Things To Bring To Melbourne...

I AM BORED SO I'M MAKING A LIST OF STUFFS...

1. Top clothes - All the long sleeves blouses (go out) and two big t-shirts (sleeping) and hoody sweater and a few t-shirts (maybe) COAT!

2. Bottom clothes - All the long pants (four of them; go out) and boxers (sleeping)

3. Undies - One bra, three sports bra, all my undies

4. Socks - only two pairs (black and white...I better go Giordano and buy more if not my sis will faint due to two stinky pairs of socks)

5. Shoes - Timberland boots, do I need Sandals? Probably bring Simple along (not sure)

6. Hats - Do I need to bring one in the first place? Maybe I'll bring two Nautica & Disney

7. Toiletries - Dental Floss (MUST HAVE!), Toothbrush (yet another MUST HAVE), Toothpaste (do I need to bring since I could use my sis'? I'm still wondering), Body Foam (DUH...also another MUST HAVE), Shampoo (got to buy...), Simple Facial Wash (itz a MUST HAVE) and SANITARY PAD (MUST REALLY BRING OR DIE DIE)

8. PASSPORT - Don't bring...HANG SELF!

9. Make sure to bring VISA (not the mastercard $$$) and the cheapo A4 size air ticket - IF NOT HANG SELF AGAIN!

10. AUS $$$ and SG $$$ - if not HANG self AGAIN and AGAIN!

11. Laptop (adapter and such) and VCDs and DVDs

12. Sis' blue bag and CDs

13. Jar and Tall Guy's addy + Joost and sis'

14. Sleeping bag - don't bring...sleep on the floor

15. Postcard from Eric + Tall Guy's tour in Utrecht

16. Bring some CDs to listen

17. Camera and its charger

18. Lotion...

19. List of places to go

20. Deordrant

Number of stuff I should get for the pals...
Finland - Juho
Gelderland - Robin & Martijn
Groningen - Eelco
Limburg - Joost
Utrecht - Frank
USA - Jar




THATZ ALL FOR NOW!

TAKE CARE!

VEEL PLEZIER!



CHRISTINE.

HAPPY 1st MEETING ANNIVERSARY, TALL GUY!

TN0203 Class Chalet (Last)

13th April 2005 (Wednesday)

-Went to Popular to buy the mahjong papers, markers and masking tape for the Pictionary game.

-Met them late at Tampines MRT, we went to Li Bin's house to get the food and hailed a cab to head for Aranda Country Club. Thatz where we the chalet was held.

-WOW...the place was truly FANTASTIC! Of all the chalets I had been, this is so far the BEST...so nice and big. Classy...room 2314

-We rested for a while and then I went to Cheers (minimart) with Alvin to purchase some potato chips.

-After that Li Bin and I went down to the BBQ area to find our pit, then we started fire and fanned like crazy to get the fire going and burning HOT.

-Nice...two girls there and the rest upstairs enjoying themselves, playing PS2...doesn't matter

-That night the food was alright but I know BBQ, I'd end up having lotz of gas in me and just burping and farting A LOT.

-Boring night, nothing much to do as the guys were playing PS2 and I sat at the dining table and had a conversation with Li Bin. Through the night I had a conversation with Li Bin in the bedroom and then she slept. The others came in and they started talking about ghosts and about the world ending and what the scripture of their religion bibles had said were all coming true.

-Anyway, I slept at 6 plus in the morning and woke about 3 hours later.

14th April 2005 (Thursday)

-Woke up and went with Keng Wee to Hougang, we had to visit Miss Tan Siok San's place as we were going to have a meeting held.

-We were in two teams discussing about how Business Climate could come up with programs for this coming academic year.

-We took returned to our chalet via bus 89.

-Nothing much done, went to collect our free pan-size pizza...that night we had a special visitor, Mr Thanesh (Enterprise Facilitator). He is a really nice man and a good faci. He went off rather late or should I say, VERY early in the morning?

-It was difficult for me to sleep through the night, I kept waking up a few times coz of the noise they'd made.

-That night was boring again...and they didn't play Pictionary, if I know this was going to happen that they were only entertained by PS2 and playing poker cards, I wouldn't have bought those materials. Wasted my $$$then again, it doesn't matter...

15th April 2005 (Friday)

-Woke up about 7 in the morning...sat and watched Richard play PS2, while Li Bin, Vicnes and Prasana played Blackjack. They didn't sleep through the night.

-I left about 8AM, I couldn't take it...just too boring.

Conclusion:
I wasn't really happy about this chalet and truthfully, I didn't intend to go for it but since it was my last chance to see them then 'why not?' but eh...NEVER MIND.

The Good & Bad

The good thing was the chalet was a nice place but the bad thing was, I didn't really have fun.

The good thing was, I got to see my RP classmates before they start school next week but the bad thing was I had quit this school and I won't be able to meet them much. Somehow, I wish they would just see it that, I will no longer be there but...I think it doesn't matter much to them.

The good thing, everyone (except me) had fun I guess but the bad thing was, I wasted $9.55

The good thing, we didn't overspend but the bad thing was we had leftover food.

The good thing, I didn't have to do most of the cooking this time hehehe but the bad thing is I'm FAT now and have a HUGE zit right above me lip.

The good thing, I'm back home now but the bad thing is...I'm going to miss them. (Somehow I know that I'll be a blur image to them as time goes by...and then vanish)



TAKE CARE!

Veel Plezier.



Christine.

Just something I thought about...

''If you break off with someone just because he/she is different from you, then you might as well marry yourself. '' - Christine.

Bye Bye Republic Polytechnic...

Submitted my Withdrawal Form, student pass and also the VPN card on 29th March 2005. Bought myself an 80 cent souvenir from RP, it was a Post-It pad.

TN0203 of 2004/05
The first day I stepped into this class (3rd May'04), I was like...Oh my goodness, I don't know how it was going to be like, I didn't know how we were going to learn. In fact, I didn't know about this PBL system in this school. Gosh the vulgarities and such, I just couldn't take it. I hated my first day of school and was wondering how was I going to pull through.

Time went by, we got along well in first semester and we all thought we would be changing classes for our second semester and wouldn't be seeing each other. I got along with me class well coz they were funny and full of crap and mischief. We even had our first class chalet together. Just before the break was over, checked the website to see which class I had been allocated, WOW...my same classmates and classroom too! All facilitator changed except one.

Well...for second semester, I did FREAKING well for my grades and having great facilitators compared to the first semester. For second semester we had real fun faciliators and dedicated ones. This time, it is for real that we'd be splitting up into our own individual courses...we had our second chalet held in March but will be having another in mid April which, I'm looking forward to.

A little message to my class...it has been great working with you guys and girls. All of you are smart but some of you are slackers. Just make sure that this doesn't occur in year two. Well...you're all full of crap and funny, really make the class alive and full of mischief, wrestling and shouting out of faci's name while other classes were still having their meetings on. I remember...one of you (I know who) bashed the false wall and created a hole...and that silly dance. I'll remember every single one of you. Have fun in RP dudes and dudettes...never had THAT much fun and crankiness.

Reasons why I didn't want to stay in RP or even change course...
1. Stupid Creative Engagement Point Module (A waste of time to go for those talks when your mind isn't there but busy preparing for the next meeting presentation, if not some members in class had to struggle doing the presentation while the others go for talk) you got to have 40 CE points by the end of these 3 years in order to graduate. ABSOLUTE RIDICULOUS!

2. Information Technology (IT), using the Problem-Based Learning(PBL) system doesn't work for all modules. I had to take a module which was VB.NET and I struggled through it during my first year. I had no basic knowledge about this crap at all, Physics too...PBL just isn't really the way for CERTAIN modules, just got to be taught not go find out yourself.

3. IT just isn't my cup of tea, decided not to waste me time and Mom's money thus heading to Singapore Hotel And Tourism Education Centre (SHATEC) to do Culinary. Itz a two-years course and I'll be starting my first day on the 4th of July'05. Hopefully I make it.

4. Why didn't I switch course from IT --> Science? I can't take all this group work, I'm not pushy enough and I never like to order people to do stuff et cetera and mostly there will be DEFINITE slackers in the group. I'm tired of it and I don't know whether PBL will work for Science in Year Two and I don't want to take the risk. PBL did work for Year One science especially second semester.

PBL is like problem given to you, you got research and find some possible solutions to that problem and come up with a presentation, mostly all the time it is PPT (Powerpoint Presentation) by the end of the day. Then the faci will present his/her 6th presentation and then we have a quiz and have to do the evaluation on teammates. Do reflection journal. See how well your class participation and working in the group is like. After that, the faci will grade you, this is known as Daily Grade. It isn't good, coz some slackers are good at acting hardworking and faci may think he is working and suck and he excel only good during presentation. Just simply unfair to the one who does all the work.

RP doesn't have exam but we have test...well 4 Understanding Tests for each module and they will pick the best 3 out of the 4. I have 5 modules and each module a day. 16 daily grades so...they pick the best 14. Add them all up for all 5 modules we get the GPA which is Grade Point Average. First semester I had 3.2 and second semester I had 3.6 so Cummulated GPA is 3.4 which is a B. I lack of 0.1 to get a B+ well..an A is 4.0

I bet you must be going 'HUH?' itz OK...well, PBL can be fun but it nearly drived me crazy when your team depends on you to produce the work (most of the time..sorry no offense to any of you, my classmates).

Thatz about it...

Take care.


Veel plezier.



Christine.