taking a breather...

three papers down, two more to go.

i'm THIS sure i'll be failing at least one paper, failing (pardon the pun) which i would just barely scrape through - something which i will be very happy about.

exams are really not my thing.

i have an econs paper tomorrow and a political science paper on saturday.

i strongly suspect having five papers during the week is costing me my grades. =(

anyways, as i was pottering the hubby's room yesterday, i found that these things always make me smile (in absence of snuffy hubby)...

of course, there's our wedding photo series...

we had brought gwizzly and donald to our photoshoot because they are so us.

we also loved that gwizzly played a major part in our wedding - from being the model on our invite to being our ring bearer. =)

a short honeymoon later, we added two more members to the gang - viktor (from just for laughs) and sully (from monsters inc.).

sully never fails to get me smiling because he just looks so cheeky.

and hubby is as glad we got sully because i was contemplating buying him at the fifth avenue disney store but didn't get him until we were at california disney.

the gang keeps me company during the day...

until snuffy hubby comes back home. =)

not so long ago...

snuffy hubby told me something very sweet today.

on a rare breather moment today, he took his cellphone out and started scrolling through the pictures he took of me and of us.

he said that looking at those pictures reminded him of how he used to visit my blog not too long ago and would look at my pictures, thinking how cool it would be to be the one who makes me smile and taking those photos of me.

"i thought 'how cool it would be if she were my girlfriend' and now all that's come true! she's even my wife now!"
aww.


thank you, snuffy hubby, for your support through my first exam in years...and the ice cream treat tonight. =)

CREATIVE THINKING...

so the creative thinking presentation is finally over!

and now the studying can begin proper. =P

two weeks ago, the team set up a booth outside the SMU kopitiam with a sign with the words "ask me a question".

we invited passer-bys to ask us whatever questions they had in mind for a low donation of 10 cents per question.

the amount raised would go to a charity project (Project Nepal, probably) organized by one of the SMU clubs.

we applaud and thank those who patronized our booth and had us wrecking our brains for creative answers to your creative questions. =)

click here for a short video of the kind of craziness we encountered.

we presented this video and our observations in class today, where all the other groups presented their creative thinking projects.

we had loadsa fun doing this. =)

thanks professor kirpal!

EXAM FEVER...

it's a week from my exams.

shudder.

i haven't started revising for them and i'm not sure why i'm not getting that stressed out at the prospect of not being able to finish revising.

perhaps being married changes my mindset about what's really important.

everything else pretty much falls to the sidelines, even though i used to think of those things as the be all.
i'll be taking five papers, while the majority of students are taking four, or three.

good luck to me. =P

in other news, pauline's posted up pictures of our day at wild wild wet!


topped off the evening with a fantastic dinner at aston's grill...


where we showed off the t-shirts mom got us from bangkok...


thanks to snuffy hubby for being so sporting. =)

WEEKEND MADNESS

so the weekend came and went.

saturday morning was spent at east coast park blading, and having my first fall!

it was still a fun morning spent with the hubby, brother, parents and sue en. =)

the hubby and me then decided to head over to my parents' place with the new card game he got yesterday (a couple of hours before we were to attend a scout dinner at spring court).

we tried my mom's tiramisu ice cream (yummers!) and spent some time playing "zeus on the loose" with the bro, before we all shuffled off to dinner.



the night ended with us zoning out in front of the telly. =P

and sunday afternoon was spent at the wild wild wet water theme park at downtown east.


it was a really small park, but wasn't too bad for a scaredy cat like me!

the hubby and friends could've used more of a challenge though.

dinner of honey-bourbon ribs and the new york strip of a steak was extremely satisfying. =)

the two of us then hopped over to the pet store down the street, played with the puppies some, and got a contact for a husky breeder...*beams*

puppies always lift me up.

i can only imagine how owning one would affect our lives, but i do know for sure that we would be good parents to it. =)

the night ends with a slice of cake from the cheesecake cafe, and puppy thoughts consuming my mind.

on a separate note, nothing beats the cool outta my hubby. =)

LAST POLITICAL SCIENCE ESSAY!

that's right.

the last political science essay for the term is done!

i'm extremely relieved that this is the last of the three term papers i have to hand up for this module, but am rather dissatisfied with the content of my latest paper "Globalization: Does It Discourage War?"

my previous two were a comparison between presidential and parliamentary systems and whether religion is the underlying cause of most conflicts (i enjoyed writing this one).

exam's on in two weeks...

i'm glad the term zipped by so quickly, but am not sure i've absorbed that much within this time to warrant my advance to the next term.

so far, my journey into varsity hasn't quite given me enough reason to think that school's really that important now.

i appreciate the knowledge i've gained as a result of my first term and the few genuine souls i've encountered along the way, but i'm still missing my job.

my boss has been an absolute sweetie, encouraging me to take on ad hoc assignments because he wants to keep me on his payroll.

i guess it's hard for him to not have me around anymore, given how we've slogged through the last four years together.

but things are better now, what with the company moving ahead and upward.

so now i'm playing the roles of an employee, a student, a daughter/in-law, a sister and a wife, the last two being my favorite. =P

i am thankful for the presence of my husband.

and for the rollerblades and ice cream treats he's showered on me.

and for the mornings he wakes up next to me, kisses me, and tells me that he loves me.