My Master Piece

Assignment: Economics Data Analysis Report
Deadline: 2nd May, 2008 (Friday)

Set Question:
Find the demand function for tea.

Answer:
4145 words of mathematical data analysis and evaluation

Time spent:
2 weeks of 1000% concentrate (a combination of reading up 13 chapters and writing up the report)

Number of Edits:
10 times! Editing the WHOLE report 10 time! If one data goes wrong, everything goes wrong! That drove me absolutely CRAZY!

Conclusion:
I can finally start with my normal revision.
Hoping for a very high mark for this report. As I hate maths exams.

I am seriously proud of the my report. Never been so proud before. So if this goes wrong in the end, I can seriously KILL myself!

THE END

My motivation

A train ticket right after my last exam to London!

Yes, the biggest motivation for now.

Literary RIGHT AFTER the last exam.

PS: Red Bull is absolutely genius. Microwavable meals are my time saver. Green bean soup is my saviour but the internet is that amazingly attractive KILLER! This has just about summed up my life style for now.

Had a great time last night

And this time NO I do not mean clubbing or socialising, but just working part-time ^^ My most fulfilling time of happiness everyweek. LOL. I just love working there. The best job ever in terms of staff relationships. Everyone there are so friendly to me and the two aunties adores me. They always make plenty of yummy food for me. I think I am truly blessed with food. lol

Anyway, back to working mode. No lectures today but 6pm tesco trip to get a new saucer to replace the one I've burnt a few days ago. At the same time, some grocery shopping for some essentials.

Sleep is a treasure to be kept 4eva

I think sleep is the last thing and the first thing I need. It wastes my time at the moment. I've got to buckle up and get everything done. Sleep will have to wait for a little while till I have the time.

But it'll definitely be the first thing I'll do when I've finished my last paper.

Library and food shopping

I use to hate this word. Cause it basically means lots of reading and lots of studying and lots of pain if you have to read for something that's going to determine your FUTURE! But I have recently discovered the usefulness of it and the joy of just sitting in the library with all the other people who are 'suffering' with you. I like to think that way. It makes me feel better and more motivated. I have also learnt how to find journals in the library! They are numbered in a VERY weird way. But after some coaching from a very friendly librarian who help me find all my journals in that massive library, I was pretty sure how to find them next time. Then I was a bit late for my revision lecture. -_-'' as usual you will see Jennifer always running, never walking like normal people. I call this 'good exercise'.

Ran a lot of errands for myself today. Had a brunch, as I've mentioned in the previous entry. Did some EDA and dashed off to the vege shop to buy a bag of beansprouts and a bunch of asparagus. Just felt like eat these two veges this week. on my way home, pop into Iceland and got a bag of frozen salmon (so expensive!), a loaf of fruity bread and 4/5 boxes of ready-made meals (stocking up). Oh damnit, which reminds me. I forgot to get my essentials for exams! RED BULL! UGH. Gotta go to that mini tescos to get a few cans, maybe on wednesday.

Anyway, I have turned to be a vege and fish eater. Only fish. All kinds of fish. And only steamed food for dinner. However, I have also told myself that I should not think about eating less. So I am eating relatively healthy, when I have the time, but always feeding myself lots of yummy food to keep me going and happy everyday. Well, at least I try to be.

But how can u be happy when exams are here? ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ran to the business school and returned-borrowed a book. Stupid librarian wasn't there so I had to wait for a while. WASTING MY TIME! I did forgive him in the end though. Dashed off to the library and that's where my entry started. Weird writing style right? Yah, I like to start in the middle of a story. It's less boring.

Back to EDA.

Summative assignment

This assignment is a KILLER to civilisation. It has brought pain and suffering to mankind. But it has made me stronger, well hopefully, even though it's rather impossible to do.

Ok, enough crap.

Summative assignments as some of you may not know are Uni assignments which counts to your final degree. So yes it's SUPER, EXTREMELY important that you get it right and handed in on time. This summative assignment I'm doing counts (I think) around 40% of the total of the Economic Data Analysis module. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT. Cause I'm crap at maths. So if I don't get this right, then I can never get anything right.

Last night I sort of had this energy to continue doing whatever I can on this assignment. Work till 2-3am in the morning. At the same time I did my laundry and steam rice. Yes, steamed rice at 2am in the morning. WHY? Well, for my brunch tomorrow. I don't want to waste time waiting for the rice to steam. LOL

So at 10.30am I ate a bowl of rice and a can of Irish Stew. Very unhealthy I know but at least I know exactly how many calories I am taking in and most importantly it's SUPER fast. And that's my brunch done! No time to waste on food from now on. It's going to be WORK WORK WORK AND MORE MORE WORK!

Revision lecture this afternoon on Business Competition. Hopefully it'll be VERY useful.

*tata

Random

Economic data analysis is IMPOSSIBLE! But still, every minute and every second I keep telling myself nothing is impossible, Jennifer! NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR JENNIFER! Think about how you got the top in the year in Singapore. Think about when you first went to Hong Kong and didn't know a single word in Chinese. The only 2 characters you knew how to write was your name. But still you got the first in the year in a LOCAL school where everything was taught in Chinese (cantonese) and the only subject familiar to you was English. With lots of support and help from fantastic teachers and my lovely parents, with additional lessons after school every single day, you made it in the end! All you need is lots of self-discipline and self-motivation, get inspired. If you can do it then, why can't you do it again?

I've always tried to read lots of autobiographies of successful people. Read articles on how to keep yourself going everyday. How to be productive. Trying to find that 'kick in the ass'. Everyday I search for these answers. What a waste of time. Today, I've decided to search for answers within me. Famous people do have their amazing life stories. But I believe that one day I can also write a book like that. It doesn't have to be published. But I am positive that it won't be any less interesting than those I've read. Haha. Yes, I have become rather confident. That's what you need in the big city. Lots of Confidence, a pinch of LUCK, a little bit of intelligence, lots of discipline and be able to socialise with different types of people. One thing I always remind myself: Never be pessimistic.

Been talking to Rich recently about my future plans and career prospects. He finally realised that you really can't judge Jennifer's book by it's cover. LOL. Yes, Jennifer is actually not ambitious at all, although she appears to be. One of my friends has told me of how she wished to be me. I seem so confident, so capable and so ambitious. But I just couldn't stop laughing and told her that it's only a book's cover. Jennifer does aim high. But she never really want to take the hassle to live her life like that. 1. it's too tiring. 2. you won't have a life that you can really enjoy MOST of the time. What's the point of climbing up high and constantly worry about someday you'll going to be taken over by someone else and lose everything you once owned? I don't like the trouble and I would rather enjoy most of the time in life with my sufficient amount of money to pursue my 'HAPPYNESS' in a rather different way compared to Christopher Gardner.

Rich is always telling me how 'interesting' I am. In other words, unpredictably ridiculous. Jennifer could tell you that she only wants to work at the County Council earning a fair sum of money but another day she appears to be working towards the Big Fours and planning to gradually climbing up to a investment bank. Or she could tell you that you doesn't agree with this but after a few days she's even more into it than you, or she could tell you she's going to something right but in the end doing something absolutely wrong. It all depends on my instincts - my 8th sense. LOL.

Just a couple of days ago I wrote a rather 'interesting' cover letter and amended my previous CV for KPMG. Got rejected from PWC London but one major reason was that I sent my application too late. Took my own sweet time and did a crap job with my CV without a cover letter. LOL. How confident can I get? Hopefully I'll get a decent Summer Internship, provided that I do well in my second year.

You really made my day (a MUST share)

Just as I thought my day was getting worse. My dearest Ruby JJ sent me this:

蜘蛛和蜜蜂訂婚了

蜘蛛感到很不滿意於是就問牠的媽媽:「為什麼要讓我娶蜜蜂?」
蜘蛛的媽媽說:「蜜蜂是吵了一點. 但人家好歹也是個空姐.」
蜘蛛說:「可是我比較喜歡蚊子耶!」
蜘蛛的媽媽說:「不要再想那個護士了,打針都打不好,上次搞到媽水腫.」**********************************************************
蜜蜂也感到很不滿意, 於是就問牠的媽媽:「為什麼要讓我嫁給蜘蛛呢?」
蜜蜂的媽媽說:「蜘蛛是醜了一點, 但人家好歹也是搞網路的........」
蜜蜂說:「可是人家比較愛螞蟻啊!」
蜜蜂的媽媽說:「別再提那瘦巴巴的工頭, 整天扛著食物東奔西跑, 連台貨車都沒有.」
蜜蜂說:「那隔壁村的蒼蠅哥也不錯.」
蜜蜂的媽媽說:「他是長得蠻帥的, 但也不能找個食屎的.」

OMG. I had a really good laugh! Thank you so much!!!!!

I wonder

why are my days so interesting?

Do you want to know the highlight of my day? Well, my housemate microwaved a chocolate pudding for 3 minutes and it got so smoky! Yes, it was burnt. It was so burnt that our whole apartment looks like it's just set on fire but thank goodness there's no flames. Just really thick smoke. Now I've finally realised that people really choke during a fire, I've always thought it was fake choking.

Smoke filled the whole apartment and our fire alarm went off. I was so scared the fire brigade would come so I quickly grabbed a chair and covered the fire alarm with a plastic bag. Then tried every single way to turn it off. Luckily I succeeded. We opened all windows, switched on every single air purifier in the apartment and waited for the smoke to go away. But our apartment still has the smoky smell. So I sprayed lots of carpet and curtain fresheners. Just hate bad smells.

For the whole day I've been so uncomfortable as I could always smell the smoky smell around me. And it was just now that I realised it came from my clothes and hair. So I quickly took a shower, washed my hair and washed all my clothes.

对我是有轻微的洁癖。
Anyway, it's all good now. And I can finally get myself to really study. May God Bless me that I can really start to study from now on. I do not want to ruin my life (referred to in secret garden).

Absentminded

3.30pm in the afternoon I started walking back home (as in walking back to my parent's house) for work. A nice 1 hour walk from my term time accommodation back home. Had my MP3 in my ear and walked happily back. As I got to the door of my house, ' I forgot to bring my keys!' Oh s***

What a pain in the ass!

Work starts at 5pm, it was already 4.30pm when I got to my house. So I had to call friends for help. Whoever had a car and might be able to do me a big favour to drive me back to accommodation and get the keys for my house to get in. And luckily, someone was available to do this big favour for me. Felt rather bad but I had no choice.

Great timing. Got into the house and got changed as fast as I could then rushed to work. What the hell was I thinking today? How could I forget to bring something so important? Oh well, a good lesson learnt.

Strange people

首先报告一下：绿豆枸杞粥还真没什么奇怪的味道, 大家不妨试一下。
TIPS: 多加SUGAR

A couple of days ago, I met a couple of strange people. I do not want to specify the day or time or place as that'll be a bit too obvious. Anyway, we went somewhere for a meal. The conversations for the whole night sounded rather sarcastic all the time. It was then I realised that people who have different types of humours to yourself can sound so sarcastic! Couldn't say it was a very enjoyable meal. But we had some delicious food.

Now I fear going into work. Unlike university you are able to choose who you want to work with or hang around with. For a proper job, you are not in the choosing position. So that means I might have to work with some really strange people like that and I'll have to bare with a lot of strange personalities.

Or well, that's life and that's reality. Can't always live in this green house. Let me first worry about my second year exams.

没想到

前几天写的ENTRY-‘糟了’，还广受喜爱，谢谢大家夸奖啦。看来这几天狂看台剧和娱乐节目是有点收获嘀, 在压力怎么大的情况下还能找到我的幽默。呵呵。不过，这是借口啦，我的宝贵时间就这样一天一天的溜走了。嗨！

我每天看那么多台剧，看到眼睛都红了，好怕上火。今天，就很自觉的熬了一大锅的绿豆糯米粥。还心血来潮地放了一大把枸杞进去，补补眼睛。听起来很奇怪、很恶心吧？可是你想想啊，枸杞是没什么味道的，那跟什么东西一起煮都可以咯！粥的味道嘛，我还没尝，到时候尝了再告诉大家吧。

ANYWAY，不管啦。 现在以降火，明目为主。
加油温习！

Sunday

Every Sunday, I will be waking up with the angelic sounds from the Church bells. Either from St. Nicholas or the actual Durham cathedral. It's beautiful! The ringing of bells either symbolises happy or sad events. It's also a way to chase away the devils. ^^

It's great living right in the middle of the city center. But there's really too many distractions. I'd rather shut myself up in a little house deep in the woods.

The first thing I did was to go online and I saw Rich's entry on the snow in London. Strange. Usually it's always much colder in the North of UK but this time when there's snow in London, it's sunny in Durham!

But...

as I'm writing this, the sky starts to turn gloomy -_-''

5 minutes later...

I see snow flakes.

Driving

I have indeed, FINALLY, decided to take some driving lessons. It's a rather handy qualification. Bought 20 hours worth of lessons in one go and now I'm up to my 11th hour. So just 9 more hours to go. It'll fly by. 2 hours every week and voom, £300 gone.

Not a bad experience though and my instructor adores me. HAHA. That's a good thing. He said I'm such a fast learner that I could take my practical test in no time. Usually people of a higher education degree learn slower than those who do more piratical things. So should I be happy to hear such a compliment or should I worry about my future?

But if he says I'm a natural driver than I'm rather proud of that. LOL

A couple of people have asked me what car are you driving now? My immediate answer was it's 'black' that's all I can tell you for now. I have no idea of anything about cars. So after a couple of weeks I finally remembered to ask my instructor 'so what's the brand of your car?' He was quite shocked I didn't know. And apparently, it's a Mercedes. Just look how rich you can be when you're a driving instructor in the UK.

The labour costs in the UK is quite ridiculous.

It was funny when I first started. I was and is still a problem child. Questions after questions. I would not stop asking the instructor. For example, 'is my car actually on the road?, if that lorries comes any closer would I actually crash straight into it?, why do those lights blink all the time?, what's that sign over there?, do I go use the inner or outer lane for this rounder-about?'

And yes, you are correct to be thinking that this girl has not even done her theory test yet. Thinking about it, it's strange that you don't really need to take your theory test first before you could start learning to drive. Don't quite understand this logic but it's fantastic for me cause I just don't have the time to do my theory test now.

糟了

最近发现自己英文烂了很多。
中文又没进步多少。
那我以后应该讲什么语言呢？不如，明年去学学手语，几年后变成哑巴也还可以和别人沟通。

恩，还挺聪明的嘛！凡事都有解决的方法。哈哈。

今晚要早点睡噜。大家晚安。

A foreigner (Part 1)

I'm sure even for those who've been born here (i.e. BBCs - British Born Chinese) are all classed under Chinese no matter what passport you hold. Well, as a foreigner in another country, a whole different culture you've got to make yourself 50% better than the natives in every single way. You've got to work that bit harder, you've got to be that bit stronger and you've got to show these people you've not only mastered their language and culture but still willing to keep hold of your own.

And that's what people always forget. They might want to forget this fact, they might want to reject this social label. But they could never hide away this fact, this reality.

At the age of 5, I've left my roots behind in Wuhan, China. But now I've gradually finding it back. With the help of strict family rules and traditions. I've always knew I'm forever Chinese and I'm rather proud of that.

People that I've met throughout these years have been telling me how amazing they think my childhood was. Yes, it is fantastic. I learnt a lot and maybe became a little bit more mature than some people of my age. But whys that? People seldom take into account that I've had so many tough moments in life.

Being the first Chinese girl in Doha, Qatar. Attended 2 British Primary Schools there. Being the first Chinese girl in the Country gave me the honour to raise the Flag of China. That's all great. But has anyone realised that being the only and first Chinese in a whole new environment at that time was pretty scary? People will be curious why I had such black hair (as my hair is rather darker than the majority people, so it made it even more obvious), why I had dark brown eyes, why I spoke a strange language to my parents, why this, why that. Of course, sometimes you do get bullied in some ways or two. So at the age of 5, I realised that I had to be better in every single way than these people.

After about 4 years, my family moved to HK and another adventure begins. Mentally, life did not get any easier. You would think it would right? But no, although HK is part of China now, it wasn't when I was there and I left HK when it became part of China. The transition period - was another war to be fought.

And my life story continues... stay tuned.