Holidaynotes

2010-03-26T00:33:00.003+08:00

this is post number 454.

Heh, the last post I made was made over a year ago. How time flies... Actually I kinda remember the last time i posted... just vaguely.

Even reading my last 2 posts is kinda funny. The second last post mentioned phones (the mentioned nokia being bought already, and subsequently found to be not as great as it looked on paper) and ed's lg (which is nearly going to phone heaven which is ok cos he's got his nokia touch screen too).

Time flies indeed.

When I last posted, I was going into 2nd year. Now it's time to enter 3rd year. Before anyone notices, it'll be graduation, and then 2 years of government paid compulsory fitness, and then many many years of relative uncertainty.

I miss someone. Like a lot. D:
2 weeks or so more...

2009-02-28T15:30:00.002+08:00

Hello.

I've realised my blog is as dead as a log, and I haven't been updating.

It's not that i'm really that preoccupied with other things, but rather, I no longer know what to blog about. The things which i previously would blog about freely now suddenly seem too uncomfortably private and personal to post for all to read. Blogging with emotion to me is now akin to dancing naked in a glass box; looking absolutely silly and self obsessed while being exposed to all. So that explains why I haven't updated. Simply because everytime I log in I just don't know what I should type, and the possible consequences of baring everything online.

There's been plenty happening, good and bad, but I just don't feel like blogging about them.

Even in typing this simple post I find myself censoring a lot of what I'd like to say. Might it be time to stop blogging?

I am toying with the idea of closing this blog on my birthday. But I'm kinda reluctant of course... What started as an english holiday project in sec 1 in Ms Ho's class turned into the blog which i've been using for over 4 years, sometimes with more enthusiasm than at other times.

Who knows. Hahaha.

2009-01-16T23:30:00.002+08:00

After not blogging for so long it feels kinda strange to finally blog...

This blog feels sooo dead really... And i don't think i'll bother posting any of my holiday pics cos they'll be on facebook...

School's been getting better and better... My results aren't that bad after all... 1 month to final exams and i feel great...well...still. And i deposited my cheques from school today at the bank... sdjkfdskfsjd troublesome cos uob's nearest branch is in tampines... none in pasir ris or anything that i know of... The cheques were actually some kind of allowance for helping out in school in the it systems department... not too bad cos it's slightly over a hundred bucks.

eddy bung finally bought his vanilla ice cream but it still doesnt make me think lg is a good phone brand hahahaha. but neither is se anymore... my charger port on my phone just gave up again. After 8 months zzzz. Nvm i shall be looking at the new nokia touch screen tts coming here in march, whoopeedoo~

2009-01-01T15:28:00.002+08:00

Happy new year! First post of the year.

haven't been updating lately... lack of time i guess...

a lect in sch tried to look for me to say that I can make a choice about my option for next year and I've just written the letter and made my choice, so hopefully everything goes well *fingers crossed*

Actually got back to Singapore 2 days ago but yeah... not a lot of time... so some holiday pics...

ok no the pics cant upload so i'll do it another time =]

2008-12-22T21:03:00.002+08:00

hellloooo~ nothing much lately so no updates.... just been hanging around the east side these few days...

been buying way too many things AGAIN (like every holiday... what's new)... beside my laptop now is a pile of card signature slips and nets receipts. but nevermind cos im having fun! wahaha.

went cycling a few days ago with the guys

of cos it was great as usual... the weather was hot and everything but it was super definitely... we (well actually only me, E and F) went all the way to both ends of the park (again!) and then back to the centre.

i love this pic hahaha

and finally... we get to see.. SUPERMORE! (this masterpiece courtesy of E) check out the face hahahaha.

badminton tmr!

note to self: bring shuttle cocks, booking receipt and racquet

HAH ..unbelievable but the last time we played... I almost left home without my racquet. wahahah...

so you see i ain't up to much lately... i absolutely have to start preparing seriously for the stats retest that I know i'm gonna have to take. in fact i'll start right after this..
i don't think i wanna bring any stats notes to kangaroo land actually...

OK BYE.

2008-12-16T01:34:00.002+08:00

i'm pretty pleased today~ haha.... got to have my clam chowder and got my zebra bag (finally!)
and... i bought nightwish's wishmaster album today. It wasn't cheap, but absolutely worth every cent... haha...

ok super tired. so shall sleep.

2008-12-15T00:25:00.001+08:00

I've just texted all the guys... people quick reply! haha...

Didn't do much again today... gah.

and dad's back... 10 hours late... but that wasn't too bad, considering the adventure he went on, scuttling across europe just to find a flight back to sg... the mess started off with a cancelled flight on the 1st leg cos of some tech problem so ended up 4 hrs late for the connecting cph-sin flight... anyway to cut a long story short he ended up flying elsewhere, paying a sum of cash for 2 extra flights to come home... so considering the fiasco ...10 hrs is a pretty good result i suppose.. haha.

ok i dunno why im so drowsy now so i guess i'll go sleep now.

week at home

2008-12-14T00:21:00.003+08:00

super no life!!! been pretty much cooped up at home these few days.. And been entertaining myself at home with reading stuff...the telly....the com... the wii... etcetc. And i've discovered that wii fit can be pretty addictive hahahaa. Im referring to the balance games. Wii play is pretty damn addictive too.

Stuck at home especially since the guys (and girls) in tp, np, whatever-p were having tests... I was just telling T last night that I havent stepped out of the compound for quite a few days (ok well I went out today, finally)

SO now im really looking forward to the coming week... really need to go out and walk about... and there's some stuff i need to pick up... (ok..WANT to pick up) For instance...The zebra stripe bag is waiting!!!!!!!!

But on the whole it's been a great week. Good chance to relax although i havent started prepping for stats retest(i'm absolutely sure i need to go lol) .And, Mr _ (one of my sch lecturers) emailed me about the options streaming a couple of days ago and its really nice to know that the lecturers in school do care(although i dont personally know him). Think the contents of the email put my mind at ease... so... excellent.

next up to look forward to: outings... eating(with the guys~~~)... buying some stuff (again -.-) ... travelling... all in the tight space of the next 2 weeks. WOOH~

arghhhhhhh

2008-12-06T09:02:00.006+08:00

Last night i was feeling unhappy, because i felt kinda dumb for letting fate control me (i'm not one who believes in that happening)

And i felt stupid because I wanted to make the best choice possible, so I didnt rush into making a selection.

And I felt even more stupid when I did that cos its possible to change your choice.

And eventually, I didn't even make my choice.

Putting it off was a stupid decision... and MST madness this week didn't help cos submitting my options priority was not at the top of my mind.

I'm really not unhappy because of the fact I may get one option over another( i really like both... and both have really nice teachers-even the section heads are funky), and neither is one better than the other. They're just, well, different. The root of the problem...

Actually my heart was with Financial trading(really interesting stuff they learn, i like it... -stock market.. technical analysis... corporate finance...i REALLY like it.. especially at the briefing i was really impressed) but my head, the logical bit of me, was with banking(lots of theory, business law, financial advisory- better for me cos i tend to learn and understand shitloads of theory better than doing technical stuff, and the syllabus is pretty cool too) its very hard to explain... but i kinda wanted to choose ft... but was scared of regretting if i have problems there in future... and scared to choose banking for the same reason if i find it dead boring and regret it too... so you see.. it wasn't so simple.

And I guess some of my clsmates think im not happy cos I wanted to make a particular choice.
But no, I HATE letting fate decide. Although I did say to a few people before that I might just leave the choices blank and let the system choose for me. I STILL hate the feeling that I don't have a say. So basically I was stuck in a rut.

On the day they briefed us, i wanted to go home and put financial. Then a while later I wanted to put banking. I guess it all goes down to the fact that I couldn't make up my mind, even after reading the overview of both. So eventually I put it off for weeks... still unable to make up my mind. In some way I forgot about it...cos i didn't wanna think about it. I just feel really really really majorly stupid for not remembering to do something this important. It's only the 6th of dec today but I've already made 2 major mistakes this month.

Helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp I still feel really bad about being so helpless and a slave to fate now.

it makes me feel even worse that while on one hand, i wont let fate control me... on the other hand ... even if they were to tell me submit my preference right now... i still wouldn't know what to type in. Such irony...

i guess Y is right.. treat it as a blessing in disguise so you won't feel like you made a wrong choice. and i was only worried later the system sees me... both choices rank as '0' (duh cos i didnt even rank them and submit it) then it thinks.. i wanna be kicked out of the sch..and dun assign me any class next yr. but no it isnt like tt and tts what i was initially worried abt (LOL i know it sounds funny but yeah its true)

GAHHHHHH if i went into np in the first place, i wouldnt even have this problem cos they dont let you choose !!!

edit: ok thankssss y! (of you're reading this) i feel so much better... hahhaha...
so ..-end of story-

2008-12-06T00:49:00.002+08:00

whether i take financial trading or banking concentration for my diploma.. it will be up to fate... cos i didnt log on to submit my priority for either choice.

although they briefed us almost a month ahead... i seriously couldnt make up my mind.... i was gonna put banking actually.. but i guess its better that i didnt choose which ... cos i love both options...

so yeah. i just hope the computer system is smart enough to assign me a place in a class next year though... zzzz...

2008-12-04T00:07:00.000+08:00

mob down, stats down, itab down.
mob and itab were okieokie... mob was more ok than itab and stats was crap... vry sure im gonna be called down for the retest.. zzz

pacc (tomorrow) and econs on friday left to go.

and im still studying haha. now im typing on top of a book (laptop is sitting on top of a pile of accounts notes, stationery and textbook..)

so byebyebyebye~

2008-12-02T16:21:00.002+08:00

HEEEELOOOOOOOO blog.

Stats paper today was super duper screwed!!! seriously sat there and stared at the qn... totally dunno how to calculate... esp that stupid question abt health insurance... whoa 20 mark qn dunno how to do... zzzz... Retest.. here i come... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

luckily ytd the management paper wasnt too bad or else die die die die die. I dun wanna become a forward module dude...................................... gahhhh ok it wont happen.

ANYWAY i can't wait for this week to end... it's still crawling along unbearably slowwwwwwly. I want my holssssssssss. And going out.................... and... travelling.....(although its still a few more weeks till travelling)

And... __ is right........... we gotta hang out some time~~~! hahahahaahha. obviously the first week or so of our hols cos for the second bit im gonna be away~

FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. gotta go feast on ice-cream, sushi buffet, wan tan mee, EVERYTHING. Yum.

BYE~

2008-11-27T23:25:00.000+08:00

KJFASHKJFJASFSJFHJAEHJHFHDFNJXNCFSJCNKJN CKJ DFDFKH dk s I AM SO TIRED.

This morning I woke up at 5+am and lay in bed with some kind of panic attack.

I'm SO TIRED OF EVERYTHING ARGH.

Should have taken architectural design instead.

Ahhh no kidding. I can't draw for nuts. Peanuts, walnuts, pistachios, whatever.

OKAY back to the books.

sir, rest in peace.

2008-11-22T00:07:00.004+08:00

Dear Sir,
You'll be fondly remembered for your friendliness and your passion for teaching. Goodbye.

As I sat there, drained and tired in the freezing cold LT, I was totally unexpecting this piece of news to arrive. Suddenly we were told to stay back (by another lecturer who looked like she was about to cry, or at least seemed extremely disturbed because of the way she talked) because of "an important announcement", and with that degree of seriousness I started to suspect something already.

When the director brought one of the school counsellors and another staff with him, and it was definitely not a good sign. Obviously today was not the day for him to comment on attire. Still, when the dreaded words came out of his mouth, I sat there, totally stoned.

So the circumstances surrounding the incident were not totally clear but he did explain the situation. That was when it became even more depressing. It appeared to be something much more complicated than we'd expect. However, the fact that he had such a tragic ending was really sad.

As M, G and I stood outside the lt we kinda reflected on it and it really felt much better after we talked about him. He mentioned before that his dream was always to teach young people. Which was his reason for quitting his previous presumably well-paying job to come lecture. He's gone so whatever we say won't be of any use now, but he is something unique, for sure.

Yesterday he went MIA at his scheduled class time. And we thought he was mixed up about the timing again. Little did we know that as we spoke, he had already passed away.

We were told to follow the timetable and attend class at the usual time next week, but it will definitely feel strange to walk into that very same classroom.

I'll remember his last words to me. "You didn't do as well(as before) this time round for your test. Do better next time ok"

I certainly will.

And hopefully his family remains strong and lives on bravely.

2008-11-12T21:21:00.001+08:00

i'm happy today~~~

today was a pleasant day~~~

haha! bye.

2008-10-21T22:43:00.002+08:00

7 days of sem 2 are over... still feeling kinda sore about the new timetable being rather lousy... especially with the 1hr+ journey to school... but nvm... gonna get used to it.

Today was my first day on duty at the laptop help centre but it was pretty good... the full time staff were really nice and my partner was really helpful too... so it was a pretty gentle intro... Just that it was damn tiring cos i was practically on my feet for over 4 hours, running around the lab... I dunno if today was especially crowded or something, but it got pretty stressful at one point when 4 different people started waving at me at the same time.

Anyhow it was a pretty good day.

My class is still the same as ever... that might be good or bad, depending on how you see it... well anyway at least its familiar...

so no complaints... and slowly i'm starting to like my school more and more, haha...

3 lectures tomorrow! gonna get some sleep~

2008-10-06T23:27:00.002+08:00

Finally no more of the gloom from last week... was actually feeling helpless due to a few things... Early in the week all the work to complete my passport application form with all the fussy requirements made me feel really sick. 2 odd sized passport photos(which you actually can only take at 3 shops in singapore), a guarantor which has to know you for 2 years and work in a certain set of listed occupations who has to sign a section of your form and a photo, the long journey to the high commission in town and so on... In conclusion I just felt really messed up. And oh, submitting the forms took over an hour because there was ONE person in front who took ONE hour. What can I say.... i guess my country of birth just isn't as efficient as Singapore, hahaha.

And and and and and... at the end of the week I found out that SOMEONE is transferring to my class. I guess i shouldn't elaborate too much cos i might be stalked online ( this person has stalking tendencies, just ask my mates).

I just wanna say...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWW.

okay.
i guess that says it all.

Well anyway today I had a blast with the guys... Went cycling today at east coast and rode pretty darn far today.... actually all the way to changi coast... then to the opposite direction towards fort road... but we gave up around the parkway area and turned back. The weather was fabulous but the only downer was that mikey couldn't make it last minute, ah well.

And tomorrow im registering for my general elective modules!!!!! gahhhhhh.

2008-10-05T19:37:00.002+08:00

from ah ong....

xD

actually i did it days ago but didn't remember to post it, haha.

____

Rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog
_______________________________________________

Starting time: 10.27pm
Name: daadadadadada who else
Sisters: 300
Brothers: -
Shoe size: 9 (?)
Height: 1.70
Where do you live: Ich Wohne jetzt in Singapur...
Favourite drinks: Fizziessssss! Anything
Favourite breakfast: Something warm...

Have you ever:
Been on a plane: yeah

Swam in the ocean: no

Fallen asleep at school: yeah

Broken someone's heart: yeah (sorry)

Fell off your chair: yeah

Waiting for someone to call: yeah

Saved e-mails: yeah

What is your room like: small and messy, and messy

What's right beside you: Marketing textbook, wallet, phone, my crap result slip

What is the last thing you ate: Yoghurt

Ever had:
Chicken pox: ya

Sore throat: ya

Stitches: no, never please.

Broken nose: no, and same as aboveeeee.

Do you:
Believe in love at first sight: noooo.

Like picnics: errrrr well... it’s mighty hot here....

Who was/were the last person
You danced with: a human, during prom. Make that humanssss. Hahaha.

Last made you smile: buddyyyyyy. ;D

You last yelled at: shanni. HAHA.

Today did you
Talk to someone you like: yesh

Kissed anyone: nope

Get sick: nope

Talk to an ex: nope

Miss someone: yeah~

Eat: yeshhhh. Too much.

Best feeling in the world: not worrying~

Do you sleep with stuffed animals: are you a stuffed animal???

What's under your bed: 9 years of dust and an old laptop box.

Who do you really hate: I don’t hate. Love for all! ;D

What time is it now: 10.16pm

Random

Is there a person who is on your mind now: yeahhh.

Do you have any siblings: yeah

Do you want children: yeah but not now duh

Do you smile often: quite...

Do you like your hand-writing: most of the time: no!!!

Are your toe nails painted: urghhhh.

Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in: ;D

What color shirt are you wearing now: green

What were you doing at 7.00 p.m. yesterday: eating dinner

When did you cry last: can’t rmb..

Are you a friendly person: not quite...

Do you have any pets: yeap.

Where is the person you have feelings for right now: somewhere on earth.

Did you hold hands with the person who mean anything to you now: nooooo.

Do you sleep with the TV on: never!! Fight climate change!!!

What are you doing right now: replying sms, listening to nightwish.

Have you ever crawled through a window: yeah... when i was living in korea.

Can you handle the truth: yeah.

Are you too forgiving: nope...

Are you closer to your mother or father: very fair, same for both.

Who was the last person you cried in front of: i dunno!

How many people can you say you've really loved: many many if you count family, and
lovelylovely friends

Do you eat healthy: rarely. Hahs.

Do you still have pictures of you & your ex: nope.

Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you: no; say what you want.

If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to: my buddies, whoever’s in a good
mood.
Are you loud or quiet most of the time: ermmm. Dunno.
Are you confident: sometimes... it amazes me.

5 things I was doing 10 years ago
1. Learning how to multiply
2. Surviving in S.Korea
3. Getting along with my schmates in ISB
4. Attending bday parties
5. Eating tuna rice

5 things on my to-do list today
there’s nothing on it because... i don’t have to complete anything. It’s the lovely hols~~~

5 snacks I enjoy

Chicken nuggets!!!! (yummm)

Fries!!!! (another yum but dead fattening hahaha)

Chips from M&S, especially the salt and vinegar flavour

Cheese Sticks, also from M&S

Bbq-ed scallops from japan!!! Auntie never buys enough on her trips hahaha...

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire

Donate to children’s education foundations worldwide because education is really the key to
breaking out of poverty!!!

Build schools in places that need them

Build a lovely house for myself

Buy a boat!!!

Okay no more.

5 of my bad points
aw c’mon gimme a break...

5 people I tag
persons who wanna do this if they see it. Hahaha.

2008-09-23T21:45:00.004+08:00

Haven't blogged for close to a month... not because I've nothing to blog but rather because of the lack of feel... I just can't express what I want to say already haha...

Picking up from the last post in August... I picked up my magical singing box; they gave me a brand new one, majorly happy.

And went back to prss during teacher's day...

(yeah ed proxified this picture, don't ask how... not telling. haha)

Okayyy so for the past few weeks... lots of stuff but nothing really major... been spending my time on badminton with the guys, cycling, and the most unproductive (some will protest) pursuit of shopping... yes.. both real shopping and window shopping.

and i've no idea why so many people think i'm studying in srjc! i think i heard it at least 3 times and mikey just told me something about someone thinking im studying there... blabla. ahh well, so be it. A lil mystery adds to the fun... hahaha.

finally,
shan ni's little scandal!!!! ;DDDD

i guess this doesn't quite count as a proper post, haha.

2008-08-26T21:04:00.003+08:00

FREEDOM. From waking up at 3am to study. And not touching the comp!!!

Actually my last paper was yesterday... Econsssss. Super screwed argh... hahah... couldn't rmb how to draw the diagrams... Ok anyway I think at least it should be a pass. I don't wanna have to attend supplementary tutorials!!!! arghhh. So after paper went find m as promised, originally supposed to help her with her work while i entertain myself on the lappy but it ended up the other way around. So okay, home after that.

And then today I woke up late and I got the idea of sending my ipod in for repair. Actually nothing major... it still sings but the screen has something really annoying on it... I think I'm soooo free hahahaha... So anyway brought it in and they said they'd replace it but I need to wait for it to come then go collect it. Yawnnnnnn. Sooooooo AS A RESULT of sending the darned thing in... i WENT TO THE SHOPSSS!!!

Ok I bought a pair of.... i dont know... but it's nice anyway... And I don't know why I suddenly had the urge to buy a wallet so I went to buy one. All along I never liked leather because of the smell it tends to have so it beats me as to why I chose this one. Impulse buy, perhaps. Hahahaha.

Looking forward to bec outingsssssssssssss~ hahahahah everyone's gonna be finished with their exams by thursday, yippee~!

2008-08-21T22:27:00.002+08:00

Just a really quick one...

Screwed up PACC yesterday, damn. Stupid P&L and Bal sheet. Yawn okay forget it super depressing.

Just one last paper left on monday; Econssssssssss. Which is shitty as usual. Okay enough of complaininggggggg.

I just noticed there are so many things i need to get! Ok more on that when i'm done with torturous old econs.

BYE~

2008-08-16T11:12:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was a great day; My FOM paper is on Monday but went out yesterday to walk walk.

Had lunch with ky and ed. Actually wanted to have something light, so we decided on soup. Perfect timing, cos there was a table with 3 seats, and it was the only table available. Bugis is packed even on weekday afternoons, ridiculously crowded. Too many people in Singapore already, ha ha.

Wandered around, went looking at stuffffff. Shoes, clothes, whatever. And then we ran into ms chia! hahahaha.... super coincidental....

And and and........... best part of the day........ an email from school! Actually, from the IT desk.

"Congrats !

You are shortlisted as our student-assistant ... .... ...We will schedule your duty according to your free-time slot provided by you after the training-session...."

so it means I got the job! woohooooo yay.

great stuff~

2008-08-14T21:47:00.005+08:00

today:
I didn't get to go out today because the technician from HP was coming over to fix my laptop. Basically it was making strange noises and they attributed the problem to be from some defect on some cover, so they sent someone down to change the.. erm.. cover.

I thought it'll be a simple 5 minute job where he would remove 2 screws and replace the palmrest or something... but.. no.... when he came in with a huge box i knew he was going to do a major job.

A major job it was.... he had to disassemble the whole thing. Man... hahaha I dunno why but I kinda felt some pleasure in seeing the laptop dismantled to bits. Totally. Damn fun to watch the guy remove all the screws on the body and take out everything.

Really, everything. I think you can see all the parts in the photo.

The screen on the left(!!), with the keyboard, a bunch of other covers, dvd drive, hard disk, and battery on the right. Super fun to watch the laptop you use every single day for hours stripped down like this.... Twinny says it's disgusting/i'm disgusting, but I don't care!!!!

He took probably something like close to an hour to remove everything on the old casing and put it in the new one... but it's working really well now.... sweeeet. No more weird noises, yay.

yesterday:

ITAB ICA!! It was ultimate crap but what the hell, it's over.

I went for the CIS assistant interviews! The programme that you sign up for and drop in at the IT help desk a few times a week and get an allowance for it... Haha...the way the interviewer asked the questions was kinda funny but he was really nice throughout

I: interviewer
M: meeeeee~

I: what will you do if you have a virus on your computer?

M: errm update the mcafee virusscan (all our laptops have this from the school), run a full scan, and try to let it clean it. If not go to the net and try to search for information about the virus since IT experts often give tips online.

I: *nods* ok do you have experience with imaging the hard drive of the laptop ( school uses a standard software image to fix problems, so no need to install software one at a time)

M: yeah, my laptop crashed twice... i know how they image it... and i use acronis trueimage at home actually so i know how to do it

I:* nods again* oooh acronis (something like good good cos school uses it too)

random stuff

2008-08-06T22:10:00.002+08:00

I finally gathered enough courage to register for the CIS assistant interviews! Hahaha don't ask me why but I was initially pretty apprehensive about registering. Basically the job is to go to the it helpdesk and help other students who have problems with their laptops, and get paid for working there too. So yeah, I think it'll be great to get in.

Bday celebration for some of the class today! it was preettyyyy weird to sing the bday song 5 times and some of the lecturers nearby( who were having their lunch) were staring in amusement. The cake was delishhhhhhhhhhhh. But very, very, very sweet and rich. The hazelnut cream was greattt. haha. But matt didn't seem as enthusiastic about the cake, hahaha.

Econs lecture tmr, yawn. No more Char Dev module, it's over over overrrr. Org Mgmt next sem, yawnnnn! Hopefully mrs ong takes us for OM next sem, hoho.

This week...

2008-08-02T10:05:00.002+08:00

What a week...

CD presentation on Wednesday and I didn't dress formally as instructed, but luckily they didn't take pics;and I think i screwed up, but K didn't think so... So yeah... hopefully not....

Ed came over to school yesterday and we had lunch at foodcourt 4 with k,m,w. Ahh the fishball noodles were surprisingly good (according to me and ed! ) ;D but the ching tng wasn't surprisingly good.... I found some sweet potato inside and I HATE SWEET POTATO!!! gross texture...

We dropped off at Bugis on the way home; I wanted my milk tea and ed wanted to get a present... So... perfect timing. So had milk tea, and went present-hunting... Superrr crowded.

Tests are over so at least it's a little easier to breathe now, of course until the exams... Which are in exactly 2 weeks from now. D: - So I guess not. Got most of the papers back, with the exception of eff comm.

Haha... I didn't fail econs this time... even though I only got a miserable 56. And 57 for PACC. Got stupid 69 for stupid marketing because no one noticed anything about the stupid double spacing rule, so minus 5 marks. Ah well... 80 for CD, and 95 for stats... i'm okay for now i guess.

hohohohohoho.

school again

2008-07-23T23:15:00.003+08:00

Super glad that Marketing Ca 2 is finally officially out of the way, woohoo. Today's presentation wrapped up something like 6 weeks of work, lots of late nights and plenty of wasted ink and paper. Group presentation was pretty solid with Mrs T giving the thumbs up, besides the ppt slides being a tad too wordy.

Now just to get the result next week. It's 40% for the whole module, so it better be decent hahaha.

Just received the personal development program listing in the school email..... seriously thought of signing up for something... dunno what though.

Oh and received the instructions to enrol for the compulsory set of elective modules... Registration is still some time away, luckily. Ohhhh there are 3 super tempting courses, wahhahaha.

Super duper no life these days man. And I'm going to turn up tomorrow at school for the morning econs lecture... hahahah it doesn't even seem to sound sensible man... 1hr to school, 1hr at sch, and 1 hr to come home. It's like... so unbalanced... Hahahha but with the lecturer for the entire course as your class tutor means you gotta show your face more~

ok a random but pretty ugly pic. Just saw it in my pictures folder... really feel like a drink now so i'll just put this up.

Not very tempting righttttt? I think the muffin looks better than the coffee actually. The muffin was gooooood.

Okieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee gotta get some sleep or i'm gonna be late for the 4th consecutive week for econs lecture. And A isn't gonna be pleased.

2008-07-19T01:02:00.002+08:00

yo. Long time no blog~

It's been almost a month since the previous update. Plenty of happenings and pretty busy in school. In fact I was just about to go study for Monday's econ test. Ahahaha but no inspiration to do that just yet.

I don't know where to find time for CCA stuff haha. As I'm typing this there are 2 powerpoint slideshows due, a 10 page report and a test to study for.

Just had biz stats test today actually... Good thing there weren't any questions on variance and standard deviation... and the probability and theory qns were simple enough...

After test, met up with eddddddd. Hahaaaa supposed to go for kopi but went to buy a larger memory card for my phone... ed was nice enough to walk up and down funan mall with me ;) hahas. So after searching for the best price I bought a 4gb m2 at about 52 bucks... Yeah probably could get it cheaper at sim lim i know... but just don't feel like going there. And instead of kopi we ended up having soup at bugis. My mushroom soup was superrrr filling and ed enjoyed his clam chowder so it was pretty goooood.

Coming up in the next few days: Monday's econs test (evening paper again. gahhhhhh.), wednesday's fom final presentation+ report submission (ohhh im SO excited for that).

yay tmr is saturday but i think this is gonna be a study weekend.

okay i know this is a super random post.

2008-06-24T16:26:00.003+08:00

i'm sooooo behind with updating hahaha. Blame Mid-sem test week for it~! Actually I already updated last week about the CIP project at the elderly care centre but just didn't wanna post it... so okie.. guess i'll post it now. Hmm actually it was on 16th June.

Hahah no escape from CIP...even though it's vacation time. Class did our cip at an elderly activity centre in bedok. It was planned a long time ago, as part of CD module. Half the class made mooncakes with some old folks and the other half...we entertained them with games and handicraft.
Couldn't quite take a lot of pics... so just a few...

don't think anyone can tell what's happening but it's just the game... yeah i know. cant even see what game.. hahahaha.

"pink mooncakes... or pink mooncakes for you, sir?"

eating the pink mooncakes.. haha

Basically spent the better part of the day there, from 7.30am till late afternoon. But... it was a pretty interesting experience... Unlike the last CIP to old folks' home in sec 3, this time i could truly feel that everyone was very much on the ball and "in it". So okie, no complaints there. hahahah.

so that's it for cip~

Last wednesday me and the fantastic guys went cycling at east coast, but i won't update now cos i really have to go prepare for IT apps test that's on tomorrow. So yeahhhh. Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the next day. Or the next day. Or the next day. Yeah you know what I mean.

2008-06-14T22:38:00.002+08:00

haven't updated in ages... haha.. guess i didn't have the mood to...

Badminton with mikey, shannie, ed and fred yesterday. Fantastic as usual... cos they are fantastic company to be with... hahahaha. Mike, ed, shannie and I went for our usual kopi after playing... Really fantastic to sit down with everyone and just talk nonsense, as we did in school.
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Started on IT apps whatever report today... Matt was really nice to slowly explain exactly how they completed parts of the programming in excel so that I could write it in the report easily. So basically spent the best part of my afternoon at some random macs in relatively far-away Tiong Bahru. And well my laptop battery ran out after like 2+ hrs so packed up after that.

Walked the ground floor of Tiong Bahru Plaza with yh, matt and eric, and found it superbly uninteresting so left quickly.

Don't know why, but was in a rather unpleasant mood this morning and afternoon... must be all the projects getting to my head... Monday's service learning, marketing prep and whatever else they decide to throw at our poor souls. Plus the prospect of mid sem tests coming up after next week, and the fact that I haven't even touched my books yet. Sigh.

I was walking home after the long train ride, listening to the reindeer section (well, technically just cartwheels and you are my joy, since it's not such a long walk). And as I walked along the void decks i found myself smiling really really widely at.. um.. no one. Wooh. Scary man.And there was this dude that walked past and gave the "???????????" look.

seriously seriously seriously haven't done that in ages.

guess i'm pretty lucky and my life actually isn't shitty at all even though I don't get my way most of the time... hahahaha.

2008-06-03T11:08:00.001+08:00

toto the toilet bowl's instructions... hahahaha

1. What age do you wish to marry?

2. What you want the most right now ?
more friendship, more companionship... my friends are fantastic..but having even more won’t hurt of course xD

3.What do you look forward to after marriage ?
Long walks along the beach~

4. Something to describe yourself .
I think I am confident. Maybe... who knows... HAHAH.

5. If you can have 1 more dream to come true, what would it be ?
refer to previous entryyyyyyyyy

6.What are you afraid to lose now ?
Everything I have now

7. Do you believe in ETERNAL love ?
Probably...

8. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her ?
Yeah man... but only after a long time and if i’m absolutely sure...

9. How could you spend 200 bucks ?
Getting something nice...

10. Family or friends, which one more important ?
Familyyyyyy

11. Which type of person you hate most ?
Hypocrites!!!

12. So you cherish every of your friendship ?
duh.

13. Do you believe in God ?
Don’t think so...

14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life ?
Joy

15. Choose between your bestfriend or girlfriend ?
AHAHAH. MY GAY FRIENDS. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM COS THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.

16. What do you want your friends to be like ?
I love them as they are cos I already said they are the best

17. What kind of drama/movie you like ?
WHATEVER.

18. What is your favourite hobby ?
no favourites... but somehow i do like reading sometimes. And using com.

19. If you're feeling low one day, who will you go to ?
Helloooo friends.... how are you today

20. Are you happy?
Happy enough.

Tagging: (DO IF UR FREE HAHA. NOT HAPPY BLAME TOTOTO)

peiqi(HAHAAHAHH TOTO don't kill me), huiyin, kahwai, lihui, adawiyah

ok bye people.

2008-05-31T23:45:00.002+08:00

I'm blogging from hotel room.. internet connection kinda sucks cos its super unstable.. but will do anyway... anything just to get my daily fix of the internet.. haha.

*****

Ah Ong says i should blog something ... so... okay.... fine.. haahahahahaha. Let's hope the connection lasts long enough that I can actually post this.

1. 1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be?
Answer: I think i’d probably not even have a reaction...lol

2. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
Answer: To have 3 more wishes.... hahah nah.... just a safe and stable future...

3. What will your dream wedding be like?
Answer: A very simple one... on the beach or something...

4. Are you confused as to what lies ahead of you?
Answer: Pretty much so... but not too worried about it cos i think it will all straighten out naturally

5. What's your ideal lover like?
Answer: Caring, warm and intuitive, with the perfect balance of being caring+concerned and knowing when to give me space (im pretty sensitive to feeling constrained xD) ... anyway if she’s intuitive enough to fit here then she’d know what i mean.... hahahahahaha.

6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
Answer: errr... 50/50??? Works both ways i guess...

7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?
Answer: Pretty practical here...I don’t intend to wait... take me or leave me... i don’t believe in waiting and waiting for something that might not be realised. Hahahahahahaha.

8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Answer: I hope never to get into this situation, but but but but i think i wouldn’t do anything other than looking on quietly.

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days ?
Answer: not really anything big, luckily.

10. Is being tagged fun?
Answer: woooop. Yes! xD -.-

11. How do you see yourself in ten years time?
Answer: Working hard... hard...hard..and...travelling around.. probably a pretty exciting life...

12. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Answer: My familyyyy and friendsssssssssss. HEH.

13. What kind of person do you think the one who tagged you is?
Answer: Ah Ong tagged me. She is really sensible... very mature and sensible, and sensible sensible, and more sensible....compassionate and caring. (oi ah ong.. don’t get your head all swollen up ehhhh haha)

14. Would you rather be single and rich or married but poor?
Answer: Married but poor. Money’s cool but it still can’t buy you warmth and love mannnnnnn. Ahahahah.

15. Whats the first thing you do every morning?
Answer: Pick up my phone and check the time to see if im late for class (which i am ever-so-often anyway)

16. Would you give all in a relationship?
Answer: errr... 95%... cos... i believe in balance... if you force me into souring my family ties and friendships.. then shooooo.. stay far away from me please... cos i won’t allow that... other than that... yeah...

17. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
Answer: I dunno... i think probably the more caring one...

18. What type of friends do you like?
Answer: Just go look at my friends.... hahahaha. They are the best... woohoo. The kind that always have time to listen and help out when needed. ;D

19. What type of friends do you dislike?

Answer: The kind with nothing but crap spewing out from their crappy mouths and LYING.

OKAY DONE...
now the people i wanna tag... hmm let's see

1) no one 1
2) no one 2
3) no one 3
4) no one 4
5) no one 5
6) no one 6
7) no one 7
8) no one 8

yay im done!

2008-05-25T02:33:00.003+08:00

not such a great week... the best part was that basically there were only 4 days, monday being vesak day.

am actually starting to dread the endless drag that is school. dragging my ass into the lt early in the morning and vegetating there. And the tutorials. gosh. Projects galore.

Whoever said that life here would be easy is seriously ____.

What's in the blank? i dunno go fill it in yourself.

and to make things a little more exciting for me, on thursday my laptop crashed. Well to be exact the XP partition (i.e the SCHOOL partition) kinda screwed up and decided not to start up. Cool... i lost my marketing report tt i did with my group just a day earlier and it totally sucked having to try and recall what i typed.

and so wasted an hour at the notebook help centre at our block in school to get it reformatted.

sighhhhhhhhh.

ok friday tutorial was okie.. cos..

ah nvm.

over the past few days i've found myself doing the most meaningless and silly things... whatever is happening man.

new look

2008-05-19T19:12:00.002+08:00

FINALLY changed my blog template. I know everybody( including myself) is very very sick of the old one...

i kinda like my new template. wahahahahahaha.

i think it kinda rocks...

this sums it up best.

JUSTIN; says:
i just changed my template!!
나는 CAR Y 이다 - because i'm supercar. says:
finalllllllllllllly

xD

not much not much

2008-05-14T00:35:00.003+08:00

guess it's about time to do an update...

about 1 month into school... still not quite used to the school but slowly and steadily getting settled in. sighhhh what to do... i always take long to settle somewhere. Projects projects projects all the time... in fact my group's been working on one for the past few days and we're gonna present it on Thursday. yawnnnn. Projects are taking my life away man. But 1A01 isn't a bad class at all and in fact I think for the first time, I don't worry about having uncooperative people in project groups cos everyone seems pretty responsible~ well so far anyway.

moooore came to my school and met up with me today (don't ask why, i don't know either). Stoooopid mooore said he wanted to go to fc6 (at business block) and "look at scenery". ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

And but we went to fc3 and slacked there for a while before leaving campus.

a bit happier today (even though it was a long day). i guess that hearty (LAME) project discussion helped a bit.

Everyday I pass the old holding school at bedok on the train and think about the time we spent studying there. Looking at the driveway and the porch and everything from the train really reminds me about everything- minute details like walking across a particular walkway and so on. Leaky roof, broken toilet doors, and so on included. Not exactly perfect but very beautiful still.

The green school taught me a lot and (i think) really had a big part in creating this personality i have now. I don't know if it's a good thing, bleh. But definitely no regrets spending 4 years there. I SOUND LIKE I'M ADVERTISING HAHA. But it's trueeee~

(kinda reminds me of what mr george keeps repeating in marketing lecture: Product, price, place, promotion. hmm.)

SO YES I LOVE THE GREEEEEEN school. AND I am really starting to miss EVERYONE from 4e4.

SO please people, let the outing this june become reality please...........

please please please please please.

gahhhhhhh tutorial tmr in the afternoon. tiredddd. and i'm getting really tired of having to bring this 15.4" (thus heavyass) notebook to school every single day. And tomorrow is sad cos it's actually just one long tutorial and I don't even know if we really need our notebooks.

in fact i am drooling at this thing
HP Mininote 2133

8.9" screen, 1+kg, metal case, blah blah. BEAUTIFUL haha. And it's light. Light light small small light small light. Someone PLEASE drop one of these off at my home if you're kind, and please.. the version with windows xp pro on ittttt. =)

yawnnnnnn still have to make some edits to the CD stuff before bed.

limited edition post

2008-05-11T19:12:00.004+08:00

kahwai, kahwai (or twinny if you prefer ): i know you've waited for a loooong time for this post. Haha. Well finally you can have it.

HEHH.

background info.

okay i stole this from your post about me, don't mind me X)

"With some arranging, it becomes twinnyevilscramblejustinsadwaterstalkergoat. Initially, it started as only waterstalkergoat, but overtime, it became this super long strand of words, twinnyevilscramblejustinsadwaterstalkergoat.

And he's twinny and I'm twinny too. Confused not?"

okie so that's how twinny comes about.

okayyyy meanie. thanks for entertaining me in tutorials when i was rotting rotting rotting. and when i was stuck in dryyyy project discussions.

and for...

spamming my inbox with nonsense random messages when i was freezing in the lt at school
your lameeeee nicknames ( i still won't accept them though xD)
being so comical haha
repeating over and over again (that i owe you this post) - I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
AND. Claiming that you are SOMEONE ( xD )
and everything elseeeee.

OKAYOKAY thankssss.. you BACON. HEH. Are you honoured?????? =))

past few days...

2008-05-01T21:43:00.003+08:00

School school school school

Lecture tutorial lecture break lecture tutorial lecture lecture tutorial

project project project

nothing much else over the past few weeks... exactly why i haven't been blogging much. Just slowly getting more used to life in this school... but still pretty much miss the wonderfully green school.

i wanna join guitarrrrrr. heh. but im so not musical.

and i owe twinny one post --- (i didn't forget you, crazy thing. HAHAAH. be patient. SOON)

update...

2008-04-11T00:51:00.005+08:00

Yesterday was 3rd day of orientation; nothing much cos it was basically IT training at the cold cold freezing cold LT. I think matt (who was on my left) was freezing too cos he was hugging his laptop and saying it was pretty warm hahahaha. Basically the lecturer was talking so i don't know why they bothered asking us to lug the laptops to school. Class went back to the tutorial room and met our class tutor. He's a pretty nice guy and he says he'll be in charge of taking us for PACC, otherwise known as accounts. Wooh.

(Most) of the class went for lunch after that but was kinda sick gahhhhh so didn't have any appetite whatsoever. So had a drink and left earlier with qijun, ruyi and yanjing. Walked to the mrt with some funny dudes from class 04 and talked crap. yeah.

4th and last day of orientation today~ Flag day. Ok. Boring honestly. Really. But wasn't that bad. Went to orchard, a lot of people, but not a lot of coins to be had.

group pic! just 8 out of 22 classmates. The rest were elsewhere.

just one cos i'm kinda lazy to handle so many haha.

ok then back to school to count money. Class tutor Mr K was there.

The tutorial rooms and LTs in school are unbearably cold. Think i shall hunt for a good jacket tomorrow after lunch with the dudes.

okay with that...

twinny says I owe her a post.

thus I shall copy your post!

twinny- because we have a high similarity according to the Likeness application, so yeah.

ok twinny i don't know why I bothered HAHAH. Ok let's see. You wanted a post. So um...

a post
a post
a post
a post
a post

ok lots of posts. So um. I don't owe you any more posts or whatever now. Haha. Okie. Done.

Orientation...

2008-04-08T16:45:00.004+08:00

yoyoyo. Orientation yesterday and today. Even so I still got lost on the way out just now, haha. Took me 10 mins to figure out where the exit was. Yesterday was mostly the usual ice-breaker games, blah blah. Nothing much... Therefore won't elaborate.

Today was basically a pageant sorta thing, a bit like what we had a few times in prss before...Dressing people up and sending them out to compete. Except this one involves a couple from each class. So we pretty much spent the whole day at the convention centre.

lots of people slacking there.

So yeah, we had A and Y represent 01, but no pic cos it was pretty dark...They did a good job though... so yeah. great.

Yes and sch of business students must be corrupted or something!!! in the whole competition there were so many cross-dressing people...

here's a sexy girl...errrrm...guy

and another one...

one of the final rounds... with the couples on stage.

finally...

facilitators on stage...

...and facilitators REALLY high.

But anyway it's great... they're really very enthu and they did a great job...hahas.

looooong break...

2008-04-06T08:40:00.006+08:00

yoyoyo~

I've been missing for weeks! But I'm back now anyway hahahahaha. Kinda lost the mood to blog for a while... too much sloth I suppose.

Didn't really miss blogging that much other than countless outings, badminton and my birthday, so really not much going on lately. Well the last post was on the day before my birthday so I guess I'll start with that first.

Had lunch at bugis with ed, mike and the sex maniac (sm). Was pretty good though I didn't eat much. Still... I think it was a pretty good meal...

Eheh.

i has de pleasure to present to you... le stew de mint ice cream, yam ice cream, ginseng, red date, lotus root, f&n in different flavours, veggies, orange peel, and a few other,er, unpleasant ingredients

mike said it tasted okay. hmmmm.

And after lunch we went to funan... ed wanted to pick up a pair of earphones. So we walked over from bugis junction. No success finding earphones but we had cake and coffee--- Treat from ed and sex maniac for me and mike hahahaha. Chocolate cake was excellent- chocolatey and rich (duh it's chocolate cake after all).

And thanks to everybody for the kind wishes... Midnight wishes were a surprise...

Okay so the next few days ... Going out, walking around and badmintonnnnnn. Tampines has been the frequent haunt anyhow. Same old stuff as usual so nothing much interesting...

Then I went to school a couple of times. I mean the one in Dover. Got my computer reconfigured slightly over a week ago and so on. Yesss it was quicker than I thought it would be. There was a really friendly lecturer helping me out -(self service became full service, well almost anyway.) and he was joking and laughing along the way even though there were so many people. And and and... sex maniac went there and sat on the table and got a scolding from one of the lecturers. TSKTSK SM. hahaha.

So yes that's about it for the month of March.

One week into April and I think i'm missing my long 5months+ break already argh. School tomorrow already. (cue long yawnnnnnnnn. )

Nothing much this week except... that ed, mike and I went for a small feast on monday- without mr sex maniac cos he's away again... No particular occassion... It was just out of boredom. Ed wanted to pick up a slipcase for his shiny new notebook so we walked to funan again. I couldn't find a nice one so I didn't buy, but ed found one with a damn lot of bumps inside and it looks damn cool. After that back to tamp and slack as usual before heading back home.

Wednesday we went back to prss~! Pretty fun to walk around and look-see. Only thing is... we never studied in that new building anyway so like not much feeling~

AHHH time for some room cleaning.

not much...

2008-03-18T14:21:00.003+08:00

Maybe you really can get tired from slacking too much. Slept in again today and haven't got the mood to find something to eat up till now. I suspect when school finally starts I probably will be practically dying from sloth.

Considering what to eat now~hmmm.

Anyway i'm feeling pretty cooped up of late...

After attending last week's enrolment day at school I haven't been doing much or leaving the house... Went to TP with moooore and ed on friday to submit their enrolment documents...The place was pretty quiet so yeah, boring. Lunch at TM before they went to bugis and I went to school to collect the laptop.

my yummy gummy toy (er no, school stuff) Quiteeeee satisfied with it... Although the school throughly invaded it. For example... the home page in IE is the school website hahahahahaha. And there's a ton of administrative tools and whatnot from the school on it. So yeah a bit disturbing.

Now to go grab something to eat~

enrolment....

2008-03-13T21:33:00.002+08:00

Went down to school for enrolment today... Guess the people around school are alright after all so it wasn't that bad.

One of the lecturers told me to study hard -.- .HAHA.

The enrolment was pretty smooth... But the financial bit took really long. Other than that it was really efficient... So that's great man...

Probably be popping down to school again tomorrow or monday...

update... soon...

2008-03-12T23:59:00.002+08:00

yesss i will update soon... there's nothing much these few days so no update...

but yes i'll update tomorrow.. i'll be hopping over to school in the afternoon. I mean my new school. Not PRSS. Hahaha.

Damn I hope it won't be too draggy.

home and not much else

2008-03-06T02:10:00.002+08:00

Well I spent the entire day at home today. Waking up at 11am does nothing to help your energy levels hahahaha. So basically I finally took the effort to read the contents of the enrolment package that came yesterday.

(and I think it's now obvious which school I'm going to hahaha. No brainer. The one that's the most rushed with the registration DUH.)

So I finally finished the online pre-registration just now. A day before the deadline. Not too bad... hah. System was a little confusing but managed anyhow...

tomorrow might be a day out~ I can't afford to stay home all the time... my health will deteriorate... I don't bother to eat meals... and whatever... Ultimate sloth if you like ahaha. So I have to get out so I walk around and eat proper meals.

and i'm still not missing work!~

small update

2008-02-29T23:20:00.002+08:00

not much really... last day of work today... freedom is back. Finally. Was getting pretty sick of the work but anyway it's over and done with now. SO it's time to relax~

haven't been updating, simply cos nothing much has been happening. Just popped by sls with mikey on thurs to check prices on computer parts.

haha an intel celeron D chip is 57 bucks, a mid range core2duo will set you back by 250 bucks T.T

and saw a damn cool semi-transparent comp chassis in a shop, going for 60+ bucks. If I had some spare parts lying around I would definitely buy that case and assemble a machine just for the heck of it.

hahah sounding soooo geeky today. Truth is I don't think I can assemble it successfully first time around hahaha. I suspect after I assemble a machine it probably will give a lame beep after I power it on without loading up the OS or something like that. That partly explains why I don't do that. heh.

gonna take the opportunity to catch up on some sleep.

the past few days...

2008-02-23T10:24:00.005+08:00

it's been an exciting week. but firstly...

Yessss got my second choice after all. I'm fine with it I guess.

---

Yesterday, Ed, Moooooooore and I went to town... Mikey Parkey was sick again so was sleeping at home hahaha...

Ed went guitar hunting!!! So moooore guy and I were the... um... escorts...

Mr MOOORE!

Ed with the new-found baby~

and my turn of cos.. I picked up this baby...finally.

yesss and everyone's quitting their jobs so it means plenty of movies, food, kopi and crap for the month of March!

yay.

2008-02-18T21:48:00.003+08:00

H*@&*E&H^D@!.**NJ##!!

damn i think i lost my camera cradle+adapter. been hunting around for days and days.

my camera is kinda dead with no charging cradle. yawn.

*EDIT* I found it wahahaha it was in the same bag I brought on holiday 2 months ago.

byebye piggy, hello rat

2008-02-10T17:57:00.000+08:00

And here the year of the rat has arrived...

It's been a sleepy few days. Wednesday was new years' eve (duh) so we gathered at family HQ for the usual dinner. The street on which family HQ is located was jammed with cars from the neighbours and aunt had to park her car on the next street initially. Two tables ( as usual) but this year it just felt a bit strange due to a much smaller number of people than previous years. Well almost all the cousins are away, studying or working, so... it was much quieter than usual.

Spent the first two days of the new year just lying around at gran's place, as usual. Eating, drinking, wasting time. Had my trusty computer with me in my bag so i entertained myself. Pretty much the same stuff.

Saturday was rest day... so home all day except to get dinner in the evening...

(haha our living room definitely has some new year atmosphere)

and as for today I was at a gathering of some of dad's old friends. A few families were there of cos..

Haha eye candiessssssssss ;D
zzzzzzz not the old men (DUH!)
rather there were a total of 10 daughters and ONLY 2 sons hahahha.

anyway in all it was pretty much okay.

must listen

2008-02-10T00:31:00.000+08:00

故事的小黄花
从出生那年就飘着
童年的荡秋千
随记忆一直晃到现在
吹着前奏望着天空
我想起花瓣试着掉落
为你翘课的那一天
花落的那一天
教室的那一间
我怎么看不见
消失的下雨天
我好想再淋一遍
没想到失去的勇气我还留着
好想再问一遍
你会等待还是离开
刮风这天我试过握着你手
但偏偏雨渐渐
大到我看你不见
还要多久我才能在你身边
等待放晴的那天也许我会比较好一点
从前从前有个人爱你很久
但偏偏风渐渐
把距离吹得好远
好不容易又能再多爱一天
但故事的最后你好像还是说了拜拜

rantttttttttttt.

2008-02-05T22:11:00.000+08:00

Holy smokes.

Windows Vista SP1 has gone RTM today.

Oh but apparently they can't release it because of some conflicting drivers they found. ZZZZZ.
Now why is it worth a mention you might ask?

Because I'm suffering with this OS on my lappy and just when I thought they were going to release SP1 to (hopefully) remedy the problems I have...They had to delay the release FURTHER.

Actually I have problems like sloooow file transfers (even within the same hard disk-into another folder), slow file deletion, problems with hibernation and sleep mode, unexpected crashes and so on. The service pack 1 is supposed to fix the problems and as i read the list they sounded so, so familiar. Actually there's lots more like when I first installed WLM it used to hang a few times a day and so on. And believe it or not... an old thumbdrive actually doesn't work with the OS. Haha... and this takes the cake. A few days ago i closed the lid to let the computer sleep, and an hour later I found that it had turned itself on with an error message on the screen. Sweeeet.

Which leads me to wonder... am I the only weird one with so many problems with the OS, or is anyone reading this having similar problems. Sometimes I really feel like trashing this software and buying a copy of XP, but then again I'd feel reaaaaaal stupid spending money to downgrade.
But I don't remember XP having so many issues... I still remember receiving a clunky desktop with xp preinstalled in november 2001 (or was it 2002?) and I've been using that OS all the way till recently.

HELL.

mondayyyy

2008-02-04T22:31:00.000+08:00

sigh blue monday... means work and the start of a new week. anyhow i had a nice weekend.

let's see...

Dinner with folks after work on friday night at changi sailing club. Beautiful surroundings and decent food so... nice! Haha. Was very windy too so extremely comfortable. Nothing beats a cool sea breeze!

escargots!!! seriously nothing slimy about this... in fact it tasted like mushroom(actually i was thinking of snail slime while chewing it but I seriously couldn't taste anything strange. hmmm.)

urgh a partially eaten fish n chips. Its a seaside club so you eat seafood (duh!) HAHA.

Okie Saturday and sunday... what better way to enjoy the weekend than to.. SLEEP. Haha slept in on both days and really have been lazing around like a pig. No such privilege when school starts huh.

YES that's the weekend. And its tuesday tomorrow.. sigh.. the day of the week i hate cos the weekend feels so far away

Consolation? It's CNY week woohoo~ More pigging out!

nowhere and nothing

2008-01-31T21:54:00.000+08:00

So different, yet so much the same.
And all I hope for in this this time is that it won't be too late.

I just really hope to be given this chance to prove myself.

but if it's really meant to be, it will happen no matter what anyway.

and then there won't be any such thing as being too late.

woohoo~

2008-01-30T22:59:00.000+08:00

First of all a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MIKEY.

mike KOK Pak Sum. Have a very happy 17th~! Too bad we're not in school now or you'd be doused with glitter, snow spray and confetti ribbon spray.

Adawiyah says posting results are gonna be out around the 19th! Woohoo another long torturous wait.

Yes yes can't wait somehow... Haha someone is gonna go around with a new identity eh~? ;D

Anyway work wise... It's been hell hahaha. Won't go into the boooooring details cos i'm gotta fall asleep talking about it. Tomorrow half day though so im pleased!!!

Right. I kinda hit a mental block so i'm just gonna click the orange button.

people...we're on our way...

2008-01-28T22:31:00.000+08:00

With the submission of the JAE registration late last night I've decided that I won't be going back to Canada for senior high after all. Thank you everyone for your kind help in showing me the pros and cons of everything. You know who you people are =D

I really hope to receive my first choice, financial and banking services. The COP for last year was actually one point below my raw score, and i put the exact same course but at another poly as my second choice, since the COP for last year was a point higher.

I'm really hoping that this year things don't drop any further on the COP side of things; granted there is a limit to how far the points can drop of course. Ah anyway I wouldn't mind my 3rd choice either.. accountancy at np. Sounds great to me.

So yep. Good luck to me in getting the course I want. And good luck to you too.

grant me my wish, please.

relief...and more confusion

2008-01-26T09:05:00.000+08:00

Results were released 2 days ago but i'm only blogging now cos I really didn't have the mood to blog any earlier. I spent the rest of Thursday thinking where to go next.

Results were alright. I won't say I'm happy but I'm satisfied. The big upset was the C6 for phys (a2 for prelims) and the a2 for english (same as prelims). Hell who cares at least I can choose most courses. 12 points, before any bonus points. R5 15, before bonuses. So that explains why. It's not a very pretty score or very pretty results but I can go where I want to.

The problem lies here. I'm torn between two areas. Engineering is flexible. You can pursue a business degree in future if you don't want to continue studying engineering. I don't particularly love engineering but I can cultivate feelings for it and improve our relationship. I probably can live with it for 3 years. But i'm not sure.

Business is my interest. But it's not as flexible. Business now means prob pursuing a Business or arts related degree next time. And what if my feelings change 10 years down the road and I decide I don't like business either.

My heart is leaning towards business. But the practical and intelligent side of me is saying go for engineering and take business if I want later on. BUT it's 3 years and i'm clear that if I don't really like what I'm doing I'll only get average results -think school subjects.

I know jc is out for me. The regimented way of life isn't the most conducive for me... I think I thrive under a little bit more freedom and leeway. I'd probably trundle along with the flow in jc.

Tofu says I sound frustrated... but I just can't decide which to put as first choice. Everyone says follow your heart. My heart, is dead.

nevermind. i'll figure it out today. I'm gonna submit the choices tomorrow. Good luck to me.

anticipation

2008-01-22T22:35:00.000+08:00

As the 24th draws near, I can't help feeling this constant nagging anxiety. While the head says don't worry, the heart worries.

It's probably this slight tinge of confidence in my veins now. So slight, so minute that it doesn't help things much.

But anyhow I'm taking comfort in the words:

WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE.

I mean, what is the worst worst worst absolute thing that could happen? I know for me I would probably enrol in senior high school in Canada. Study stuff like English and Physics. Attend prom night (again) in 2009. Heck, even if that absolute worst case scenario plays out, life truly does go on.

Of course it's just a wild thought. Judging from the "feeling" i am sure it won't happen. But i guess it helps to give a sense of calm when you think over everything that could happen.

I hope that on Thursday I'll be back here, blogging about great results and the joy of it all, and laughing at how stupid i was for wasting my energy being anxious and worried about the results.

I told myself i'd treat myself to the 8gb 3rd gen ipod nano in black with a bit of my january pay if I get 12 points or better on Thursday. So wish me luck. Heh.

And I hope the next post I make on Thursday will be filled with HAHAHA and laughing at how silly i was for worrying about anything at all. That would fufill my only wish for 2008.

Good luck to me,
Good luck to you!

random day with random stuff

2008-01-18T23:06:00.000+08:00

SM, Ed and I attended the ngee ann poly open house today, doing some last minute research on our options before the impending release of the results. So we met at almost 12 and went to Bugis for some vvvvvvvvv nice wan tan mee, before hopping on the train again towards Clementi. Mikey didn't come today since he's still sick... Poor mikey... hahahah

Damn long journey, but I like the school I guess. Walked around the campus and it's pretty large, though somewhat smaller than SP's campus.

On the way back home we decided to hop onto this stupid random bus at the bus stop outside NP. And to our horror we realised that it would take ages before reaching it's destination...Eunos. So basically we were horrified by that realisation. Luckily the bus stopped at Singapore Post Centre so we scooted off the bus to take the train. Hahaha. Don't take random buses if you don't know where you're going. =/

Yes and I think you can see one of SM's friends/compatriots outside the window. Stinking bus 154 argh.

ohoh ed got into the pic somehow.

So I finally got back home close to around 5 and decided to go to the pool side and vegetate. Luckily I had an abundant supply of coins today so...

heheh.

Sat there listening to the water for a while before going upstairs to find an empty house.

ok byeeeeeeee.

inspiration

2008-01-16T18:04:00.000+08:00

I read with great interest today an article on a particular Singaporean woman who was diagnosed with HIV at a very young age and the difference she is making to people today as a young lady. I found myself deliberating on the article for some time after reading it. Somehow it really got me thinking...

This young lady was diagnosed with HIV at the tender age of 19 years old, as a junior college student. In joining a blood donation drive, a blood test confirmed that she had contracted HIV and was a carrier of the disease. She attributed it to a sexual encounter at 16, without divulging any more details.

I'm sure that being diagnosed with HIV is like hearing one's death knell being sounded. It's just like being told that you are going to die an early death, so don't bother to try too hard in life cos you aren't gonna live long enough to go through with it anyway. And having the dreaded disease means that you'll be looked at in a different light, with people sneering at you. It means you'll be ostracized. Who you once called your friends will avoid you like the plague. The social factor would be bad enough to make most people give up, add that to the pain from treatment and the constant illnesses, and the fact that remains at the back of your mind, that you'll die soon.

What really amazed me about this lady was her undying spirit to make the fullest of her life and to try to somehow let other people benefit from her experience. Although she will never recover from it and will have to face death sooner than most of us, she has tried to make a difference, no matter how small.

It was a bad choice on her part to engage in sex at 16. Presumably it would have been risky sex. But that was her own bad judgement at the time. Such a pity really, but it did not stop her from travelling around to be engaged in educational efforts, to share with other young people her personal experience.

The religious might say that this could have been the path plotted out for her by someone above. It could be very true in the sense that if she had never fallen ill, she would not be able to change the lives of others. And today, her medication is sponsored by a foreign government, and she goes touring around the world to spread what she has learnt. The fact remains that she will die prematurely, but before she dies, she is making good use of the time she has remaining.

That, I felt, was something really touching. So then, what's with people cutting and engaging in other forms of self-damage and abuse over comparatively trivial matters like relationships.

"Ohhhh ___ doesn't love me anymore!!! I'm so sad!!! So i'm gonna self-mutilate and engage in cutting. I'm such a sad potato... ohhh ohhhh.... " Now what's that compared to knowing you will probaby die in the next 5 to 10 years or so. And that you cannot start your own family the natural way. And the other consequences you will suffer. Self-inflicted damage.. ah.. sad.

This woman, I really respect her courage. The message at first glance is probably to not engage in risky sexual behaviour. But I really don't think that's the crux of her life story. I think it's more of her bravery and strength that we can emulate.

ah those were the days...

2008-01-14T00:10:00.000+08:00

out of curiosity, i decided to take a look at the website of one of my previous schools, the international school of pusan. As with most international schools, you don't really get strong feelings of rootedness in the school since you leave after a few years, just like the other students. Ocassionally we also get news that so and so is leaving to go back to their home countries.

the website of my school is here!! (CLICK!)

I'm surprised...I remember a few people actually. Matthew from the USA. Maria from Norway. Michelle from Singapore. Jason ( a local from Korea). Sophia from Norway, and Oscar, from Singapore but he's now living in the USA. And of course i'll remember Curtis. Unfortunately he died in a car accident, when he hit by a car in a parking garage. I remember the sad scene at school when it was announced. Up till recently I had an article belonging to him at home. Gotten rid of it though.

Oh and there's Mrs Smith, my second year teacher, and Ms Gotts... My first year teacher. And the headmasters Mr Darby, who disappeared after a few months, and Mr PG Gotts, Mrs Gotts' husband.

nice people in the school. I remember wondering why school in singapore was so different when i just came back and i really missed korea, for a while. But i guess it was ok after a while. Haha. At home I still have our school tracksuit, with the huge logo on it. And apparently they still wear the same design till today. The school now has a high school section, when previously there was no high school div and you would have to transfer to the American School if you were of high school age. It's great now, and they take the IB and the IGCSE. And they moved to dalmaji hill soon after i came back here.

It's so nice to look back at this sometimes~ Hahaha. International school is really fun and stress free.

my computer(a senseless post)

2008-01-13T12:31:00.000+08:00

totally senseless post ahead, beware.

i'm getting wayyyy too dependent on my notebook computer these days. And I think it's only gonna get worse when school starts and I start having to use to to do my schoolwork too.

Last night I think i almost fell asleep with it in my bed, again. I think i got up to shove it onto the desk so I could have more space to sleep.

It's hard to explain my deep.. love(???) for my lappy. It contains all my fave music, vids and photos. It runs my entertainment. It's got my fave applications. And I can blog while sitting in bed(i'm doing that now at this time of the morning hahaha).

It's not perfect for sure. It looks admittedly boring on the physical side of things. Drab silver and grey accents. No fancy lighting effects or metallic plates. And it runs windows vista, and I am about to hate this aspect of it. Startup and shutdown sequences on this computer are fraught with problems. It's not just mine, but the rest at home who have similar on their computers as well.

But, I still love it. Hahaha.

yawn..

2008-01-10T23:33:00.000+08:00

it's back to work tomorrow after having today off. Big YAWN. And i'm taking another day off nx week too, but I don't know when.

This job ain't really the most exciting in the world, but the deadline for this month's project is the END OF THE BLOODY MONTH.

How do you sort and program n hundred customers and their data into a database within a month?

HELL.

2008-01-09T23:58:00.001+08:00

super super screwed... we lost one of the software license certificates today and there's now some shortfall.

bloody hell it's a good thing i have tomorrow off. Gonna be exploring Woodlands! WAHAHAH. BYE.

slacking...

2008-01-08T14:07:00.000+08:00

i'm blogging this from work! I guess that's really what they call cyber-loafing.. hahahahah.

nothing much, just a boring photo.

i'm leaving early today!!! didn't do much today... sorted out some computer stuff.. booklets, manuals and documentation. Too many computers=big mess.

ok bye!

not again...

2008-01-06T00:57:00.000+08:00

A difficult decision is looming... After countless attempts to sweep this decision under the carpet and trying to pretend it's not there, the issue is back.

Uncle G brought up the matter of going back to Canada to study again today. Actually it's nothing new. We've been talking about it for the past 4 years but every time i just try to ignore the issue and try not to think about it. The problem is... the o level results are coming out soon and if I am going to Canada it means I won't need to apply to any course.

The story is kinda long but basically if I go back this year, I'll be joining Grade 12 in a school, kind of like year 2 in JC here in Singapore (since grade 12 is the yr you take the certificate exams to enter university). What makes things so tricky is that if I go and do high school there, the admission to uni locally is even easier 'cos the requirements are slightly less. And the most important point. If I'll be in grade 12 from 08-09 it means that by 2010 i'll be in 1st yr of university.

And if I stay here and go to poly, in 2010 I'd be in the 2nd year. It's not such a huge savings since school starts in September there but that really isn't the point.

The point is, if I attend poly here I probably am going back there for uni anyway, so I'll just be imposing more stringent entry requirements on myself. So basically it all sounds great. BUT... I'm really afraid I can't get used to life in Vancouver already.

I remember in december '06 when i spent almost 3 weeks there I was thinking to myself that I probably won't wanna come back long term anymore. The lifestyle is just too different from what I'm used to over here. But on that visit, I did visit my mum's high school, which would probably be an option if I decide to go for grade 12 there.

The thought of Physics, Chem, Geography and English all over again scares me!!!

Damn this time there's no escape from thinking this through. The last time the issue was brought up, my excuse was... I studied here (in PRSS) so long already, so why not just finish the job(and take the Os)? But this time, I just can't make any more excuses for not thinking about it anymore.

On the other hand, I dread going there and having to stay so far from home, having to make new friends all over again, and i'm definitely going to miss the food here in Singapore. I dread having to adapt to new environments, I dread having to attend lessons in school as a 12th grader(meaning stress like a J2 student in singapore) and i dread the long flights from Singapore to Vancouver!( usually take cathay pacific and the flight to hk from singapore is almost 4 hrs while the connection from hk to vancouver is over 14 hours so its around 18 hours in the air and a few more hours spent around the airports in singapore, hong kong and vancouver- immigration's real slow at the vancouver airport =D )

So its a tough choice and its quite sad that I have to think about this argh. Wrong choice would mean regretting it next time and maybe eventually coming back and trying to apply to a local school anyway.

After years of thinking about this issue, I still have no conclusion. Doesn't help that my folks are very neutral about this thing. So... to stay, or not to stay? That.. is the question.

byebye..'07.. hello... '08

2007-12-31T18:20:00.000+08:00

2007 was really one helluva year, and today, being the last day of 2007 I shall make one helluva post.

I had an exciting 2007, with many firsts. Won't elaborate on the boring details... but it's all been very enriching. Got to learn a lot more about myself this year. I would say it was pretty smooth, luckily, so thank goodness for that.

O level preparations was something really, really synonymous with 2007. The year was mostly spent preparing for it. It's great that it was finally over and done with, but actually i'm still kinda worried about what I might get. It's like... the factor that dictates where i'm going next, so that explains why. There are some things I could have changed but on the whole I worked hard and I think I deserve good results. I told Mike today that if I were to get a B4 for e maths, i'd be pretty happy, since I got that for prelim and I have little confidence in my number-crunching abilities. Nowadays I just try to push the thoughts of school out of my mind.

So what comes next? After the results come out it will be time to choose a course and it will be back to school. There are so many possibilities ahead and it's all very exciting.

I don't ask for much. I have only 2 simple wishes for next year.
1) Everyone to be happy and healthy
2) of course, to get good O level results cos that means I can go where I want to go. Best is if I manage my modest target of 12 for L1R5.

Simple huh.

And as for new years' resolutions, i only have ONE solid one.

I will get good grades in whatever course I end up choosing.

Ta-dah. Nothing else.

I'll be spending the rest of today with loved ones, counting down at midnight with food and drinks and probably play around on the laptop. Really simple, just like my new year wishes. Hahaha.

But whatever you're doing today, and tomorrow, on the first day of 2008, I wish you a very happy new year and that you have a smooth, healthy and sweet year ahead. Good luck in everything you do.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

last bit left!!!

2007-12-30T00:14:00.000+08:00

View of the Hotel's coffee house from my room. A shitty room really, dark in the day time, and slightly noisy at night since they play music in the coffee house even at night,

Day 6,7,8 !

Three days spent in Shanghai to explore and take in the sights, sounds and smells.

It was pretty much all at a slow pace.
On day 6 we had a city tour, visiting the Song Ching Lin memorial park, basically a huge cemetery and park kinda complex. The body of Song Ching Lin lies there as well. We also visited some other places such as a medical hall.

Dinner was a menu incorporating principles of chinese medicine and most dishes were infused with some kind of herb to increase the nutritional value. Honestly though, it wasn't really to my taste. The best part of it really was the brown rice tea that was served.

table swept clean!

After the dinner we were brought back to the hotel. After a quick rest, we walked over to the Chenghuang Miao again, which was actually very near the hotel we were staying at.

Darned cold that night. So we stopped for egg tarts and milk tea. Yes... we stopped at... KFC!!!
hahahahahahhha. I don't know why but when you put the words "egg tart" and "kfc" together it sounds a bit odd. Can't help it, heh.

In any case, the warm tea and egg tart were very welcome. I had a matcha milk tea (!?) which tasted a bit odd at first but was actually not bad at all.

Day 7
Dad met up with friends, so I was at the Bund all morning. Took plenty of pictures all over the place haha. It was particularly warm at that time and i remember unzipping my jacket cos i was actually sweating somewhat.

Visited the Bund Memorial Park as well.

and some pics of the view from the Bund...

Now I need to stop for a moment and show another one of the very unique signs I saw. This one is different for the previous few, in that it makes (mostly) absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Please click on that pic of the orange thingy above and read the words carefully. Hahhahaha. And the shocking thing was, I took this pic at a restaurant on the Bund. You would have thought that at such a touristy place they would take more care in making their signboards.

Now imagine how someone would feel eating "good chicken silk"? And please, someone tell me, what in the world is "Shandong burns a chicken" and "Return to a pot of cured pork". Geez.

anyway....

We decided to be a bit adventurous in the afternoon/evening(gets dark early since it's winter) so we actually walked all the way from our hotel to Huaihai Road, the huge commercial district. The concierge at the hotel and out guide did actually mention the previous day that they would suggest we take taxis. Anyhow, we decided to take the 45 minute walk there, and a taxi back. It was pretty much worth the effort since we got to really feel the atmosphere at Huaihai.

found it pretty impressive actually...

Getting sick of the local food already, we decided to go for a cantonese-styled meal. I guess that went down much better since the style of cantonese cooking is much more similar to what we are accustomed to in Singapore. So we went to this really nice place On the 7th floor of Isetan. We just kinda wandered around and found ourselves there, no planning whatsoever.

2 of the more unique dishes... A lotus root dish with a kind of sauce. It looked really strange at first but it was surprisingly good, with a slightly chewy texture, light but sweet taste and the coolness of the lotus root when it was bitten into.

another more interesting dish... 2 whole sliced abalones. Okay, fine, that's not really unique you say? But... You definitely cannot get this at the same price in Singapore. In Singapore it might have cost double to enjoy this. Haha.

very filling dinner, and very satisfying definitely. And we took taxi back to the hotel.
so what's a vacation without indulgence, anyway? ;D

Day 8- last day.

Just a spot of last-minute shopping at Chenghuang Miao once again, since it was so near the hotel. Before long, it was off to the airport to catch the flight home.

Some last pics... at Pudong Airport.

the flight was delayed by at least half an hour and they made an announcement about something arriving late, but honestly I didn't care. Spent the time looking at the planes.

You can see the plane in the distance. Took it while idling around.

Take-off was delayed by another half hour. The pilot announced something about "a long queue to take off", explaining the reason for the added delay. Flight was pretty good. Just that there was an obnoxious family of piggies sitting in front of me and behind me. I mean, hey, I know you guys are related, but you don't have to keep shouting to each other, running back and forth, and so on. That fellow's daughter was especially obnoxious actually, dangling over her seat and harassing our row. It seemed like she was taunting us on behalf of her parents really.

Anyhow, the food was pretty decent, unlike the flight out. And I managed to get some rest. Arrived in Singapore at around 11.30. Definitely very late.

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On the whole, i found the trip to be a real eye-opener. China is no longer what many people believe it to be. It has progressed far, in so many ways. Learning about the standard of living in places like Wuxi, Hangzhou and Shanghai has really been an interesting experience. The rate of progress is amazing. In 5 years, the place will probably look different. China truly, is on the rise. And anyone of chinese descent will definitely feel some kind of pride in that fact.

And so, that concludes my narration of the trip! Thank you for bearing with me. Hahaha. And please tag if you read, it's hard work uploading so many photos. Help me make it worthwhile please. THANK YOU! =D

Part 3- almost finished...

2007-12-25T10:31:00.000+08:00

Day 4: Nanjing-Wuxi

Had an early breakfast. We set off at 7.30 to the Nanjing Yangtze River bridge (南京长江大桥）

at the bottom of the bridge outside the observation tower.

Once again, another interesting sign. Found this at the entrance to the observation deck at the bridge.

and of course just as before, if you can read chinese you'll probably find this funny. But i suspect that it sounds strange even if you can't read chinese. Carefully slip???

and found this at an art shop on a lower floor of the observation tower.

kinda reminds me of someone, heh.

After the bridge we went on to see the Nanjing Zhonghua Men. According to the guide, it was an ancient castle.

the view...

and after lunch we went on to wuxi, another city around 2-3 hours away. I'm not sure. I was sleeping. heh.

it was raining so I don't think that helped at all. When we got there we visted the CCTV facility at Taihu Lake. But it was damn cold because of the rain and my hands were freezing so I was in no mood to take pictures.

Went for dinner after that.

...and may i present to you a portion of Chinese Fish and Chips. It may look strange but it was surprisingly good. The "chips" were just strips of stir-fried potatoes, so they weren't crispy. But it was still good. It's not an individual portion of course, and definitely it's not fish and chips, but hey, I have no idea what it is. So credit me for my creativity. hahahahha.

Day 5: Wuxi-Shanghai

Spent the night in a hotel somewhat near the lake, but pretty far from the city.

We visited Lake Lihu after breakfast, a part of the huge lake Taihu. According to the guide, the name Lihu came from a historical figure Fan Li, but knowing nuts about chinese history I just took it in as "just another nugget of information".

Don't know why it seemed exceptionally cold in Wuxi, so no mood to take pics, naturally.

Something at lunch...

well honestly I didnt like this at all. It's just a cucumber salad. Gross really...

Then it was back to Shanghai after that.

Got to shanghai around 4 i believe. First stop, Madame Tussauds Shanghai. It's supposed to be a relatively new attraction. It's a wax museum, just like the other branches. But this one is comparatively smaller than the london or new york one.

Still it was pretty interesting since the Shanghai one has some figures that the London one doesn't.

woohoo~

And we went for dinner after that. It was a restaurant in some hotel in town but i think it wasn't any good.

After dinner it was the Huangpu River cruise. Basically we boarded a boat at one of the terminals along the river.

Very cold so not many pics, again!

And after the 45 minute cruise we proceeded to the Orient Pearl TV tower, just a short distance away.

In my opinion, Fred was right about it being overrated. It's beautiful, but once you're up there its a huge observation deck and that's it.

heh check out the numbers on the lift. Got this photo when the lift operator stepped out for a moment.

After that it was back to the hotel of course.
...And that is the end of Day 5!

part 2

2007-12-24T01:29:00.000+08:00

Day 2: Suzhou& Hangzhou

Interesting day. After a good night rest after the previous day's whirl of activities and the overnight flight, things were much better.

The hotel where I took the last picture in the previous post was crap really. So I didn't bother to bathe or change.

So anyway after sleeping there for the night it was time to tour some places in Suzhou. There are too many that I can't really describe them all so I'll just put some pics as a sampler.

anyhow, my pics kinda got scrambled up in the memory card so i'll just do my best to recall where these places are.

1) Night lights in suzhou
2) somewhere in hangzhou or suzhou, i can't remember.
3) Bed museum in hangzhou

west lake museum. Didn't take pics inside cos there were some nasty looking guards in there. haha.

The evening was spent in a more interesting way actually...

Before dinner we went to the famed West Lake in Hangzhou.

the view..

and after dinner we watched a show at a place in town called Nights of Westlake. Basically it's an acrobatic/musical/opera/drama show produced by a local group of people. Pretty exciting stuff.

(notice the famous mcdonald's sign below. its everywhere -.-)
Just one picture from there...

Then it was off to the hotel in Hangzhou.

Day 3. Hangzhou-Nanjing

That hotel in Hangzhou was absolute shit. They call it a 3 star hotel but I wouldn't even give it 2 stars. Breakfast was the worst I've ever tried in any hotel. Definitely not an experience to remember.

We went to cruise the west lake after breakfast.

Lunch was pretty darn good. We had a local specialty, chicken cooked with tea leaves and goodness- knows -what but it was very good.

And a tea plantation...

we bought a good amount of tea and some tea candies from there.

It was off to Nanjing after that. A long 4 hour drive. Well it was supposed to be, but... the expressway was closed to traffic because of bad weather. So.... it was probably more like a 6 hour long journey.

(that's a Hangzhou bus, *wink wink * =D )

But finally we reached Nanjing in time for dinner. After dinner we walked over with the local guide to Fu Zi Miao, a shopping area in Nanjing.

Some pics of the area.. Found it to be very pretty actually.

Then it was off to the hotel for the night. Long ride and I think i slept in the van. Anyhow the guide was jabbering on and on so i kinda turned to the side and slept so she couldn't see me. Heh.

a not-so-full account

2007-12-21T09:12:00.000+08:00

It's back to reality. Sadly. I woke up this morning to find myself in my own bed =(

anyhow i'll give an account of the past few days. But probably not too complete since it's way too long.

basically though the trip covered the cities of shanghai, suzhou, hangzhou, wuxi, wuzhen, nanjing

Day 1

Singapore, Shanghai, Suzhou

To Singapore airport by 11.30. Had some supper before boarding the overnight flight. Flight was okay. Managed to sleep a while.

Got to Pudong Airport around 6 plus, and met up with the guide and driver there. Then took the maglev train to the city centre. I was pretty surprised to see Terence walking out of the station in town. *Waves*

(cabin in maglev train)

hahaha.

(this building is called raffles city if you can see the words and according to the guide it's owned by capitaland of singapore as well, just like raffles city here.interesting...)

They let us have a look at yuyuan before we went off to suzhou. Suzhou really left an impression on me. I remember standing on the road side and looking at the modern buses, greenery and sky and wondering if I suddenly ended up in Vancouver.

yuyuan

more pics taken in shanghai&suzhou...

this is at the suzhou-singapore industrial park

and more stuff in suzhou...

Finally, this sign was stuck onto the shower screen door at the hotel. I kinda got a shock when i first saw it but if you can read chinese, you'll know why it's funny.

Ok that's it for now.
More tomorrow then!

hello computer

2007-12-21T00:35:00.000+08:00

I am BACK.

What a trip. We bought silk. Tea. Pottery. Artwork. Food. And we consulted a fengshui master too.

The plane was delayed by almost an hour from Pudong Airport this afternoon and the plane actually landed here only an hour ago. Damn tiring flight and the idiots behind and in front were pretty exasperating. Luckily the food was alright this time (unlike the flight out) and I managed to get some rest.

So right after getting home and lugging my stuff from the cab to upstairs I unpacked my dirty clothes, took a quick shower and pulled out my computer.

hehe i am such a hopeless computer addict.

It was a pretty interesting trip. Kinda late now though so i dont think i want to elaborate too much now. Probably will blog some pics over the next few days since there really isn't much happening nowadays.

But first I'll leave you with this picture.

(yes we really are good friends, you know =p)

2007-12-11T01:06:00.000+08:00

i guess it's time to blog!

It's already the 11th now so it's just one more day before I leave for holiday. So I guess I'll start on a bit of my packing tomorrow.

It's usual... when it comes to packing I tend to have extremely high inertia---for the non physics inclined--- reluctance to start moving from rest...

My usual habit is to wait till about 6 hours before the time to leave, grab my black luggage and stuff my clothes in haphazardly. Maybe I might just show a pic of it tomorrow to prove it... Hmm.. But...

Badminton tomorrow! wahaha mike and more are gonna play after they knock off from work.
As for me, every day is my off day hehe.

Okay finally, by popular demand, more prom pics... Finally got these from mr proxy moore (shannon if you prefer) since he took them or they were on his camera.

(yes mr moooore...)

i think i'm too lazy to post too many. The gamers at home are clogging up my internet connection with their incessant gaming.

Guess that's what happens with wireless shared broadband connections...

laughter...

2007-12-04T13:17:00.000+08:00

Oh how I envy you.

Just under a month ago you sent me a series of long messages speaking of how appreciate you felt. That I had bothered to do ____ and ____. And I definitely could sense you put in a lot of effort into crafting what you had to say. The you who normally types and speaks in totally broken English morphed (er temporarily i guess) into something quite different.

Your sincerity made my day ( or 3 actually). I truly could sense it.

I hope you're happy anyway. I somehow can't help feeling that I played a part, even though i didn't of course. Hahaha. (:

I'd like to wish you all the best. Text me if you read this. (:

2007-11-30T23:40:00.000+08:00

TODAY:

Prom was fun.

It wasn't in the flashiest of venues. The food was nothing to shout about. The drinks were crap (actually drink, cos there was only lime juice, lime juice and more lime juice). And my camera's battery died halfway through.

BUT it was fun definitely.

Shannon was pranked(we wrote his name on the nomination slips for prom QUEEN) but too bad he didn't win. Awww.

...and this is Mike working on the slips while i read them.

and more pics... mike, ed, more, fred are in the pics since i took them and shannon's cam has more pics but i haven't gotten them yet.

YESTERDAY:
I finally got my laptop after ages of tolerating that faulty old one with its broken touchpad, flickering screen and defective wireless connection.

It's a lenovo y410 and it runs pretty quietly and it's got a good battery life so i like it.

must see...

2007-11-26T23:42:00.000+08:00

Went to the school's open house last Saturday. It was definitely quite a thrilling experience to see how different the school was after two years of reconstruction.

So Fatin and I wandered around the place like lost idiots. Or rather idiots pretending to be p6 kids. No doubt the place was dusty as hell but it was pretty fun nevertheless.

And oh, we managed to convince some people that we were indeed p6 kids hahaha.

(viewed top to bottom, left to right)

1)Hall. Taken from the new and improved PA room. So now the IFC people won't be climbing up and down the old rickety PA cage at risk to life and limb! (Just joking!)

2)Building. Duh.

3)I know it's open house but I didn't know it applied to the toilets as well! The tiles will look very familiar to the people who SHOULD be in this toilet.

4)View from the library

5)A notice.

6)A VERY LOL picture.

MUST-SEE PHOTOS!

2007-11-25T01:21:00.000+08:00

LOTS OF PHOTOS!

But i think i'll post them on thursday. My current computer is crap and it's not recognising my phone at all!

2007-11-20T12:06:00.000+08:00

...And with a shrug and a smile nothing is too hard.

2007-11-17T20:17:00.001+08:00

There's nothing to do! My right arm is in pain, no thanks to yesterday's 3 hours of badminton.

I need to find something to do!!!

byebye~

2007-11-17T09:21:00.000+08:00

I went through the whole up-and-down thingy. I think I tried my best to adapt and understand but anyway... I finally plucked up enough courage to put the whole thing to an end. Granted I don't think I did it the best way I could... but anyhow I think it wasn't that bad.

It was about 4 months and including some time in between it was almost 6 months. I have to admit it was really quite fun at times.

But maybe its just that I'm too cold, too aloof. Maybe it wasn't very fair to you. But I think you should have realised it too from the beginning. I'm not affectionate. I'm just...well... So you see, you gotta connect mentally. But if you can't then it won't change and it's gonna be tiring.

I was brutally honest in explaining how I felt last night. Ah well... I don't know if it was the right thing to do...

break, break, break the chains!

2007-11-16T19:00:00.000+08:00

Really, chain letters suck! Big time. It might be a bit entertaining if the ones starting chain letters have some imagination. BUT...

The usual stuff could be:

1) REPOST THIS WITH ____(title)____ AND YOUR LOVE WILL APPEAR AT __(fill in the time)___.

2)IF YOU DON'T REPOST IT YOU WILL ___(die, be killed, be unlucky, blah blah)____.

not funny. ha.ha.

I mean, why are boards everywhere clogged with this kind of shit? Really, if you're gonna start that kind of thing, screw off and get a life.

weehee.

2007-11-16T00:30:00.000+08:00

Not much to do these days. Think i'm gonna rot from extreme idleness soon. Today I signed a visa application form for the Dec trip and my hand was kinda shaky. Blame the lack of mental stimulation, haha.

Didn't do much today other than watching Secret in the morning and some other shows on the comp in the afternoon. Secret is pretty nice except that the story line seems somewhat creepy. Decent enough but I think I like the soundtrack more.

Went out in the evening to get the photos for the visa application forms, once again for the Dec trip. Sis and I went to the computer store and looked at some games to buy later on.

I don't know why but anyway I've been toying with the idea of trying contacts for ages, and finally took the plunge today. Well, not much of a plunge, but it's something new anyhow. Originally I went to get my specs checked cos the lens was kinda damaged. The guy at the shop said they had to keep it to check and somehow I decided to get my eyes checked for contacts.
So yeah. Ordered 2 boxes to try them out. Blame my eyes with different levels of myopia. Disposables of course, in case I don't like poking my fingers into my eyes. And blame my astigmatism otherwise I would have paid half the price.

Badminton tomorrow with mike, mooore and shishui(?) and i dunno who else is going. Ed's busy with work so won't be anywhere near by.

last moments of this...object

2007-11-13T23:30:00.000+08:00

let me tell you a random story. using photos taken abt half a year ago.

hi. i am a phone, of the n**** brand.

these are the final moments of my short life.

(yesssss little girl i know sp is playing)

i died on the 1st of July, 2007.
ok fine lame. I'm bored. =.=

LIBERATION!

2007-11-13T13:43:00.000+08:00

wahaha...
two months of obsession with textbooks and notes is over.

i think i've had a great time with everything.

and a great bonus was that today's poa was easy.

now extremely free...
BUT
i'm considering what to do these few weeks. No plans.

i'll figure it out. But it still feels kind of strange not having to study anymore. At least for the next few months.

WAHAHA.

2007-11-10T18:09:00.000+08:00

just 2 more days of torture...
2 more days to the end of o lvl madness.

WOOHOO.

i feel like erasing my entire tagboard.

how fun.

can't wait.

2007-11-09T23:09:00.000+08:00

it's been 14 weeks. i wonder if it makes any difference.

why are you always so aloof???

2007-11-04T15:39:00.000+08:00

hello.
byebye.

2007-10-23T16:54:00.000+08:00

do i even know you?

cos...it's like i hardly know you anymore.

and in your own words... neglect?

HELLO?

oh please man...

i may not be the smartest person around but i certainly wasn't born yesterday.

vague imagery

2007-10-12T17:57:00.000+08:00

first day;

ring ring. alarm clock. shut up.
yawn. splash splash. walk walk.
gate. parade square.teachers.blue attendance book.

are you here? Welcome.
Welcome to our school.
Doze off.
Toilet. Smells like hell.
Food. So many people. So unfamiliar. Wish I wasn't there.
Tired. Exhausted.
Home.

And then something similar for the next few days.
Settling in took a few weeks.
Then the year just passed quickly and pleasantly. Probably the best year of my school life.

Second year.
hello hello. nothing new.
new teachers new classroom.
Hot hot hot classroom.
And the year passes by again.

Third year.
Bedok. Stinky leaky toilets.
New subjects.
New teachers.
Fun.

Fourth Year.
Passed by rather quickly.

Graduation ceremony.
Was alright.
Except I think the choice of song was ridiculous.
Don't know how many times the word "die" appeared.
C'mon people we aren't gonna die before the exams.
(right?)
or maybe the school predicts something scary.

2007-10-11T18:54:00.000+08:00

we can hang in there

we can

we can

we can

of course we can.

2007-10-10T17:41:00.000+08:00

I am still alive and kicking, really!

Just that I haven't been around here much.

oh-so-calm

2007-09-21T20:37:00.000+08:00

Gruelling hours of sitting at a table and staying warm under a fluorescent table lamp.

Endless piles of papers and notes on the table. Take a picture and you won't know the colour of my desk cos there are so many things covering it. It's like a mountain.

Even more unending, is the constant nagging, from everyone.

I'm not complaining. Somehow they serve as a constant reminder like a big yellow post-it stuck on the forehead.

There's just suddenly this sense of calm and a firm belief that everything will turn out fine. With the right effort.

1 more month. Just 30-odd days.

2007-09-18T17:06:00.000+08:00

3+5+2+3+3+2=18

18-2=16

and so, what good is that?

2007-09-14T22:33:00.000+08:00

Finally have a chance to log on and blog...!

Exam exam exam, i feel like such a lifeless bore. Gah can't help it, 2007 is the year of endless examinations.

So, okay, today marks the end of the protracted prelim exams. It feels like I've been sitting in the hall for days~

It's just a while ago that we were talking about prelims and all drawing near, and I think something hinting the arrival of the prelims was posted on the class blog not long ago.

Oh wait, the message is gone.

The fact that there's only 40+ days more to the big events doesn't seem to scare me now. Not yet. uh uh. But don't ask why. That flimsy-but-cute banner hanging in school just doesn't seem to have much effect anymore.

Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired.

I'm such a good kid hahahaha.

2007-09-12T16:46:00.001+08:00

finally.did.it.

I've never backed up my stuff before. clap for me. wahahaha.

thank you thank you.

2007-09-09T22:13:00.000+08:00

I feel so cheated... The one week break just kinda slid by like that...

Monday:Lunch, Movie, Walk, didn't get anything done but it was plenty fun
Tuesday:Slept in =.= and the day kinda passed by... sadly
Wednesday: Went to school... and after that went out to study...
Thursday: Went out to study, again
Friday: Went to school, studied at home after that.

No kick... argh. Even typing out all this is boring.

I signed my report slip. Surprisingly without any trouble... Very surprised...

Maths tomorrow. Gonna rest.

2007-08-30T17:04:00.000+08:00

Mike, More, Ed and I are probably going to More and I's primary school tomorrow after school just for the heck of it. So unless there's no time or something crops up tomorrow, that's the plan!

It's been 4 years since I stepped out of that place... Haven't been back since. Mike and More went last year but I didn't go cos I didn't really feel like it.

Thinking back, it's been 4 long years. 4 years after the time we were struggling to prepare for the psle. Ask More... at that time I was shooting eraser balls at people in class, not listening to lessons, not doing my homework, getting my mum phone calls from my teachers often. And More told me that ms _ lamented to him before about how difficult I was to handle. In short i just hated school and I would sometimes go take MCs for no reason.

Writing ting xie words on the table before the chinese teacher came for lessons... Something that some of us would do every week in p6 before our weekly chinese spelling tests. It seems ridiculously stupid now that i think about it. Not cutting hair when told to... More and i were caught so many times by the discipline mistress. Only difference is, now I'm law-abiding while More... *ahem* hahaha. I think i could sense the relief on the form tcher's face when she handed the results slip.

Somehow I just got a kick of not listening to the teachers in primary school. The change came when I got here to prss. Maybe it's the difference in disciplinary methods that made life in pri sch a living hell. There the discipline teachers would bark at us for no reason, and the head maths teacher would bark at us like a mad dog. Sec sch of course has rules too, and some stupid ones too but believe me, no matter how dumb some rules in prss might seem, there's no comparing to pri school. So in short, one was like hell and one was like heaven(that's just a relative comparison!) it definitely isn't heaven here anyway.

oh and by the way i don't take MCs for no reason here hahahahha.=D

4 years isn't short, but it isn't that long either. But... it's long enough for a lot of things to change...

and i hope i see some interesting things tomorrow!

2007-08-29T14:52:00.000+08:00

It's been ages since I last posted...

It seems like ages since the release of the mt O level results. Been busy from then till now. Even without banding everything in school still somehow demands some time. Staying back in the afternoons really takes up a lot of time and energy.

Just finished chem p2 and poa p2 prelims today... and I think the chem paper is a goner... =( POA wasn't that bad i guess...at least I didn't leave any questions unattempted this time unlike the midyears, and this time I did remember to tie all my answer scripts together before submitting them! =)

Tomorrow's gonna be POA p1 and Geog... ms. F kindly loaned out the full set of maps to practice mapwork at home.

WOW IT SUDDENLY STARTED RAINING!

ok i'm off to spend the rest of the day on last minute geog revision and mapwork... and some quick recap of poa theory for the multiple choice paper tomorrow.

and teacher's day is coming. I don't know if I want to go back with - and - to my pri school. If I do, it'll be the first time I go back after I left. Might be fun to walk around and remember the (bad) old days there and the horrid food. Even mike and ed think the food there is horrible haha. And they only went there once. Imagine me and SM being there for 6 years.

easy...see how lo....

2007-08-13T17:23:00.000+08:00

then again, i was thinking for a moment if I should be happy at all anyway. Especially with so many people dabbing their eyes after finding out they got b3s and 4s.

i feel REALLY guilty.

But I have the right to feel kinda happy don't I? Even Ms A stopped to ask about it just now. So dumbly I kinda commented...

"Should I be happy anyway?!"

And she went on to explain why.

AH WELL WHO CARES.

mt results!

2007-08-13T16:39:00.000+08:00

i aimed for a B... everyone knows it...

It was so exhilarating to see a B on that piece of paper!

But on hindsight maybe I should have aimed for an A!

But my midyear was so shitty that I didn't dare to!

anyway... of course....credit should also go to the one and only HUANG LAO SHI =D

THANK YOU =DDD

the seemingly endless remedials and staying back with us, eating sandwiches and drinking from packets paid off hm?

well of course that's if you happen to read this. haha. But since you wrote something about blog on the card then i guess you might.

P.s: tag if you read, don't be so mysterious and suddenly tell me in sch! ;D

in any case i'll probably want to retake it. Even if I don't study at all for Chinese at least I can tell myself that I gave myself a second chance. Just walking in there and taking the paper a second time is better than not even entering the exam hall at all and whining outside. EVEN if I don't study for it.

yup.

oh guess what? I didn't eat anything today! No wonder I'm feeling so hungry now...

maaajulahhhhh sing-a-pu-raaaaa~

2007-08-09T10:05:00.000+08:00

happy national day!

it's time to bring out the flimsy plastic toy flags and temporary tattoos!

If the number of people hanging the national flag outside their flats is any show of Singaporeanism, then sadly this year not many people feel very Singaporean. Just by looking around you would see that generally the number of people who hang the flag decreases by half(or more) with each passing year.

what happened to the flags?not a flag in sight!!!

Even our own lovely school decides to celebrate in a most, urm, healthy way by holding the annual cross country on the eve of national day. Not that I'd want to sing national day songs in school of course, but you know, it just feels a little bit strange listening to the national day message while sitting on a wet grass patch in some random mosquito infested park. But hey, i'm not complaining.

And oh, speaking of cross country, yesterday's must have been the most slack ever. My shirt was pretty much dry when I got to the finish line and I had energy to walk around hahaha.

And that reminds me of THE FINISH LINE by Snow Patrol. Weehee~~~

The earth is warm next to my ear

Insect noise is all that I hear

A magic trick makes the world disappear

The skies are dark, they're dark but they're clear

A distant motorcade and suddenly there's joy

The snowing ticker tape blurs all my senses numb

It's like the finish line

Where everything just ends~~~

and so on...

of note...

2007-08-08T20:16:00.000+08:00

I keep reading/hearing the same old WRONG things again and again! Let's get it all sorted out once and for all right here, right now!

Today we shall talk about 2 very common mixed up words!

example: "We need to improvise on the design of this product."
Pretty sure most know that there's something seriously wrong with this statement.

Cool. One day somebody is bound to come up with improvisement for sure.

Haha. Not happy ah? FIGHT ARH! Don't pray pray got proof ok!?

Firstly, IMPROVE vs IMPROVISE

improve-
n verb
1 make or become better. (improve on/upon) achieve or produce something better than.
2 [as adjective improving] giving moral or intellectual benefit.

improvise-
n verb
1 create and perform (music, drama, or verse) spontaneously or without preparation.
2 produce or make (something) from whatever is available.

and then of course we have DEADLINE vs DATELINE, the other famous duo.

example: "Tomorrow is the dateline that was set a week ago."

deadline-
n noun
1 the latest time or date by which something should be completed.
2 historical a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were liable to be shot.

dateline-
n noun a line at the head of a dispatch or newspaper article showing the date and place of writing.

(all definitions from COED 11th Edition because nothing can explain it better than that)

ok thanks for tuning into this episode of baking cookies. We hope you have learnt how to bake your favourites today.

OOPS.

Go figure.

2007-08-07T19:21:00.001+08:00

shit just a few mins ago i almost crossed that thick black line i drew in my mind. good thing i realised it and i managed something else.

i need to put this here and remind myself to keep myself at a safe distance and enjoy the show. Watch the splashing water but don't get wet.