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The following happened because of something else that happened.
There was a screw-up at the cinema earlier this month. Apparently mom's credit card was still charged for the 6 tickets that was not collected. Wrote an email and fax to the management under my mom's name and my phone number to get their attention and earlier today, the manager in charge called me back asking for my mom.
So I said "yes, I'm her". And they went on to ask what relation is this Theresa to me and I answered "she's my daughter", since I really am my mom's daughter and I'm pretending to be her. He went on to say he'll get the credit card matter settled within a week or two and will keep me posted and all that.
It was only much later, after I left the office, did I suddenly realize how misleading that must've sounded. And at that instant, I suddenly remembered having the feeling of a whole bunch of heads turning to my direction. I know for a fact that the moment the words "she's my daughter" left my lips, the two guys on internship with me turned and I made eye contact for a fraction of a second with them.
They're prolly thinking "WTF! She has a daughter?!?! And she's still a student?? And she's 2 years younger than us!?!!?!?!?!!!?!?"
And given their penchant for assuming without any attempts to clarify matters, I'd really like to see how far this lil slip of tongue will go. Lol...
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So I was out books-hunting in Kinokuniya at both Orchard and Bugis (20% storewide baby!) and on my way to Bugis Junction, I saw Einstein Kristiansen at the MRT.
So in the spur of the moment, I grinned and waved at him when he looked my way. He had on his little polite smile when he saw me looking and grinning at him and when I waved, he started squinting and looking all perplexed by my behavior. He's prolly thinking "that girl's a bit too old to know me. I mean, I do kids shows!" and maybe even, "that is one fruity girl. Why would she be waving at me like I know her personally and at her age, wouldn't that be embarrassing to do so in public?"
I *would* feel embarrassed if he didn't respond in any way but he did, with a little raise-of-a-hand wave. Phew... Lol!
So after that little OOC episode, zy kept asking me to "Eh... wave leh..." at random passerbys and kids staring at us from within the car and motorists outside the vehicle etc.
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Unlike all the other "kiasu" piranhas--I mean students taking final year projects, I'd only ever emailed one professor and express my interest in one of his projects. And by some fluke chance or bad timing, he happened to be in USA the week I emailed him (which was last week). So his secretary set up a meeting for all who emailed him this week. And today's the deadline for him to choose students for projects. 2 weeks, starting from tomorrow, students not allocated a project will hafta fight tooth and nail for the remaining projects. Me and nat were so convinced we would've fallen into the latter category after the meeting today, seeing as how the prof kept saying that "many people are vying for this project".
I bet we got it coz everyone else got sick of waiting for him and found another prof to latch onto long before he came back from US and A. =3
~~My email to the prof on why we want the project and why he should choose us (brace yourselves, it's gonna be a long one)~~
Hi Sir, we have just met earlier and since I did not receive any email regarding our details, I'll send them to you now. Hopefully the lateness of this reply will not deter you from considering us as candidates.
Firstly, some basics. I'm 3sa and my partner is nat. We are both hoping to specialize in Biomedical Electronics during our final year (seems like everyone wants to do biomed these days...) and we both feel that this project will be able to help us relate to the field we will be stepping into, even if the link to both fields might not be apparent right away.
Personally, I am fascinated by the idea of analyzing EEG signals and correlating them to different emotions. This project in particular could one day assist psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose possible mental disorders in patients. Among all the other projects listed, this project was the first to engage my interest and I had even thought of various ways to design and implement the experiments. After the meeting earlier today however, I now know that my plans for executing the experiments was sadly inadequate and we will have to modify them if we are ever to be selected.
I am proud to say that I am no stranger to biomedical engineering and biosignals. I am a graduate of Temasek Polytechnic, with a Diploma in Biomedical Informatics and Engineering. Throughout my 3 years of study at TP, I have came in contact with different methods of acquiring different biosignals, processed my fair share of those data using MATLAB and other softwares and is familiar with electrodes and gels. =)
nat was a triple-science student. Having taken biology in JC had given her ample knowledge on how the human body works and she is especially keen on the subject of brain wave research. She is also well acquainted with Visual Basic C++ and is familiar with programming. I am certain she will be able to understand the program in no time and maybe even improve the algorithms provided for us in this project.
I know many people had expressed their desire to take up this project because it "interests" them and it sounds "interesting" but we do not want to be one of those people that wants this project just because it is "interesting" (even though, truth be told, it really is an interesting project to work on). We hope to be to assist and advance the area of EEG research and hopefully, our work in this field will be of some use to other researcher in the future.
Thank you for taking time out to read this lengthy email. I truly hope we will be able to hear good news from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
3sa
(*insert cell phone number here*, in case you have any further queries)
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I'm rather proud of this email--but only after it got us the project. Keke...
Aunt said my email was absolutely "flattering" (in the worse sense of the word), for him and for me, and that this is what a cover letter of all resumes should look like. *beams happily*
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*gasps* Dave "Phoenix" Farrell as Colin "Bullseye" Farrell
Somehow, even without my subscribing to it, warnermusic.com.tw sent me a promo poster thingie on Linkin Park's new album and on it was a publicity shot with all 6 of em. And the first thing I fixated on was Phoenix aka Dave Farrell aka the bassist and his shiny cranium. It wasn't that big a deal since he'd had the 'do (or lack thereof) for awhile now but what struck me was how much he looked like the other Farrell where he'd shaved his head and let loose his homocidal side in that atrocity, Daredevil.
Since I can't find the same picture on "teh intraweb" and the stupid newsletter only allows for small squares of image to be saved, I shall upload the square with him to my photobucket (click me~) and let everyone behold the glorious shinys! :D
P.S. He's the one on the right. Like you'd be able to miss the hairless one.
P.P.S. And don't get me wrong, I happen to like the shinys. :P
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(click me!) snow patrol video on youtube *squeee*
Saw this video earlier today on MTV but it was ending soon. Saw a bunch of kids in the video and their getup looks very familiar. Then I saw a cute kid with mechanical tentacles strode up on stage and flung people around. It was only then I realize I'm actually watching a school play parodying spidey movies 1 & 2 with Snow Patrol playing in the background. Watched the video for another minute before MTV flashed the artist and title of the song being played. And being the curious cat that I am, I went to look for the video on youtube so I could watch it fully.
I hafta say I'm not really a big fan of kids but there's just something squee-worthy about this video. Watch it if you can spare 4m32s. Great sounds by Snow Patrol as always :P
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All together now, happy birthday to jess whose hasn't been actively blogging for almost a year now. May you get a computer that is new and running, internet that is stable and bugless and family members that are less anal about everything.
Happy thoughts, girl. Think happy thoughts.
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