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Sunday, November 2
silly big sister roars 7:56 PMDaylight saving has just started in Winnipeg today, 2 November - so I'm now yet another hour behind, bringing time difference between Winnipeg and Singapore to 14 hours! I guess it ain't that easy for us Singaporeans to grasp this "foreign" concept readily, so for informative purposes, daylight saving time (DST) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight, while mornings have less. Clocks are typically adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring, and adjusted backward in autumn. :)
And as I'd expected, DST kinda slipped Js and my mind today, and we went to the Superstore early to do our groceries. Turned out that we had to wait another 1.5 hours (also because it's Sunday, they open later) before it opened! ROAR. Totally ruined our plans to start the day early, do laundry and complete our piled-up work. :( And speaking of Superstore too, it's amazing how they're already selling Christmas turkeys, goodies and decorations now, just right after Halloween! Heh.
I'm thinking time change must really be a hassle for people in these countries - doesn't it mess up everything from meeting schedules, keeping record, to things like travelling? Laura and Judy had to adhere to SMU deadlines too, and just adapting to Manitoba's time change and an updated international time difference simultaneously can get quite confusing I guess. Haha.. btw I helped them look up course timings and exam schedules last night (since we're in the midst of doing it too right..) - and now they think bidding is a really complex thing to manage -
Which is really true by the way. Apparently I was unable to bid (we students on exchange are supposed to deposit our own e$, but the link to do so itself is not accessible)! Yea.. so I called the Registrar's Office and informed them about it, and I guess I was the catalyst la, they responded to my appeal and now it's all fixed (for all current exchange students). Heh.
On the SMU Concourse
Laura: Why does SMU have tunnels (they call it "tunnels" in U of M), when it is never too cold to walk?
Wini: Ehh.. *pause and think hard hard* Hmm.. cos sometimes it is too hot to walk?
Judy: OHHHHHH! I never thought of that!
Hahaha.. it was just really hilarious at that point in time. And I'm kinda excited that I'm going home soon (quite soon, somehow) :)
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You are an enthusiastic innovator, always seeing new possibilities and new ways of doing things. You have a lot of imagination and initiative for starting projects, and a lot of impulsive energy for carrying them out. You are stimulated by difficulties and are most ingenious in solving them. You can get so interested in your newest project that you have time for little else. Your energy comes from a succession of new enthusiasms and your world is full of possible projects. Your enthusiasm gets other people interested too.
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A difficulty for you is that you hate uninspired routine and find it remarkably hard to apply yourself to sometimes necessary detail unconnected with any major interest. Worse yet, you may get bored with your own projects as soon as the major problems have been solved or the initial challenge has been met. You may need to learn to follow through and finish what you have begun, but are happiest and most effective in jobs that permit one project after another, with somebody else taking over as soon as the situation is well in hand.
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