december is coming!
as above. and the christmas carols are blasting through the PA system everywhere I go. Its too early for christmas, I feel. is it because of the (still above 20sth celsius) weather? or is it because this year, I'm just not in the 'mood'? god knows.oh well. last week was a bit of workaholic week. prepared all the ST homework for the kids, enough to last me till my placement ends. (yea!) no need to crack my head over what toys to prepare and stuff. just need to press print and I'm all set. hee hee. i like it this way, working my ass off for one full day in return for many slacking days to come.
also, I finally set my heart into typing those 'invitation' letters for research. english AND chinese version of them. I got so fed up translating in the end that I emailed the english version to my dad and get him to translate it for me. but alas, he typed chinese at such a slow pace, so my brainy old dad asked me to record his voice over the phone! hahaha. so smart. and then after that I played and replayed the recording a few times to finish my typing. hee hee. here's the end product!
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Dear XXX
Re: Invitation to participate in research involving children with Autism
I am currently conducting a research entitled “Comprehension of irony in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children ”. I would like to sincerely invite children with Asperger Syndrome or High-functioning Autism who are currently under your programmes to participate in this research. Attached is a short summary of the research. I would appreciate if you can give me a call to discuss the details. I look forward to your positive reply.
Regards,
xxxxx
敬啟者,
本人正主理一研究項目,名為[自閉症兒童與語言能力相若兒童理解諷刺之比較]的研究調查。是次研究的對象是患有亞氏保加症(Asperger Syndrome)或高功能自閉症(High-functioning Autism)，七歲或以上的學童。本人誠意邀請貴機構輔導下的自閉症學童參與此研究。隨函附上此研究的簡介。本人亟需要閣下幫忙，懇請閣下與本人商討更多的細節。
謝謝。
xxxx
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so all I gotta do is to cross my fingers cross my toes and hope they will send me some of their kids (provided that they reply in the first place haha)
the ideal reply would be,
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Dear Miss Li,
Of COURSE we would love to participate in your research. Our children fits your criteria perfectly. Please contact xxxxx for more details. Look forward to meeting you, tata!
Best,
( organization)
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hahha, i know, tankuku. if their reply is 50% as delightful the above, I'll be super thankful.
anyways, just finished loading the majority of my stuff up my uncle's van! 2 big boxes, 2 luggages filled with notes and books, and some smaller boxes of miscellaneous items. (oops, the spell check indicated i spell miscellaneous wrongly, again! i always spell that word wrongly, especially if I'm typing super quickly, as i normally do. hee hee. the other word i used to get it wrong is diarrhea. yes, used to.) so back to the topic. all those stuff will just sit nicely in my uncle's factory till I get a permanent accommodation. mean while, i gotta continue packing my daily essentials and shift them to my uncle's apartment. and mind you, i have so many daily essentials! especially with the weather alternating between hot weeks and cold weeks, i have no choice but to bring ALL my clothe with me. the sad thing is even though I have so much clothe, i carn fit in 70% of them. not cannot fit entire, but they don't fit nicely, in the sense that my fats squished out here and there, and my paunch can be seen. :S no good, no good at all.
weight weight weight. i guess the less I focused on it the lower it will be. lest I restrict my intake too much and I binge too often. so yes, i'm getting there, i am!
going off to 掃墓 later in the afternoon. my great grandma's. lovely day today :)
was looking at my fb albums just now, i totally forget the storyline of 'remember me' already! even though I read it only in august. my memory is realli failing me.
browsing thru fb ystd, and I learnt that eline oh is one of the pacers for teamfatbird in the upcoming standard charter marathon!. one of 10 ladies out of the 50 pacers. and most importantly, New Balance has appointed Team FatBird as the Official Marathon Pacers for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009. so zai right. I am so geared on joining teamfatbird after I return next year. as a regular runner :) I'm also thinking about triathlon too. cos I'm hooked onto swimming freestyle these days. I'm so proud of myself, self-learning how to swim it by watching jimmyshea on youtube. hee hee. triathlon only consist of 10km of running, which I prefer. oh well, so many ideas, but perhaps not so much time!
this is one long post! haha, but given that I blog so little now, its okay! I kinda like it this way, blogging for no one in particular, cos those who read this now is really 自己人。If I were put this link up on fb with acquaintances accessing this site, I know I will be less 'open' in the stuff I type. so yes, if you are reading this, you know i love you!
lets pick up where we finished off @ 11:01 AM
