14 May 2011

Special thanks to Alice for inviting me to this Yahui Bday Bash Gathering. It was my first time having so close contact with her.

Before today, I guess she seldom see me, let alone to talk to me. Well, I am not very sure since when I started to support her and likes her. But I can say for sure, I find her very friendly, humour and pretty.

She did the ice breaking where she wanted us to tell her our name. When it was my turn, I said I am HMBB. Her expression became very cute when she said my twitter friends came alive. I guess she finally realised that I am HMBB in twitter but the funny thing was, she already knew I am Elaine.

After that she was trying to get us sing her a song which we never did. Than she started asking us to start eating before we starting to play games. The food which they catered was not bad but there were a lot of leftovers which were nicely packed for us to bring home. So great services they had!

Well, the only game we played before we sang her birthday song was name dragon game. Meaning, you have to remember the name sequences and it gets tougher when you have to remember the sequence of more than 7 names. In scientific proven research shown that, normal human brian can remember up to 7 names. Anything before that will be even harder to achieve.

I was lucky to be spared as when they reached the last person, it was time to sing bday song and cake cutting session.

Than came photo taking session followed by some get together thing. I was being the entertain-ner who entertain by singing. Hopefully they do not find me singing awfully.

Overall, it was fun and I took more photos than usual. There are way too many professional cameras to look at. Meaning, you took more than just 1 photo in just one pose. Howdy!

To some of us, today was a significant day. 1 year ago, muffin-renes was born. We brave through all the obsticles and now we are 1 year old.

Special thanks to Funkie Monkies Production for promoting us. Not forgetting our soul person, Serene Koong, where we name her Little Princess. Now she started to call us children and she is our mummy.

She will at times call us little muffins and even mini muffins. She is so adorable and kind. I guess without her, there won't be muffin-renes.

I also would like to thank all the committee, which includes myself for making it strive through all the breeze and storms. We are getting stronger and the team is getting bigger. Soon we will be very strong team. I can foresee us shouting at every concerts Princess will be in. Singing along with her with all our hearts.

Without Princess, there will never be muffin-renes. We love Serene as much as she love us! Thanks is what we all could say to her. Support her by buying only the original tracks. Saying no to piracy!

Happy 1st Anniversay Muffin-renes! You rockz my world!

Wrapped Up May 2011(2)

090511
Its OB again! He was back again! But this time round, he was not that strict. Wonder why but feel not bad when he wasn't that strict.

But what made me very worried was he said next lesson he wanted us to form our own comfortable group. I am worried that I will not be able to find a group for myself. I really very scared.

He wanted us to write 400+ words for the RJ. It was at the same time to enter the contest if we wish to submit our passion and aspiration RJ. Of course, I won't, hence I did not really write a very good RJ.

How to write it when the question was: Tell me about your Aspiration (300 words) and your passion in life (100 words)? Obviously, I will flunked my RJ this round. No hope for at least a B's.

100511
Problem Solving module. Flunking again. This round we were all stumped when being questioned.

Basically, I am kinda hate this module as we got little help from the faci and she penalised us when we actually unable to came out with the presentation slides on time.

Why have it got so complicated? Can't they make our life easier and set a not so difficult problems for us to counter?

110511
Today was the relief faci. It was in a mess but we eventually able to complete the presentation on time.

What actually was a disappointment was, since she was the relief, can't she actually paying attention when we presenting and not asking questions which we could never understand?

We actually got mixed up what is Chronological and what is Catagerial. I think basically it was the way she explained.

The reason why there was relief faci was due to Mrs B was sick. The funny thing was, the one who marked our attendance wasn't the relief faci.

Anyway, no hope of getting B's I guessed. Hopefully Mrs B will be back next week to guide us though the presentation like what she did for the past problems.

120511
Its Science and last day of having relief idiot faci. But sad to say, we ended today with a bad note where whole class was never spared from her scolding.

How on earth to actually understand her when she did not even clearly told us? The time given to us not even enough to actually tried the whole Practice Questions. Let alone to do a very great presentation. Our team was her first target as we were so near her and she can really see what we did.

But the problem was, why she wanted us to do that question and never did tell us to prepare? How was we suppose to understand when we did not even have the basic knowledge of the whole topic?

Guessed we might all not get B's. I can predict my daily grade for today will be D! God please spare us from this type of faci and hope she will never teach Science anymore!

130511
Never felt so relax before. I can actually get it for today's questions. Or at least till almost half of the worksheets which was given to us to practice on.

I can see myself a bit confidence when presenting. But wonder have the faci really see our improvement today?

Shall see it for oyr daily grade that will come 3 days after she grade us. Anyway, to know only today's topic was never enough to tide through the UT which will be coming soon.

I need a tuitor but its already too late to find one now! Sob sob :******(

Wrapped Up May 2011(1)

010511
ITS MAYDAY! ITS LABOUR DAY! ITS HOLIDAY TOMORROW AS ITS SUNDAY TODAY!

So basically, nothing special happened today. Just wanted to post for the sake of posting.

Well, before I end this post of the day, I would like to wish Kelly Siew, my ex colleague HAPPY BDAY!!!

Great to know you and happy for you that you will be tying the knot soon. Though I wasn't invited. But I am very happy that you found your life-partner and going from Miss to Mrs. Enjoy your life as Mrs. May you bring more babies to this earth and play a part to increase the population in Singapore~~

020511
Actually today also nothing happened. Basically it was public holiday as Sunday was labour day.

As usual, went out with Mummy and had breakfast with her before we went for haircut and set off to shop till we dropped in Toa Payoh where she bought me the executive jacket which I will be using for the formal wear in near future for school purpose.

We also bought many shirts and ate alot of goodies. Thanks Mummy for doting me so much and gave me so much. I promise I will doubly filial you when I graduated and go out to work. :D

030511
Its Problem Solving again! Why does the day passed so fast. Its now the third week ever since I started my poly life.

I still having hiccups here and there. Did not managed to cope well with the school life and doing presentation everyday, submitting quiz, reflection journal and doing evaluation for self and also for team.

Come to think, reflection journal was like journal which I wrote everyday during my secondary 4 and 5 days where my English teacher actually wanted us to improve on our English hence came out with this idea.

But now the journal doesn't really record what was taking place everyday in our lives but was based on what we had covered today. Sometimes it was what we had encountered in the past and how can we related to today's lesson.

I really wonder who invented this idea of writing reflection journal everyday after every lesson. Isn't it very tedious and more work for the facilitator where they actually wasn't labeled as teacher?

Anyway, I again, flunked in group presentation and slides preparation, let alone the group discussion. That explains why I was graded C for last problems.

040511
Its Introduction to Communication day!

We were taught that we cannot trust the information which we saw from the website or from any resources until we made sufficient cross checking and comparing the results.

What was the critical information will be the author behind the whole information being posted. Basically, if the sources were from other people and posted on the website, we have to actually checked thoroughly by using the search engine on the website to give us both sides pictures.

We have to deduce based on the amount of trusted informations that was being shown in there. But we can trust what was being published on the book 80% as there will always be a proof-reading before they can actually print the book and published it.

Learnt a lot today and I am getting the hang of it a bit.

050511
Thursday lesson was Science. Initially when we saw the relief faci was an Indian lady, we never thought it will be our worst nightmare.

When she started to conduct the problem statement lesson and get one of my team member to go to the board and write the PDT, we were like, why she did that way?

The worst were to come in later part where none actually get what she meant initially. Then till some of the groups actually eventually met her expectation then we came to know that, she wanted us to have interactions with the rest of the class.

But why don't she first check if most of us have any basic knowledge of Physics? Can't she at least guide us a bit or recap abit on the introduction for this topic of current flow thingy?

Our group seriously became an eye sore of hers as we were too near her and she can actually saw what we did while in lesson time. I can never imagine if she was our original faci, what will our daily grades be for Science?

I am kinda getting to like Science, thanks to her, I now have phobia to learn this subject. Is it counted luckily that she will only be with us for 2 lessons? I do not wish to imagine what will happened next week. God please come and save us from this agony!

060511
Friday friday friday~~~ I do not really knew there is actually a song for FRIDAY till I heard it from Yes933 when Cruz played it.

What's in store for today? It's Mathematics once again! No choice have to endure it through and get over it with the presentation and trying very hard to actually understand what was being covered today.

Finally, I abit sort of understand how to get the answers but not quite confidence that I actually got it.

How am I to tide over all the UTs and pass it maybe not flying colours but at least passed it?

Really no mood to actually think I can tide over. Moreover, I received the comments that badly from the faci on the evaluation from my team. Add to the sorrow, I felt I am really stupid when comes to understand Physics.

All this added to my sorrow that I actually wanted to give up all and quit studying. But, can I really just quit like this? Sad to say, I cannot. That was why, I so much wanted to cry today when I actually able to enjoy today as it was FRIDAY!

Wrapped Up April 2011(3)

17/240411
Its Star Awards again. As per last year's edition, I was once again fortunate to got the tickets from LTFC. I was very happy to be able to attend both days for the SA 2011. It was just like being fortunate to attend F1 show.

For the first show, all the winners almost like able to predict. I like the part where CQ, Guoliang, Yifeng and Lee Teng performed one of the scene in Po Tian Wang. Its way too comical and super humour. Hats off those who actually plan this part of the show to bring up the atmosphere and lessen the tension.

As for the 2nd show of SA, apart from being happy that CQ won the Top 10 Male Artistes once again after he won it last year. I was very disappointed that PF did not won it when I think she should.

I heard many comments of the results but what can I say when it was depending on the number of calls received for the voting. I guessed if they had online voting also, that will maybe able to add up and give PF a trophy.

But I felt very guilty as I did not managed to call at least once for CQ though he was sort of confirm might get it. I just wish to say sorry to CQ and I knew he won't blame me for that as he knew I had difficulties.

I will never forget how he encourages me and talk senses to me, care and concern for me. Even if he eventually did not got the title, in my heart, he already won the title. CQ, my forever idol in Yes933fm and also in TV variety shows!!! Love you with all my hearts and souls. :D

250411
After a long day yesterday and being home around mid-night plus the super high feelings which kept me awaking till 2am plus than fell asleep, today was like a zombie day for me.

What's worst was, today happened to be Problem Solving module. I have to apologised to all my team mates who actually grades sort of pulled down by me today due to me not getting enough rest.

I think I had actually flunked on my part to contribute to the presentation. As a results, I got C for daily grades.

Oh yes! Daily grades means a lot to us. It determines whether we needs to strive very hard in UT or we need to work borderly hard to get that 60% earned. Daily grades actually weighs 40% of the final grades. If lets say, you got majority C's, meaning, there is never hope or rather little hope that you can achieve a GPA of 3.5 and above.

Daily grades consisted of the participations as a team and as an individuals when facilitators asking some questions to see if you really understood what your team had presented. I guess, since Day 1, I have never put in my 100% which actually angered some of the team mates.

I have also to say I did not put in much effort in helping for the slides doing. Basically was due to, I am very lagging behind time while the rest are all fresh graduates from Secondary School. Each day saying, I will work hard tomorrow. But the truth was, tomorrow can never come.

260411
Today's lesson was about genes and habits. So interesting. I found that I am getting more and more likes Science.

I guess the facilitator plays a part too. He is so patience and so friendly. Not sure what the rest of the class thinks. But I really enjoyed his lessons though today was the last lesson before he was posted to Singapore Sports School to conduct lessons for almost a month.

Not sure who will come and be the relief facilitator but kept our fingers crossed that it will not be very bad one. I need patience facilitator to actually lead me to like Science and stressfree for the upcoming UT.

What do you have that resembles your parents? Your blood group, your ability to roll tongue or your other characters which resembles your parents?

270411
It's Day 8 as what they called, this module will have a fixed day of the week. Meaning every Wednesday, it will be Introduction to Communication. The rest will rotate as per scheduled.

I do not know why they have this Day 8 thingy, but find it very funny. Why don't they fixed it once and for all? So tedious!

When comes to doing presentation slides, I find it not that easy to actually completed it on time. But somehow, we have to as we will be penalized if we did not submitted the slides on time.

But the funny thing was, the one that was showed eventually may not be the one we actually submitted for marking. We did that a few times and I actually was not aware that we can actually did that.

Anyway, I find Mrs B's lesson was somehow interesting. Though some thought she was very strict and her lesson was very dry and she was very loh soh. Anyways, you can never please anyone in this world. :D

280411
Friday is nearing!!!

Its Thursday! But I do not feel like it was Thursday. Basically was due to, today was Mathematics again!

Why do we have to learn A Maths when we do not even have to use it when we learnt Hospitality courses. I really do not get it!

Also due to this facilitator who facilitate us in this module was not even lending a helping hand to assist us to better understand the problem statement given. We like always depends on one team member who excel in Maths and able to solve whatever problems that was stated in the worksheets.

What we can actually helped was to do the presentation slides and present but he do all the explainations.

Frankly speaking, I do not even understand a single thing even after we presented. How can I pass all the UT if this were to continue this way?

I NEED MATHS TUITOR!!! Seriously! But I guess it was too late to find one now as UT will be round the corner real soon! Sob sob~~~

290411
ITS FRIDAY! Should I learn how Cruz shouted on air when it comes to FRIDAY? Well, today was once again Organisational Behaviour!

Thank god, the original sick facilitator wasn't here today for don't know what reason. We were all so happy when we saw this female facilitator. She was great and better than the original one.

She lead us to the problem statement and at the same time introduce to us a new way to do PDT which they called it PILP. I do not know why but this PILP was much more in depth and clearer when we trying to slot the points into it.

Today ended in a very not so relax manner but was feeling great without that facilitator around. Sad to say, we can never replace him unless he wanted to be replaced. I can still remember this relief facilitator came to know that Kenneth was our OB facilitator, she told us Good Luck!

I guessed she also knew of the stress we are encountering while we are understudy with him. Sob sob sob sob~~~

That ends my updates of April. I know it was very bored with nothing but words. That was also my first 2 weeks of starting new chapters of life and going back to study. Road was not smooth and I will encounter many obsticles. I had to learn how to overcome them and strive my way through the whole semesters! Thanks to all who had helped me through, encouraged me through and care for me through it~~~ :D

Wrapped Up April 2011(2)

150411
Today was the first day of 881 Musical. Since I never been to musical, so I decided to support this.

It was worth the price and if I am able to get enough money, I hope to get the most front row to better view of the whole musical.

I never regret spending the money for this musical. Thanks CQ for introducing such a great musical.

180411
Its my first day to embark new chapter in my life! Everything was very fresh and I managed to reached the class on time even though I was almost stucked at level 1 due to long wait to take the lift till 7th storey.

Feeling excited as I will be meeting my first facilitator and start working on the very first problem in group of 5 or 6 as my class have 26 students.

First lesson of this week is Science and facilitator is Ang Yong Wei. Since its the first lesson, so he sent us all an email which contains actually an ice breaker game for us to start communicating with our team members. It contains 10 sentences, but what he need us to do was only to get the whole group to stand up. I was quick and informed my team to stand up. Than they in turn to inform the whole class.

This really wakes us up and then he began with the first problem statement and run through with us the steps to do PDT and lead us to prepare a set of powerpoint slides based on the problem statement given.

He told us, we have one break at 9.15am-10.15am where we can have a quick bite before we came back to work on the powerpoint slides. Than our lunch break will be 11.30am-1.30pm. This is also great time we allocate our job and complete the slides to upload to our team folder by 1.30pm.

Since it was first day, so he did not penalized us when we could not finished it on time. When we one by one team went up to do presentation, honestly, I was never that nervous before. We did not even have time to memorise what was in the slides. So we just read what was being flashed on the board.

After every team presented, the facilitator will showed us 6th Presentation which they keep stressing, this is not the answers slides but to actually summarized what was to be covered in today's lesson. It can be used as notes for our Understanding Test (UT) which will be conducted after every 5 lessons of each modules.

Sad to say, he told us that he will be away the whole May and will only be back just in time for our 2nd UT. Which made me even more sad.

Oh yes, he made us each intro ourselves and state whether we like or dislike Science. I find that he is very patience and very great facilitator. He will make sure we all have the same understanding and will never felt tedious to keep explaining the concept to us. Thanks faci. :D

190411
Lesson day 2, getting more and more on time. Today is Mathematics. Her name is Mariam Thng. We thought she will be a very good facilitator also.

But when she started to conduct the problem statement, she like monotone machine. When we wanted to ask her questions, she keep asking us to try but never tell us what went wrong.

Being the oldest and was very lagging in learning new things, it took me whole day to actually understand what I am going to learn today. Let alone to actually do a very good presentation.
Thanks to the rest of the team mates who helped me through and we managed to get not bad grades.

200411
Today is day 3 lesson 1, it is Introduction to Communication, facilitator is Mrs Bala, but she also allow us to call her Mrs B.

She begin the class by asking us to introduce ourselves and say 3 facts about ourselves. Since it was 3rd day, so we aren't that strangers as like first day. We started to mingle around and talk to each other.

We also worked together as a team but still will find not very used to working as a team and to do presentation.

Personally, I felt, she is very interesting facilitator. She do not like us to call her faci, as she say it sounded like faeces. Isn't that funny?

If you think first day no problem to solve, than you are wrong. But the first problem was what we actually saw on the orientation day when we all were asked to report to the class. But I long had forgotten what was written in the 6P.

Though we struggle to actually completing the slides and did a very humourous presentation, but we still able to score well. I bet we can do better next round. Gambatte!

210411
Its THURSDAY! In blink of an eye, four days over! Trying to get used to school life after being a woking adults for 7 years. I need to actually worked very hard to catch up what I had lost.

Today's lesson is Organisational Behaviour. This facilitator is sick. Why do I say that? He is the only one who does not give us first break and dragged us till lunch break than release us.

His reason was, worried we cannot finished the worksheet. Then complaint why we all think slow and being so quiet. I mean, come on lah, no food how to think well and work fast?

Hence, he wasn't well-liked by most of us. The sad thing was, we unable to vote to change facilitator.

Since its our first time doing presentation on the Big 5, so I flunked and luckily it did not bring down my team's grade. How can we able to survive through 15 lessons with him? Wish us good luck!

220411
Finally ITS FRIDAY! Woohooo~~~ Getting more and more tedious in doing presentation. I am feeling more and more that I am really stoopid.

Its Problem Solving module. I know I did very badly and pulled down the grades of the rest of the team. I will strive hard to meet all your expectation next week. Thanks for being so patience to me. Thanks also for accepting me as who I am.

Wrapped Up April 2011(1)

020411
Today was E-Awards day. It was my first time attending to this event. Thanks to my great friend, Evonne, who gave me one ticket that allows me to stand very near the stage.

The reason why I wanted so badly to catch this year's event was due to my dearies, Kewei, ChaBanSheng and Serene will be performing. Since the last meetings we had with them, I very long never get to see them. Let alone to see them performing on stage often.

The whole concert was excellent except for some misunderstanding that leads to some quarrels which we managed to iron out things. Thanks to all the dearies and Evonne, for making my Saturday night so HAPPENING!!!

090411
Today was a mark of Muffin-renes's first gathering with Princess Serene and one mystery guest.

In order to make this happened smoothly, Evonne, Kenneth and I had numerous of meetings up and discussions before we actually came up with the run-down and sent to XH for approval.

Though we are given not much time to actually hold a very successful one due to that Princess and XH need to go and attend Tanya's concert. So we were actually not having ample time for interacting.

Princess and XH arrived slightly later than the proposed time. Plus the songs selected time frame wasn't what we expected as we unable to predict which songs they will sing and what is the time taken for a songs.

Though we had some hiccups intervals, we managed to make it run smoothly in the end. We took some photos with Princess and had quality time spent with her.

From this experience, I learnt, we should have a backup plan so that we will be able to handle any hiccups when it is to come.

130411
Today was my first day of the Orientation Day. The Orientation will be held till this Friday. I was very reluctant to go for the Orientation but since it was compulsory to attend, so I have to attend it till end.

Luckily it started at 9am, so I am able to actually reach school in time. First day of Orientation we came to know 3 OGLs who will be taking care of us, play games with us for these three days in Orientation.

Before going to the room for briefing, we were being grouped up into teams. I belongs to Team 16. We were briefed on what will we be encountering during our life in RP and successful stories of those who graduated from RP in SOH who is now holding high post in companies like RWS and some well-known hotels. This made me more interested to embarked my new chapter in RP.

We were asked to gathered in our teams before we set off to start the games and bonding. During the games, we also taught of some cheers that we will be using on the last day of the Orientation for the games.

We also did some introductions on ourselves and getting to know the rest of the members as we may be classmates for the first semesters or so on.

Bonding was a bit awkward initially, but thanks to the lively OGLs who broke the ice. I am looking forward for next day Orientation and excited to know what will be happening tomorrow.

We were all brief to wear black and no short shorts allowed or miniskirts allowed as we will be going to our specific classroom according to the list pasted on the wall. My class is W47C. Which means, it is located at W4 Level 7 Room C.

140411
Today was the first day I will get to see my classmates for the first time. Though the actual fact was, not all turned up on time today and not all came for the Orientation today.

Initially I thought they are the real facilitators. After some introductions I realised, they are just OGLs from other schools. I was also suprised to know that, the whole class does not came from the same diploma course. Maybe is due to, our first semesters were learning all the same modules. When comes to 2nd year, we will be back to our own diploma studies and came to know our own classmates all over again.

In fact, we will change class every 6 months. So which means, first 6 months, I belong to W47C. Next 6 months, I will be in another class. Think by the end of Year 1, I will get to know almost whole SOH people.

After this warming up class, we were all back to our team for 2nd half of the day activities. Before that, we were all brief on why we cannot wear slippers to school and why we cannot smoke in the school.

When we all gathered around, we were given lunch after that we will be learning all the cheers and we actually competing among teams to decide which team will get to leave the hall first. Our team won and we got to leave first. I am so proud of the team-mates.

We are all asked to wear white tee tomorrow as we will be going outside of the comfort zone to the field as there was tug-of-war. We were also asked to bring any sun-block, caps or fans to enable us to keep cool. We were also asked to bring water bottles along in case of dehydrations.

150411
Finally it was last day of the Orientation! But early in the morning, we need to practice cheer before we set off to the field to settle down and also watch the tug-of-war.

It was really a hot day. Luckily we were each given a bottle of drink. Our OGLs keep asking us to drink water. So concerning and worried we will faint in the hot sun.

Though SOH did not won any prize, but was very competitive though. After that, we went back to have our lunch and then back to learn cheers again.

As I have musical to catch, hence I left at 6pm plus instead of staying till end.

It was great time spent with them and we even exchange twitter and facebook accounts. I believe we will all become great friends in the end.

SOH=Schools Only Hope!!!!