Lizards are meant to be on the walls NOT FLOORS

ARGH!!!

I spotted a BIG FAT LIZARD on the floor in my room today. I screamed and shouted for my mum and the LIZARD probably has the biggest shock in ITS life and quickly crawled back under my brother's bed. When my mum finally came in, IT was gone.

When I finally forgot about the BIG FAT LIZARD, IT decided to remind me of ITS existence by appearing on the floor again. I screamed and shouted again and IT crawled all over the floor (ok, not everywhere but a semi-circle from IT appeared). Mum managed to came in on time but the LIZARD disappeared again when the insecticide was ready.

Mum was really brave, she shifted the stuffs and the LIZARD came jumping out and crawling on the floor and out of my room. She chased after IT and sprayed the insecticide.

I have no idea if the BIG FAT LIZARD is dead or not but even if IT is, I am still having the goosebumps from seeing IT so close to me.


LIZARDS, LISTEN UP! YOU ALL BELONG TO THE WALLS, NOT THE FLOORS AND DEFINITELY NOT MY ROOM! GET OUT OF HERE!

I am pissed

I am very pissed over an incident. Though it is small, I just hate it.

PISSED!

SUPERB pissed off

I am superb pissed off now. I can't understand my New Media projectmates with the exception of only one. Only 1 girl and I are doing all the work while the others are like this project is none of their business. They don't turn up for online meeting, don't even bother to ask what we discussed during the meeting then when they finally turned up they made everything we did become trash then they push back the progress. Super pissed off. Just what do they want? Can't believe that I actually met these kind of people for my project.

They think we have forever to do the project when our deadline is this Friday. Just what the heck do they want?!

Courts = Unprofessional

I am raging in anger now. I feel like tearing Courts apart at this very moment. Please never shop at Courts. Their after-sale service is like sh*t! I am going to share my experience here with the email reply from Courts.


I bought an Acer notebook from Courts (Tampines outlet) on 4th July 2005. It was a very quick procedure as I knew what I wanted to get. I told the sales personnel what I wanted and he told me to get '2 years extended warranty'. I agreed as I read that notebook is not long-lasting and getting additional years of warranty is only for the good. So I proceeded to the cashier to make payment and after I made payment, the sales personnel approached me to inform me, only after payment, that the notebook was out of stock. I wasn't in a hurry so I said I would wait. This was my first shopping experience with Courts and at that moment, I did not realise that I have to get the tax invoice back from the cashier which the cashier did not return to me.

The next day, I went back to Courts to get a photocopied version of the invoice from the sales personnel. All these times, the sales personnel did not inform me about the terms and conditions of the extended warranty.

Weeks after 4th of July, I finally received my notebook. The sales personnel did not call me up but it was me who kept calling him up for updates. He did not bother to call me up even when the notebook arrived in store.

2 years and 11 months passed peacefully. The notebook served me well until the frequency of the screen started giving me problems. I decided to get a new notebook which is the current one I am using. When I decided to double-check my invoice for the Acer notebook, I remember the 2 years extended warranty so I told my mum I would send it for repair.

I called the extended warranty hotline and no one answered, thinking that self carrying in will do the trick, I carried the 3kg Acer notebook to the outlet that I bought my notebook from. I was not given basic attention and was told to call the extended warranty hotline again. So I called again. First try, the line was cut off and finally the second try managed to get me through to the customer service officer on the other end. The officer checked my records and told me my warranty expired 1 year ago. I was so surprised that I almost shouted at the officer.

'2 years extended warranty' to me refers to 2 years additional warranty on top of the original warranty covered by Acer. But no, I was told that '2 years extended warranty' means 1+1 year warranty. Can you imagine my shock? I paid $199 for only 1 extra year of warranty and when my invoice stated '2 years extended warranty'.

I wasn't ready to let it rest yet so with encouragement from Leanne, I sent a complaint to Courts.

"I bought an Acer notebook from your Tampines outlet on the 4th July 2005 with an extended warranty of 2 years. Now that the screen of the notebook has some problems, I called your Extended Warranty hotline to be told that my warranty expired last year. It was outraging to think that I spent $199 for 2 years extended warranty but instead furnished with only a 1+1 year of warranty.

Your invoice also stated '2 years extended warranty'. Unless I am very mistaken, I understood the word 'extended' as additional. If you do not wish to comply with the stated warranty in your invoice, kindly not put the word 'extended' to mislead your customers. I was also not told of this when your sales personnel enthusiastically encouraged me to purchase extended warranty.

Personally, I felt very cheated by the way Courts works. I hope for a satisfying reply."

After acquiring some additional information from me, here is the reply from Courts:

"Dear Ms Kelly

Thank you for your email dated 13 June 2008 about the warranty period of your Acer notebook.

We apologise for the misunderstanding. Please allow us to confirm that you have received a copy of the Terms and Conditions of the Extended Warranty (printed at the back of your invoice).

We like to refer you to the clause which states “The term of the Contract is two(2) to five(5) years from purchase date or delivery date (whichever is later) inclusive of original manufacturer’s warranty period”. As you purchased the Acer notebook on 4 July 2005, the Extended Warranty expired on 3 July 2007. As such you may need to approach ACER’s technical support for support/repair.

We seek your understanding in this matter."

No, I don't understand and I don't wish to understand. Why wasn't the terms and conditions made known to me in the first place before I made payment?

So I replied again:

"I do have the invoice but it is a photocopied one of the original invoice. When I paid for my notebook at the cashier, the cashier did not return the invoice to me and I didn't know that I was supposed to collect it back. I had to double back the next day to get a photocopied version from the sales personnel and he only photocopied the first page. So I am perfectly unaware of any terms and conditions of the extended warranty which the sales personnel did not also highlight to me.

On top of it, I did not receive the notebook on the date of purchase. I received it only weeks after the purchase as I wasn't told the notebook was out of stock until I paid for it. I had to keep calling for updates of the notebook instead of the sales personnel calling me up. It was surprising to know that this wasn't noted in the invoice or data system on your side.

I have been enduring all these unprofessional service on your side and now I have to endure more. Thanks for you reply but I am utterly disappointed by the after-sale service provided by Courts. I am never buying from Courts again."

I am pretty sure I won't be getting a reply for this with that last sentence in my email. Be it that they replied or not, I marked my words never to shop at Courts again.

My FIRST acceptance letter

I am super happy yet very stress now.

Received my FIRST acceptance letter from NUS yesterday.

I was so happy until a couple of hours ago when others asked me why did I pick Arts and Social Science.

Now I also wonder why.

I don't like Humanities and neither do I like Economics. Just why did I pick Arts & Social Science?

(?.?)

I looked through what FASS offers again and thought the only few that I will be interested in are Japanese Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science
and maybe Economics.

Japanese Studies, Psychology and Sociology are for interest. But where can interest brings you? Plus FASS is not exactly a specialised degree but more of a diversified degree.

Economics and Political Science are for practical reasons.
ARGH!!~

Didn't get into U makes me stress up and now that I am accepted, I feel the stress again.
(-.-)
I am so hard to please~

Waiting for NTU and SMU replies. If I get into Accountancy of SMU or NTU, I will definitely drop the offer from NUS but fat hope. With a GPA of only 3.44, who am I to fight with those who scored 3.7 and above?
This is so demoralising. When I once thought 3.44 is still a pretty good GPA, I get to know people who got 3.7 and still did not get into Accountancy.
(-.-)

Stained

ARGH!!!
As the title suggests, it is stained.
( ;-[ )


I knew it is almost 'the time' of the month but irritably, I forgot to safeguard myself before leaving the house today.


Only when I start to feel the slight cramp then I realised 'it' is here.
To top it all, I was wearing white shorts today.
(-.-")


Fantastic. Two tiny stains on it and though it is not very noticeable, I decided not to embarrass myself by taking a cab home.
And,
this is the first time in my entire life booking a cab and the total ride costs me a good $11.80.
Which is also the only time in my life that the fare comes up to that much when I only ride for a short distance.
Kudos to the uncle for taking the route with the longest waiting time at the traffic lights.
Not just 1 traffic light but almost 5 of them.
(-.-")

Should have called my uncle to send me home since he lived nearby and is at home today.
Just my luck.

38.4 degree celsius

The title reads my body temperature when I was at the clinic. No wonder I have been feeling very tired and mood-less today.

When I woke up this morning, my throat was hurting so much that I couldn't swallow. It still hurts now.

Went to my student's place to give tuition and then to Tampines interchange to deposit some cash. Who knows that the transaction was unsuccessful and my money was retained by the machine. Had to call DBS to get them to help me. -.- So unlucky.

Then I went to Music Junction to redeem 5566 latest album. Listened to it briefly. Not too bad. Very different from their previous albums which are all about 'love'. The type of music is also slightly different now. Overall, it is nice.

Need to go take a rest now. Bye.

Guiltiness

I am not good at forgetting things that I am guilty of. Guiltiness is something that will follow me wherever I go. Thought that I can finally get rid of guiltiness and it found its way back to me.

Remember in primary two when my principal pointed me out in front of the whole school for holding all the presents from my friends. I returned the presents immediately after that. I don't like it when someone of a higher authority looked upon me as if I am someone really nasty.

A few years older, my mum asked me to bring a plate of freshly cooked sardine to a neighbour. She reminded me not to run but I still ran and fell. I spilled the plate of sardine and hurt myself very badly. Mummy was super angry and I still feel guilty now.

I feel guilty about not putting in enough effort such that I can make it to university without much problems. I still feel very affected about it.

Now that I am a tutor, I feel guilty for being too lenient to some students. I feel guilty about the guardian finding out that the student is listening to MY iPod during my tuition session.

How can I get rid of all these guiltiness? I really feel very disturbed and upset about such things. =(

Mixed feelings

Went for Hepatitis B vaccine this morning cause my count for the antibiotics is only 41. Super duper low. Really regretted to sacrifice my right hand for the super big syringe. =( It is still numb and painful if I lift my arm to high.

First tuition of the day is all well at first until I started marking the mock exam paper then my mood changed from moody to angry. She only scored 38 out of 100. She is the only student that I have so far that ever complained that I did not teach her something which I taught before. Imagine my anger. She also loves to say that she is very careless and it is not my first time telling her that careless is no excuse for bad results. She complained that the paper is difficult but when I put myself in her shoes to look at the questions, they are really straightforward. Seriously, I think she will go to EM3 if she doesn't buck up.

Next student's mother requested for no tuition next week. Firstly, her daughter's school did not finish teaching the Mathematics and Science topics for the exam and they will be sitting for their exam two weeks later. Plus a one week holiday next week, I doubt the school can even finish teaching within one whole day of lessons. So I explained to her and luckily she can understand and allow me to continue with whatever plans I have.

When I reached home, my dad told me that a building collapsed today and one died. My condolences to the family. Never ever did I imagine that a building in Singapore will collapse. Well, I know there is a case of the collapsed hotel many years ago but I strongly believe in our government to do necessary work to ensure the safety of its people. Luckily the building was scheduled for demolishing and everyone who used to live there already moved out. The only casualty is a worker who was working at the 17th storey at that time. So scary.

I really don't enjoy the busy period now. Just hope that I can get all the rest I want soon.

Hectic week

I am so dead this week.

Ever since Tuesday, my week had been really busy. I am drained from every single source of energy after my last tuition of the week. I am as good as a walking corpse.

The worst thing now is I have a project to be done before the 20th of this month and it is on CSS. How the hell do I know what is CSS? I still have no single idea of what is that.

I really have the urge to just ignore everything, lead my simple life and heck care whatever is happening. I really don't feel good about how things are going on recently.

Why can't certain people be more cooperative with me? I am tired. Even someone who met me for the first time knows that I must have been drained recently. So why can't people just give me their cooperation but continue to let me run after them for things to be done?

I am no wonder woman and I don't wish to be one.

I am tired and I just want to sleep. Give me peace.