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A happy sigh of relief

Dayna — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:47:13 +0000

After spending nearly an hour trying to login to the UOL External Website to check my examinations results, I finally manage to login! I was staring at the “Service temporary unavailable” and “Application error” for a long time before the server finally decides to let me in. o.O

Come to think of it, I am so glad I’m a blogger because I can check back on how I feel last year when I got my results. It’s really fantastic for people like me who has a memory chipboard that can only “record” 48 hours of my life. So apparently, the results are early by a week this year. I’m happy and I think I did better than the year before. =D

A big Congratulations to everyone who passed the exams! Did you just breathe a happy sigh of relief my dear friends?

Does this spells the end of my school life? Maybe not. We shall see.

Are you ready for Chinese New Year?

Dayna — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:26:31 +0000

It seems like time past extremely fast these few weeks. January speed by and now it’s going to be Chinese New Year soon! This also means that my final mocks are coming and I do not even have at least 50% progress in my revision. I always feel that having examinations right after the Chinese New Year is a terribly bad plan. We can’t even enjoy our new year without having to worry about the upcoming exams. I am determine to catch up on my studies over the next 2 weeks and enjoy a relaxing new year instead. “I shall worry about that later” is one of my undesirable tagline.

My check-list for the new year:

Chinese New Year decorations – Check!
Spring cleaning – Check!¹
New clothes – Check!²
New Year goodies, snacks, chocolates, drinks and food – Check!
Mahjong table – Check! We bought a new one after one of ours was stolen a few weeks back.
Manicure nails – Check!
Prepare my stomach to welcome all the delicious food and snacks – Check!

What else are there left?

Chinese New Year Goodies

Colourful candies

Lots of vegetables for the reunion dinner on Saturday

Pink glittery nails to welcome the new year

French tips

With purple crystals and pearls

Speaking of which, is anyone planning to head to Resort World Sentosa during the Chinese New Year? =p

My room is messier now as compared to the day I tidied it, it’s piling up with all my exams notes
Surprise surprise, it isn’t black this year

Twitpic of an even busier week

Dayna — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:34:36 +0000

To convince myself that I’m still hardworking, I decided to continue the “twitpic of the week” posts. I will be posting a photo collage of what I’ve done over the past week to fill up the “empty days” I didn’t blog about previously. My half mocks will start on 30 November thus I’m trying my best not to procrastinate and start reading the huge pile of notes. I’ve accumulated quite a substantial amount of reading which means I’ll basically be staring at my notes for the next few weeks.

On a very random note, I’ve officially broke my first mug in the bathroom today. I am usually very careful when handling glass but I’m such a blockhead this morning. If you haven’t notice, I’ve also increased the font size on Amour Chaleur because my vision is getting from bad to worse. Bigger text makes reading easier for me and hopefully for you as well.

Anyway, I was a happy user of Snaptu till the application decided to disappear from my INQ mini yesterday. No matter how many times I’ve tried, it refuses to reinstall so I switched to Twim now. I’m going to pray hard it continues to work until I get my iphone (hopefully) next year. Speaking of which my LG Viewty is still alive but I’ve neglected it. It’s sitting quietly in one of my drawers now. I might switch back to my Viewty next month because as much as I dislike touch screen phones, I still missed it.

Today is results and sales day

Dayna — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:58:50 +0000

I got my results today and I pass all 4 subjects. =D I’ve a morning class today and I login to check at 7am in the morning. Surprising, the results were already posted at about 2am. I got a message from my friend at 2am telling me that she has passed all her papers. I only saw the message the next morning when I woke up. Anyway, I was freaking out when I keyed in my particulars to get the exams results. My first try was denied as I keyed in the wrong candidate number. Thank god the second attempt worked.

So here’s the results for my UOL academic year 2008/2009:

Subjects	Score	Degree class equivalent for
Management Accounting	70	First Class Honours
Corporate Finance	68	Upper Second Class Honours
Microeconomics	58	Lower Second Class Honours
Principals of Banking and Finance	50	Lower Second Class Honours

I’m really glad I pass my Banking and Finance, but wasn’t pleased with MA and CF. I could have worked just a little harder to get another 2 more marks and that would make so much difference. The Microeconomics paper was the easiest one I’ve sat for but I did not manage to do well for it. I shall work even harder this year. I’m aiming for at least 60 marks in all 4 papers I’m sitting for this year. I wish to graduate with at least an Upper Second Class Honours.

On a side note, there’s a John Little Sales for card members from 1st to 3rd September. Thus, mum and I decided to pop by to check out the sales.

Here are my hauls:

Neutrogena Wave Power Cleanser and SANA Maikohan Blusher

SANA Maiko-han Loose Powder (Pink)

NUDE Facial Cotton Pads

Elianto Baked Blusher

I’ll be writing reviews on the above in the next few days, stay tune!

To end this post, here’s a delicious lunch I had at Bakerzin this afternoon.

Teriyaki chicken with potatoes

Oreo Cheese Cake

The art of doing nothing

Dayna — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:04:04 +0000

Hello everyone! It’s been a rather long time since I last blogged. Dayna’s been busy cultivating the art of doing nothing. Let’s just say that I’m mentally and physically exhausted after the exams and I’m can’t seems to be able to focus on fixing up the site. The new layout is in process, I can’t get something I like even after hours messing around in Photoshop. Looks like it’ll take more than a week to get it up. I think the exams might have killed all the creative brain cells which are left in me. :cry: I’m still active on my flickr. Check out some photos I took during Ben’s 21st birthday celebration yesterday. I need inspiration. Where I can find them?

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Amour Chaleur has won all thanks to you

Dayna — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:24:01 +0000

Best Hand Drawing Style

I wish to thank all the support, encouragement and votes that everyone have given. I doubt Amour Chaleur could win the race without your support. It has been a tough competition with strong competitors and also a valuable learning experience for me. I greatly appreciate all the help and would like to express my apology for the daily advertisement of the “Please vote for …” tweets.

And so, I will be away for a short 3 weeks break for my final examinations and I promise Amour Chaleur will be back with a new layout (no guarantee that it’ll be good though) with better content. To follow my updates, you may wish to follow me on twitter or my flickr. The e-shop is on it’s way. I’ll be doing some market research first before searching for suppliers. If you have any good and reliable Singapore suppliers for shirts, mug or cards printing, please do let me know.

Hibernation period for my exams

Dayna — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:16:26 +0000

Sunshine after the rain?

I thought I’ll post a short note here. I’ll be away until March 11 for my final mocks, I’m actually already having my exams now. So I wouldn’t be too active here until after my paper on the 11th. I’m still rather alive at Twitter, so you can find me there. I’ve been cracking my head for the next layout but still can’t make a good one I like. The header image is more or less completed (I think some of you had a sneak preview) . But I just can’t seem to fit the content background and navigation into the design. Nevermind, I shall worry about that later.

And something to add this short post, I took this last evening (click to see full size photo). It’s been raining almost everyday and it’s my first time seeing the sunset behind those dark clouds. Perhaps this might meant that I’m going to see sunshine after my exams?

Why don’t I enjoy it anymore?

Dayna — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:58:37 +0000

Porcelain Heels

New Monalisa Glasses

Before I start one of my little “talks of the day” again. Have a look at the tiny shoes on the left. It was a gift from mum when we went “exploring” last Friday. We walked from Lavender (to collect my new passport) all the way to Bugis and we chance about this pottery shop that sell beautiful potteries and household wares. I just happen to saw this pair of porcelain shoes on sales at SGD 4.90 and it’s a beauty. I don’t wear such heels (to be exact, I don’t really wear heels at all) so I think I’ll have one of these at home to admire.

And surprise surprise… I got myself new glasses with the GST credits from the government. I’m contributing to the economy (this is my excuse for everything now). I got these beautiful Monalisa glasses for SGD 200 (click on the thumbnail to view the full size photo), I love them even though they make me look like a nerd, the lenses are a bit too large for my face but please tell me I look okay. I am starting to feel that the frame is a bit too large but I still love it a lot. It has little crystals at the side. The colour is wrong in the photo though, it’s more metallic purplish pink rather than red and it isn’t as bright as the photo looks. Mr Chewy isn’t going to like it. He hate me in framed glasses. I use to wear frame-less glasses in the past. I place the nerdy photo of myself under the cut, I don’t wish to scare you off you know.

Nerdy Dayna in her new glasses

Please be forewarn that the “talk of the day” starts here. Okay, so I noticed I hadn’t been blogging this week. Let’s just say nothing much happen for the week other than constantly mugging for the exams. I wish examinations would just disappear from the education sector. I would prefer students being evaluated based on projects, team work and their characters rather than testing how good they are at memorising names and numbers. That’s the thing about studying Finance (and maybe some other subjects as well). For example in CF and POBF, there are tons of models to study and their names are darn hard to remember. Jensen Mecking, Brickley, Netter, John Linter and the list just goes on. There are so many names that I couldn’t remember which is which and even if I did, I mess up the years associated with each of the models. A good student doesn’t necessary mean that they have a good memory for such things. I doubt we ever need to know these when we are in the workforce in the future (unless I’m working as a teacher in that area of course).

It’s pathetic when I think of the way education is. When we are taking a private degree, the only strength your lecturers can see in you is how hard working you are and how good your memory is. They don’t ever ever realise other strengths in you. The tag line is “if you don’t understand, memorise it”. I mean what’s the point? I don’t get it. I regretted choosing this path. It’s making me dislike school, making me doubt the existence of humanity. I don’t enjoy studying now. All these hardcore memorisation work is taking a toll on me, it has taken away all the joys of schooling, learning new things and interacting with people. I’m not learning, I’m just throwing those stuff into a human hard disk. And can someone tell me what’s the purpose of this? Please enlighten me. I don’t even know why I’m doing what I’m doing now. :cry:

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I need 48 hours a day.

Dayna — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:03:02 +0000

I seriously feel that I need more than 24 hours a day, 48 would be good. I still haven’t started preparing for my exams and I should be doing it right now. -_- Right, I’m going to start tonight by finishing my MA tutorial for Wednesday and then start my CF Chapter 2 on Wednesday. I have only 7 weeks. I shall draw my moods and happiness graph this weekend, Cecelia has given me permission to use her idea :P . It’s torturing trying to study now. And with Chinese New Year around the corner, it’s too hard for me to concentrate. My mind is always wandering off thinking about what clothes to wear for CNY, what decorations to get for the living room, and mostly thinking about how fun it would be! :heart:

And some good news … Missy has been accepted into the QBee again after 4 long years! I spend a few hours putting up my new quilt. It’s my favourite animal – The Panda! I’m looking forward to meeting the bees and their beautiful quilts and maybe at the same time learn a few pixeling skills from the masters.

My Quilting Bee Quilt

To-Do list (for my quilt)

Style the sidebar and content headers
Design a background for my quilt
Think of a new navigation design: Any suggestions?

I shall rush off to school for now and continue with this later. I have so much things to blog about!

Something sad, something funny to share

Dayna — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:56:46 +0000

Let’s start with the something sad :cry: . Missy pass both the Corporate Finance and Microeconomics paper. But the grades weren’t satisfying. Okay, actually I don’t have that high expectation of myself since I knew I didn’t have much time to study finish the entire subject. But passing by 1 mark just isn’t like me? This is a wake up call. *Ring Ring* Please start studying if you do not wish to flunk your final mocks. :study:

Half Mock Grades

I am aiming for a 50 marks in my MA paper today. That’s my favourite subject and it’s the only subject that make sense to me. Plus, I am prepared to fail my POBF paper, I’ll be glad I didn’t get a 0 for that. :shocked:

Anyway, I’ve got something funny to share after the rant about my results. I got this advertisement flyer at Raffles Place train station yesterday after school. I don’t usually look at it, but I browse through it on the way to the platform. It was from a hair and beauty saloon. I found something extremely hilarious about this flyer.

Flyer from a Saloon

Sock Hair? Notice those words in Chinese means Short Hair.
Men/Anty? Aunty? Ladies? Would I be bringing a bunny to a saloon to have their fur coloured? And only for aunties? Young teenagers, no?
Highlight/Lowlight? It might be just me but I haven’t heard of anything called lowlight before. Is that a new method? Or … …? As per Kaylee, lowlights actually do exist, they make the hair colour darker. :spin:

Okay, I’m bad. But their flyer are even worse. I mean seriously, I understand that typographical errors are inevitable sometimes. But this is just too much. And only aunties? no office ladies when one of their shops is at the prime working area? Maybe they don’t do children business but aunty just isn’t the right word. Sock Hair? My hair is made from real human hair, not from socks. It doesn’t seems like a typo error to me. They have got some promotion from this flyer, but they aren’t promoting their services, their just promoting how unprofessional they are. They didn’t even proof read their flyers before distributing? What are your thoughts and interpretations to the above?

On a last note, I decided to join The Quilting Bee again (waiting for approval now), I used to be a member way back in the 2005 and 2006 if my memory didn’t fail me. I can’t pixel, yes I know that. My patch (and the bee linking to my approval quilt) was drawn in Photoshop but not by pixelling. I can’t pixel, it’s ugly. Anyway, it’s my first time drawing a panda and a bee. The bee has a weird colour I know… and this cute little fat bumble bee can be found on the top of the home page, near the welcome message and on the footer of the rest of the pages. Yes, my bumble bee flies.

My Bee and Panda Patch for The Quiliting Bee

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