Undivided Honesty
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Jobless Graduate
So I am now a member of the jobless community. I have just graduated from college! I may not have gotten my certificate yet but still! I had my last assessment on Friday, hence the neglect of my site. :/
I have also gotten sick! Just my luck. I guess my body just hasn’t had the time to rest or get sick for a long time, and I’d just always been getting only a few hours of sleep every day.
I have had to postpone my ice skating plans with Gavin to tomorrow. 
I hope I feel better by then… if not I’ll just meet up with him to hang out.
My domain is expiring next month. I have no idea if I want to stick with this one anymore. I love the name of it and all, but it’s long and gets tiring to type. :/ I was considering changing it to eight59.net instead, it’s short and easy, plus it’s my birth time. :p What do you guys think? Some opinions would be nice. 
Also, does anyone know of a cheap and reliable domain registrar? Namecheap has gotten a tad expensive (I paid US$7.98 and now it’s US$9.29), and what with the conversion, it would be quite a bit more for me to pay.
This is Graduation.
I don’t know about you, but I upgraded my WordPress a couple of days ago and I must say, I really love the slickness of the new design! 
If you haven’t upgraded already, you should. Though, I’m still not used to the Plugins link being on the far right yet.
College has been rather stressful… I graduate next month, and have a FYP and two minor projects to complete by Stage 2 Assessment at the end of this month. Majoring in Publication Design is not as easy as it seems! D: I’m sure I’d be able to complete everything by then, but it would be a bit of a mad rush, seeing as I had procrastinated for the past few weeks. My bad, I can never not procrastinate. ><;; I am making progress now though, so hopefully, with fingers crossed, I’d finish everything by the 14th, as planned. -crosses fingers-
I’m still not too sure about what to do after I graduate. It’s either I go look for a job or continue with a degree. I want to do my degree overseas but that would be really expensive and my parents definitely can’t afford that, so I’m hoping I’d manage to get a scholarship (not a high chance, seeing as my results aren’t that good), if anything. Otherwise, I’d just get a job in hopes of funding for Uni… If only I was rich, or if someone would sponsor me, haha.
Thank you to everyone for being nice to me about the breakup. We are still on talking terms, despite things getting even more complicated and confusing, haha. We both love (each other) so much, but several problems need to be solved/gotten over, if we want to give the relationship a third try. Whoever said LDRs were easy, huh? :p
It’s time to party! …or not.
I know I hadn’t updated in a while but I didn’t realise that it’s been two weeks! Gosh, time sure flies! +_+
So, I have completed my internship. Yay for that! Haha. However, I still have one more outstanding project to complete before I am completely done though. That shouldn’t take too long, or at least I hope so, or it would defeat the purpose of me taking a week break before college starts again!
Hmm… I haven’t changed this layout in ages either, about half a year? Since this domain was launched anyway. :/ I have already started working on a new one so that should be up before I go back to college next week.
Also, I got the iPod Classic 160GB as mentioned in the last post. I adore it, haha. I have almost all my media on it, and there’s still so much space left! I hate running out of space, so that’s awesome. :p
I joined the Official Anberlin Street Team, just because I am such a hardcore Anberlin fan, like my friends can vouch for. xD They’re a US Rock band, and if you have never heard of them but love Rock music, I say you should check them out. ^^
Christmas was not as eventful as lots of people and my presents weren’t fantastic but I got to spend time with my cousins which was nice. They can be so retarded sometimes, in a good way, haha. New Year’s was pretty boring too, I just stayed home all day like I do every year, but that’s alright. It’s no big, I don’t like going out on public holidays anyway. I hate crowds. :p I hope you guys had a great holiday though!
Happy holidays!
On the whole boyfriend topic in the last post, I took him back so the crisis is, well, quite over somehow. For the moment, anyway. :p I decided that I’d rather be happy than dwell over something that can never be changed and be very unhappy. And the few days after we got back together, it was like the honeymoon period all over again, lol. That’s how much in love I am with that boy. ♥
Christmas is fast approaching, what are your plans? As usual, I’m heading over to my cousin’s house where annually, they invite church friends and family over. It’s more of a gathering than a party sort of thing, though I would’ve quite liked a party, lol. I also haven’t gotten any shopping done. Hadn’t any time, but I’m sure no one minds late presents. I mean, afterall, you’re still getting presents, what’s to be unhappy about? Lol. :p To be honest, the past couple of years, it has never felt like Christmas at all. Last year, I was preoccupied with neverending college projects. This year, I have internship around the holiday period (which is ridiculous). What holiday are you talking about? >< Though next year… I can SO see myself having a ball of a time. It will be a good year, haha. I would have graduated by then!
On the topic of holidays and presents, I had for the longest time, thought about getting myself an iPod Video but decided on a PSP in the end because it had games, video and music capabilities. But only a couple of days, I checked up on Apple and realised that they had three new iPods! I hardly ever check up on new stuff, so I was kind of slow in knowing, lol. I had my eye on the iPod Touch and was utterly mesmerised by the guided tour. However, after thinking for a while, and comparing the new iPod Classic and the iPod Touch, I’d rather go for the iPod Classic 160GB for the storage space rather than the design of the iPod Touch. For that, it would cost me around S$600 as compared to around S$700 for a 16GB iPod Touch. That’s 10 times less storage space for S$100 more! Outrageous, isn’t it? Lol. So I’ve concluded that the iPod Classic would be better worth for money. Hopefully there’d be post Christmas sales so I can get it ASAP and for a cheaper price, or I’d be using up half of my internship pay!
It’s like whoa.
So I have started internship… and my life seems to be back like the way it is at college. God, I so want a break… By right, we have to do a minimum of 6 weeks of internship while we have 7 weeks of “holiday” so it is pretty much up to us to decide whether or not we want to work that last week. My lecturer recommends taking that week off, and forgetting about everything to just go havoc and have fun before going back to college the following week. It sounds REAL tempting, I have to say… but I’m not sure… Have fun or the money? It upsets me that I’m always thinking about money, y’know. But anyhow, I think I’ll leave it to a last minute decision (as usual). If I’m too tired (which I already am now, not necessarily because of work), I will gladly take that one week off.
I used to have a lot to say… but I can’t think right now. I’m not feeling very good, so I’m at home instead of work, but I am getting some work done so it wouldn’t pile. …man, do I need to sleep. I’m aching all over, like I’m coming down with flu or something…
…so, me and Will broke up. It’s an understatement to say that I’m upset. I am more than upset and it is not okay. I don’t give a shit about the “many fishes in the sea”, “trees in the forest” or to “get another beef stick” (lol, though that made me laugh, thanks to my colleague, Edward). Will is my everything, and I wasn’t ready to let him go. To be honest, I don’t think I would ever be. Not when he means this much to me. Well, it was my fault anyway that this happened, but it’s hard to go against something I believe in when I’ve believed in it for so long now. Maybe it’s cultural differences and what I was brought up to believe. It’s difficult and a lot of sacrifices have to be made when two people of different races want to be together (not to mention the distance between us too). I have been thinking for way too long and I’m just so drained emotionally and mentally. But that said, I would absolutely love to take him back if it wasn’t so complicated.
I do want to fight for this, William… but it’s not as easy. And I appreciate that you understand that. Thanks for being so wonderful, I love you. ♥
More hours in a day please.
Wow, many things have happened since I last posted! I just never had the time to put in a new entry. ><;;
Hmm, first the Linkin Park concert! It was freaking awesome! I really enjoyed myself. ^^ I’m sure Gav did too, lol. We were both singing along the whole time. Well, I know I sang along to every song. ! Everyone sang along as well! The place was sold out! It wasn’t very “mosh pit”y which I liked a lot. It was more like a karaoke session. xD <3 They were selling merch outside and I wanted to get a shirt but the one I wanted was sold out by the end of the concert. And I didn’t get the other shirts that were still available. :/ Instead, me and Gav got the empty CD and download code for the audio of the concert. It will be available in December. ^^ I have to say that Linkin Park delivers. <3 They are AMAZING on stage, plus Chester and Mike are funny people. xD
As for my projects, I managed to complete all of them (not like I had a choice, lol), and assessments went pretty alright. Lecturers said something along the lines of me having room for improvement for my FYP so I’m going to have to try harder next term, which I most definitely will.
Internship wise, I got two interviews, was accepted at both and decided on one to work at, haha. I started work on Monday and I have to say, the job scope wasn’t really quite as I thought. I didn’t think I’d have to deal with customers. I mean, it’s not a bad thing to deal with customers, I just have this phobia. When I worked as a part time cashier, one of my duties was to answer the phone (which is ridiculous because cashiers deal with money, not phones -rolls eyes-). Sometimes, customers would scold me when it was NOT my fault at all! Geez. Outrageous people. Other than that, internship has been quite okay. Other than the fact that I have not yet gotten enough sleep to cover the 3 days that I stayed up rushing projects… I can’t wait to get my PSP with my paycheck though! :p
Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park with Gav tonight. I’m damn well excited, haha. BUT (argh, isn’t there always a but…) I have tons to do for assessment still. And assessment is on the 19th. We are the first class on the first day of assessment week. T_T I suppose, in a way, it is good. Although we have lesser time to complete our stuff, we would have more time to relax! Before starting our internship on the 26th of December anyway, lol.
Meh, I have to complete RCS by today because submission is tomorrow. >< I feel so stressed! I have to do as much as I can before LP, go have a hell of a time relaxing as much as I can, and then rush home to complete it. Gosh, this year is the worse, I feel more rushed than ever before! I guess it’s sort of a training before we graduate and go out to work.
Speaking of work, I have been applying to web design companies for internship, like I was saying the other time. I got a reply from one and will be going in for an interview tomorrow. Wish me luck! :p
Also, my sister is coming home tomorrow night! Even though I have lots of things to do, I will still be picking her from the airport because I promised her I would. :p I haven’t seen her since February when the family went over with her, so I’m excited to see her again. I’m definitely going shopping with her after my assessments.
Alright, I’m blabbering, so I will stop now. Back to rushing my work again! (Shh, I’m in class, haha.)
It was love, wasn’t it.
I must stop apologising for not blogging. >< I hadn’t the time, or mood, to blog… :/ And I’m sure you don’t want to hear me drone on about my mundane life.
Really, nothing interesting has happened since my birthday. Everything went as planned, except for the drinking part. We were all dead tired by then so we went home after dinner instead. The following Monday, me and Lo exchanged presents because her birthday was on that Monday. Three days after mine, lol. Another friend had a birthday just two days before mine. October babies ftw! xD So come present exchange time, I realised that Lo and several of my classmates got me a hamster, lol! Instead of one baby, I now have two. ><;;
I had two talks after classes today. One was on the creative industry, while the other about internship. The first, by AdWOW!, was pretty alright, not that boring as I thought it would be, lol. The other by Dr Adam Goh, was downright boring, if I might say so… >< I’m sure he’s not a boring person, but the talk… Gosh. And not to mention the fact that I have to do a report, worth 40% of my workbook, on the talks for a module. I recorded them on my phone though, so just in case I can’t remember points, I can listen to the recordings. xD Brilliant, innit. I’m sure they’re making us do the report just so we’d turn up. ;/
I have adopted a bunch of a1 FLs from Louise, the layouts she made are all set up on my domain already. All that’s left are the members to be transferred. I’ll do that tomorrow as well.
