on thursday, i had a lecture at 10am and i woke up at 10am (yes, i can hear the "AGAIN?" from you)......since the start of the semester, which was just last monday, i've started to take at least an hour to get ready before i go for my classes......you mean you don't believe that i take one hour? ok, let me count, brush teeth and gargle listerine and go toilet 10 minutes, cleanse face 5minutes, toner 2 minutes, moisturiser 2 minutes, sun block 1 minute, put contact lenses 3 minutes, pick clothes to wear 5 minutes, wear clothes 5minutes, put hair paste on hair 1 minute, style hair with paste 10minutes, hair spray and re style 5minutes, put perfume 1 minute, wear watch 1minute, wear socks and shoes 5 minutes, stare at the mirror for narcissistic purposes 4 minutes.......so, that's one hour, and i always wake up one hour before lectures, so i'm always late for classes, depending on how fast the bus comes......

Thank God I stay on campus......

so coming back on thursday, i woke up at 10am, gargled listerine and just went classes in my pyjamas (yes, yes, scream all you want, but i still smell great even in my over night pyjamas, envy me? thanks to my all time favourite shampoo and perfume, muahaha.....), i was walking with my head as low as possible making mental notes that i will not even attempt to recognise anyone along the way.......and all that you know, my friends appear one by one, on my face.....

God, this can't go on.......

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survey results, is it even reasonable?

when i see statistics of a market research survey (whether it's that anti-fungal growth cream on your anus or the percentage of homosexual ppl suffering from multiple sclerosis etc), i never fully trusted what it claims things to be.....simply because, come on, let's be honest here, i won't say a word (yea right......), how many of you dare claim that u have fungus growing on your posterior? ok, maybe a little too far fetched, but, say, how many of you dare claim that you are *mind me, i'm saying the forbidden word* GAY???????

i'm taking this module infectious disease, and we came across HIV. Now, honestly, what's the first word that comes across your mind? Don't bluff, it's GAY (mind me again) right? and u want to know the stats in singapore? majority of HIV carriers are single males (ok, acceptable as truth), majority of HIV carriers are heterosexual, only a tiny fraction of them are homosexual (eh? then, where are the female HIV carriers?)......either that one single woman (powerful woman, if she ever exist) went on a HIV-spreading spree, or that majority of HIV male carriers are closet homosexuals aka liars in the survey......

well, u can't blame them (read: code 377, i think it's 377)......surveys claim to protect one's identity, u sure?

so whether your anti-fungal cream works or not, u just have to try it on your ass, to know.......

*points to the entry below.......in case you're wondering why, out of a sudden, a whole chunk of jap just found its way out of my mouth into my blog, that's because my jap lecturer wanted us to submit our homework by blogging......now before u say "how cool is that?", let me tell u, i had contemplated posting the homework in my own personal (this one) blog just because, as u all know me, the IT idiot, am just not willing to go through the hassle of creating a new blog just for my jap homework......so, i happily posted my homework below, and within a day, i saw a comment, my heart went into a state of arrhythmia close to myocardial infarction, i thought it was my lecturer, but wait, i have yet to send my lecturer the link and, unless he is omniscient and omnipresent (stops to look behind me just in case, ok, nobody......*shivers......) or possess some uncanny ability to track student's moves, he should not know this blog.......i clicked open the comment, and *pooff, it was my sister........nice one, sister, if that is my pay back because i stole your bolster and milk when u were 2 years old (ok, totally made up, but whatever la, u get what i mean), then u totally had your revenge, cause i had cold sweat on my hands......ok la, i love my sister, and she's a sweet girl (please don't sit on me......hahahahahaha, totally kidding *winks to my sister)......

so, in the end, in line with my better judgement, i made a new blog, hanwerninjap.blogspot.com (not that a good judgement after all, cause my friend told me that if i used the same email to register a new blog, it will automatically be linked to this blog when ppl click on view profile *dang), so in case my lecturer happens to click somewhere that somehow ends up here, こんにちは先生！ハンサムですね！着ているシャツもすてきですね！hee.......the lists goes on, from hair to toe.....and EVERYBODY go そうですね！make my lecturer happy leh........

*note to self : i still have 2 S/U's ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Japanese HW : 自己紹介

こんにちは、

はじめまして。私はリム・ハンウェンと申します。マレーシアから来ました。三年生で、専攻は生物学です。歌舞伎や能などの日本文化に興味もあるし、日本語はとてもきれいな言葉だと思うので、日本語の勉強を続けています。趣味は英語の本を読むことと音楽を聞くことです。特にハリー・ポッターという本が一番好きで、全集を読みました。日本語の本がぜひ読みたいですが、ほとんどわからなくて、残念です。日本の歌をあまり聞きませんが、キロロとドリカムの歌が聞いたことがあります。それから、外国語も大好きなので、ドイツ語やベトナム語を勉強したことがありますが、外国語を勉強することは時間がかかると思うので、日本語しか続けていません。日本語５のSTUDENT PACKETを見て、いろいろな宿題がたくさんあって、びっくりして、今学期は大変になりそうですが、頑張ります。でも、今学期の日本語の先生達は優しそうですから、Tutorialを楽しみにしています。今年の抱負は健康に過ごすこととJLPT2を受けて、合格することです。

i have transformed......

i look at the mirror this morning, and yes, i don't see the image that i've been seeing for the past 22 years.....

yesterday, one friend was so shocked to see me, never mind the few seconds of staring and having difficulty recognising but once she did, the hands-on-mouth-popped-out-eyes surprised look and a simple phrase of "your hair looks good" was all that i needed to assure myself that, yea man, i am a changed individual, for the better.......physically at least.......

however, as time goes by, this semester, i sense that i may slowly switch back to my old appearance......that unsightly ungroomed-specky-nerdy-geeky maniac who scored a disgusting 5.0 the last semester and ppl will think, oh well, God is fair, God gave him a 5.0 but a not-so-fortunate physical outlook......

honestly speaking, i do not believe i deserved the 5.o last sem......for the past few semesters, i thank God for his mercy for not giving me any lower that what i got.....last semester, i didn't even dare thank him, for i know and HE knows, i did not deserve it......somewhere in other parts of Singapore, someone who did not get 5.o but worked twice as hard as me is cursing me with all his/her might just like how i did when i didn't get my 5.0 few sems ago......it's not a totally good feeling either......obtaining something without putting in much effort in procuring it is probably tantamount to stealing......in other words, i cursed a person like me a few semesters ago......

it made me go, hey, i don't really need to bury my head under the books for that long to get what i want after all......it's a dangerous thought and i am being more and more complacent over the semesters......i have became a jerk that i would have hated so much 5 years ago......

I have a title!

you won't believe it! i am actually that stupid! an IT idiot as i've mentioned......i never knew how to add a title until, well, let's just say i got curious and clicked on that settings button......yes, i am THAT stupid......

anyway, regarding cors......of course i'm not a sadistic moron, i didn't bid for french 1 but went ahead to bid for my jap 5......believe it or not, this semester has been the smoothest cors bidding ever in my 2 and a half years of university education.......i got all my modules for only 1 point.

and gosh, i told myself again and again yesterday : i shall not be late for my first lecture at 8am.....i shall not be late for my first lecture at 8am......and guess what? YES, i was late! ONE HOUR LATE! i walked into the lecture theatre at 9am......

oh no......this holiday mood has to stop.......fast......

i am back in singapore.......already......i am like wha????? i won't be surprised if i wake up tomorrow, needing 10 seconds to figure out where i am......

and what was i thinking at that time when i left my room in a state of choas for KL? that a fairy God-mother would somehow find her way to my room and do some hocus pocus and *poof* all my junk is gone and my scattered books neatly packed cover to cover on my disastrous shelf that is equally, if not more, pathetic looking as compared to the other parts of my room?

i open my door, with my lucky charm on my neck, eyes closed, voila, my things! they are.......untouched.......and i was so convinced that fairy God-mother came.......

*cough cough*sneeze* gosh, this room smells like someone died in here.......i grab the lysol bottle, push the button with the final bit of energy left in me after having to walk from the super far bus stop carrying 4 heavy bags......i drop dead on my bed and then i realize, MY BED SHEET!!!!!!! it's not wash in like, oh GOD, don't remind me, 3 weeks!!!!!!! or is it 4? i don't know......

what was i thinking? what was i THINKING????? what a lovely start to the semester, just lovely!

and gosh i forgot to bring back my conditioner, i would have to get one tomorrow.......

and CORS bidding is another heartache......not that i can't get my modules, and it's not that i have to bid using many many points, but it's because it's the total opposite......yea call me a loser, a kiasu kiasi (whatever kia, i what also kia one la......cockroach especially) no-good malevolent freak, but what on earth am i going to do with 3500 points in my programme account and 1500 points in my general account????? can exchange for money? your grandfather's shit also can, at least i get something, can use as fertilizer for my house plants provided your grandfather doesn't have salmonella because he ate too much salmon (ok, i know, LAME!).......but seriously, in year 1 and year 2, i was cracking my head, had sleepless nights because i couldn't get the module with super nice timetable just because my account was like, what, close to kosong/zero/elek(i think elek is zero in tamil).......so now what am i going to do with all those good for nothing points when i graduate?

you know what? i have a super good idea, since those freshmen are so fortunately pampered, even their exam results were out earlier than ours (YES I AM SUPER UNSATISFIED WITH THIS, i had to wait 2 hours later for my results, 2 hours of agony, 2 hours of hyperventilating, what if i get hypocapnia in that 2 hours? or oxygen toxicity? ok, too much), now back to my idea, why not all seniors just place all their 1000+ bid points for super popular modules like japanese 1, german 1 (yes ESPECIALLY this one, cause the bid points was a freaking 600 when i wanted it in year 1), french 1, reproductive health, science of music etc etc so that freshmen can't take them? and then withdraw from it just before the W grade takes effect? and by that time cors bidding is over? coolness! paint my bouncy rounded posterior, you freshmen!

i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gonna do that for french 1, muahahahahahahahahaha....... at least my 1500 points wll be put to good use......

or better, they scrap the whole CORS bidding system and replace it with a first come first served manual registration system, so that we'll have 2 hungry ghost festivals in NUS every year, each at the start of every semester, all ghosts rushing towards lecturers, imagine......

but sigh, NUS saw through my plan of torturing freshmen, we can only bid for 5 modules until round 3, but wait jap 5 isn't popular, it can wait till round 3, only freaks like me take it, so my 5th module for bidding in round 2C would be french 1, and my 6th module would be jap 5 in round 3......and then my 6th will become the 5th just b4 W grade takes effect......u know why? because revenge is worth it! muahahahahaha

i'm so in the process of becoming an evil mad scientist haha......

yes, yes, i know i sound very depressed for the last few entries, it's simply because i am just, what, depressed? oh come on, cheer up, it's the start of an auspicious year! 2008, the 8, 发！发！发！ok, i'm being very lame, but i need every bit of light that i can find, that is how desperate and depressed i am......

Hopes and Wishes that can be made known to the public (of course la, some wishes are private, like if you wish for a longer and bigger manhood, you're not going to tell the world are you??) :

1) that my japanese will reach native level fluency.
2) that i will get a postgrad scholarship in japan.
3) that i will find an understanding, energy-filled, vibrant, well known, knowledgle, kind, tolerant, pleasant, serious but with a sense of sarcasm lecturer ( la, not gf, what r u thinking?) whose project that is worth dedication with my life.
4) that i will have flawless skin and face.
5) this is particularly an auspicious number, that i will get my 5.0 again, ha ha ha ha ha.....

let the year/semester, begin! with celebration of a new hope, a new dream, a new Wernism!

i loved harry potter the book, the fantasy, the excitement, the over-rated he-who-must-not-be-named who kills people by avada kedevra which ironically, could be carried out by any TOM, dick and HARRY, literally......

ever since the end of the fourth book, everything was bleak, the starting of school term was not as auspicious as before.....indeed, i see a similarity between the magical world of harry potter and mine.....this semester, is not one that i'm looking forward to, simply because, this sem, may be the last of a certain few of my greatest friends in Hogwarts (oppps, i meant NUS.......haha)

and honours year, which, 3 years ago seemed like eternity, is finally arriving......what should i do? which lecturer should i place my trust in in order to secure the highest honour? and i should start thinking beyond honours as well, where does this road of uncertainty lead me to? am i the sole determiner of my path? am i the only decision maker of my life?

this year, this semester, God must bless me, bless me and bless me.......