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Finally, Contract & Agency Law is OVER! Submitted the end-of-course assessment earlier today – via courier as usual, being the lazy arse I am about travelling to school. The second term has rolled around before I know it, and being too caught up in mid-semester deadlines, I haven’t done ANY readings for the upcoming modules. Sigh.

Operations Management is a level 3 module, and it doesn’t look light, if you get what I mean. I printed out the lecture notes today, and the first set has 117 slides. Yes, one hundred & freakin’ seventeen. How the hell to cover that in a 3-hour seminar? I also received two new books for the second part of IT Project Management. The cool thing is, one of them is actually the PMBOK® Guide! This book is like, the bible of the project management world, used by project managers worldwide. This module is really worth the price I paid for it. Not only are the resources provided excellent, I’m learning things I can apply to my job right away.

Speaking of which, I’m not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow after the long break. Never mind that it wasn’t really a break; just a break from work so I could concentrate on school. But still, it helped to change gears for awhile. I’m almost afraid to check my work email after ignoring it for 5 days, so let’s leave that till tomorrow, shall we? Sigh. I wonder how many hundred emails will be waiting for me to sift through. At least it’s only 2 days to the weekend.

Back to readings now. Yeah, I’m severely lacking a life.

Don’t ask why my 연애시대 (Alone in Love) DVD and Japanese / Korean albums are there. (I’m just too lazy to put them back after I’m done with them.) My new school textbooks are arriving by courier tonight, so I’ll have to reorganise & make space on my desk. X_x

iPhone 3G will be coming to Singapore! According to the website it’s “coming soon”, but who knows how soon is soon, eh? This makes me torn between the iPhone & the iPod Touch. All-in-one devices usually don’t appeal to me, but the idea of a phone inside an iPod (or an iPod inside a phone, depending on how you look at it) is too irresistable. SingTel, please hurry up and bring iPhone in to Singapore so I can decide which one to buy. Thanks hor.

I pre-ordered a copy of FT Island’s Japanese album a week before the release date, but YesAsia pushed forward the shipping date to June 19th! Grrrr, what is this? And since I have The Nuts’ 3rd album in the same shipment, BOTH my CDs are being held up right now. Boohoo. It’ll be end of June by the time they reach me.

Being the lazy shopper that I am, I even buy all my books online nowadays. Ordered a couple from Sitepoint, and they’re on the way right now all the way from Connecticut! Thanks to coupons & free shipping, you can actually get a better deal purchasing directly compared to buying from local bookstores that import the same books. Yeah, I’ve become a very savvy online shopper over the last few years, as you can tell.

Dear iPhone, please land in Singapore like, NOW can?

1. I received my YUI albums in the mail! God I love her music. Oh no, I feel tempted to start a whole YUI collection now.
2. My credit card arrived in the mail too. Honestly though, having your name engraved on plastic doesn’t feel as exhilarating as I imagined.
3. He’s (finally) crawled out of his hole & resumed normal programming. Which includes asking me questions I don’t know how to answer. Sigh.
4. I found the book I’ve been looking for (The Buzan Study Skills Handbook by Tony Buzan) here at a local bookstore.
5. Went to Zingdo with Mama yesterday and finally got a taste of 떡 (ddeok), a glutinous Korean rice cake that tastes rather spongy & squishy, like nothing I’ve tasted before. Next time I’m there, I’m going to try the stir-fried ddeok.
6. This weekend will be my first free weekend in months. No school, no deadlines!

Just came back from sending EB home after our Friday night supper. After six weeks of spending Friday nights in school, it felt really really good to just sit there & rot like I had all the time in the world. And driving home alone in the wee hours feels calming, somehow. The roads are so clear & there’s nobody to horn at me when I cruise slowly. Nowadays the parents don’t even call anymore when I’m out this late. Neither do I need to call them. Maybe because I don’t go out that often. And they trust that when I do go out, it’s not to joyride or something of that sort. Haha.

Exams are in 11 days, and this time around I feel especially eager to see the end of the semester. I think I burned out rather early this semester, falling ill for days & all. It’s a good thing I lined up only three modules for next semester, with just one exam. Am toying with the idea of setting off for Hong Kong right after the exam in November. Then possibly Cebu (or somewhere in the region – Bangkok?) with YB in January next year. Oh, and EB & Latiff are even planning a trip to Tioman next month. Colleagues are asking me to go to Malacca with them sometime soon for sightseeing – obviously recruiting me for my Malay-speaking “skills”! I’m expecting a nice raise to come in this month, so hopefully I’ll have more disposable income for all that travelling. Especially looking forward to Tioman & Cebu; I have a weakness for nice beaches.

On a totally unrelated note, the spine of my Marketing textbook has officially fell apart. The damn thing.

My trip to Hong Kong is months away, but planning it is already half the fun. There are just too many places I wanna go; four days might not be enough! As if I cannot find enough places to visit, I also ordered a copy of The Rough Guide to Hong Kong & Macau after reading the reviews on Amazon. I think I might start collecting travel guide books. They’re always interesting to explore.

I’m also planning the family trip to K.L. this month. My parents are leaving the accommodation arrangements to me, and I have yet to pick a hotel. I’m making plans with my Malaysian friends, while the family have their own, consisting of shopping, shopping & more shopping. Haha.

Next up for 2009…Korea!

I paid for the courier service to have them delivered last night. You only see the titles of my business texts, but the texts for my IT courses are actually in those three thick ring files! O_o

Got to start reading!