsons Card birthday promo! If you want anything, text me okay! (Of course you must pay me back when I pass you your stuff luhhh) HAHA! Trying to think of what to get to make up as much as possible so I can get more points! Thinking of buying Maybelline's new mineral compact foundation to play! I seriously don't need more foundation but I'm totally in love with the compact cover design! Plus, it's mineral, so it's technically good for my skin. Ooooh, and I saw the mineral liquid foundation advert in Cleo magazine! Sooooo eggcited it's finally here! I bought my bottle in Macau more than a year ago and have been rationing it but now that it has hit our shores, maybe I'll start wearing makeup to school! HAHA!

Time to sleep!

Funny how when we were younger, our parents stressed us so hard to get that elusive A (85 marks, I still remember). As we grew older, the marks you needed to attain to get an A grew lower (75 marks in secondary school and possibly JC). Now, in uni, the A seems like something so impossible to get. At least for me.

When I told my mum about me not feeling confident about this semester's performance, she told me to do my best. That's all that matters. She also added that there was more to life than results, further citing my brother and how he studies less, is still doing reasonably okay and is enjoying life much more than me. Funny how my parents never had this "as long as you do your best" mentality back when I was younger. Maybe it was their way of pushing me and now that I'm older, they trust me more to be disciplined and to motivate myself?

I seriously hope to simply survive the next 5 weeks. I'm not asking for much. I know I won't be able to do much too. Disappointments have been aplenty this semester. Especially for that one module I am supposed to be acing but sadly am not. (How is it possible that I have 16 6's, 13 5's and one 4, and only get a B+?! In what whacked up universe does this happen? I should have add/dropped to Janice's class. Even if it means not meeting my eyecandy at all.)

I'm praying for some divine intervention. I need something to help pull up Tax and Accounting. IT doesn't seem to be answering my call either. Comms, my old friend, please help me will you?

Song to best describe what I'm feeling? Queen's Under Pressue. Seriously, why is the last 3 weeks so packed with test after test after presentations after projects?

18th Nov: Submit group task for AB214
26th Nov: Submit IT Report part II and III
27th Nov: AB214 Test (Yes, on a Saturday #$^&%$)
29th Nov: AA203 Quiz (The whole freaking coursework worth of notes) and possible AB214 Individual Presentation
30th Nov: AC213 Group Presentation
2nd Dec: AB214 Individual Presentation (if it wasn't on 29th Nov)

NUS kids, you think you have it tough, having to study for your exams these few weeks? We have to rush so many crazy reports, study for quizes and prepare for presentations while you study and take your exams, and when you are finished with your exams, our hell begins all over again because it'll be our turn to study.

I have to keep reminding myself this: Just because something is difficult doesn't mean it's impossible. I've got to push through.

A specific Beatles song is stuck in my head now. I'm too embarrassed to say which one it is! I didn't plan for it to get stuck in my head and I have no idea how it ever got it! I didn't even listen to the Beatles today. All I can say it, it's so so so so so apt to what's going on with me now.

Sadly, I need to banish this thing till after my exams. There's only 3 weeks left and it's a mad dash to the end. I'm not sure if I'm even gonna make it to the end. I may even breakdown on the way there. So many other important things I have to worry about than the Beatles song.

I'm a lazy lover
Undercover
Wasting time
Then one day this summer
I changed my number
To cut my line

Good love is on the way
I been lonely but I know, I'll be ok
Good love is on the way

3 years broken hearted
But now her his ghost is finally gone
I'm done with broken people
This is me
I'm working on (cause I know)

Good love is on the way
I've been lonely but I know, I'll be ok
Good love is on the way

Good to go for wherever I'm needed
Bags are packed and I'm
Down by the door
You can take all the tricks up my sleeve
I don't need them anymore

Good love is on the way
I've been lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah
Good love is on the way
I've been lonely but I know I'll be ok
Good love is on the way
Oh, Good love is on the way, hey

Swatched some of them onto my nails cuz I was bored then. Thumb - Pinkie: The Face Shop BK805, OPI Tickle My France-y, OPI Dulche de Leche, Sally Hansen Sugar Babe, China Glaze Seashell

These are my nudes to taupes. My mum says they all look the same!
L-R: Tickle My France-y, Dulce de Leche, Barefoot in Barcelona, Over the Taupe and You Don't Know Jacques!

My updated collection! I clearly need more trays! Probably get more when I drop by Japan Home! If I didn't count wrongly, I think there are 90 bottles now! And as you can see, I clearly patronise alot of brands, not just OPI, China Glaze and Essie! I love The Face Shop because they have such a wide range of colours to choose from and even though they may chip real fast, they're pretty cheap so I don't mind! I've got polishes from Mavala, Loreal, Sephora, Missha, Ettude House, Nature Republic and LA Girl to name a few!

I swatched some of my mum's polishes! She's pretty into a certain colour region and she sticks to that and buys shades of that colour. From what I can tell, she likes mauves and maroons but she's recently into taupes, after seeing my collection! I think the real person I got my polish craze from is my Grandma! She's coming to Singapore at the end of the month and if she sees my collection, she'll faint! HAHA! And I love it when she comes cuz she's so adventurous! She loves bright reds and pinks!

L-R: Revlon Raisin Rum (I think that's what it's called!), Mavala Ankara, OPI Miami Beet

And I'm a little bit lost without you
And I'm a bloody big mess inside
And I'm a little bit lost without you
This ain't a love song, this is goodbye

I did my Accounting seminar outline, Taxation discussion and IT report today! Did I mention I woke up at 10.30am, watched Grey's, went down to KKH and spent a couple of hours there, ate KFC for dinner, came home and napped 1.5 hours and still managed to paint my nails? Uber productive day today! So proud of myself!

My HP guys are coming to collect my laptop tmr so I may not be blogging so often for the next few days. It all depends if I can wrestle the desktop from my mother! I hope no laptop means I'll study harder for my Accounting quiz this coming Tuesday!

Having dinner of Tuesday with the clique after IT lesson to apparently celebrate jd's and my birthday! We are going to Pizza Hut! Sadly I have to go back to school after dinner for the main comm meeting! Bleah.

My nails are finally of a uniform colour! They haven't been the same colour in about a month I think! I always have some funky combination of colours on my digits whenever I want to paint a new colour and can't decide, and the last few manicures were of alternate colours or had one/two fingers of some other complementary colour! Right now, my nails are painted in China Glaze Ingrid! It's a nice warm brown with a secret gold shimmer! It looks like chocolate! At least I hope it looks more like chocolate than poop! I'll take a picture another time cuz they're still wet now and I don't wanna ruin them! Still considering if I want to paint a top coat cuz I think the Poshe top coat is causing premature chipping! I had on Dulce de Leche and Tickle My France-y on one finger each without any top and base coats (gasp, the horror! HAHA!) and I think they lasted very well.

I'll probably read the dreadful Negotiation book while waiting for them to dry! So hardworking right? I'm almost done with the book, left with around 30 pages! Thank god it's open book cuz I don't think I can remember half of what I've read so far! I'll study Accounting tmr and reacquaint myself with NEJ. I hope one day I'll be able to call him Eng Juan. That'll be the day I know I'm successful! HAHA! (For your reference, NEJ refers to Ng Eng Juan, a legendary Accounting tutor in school who wrote my current Accounting textbook. He teaches a more advance course that I'll be taking in year 3)

My brother just texted me saying he's watching an Indian movie while eating muruku! HAHA! Probably his way of celebrating Deepavali!

Really very tired so it's going to be a short entry tonight. Woke up for school at 5.45am, had school till 12.30pm then went down to Bugis for the resume photo shoot. After that rushed to KK Hospital to visit someone. Reached home at 9 plus and went out for dinner and I only got home and bathed at 11.30pm!

Plenty of work to do this weekend, read the horrid Comm Negotiation book and prepare for the class assignment, study Accounting for tuesday's test, download MYOB for IT and play around with it, read Tax, go back down to KKH for more visits and family stuff!

Super duper tired and I need caffine. I think I saw a Starbucks at KKH! Hazelnut latte tmr morning! Brandon and I went out to stock up for war just now after dinner (i.e. buy plenty of food to last us through studying) and we're gonna receive our claims tmr! Managed to get Father to pay for it! I'm so awesome! HAHA!

Right, need to get cracking! I guess the only thing that's gonna make me laugh tonight is Chesty Love from today's Tax class! Super funny taxation case from the USA! BYE!

So many entries today. Hurhur.

Last night before I fell asleep, I lay awake in bed thinking. I thought of many things: the nails polishes I had (which I proceeded to mentally recall every single one), what I've been doing this semester (study-wise) and how I can change my current habits to improve the situation.

This is the situation: I'm feeling real stressed out. I have pimples to prove it. The content of my 4 core modules are pretty heavy this semester, compared to the previous ones. And here comes the paradox. I'm busy and I'm stressed but I only have 3 days of school. I have so much work to do and yet I can afford to watch so many shows. No doubt I get ALL my work done (on time, if not early, I might add). Yet I have this sneaking suspicion that I'm not putting in enough. This feeling often comes in a form of a mini heart attack especially during Tax classes when I feel like I had prepared inadequately for that lesson.

When I stayed in hall, the only form of indulgence I had was the Bridge sessions during dinner and the occasional ones when both my roommate and I were feeling really irritated with schoolwork that we had to take a break. I never watched any shows when I was in hall (Sunday night to Thursday). I only indulged myself during the weekends, especially after I knew for sure I had finished what was required of me. But now, I watch so much shows. Notice I used much instead of many? Perhaps the habit from the holidays stuck with me even though school reopened months ago. Hence, I often feel I'm not putting in enough because I have so much time on my hands to watch shows. Maybe my time management skills have improved? This seems really unlikely.

Furthermore, with the exponential increase in travelling time, and the fact that I have 2 seminars per week per module which means I need to do twice the amount of work now, I shouldn't have any free time on my hands! Not only am I able to watch shows during weekdays, I can also spend most of my Saturdays out with my family!

What does this mean? Do I have to cut down on watching shows? If so, what do I do with that extra time? I can't possibly study THAT much right?

What should I do?

And then I saw this really cool top coat! It's glittery and it's so pretty! The glitter particles are so small and they're multi-coloured!! French tipped my black thumb nail! Hope you can see the glitter in the next pic! In case you can't, it's purple and blue and green! I was so stupid, thinking I needed certain colours with glitters in them when I already had a similar colour of the same base colour! I forgot I could just buy a glitter top coat and paint it on top! This one's really nice! $5.70 from Nature Republic too!

Oooh, and here's my ring combo from Saturday's lunch! I love how the nail colours and the rings are matchy matchy but they're still edgy enough! Bought both rings in school a few months ago!