I'm Going Home Soon!

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Hi all! :)

I am so looking forward to go home soon! :) The ticket has been bought and I already packed my stuff for shipping! I have two boxes fully packed and will be shipped at the end of this month. How exciting!! However, I still have a lot of stuff lying around in my room, made it looks like there was a hurricane just passed by. Hah!

I just got my timetable for the exam in May, which I have another two more papers to go. I finished my thesis and it feels amazing! I just have to read and study for the exams, I suppose.

Well, I guess I will be cleaning my room for the next few hours. So, I guess I will see you guys soon. Have a good weekend, all! ;) x

An Update

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It has been a while! :( But I was too busy with everything!! It is kind of annoying to know that you don't have enough time to do things that you like. :(

Anyway, here I am now, with a little update of what has been going on with my life. :) Well, thesis is still on-going. Very very slow. I just found out that it is quite hard to start a paragraph, let alone the whole chapter! Even to start a sentence seems to be so hard for me to contemplate. Sigh. But hopefully all is to be done on time. *cross my fingers*

The other two assignments? Naah. None started. I just don't have enough time. And the submission date is in three weeks. Well, I did my part for the group project. A little bit. But the other one, is still on hold. Presumably will start doing them next week. I hope so. :(

Oh, let's talk about fun stuff! :) This week I am having a Meat-Free Week! :) It's just for fun! It is not that I am going to become a vegetarian or anything like that. It's just that I thought my body needs a little break from meat. Detoxifying myself. :) And it has been since last Sunday, and I am doing so well! It is not that I am munching on raw vegetables or anything such. But I had a very yummy meal everyday, but no meat! :) So far, this is what I have been eating:-

• Sunday - Stuffed Baked Potatoes (with celery, tomatoes, carrots, onions concoction! It's yum!!) :)
• Monday - Spaghetti with Chick Pea Sauce (never thought that chick pea can be something else tasty than just houmous! It's just unbelievably tasty!! Plus it won't break the bank too!)
• Tuesday - Mushroom, Onion and Chives Omelette with Toast (yummy, yummy!!)

Well, how's that sound? :) It's yummy isn't it?? And today, I was thinking I might have a vegetable patties with toast!! :) I figured the recipe and somehow it is so easy!! :)

Okay, I have to get back to my books now. I will talk to you soon! :) Take care!! xxx

Running Out Of Time

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Another quick post. These days, it seems like I have not enough time even for myself. :( Tough life.

Anyway, started Semester 2 in college yesterday. Got results of past exams plus another one which was in December, but I didn't have any post about it. Surprisingly, I am doing well! Yayyy for me! :)


Here is the details:-

Undergraduate Course work

CRN	Module	Module Title	Final Grade	Comment	Credits
18166	RECE4713	Cost and Value Management 2	80		10.000
18165	RECE4811	Tender Documentation 2	66		10.000

Well, supposed to do better than 66 for that tender documentation, but it is hard especially when it's not solely based on the exam but accumulate with project. :( Ah well, but I am still happy about it. I really am. :)

But, it is just so wrong to always be happy and relaxed all the time. So, here is the other newsflash! Went to college, got two new subjects, and... we got assignment assigned on the first day of school!! For both of the subjects. And worst... submission date would be the same date! 26th March 2010. Amazing, is it NOT?!

Thesis submission - 15th April 2010 (has been changed from 12th April).
Why it is always so difficult for me? :(

Talk soon! xxx

P/S: Sorry for not visiting any of your blogs lately, but I just don't have enough time. :( Also, another little newsflash. Asked for extra hours from my manager and trainee manager; and they are so helpful!! :) Got more extra hours! :) So, more working time, college work, working time, thesis work, etc. I will die. x

The Good & The Bad?

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Quick post.

GOOD NEWS
Mama has been so generous, and kind, and loving, and amazing, and etc. as she paid for my going home ticket! :) Yup! Ticket bought. And it will be on the 2nd June 2010. I'll be leaving Dublin. For real. For good. After 4 years... Hmm, so it's about 121 days to go (4 months, approximately). *star jump*

BAD NEWS
Just got a letter from welfare office (since I was on a a casual payment before - working part time, as I paid taxes before, they allowed me to get benefits of the dole, but not fully. Only based on the days that I am not working). But, unfortunately the letter is informing me that my payment is exhausted last week. So, I am not entitled to get anymore from them. What a news!! Since I am only working part time (on a minimum wage), and without this casual payments involved anymore... I will be dead!! I will be... definitely!!

I have a rent, food, train ticket to pay. This is really hard!! A bad news on the first day of February, right after the day I was so happy when Mummy bought me the ticket!! Sigh.

First, I might ask the shop if I can work extra hours. But, at the same time I have my thesis submission in April! No. I know. I have to work. I will ask about the extra hours. Maybe I could even work on Saturday? I need the money. Yes. I think that would be my first step.

If not, maybe find a second job. Urghh... this is hard. Can't think right now. I am such a big mess! Well, will keep you posted. Until then. x

It's My Day Off

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Hi. It's my day off today. :) Books, talking to friends and back to books, and watching movies. Oh, and coffee of course. :)

Well, somehow... for no reason, I keep on accidentally banging my fingers all over the place. I did! And two of my fingers on both hand, (randomly...) are looking red and swollen.

Last night, I tried to trim my own fringe, (with the reason - there is no need to go to hairdresser. It's easy. I can do this on my own) and obviously... it looks way shorter than it should. I'm looking like a girl with an upside down bowl on top of my head!

I just ate my lunch aka dinner. Ginger beef with rice. And now I feel so sleepy, and would like to say "NO" to reading books and college work, but "YES" to lazying around and watching movies...do you think it's acceptable?

I got an email / message from my long lost best friend (from school years back!!). And I am so happy and excited. We were best friends since we were 15 years old, then when we're 23, we went to different direction. Somehow. Can't even think of why that happened. But today, I got a message from him, and I was so delighted! :) Welcome back, friend! :)

I am just tired. I think I need to have a cup of coffee. And perhaps, a movie? ;)

Good night! xxx

Me vs. Malware

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Hi. So, I have been missing for 2 days. What happened? Well, was planning to blog on Thursday night. But then, when I was browsing the net, happily... until at one point, loads of warning boxes popping out, non-stop! One by one, with scary sounds and all these wordings about; "your computer is being attacked by an Internet virus..." or "Your computer is infected by spyware - 34 serious threats have been found..."

And, worst... it comes out one by one and another and yet another!!! It drives me mad! I was racing with "it", to go online and google the anti-malware to be downloaded to get rid of this thing! But, know what? It won't let me download it!!! I managed to download the setup, but when I tried to load the software, it just won't let me! The setup window won't even open for more than 2 seconds! I was nearly in tears! It looks like it will crash anytime soon! :(

But I keep on trying, and trying. I restart over and over again, as I said, racing with "it". When I started the laptop, while it is still trying to load... I google for the solution. Any solution. I have no idea what it was - plus, I am so not the person who knows these savvy tech thingy, so it took me a long long time to understand weird definitions of this and that! But the malware is quick as well! So, more restart has to be done!

But at some point, I found this website, called SpywareVoid. And I found all the things that popping out from my screen! It was actually a compilation of a few different things! Not just one!! It's something called Rogue AntiSpyware and Fake Warning Messages.

And some of those that was found in my laptop; BankerFox.A (what a weird name!), Antivirus System Pro Spyware, and few others. Plus, it was explained that this rogue antispyware, automatically installed "themselves" into your laptop and then create this fake window messages, urging you to purchase their software online, (and they are very persistent as the pop ups will never stop and it will drives you up the walls!!!!), and somehow the software is fake! And... on top of that, there will be trojan / malware / etc. infected your system for real!

So, at the end... at 5am!! I managed! I won! :) *evil grin* And, I also installed an anti-malware in my laptop. Oh, forgot to mention. When I was attacked, my existing anti-virus system (the one that I used before was Avast Home Edition), wasn't working. Somehow, it has been attacked too! But then, even after everything is done, it just won't work anymore. Seems like it has been badly infected and crashed! So, I ended up with uninstall it and install AVG instead. Now, I am proud to say I am highly protected (I hope!), and I am not looking forward for another war with these malicious, infectious web-enemy! Just leave me alone!!!

Good night! :)

P/S: Have a read of those links if you have some time! ;) I hope it helps! And also, (to all the tech people who read this <--- esp my brother, who was trying to help... ;) I am sorry if the description described above is not quite right, but what do you expect... it is just me! ;) *giggles*) Sorry!! :)

Counting The Days

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Hey. A quick post for today!! :)

I have been busy with loads of reading books, clips from the internet and e-journals. It is all for my thesis. Somehow, I can feel that my eye is jammed! Crammed with words and more sophisticated words that they used to put up in books and journals. Those words and lengthy sentences, that somehow... after you reached the middle part of the whole sentence, you lost the whole point of the paragraph! :) Or maybe you don't, but I did! :)

So, I did the time-line for each chapters and proposed finish date, and somehow it seems like I only have 82 days to go before the final submission date! *nervous* Then, I also managed to find out that I will be leaving Ireland soon enough too! It seems like it will be less, or shall I say, approximately? 120 days left for me to be here, before I leave Ireland for good! :)

Did I not tell you about me leaving?

Well, yup! I am leaving soon. Right after I finish my final exam (which will be in May 2010), then, I will be off to Malaysia!! Hooray! No more selling soap for me! (not that I despise the job, but then... as I am growing old, I think I need to get back on track! To be back being a Quantity Surveyor, at least... especially with two degrees soon?!)

I might be back for graduation in October, but we'll see how it goes. :) Oh, I am so excited!!

Well, I'm signing off now. I have to get back to the books! Speak soon!! xxx

Library Fuss

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Hey. Late night post! I intend to do a bit of reading, but after a really nice hot shower, I became so lazy. Haha...

Today, I was so in a giddy mode. I was at work early in the morning, and I feel like I was injected with a happy-liquid-moment-medication! It was fun at work. It was like in a la la la land! Then, (to my surprise as well!), right after work I went straight to college, to the library to get all the related books for my thesis. Before all the books in the library to be snatched away by others!! I don't really want to risk that, do I? ;)

I spent about an hour a half over there, just to realized that there were so many guys in my college! It was like, swarming with many many life-being called, boys! I never realized this before until when I was in the library, all spots, basically all chairs, are occupied with this creature! Only few places where you can see long hair and pink clothes, or maybe faces with make ups and curled lashes. :) The rest are all boys! (Note - not that I was amazed that I forgot the main reason I was there! Haha...).

In fact, I was literally, SCARED! I was cautious. Every time I walked past the book shelves holding my little notebook with the list of books I required, there will be eyes... following my pace. It was horrifying. I thought I was imagining things, (as I am very aware of my super-power!! ;) ) but this time, I know I wasn't because I can in fact heard a conversation being paused! PAUSED. And the eyes...!!! It's horrifying!! Honestly.

But then again, I was from work. Perhaps the smells that is on me, (since I work in LUSH, so you might know how it is if there's LUSH anywhere near you! :) ) lingering around when I walked passed them! ;) Haha... Probably.

Okay. That's it for tonight I think. I'm so tired. Oh, by the way... I got home with 4 huge books with me! :)

So, I guess, speak soon? ;) Good night! *twirl*

Sunday Tale

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Hey all! I am just so lazy this morning. :) Ah well, it's Sunday anyway. I think I am allowed? I have a few newsflash to be told today. From health to study and me. Now, shall we start? ;)

First of all, I don't know what is wrong with me, but my fingers (some of them - not all, and it is purely random fingers, on different hands!) have decided to gain on weight! Only the tip of the fingers. They become swollen and red, and itchy at times!! No open wounds or anything like that. Just FAT fingers!

(See picture on the left? That is my FAT ring finger on my right hand)

Have not gone to the doctor yet, as it might be just some allergies

(See picture on the right, for the FAT knuckle on the middle finger)

or such? Went to pharmacy and talk to the pharmacist, who gave me various different possibilities, but then she just said something like, "ooh, but it is all on random fingers.., so, i really don't know". What????? Oh and also, because of they decided to become FAT, I can't do a proper fist with my fingers / hands. On my right hand, the middle finger is fat not on the tip, but then on the knuckles. The ring finger (also on the right hand), is on the tip. Left hand, on the pinkie... is fat on the tip! What is wrong with me????

Okay, then... about my exam. Well, I finished them on last Friday. It was a 3 hours paper, and I think I am doing okay! :) I am not as bad as the last time, when I was shocked to see the paper. So now, what I can do is just wish for the best to come. And, in the meantime... I have to start looking on the dissertation writing. That is next on the schedule, submission date 12th April 2010. 12,000 words. I think, (I hope...) I will do fine. :)

Then, somehow... I do not know what really happened to me, but I think I am evolving in becoming a new person! A good one! :) Yesterday, I woke up quite early, (as to my standard! haha...) and doing the reading list for my dissertation! How odd is that? It was Saturday!! Haha... So, I think this is good? :)

Next, I changed the colour of my hair!! Okay, I have shown to my mom and my brother... But my brother said that there is not much difference. Haven't heard from mom yet. But I think there was a bit! It was not the normal bleach colour, but it was henna instead? I got it from my shop, on my way back home from the exam! :)

This is called Caca Noir - Henna from LUSH

I just decided that I want to do something to celebrate, but I don't really want to go out... so there you go! Pampering day!! It was so hard to put it on, seriously!! Then, after mixing it (since it's in a solid form!), I applied it to my hair... and Oh GOD!! It's messy and the most horrible smells on my hair!! But then, I have to leave it overnight, I put foil paper on my hair, then cling

film (as if it was a sandwich!!), then a shower cap, then I managed to sleep on it!

(See the picture on the left, it is the hair before henna-ing)

Next difficulties I encountered, when I was to clean it!! Went to the shower cubicle, (oh btw, my neck feels like it's going to fall off, to hold on to the heavy hair on me!! Henna is sooo heavy!), washed it off and it splattering everywhere! Super-messy!! But then, hey... I got a really nice, shiny healthy hair I think? (See the photo!!) So, what do you think? Do you think there is any differences? :)

(And the picture on the right, is the hair AFTER henna-ing)

Okay, so I think that is it for today! My lengthy Sunday post! :) Enjoy your Sunday, and I will be back for more idiotic entries of my life!! ;) Happy Sunday!! *twirl and flapping the new hair in style (but really henna-smelt hair! sigh.)*

Up To My Eyeballs

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Hey.

I won't have any specific entry for today. I am up to my eyeballs at the minute with the studying! :( Exam is tomorrow, so I hope I will be seeing you guys tomorrow for a heart-wrecking post on how terrible I did in the exam. :( Oh.

Well, speak soon. Wish me luck! I think I really need it!!

Good night!!

*back in the book-cave she just created a while ago*