..:: 559. The One With Back to School ::..

was surfing some HR websites and i got to know an article that was written by my prof and went to school to get a copy today. just a 4 page report and i willingly travel from home to school. haha how crazy is that?

yea got Singtel as our company for the competition case study. luckily it is not some ulu company.

anyway got Google online marketing challenge and the Mastercard-Wiley marketing challenge coming up... i think my dec will be hectic till the day i fly to china.

30 NOV - apply visa and open account from bank of china
1 DEC - Red Cross Volunteer Instructor Prog Contact Session
3/4 DEC - Interview with Singtel
5 DEC - Endnote Workshop
6 DEC - Send-Off ceremony for GIP
7 DEC - Work. work.
15-18 DEC - Red Cross Camp
19 DEC - Outing
23-25 DEC - Ritz Carlton

..:: 558. The One With Last Burst ::..

yes i'm on my last burst of fire for my highly anticipated paper. no pun intended. had the most extensive reading for this module and i am hoping to impress in my paper.

was looking at my tissue box cos i always have flu when i lack of sleep... KCA - think of tissue, think of us... that's the quote or tagline for the brand.

then i thought, if i were to come up with a tagline, i would go for...

With you through wet and dirty times...

didnt i tell you i work best at late nights! haha. hope that is a good testimony for that.

i know some of you may disagree my tagline is of good substance. boo.

finally i'm done with all my external readings. later shall continue with my 1000 pages storybook.

did you know that civil servants are getting 2 month bonus in december? that pretty much explains my cranky entry. woohoo~

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..:: 557. The One With Last Paper ::..

oh well. hp 102 is wasted. let's hope the bell curve can work some miracles. i saw a few around me did not write much though... that is during collection of the papers, dun say i cheat!

say goodbye to ANOVA, bonferroni correction, tukey's HSD, Scheffe test, dunnett's test,... bloody hell. they had totally ruined my love for examinations.

i finally found someone who has a biological clock that is as screwed up! yash! haha. we msged each other at around 3am where many are happily snoring away. in the words of yash, 'they should make exams at this hour'. ya they should. i'm like most alert at this time.

been taking daily dosage of bird nest with ginseng and someone said i look younger :X

but i still have time to catch up on antm. look at heather's covergirl shot. gorgeous. rooting for her to win. hope she does well in the go-see next episode.

prison break series suspended? wth.

..:: 556. The One With Prayers ::..

Haiz the news of the missing dragonboat guys are so depressing... hang on guys. hope they are ok. one of them is my fren... =(

*prays*

..:: 555. The One With I Will Be Shot ::..

yup. i think i'll be shot if i caught writing this but wth...

something's been missing cos life has been smooth sailing during the exams. so now must stir some shit.

recently received an email from a prof. 3 teams joining a competition and each team is mentored by a professor. The other 2 teams are known as 'A' and 'B'. it started off when Group B, 'kiasu-ly' asked their prof for some training and amazingly they told their prof they were 'selected'. i almost flipped off the chair. to qualify for the first round, you just need to hand in the form and pay 50 bucks. neh neh. what is 'selected'?

then we were asked whether we made it to the next round to engage a client... EXCUSE ME, we have the money and the form, of course we made it. i dun blame the prof cos they really dunno what is going on, but i am more amused by the students who attended the briefing but yet related incorrectly.

our group was then asked whether we want to join in the 'training'... of cos we want to. first, why not. second, if we dun go, they might feel that we think highly of ourselves.

the next thing was we are currently waiting for the reply from the client so we can prepare interview and stuff. somehow, THE prof thought we didnt go through the organising committee, i.e. did not go for the briefing...

HELLO! the other team members were so late, they have to guard the doors while we were comfortably seated. but i was giggling at one corner cos one of the clients they wanted they could not get cos it was reserved for random lists. at first i wondered why they wanted that client so strongly, then i realised they did a research on that client for one of our modules.

haha i was so mean. but they must be quite a loser to use back the same client. i wouldnt do that, even though i can.

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..:: 554. The One With My New Book ::..

check out my new storybook! haha. It is 1000 pages.

nice.

..:: 553. The One With Review ::..

subject registration starting soon... need to plan what i have to take in the last 2 sem of my uni life, especially since i will be spending one sem not taking any core in china. =(

Yr 3 Sem 1: 16AU
AA102 - Accounting 2 (4AU)
BH325 - Learning and Performance Management (4AU)
HP204 - Personality and Individual Differences (4AU)
HP207 - Abnormal Psychology (4AU)

Yr 3 Sem 2: 19AU
BH225 - HR Research (3AU)
BH227 - Selection and Assessment (4AU)
BH326 - HR Metrics (4AU)
AB311 - Strategic Management (4AU)
HP324 - Human Motivation (4AU)

Going school to get external readings from prof. yay.

..:: 552. The One With Regression ::..

not statistics, linear nor multiple. pui i hated that.

as i was reading through the super-thick textbooks, i kinda missed the start of secondary school days where i would go to a school bookshop and go home with plastic bags full of textbook. maybe a fetish for new textbook, the smell and the stuff i was going to study.

textbooks back then look so readable and digestible. i can revise whole year work in just a few days.

my friend's little niece just got her psle results and the book that i used to choose my secondary school from has grown so thick! i was stunned by the entry points now. so high. even schools like xinmin now requires 240+ to go in. my time was only 230+... the top girl from st hilda's pri achieved a 294 which was a record in the 17 years since the PSLE system was implemented in 1991.

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..:: 551. The One With VA ::..

wah sian. VA going back to 35. that ulu place again. hate taking the bus in, the frequency alone can drive me crazy. Plus, I'm travelling from school, from west to east.

before you guys plan what to do for holidays, i have already been slammed by work. during my 3 day break have to conduct interview for my competition, hr challenge.

talk about post-exam activities. just make me excited. not.

bah. i made all the choices myself.

btw the album from OneRepublic is great! apologise is such a nice song.

..:: 550. The One With Social Loafing ::..

i cannot believe i did a 4-man project almost all by myself. shucks. slog through having to do a project with statistics! spent my whole precious day to finish the project. my other wonderful year 1 team mates have exams to study. sian. i also have OK!!!

swear never do projects with yr 1 again. so passive. gave me stuff with no references! have to go through psycho journals to support our my arguments. luckily i managed to arrow one of them to submit the report.

and happily the school of social sciences never give out peer appraisal forms???

i say WTH

forgot to watch the noose on ch 5 but luckily i got mobtv =)

..:: 549. The One With Leona Lewis ::..

hooked on this album by leona lewis. nice =)

..:: 548. The One With SSIC ::..

whee... so happy to receive this mail...

Dear CHEN XING TIAN JOHN,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted by Singapore Search & Investment Capital (SSIC) in Shanghai .

We are in the midst of preparing the letter for you to apply for your visa. We will keep you informed when it is ready for collection. With this letter and your passport (your passport should be valid for at least 6 months beyond the end date of our programme), please proceed to apply for your visa at the People’s Republic of China Embassy in Singapore.

The visa that you should be applying for will be the F visa.

.....

Best regards,

GIP Office

now that is some perk to get me going... overseas working experience. you've got it, you flaunt it.

..:: 547. The One With First Paper ::..

phew. after all that cramping for today's paper, my brain almost had a seizure. so not used to memorising so much stuff. the paper today was darn...

EASY.

and my litle trick worked yesterday. had 6 chapters to study and i had to write 3 essays. so naturally i studied all and placed my bet on 3. drew lots and did it 3 times for reliability tests. surprisingly it was the same for 3 tries. thank you my lucky star.

then there was this 8 mark question set based on what we have learnt in the first half of the semester. dunno what struck me but i decided to go with studying erikson's psychosocial development cos there were 8 stages! and today it came out! though they only asked for 4 but i nailed it =)

i hit the jackpot with neo-freudian theories and the chapter on personality - traits. mcqs were a breeze and they contained some answers for the fill-in-the-blanks. i wondered if the same tutor set the questions cos they overlapped.

3 more to go and i must work as hard. my aim is to get straight As for this sem. cos they are the modules i love.

and it's so weird that i'm loving britney's new album blackout. the song 'hot as ice' keeps spinning in my head. so catchy.

..:: 546. The One With Psychology ::..

just my exam timetable... in case i forgot the date or timing.

15 nov - 1300 - hp101 - introduction to psychology
21 nov - 0900 - bh223 - strategic hr and consulting
26 nov - 1300 - hp102 - fundamentals of social science research
30 nov - 0900 - bh223 - compensation and benefits

as i am revising, i am now trying to remember what i have learnt... for personality.

freud's psychosexual theory of personality developments... freud thinks that the way a person finds pleasure or is prevented from satisfying urges for pleasure at each stage affects personality.

in oral stage which lasts from birth to 1.5 yo. it is id dominated. id is part of personality present at birth and completely unconscious. libido - instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of society standards of behavior. id is based on pleasure principle whereby there is desire for immediate gratification of needs without regard for consequences. in other words, at the stage when you want milk, you will cry hell, not afraid that your parents will hit you.

fixation at this stage (meaning when a baby is stopped from weaning - breastfeeding), the baby may either be overdeveloped or under underdeveloped. it will affect the ability to form interpersonal attachment... being optimistic or pestimistic... and tendency to be active and take charge or be passive.

then 2nd stage is the anal stage where the 'pleasure' comes from being able to excrete 'you-know-what'. this stage will have 2 types of personality: anal expulsive personalities - where a person is messy, destructive, hostile. anal retentive personalities - neat, fussy, stubborn. the fixation comes from the toilet training. too strict, the child might be defiant and chooses to excrete anywhere (in extreme case la). this gives rise to the sense of competence and control in the child as part of personality development

3rd stage is confusing. the phallic stage where oedipus complex occurs. it is when a child develops sexual attraction for opposite-sex parent and jealousy for same-sex parent (sounds sick but its true, when someone show you so much love... and remember the superego has yet to develop - which is the moral center for a person)

as the child grows, the child feels the anxiety as it is not right. so to reduce the anxiety, the child develops defence mechanism - identification. follow and be like the same-sex parent. this is the stage where boys are close to their fathers and girls to their mothers. superego develops. fixation at this stage will lead to immature sexual attitudes and when grow up will exhibit promiscuous sexual behavor and vanity. vanity is seen as a cover-up for feelings of self worth arising from not being able to resolve the complex. there will also be a lack of moral sexual behavior from failure of identification and inadequate superego formation.

in latency stage, around primary school age, sexual feelings are repressed while children develops in other areas. that is where boys will hang out with boys and vice versa. this stage will affect the ability to get along with others...

in last stage, genital stage, from teens to adults... sexual feelings are brought to consciousness... fixation will cause immature love or indiscriminate hate. uncontrollable work (workaholic) or inability to work are some of the attitudes that will be developed.

phew... so long. i guess it will be ???? for a lot of people. and it is just one small part of personality, the psychoanalytic view ...

i still have to cover behaviorist, humanistic and trait theories.

..:: 545. The One With Exam Fever ::..

i guess everyone is on their full gear for exams. i still have things bugging me ... why do people think i cannot handle certain stuff. i am still waiting for reply from the organisations OKAY???

just something i need to let off some steam. i have updates i will let u guys noe... arghz.

anyway i got soundtracks from prison break, spice girls new album, britney's blackout and jay zhou's new album. haha. blasting music as i study. shiok. the way i study is weird, i need noise. i would on my TV, blast my music so i can read harder into my notes and books, can remember better that way. am i multi tasking? interesting news then i would look up at the tv.

have been catching up some news...

new york chocolate shows. designers worked with pastry chefs to come up with chocolate and couture (ooo... i just love the sound of that word). outfits made from different kind of chocolate and cookies. yummy.

one crazy japanese designer came up with a dress that can be unfolded and held up as a vending machine to avoid being followed by a stranger. sadly it will only work in japan where you can find vending machines along the streets

and the debate on the sovereignity of Pedra Branca was also interesting. too lazy to type. but evidence that surfaced put singapore in good hope winning the case unless the next four day someone pulls a stunt.

i love this.



arent they adorable. and stop looking too hard at it. go study!

..:: 544. The One With Hellgate: London ::..

nov is really a month of temptation and definitely a challenge for me to overcome other than the impending exams. shucks. reliving some flashback.

last year nov, i was engrossed in watching jewel in the palace. 2 series of the dvds that have about 70 over episodes. i had to watch them in 1.2x speed and i watched them while i was having my papers. i can vividly remember that i watched them all the way till 7am before i slept and woke up in the afternoon to study.

then in this year april/may, i was hooked on prison break. was on the marathon but with better control, watched them over meal times but my meal times lasted a few hours as expected.

this sem is prison break 3! the suspense from the show is killing me... then there's this new game from the creators of diablo. hellgate: london. so going to play during my exchange in china. if i haf the time that is.

secured an overseas internship with singapore search and investment capital =) the director was also ex saf scholar. so happy i got it with a phone call interview and he wanted me to train in china for 3 mths then swing me to vietnam for another 3 mths. must be a wholesome experience.

the director wanted me to fly over by dec to start early. but i have commitments like red cross camp, hr challenge, christmas celebration and wedding reception... headache.

then now have to settle some financial stuff for the overseas cip team. handling the huge sum of money can be stressful!

and i'm still stuck with psychology revision. and covering psychological disorders and the more i read, the more i feel like i am having one... urghz.

did a temperament test...

My temperament is
Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.

Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.

Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow never comes.

Artisans make up between 15 to 20 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.

very true...

..:: 543. The One With Stardust ::..

fri was a mad rush. u can literally see the non athletes from HRC sprint across the free access lab. deadline was 6pm and everyone started printing like 10 mins before deadline. murphy's law always prevails and all printers except for one stopped working, either spoilt or no paper. some had to sprint to the prof office to ask for time extension - so daytona reminiscence.

at last we managed to hand in but left out our reference page :X but our kind hearted prof accepted our reference page as email. i guess jiayi must have dropped a few strands of hair worrying that we might be charged with plagiarism. ok of course i was worried too, my project too... but i dropped hair leg instead can? been using a branded shampoo called billy jealousy which strengthen and thicken my hair (head) cos i know i will faint if someone tells me i am balding ...

finally get to watch stardust. wonderful show. not much magical but more of a magical touch to romance. Michelle Pfeiffer still looked as glamorous and she's 49 this yr. i will always remember in what lies beneath, a thriller that made bath-tubs scary. and also i am sam, touching show...

did some retail therapy and got a good deal. fila polo tees 3 for 50 bucks. where to find? PS lo.

been listening to jay's new album, courtesy of SA =) nice album but my mood seems to take a plunge as the songs get more emo. been feeding on M&M for the endorphine dosage i need.

engaging in 抢救GPA大作战, so looking forward to a stay at ritz carlton during christmas =)