Something is seriously wrong with my MSN and hotmail account, so if you want to email me, please send it to my gmail account instead. Or sms me if need be!

I don’t understand why I keep getting a “wrong username or password” message, because I’m very certain that everything is correct.

Microbiology is driving me nuts! It takes forever to even finish studying one chapter, and time is really not on my side right now. Why am I online then? Because I really can’t stand staring at the notes anymore.

2 more sets of lecture notes to go, plus all the tutorials, the practical and hopefully I’ll still have a bit of time to look through the past year exam questions.

And then tomorrow afternoon I’ll be rushing to finish studying Cell Biology for the exam on friday.

It’s the last week of exams, and normally this is the time when people are starting to relax a little because most of their papers are over. But I have 3 papers this week, with 2 on the last 2 days of the exam period. The worst is at the end! Arrgh.

I feel so tired mentally, and I’m so sick of studying, but I just have to bear with it for 2 more days!

Feeling quite frustrated now.

There’s a pile of clothes to be folded, and laundry to be done. And I’m left to do it when I’m having my exams. I’m not pissed because I have to do the laundry, but I’m unhappy because other people are free and no one bothers to help! I really won’t mind doing it if I’m free, or if other people are busy. But if they can sit there, relax and enjoy themselves, why can’t they just help with the laundry instead?!

I feel bad because it’s really a very small matter to be unhappy about, but it really is frustrating when it happens time and time again. It makes me just want to leave the whole pile of clothes there, and if anyone wants to wear anything, go and dig it up yourself or fold your own clothes. Why am I always the one that’s expected to do this and that when it’s obvious that I’m not free sometimes while other people are? That’s something I really cannot understand. Do you mean that guys cannot do the laundry, or their hand will rot if they have to touch the detergent, or if they have to fold the clothes? Don’t expect that the females to always be the ones doing your laundry.

I was studying for my physiology exam this morning, and just as I was about to finish the first chapter I heard children shouting, singing, and making a lot of noise at the lift lobby one floor down. There’s nothing wrong with playing, especially since it’s the school holidays, but shouldn’t the maid ensure that they’re not making too much noise? If I can hear them so loudly, what about the families living just next to the lift lobby? There are people who are still sleeping, as well as people like me who need some peace and quiet to study! The noise kept going on and on, and in the end I went out to take a look. Saw the maid there and she saw me, and soon after she proceded to ask the kids to keep their noise level down. The peacefulness lasted for a while, before they started to make noise again… then I heard someone else opening the door and after a while there was silence. If the kids really want to play and you know that they’re making a lot of noise, why not bring them down to the void deck so that other people will not be disturbed?

When the noise finally died down, I thought I could finally concentrate, but some minutes later, it got noisy again. Not the kids this time, but instead the sound was from some alarm or construction work. The noise just kept going on until a minute ago, and I really hope that it’s not coming from any construction work, because this may mean that it’s lunch break now, and the noise will resume later. I really can’t study with all that noise! It’s a nightmare when things like that happen and you have to study for your exam on the next day.

SINGAPORE: The Goods and Services Tax will be increased to 7 percent, from 5 percent presently.

This was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament on Monday.

However, when the rise will be implemented, will be decided later.

Speaking in Malay, Mandarin and English, Mr Lee explained that the hike was necessary to finance the enhanced social safety nets needed to help the lower income group. He emphasised that the offset package would more than counter the rise in GST.

While Singapore’s current model to tackle the widening income gap is sound, Mr Lee said the government would take on two approaches to deal with the new environment – to strengthen the safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the lower-income groups who do not benefit from the fruits of economic growth.

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Transport fares are increasing and now GST as well… when you think that 5% is high enough and the complaints about GST have died down, the government want to increase it some more. Everything is getting more expensive these days! The government says that what they get from the increase will go to help the lower income group, but is this the only way to go about doing it? It’s going to take time before any results of this GST increase (and aid provided to the lower income group) can be seen, and before then, I think there will be quite some commotion about this increase. How many people will accept the reason given by the government? Personally, I don’t think it will be a lot.

If GST increases and people also happen to be getting higher salaries overall, I don’t think people will complain much. But the thing is, while the prices of so many things are increasing, not everyone’s salary is increasing as well. In the end, more and more people are just going to feel the pinch.