Tuesday, January 18, 2005 @1:53 PM
What a hectic week ahead!
This week's gonna be lots of running here and there. I really wish this week would pass ASAP! Tomorrow I'll need to go down to Clementi Yamaha to practise with my duo partner at 10am! 10am! Then I'll need to head back to the east to give a girl tuition at 3.30pm! At 6pm I need to be at Ang Mo Kio Bethesda Church for a wedding rehearsal!
Allow me to vent some anger on the tuition at 3.30pm - Really pissed with her! Cos she always calls me at the wrong time, as if I've got nothing to do other than to give her tuition! And there are sooooo many times that she arranged with me a lesson then she forgot about it, making me go down to her place for no reason! And whenever she wants a lesson she'll ring me up and I'll have to try and accomodate! what the?!?!?!? Sure, the money's pretty good. But it's time for me to not be so nice anymore - no more "*smiles* It's ok, she's not back from sch yet? Get her to call me." No more! It's time to show her that I mean business and she better not allow me to make anymore trips to her house in vain! And she'll call me at ungodly hours like 7am! Hellooooo... I'm still sleeeeeping! Urgh!
Thurs is a full day school affair for me this wk. Friday is HOLIDAY! Thank God! Wooohooo!
Saturday, in the morning I gotta head down to Lucky Plaza to teach at 945am, then to AMK Bethesda Church for the wedding performance at 11am, then to Yio Chu Kang to teach these lovely 2 girls violin, then back to Lucky Plaza to do my make up lessons. I doubt I can manage all that running around Singapore. But I'll try, nevertheless...
Sunday is God's day! Yay! So I said during worship that everyday should be God's day. At night, through the week, it'll be all reserved for God. But still, I don't think it's enough? How much is enough dear Father? Speak to me and stay with me as I do my running around this whole week. Do give me strength Lord.
Memory verse:
"Have nothing to do with godless myths or old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."
1Timothy 4:7-8
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 @10:41 PM
It ain't so bad after all...
So, school started with a bang and a wham today. The first creatures I saw in school today were two beings dressed up gothic style. Massive, big, outrageous hairdos. I was like Wow! Where on earth did they find the time to do that? Definitely attention seeking-they were incredibly successful in doing that. All eyes on them! Not a very pleasant way to make me feel welcome in the ever so unfamilar NUS. That made me feel like all uncomfortable, uneasy, and weird. Like is this an instituition of learning? Well, maybe that's the results of introducing creativity in the school syllabus. It definitely did wake me up. So that might be a good thing after all.
First lecture of the semester! Sociology of deviance. Pretty cool stuff I'm going to learn from there I would say. And guess what? Teaching assistant - Mr Lloyd Chia. When the lecturer introduced him, I saw the spiky hair, and was like, it's him?!?! Interesting how coincidental things can get. Now I like this course. If I get the lecturer as my tutor, I'll be more than happy because he's really interesting. And I don't think Lloyd's gonna be boring. So there, the module that I'll probably enjoy loads for this semester.
Some stuff I thought of in school bout deviance and crime. Both deviance and crimes are social constructs, defined and made up by the society and law to restrict ourselves. The queer thing is that "street" crimes are always published and documented, but not "suite" crimes. "Suite" crimes consist of the rich and the powerful. Seems like the terms deviance and crimes are always associated with the vulnerable, marginalized, lower society. It is always about the poor and the powerless. Interesting how classification can create certain results huh?
Here's just a thought "Deviance are human actors whose subjectivity are to be appreciated, not corrected."
I suppose the above is true, but we've never really thought about it that way have we?
Still got memory verse to memorize before my leader whacks me on the head.
"Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all hings, holding promise for both the presen life and the life to come."
1Timothy4:7-8
@2:00 PM
Starting School...
School's starting in 2 hours time! Then I'll b sitting in a lecture theatre, listening to the lecturer, looking up on the projected screen and writing things that I think are important. Or so I hope that school IS really like that. In actual fact, of course I do not want school to be like that cos that would be ultimately sooooo boring! But then again, isn't that the only viable way to get good grades?
So what am I in school for, really? Hmmm... Tough question to answer. Obviously I don't go to school to see my lecturers and tutors, to rush from tutorial class to lecture class or tutorial class to tutorial class, lecture class to tutorial class, or lecture class to lecture class - you get the idea, to submit papers that are due 1 minute before they are being collected by the tutor, to "actively" participate in tutorials so that I get my participation points, and the list goes on. There are so many things that I go to school for, oblivious to it all, but they're all so necessary for me to graduate.
It ain't nice in school without friends. Imagine that. Just going around school by yourself! Eeeeks! So there you go, an answer, or at least, something like an answer. Can't imagine school without any friends. Gosh! So people in NUS, or near NUS, if you're bored, wanna have lunch, tea, etc - call/sms me! I'll be more than glad to meet up - that's if I ain't confined to any lecture theatres or tutorial classrooms. =)
School's starting. No more time to laze around at home anymore. 2 weeks of lectures before tutorials begin!
Oh yes, my memory verse for this week:
"Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all hings, holding promise for both the presen life and the life to come."
1Timothy4:7-8
