Oh, belated joy. I completely missed the reply from USC Annenberg in my daily barrage of emails, and received some potentially good news: 1) I don’t have to take TOEFL, but may need to take a test once my admission is confirmed. 2) As for GRE, they only look at verbal and quantitative scores, which…
Talk about bad timing. Just as I decided to upgrade my system to Movabletype 2.5, my web host accidentally restarted the database server. Result: general chaos and a very baffled web designer over the weekend. Fortunately, the database is now back on track, and so is my weblog. Cheerios.
Today, I drove to work. This was because I had two overlapping appointments involving two important events. One: Dinner with Cheryl, whom I haven’t seen for most of this year, and who was also celebrating her birthday in advance. Two: Attend the last day of Cordon Bleu cooking class in place of my mother, who…
I’m pleased to announce that this website has moved up a notch on the Google Pagerank listings – from zero to one. Wow, that’s an absolute increase. The funny thing is, http://vantan.org is still ranked ‘0’ while http://vantan.org/index.php, which is essentially the same page, is ranked ‘1’. Minor changes to this website for IE users…
I did a good deed today. I reported a faulty traffic light which refused to let the good ol’ green man come out to play. As a result, a troupe of hat-wearing Japanese tourists were stranded on one side of the road outside my office, with some Caucasian tourists on the other end, looking equally…
Tonight I’m working on my application essay to Comm School and have realised how ignorant I am of everything except the Internet – and I’m not even an expert in that. I have to describe what I find most interesting about the theories, philosophies and research areas in communication, and am falling into my usual…
I guess I should count myself lucky that so many dear friends and nice people are getting married and that I’m playing music for them. Well this time all I have to do is compile music CDs for Paul and Alison’s wedding, which is today. The music is generally jazzy with quite a few classics…
I was much taken in by this story of a female black singer who was often undermined in the music business because of the colour of her skin. She refused to mimic the rest of the singers in her genre in the way they dressed and behaved. She is now the recipient of the Mercury…
It’s Denyse’s birthday today and we celebrated it at 8 on the Bay, the restaurant near the Indoor Stadium. Well, since the booking was for 8pm, it was literally at 8, at 8. Hahaha. OK bad joke. Everything was fine until we got to the birthday cheesecake, which tasted more like quiche to me because…
Just took the GRE this morning. Let me just say that I had less than 7 hours of broken sleep (nerves!) and diarrhoea. Got my results. Sent them to USC, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Columbia. Did okay. Top quartile for all three papers, which is probably just average for most Singaporeans. Whatever. I can’t think…