fryday

today there's campaign management class and i just feel so UGHHH about the whole thing.

now u must know that this is a very project-based module and lousy project team mates would really kill.

firstly a friend of mine fb-messaged me asking me to join her group, which is made up of entirely asian girls. the first time i went for tutorial and joined their group in discussions, i realised that my friend can be quite weird, speaking in a funny slang and doing the angmoh-way of speaking where they speak in a low tone with lots of "yeah"... and it's really difficult as i also realised about myself, that people often like to act smart and later apologize a lot, which is annoying. i find it hard to relate to her. and the other girls are really nice but i wanted to learn more about the australian culture by mixing with people from other cultures, and so i rejected her offer.

when i got to class late, i realised that most people have already decided to pick their own groups, and then when the assigning of groups came, i was one of those UNWANTED ones. the feeling really sucks. my group is of 4 girls, while other groups were made out of 5 or 6 people. you can see how nobody wants to be in our group.

now i am really worried about the past history of the girls, whether they have a bad project experience. maybe there is also a johari's window that i dont know about me- maybe i am too eager or questioning or something. :( anyway the first task of emailing the "client" and writing the group charter is already going to be done by me.

whhhhhhyyyyyyyyyy janet whyyyyyyyyyyy.

got home really restless. i have a sudden avalanche of things to do but i just didnt want to do them.

so i started to clean up my garden!

i unweeded quite a large plot of weeds in the really forsaken garden in my backyard! stopped nearing the plants with thorns, was kinda afraid that karma will strike me should i lurch myself into the thorns when i exert too much strength.

i've been started on a i-have-a-garden-omgee-i-have-a-garden phase and have those crazy things i want to do in the garden. been asking my room mates if we could keep a chook (aussie slang for chicken) in the backyard. arno says no but the rest are fine with it! now i have to convince the landlord...!!

it'll be good to have a pet chicken coz i wanted free eggs. living in the pigeon-holes of HDB flats of singapore means that i never have the space to rear chickens and that i should seize my one and only chance to rear chickens ever in my lifetime. also, i really wanted a pet that all of my room mates and i could own and breed together, like the baby of the family. gahhhh wish my landlord says yessss.

back to topic! was weeding and thinking about people that will be weeded out of my life, when i stumbled on this interesting weed which looked really familiar. so i sniffed it and realised that it's LEMONGRASS!

free lemongrass for tom yam soup yay!

moments like this makes me appreciate mother nature, luck and my slight gardening genes. my mum takes pride in her flowers and my grandmother is also a fervent gardener as well, planting a whole papaya plant when i couldn't pass out my shit when i was younger *hehe*

oh and then arno came to tell me that he grew fantastic tomatos back in hongkong, and they were very nice tomatoes probably coz he, peed on them everyday. like, what the heaven right!!

so later arno decides to drive out to winthrop IGA supermarket to get some groceries and arthur, marit and i hopped on.

i made a birthday card and got the chance to post it out, YAY!

overseas postage is quite ridiculous huh.

cell group at yuwin's is fun, giselle joined in. made tang yuan for the cell, alas i boiled it a little too long and the peanut fillings burst out, making it look really gross.

i am really quite proud of my cooking skills now. feeling very blessed that i can cook alright. :) yang can cook, so can you!