Dar flew Hong Kong yesterday morning. I thought 4 days was no feat as i have tons of things to do for studies as well as blogshop. But i realized last night that knowing that he is nowhere in this island make me feel weird. It's so much of a habit that every time i pick up my phone to call someone, i'd automatically dial his number. Even to the extent that i'd call him by mistake eventhough i intend to call someone else. And now, i have no one to call and no one calls me. >.< Dar dar come home soon ok!

Everything has been stagnant for the entire weekend. Nothing done for blogshop. The miserly little effort i made to try to read the Networking textbook and try out the tutorial qustions. Till now, i've not yet finished my reading and my attempt at the tutorial questions was disasterous. I really wished that i'm not this lazy. >.< It'd also help much if concentration is something tangible and i can pick up pieces of my scattered concentration by hand and put them all in a bag to make myself concentrate. I wish~

I should ask Kartika to give some pointers on the meditation thingy. She says it can help in concentrating. =D

As always Finn and i were efficient in coffee session planning. 20 minutes after tagging on ther blog tag board for a coffee session, we're already out at coffee beans ordering some beverage. It's a shame that Shermaine can't come due to some dinner event. =( Nevermind, there's always a next time. ^^

Crapped loads about relationship things and accidentally got her hooked on a new target and she was so excited about the soon-to-be new start. All i can say is that Finn's obessed with her new object of obsession. =P Liying came down later at night and we all crapped till about 3am+ before heading home.

Shopping trip with Sissy today. Her idea but in the end she bought nothing because Crumpler Sling in Red is OOS for all of the outlets and she couldn't find a pencil case that she likes. =X Poor Sissy! I bought a bag at N.U.M~ I quite like it but it's kinda expensive, but i need a new bag... I['m contradicting myself. -.-" As usual Mama gave me a verbal trashing after she got to know the price of the bag which irritated me. So when she asked for the receipts to pay me back, i threw away the bag's receipt and gave her the rest.

Then she scolded that i was petty and she only "niam" two sentence only. So what? Say until like that then don't return me money la, since it's so expensive to you. It's not like i cannot afford it lo. HUMPH!

So here i am, in the midst of reading my text, blogging when i shouldn't. I'm such a lazy bum.

Dar come back soon!
I need big carebear!

My request for a change of tutorial slot for CS2261 is successful!
This is my time-table for this semester. ^^


All days are pretty good except thursday. Some lucky friends of mine got the perfect time-table (as they've planned). Well, nothing is perfect, i'm happy enough with this schedule. =D

Maybe Thursday should be my reading day so that the 4 hour break in-between my lessons can be put to good use and that i can do some catching up on reading, tutorials, revision, etc. ^^

I'm generally quite happy today ^^ So far i'm still able to cope with business other than being slower in replying enquiries, processing orders and mailing/refunding arrive items. =X

I feel like i'm lagging behind in my studies. =((

Things to do ASAP:
CS2261 - Reading Chp 1 to 3
ACC1002X - Reading Chp 3
MA1301 - Supp Ex 1 to 3
MA1301 - Tutorial TB Pg115 to 117

Tutorial for CS2105 is not that easy. Not everything can be found on in the textbook, unlike poly tutorials which you can just fish for answers in tutorial, just right before the tutor goes through the question.

Poly has really spoilt me. It's a great disadvantage as i'm a naturally lazy person. =X

Currently, i'm waiting for the final changes to my time-table to finalize. I've requested for a change of tutorial group for CS2261. I hope it is successful. ^^I'll be able to do things better once it's finalized.

Business for the new spree was unexpectedly good. ^^ I'm getting overwhelming orders which is making me really, REALLY happy! =D

More orders = More money = Very happy me!
But on the contrary,
More orders = More work = Less time for studies = Not so happy me.

We'll, nothing's perfect. You've got to give back some for the things you take, so ultimately it's all about time management. I'm going to do up a weekly work plan and try to stick to it.

No Beau-Vous operations before 10pm, daily, except for off day and weekends.

This is the first rule i set for myself.

The cheaper tagging service i've engaged recently was really really good. She tags 50 tags per weekday and 100 tags per weekend and i can really see the results from Nuffnang's counter. The increase in my traffic is far more that my pervious tagger can offer. Furthermore, the previous tagging service is about 4 times more expensive that this one. *Obscenities*

So "Yeah!" for me finding the cheap and very good tagging service! It takes my worries off about the number of people coming to Beau-Vous.

Another great news today comes from http://ferniandfriends.blogspot.com . They'd like to interview Beau-Vous for their magazine.

Dear shopper,

You are really pushing my limits.
Please stop before i turn nasty.

The "Hello" person on Beau-Vous tagboard is very very demanding.
She's really getting on my nerves.

What's with annoying people?
Why do they suddenly appear all at once?

What?

You all held a meeting and spontaneously decided that i'm your next victim to annoy?
Well, think twice. I'm not one to be trifled with.

I have the right to reject dealings with people i'm not comfortable with. You can just go order from the blogshops with higher charges. They're earning more and might be happier to entertain your annoying-ness.

May you bleed to death with blood sucking blogshops earning all your money!

Bye bye!

A very busy week for me! >.<

Not busy with school but with blogshop. It seems that blogshop stuff has been eating tremendously into my time (or is it just a busy week?). I'm really really afraid of not being able to cope once i have to start with my projects (in JAVA. Ahhhhhh!).

So far i've only managed to do a few MA1301 Math questions and do reading for half a chapter for CS2105. This amount of studies is definitely, in my opinion, not enough. I have to buck up! I hope to be able to complete the reading of the entire chapter 1 and the review questions for CS2105 by Sunday.

To increase the amount of studying, i've decided to stay in school to do revisions and reading and then go home only after i'm satsfied with the workload completed. Once home, i'll have to face the flooding emails for blogshop and i doubt i can spend anytime for my studies.

For blogshop, i'll be cancelling any private priviledges i've been giving to certain shoppers.

Things like:

* Buying on credit and paying after items arrive
* Meet up for payments
* Meet ups in places which is inconvenient for me (eg. town)
* Combined meet up for items from different sprees (order below $50 of each spree)
* Meet up for purchases below $50
* etc.

I'm NOT going to bend my rules ever again. Gotta revise my current Terms & Conditions once my schedule for this semester confirms.

I may seem very petty to pick on these stuff but gotta bear in mind that my travelling time to and fro school takes about 2hr 15mins - 2hr 30 mins per day. I have no excess time to do orders and yet have it cancelled in the end. Seriously, i don't even have much time to sleep can? I only have about 6 hours per day to snooze depending on blogshop workload.

And also, shoppers seem to think that i do not have a life and is sitting 24hrs in front of my laptop waiting to serve them. I definitely reply emails and if you don't see my reply, it just means that i don't have time to and it'd do good if you can be patient WAIT for my damn reply.

Some shoppers really get on my nerves. I've compromised so much for you and yet you keep demanding and demanding and you fking don't even want to open you eyes to read what is obviously written in the blogshop and bother me via SMS. I need to pay for my SMSes and it is not included in the tiny handling fee i charge so can you please DON'T SMS me to waste my money and bring up my operational costs?

And one of the damned shopper even asked people to send concealed cash to my house because for private reasons the shopper cannot ask the person to send to her house. WTF. What do you take my house for? Your house!? You didn't even ask me beforehand! What is your freaking problem!? Your house is private, my house is not!? No common sense at all. This is crap and seriously dear shopper, you have no speck of EQ in you!

I DONT' FREAKING CARE EVEN IF YOU DON'T ORDER FROM ME ANYMORE! YOU'RE NOT EVEN ONE OF MY BIG SPENDING SHOPPERS AND I DON'T SEE WHY I SHOULD WASTE MY TIME AND MY SMSES ON YOU AND ONLY BRING INCONVENIENCE TO MYSELF!

After all this she still has the cheek to SMS to tell me not to be angry. I'm like FUMING HOT and is ready to explode and give her a very, very colourful string of obscenities, ok!

She also stated in another SMS that i'm the best blogshop owner she's ever met and my services are the best. Talk about F-A-K-E, fake. You fking used my address as and when you like. Which blogshop owner allows that? I try my best to make people happy when shopping with me but you're really taking advantage of that.

Humph!

Tomorrow's the day lessons start officially. But for the first week of actual studies, we only have to attend lectures.

I'm excited. About school, about the new environment, about getting to know the new friends i've made, about getting to make more new friends, about going back to studying and above all, i'm excited about the new lifestyle in this new chapter of my life. =D

Here goes my schedule for this week:

Monday
10am - 12nn MA1301 Lecture

Tuesday
10am - 12nn ACC1002X Lecture
2pm - 4pm CS2105 Lecture
6pm - 8pm Database Refreshment Talk

Wednesday
12nn - 2pm Programming Refreshment Talk

Thursday
10am - 12nn MA1301 Lecture

Friday
Off Day

The tutorial balloting occurs this week. I hope i'm lucky enough to get the tutorial classes i want!

Oppx, forgot to add that above all the excitements, i'm also excited to see my new school bag! I've ordered a nice bag from PG Mall in one of my sprees. It's predicted to arrive mid to end of the month. I can't wait! ^^

Attended Orientation Basic Package Day 1 yesterday. Included in this shrink-ed package are the academic talks and very short get-to-know-each-other sessions.

Got to know another friend. ^^ This kinda feels like playing The Sims 2. =X

The academic talks were more or less boring. There were some technical stuff here and there which i don't understand why would they be taught to us now (eg. mapping laptops to printers in school, etc). I believe we'd go find out when we need it.

Also, i find that the flow of the Basic package program is not very efficient. In fact i think it's pretty time-wasting as the meet-up time was set at 1pm but the seniors only managed to get everyone settled-down and start the actual program by 2pm. And many parts of the the talks presented consist of information which i personally thought might be better if it were to be conveyed sometime after we've started our classes.

Today's flag day and we have a choice of showing up or not. So i picked not. =X I hate flag days and so do majority of the freshmen, it seems.

So no school today but i've 2 incoming parcels i've to pick up from the post office. It's gonna be a busy day and here i was thinking that i might be able to rest for the day. =/ But no work no income~

Now i can only put in my best effort and pray hard that i can cope with both school and blogshop. >.<