Update

Some updates before I set kiasu mode to ON (or has it been ON all the time? lol)

• My mood has back to normal =) Thanks to all my friends.. father and mother.. brother and sisters!
• However, as the result of stress and lack of sleep.. I got pimples all around my face =__=
• The CSC302 coursework is finished!
• But still left with CSC301 project, CSC303 presentation, and CSC304 report
• I have replaced almost all my missing stuff
• Except my dearest Canon IXUS i5
• Mum and Dad will back to hometown tomorrow. Julianto is still at Jakarta. Yongky is still at Hongkong. Erikson has back from Phuket.
• (… no important relation after all)
• Want to go to JP at least one more time before the exam started.. The KFC is irresistible. Also need to buy some more Pringles.
• For exam wishes, any Pringles flavors are accepted :P

Ok.. I think that’s all.. =).. *getting scared of writing long sentences after being criticized* huahaha.. joking2.. All the people in NTU.. all the best for the exam preparation!

Happy B’day Rina Sari, Yuku, Karlina! Happy Hallowen too!

Erlin.D

A Series of Unfortunate Events

(FYI: that is a title of children books which has been brought to a movie starring Jim Carrey.. FYI too, I just happened to check out the website. It’s soo cool.. ^^)

Back to topic…

Last Tuesday, I went to watch Death Note with Arianto, Bebek, Henry and Yongky. Why all in sudden? Call it exam syndrome. All were too stress with projects and workload that eventually decided to watch movie together. It should had been a nice day. We watched at 3.30, finished at 6, and then have dinner at Kopitiam. Henry set off first to visit his auntie. The rest of us went to fair price.. I bought my things: apple, orange, scott emulsion, mr potatos and lays. Pay the stuff.. then went to other shop..

Only after half hour, I realize that among all my plastic bags, my white bag wasn’t around!! Ari and I rushed back to Fair Price, went to Counter 5, the place where I paid my stuff. I asked the cashier if she saw my bag.. which.. unexpected by me, she said no!.. At that point of time.. I really didn’t know what else to do. I went to information counter, questioning them.. but no result. Eventually, I realize that there were CCTV recording right at the cashier place. In blur stage, I urged that I wanted to watch the CCTV. However, of course, they didn’t let me see it.. eventually, they needed the supervisor to deal with me. The supervisor said that I need to have a formal procedure to see the CCTV.. I didn’t question much at that time. They quickly asked me to first block my debit card and nets… Thus I went down.. blocking those cards.. Then.. since no point of standing there.. I was thinking of going back.. but then.. remember that I need to buy pink tshirt for Medy’s gift. Haha.. Buy.. with what? T__T.. then.. I need to go back… with what, too? Haha.. Lucky that Arianto was around.. I borrowed money from him first.. Arigatou Ari… =)

After buying ez-link, we took 179, directly went to hall 4. Yup, Jess was going to celebrate her brother b’day.. I.. at that time.. really haD no mood at all.. And so.. planned to go back after giving the present instead of ruining their party.. However, as I reached there, they suggest me that I went to make a police report asap.. Who knows then tmrw I can view the CCTV with police report. Abit of laziness, abit of hope, and abit of gan dong for their caring, I eventually went to police station with You Xiang… Thanks so much.. really.. so sorry that I make u skipped medy b’day :( After being there, the police didn’t want to help much. He insists that I need to show my student pass in order to make a report. Hump. I was really to tired to argue that time.. thus.. I just went back home.. tired tired… Still don’t want to believe that I lost my Canon IXUS i5… Still can’t believe why I can be that fool.. and at that time.. I really don’t know what to do.. Somemore, got news from Yongky that the deadline for our CSC302 report is one Friday.. which was unexpected at all..

Only at that time... I can feel the power of friend support. Inche suggested me not think too much about it now.. and tried to settled thing tmrw (sorry che.. I must have gave bad impression to your brother who just came) T__T.. calvin, alan, and ari also kept trying to calm me down.. while blazers even made conference to think of the solutions!! Haiiiz.. I was really really gan dong :’).. Really.. only when u’re in difficulty, then u can feel the beauty of friendship.. only when u ever go through sadness, you can feel grateful with the happiness you get. Does it the point they want me to learn that night? Lesson learnt..

The next 3 days, I went through quite unpleasant days.. Cant sleep well, can’t think well, and always anxious about everything.. it was especially because I involve police.. On Wednesday, Jess and Henny accompanied me to go to police station. We made a report. Instead of lost report, we make a theft report! Why? Because I said that I wanted to view the cctv. Then, because it’s a theft report, I got one officer which was incharged for my case. Everything was getting more complex than what I intended to. I call the officer incharge, but he said that he is busy (with quite a harsh voice) and ask me to call him again on Friday regarding the CCTV.. I was so afraid that he will ask me to go to JP on Friday.. because we’re having 183 presentation… which was.. too bad, we didn’t get the Wednesday slot.. then also accounting presentation on Wednesday… soft eng II demo on Thursday.. lab deadline on Friday.. combined with the police thing.. I’m happy that I still can type blog today. Hahaha..

I don’t want to recall too detail what has been happening during those days. Now, everything is almost come to the end. All the deadlines were terminated gratefully.. And the police said that he will inform me again on Monday... I’m not hoping for good news.. All the experiences are more than enough already for me. Btw, is this also Karma? Lol.. I miss the “My Name is Earl” series. Thinking of watching it after exam..

Friends, thanks all…
Erlin.D

Another Friday the 13th?

Want to practice my Accounting skill =)

Earning before extraordinary item $ 0

Extraordinary Loss:
Canon IXUS i5 $ 650
Teddy Bear Wallet $ 30
Hand Bag $ 30
Matric Card Replacement $ 21
OCBC ATM Card $ 5
Ez – Link $ 15
Cash Card $ 7
Hall 14 Access Card $ 10
Bus Fee during investigation $ 10
Scott Emulsion (x2) broken : $ 11
Cash $ 15
Phone Card $ 10

Irreplaceable & unknown value items:
Family Photo >.<
OCBC Debit Card

Total Loss: $ 814

Extraordinary Gain:
Experience @ Police Station : undefined
Experience arguing with Fair Price staff : undefined
Friendship : priceless

Total Earnings after extraordinary items : priceless - $814... Still Priceless =)

Gained,
Erlin.D

My “Friday the 13th”

It was late for 5 days. Today is my very own Friday the 13th. As the clock passed 12.00 am, my story began… It started with a short circuit. Of course, my computer directly went off without future notice. And again, I hate hate hate that I never save my work. I was doing reporrtttt T__T.. How many times has these happened? Especially when I was doing things like report and photoshop. While it never happened when I was only listening to song? Anyway, so.. when the Keppel people eventually fixed the thing.. I opened my computer.. and saw that my auto recovery didn’t help much.. :( and the diagram I drew in power point was gone.. As it didn’t have auto recovery.. First bad thing..

I redo some part of the report, before I went to sleep at almost 2. Wake up at 8.40 as usual, bathed, and then wait for bus at 9.15. I usually choose either walking or taking bus randomly. However, for Wednesday, die2 I must took bus.. Because I was carrying a thick accounting book. So.. There I went, to bus stop. Meet Rina and Henny there. They said that they just miss a bus.. then I waited with them… 15 minutes.. and 1 bus eventually came. But full! Wait for another minute.. 199 passed.. another 5 minutes.. another 199 passed… until eventually, it was 9.45 when I got to the bus!!! As I sat down, got a sms from Dunkie “All! Don’t skip 183 lecture for today! We want to have discussion after class!” That was the sms I sent to him 3 days ago. Now, I’m the one that’s missing.. I…. T____T

Reached LT10 at 10.00, sharp. Listen to lecture for 20 minutes.. then discuss for awhile. Felt abit uneasy.. Arlene talked a lot about terrorism in second half, and we’re going to presenting exactly the same thing.. what will happened.. sigh.. after discussion.. I went to have lunch.. finished lunch.. went to met Zhang Jun along with Medy. Again, like yesterday, he wasn’t in his office. But unlike yesterday that he showed up after 5 minutes, we saw no one until 15 minutes passed. I confused and apologized to Medy.. then I went to check my email. Yap, he sent me an email. At 10.20. He was busy, and wont be able to meet me today. Sigh. Not a very bright morning for me.

Then I went to library. Initial plan was to finalize my AI report and print it. But then.. I forgot to switch on my computer today! Don’t say doing my report.. I can’t even listen to song to distress myself. Eventually, go streaming to Ari’s computer. Listen to several songs, then the network is disconnected… Ask for him to open his computer again.. and then that was my headset that didn’t want to work. Arrghh.. T_T

1.00 pm, went to Accounting lecture. Everything was fine for 2 hours. Then I back to library. Can do nothing as I didn’t open my computer. Thus tried to read the Accounting textbook. Next week is our presentation. Feel sleepy since the first 5 minutes. Then went down to take a cup of tea and took a look at the Aerospace exhibition. Meet Dr Timo there. Called him, but instead of him, others looked at me. I was noticed for being ignored. Great.. Finished my tea quickly.. then went back to library.. Spending my time there until 5.40.. then checked email for awhile.. Shock to see the time is 6.05 in computer, while it is 5.50 in my watch.. What happened!? I rush to seminar room. In the middle of road, I realize that my mobile isn’t with me!! I left it at library’s table. Run back to library. And found my mobile. What a fool. Then again, I run to seminar room. Definitely, I was late for the tutorial. After the seminar, my team mates said that they already decided to have discussion on Friday.. I was like !?!?.. why they discussed it without me!? My Friday is 7 lucky hours of classes.. Eventually, I tried to negotiate with them.. finished at almost 8.. then went to dapao.. and walked to the bus stop.. was it the end of my day? No. As I was reaching bus stop, my bag was suddenly dropped to the floor. Broken. I used it no more than 2 weeks!!! Desperate, I really don’t care what will happen to me anymore. Reached home, opened my computer, typing email for team members, and my Microsoft outlook hang as I’m going to send the email. I left it for 15 minutes.. going for shower, giving the computer the time to do its processing. As I back, it is still the same. Nothing else I can do rather than ctrl+alt+del and rewrote my whole email.

2 more hours to go,
Erlin.D

IA defined: Apple Computer Limited

Eventually.. After 2 weeks of waiting. =) So happy to see the email. Was asking Imam, but got no answer yet. Wish that he got it too.. Then all of us: Henry, Yongky, Wayan, and Alvin can sleep at mrt and take turn waking up others.. haha.. (only until now I began to consider the distance.. sigh..)

This week.. My energy bar had been up and down accordingly. Monday was a busy day.. get the thing from HQ, preparation for tomorrow awareness week, etc etc.. until I really can’t smile on Tuesday. Then, Calvin did most of the job on Tuesday loh (arigatou, partner!) On Wednesday, got fully charged, done the duty in awareness week, and still be able to donate blood (thanks Xin Lan and Amanda for the priority queue!) fufu.. That’s really my first blood donation. Get good experience.. We need to go through health test and blood test before really can donate blood. My blood test showed that I got a lot of iron inside my blood.. which means I’m quite healthy.. (aha! So drinking coffee everyday is a healthy life style? *misleading*) haha.. After 2 hours of waiting and shifting, it was eventually the time for the injection.. I was totally scared. However.. I was also surprised.. that I actually felt nothing when the needle was injected into me.. I just can see that my blood flow so fast.. so fast that I thought I’m not normal >.<.. I finished the blood donation in 15 minutes. Feel no pain nor dizzy.. but still the nurse asked me to lie down for a while before going to refreshment room.. no other choice. Must endure the temptation to eat for 10 minutes. Haha.. after that.. go to drink milo.. while drinking, a person besides me said that he felt so dizzy.. and almost faint.. I asked Calvin to help me called people.. he said ok.. but then eventually go to nowhere T__T.. seeing that he was getting worse, I quickly called the nurse.. and soon they laid him down at the bed. Fuiih.. lucky that we have professional stuff around =)

My donation finished at 5.00.. later.. Went to accounting seminar.. I barely catch anything explained in the seminar, although I wasn’t sleepy at all. Is it because of my blood volume changed? My mind just can’t concentrate.. (or is this just an excuse) hahaha.. Back from the accounting seminar, I settled Red Cross stuff (which is 3 times slower than usual) and tried to do accounting tutorial (which I eventually gave up after struggling with same question for 2 hours) Man.. wish that this wont last very long..

Thursday morning, as I woke up.. heem.. not feeling very ill, but no energy at all. Bath, then going to school with inche. Breakfast, then have lab discussion. There, I realized I haven’t recovered yet! I took so long to process stuff.. worse, the lab supervisor chose today to question us of our progress. I answer.. of course.. but so so slow.. and again, with no energy or spirit. Feel like really a bad project manager..

As the lab finished, I went to awareness week place again.. helping around… meet Miss Chan there.. said hi.. then I went to have lunch at can a.. and can you believe.. I got no appetite! This is really a serious case. I took half hour to finish my chicken cutlet. After lunch, having discussion with Calvin, then went for tutorial and lecture.. finished with them, redcrossing again.. settling up everything that we will be taken back to HQ. Yeah. Back to HQ. Eventually, tomorrow is the last day of 4 consecutive day of awareness week. Very tired… but really hope that everything will turn out well =)..

Get ready for the last day!
Erlin.D

We live in Singapura

Not many people came to Engineering and Society lecture last friday. The class was half emptier than usual. Henry was going to Graduate Dinner. Medy and Calvin also preferred to go back and sleep. But that day lecture was much more interesting than usual. As a foreigner who knew nothing about politic, i hardly get anything to my head during all the lectures. After one hour of dozing, suddenly the lecturer played us YouTube from one TalkingCock show in parliement. Hahaha.. One of the show is a song by HossanLeong. Anybody who wants to hear it, can click here. I'm sure that you will atleast smile when watching it. hahaha... Btw, i heard the song before.. anybody knows what song it is? Another show was a woman speaker talking in many kinds of english (includes singlish for sure lol).. wait no more, get it here.

I live in Singapura
It’s not perfect living
But at least it’s interesting :P

Rite, Son? hahaha..
Erlin.D

Kiasu

Gosh, Am I really that kiasu? I have my accounting quiz yesterday.. Not very good, I got 18/20 while Henry got 20/20 and kept saying that it was very easy.. sigh.. Maybe because the question was random? Or it's me myself didn't have strong knowledge of the theory? I DID a bit disappointed since I have been studying it since the first aid course.. however, I decided I shouldn’t kept thinking of it.. and then.. during my sleep, I dreamt that I have test again! For mathematic and biology (strange..).. Worse come to worse, I only got 6/10 for both of the subjects.. and both because of small mistakes. Felt soo down.. and then I eventually wake up and realize that it’s only a dream. Huahaha.. Kiasu mind hum? Exam is coming in one month.. Don’t say revising, I’m still 0% for CSC301 project.. sigh.. Think that I have no other choice..

Awareness Week is coming next week.. And we just realize one fatal mistake. We order the number of polo tee wrongly.. causing shortage of 40 more tee for subcomittee!! >.<.. After the fight to get it done on time.. we didn't get the amount correctly.. :'(.. ix.. need to think of solution soon..

Anyway,
NTU Blood Donation Drive 2006 10th-13th October 2006
Register @ http://clubs.ntu.edu.sg/redcross/

C ya all there =)

Red Crossing + CSC301ing,
Erlin.D

IA Interview @ Apple

The recess is over.. And I can say that I was stressed up most during those time ^^;.. hahaha.. So many things to be completed.. and so many new things coming over. One of them is the IA interview. Happy, for sure, as I was sortlisted for the interview. But, in few hours, I realized that I need to squeeze at least one day for the interview preparation on Tuesday, while I’ll be having accounting quiz on Wednesday (which I can’t help to study earlier due to lab project and First Aid course).. As I was confused, some of my 303 team asked me what to do on the task.. although we have just divided the task in the morning… answering them.. trying to clear the doubt.. and I lost my chance to study the C#... That night, Thursday, 28th September.. I had the worst stress case ><.. so sorry for all the victims.. Rizky, Yongky, Imam, Ari, Calvin, Peko… And thanks roommate for cheering me up.. although you might not realize it.. :P

Ok.. so.. the recess passed. IA interview was on Tuesday. The interviewer was mentioned to be Alfonsius. Sound Indonesian.. who is he? Fact comes to fact; he is the one who had IA at apple 4 years ago before me!! I mentioned about him in last blog.. but I never know that he will be my interviewer. It’s really a small world after all. Hahaha.. So, tuesday morning, I wake up at 6.. the panda eyes haven’t really recovered.. but I can’t do nothing about it.. haha.. (So so sleepy. .i really couldn't open my eyes when I was brushing my teeth. ^^;) have a great breakfast.. then set off to Ang mo kio. Reach Yio Chu Kang at 8.30.. then got lost for several times before I eventually met Made and CK (so they worked at Motorola..) and followed them taking the bus 70 =___=… when will I be able to have sense of direction? It’s getting worse and worse. ><..

After few bus stop, eventually saw the big logo of Apple. Went down, entered the company.. then I saw that Motorola just beside it. Ohoo.. really neighbor. Haha.. Go through main enterance.. then amazed by the office.. It’s such a cooooll office ^^.. The same elegant feeling as if we enter the apple shop. Haha.. I reached there at 9.. there are already 2 people there. One is Bai Jian, IT officer during FOA.. and another one is.. umm.. his friend. Huahaha.. Can’t remember his name ><.. but he said that he saw me during the redcross orientation. He is from ISP side. Ohh.. ic. ^^;.. Not long after, Alfonsius eventually turned out. Shake hand shake hand.. then he commented that I come too early.. (don’t dare to say that I got lost so frequent that I need to have buffer) Bai jian was interviewed first. Then his friend. Then me. Then Imam. That’s it. Only 4 of us, 2 singaporean from Com Eng, and 2 indonesian from Com Science.. and there are only 2 vacancies available.. goosh.. so afraid >.<.. What question they give? Well.. alfonsius didn’t ask much.. but I was confused enough when answering his question.. first question to me is: “you like design and programming.. which u like most?” aaa… I never expected this kind of question. Hahaha.. Then I just answer properly (hopefully proper enough).. Then more questions were shot “What kind of design you like?” “What you know about database design?” “what database you use?” after some.. the next people began to question to.. “What is software development cycle?” “planning is important. Why?” “what is more important, documentation or coding?” “what is your level of commitment?” “why you choose Apple?” until after the first 10 minutes.. one question shock me, “From your resume, I see that you’re more as team player. Too bad, we’re looking for individualist programmer. How can you convince us that you’re actually also competent as individualist programmer too?” Shocked. Why? Because it’s really stated in the requirement, that they need a team player. Thus, of course, all the way I have planned my interview to work towards the orientation of “team player”. Then.. all in sudden? And I was really suspicious to answer “what you like more? An individual project or team project?” I still try to give my best answer.. and until we came to the end of the interview.. “Why you think we should choose you? What is distinct about you, except that you’re the only female here?” They questioned it, grinning.

When I finished the interview, my level of confidence dropped by half. However, over is over. That’s what Baijian and his friend said to conform me. Yeep.. it’s true =).. So.. let’s just wait for the result on December! Huahaha.. After 4 of us finished, we took taxi to mrt (due to heavy rain).. then went back to NTU.. and followed AI and Programming language lecture without any lecture notes ^^;..

Preparing for Accounting Quiz!
Erlin.D