I am studying for my exams right now. Xiao-ahmei organized a pre Chinese New Year dinner and asked me to join but I can’t. Study lah…

Frederick called this morning and asked me to join them (my ex-colleagues) for Chinese New Year dinner too but I can’t. Same reason. Study lah…

My exam will be on Monday at 8.30am. There will be another exam on 11th February 2008 (fifth day of Chinese New Year).

So there goes my Chinese New Year mode. There isn’t much Chinese New Year mood for me these recent years. I don’t know why. Maybe I am getting old already. I used to be very excited and prayed that Chinese New Year to come earlier, not anymore.

I have yet to buy my new year clothes. It’s kinda like tradition that one must wear new clothes for Chinese New Year. I have yet to cut my hair. I have yet to buy packet drinks. I need to start doing all the Chinese New Year preparation stuff after my exam!

P.S. I will not be updating my blog that frequent until after Chinese New Year. So I’d like to wish my readers “????“ (Gong Xi Fa Cai)

P.S.2. Yes, I know how to read and write and type in Chinese.

P.S.3. Wish me luck…Please?

EDIT: I don’t know why it doesn’t display Chinese characters.  I’ll find out later.

I wanted to take some pictures for this entry but i left my the CF card for my DSLR in the office and my trusty Olympus mju400 went out of juice.  So I’ll do that some other time.

Anyway, last week was a very busy week for me in the office.  Late nights every day until yesterday.  Ken and xiao-ahmei, the saviour of our magazine worked even later.  We will be wrapping the magazine tomorrow and I will be going to the office tomorrow after my class.  Ken said need the “togetherness” worr…

My classes will be getting more and more hectic as there are plenty of replacement/extra classes for us.  A lot of unexpected stuff happened for this semester and plenty of classes were canceled, hence the replacement.  I will be having my exams on 4th and 11th February.  And I have no less than 1500 pages to read.  Both subjects will be tested based on the whole text books.

I’ve never had exams on the whole text books before.  The ones I had was maybe half the text book, or just a quarter of the text book and some extra notes.

This semester is different as well because it will be externally moderated, which means there are no tips for the exams. 

We’ll see how it goes.

P.S. I failed my first assignment (Strategic Management).  Passing rate was 10 marks out of 20.  I got 9.6 out of 20.  I really need the second assignment and my exams to pull my marks.

Wish me luck!

So I got a comment in my previous entry from xiao-ahmei, asking me to update anything.  Here you go.

My table when I am doing my assignments.

Xiao-ahmei, I did this because you requested ok! Now please let me go back to my assignments!

P.S. Update your blog as well lah!

I can’t really think of a title for my entries anymore. I have problems writing a title for my articles in the magazine too. Ken does all the dirty work.

Anyway, I am kinda busy with my assignments and work. Mostly assignments as it is due next Monday. After this assignment will be my exams for the first semester of year 2. I don’t know how is it going to turn up but I really hope I can just pass it.

Work is a bit slow these weeks. Not many events to attend. I am attending one event tomorrow at KL Sentral (the first event for this month!). Usually we do not have to attend events like this but this month is reaaaaaaly quiet. If I don’t attend as much as I could, I might not have news to write for this month. In my line of work, no news is bad news!

Fortunately, there is the CES in Las Vegas. No, I didn’t get to go to Las Vegas to cover it but I’ll be “covering” it anyway in the magazine. There is also the Macworld coming up next week. It might be quiet locally but internationally, it’s wild!

I’ve also been thinking of learning up a new skill (secret). A skill that I hope I will be able to master in less than 2 years time. I don’t know if I have the time for it. I’ll need to find a tutor as well but it’s not too hard.

I think that’s about it! Be happy guys (and gals)!

P.S. The Samsung SGH F330 that I won was finally delivered to me yesterday! Look at the phones I have now!

Top Row : Samsung SGH-D880 (review unit), Motorola V3i (bought), LG KG276 (Viewty event door gift), Nokia E51 (review unit), HTC P3400 (review unit)

Bottom Row: Samsung SGH F330 (won), Apple iPhone 8GB (bought), Nokia 6500 Classic (won), Sony Ericsson M600i (bro gave it to me).

Not in picture: Sony Ericsson W810i (loaned it to Yat Yat, bro gave it to me), Sony Ericsson K750i (bought, gave it to mum), Sony Ericsson W850i (bought, gave it to Eileen)

I might sell my Motorola V3i and LG KG276. Eileen will be taking the Samsung SGH F330 so I might sell her Sony Ericsson W850i as well. The Sony Ericsson M600i is a good phone but it’s got some minor defects. I might want to sell the 2 phones my brother gave me but I need his approval first.

I won’t be updating my blog very often until Christmas.  The reason is because I will be VERY busy with my assignments and my work.

Both my assignments will due this Friday and I have only done about 2% of it.  I have only started a bit on one of it.  I haven’t even started on the more taxing one.  The magazine is due on Christmas.  I hope I’ll be able to finish everything on time.

I don’t really know if I could cope with my studies and my work at the same time.  It’s too late to defer my subjects this semester.  I hope that I could just pass this semester and really think about only taking one subject next semester, instead of taking two, like what I am doing right now.

This is what I have to pay for procrastinating my stuff. 

Ken, if you are reading this, don’t worry.  I have my priorities set and I’ll deliver my stuff to you on time. 

I’m going to do a short (and VERY overdue) writeup on my ASUS Eee PC after I finished all these stuff. 

I am also in the in the process of writing a theory of mine on Apple products for myMacBUZZ.  The article is far from done but I have drafted it long time ago.  I’ll also be writing a short review and also an article on my iPhone in myMacBUZZ as well and also how to unlock it using the TurboSim method (the method I used to unlock my iPhone).

In case I don’t blog on Christmas eve, I’d like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and God bless you.

Off to my assignments!