i woke up today to a dying pain. according to some mag i read from last month or something, it’s some thing i can possibly treat i think, and it involves me having massive diarrhoeas along with the usual pms cramps. this usually removes my ability to even stand, so waking to it was a nightmare.

however, last night i cooked the above monster, whereby i accidentally poured too much chilli and it was too spicy even for me. for the first time in a long time, i was breathing fire with every sprite laced breath. i had to divide the above bowl’s portion into 2. BUT when you have DIARRHOEA with that massive amount of chilli…. i don’t think i need to go further explaining what that does to your ass eh?

 anyways, aside from that, i kinda fluked a little on my econs essay, but i think i should be ok. but i wasnt happy with that.

turned up for my pcf class, with which i argued with the lecturer, a number of things happened there that i kinda laughed my ass off about as well. let me just say something

Bullshiting is a form of art.

my mum took it to a wonderful level… and obviously people who don’t know her well would believe her. academically though, i had say, so far, only 3 teachers ever really knew when i know something, why don’t like something, every single academic characteristics of me, they knew it down to the roots. at that level, i know i can’t bullshit past them, but we always end up being good friends as well.

complete with my terrible stomachache today, i had really no mood to attend classes. but my lecturer obviously hates my balls as much as i hate his. i can’t afford to miss his class anymore, whether i like it or not, whether i am dying or not so i went for his class.

sidenote: ok i don’t hate him so much. last week’s presentation he did for our class, i was almost in tears. it wasn’t that he yelled at me again, or that his presentation was an uber wonderful presentation. it brought back many memories for me, long lost ones that were so beautiful that i suddenly yearn for my friends in Singapore again.

a long time ago, i used to sing in sign language with them, that’s where i picked it all up, but few people know i knew it because i rarely use it nowadays, nor is there a need for it. and i miss my friends that i learnt sign language with, half of whom are married.

again, may i reiterate this, it seems very odd that those same little girls you used to play hopscotch and five-stones and whatever country side kiddy games that we invited at that time as well, are suddenly married, and some are even having kids. like omg, stop growing up for a minute please, time stop please.

back to the main story 

he decided to change the way of running the class such that now each group would have a group leader to lead the discussion for every different question for the tutorial. also, we have to present it ala presentation style. furthermore, each group would be graded as some kind of marks against each other, and the last group would have to buy 2 bags of chips or lollies for the class.  

to cut the long story short, i kinda warped out because my group was almost on the verge of being the last. but mysteriously, the other group could not answer one question, and i got 2 go’s instead, to save my group, as one 2 of the people in my group couldn’t answer their questions. and mysteriously, i somehow managed to bullshit my way into winning.

so yer i don’t have to pay for dumb bags of chips for the class ~.~

the point of that little bragging though, was how bitchy classmates can be. This very girl, bree, whom i thought was really nice, is starting to wear on me a little with her bitchiness. sure she is a bitch, she is entitled to her rights, as a student, as someone who pays her school fees, as a person, as a woman. however, there are times when acting out on your own rights, you also cut right into someone’s rights.

according to my class mate last week, she had a cry and bitch about how the teacher was giving us a chance to present at an earlier time slot, that wasnt compulsor for other people to turn up, and she insisted that Sally should fail us. i am not saying we shouldn’t fail. however, there was a slight confusion at the time of choosing the date to present. our group was certain we asked for a friday. i remembered insisting on a friday, because of how hapless my group was. therefore wednesday was definitely not possible.

today, her group which started out stellarifically, fell flat on their face towards the end because the group could not answer 2 questions fully, adequately and satisfyingly to that teacher. not to say i actually did a proper job either, but i got the mark from her group as they could not answer it.

when someone cheered in my group after my wonderful bullshitted save, bree turned around and started screaming at amy, saying that the group only won coz i saved our asses.

in that split moment, her cutesy prettiness suddenly turned really ugly.

competitiveness is something that should be healthy, and not be as temperamental as a kid. 

similarly, at work, my wonderful tips thief suddenly gave me my tips for today. i was wonderfully surprised, but at the same time i was curious. she had been really nice to me lately, albeit she had been a pain in the neck to work with as well, of late.

when lyz was still around, she had work till lyz finishes work and have a drink with her, then go home and such. nowadays, ever since the tips and such, the moment her section’s cleaned up, she had asked to leave because, "if i don’t catch my bus now, i would have no bus for tonight." and proceeded to leave, and then adjourn to the bar for 20 minutes worth of drinking, bitching, watching the tv and sucking up to the manager.

also, when she’s working anyways, the sense of "teamwork" have all but disappeared. she only cares about her section, since she’s not getting tips from us anyways, as she said.

tips tips tips tips tips. money money money money money.

while in comparison to most of them, i don’t get as much tips from my customers, despite the huge amount of praises. i am not fully concerned, although i am just worried because i need the money. i believe customer service should be there, regardless of the price tag. obviously, Tips thief decided not to agree with me on that point, she doesn’t even believe me. sometimes, i find her checking on me from afar to see if i stole her tips.

anyways, i had enough of the new girls’ and their attitude issues. i had a discussion in Mel, who has been busy doing afternoon shifts as the assistant manager. and basically dump it in her hands.

look, i am not concerned about working with the girls. they ask me to help, i am fine with it, even though sometimes it sounds like a command. however, at the same time, they seem to use it as a form of communcating that i don’t give a shit about their attitudes. one of these days, i will snap fully. and then. voila, stand off……

oh did i mention?

i am senior waitress #3. 

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ok, i know i am procrastinating on my econs assignment, but i think i just have to announce this:

i passed the test!!! yay yay yay…. 

like, i didn’t expect to pass my econs test before… and when i saw my lecturer, he started grinning, and said, "you did very well cheryl!"

and i was like, "huh? what?" because i only expected to get 7 questions right out of 40. so i thought he was being sarcastic.

"yes you did very well!!"

i got 23/40. the average was like 20-25, so i guess for him to say that, i WAS DOING WELL! so yay, as long as i pass ^_^ 

back to assignment ^_^ 

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a couple of things riled me up a little yesterday, but at the same time seemed to send some totally unrelated brainwaves through me as well.

in our class discussion yesterday, some retarded fuck from under the rocks came up with this stupid notion that just because Australia has contributed to Indonesia while they were under the tsunami crisis, that the Indonesians should acknowledge Australia’s soveriegnty.

excuse me while i puke.

money doesn’t make you a soveriegn in any manner for any reasons. if indonesia is not happy, they are entitled to it. it’s true, perhaps they shouldn’t use cartoons to further damage Australia’s image to the locals, but again, if there’s freedom of speech here, it should be applicable there too. Just coz you contributed to their tsunami crisis, does not indemnify you to that.

similarly, contributing aid to their country, doesn’t grant you the allowance to show signs of disrespect. different cultures work differently, everything is interpreted differently. the recent issue of Howard being asked to apologise might be due to some other political factor that the news isn’t saying, the officials doesn’t know, considering that it is an issue of the refugees being granted visa.

charity doesn’t create obligations. just thought you should know. retard.

mysteriously though, that and something minor in another class kinda propped something up in my head about my internet regulations paper that i have to hand in as well somewhere this week or next week (not a compulsory paper, just part of a larger report).

there are a few things i kinda need to sort out, not just how to write it but mainly how i have been “doing well” so far. it’s kinda a hard mark to live up to but anyways….

i have a few questions with regards to the paper i need to have to find out.

1) if something happened in America, and Australia have a similar case now, with no precedent case whatsoever in any of the countries using similar UK laws, could they use the precedent case in America for Internet law cases?

2) Considering how Dwight Whorley got arrested, however the laws are terribly vague still with regards to child pornography and its relations to lolicon. and then consider how the laws on that issue is a little more clear in Australia, how would the local courts in Australia deal with this case (if there is no precedent, since i haven’t really done any research on that portion yet, i wouldn’t know if there is one), base on those precedences in America (if they have to and it’s ok to).

3) considering point 2), if the case happened in both countries, whereby the server and part of the staff on the website are located on American Grounds, and the actual server owner is within Australia, which country’s law do we look at? i know this sounds like an obvious question, but what if there is two owners, and one of them is aussie? does the entire court issue settle in the united states or only the server owner gets tried out here?

if that’s the case, since both country’s laws and punishment differs, then wouldn’t it be unfair if they get different sentencing?

4) what if it’s vice versa, when the server is in Australia and the owners are american? or more than half is?

lots of brain waves, need to settle them down ~.~

meanwhile, i have uploaded my 2 other essays, for your reading displeasure since they were not erm…. really looked over before i converted them to pdf. gomenasai…. i was kinda rushed for time to get them printed as well since people were hogging the machines. but never fear! one day you would get a proper CORRECTED essay before i load it up ^_^

International communication - this is just a draft, but most of it is ok, sans the grammar (As usual la… what else is new about me?) and a few sentence structuring i suppose.

PCF Informal Essay/report/journal - this is something that’s meant to be academic and informal at the same time. i don’t quite get it but whatver, i tried in the best academic and informal way that i could.

i know it took me eons to put them up from the time i promise, but net has been gh3yed for the last 2-3 weeks, so spare me. i guess in the next one you will get to see the internet regulations one, since i have no fucking clue how to scan in my econs assignment (and also i am totally ashamed of it :P)

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