I shouldn't whine about not having a life, should I?

+ Flisha spoke @ 7:58 am

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One more week

One more week whooshed by.
If you ask me, this one whooshed by faster than the previous one.

Excuses:
Life's getting sad.
Having no time is a disgusting excuse, because I don't believe that you can't make time for people and things you'd like badly enough.
So I'll use energy instead.
Even if I made the time, I wouldn't have much energy left from barely even completing the things I HAVE to do.
The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
This probably out of the context... but you get what I mean.

Friends:
Of course, the week passes more beautifully when you have very good friends by your side.
And it sure helps to enjoy the company of the people you meet most often.
Let me make an introduction - My friend, this is Tandy. Tandy (I know you're not reading this), my friends.
Tandy's my design partner for this semester, probably for next semester, and hopefully for a long long long time to come.

Mothers:
Everytime I meet somebody elses mother, I see the wonderful woman they are to their daughters/sons.
Then as I continue to dwell on it, I realize that my own mother isn't so different.
In fact, I figure that she's the best - but then who wouldn't think that their mother isn't the best?
I reckon it's just cos our own mothers know the way to mother us in the precise way that's best for each of us.
Either that, or we're simply biased.
OR
I'm just speaking for myself.
(If I am, change the 'we's to 'I's and you can read the previous 2 sentences again)

Engineering:
I wouldn't say that I am absolutely passionate about what I have to be doing, but I still am glad to be enrolled in it.
Excuse me while talk to myself and my ambition again -
Ambition, here I come.

Think I've been rambling on too much already.
Shall stop soon.

To end off, Father Elio is such a cool priest.
And he calls Sister Theresa the 'Gorgeous Woman'.
Whoohoo Sister, I'm going to follow in Father's footsteps...

See ya Monday, Gorgeous Woman...

+ Flisha spoke @ 5:46 am

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Yesterday and today

The week whooshed me along with it.
Can't believe it's Saturday already.
It's been an extremely tiring week...
Long days, meetings, classes, pracs etc...
I've been majorly pissed off...
And amazingly happy...
All this week.

Again, Friday night ended with COSDU session.
It was a wonderfully successful session.
It was a simple session, and yet so much came out from it.
I was very touched.
Cosdu is indescribable.
You have to experience it to know what it truly is.

COSDU ended with dinner at La Porchella.
Over dinner, Denning and Jason (R) shared their childhood life in their longhouse, and the legends and traditions of their ancestors that have been passed down to them.
Theirs is an ethnic race that's extremely rich in their traditions.
(I guess all races do have their own traditions... but that's not the point.)
I am very grateful that I have been let into a very little bit of it.
Thank you Denning and Jason.

Speaking of dinner, I had a question.
People tried to answer but nobody gave a satisfactory answer -
My dear programming experts,
What compiles a compiler??
(I'm on the verge of dying of curiousity.)

That just about sums up Friday...
And the previous entries tells you about the other days of the week.
COSDU had our Church Tour/Scavenger Hunt/Amazing Race thingy.
Jason (K) and Ming Yin organised it.
Thanks for the effort guys we all enjoyed ourselves (although I do admit that I was whining about walking as usual).

And here's a thought that suddenly struck me -
I've so much to thank because my days are all made good by other people.

No wonder life's good.

+ Flisha spoke @ 6:06 pm

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A New Feeling

Brother William once said during allocutio that 'everything you do you do in the name of happiness'.
That's very very true.
People decide do things because they believe that it'll make them happy.

I was a very very happy girl today.
It was a new kind of happiness I experienced.
And the best part of it all - I didn't have to do a single thing to feel so happy.

I shared a bit of someone's joy.
It's a wonderful feeling, I tell you...

Thank you - for sharing it.

+ Flisha spoke @ 8:03 pm

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You know what I think?

I think that there isn't really a 'right' or 'wrong' decision God wants anybody to make.
It's more a series of looking at the options available and then choosing the most suitable one...
Because God is in any and every decision that is eventually made.

And when things don't go smoothly along the way, we take comfort in the faith that God IS with us and we draw our strength from there.

Remember the story about the Footprints in the Sand?
He's there... in everything we do...

And that's why things always work out in the end anyway.

+ Flisha spoke @ 6:18 am

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Me, myself and I

Jo says I don't listen to her.
She's not wrong in saying that.
I do try to listen, but I do tend to forget.
But that does not mean that she's always right when she says that she told me and I forgot.

Jo says I'm hard to crack.
Am I?
Years ago, Les said that I live in a shell.
And I told him that I'm so lost that I don't know I'm lost.
In ways, that probably still holds.

One reason people think but don't voice their thoughts is because they're not going to be fully understood anyway.
Daryl and I have been through this conversation many many times -
However hard you try, you can't fully understand how someone else feels.

So do you know me?

Don't ever EVER attempt to think that you do.

(this goes for everybody)

+ Flisha spoke @ 11:43 am

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Week 1

The first week of school has already ended and I survived it (not that I was expecting not to).
Even though we've not had any pracs or tutes, it seemed to have been the busiest week of my life.
But in other ways, it has been one of the most beautifully spent weeks.
I've had great company, new friends, lectures I've look forward to...
It's hard to put a finger around why - but I'm contented.

Highlights of the week -
1. Talking to dad over the ICQ
2. COSDU orientation table
3. Someone special...
4. Olive

Week one ended as perfectly as perfect can be.
We had COSDU welcome mass.
It was a blast!
Most of the people I remember bugging to come came.
(except Mr Tony Doyle, our 61 year old)

There's Moomba tonight and Grand Prix tomorrow *grinz*

Oh and did I forget to mention?
Shu'an's new apartment is REALLY nice.

+ Flisha spoke @ 4:44 am

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Have pretty much had all my intro lectures (have the last one today)
Most of them teach us how to study (just sit down and put in effort)
When to study (as often as possible)
What to study (the subject that is being lectured)
Dumb huh.

But I've started learning new stuff already as well.
Told my dad yesterday that I'm starting to feel like an engineer.
Hope this feeling holds out :D

Speaking of feeling good about school, Teresa has been pretty well motivated these 3 days of school.
She's been waking up real early to start getting ready...
And preparing to study hard this semester...
I reckon she has to... the 2nd-in-the-making dentists have about 31 hours on a bad week and 28 on a good week.
So now I'm feeling bad about complaining about my 22 hours...
Which is already way more than the average 15 hours that most people I know have...
Would be cool if we all do well together.


Oh yeah, anybody else wanna go watch the Grand Prix on Sunday?

+ Flisha spoke @ 6:15 am

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This evening...

Teresa cooked us dinner!
Salmon and tuna sushi, and beef bobulgi (or however you spell that korean beefy thingy)
It was the best home cooked meal I've had since 3rd Jan this year.

Eric and Jason came over later to help Teresa and Joanne finish up their wine.
Ended up playing pictionary.
Jo and Eric formed the winning pair (again).
Then came Glaphyra and Teresa.
Jason and I didn't move a square - mostly because I'm a spoilsport.

Sorry my friend.

We all sure had a good laugh.

I'm glad the 6 of us were together tonight.

+ Flisha spoke @ 9:33 pm

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The Passion of Christ

Saw the Passion of Christ on Saturday night.
Like everybody says, it IS very graphic.
It was an old story cast in modern cinematography.
(Kinda reminded me of Lord of the Rings...)
We've seen these shows before - all the time.
Cartoons of it... the show entitled Jesus (which I thought made a bigger impact on me)....

Seeing it wasn't bad at all.
It reminded me of all the little details that I usually forgot -
Like how Mary was with Jesus every single step of the way.
And how much pain he really had to go through - the humiliation, whips, crucifixition...
The movie depicted Herod to be a clown and Pilate, a wuss.
Then again how would we have reacted had we been in their shoes?
The list of thoughts goes on.
Like how you'd think when you watch it for yourself.

It was a thought provoking night.

+ Flisha spoke @ 6:16 am

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Mandy at Uni

I just spoke to Mandy to wish her well at her much anticipated first day of school, or should I say, first day of Varsity.
It is something to be really excited about isn't it?
Especially to purely be doing something that she has such a love for.

Way to go babe.
Looking forward to reading your blog on your first day of varsity!

+ Flisha spoke @ 5:57 am

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