Linguistics..

Next sem gonna offer:

HG221 Cross-cultural Communication
This course focuses on how key cultural values are embedded in language use, and how these hidden assumptions can impede effective communication across cultural groups. Aspects such as organisation of discourse, preferred mode of communication, nonverbal communication, intonation patterns, politeness, address terms, greetings, and requests will be examined across cultures. The analysis will focus on how these relate to the broader definition of cultural values in terms of collectivism versus individualism. The objective is to develop students' sensitivity to cross-cultural variation in communication and to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting variation.

anyone wanna take w me? still not sure who is teaching..but the teachers are all pretty nice..

Subjects for next sem...

as of my degree audit, i still left 1 core, 4 MPE, 1 UE, 1 Sci n 1 Bus...

it's quite scary to take all chinese modules for nxt sem cos it's sure gonna be super hard and workload sure gonna kill..esp i always take 6 modules per sem..
max chinese modules i gonna take is 5..since i gonna wait for 1 level 4 module to clear..

tentatively i am going to take:
1) History of Chinese Thought ( i think all of us will be bore to death)

2) Sound and Prosody in Chinese (aka 声韵学 muz support peter!)

3) Creative Writing Workshop (seems only nana n me interested..hope we dun hav to hand up a piece of writing everywk unless he let us write crap hah)

4)Either City and Culture of Modern China or China in Asia

5) if i am ever gonna take another chinese module due to time clash for GER-PE n linguitics
still thinking which yr1 or 2 modules to take..haha either I-lo fen's class or HC160

any sure slack but still interesting class? XD
recommend me some nice business modules leh.. less proj n presentation..
i know only management with humor


hmm..juz realised if i take 6 modules nxt sem i only left 2 modules to clear in yr 4 sem 1!!
i am freer in yr 4 than i thought! Whooopeee!! =)

Bored at NUS

today's lecture is sooooooo boring..no kidding...
i barely listened to the part he explained ab tao hua yuan ji (which CLA students alr memorized like mad in JC).. the second part which i shld listen i totally drift off to who knows where..
but the time i knew it..he was alr at the last part of the poem..i saw my friend's paper oso blank haha..guess they oso nv pay attention..

long time nv update le..cos i am really v sian..
2 proj reports n 1 quiz due nxt wk and i am still mapling n youtubing..
die..i think i am letting my sociolinguistics friends down..better buck up n start drafting the report!! i am really losing track of what is the aim of my proj liao bleahz...

ok i need to start 314 report this wk!! no more slacking ah giam.. courting death izit..yest juz wasted the whole day..i muz i muz start analysizing the movie..

and NUS presentation..ahhhh no time to find research la..
so dui bu qi ah gui.. i muz do my work!!
damn stressed liao.. haiz haiz haiz...

nxt 2 wks will be hell for me.. HELP!!

Damn pissed off day...

Super disappointed and pissed off with the poor organisation of our red cross society..
nv improve from last year donation drive...

why introduce an appointment system for ppl to register and still made them wait thru the whole registration and check up process? dun give me excuses that ppl hav appointments too cos from wad i see most of them are without appointments..if u think u cant handle so many ppl at one time why din u set a limit for ppl to register at that time slot?

u think ppl is very free izit? this is NTU..famous for heavy human traffic...
if u dun even understand how the blood bank works then pls do ur homework before u even organise such an event in sch..
the quad as cos compared to Nanyang Audi is so damn small..yes if it clashes with the Europe fair then push back the date la..

dun understand how ppl are so inefficient and so unorganised..
this is the 2nd time i walked off half way thru checking up when i made an appointment..
but this is the first time i tore up the form..shld hav done it in his face...

真是气到爆炸 !!



他妈的

My foot >.<

ahh better update if not anyone who visit my blog will think i am very ya ya ab my recent post..
tat's one bad thing when i dun update regularly..

as usual my new shoes gave me abrasion..this time only my left food kena badly and one flap of skin came off >.<...now still recovering cos it's still quite raw so i guess i will be wearing slippers for a few days..

anw tat wedding dinner was fabulous..for those who asked me..u already knew..
the dinner consisted of cold dish with lobster salad, sharkfin (u can see bigger pieces of sharkfin instd of strands), steam fish (very very big), roast chicken(even breast meat is very tender), drunken prawns, scallops with asparagus, big mushrooms with sea cucumber (tat sea cucumber is heavenly..really melts in ur mouth), rice in lotus leaf and yam paste..
the restaurant is called peony jade juz beside liang court..

oh and the bride is very pretty.. she got a sister oso quite pretty too hahah..

This....

made me very happy...






highest mark in the whole HG101(linguistics)class for the recent quiz...
95% ^^

Back to sch =(

Ok ppl..thanks for all ur concern..i am alright le..
ignore her as i always did.. shall not be bothered w her anymore..

feeling super tired today.. whole body cant function well..cursing the stairs when i got to NUS as usual..today extra steps since i gotta run 2 libraries to help borrow book for my friend..need to wait one hour to request for it lor..since it's a closed stack book..bleahz
but still lucky e lec still quite slack..and now it's finally getting to the easier part..

《诗经》= easier to memorize and i cant believe i am studying 关雎 again!! lucky it's not 离骚 or mayb not yet..hmm it's more ancient than 《诗经》 right? ahh wadever la.. i still havent 背孟子 cos it's freaky hard to memorize...

havent done much 303 reading so i am still lagging in my readings especially in my sociolinguistics..guess i can only read them before exam..now is the critical period of doing proj and reports!! lucky finished my 303 report and 314 abstract.. at least i can sleep in peace tonight..

sth interesting today..or mayb it's juz me..
teacher going thru e poem 〈桃夭〉then he started linking alot of 桃 and of cos the famous 桃花源记... which makes me 联想到 mayb popular is XX's 桃花源 but sadly inside are all quite 烂桃花 haha..ok 很冷 i know.. lalala... time to read notes so later can maple ^^

PS: Happy Birthday to Derek's owner! but i doubt she will ever see this post anw..

I really hate my mum...

if there is one person who deserved to be slapped..it's my mum..
or rather..it shld be me..for stupidly buy a present she din even look at n rejected it right in my face..said she dun wan n dun need anything..

and when i said if u dun wan then throw away..she said throw away lor...
if it is some cheapo stuff i would throw it out of e window..but it costs me 60bucks la..
shld not even ponder so much to buy..for my mum F***ing doesn't deserve anyone being nice to her..


i hate her...felt like crying..

Start of my hols!!

My recess officially starts today..cos my work only ended at 11.30pm yest...
still feeling abit shagged..partly due to insufficient sleep accumulation for one whole wk...

it was tiring but it was fun oso..working with all our coursemates and all e nice teachers attached to us...
interacting with them out of school and of cos seeing another side of peter outside his office n class..i think he has more confidence outside than in sch..tho he is still as polite, he sounded more decisive n clear of wad he is doing..(maybe there is no overpowering someone there?)
yes yes i think i get to know peter better..tat is he will become abit disorientated after 8pm..(think tat's bcos he went to sleep early and he keep saying he needs an apple -.-''')..and tho he dun like to eat meat, he is not a vegetarian cos he takes seafood...

thanks to him..our meals got better every time..by yest dinner it was alr like a feast..mine has fried prawn, potatoes, vege n egg..in addition to a box of roasted meat, duck n char siew AND 2 big bottles of apple juice n orange juice...

as for now..time to start resting well and to do my long due 303 report n start thinking ab my 314 abstract

Marking day

my eyes are blurred..from looking at so many scripts n continuously working at fast speed...
marked fr 9am till 6plus pm before i chiong to amk to meet als for dinner...
it's tiring n eyes straining n butt aching but i muz say the ppl working are v nice and we had lunch n drinks n snacks provided..
wad more can we ask right? besides we all support anyth peter does *nods*

tmr will be another crazy day of marking cos all scripts n all components have to be finished by then and i can predict we hav to stay v late if we are too slow.. starting at 8.30am lor..zzz
not much time for me to maple >.<
i wanna level up la...

bleahz gonna bathe liao..get ready for another crazy day...