Thank you Arsenal!!!

Listening to the match commentary and attempting to type in quotes from my book was still going alright till like the last 10 minutes when it was just too anxiety-inducing!

But the trophy is back at Old Trafford!!  

counting down the days...

28 more days till the end of the course!

Think everyone is feeling anxious and panicky about our assignments now. The occupation essay is confusing me. I kinda know wad i wanna put in it but don't really have any idea on how i wanna structure it? Lou n i keep telling ourselves 5 more weeks! But that induces thoughts of yeah! and yikes! at the same time too, and i'm finding it hard to get into the occupation essay coz i just don't know where i'm going with it. Hopefully our meet-the-lecturer session tml will help!

Got my start date for work too...Heh, guess it'll really be time to face up to the realities of the working world eh? Even tho i've kinda known for awhile now, getting a sort of official confirmation still made an impact n made me sit back n try and picture myself in 3 months time doing my job...and its a scary thought. Scary coz i don't really know wad's waiting for me, and in a sense i've been questioning myself and wondering if i will be able to live up to working with this population? I knew when i started the course i had thought, oh yes! this is the area i wanna go into in future. But by the time i was back home for summer hols last yr, i rmbr sitting in the cheesecake cafe discussing the difficulties of working with 2 ppl instead of 1 and wondering if its really for me. Add to the fact that i haven't had any experience working in this area and we haven't really done much academic work on this area n i feel quite insecure bout entering work quite clueless bout wad i'll be doing.

Guess i should hold those thoughts for the time being first though n get on with my work. Spent an ENTIRE afternoon just reading up on dynamic interactional model for cognition, and the pile of "to-be-read" stuff on my desk just never seems to decrease...Hiakz...

7 days to 307, 21 days to 303, 28 days to 306

Pics from Sweden, Finland n Estonia...

Hm...just been playing this old Switchfoot album on my comp lately...

'This Is Your Life'

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you’ve broken
Don’t close your eyes, don’t close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you’ve got now
Yeah, and today is all you’ll ever have
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes

This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes

This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life are you who you want to be

This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

And you had everything to lose

Its only 4pm but i feel like sleeping...

I'm positive gym workouts have a sleep-inducing effect...on me at least. Realised I haven't updated for awhile but i guess the reality is just that there isn't much to update about? Think we're all just trudging along now. Its scary when u start counting backwards, like if u kept thinking that now is March and uni doesn't finish till 31st May, you think 'ya there's still time'. But if you think that within that time there are only 10 weeks left, and than take away another 1.5 weeks to go on holiday, you suddenly think 's***! why can't there be more hours in a day?!' 

So i have been trying hard to impose self-restraining orders on anything anime-related, house-related, football-related, luxurious fat-content food-related, sleep-inducing-related (like you know when you come out after a hot shower and the bed looks extra comfy to lie down on for 5 mins? very dangerous...5 mins almost always equates to waking up at 2:30am to turn my lights off)

In all honesty, i haven't really been having that many classes at the moment either. 3-day week and 2 of the 3 days are kinda like half days. Have heard that after easter hols we haven't got any classes either, so technically, i suppose i can't complain that they aren't giving us time to finish our work, but then again the reading lists seem to go on and on and on forever. Plus the fact that stupid people like me do stupid things like not thinking how many age groups i want in my questionnaire, tabulating wrong results, and having to go into uni early tml to recalculate my frequencies n chi-squares n t-tests for the 3rd time...

Put a restraining order on myself too to stop reading and start writing. I complain about having to read up but then i guess i procastinate about the actual writing too. Oh wells, 2 more weeks till easter hols and 8 more weeks of actual time for me to finish all my assignments. The reality of it being the end of my time here after that hasn't had the chance to sunk in either though i have a premonition that it will just suddenly happen without me really ever realising it.

Time to get back to more research project work

I woke up this morning and walked into my kitchen to find this...

Nightmare from the construction site!!

Rang our landlord n he went around the house trying to see what had caused it, n we eventually realised that two of the pipes under the bathtub had come adrift because someone had unscrewed the plug/gutter/wadeva u call that thing in the bathtub with holes where the water runs off into. N i din even know u could unscrew that thing! We had to take more of the plaster off as well to make it a square shape, and it took me 5 bleeming hours to clean the whole place after even though the plasterers are probably gonna make another mess when they come to repair it.  I rather they repair it tho. Feels weird looking up to find all these wood n wire staring back down at you.

N i tot i was gonna be able to relax a bit after finishing my essay. Doesn't seem to be going that way at the moment. Drew up my time plan for my research project n especially in march, i realised i'm gonna have to be meeting one deadline every week. Occupation module bodes long lists of books n articles to read n the photocopier is gonna be munching up all my money again. Current Issues starts tml so i wonder wad other exciting things it will bring me.

CNY in a week too. Not sure my cny snacks will last till sat for the steamboat but i will attempt to so i can at least offer my guests something. Not in much mood to cook now. I hope the plasterers come quickly so we can just get this whole thing over n done with.