FINALLY!!! 1.5 years of my life spent on the thesis is over today unofficially... felt a sense of relief today when I brought it to the bindery... the past two days have been particularly exhausting...
yesterday... went to uni early in the morning to meet up with my supervisor, for the final proofreading... and after have to go to st ives to play with the boy... i have to admit that I was not really in the mood to play with him cos my mind was filled with doing the thesis... and he kept wanting to play the same thing over and over again... so i had to keep repeating the same thing over and over... and after that, had to rush down to epping for the interview for this occ rehab position... ok... i have to admit that i was like bullshitting my way throughout the interview cos i don't even know if i want to work in occ rehab... anyway, let's see how it goes... apparently if i am shortlisted they will call me for a second interview... and then after that, go home had a quick dinner and off to woolies for work... seriously I dunno what possessed me to agree to work that stupid three hour shift... i think i must have been feeling guilty cos they kept giving me 3 hours shift and i had already told them that if they want to give me a 3 hour shift, then don't bother, so what happened last week was i told them that i was not going to go for that shift that day... wasting my time and petrol travelling up and down... so at the end of the day, when i came back from work, i was sooo tired, both mentally and physically, and then i still had to work on my thesis...
and i had to wake up at 630am this morning... bcos i want to quickly go through once more the thesis and print it off... and then go down to the printery before noon... but... of course, things did not go so smoothly... i was at uni till like 2pm and only got to the bindery at 230pm... and btw, it was freaking hot today, 36 degrees! and it was blowing hot wind the whole day... ohmigod, just stepping out into the heat gave me a headache... anyway, now that the thesis is pretty much done, the next thing to worry abt is the placement... the coordinator is have difficulties finding a site for me cos it's the end of the year and everyone's off for the holidays... damn... i should not have believed them when they told me that i could do my placement after i complete my thesis... now i just have to wait for them to find a site for me and probably in the meantime... look for jobs, but the thing is, i can't work in hospitals, so the only places to look are occ rehab providers...
well... anyway, i think i deserved a pat on the shoulder for myself, cos i have done my best for the thesis and whatever the results, i know that i have done my best, although of course, i will be crossing my fingers for a honours first degree...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
终于。。。辛苦了。。。
today is officially the last day of uni for me, after 4 very long years of studying and uni... although i know that i still have my thesis to do and placement after that, I really still can't believe that we actually survived uni... haven't really reflected back on these past 4 years, but one thing i know for sure was that... i am glad that i decided to do OT, although at the moment, I am still unsure of which practice area I am passionate abt, but going into OT was a good choice made...
yesterday was the debriefing session, and that was when i was reunited with everyone, it has been a long time since i saw everybody on campus, nothing exciting went on yesterday but today was the conference, in the morning, we had some industry presentations, and then it was the presentation where all honours students were required to present, and i suay suay ganna the last one... to be honest, i was actually alittle disappointed that not many people turned up for my presentation cos most people went to the other presentation on paeds instead... but then again, i told myself that it was better this way, cos then i would be less nervous, but i can also honestly admit that i was pretty nervous... towards the end of the presentation, i was already losing track of what i was actually saying, and bcos i had enlisted the help of mel, yochi and anna to read the quotes out for me, there was a moment when i almost could not remember who i asked to read what and after the presentation, both yochi and anna actually said that they could tell that i forgot too... thank god i said the correct name, otherwise, it would really embarrasing... and ok, i was alittle disappointed that i did not get the top three prizes for presentation, but i was happy for the three girls who got it, they deserved it cos i know that all of us doing honours worked really hard... otherwise, i am glad that we had this opportunity to catch up with everyone, and after that, we also went out for dinner at... you guessed it... ceci's... haha... funny how we always seemed to end up there...
during dinner, we were just reminiscing about past times and laughing, and just hanging out... not having to worry abt assignments or exams or due dates... not that i did not think abt my thesis, but i had fun... and also knowing that i won't be seeing these guys for awhile, probably at grad next year cos most of them were going back home for the holidays... finally, i would end with... I still can't believe that 4 years of uni was over... it all seemed like so long ago yet at the same time, like yesterday... well, back to reality i guess, back to working on my thesis, and trying to finish it by next fri so that i can them binded and submit them... and then hopefully get a placement asap... i still dare not claim that i am an OT now, cos i still feel like after 4 years of studying, i still don't know what OT is abt... hmmm...
will post my reflections on the past 4 years of uni soon...
yesterday was the debriefing session, and that was when i was reunited with everyone, it has been a long time since i saw everybody on campus, nothing exciting went on yesterday but today was the conference, in the morning, we had some industry presentations, and then it was the presentation where all honours students were required to present, and i suay suay ganna the last one... to be honest, i was actually alittle disappointed that not many people turned up for my presentation cos most people went to the other presentation on paeds instead... but then again, i told myself that it was better this way, cos then i would be less nervous, but i can also honestly admit that i was pretty nervous... towards the end of the presentation, i was already losing track of what i was actually saying, and bcos i had enlisted the help of mel, yochi and anna to read the quotes out for me, there was a moment when i almost could not remember who i asked to read what and after the presentation, both yochi and anna actually said that they could tell that i forgot too... thank god i said the correct name, otherwise, it would really embarrasing... and ok, i was alittle disappointed that i did not get the top three prizes for presentation, but i was happy for the three girls who got it, they deserved it cos i know that all of us doing honours worked really hard... otherwise, i am glad that we had this opportunity to catch up with everyone, and after that, we also went out for dinner at... you guessed it... ceci's... haha... funny how we always seemed to end up there...
during dinner, we were just reminiscing about past times and laughing, and just hanging out... not having to worry abt assignments or exams or due dates... not that i did not think abt my thesis, but i had fun... and also knowing that i won't be seeing these guys for awhile, probably at grad next year cos most of them were going back home for the holidays... finally, i would end with... I still can't believe that 4 years of uni was over... it all seemed like so long ago yet at the same time, like yesterday... well, back to reality i guess, back to working on my thesis, and trying to finish it by next fri so that i can them binded and submit them... and then hopefully get a placement asap... i still dare not claim that i am an OT now, cos i still feel like after 4 years of studying, i still don't know what OT is abt... hmmm...
will post my reflections on the past 4 years of uni soon...
Saturday, October 18, 2008
2 more weeks to go before I finally hand in the thesis... once again, i am going to use my blog to b***** abt stuff... of course, no thanks to my supervisor, who really sometimes i feel like she is not helping me at all and she is the last minute kind of person... and i am now so very sick of my topic, i am going to be really glad once it's done, and then it's time to worry abt the results for a month... during which I have to go do the placement which I really dread... why do i have to do a mental health placement?? it's just not for me... i would rather do anything but... and next week is the presentation on my honours topic... thanks to annie, all of us who are honours have to present... and of course, i have to be the last one presenting... don't think anybody will come really...
anyway, enough complaining... haven't been doing much really... did not feel like going out during all this time cos I tend to get this guilty feeling of knowing that i have the thesis to work on, so why am i still going out? but what i did do was watch shows... haha...
went to the movies last week to watch eagle eye... not bad actually, better than what i expected, similar to i robot... but if such things happened in real life, it would be really scary though... and went to amelia' s house that day, haven't seen her for ages already, and karen came over as well, she fried the soft-shell crab... and i tried it, it was ok, it did not have the crabby taste as i expected, but again, it was very salty and i did not really like the after taste it left in my mouth after eating a few... and of course, i came back with HK dramas... i really tried to not watch the shows, but in the end, willpower lost and i started Moonlight Resonance... hmm... finished 40 episodes in 2 days... i still can't decide if Heart or greed 1 or 2 was better... i still preferred the pairing of moses chan and linda chung rather than her and raymond lam... and i did not really like the character played by moses chan...
and yesterday night, we watched step up 2... it was actually better than i expected... and prisy and i agreed that it was much better than step up 1... the dance moves were really cool... i would highly recommend anybody, especially if you like hip hop and dance movies, to watch
anyway, enough complaining... haven't been doing much really... did not feel like going out during all this time cos I tend to get this guilty feeling of knowing that i have the thesis to work on, so why am i still going out? but what i did do was watch shows... haha...
went to the movies last week to watch eagle eye... not bad actually, better than what i expected, similar to i robot... but if such things happened in real life, it would be really scary though... and went to amelia' s house that day, haven't seen her for ages already, and karen came over as well, she fried the soft-shell crab... and i tried it, it was ok, it did not have the crabby taste as i expected, but again, it was very salty and i did not really like the after taste it left in my mouth after eating a few... and of course, i came back with HK dramas... i really tried to not watch the shows, but in the end, willpower lost and i started Moonlight Resonance... hmm... finished 40 episodes in 2 days... i still can't decide if Heart or greed 1 or 2 was better... i still preferred the pairing of moses chan and linda chung rather than her and raymond lam... and i did not really like the character played by moses chan...
and yesterday night, we watched step up 2... it was actually better than i expected... and prisy and i agreed that it was much better than step up 1... the dance moves were really cool... i would highly recommend anybody, especially if you like hip hop and dance movies, to watch
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
LAst LonG wEEkeNd...
michelle's friend diana came for holiday here... so on sunday, toufic, diana and steve came over to hang out and we watched get smart... it was an ok movie, abit funny, but on friday and saturday, we watched RV with robin williams, and it was hilarious, it was one of those stupid funny shows... but i like stupid funny, and the one on sat, was dodgeball with vince vaugn and ben stiller, did not think too much abt the show initially, but it was actually quite funny... and bcos it was the long weekend... we initially decided to go to the beach if the weather was good... cos it was raining from fri till sun... in the end, it rained on monday too... so we changed to driving up to the hunter valley...
which reminded me of the time when silvana and i drove up there to visit the hunter valley gardens... though we did not go to any winery then... but yesterday, we visited 5 wineries altogether... and had alot of wine... i was actually feeling abit lightheaded after the fourth one... we went to the adina, de bortoli, tempus two, mcguigan and tintilla... i think i enjoyed the mcguigan winery the most cos the lady there was very friendly and you just point to the wine you want to sample and she will bring it out for you... in terms of the exterior... tempus two wins hands down in my opinion... bcos it was newly built, the structure is very modern looking and very commercialised... unlike some of the older wineries... besides wines, we also had cheese sampling... which i did not really enjoy cos the cheese were not to my taste... the weather started out drizzling but soon became hot in the afternoon and then back to cold again in the evening...
we then drove down to terrigal, thinking to get some fish and chips but in the end, did not bcos there was surcharge cos of the public holiday and guess what we had for dinner... Mcdonalds haha... my fav... and we had kfc for lunch... i bought a bottle of red wine, but i don't think i will drink it... maybe when there is a special occasion... and that was the end of the long weekend of the year...
went for a job interview today at rosebery, the company was called reepod, it is an occ rehab provider... i had quite a difficult time finding the place, and bcos i was not familiar with the place, i decided to catch public transport... and it really affirmed my belief that the transport system here suck... the train got delayed again at eastwood for like 20 min and an hour journey became 2 hours and i had to change trains 3 times... and then at central... as i was abt to board the bus, this lady was behind me and she was smoking... and i looked back at her and she was like... what are you looking at... i was actually quite worried there so i just ignored her... thinking she would not really do anything to me cos there were so many people on the bus... thank god she did not get on the bus... i actually had images of her poking her cigarette butt into my back or something... it was quite scary...anyway... the interview was quite informal and i was not nervous at all, which was good... but we will wait and see if i got the position...
which reminded me of the time when silvana and i drove up there to visit the hunter valley gardens... though we did not go to any winery then... but yesterday, we visited 5 wineries altogether... and had alot of wine... i was actually feeling abit lightheaded after the fourth one... we went to the adina, de bortoli, tempus two, mcguigan and tintilla... i think i enjoyed the mcguigan winery the most cos the lady there was very friendly and you just point to the wine you want to sample and she will bring it out for you... in terms of the exterior... tempus two wins hands down in my opinion... bcos it was newly built, the structure is very modern looking and very commercialised... unlike some of the older wineries... besides wines, we also had cheese sampling... which i did not really enjoy cos the cheese were not to my taste... the weather started out drizzling but soon became hot in the afternoon and then back to cold again in the evening...
we then drove down to terrigal, thinking to get some fish and chips but in the end, did not bcos there was surcharge cos of the public holiday and guess what we had for dinner... Mcdonalds haha... my fav... and we had kfc for lunch... i bought a bottle of red wine, but i don't think i will drink it... maybe when there is a special occasion... and that was the end of the long weekend of the year...
went for a job interview today at rosebery, the company was called reepod, it is an occ rehab provider... i had quite a difficult time finding the place, and bcos i was not familiar with the place, i decided to catch public transport... and it really affirmed my belief that the transport system here suck... the train got delayed again at eastwood for like 20 min and an hour journey became 2 hours and i had to change trains 3 times... and then at central... as i was abt to board the bus, this lady was behind me and she was smoking... and i looked back at her and she was like... what are you looking at... i was actually quite worried there so i just ignored her... thinking she would not really do anything to me cos there were so many people on the bus... thank god she did not get on the bus... i actually had images of her poking her cigarette butt into my back or something... it was quite scary...anyway... the interview was quite informal and i was not nervous at all, which was good... but we will wait and see if i got the position...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
冒冷汗。。。
yesterday had one of the biggest scares of my life... my computer crashed and it was not even my fault... what happened was this windows update came and i thought ok i am going to update it like i always do, when there is a new update notification... and then for some reason, the whole system crashed and i could not get into windows... and i did not even back up my stuff since last week... so i got really panicked, thank god uncle was here to fix it and he had to re-install everything for me again, and i lost all the programs which i downloaded, but luckily, i had the external hard disk to back up all my stuff, otherwise i really will go kill myself... cos my honours stuff will all be gone... so thank god for the advice which annie gave at the beginning of the year to back up all my stuff, and thank god i bought the hard drive...
therefore, lessons learnt- 1) ALWAYS back up your impt stuff... 2) be CAUTIOUS when they tell you that you have a windows update especially the one where they tell you to upgrade to windows xp service pack 3... who knew that you have to disable your anitvirus program before starting the update? anyway... i have definitely learnt my lesson, i will be more careful from now on...
so the advice of the day is... BACKUP, BACKUP, and BACKUP!
oh and can you believe its' the 1st of october already??!! crap...
therefore, lessons learnt- 1) ALWAYS back up your impt stuff... 2) be CAUTIOUS when they tell you that you have a windows update especially the one where they tell you to upgrade to windows xp service pack 3... who knew that you have to disable your anitvirus program before starting the update? anyway... i have definitely learnt my lesson, i will be more careful from now on...
so the advice of the day is... BACKUP, BACKUP, and BACKUP!
oh and can you believe its' the 1st of october already??!! crap...
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