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yet another nice song by my fave guy.

esther, u shd listen. :) its really v nice.

anw, exchange results have been delayed. just received an email from IRO saying that due to the overwhelming no of ppl who applied, they'll only be able to release the results from mon onwards. :( i was hoping to get everything finalised this week. oh well... looks like i'll only know on mon then.

dinner with the triumvirate has been fixed on tues! ms teo, pls don't forget my coat & yr 2 bagfuls of stuff at my place. ms chew, can u pls let me know how much i owe u as well?? where are we meeting and what are we having?? i'll be sure to bring my best friend along too. it misses u guys. hur hur.

apple hasn't come back yet. still missing it terribly. the technician called me on mon to tell me that my hard drive's fine (thank God) and that it was my wireless card that failed apparently. but what does the wireless card have to do with my laptop refusing to power on is beyond me. i'm just glad that my data's all in there. safe and sound. :D

sch has literally become my 2nd home. for this week at least. for the record, i was in sch from 830am-8pm on tues cause of my 306 project. and tomorrow i've to reach sch by 830 to do a run thru for the presentation as well.i'm extremely tempted to skip 206 on fri. 1stly cause its an 830 class and 2ndly cause i haven't finished my readings. the only thing that's holding me back is that the topic covered is rather impt i think. accting for bonds & leases. it took me an entire afternoon to complete the bonds part. i'm still left with the leases to read up on. not forgeting, i still have 304 readings and tutorials to do. yeah. i haven't been doing 304 tutorials since sem #5! bad bad bad. i suppose i'll have lotsa time to catch up this weekend.

packing my bag before going to zzzzzzzzzzz. night!

Lee Sang Gyu- Like Me

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this is bad. i'm surfin the net for nice k-pop songs instead of finishing up my 306 presentation and doing my readings. urgh. bad bad. anw, i'm glad that 304's gonna be handed in tomorrow. yippee. these 2 weeks have been like mad crazy. its been like projects and more projects. and loads of things are happening this week as well. korean test on thurs, exchange results out btw wed-fri, 306 presentation on fri! eeeps. i'm behind on my readings for 304 as well. jia lat. think i gotta catch up soon.

did i mention that i couldn't wait for sch to start??

this is fantastic. look at what projects + stress + boredom got me.











and if i may add, it was all in the span of one day. i need to stop spending and start saving. yeah. hopefully i won't be so inclined to spend once i hand up my projects next week. ;)

i just had to post this before i head off to bed. level 5 started today! it was extremely interesting & i enjoyed it a lot! sung seng nim let us sing sung si kyung's on the street, which is my all time fave song. :) i sure understand the song a lot better now. :) she said that korean songs are like poems in a way. u need to look beyond the surface meaning of the word in order to understand what it means. time really flew by in class today. :) plus, the class is much smaller, so sung seng nim was able to give each of us more attention. also, she showed us plenty of pictures of kyung hee uni in seoul & its really beautiful! the buildings are akin to that of those in the UK! quaint and historical! i like!

another thing, my laptop crashed a few days ago. so i have to use the family computer to do my work. the good thing is that at least i still have access to the internet, though albit slow. i sure hope that i get my laptop back quickly. i miss it a lot! never have i felt so lost before. my bro said that its gd cause i will spend more time doing my work instead of surfing the net. hah.

i can't wait for next week to be over. cause my 304 & 306 projects will be over! yippee!! i've been working on my projects everyday this week! in fact, i've 3 project meetings tomorrow!!! oh man. for the better good.... i shall perservere!

God has really been instrumental this sem. w/o Him, i think i wouldn't even have had the energy and strength to do what i've been doing. its a miracle that i've managed to complete all my readings, do my tutorials & not skip classes! haha. amen!! :D

오늘은 너무 심심해요. 많이 숙제있어서 조금 피군하고 심심하는대. 하지만 아까 세 드라마를 샀었어요! :) 제가 내일 교회에 가하고 쇼핑할 거예요. 월요일 학교에 가거나 집에서 쉴 거예요? 정말 물라요. 아이구.... 내년 연세대학교에 갈 거예요. 아주 아주 흥분하고 행복해요. 제가 어제밤에 한 영화 봤어요. 그 영화를 아주 재미 있었어요. 영화에서 그 선생님이 창도자 매일 일기를 쓰서 한국말을 진보하는대. 그래서 제가 매일 꼭 일기에서 써요. 조금 어려워지만 한국어를 확실히 진보해요. 열심! 아자!!

제가 지금 학교 숙제를 공부해야돼요. 내일 다시 쓸 거예요. :)

some super overdue pictures from outings with CUHK peeps!


with auntie dyana!!


Pasta@ Waraku!


the pastas & spaghettis look super appetising!! *slurp*


yvonne & me


auntie dyana too.

guess what's my 304 project abt? Flowcharts!!! can u believe it?? haha. i wonder y i keep getting flowcharts to do. reminiscient of 213 & my internship. joy joy. thank God its not as bad as expected. :D need to do revision for korean later on once i'm done with my flowcharts. hur hur....

applications for INSTEP have already closed. WS & I both applied for Yonsei in Korea. thank God that He has already reserved the places for us! Amen!! grace grace! results will be out sometime end aug/early sept i think. meanwhile, its time to focus on projects. everything's happening quite fast! 304 project details are already out!! in addition, my grp's the 1st grp to present for 306 too! guess after 304's done, gotta start on 306 immediately.

2nd week of sch's already over. pretty fast. looking forward to my 1 week break already. hur hur. haven't seen mickey ever since she came back from SNU. my stuff is like still with her. and debbie's flying off soon! everyone's leaving.....

now... methinks this is interesting. hehe. thx debbie. ;)

In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
6. The Two Towers (Tolkein)
7. The Return of the King (Tolkein)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
9. *Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkein)
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
23. +Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. +Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. +Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. +The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. *Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. *Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. *The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. *The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. *The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. *Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. +Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. *The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. +The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. +Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. +The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. +Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. *Shogun (James Clavell)
74. +The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. *The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. *Rebecca (Daphe DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
87. *Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. *Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. *The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. *A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. *Ulysses (James Joyce)

just a short one before i head off to bed.

into the 2nd week of sch already, which is pretty fast. still trying to settle down into the hustle & bustle of sch life. loads of readings are piling up. bleah. project details for 304 are gonna be out on fri & we only have 11 days to get it done! can u believe it? this must be the shortest project in history!! fridays are gonna be long man. sighz... 306 is like uncomprehensible. hai. i dun want to worry any more. leave it all to God. it's in His hands. Ps Prince's msg on sunday was just so apt. Rest. that's what its all about. this notion kept springing up in my mind each time i did my QT or when i just spent time with Him. a word in season, that's what it is. God never fails. period.

thou shalt not spoil thee market

Plugged In: ABBA-Dancing Queen


still doing up my PA report. :( it's due on mon. trying to finish it up by tonight so that i can rest easy. i think i still have like 700 more words to go & i feel like i'm writing crap. period. boo hoo hoo. 306 lecture at 445pm tomorrow! so late!! oh well. at least i get to sleep in. i still haven't kicked away my nocturnal habits & my 830 lessons begin next tues. bad bad. so many readings to do. haven't finished scott. haven't even bought my 206 text. haven't done readings for 304. haven't done my tutorial for 206. URGH!!!

for now, i'll just concentrate on completing my PA report.

the 1st day of sch went pretty ok i guess. lugged home my 306 & 304 textbooks. t'was pretty heavy. bleah. oh wells. and i know quite a few ppl in my 304 grp so alls well. :) my tutor's pretty comical. he asked the class if any of us have life insurance. and being the typical ntu class, everyone kept silent. so he said that our class had like lots of potential & he would recommend us to his insurance agent. haha. and at the end of class, he made us fill in this little white card with our details. really absurd ones. haha. u would think that we were going for some interview. a few even commented that he seems to be taking our details to pass on to his insurance agent. we had to write down our name, race, place of birth, dialect grp, 5 gd adjectives to describe ourselves, work experience, what we wanna achieve in our career & to leave space for a PASSPORT PHOTO!! i can't believe the photo part. all of us groaned when we heard that. madness. i think i'll give him my ugly photo. haha. try to use it all up. hur hur. ;)

i've finished winter sonata! it's like so bittersweet can. urgh. and i know i've said this umpteen times, but choi ji woo can really really cry! i'm still debating whether or not to watch stairway cause it has a tragic ending. and one of my rules of watching dramas is that they have to at least have a happy ending.

tomorrow's the INSTEP briefing! yippee. ho ho ho.

i know this is so random, but mickey, pls get rid of yr american accent ya?

내일은 수업이 시작하는대 조금힘들지만 내년 한국에서 갈 거예요. 그리고 제가 한국말을 5급 8월24일 시작한은대. 너무 빨라요! 제가 지금은 겨울연가 봐요. 나 조금 피군해서 오늘 친구하고 쇼핑하고 노래해요. 우리 저녁시삭이 한국음식을 막었어요. 그 비빔밥하고 달고기 아주 맛싰어요. ;) 내일 일직 꼭 일어나서 지금 잠을 거예요.

그럼 안녕히 주무세요.

지금 사랑하는 사람과 살고 있습 니까?

this sounds like a v interesting movie. and i'm sure that pam will be interested in it. why? just because her lee dong gun is in it. hur hur.

Cheating is a favorite topic for many filmmakers, and director Jeong Yoon-soo puts a double spin on the forbidden relationships in his latest film "Changing Partners (Jigeum saranghaneun saram-gwa salgo isseumnikka?)."

The Korean title, which translates into "Are you living with the person you love?" tells volumes about the movie's dominant theme. In some cases, people happen to find their soul mates after they already have gotten married, and this tricky development often jeopardizes the existing marital relationships.

"Changing Partners," however, does not attempt to justify cheating. Instead, it depicts a crisscrossed scandal where two couples get entangled in belated and illicit romantic relations.

Young-jun (Lee Dong-gun) is a wealthy businessman, and his wife So-yeo (Han Chae-young) runs a lighting design company. The only problem with the couple is that they have never been in "hot" relationships, and are now maintaining a perfunctory tie as a couple that seems happy in the eyes of bystanders. In contrast, Min-jae (Park Yong-woo), a hotelier, and his wife Yu-na (Uhm Jeong-hwa), a fashion consultant, maintain passionate relationships three years into their marriage.

The two starkly different couples meet each other and a sort of changing of partners occurs. So-yeo is drawn to Min-jae, who is far more friendly and delicate than her husband. Yu-na feels attracted to Young-jun's charismatic character, something that is lacking in her husband.

At a press preview held on Wednesday, director Jeong said he hopes the audiences do not think too much about the scandalous setting in the film. "This is about love and marriage, and I hope people just take a look at this type of love without prejudice," he said.

Asked whether the film justifies swapping, director Jeong said the movie has nothing to do with swapping. "I have never thought my film is concerned about swapping. It is just a story about people who happen to fall in love belatedly. I wanted to pursue more open answers for this matter, focusing on what is really important for us, rather than what's important for protecting the marriage," he said.

Actor Park Yong-woo said, "Personally, I was somewhat confused about the relationships in the movie. I believe that love cannot be described in a couple of words or explained logically, but this is a socially sensitive issue, so the important aspect is whether we have an open mind about all of this."

Actor Lee Dong-gun also stressed that the focus of the film is placed on romantic but misplaced relationships. "This is about love that has gone awry, but the film does not justify or sugarcoat the cheating. But the point is that even misplaced relationships are relationships," he said.

Director Lee said he made efforts to decorate the background for major scenes, adding a sense of luxury. "In many scenes, characters meet in upscale bars or other posh restaurants, so we really put a lot of effort into making the scenes luxurious and colorful."

The film, produced by Cine2000, will be released on Aug. 15 nationwide.

By Yang Sung-jin

(insight@heraldm.com)

elective allocation results are out & i managed to get my desired electives! praise God! yupz. i got a 5 day week too. oh well. it's just for 1 sem only. and horror of horrors, i found out that AA306 is a closed book paper! and i quote,

" A closed-book approach is adopted for both the in-class quiz/tests and the final examination to ensure that each student achieves a high level of technical mastery of the FRSs featured in this course. "

that's so unfunny. :( it means that i've to spend more time memorising. bleah.. reminds me of the financial statements that i did during my internship. in a way, i'm kinda glad that i went thru it cause it exposed me to more FRSs. we shall see how it goes. i forsee frequent study trips to the airport. right Pam ssi? ;P

and our beloved mickey is coming back from seoul tomorrow! we're all gonna go pick her up(& our stuff tt she bought) from the airport. :D let's see how different she has become. hur hur hur. SQ607 everybody!!!

i think i've been eating too much during the hols & during my internship. too much good food. esp at night. terrible. but oh well, i'm v sure i'll lose it all when i go back to sch. haha.

just came back from k buffet with pam, jiun pey & jieting. was quite fun. but i think we were more interested in the food than the songs. and their busan pictures were nice! makes me wanna fly over immediately. i think jieting's obsessed with the 아리랑 아저시 though. hur hur. so many many videos of him. :D they're gonna start lessons @ NUS ext too!! yay! hhaha. so fun. more ppl to practice with. ;)

this week is like super busy. i guess everyone wants to meet up before sch starts. i still haven't finished my PA report. argh. i'm only halfway thru & i feel like i'm writing crap. 어떻게??

여행을 가고싶어요. 제가 오래 비행기를 타지안아요. 조금 슬퍼지만 내년 한국에서 갈 거예요. 한국어를 꼭 공부해야해요. 그리고 목요일 한국수업을 있어서 숙재 안 했어요. 아이구.... 내일 제가 머리털 등을 깎을 거예요. 하하. 기분이 너무 줗아요.