15 MINUTES of battery left!

OK this is a mad rush to make ONE blog entry before my computer officially goes into hibernation for lack of strength.

Just thought i should come by to tell you all how my media law examination was lest you all worry!

It was HARD!!!!

But it was ok... I was so aleepy during the paper because the previous night was a tensed up non-replenishing sleep. The good thing however, is that when i went for the paper in the morning, I realised 99% of the cohort experienced the same symptoms(lest for mono who seemed to have gotten good sleep but still spent the 45 minutes before entering the hall panicking. heh heh.)

Anyhow, i did my very very best! And i felt very good after the paper! Almost felt like it was the end of examinations already!

Unfortunately.. i still have one paper tomorrow to tackle. And as usual am going through stacks of notes and cramming it in....

At carrie's mother's "mum's kopitiam" blogging now because i came in to EAT!!!! Yummy!!!
Its at Jalan Maju, very near plaza pelangi... so do drop by whenever you are in Johor for wholesome good tasting affordable food... =) I just tried Karen's(the cook!) almond jelly. Its the smoothest i've ever had and i love almond jelly... Yayness!

Diya's stomach is incredibly happy.

Alrighty. Have really got to go before computer gives up before i even post this.

Till end of exams and end of cruise trip! Next week is still an icredibly busy week for me! Bye!

My latest album is OUT!!!

supposed to be "读到疯掉“ but i think photoshop self censored the words. TOO VULGAR. haha...

as you can tell... I am losing all sanity. Hahaha...
(no worries though, i did this during a short break i gave myself which however seems to becoming quite a long break. ack.)

And while studying at Spinelli's, a lady came by and politely left this on the table. She's deaf and she sells these little key chains for a living i guess... she leaves a note together with the keychain on all the tables and then makes another round by the tables to collect them again.


Was very tempted to go through the whole process of using ethics to determine what sort of an action i should execute. But i'm never one to reason out my actions, i go by feeling. Plus I'm bad at the rejecting and saying "no" ... and it seemed like a cute keychain.... and i happened to have a 5 dollar note in my pocket... and..... and....

So i bought it.

NO ethics reasoning, NO Immanuel Kant taking over my brain, NO consequentialist rationales interfering or determining my course of action.

Just the simple:

"I feel like i have the means today to bring a smile to this person's face regardless of whether or not the entire universe feels the same or believes she deserves it. I'm just going to do it. "

Yayness. Happy :)

And the penguin has a "C" on its face!

I'm bringing it into my exams tomorrow. It might be my lucky charm for the copyright question... Hardeehaha.

Wish me luck! and keep me in your prayers!

Alright, I'm getting back to ethics and copyright. Sigh. So hard la.

Save me, mono.
Save me, Waiyin.
Save me, Cenite!!!!!

Progress is so slow....

In the heat of studying for my most feared paper -- 401: media law.

Argh! Its so dry and has so many different facets to it that is all subjective and objective at the same time. It's killing me. Bu interestingly enough, I'm not freaking out. And progress has been uniformly slow.

When i'm supposed to be studying, I end up doing all sorts of other things.

1. Read Blogs.
2. Pack room.
3. Stream Heroes off the internet to watch
4. Polish lap top
5. Celebrate my cow's birthday
6. Eat
7. Sleep
8. Sleep
9. Sleep
10. Blog

And just when i thought my progress was going on pretty well, I met up with the girls only to realise that there's a whole stack of notes that i never knew existed~!!!!! So now, I'm only half way through everything. Sigh... And most of it are notes that are available online and i have no means of printing them out because of my printer is out of ink.

A quick estimation puts me about a good 400-500 pages worth of notes left unprinted and unread. OH shitty shit shit.

But well, being the positive person i am! Another quick estimation and a simple click of the buttons that allows four pages of notes to be printed on my peice of A4 size paper..... that means i only have maybe 100 pages of notes left to read!

MOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I think i've reached the "disillusioned" stage of mugging.


p.s a few of you have been asking me about the cruise trip... NOpe. I haven't gone for it yet. Its from the 23rd to the 25th. 23rd is my last paper. So you can imagine how crazy that's going to be for me. Hahaha...

Angel Yoshimura

Speaking of best friends...(read post below), my childhood Angel is married!

Why childhood Angel?

Because when i was a small kid, I was irritating and a ball of energy who would go around playing tricks on people and beating kors kors triple my size with my small feet and hands. I was also extremely glib.(and if Carrie had a time travelling machine and could go back to the past. SHe would HATE me.)

As a result... there weren't alot of kids who wanted to be associated with me neither did it help that my mum was like the resident "monster" chinese tution teacher whom all parents 'worshipped' and sent their kids to because whatever they couldn't handle, my mum could.

So being the prick i was... I'd always go around threatening naughty kids ..
"I'll tell my mummy that you did this and that and make her give you more homework!"
SO i was miss resident evil and nobody wanted to play with me.

SADNESS.

BUt YAYNESS! God sent me an Angel... Ms Wong Yilin. Three years older but with alot of patience and very pretty... she played with me. Took care of me. Tolerated my nonsense and taught me how to be nice.

I loved her very very much. And even now, I love her very very very very much.

She's very dear to me.

I realised this when i in a moment of rashness(and probably too much drama serials) i slapped her over a stupid card game and then saw this big jie jie of mine burst into tears and run into the toilet. I remembered feeling this huge pain in my heart and i started crying myself... I tried to suffocate my cries in the pillow while the others tried to comfort me...

Haha...it was an incident so long ago but i still remember it so vividly.

Well, this angel got married today. And is now officially Mrs Yoshimura Yilin!
If only we could have been there to witness it... I think i would have cried my heart out.

I am so overjoyed!

God is good. =)

Yilin,

you'll always be big jie jie who always wants to "borrow" my caps and sunglasses but never intend to return them because they're too nice. And i"ll always be Lydia Tan who basically always borrows and then forgets to return.

Hee hee hee hee.

Love,
dia

pictures i 'stole' from her blog! Haha..
Yilin suffocating in a kimono that's too tight!
I laughed out loud at this picture for a good 2 minutes..
alone in my room. Hahaha...

Danny Yoshimura and Yilin Yoshimura!
(oh, and the pastor. Heh.)

What makes a best friend?

Do you have someone you can call a best friend?

Its such a tangible term and the word "best" is so subjective. At any point of your life, 'best' might have different conditions. I remember being in primary school and having a different best friend every year! Haha... But I remember two particularly good friends whom i still think about but hardly keep in contact with anymore....

Fengqi and Kaiyin. (if you see this, drop me a tag with your email ok?)

Its been 10 years since the end of my PSLE... but every year for the past 10 years, without fail, I've been receiving a lovely birthday card from Fengqi with a hand written message asking me how life is and wishing me the best in everything i do.

But without fail, every year... Tan Diya this spoilt brat NEVER remembers to send Fengqi a card in return even though her birthday is so so so so easy to remember!


I wish i could be a better friend who like Fengqi, would be 细心 enough to make the effort in writing and posting a birthday card 10 years without fail. Every year, I'll visit the gift shop and pick out a nice birthday card and also one of those forever friend's christmas cards... telling myself that this year will be the year i finally send out these cards to the friends i love and treasure. But if you open my drawer now... you'll find millions of these cards all yellowed and unused. Some written and sealed but with no stamp holding in it messages written with the heart but never to be read.

Recently I recieved another card from Fengqi...
in it she said...

“ 祝你：
1）金曲奖 ‘07 拿新人奖
2）红星大奖入闱最佳主题曲
3）Honours Year 事事顺利

最重要，保持乐观，豁达！ ＝）”


Fengqi...thank you for being my best friend.
For singing along with me on our bus trips to the safety park...
For playing the song linking game with me all the time...
For coming down for recess with me even though you already have your lunch box(white bread!)
For remembering my birthday for the past ten years.

I will never forget you.

If you peeps have a friend like this now... treasure them ok? GOod friends are really hard to come by... and once they do. HOld on and never let go... =)

Spending some time with 'Night'

Been really busy but the weird thing is. I'm suffering from insomnia tonight.

Sigh. I'm never like this... I always fall asleep anywhere and everywhere(especially in the car.) But now i can't fall asleep even though i haven't exactly been getting good proper sleep. I think its a messed up body clock. Slept at 4am last night... preparing for the performance tonight at the Life Long Learner awards at Raffles Hotel.

President Nathan was there to grace the event, and both me and carrie were really ganjiong spider because we had to sing english songs! Ah! And its so hard to find english song mmo... which meant we had to make do with whatever was available.

I ended up singing S Club 7's "bring it all back"(which was a fav of mine during my secondary school days...such a happy song!) and carrie sand "close to you". The most precarious song of the night had to be our duet... "when you believe". AHHH!!!!!! Its orginally sung by two divas.. whitney and Mariah Carey so you can imagine how difficult it was to sing this song! REally got our nerves all wrecked and disfunctioning ok...

Anyhows! It turned out to be really good! NO major screw ups.. we enjoyed ourselves and it seems everyone else did too! IT always feels good to be able to put up a good performance. Yayness! I'm also really really glad i didn't let my bosses down (Xiao Gua and Little Rice). I like the feeling of being able to put up a good performance and make the people i care about and treasure most feel proud of me... its nice.

So sorry i haven't been updating.. I've had such tiring days i don't even know where to begin or how to share my burdens and stress with you peeps. But everyone else has their burdens and problems right? So instead of indulging in self-pity and choral moaning, I kept myself going... in work, in school. I've really really been trying my very best and i know it still isn't enough. Its the end of the school term... and i do hope i'll be able to get the best i can. Sigh... its been a rather lousy school term for me academically and i implore all of you out there to treasure your chance to study. =)

On a lighter note, today's the deadline for our 422 video documentary which is on the queuing syndrome in singapore done in a nice light-hearted MTV style. Heh heh. I did the sound track which i'm really really proud of(huimin was the creative brain behind most of the lyrics!) and i am looking forward to the screening on tues. Weehee! Shunyi and Edwin almost lost their mind doing the editing and colour correction... so no matter what! I am going to be so proud of the final product.. and i hope nikki likes it too! Aiya, its always a bonus when you get good grades right. =P

Once this is over and our FYP meeting with the great sinema.sg crew is over, i'm so burying myself in Media Law. I have to become Media Law guru somehow.

I, Media Law.

GURU. GURU. GURU.

OK before i end this post and attempt to make my way to lalaland successfully, i just want to thank all of you for your presents!!!!!!!!! Feel so loved... hee.
Thank you Pammie, thank you Delphina, Thank you X(t), thank you sianz and Xueting, thank you jingjing, thank you Candace and Beibei!, thank you Jiaqi!!, thank you vanessa and rachel, thank you all... i hope i haven't missed out anyone... it is 3am now you know. Heh...

my second macdonald's celebration in a year!

Luge at sentosa with the GESS-ians and my cousins...

If you stare hard enough...you'll see zijie is wearing my
favourite dumbo ears. Wahahaha.
All around sentosa there were people staring at him...
there was a father who told his child
"Boy, you see... elephant."

Group pic!
Carrie Yeo Chia Ying was the main organiser for this... she knew i've been
wanting to go to sentosa for the sun and volleyball. So she planned this.
Thank you so so so much. I really never expected my 22nd birthday to be so much fun...
(from left: Melvin,Kelly my mini PA,Joyce,Juz,Xieshun,Ivan aka handsome, Me, Carrie, trecia aka Xiaomei, Zijie aka DUMBO.)

Will post more pictures when i can...
my server's being really slow right now so uploading photos is a bit of a chore...
I seriously doubt i'll be able to wake up in time to buy fish from Cuifang and Nat tomorrow morning.... ahhhh..... Nights!


I published the post. Then i just felt this urge to come back and say i enjoyed AMEI's concert yesterday night... she's really good....

BUT......

I LOVE JAY CHOU'S NEWEST ALBUM!!!! AHHH!!!!!

Quote of the day

I haven't had time to blog in ages... but i have to come on and post this.

Its something i think i'll remember for a long time to come...

At Amei's concert today... as we were walking down the long flight of stairs from the north entrance of the indoor stadium to the car park... Carrie said to me in a semi-serious tone.

"我不太喜欢下楼梯的。“

@_@
?!?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

She's so quirky!

But she has interesting perspectives... just like my good friend Quek Huimin. I think they'll make good lyricists. If only i could write songs... I'd get them both to write the lyrics. =P

Ok that's all. HAhaha. BYe bye.