Classes started.. with orientation for freshies.

the Digi troops.
oh well, this is in fact a Digi campus.

Mr. Narvin himself worked on ELS stuff, and far beyond, the CCS (in pink shirt)

one of the SSLA member, Winnie~~~

Celine and I...

some energetic and lovely Korean youth practising on their dancing performance.

ELS, one of the clubs I joined.

on the first day, it was pretty full. about 500 attended the orientation.

SSLA booth.

Cutie Celine.

on the second day, the number of attendence dropped drastically.

oh well...
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Orientation was here!

it was not my first time joining orientation. but it was my first not being one of the students that had to sit tight from morning till noon (with 1 or 2 occasional breaks in between, that is, toilet breaks if you want to), with hardly any entertainment at all (all dry speeches guaranteed to put anyone to sleep).

well, i was there on both days and both days were freaking boring. they just had no idea how to pull a proper orientation. hello... they are students, young and lively souls! they need some entertainment. some real entertainment. shouldn't just throw everything at them and "voila" end of orientation, "have a wonderful time at xxxx" Gosh. haha that was how it was for my orientation last MAY. B-O-R-I-N-G. very unlike what i experienced in NEC. (old and better days still fresh in memory)

anyhow..

classes start on Monday!! whooa yay! :) gotta get prep up and get ready for new semester!

FreeWriting

just like Alvin Chew's word, 'short semester kills me' .

OK. it's not that bad. but, it is tiring enough. i can hardly find a time to update my blog! i mean, to make it a good blog post, i need more time. so i will just do this freewriting and scribble whatever i have in mind right now. (never underestimate the power of the brain. =)

basically, i am exhausted every day and until the 2pm class, (everyday my day my class ends about 4pm... it's not late.. but three classes per day, and 2-3 hours each is draining me... lol)

imagine sitting in class for the whole day with just 1 hour interval for break. i am almost like a deadfish suffocating because i am out of water.

did i even use the correct metaphore? oh i don't care. this is freewriting anyway. ^^

Mohammed Rokan is back to campus today. in his words "wassup people"... the MOE style is back on track after his surgery at the bottom of his butt. (seriously, i have no idea he had surgery, i thought he tranferred school...)

he is still the usual... slacking. lol

did i mentioned the 2pm class just now? okay, back to the 2pm class. today our lecturer "threw" us a lot of homework (which i am working on right now... and yes i am multitasking)

i mean, A LOT! and there will be a test ONE this thursday.

a week into new semester, and BAM! here comes the first test.

and the "best" part, we have ZERO idea about what she teach in class.

well, O.K. we can understand a little, but the theories is too vague and kinda too hard to grasp.

and yes, it is the SPOKEN DISCOURSE class i mentioned in my earlier post.

till now, i am grateful that i think, (i think) i can start to get hold on how to do the transcript (ie, how to analyse conversation by using prosodic symbols)

and i hope, really really hope that i am right in whichever i think i understand.

(our lecturer did not teach us how to analyse. she let us explore on our own.. which is great when we are like in the middle of no where.. lol)

anyways...

i think i should stop now..

i will update some good stuff soon. (i hope)

i am now drained.

and i have many more assignments and research to do.

blah..............

i want to watch TV!! (maybe i will, later... regardless of how much more assignments i have)

alright then...

ciao! =P

understanding what is HARD to understand

okay. first time attending a class which consists of not more than 10 students.

normally the first week is the "test the flavours" week..

where students go from class to class to see which subjects suits them.

so it always happens where there are lesser students in class.

BUT~ not over than 10 students is like.. first time i ever encountered. LOL

there was only 7 of us today and FYI there's only 5 students enrolled for this class in the name list. the rest (two others, including me) sort of like came to the class to observe if we would like to take this class.

this class... is TOUGH!

we need to analyse conversations. analyse spoken discourse.

muhaha... and for the first time in my life... i can hardly understand the lecturer. > <

her accent. was too strong. she is a lecturer from our neighbouring country but her English is so good that her accent kinda hit me square in the face. *faints*

the course outlines were okay. quite boring it seems but i think there are a few topics which i would have mild interest in.

okay, you might be thinking... "then why on earth are you still thinking of taking this class? DROP it!"

the thing is, i CAN'T.

the other subjects offered clashes badly with one another!! > <

there are limited choices to choose from.

and...

in order to graduate on time, i have to juggle more subjects than any other coursemates! seriously. my friend Beverly and I, and probably Maggie as well, we have to take up more classes in order to have sufficient credit to complete this degree programme before 2011. (IDEALLY)

this is happening because we are transfer students. we have to finished our Year One and Two subjects within a year (3 semesters).

so... i don't have much choice.

i know this class is VERY hard and will have a tough time analysing conversations, im taking it none the less. to die or not, that lies in whether or not i have the faith and believe i can~

OKAY.

i BELIEVE. ^^