Work + Busy + Stress = Rewarding outcome

Man... so many things happened... been so busy with work at Curtin, especially with Curtin Volunteers! ....

Sunday, March 20, 2005
Morning, I catched up on my online stuffs.... the things that I usually do whenever online...
when before noon, then I got back to working on that slide presentation for Abel... on past activities of CV! since 2002....
took me the whole day but still not yet done...
evening time, had to go to a dinner with my family and with Jonathan's family.. including his Caucasian grandparents...
never met them before til that evening... and quite an interesting pair in my view...

Dinner was over by 8.30pm and I headed home first to work more on the slides...
worked til late and still not done... also got to e-mail Abel a preview of it... man.. so much work...
that night I felt so stressed that I just had to chat with someone on MSN... and Lish was there, at least, enough to entertain me... thank you...


Monday, March 21, 2005
Came to Curtin early in the morning thanks to Iqbal... my only class was in the afternoon...
Spent my time trying to work more on the slide presentation... deadline was in two days, max... and I was only halfway through...
worked til lunchtime when I left for cafeteria...
ate lunch and then soon headed for my Writing & Research Skills 062 class....
Ms. Oktavia then announced that she'll be switching classes with another lecturer... thus meaning that a new lecturer will be teaching us by next week... wanna take a guess who?
the lecturer that had taught me Academic English 061 last semester.. Ms. Anita!!

After class, joined my friends at the CV booth at the cafeteria...
stuck around for a little... ate dinner... very light...
then that night had cheerleading practise... for the coming promotions of the CV! Welcoming Gathering happening this Thursday and a cheerleading performance for the gathering itself... Practised and practised til late night...
After that, we were done and some had already gone on home... not for me...
I still had work to take care of... namely the slide presentation and the CV notice board... sigh...
thankfully, that evening, Iqbal & Lis had already bought the materials for the board...
I was able to convince my mother, thankfully, to stay overnight so that I could finish my work...
Dropped off the materials back at Curtin and then Iqbal sent me back home.. so that I could have a shower and bring what I needed for the next day.... namely clothes and books...

back home.. I showered while Iqbal ate and had a chat with my mother...
showered... I ate a little as well... before we moved on back to Curtin...
there, we worked together on the CV! Notice board... Abel was able to join us and help as well...


Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Guess what? We finish the notice board one hour or so later and it was nearly 1.30am...
After that, Iqbal & I headed back to his place...
I wasn't plannning on sleeping that morning until I was done with the slide presentation...
Iqbal slept.. he needed it... I, on the other hand, burned the midnight lamp til every drop of the oil were used up... (figure of speech)
I worked for hours.... and guess what time I was actually done and gone to sleep...?
after 6 in the morning...
and I woke up at after 8.30am.... which is like.... approximately two & a half hours of sleep... but whatever...
showered and got ready for school...
Iqbal & I arrived at Curtin before 10am... set up the CV Booth...
ate breakfast and then soon I had to go for class.... after class... afternoon.. I had to join with some of the girls for the promoting of the gathering this Thursday...
And in front of A LOT of people, I did a mistake and embarrassed everyone... sigh.. SO sorry girls...

after that, I had trouble handing up my homework to a particular lecturer..
but in the end, after hours of persistence and determination, was finally able to get that work done... then went for class....
after class... join back at the cafeteria...
that evening, there was a simple meeting amongst some of the members, together with Abel and as the day began to enter night... we were done and we went our separate ways...
Just to get back together at Lou Bin Tang for dinner...
With no one who can send me back home that night, I phoned back home for a transport...
I had initially thought that I wouldn't have much work to do... but when afterAbel checked out the slide presentation... turned out I had some work to take care of...
so didn't go back early that night.. and went back late again... sigh... thanks, Abel, for sending me back...
And yeah.. I was able to edit the whole presentation to suit the computers on campus.. and it looked ok for the time being... Abel was also able to choose a suitable song for the slideshow..
I couldn't wait for the other members of CV to have a look at the sldieshow tomorrow... but then again.. I had a little of fear too.. on what they might think of it... I especially fear that they might not like it at all... but I had NEVER anticipated the outcome of its debut to the others the next night...


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Morning, came early to campus with my brother...
Nothing much happened really...
Class... some more work to take care of.... namely the presentation of my division during the gathering...
classes some more and then was done...
that evening, join the others at the CV! Booth, close it up... and then headed for the Council Meeting Room.... the second formal meeting for all CV! EXCO members since the one at Annie's...
Meeting proceeded... with a few members unable to made it cause of classes...
so much problem I had to take care of... which included officially apologizing to everyone on my embarassing mistake the other day...

Anyway.... the meeting lasted for quite some time... before finally we were done there.. but then we had to rehearse a little at the Lecture Theater for the gathering, that was going to be held the next night!!
We proceeded according to the schedule... Krishna did good with his flash introduction of CV...
and then soon.. Abel finally showed the slideshow of CV!'s past activities for everyone to see...
I noticed that Abel had some details edited... but most of it were still the same... what I had did... and it looked great... together with the music.. it was a... i just don't know the word for it.. moving?
besides that, I was surprised... everyone was... enjoying the slideshow.... and at the end of it... I couldn't believe that some of them actually came to hug me like... congratulating me on a job well done... including Abel...
I was so.. moved... I just went to the side of the lecture theater... and sat down... my emotion was beginning to surface itself... but it wasn't too apparent, as I tried to get back to work..
but... I just couldn't hold it.. standing there, waiting to do my practise... I just couldn't hold it... I sat down on the floor... isolating myself from everyone again...

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and I cried....... I really.. cried.... I was so... glad.... so... relieved...... with all the stress and pressure and problems along the way to do my part of work... and now.. this...
oh my god I just cried... when Iqbal came over.. I was losing it...
when ABEL came over and sat beside me... I just had to let it out....
I cried badly... and soon, KC pulled me up and escorted me to the washroom... he told me to wash my face.... and then come back when I'm done....
I continued crying some more at the washroom... As I cried I wash my face... I tried to just let it all out there....
took me quite a while.. just when I was about to be done crying there... I heard someone coming and Abel entered the washroom...
He chatted with me for a while there... and soon enough, we headed back to the lecture theater...
there, I tried to calm myself... they actually skipped my division's presentation and continued with the others' first.. while waiting for me to be ready...
I tried to calm myself and just be back to normal... but couldn't and I cried some more again....

after a long while.. I was able to pull myself back to normal and went on with the rehearsal...
in the end, I did my division's presentation.. and it wasn't good.. I completely had forgotten how I was going to talk....
definitely need to work on my speech the next day... since I'll only have one hour of class tomorrow in the afternoon...
had a little trouble finding a ride back home... but in the end, Sara offered to help..
and I got home by midnight...


Today.. Thursday... tonight is the gathering... can't wait for that...
but for now.. need to work on my speech...
wait for my update soon!