Post 23rd

Yes yes… I’ve been getting complaints that I’m not updating often enough. But hey, some of you are not updating yours too! TSK. Why shooting me only? =p

Well, just wanna say a very big THANKS to all those out there who wished me well on the 23rd. Feel so blessed. Thanks people!

All the sms, emails, calls, cards and gifts. Thank you thank you!

Ott & Jo: Thanks dearies. We need to meet up SOON. You two are like super busy la. Hope the studies and training are coming along great. One’s getting smarter, one’s getting fitter. Not bad ah. =)

Eric: Thanks bro, for wishing me well in the Lab. Haha. Good thing that we left early that day. It’s a great gift in its own way. Haha. Hope the crapping was good at the ADM toilet. Whhhoooooooooooops!

Enje: Yes I’m reaching the mid-twenties soon. That would very much justify my calling Uncle. But you’re no where better alright? *evil laughters*

Randy: Thanks a lot. But I don’t think I want whatever you wished for me to come true. Haha. It’s quite gross. GROSS!

Sheng: So touch-ed. Really. Didn’t expect it. Seriously.

Joel & Liting: Thanks for the Carbernet Merlot. It’s a 2001!!! Goodness! Appreciate it.

JMT: haha! I think you’ve got quite cool initials! JMT. Didn’t realize that till now. =) thanks for the email… I guess it’s my turn now, for being lousy at correspondence. But I guess it’s alright ya? We’re nice people right? Right. I’m not sure about coffee… might be stuck in the bed. Haha. We’ll see?

CM: I’m so sorry Patterson’s cost less as compared to Kinsella’s. But thanks anyway. The 5th Horseman right? I’m glad that you actually remembered. Heart-felt. Let me know when you’re free alright? Maybe we can meet for bucks or something. =) Xoxo.

Ms Huang: Sorry ah, no char-siew chee chong fun that night. Hope the plain one was good enough. And I wanted teh-peng leh. Not milo peng. Haha. K, we shall blame the uncle. Thanks for the shirt, and everything else. =)

6ists: I think I don’t really have to say much right? Thanks. And thank God for blessing me with you people. It’s gonna be a rather special year this year. One’s in China now, one for France in June, another one to the States. Stick it out ya? Looking forward to the next meet-up. I hope it’s not daidee or bridge at my bedside. HAHA.

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Dinner yesterday was fun. With sausages, crepes, pastas, pizzes, snapples, beer, bens & jerry’s and many little cups of water. Seeing Hoon online is really kinda fun. Seriously. Everyone was just hanging round the place waiting for her to come online, and crappy things started happening. Like erm, “PE… NOOOOOO… don’t suck my cup!”.

Right. Don’t bother asking me about the cup incident cause it’s gonna take a very long time to explain the entire thing. But Hoon, you can ask Alvin if you want. But I guess he’s already told you. RIGHT? You still owe me a birthday song by the way.

Thanks again people. It was fantastic. Really.

PS: I’m kinda regretting not taking photos with the poster girl with armpit hair. It would so out of this world. Haha. And ya, we should have taken a photo with Hoon. That we shall do next time!

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Okay. A made a little boo-boo the on my previous post. My operation’s on the 3rd. Not the 2nd. It’s on the first Thursday of the week. Yups. I’m going around everywhere, telling people to come visit me! Haha. So here I am again, PLEASE drop by if you’re free. Haha. I’m gonna be so bored. =)

Oh, I sprained my knee again yesterday. How nice right? Had to run for the bus like a half-crippled last night. Urgh.

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Hmmm… it was nice having coffee and lemon zest once again. You weren’t late la. I was just a bit early. I don’t think I’ve helped you much, because your work requires quite a bit of research and I’ve got very limited knowledge in this area. But if you need help in any other ways, I’ll be very glad to help. Yups! =)

By the way, I don’t think I’m that smart and I speak that well. I guess, the reason why there was nothing you could say, because you realize that whatever I said actually makes sense! Right? I think I merely stated the facts and spoke the truth… and the truth cannot be rebuked. Agree? So why not put some thought about the truth, and think about what life is really all about? *grins*

Life is bitter-sweet at times, and perhaps maybe even ambiguous. But one things for sure, if you know what you want in life, then all those gray areas would be lighted up, and your path would have no dark, unclear corners or bends.

Once again, if you want to know how you want to live your life, you must first know how you want to leave this world. Think about it!

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Caught Mr Bean with Eric yesterday. Made him put on the shades whilst waiting for the bus for the fun of it. Goodness it fits nicely. That’s when I realized that his head’s as wide as mine. And it actually looks kinda good on him. Hahah.

Bean was funny, and a great show for the little ones. I was laughing at Eric more than at Bean la. He would be rolling on the floor if we hadn’t been watching at the cinemas. Just too bad that we were sitting RIGHT at the front. Our heads nearly fell off our necks.

Oh, Ling and PE, I still think TMNT is… not nice. Haha. I still like the cartoons.

Donatello and Michaelangello right?

“they look like terrorists”, so says Alv. Hahaha.

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Had tuition with the new kid, Jolene. (not you JO. Hur hur. But she’s cute too la. Hahaah…) think she’s rather bright, like her brother. Just that she ain’t confident with herself. Wondering how to instill confidence. Hmmmm……

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Dishwalla’s still running on my laptop and I’m drinking A&W from a straw. Sweet tooth over-timing today. Shall get on with my chores and start mugging. Have a great week ahead people… Don’t let the Monday blues hit you!

A Card, a Cross and a Cake

Last week's Botak outing. Top: my double botak w Cheese. Mid: SY & Rick. Bot: Eric & I.

Have I already mentioned that I’ve finally got my CD’s? And the new bag. Gifts for myself this birthday. Hahas. The bag rocks. Thought it’s already a little dirty. It’s quite interesting how Rick and the guys could actually have a discussion on how a Crumpler should be slinged. By the side? Or cross the chest? Haha. either works for me I guess.

And oh, those 2 Dishwalla CDs. My oh my. Probably the best CD’s I have. Wonder why they don’t sell it here. No no. Actually they do. But at $48 for one album, it’s kinda crazy. Got the 2 for $65 at amazon.com. Hooray!

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Was reading the news on CNN.com yesterday. A baby was born after his father was dead for 2 years. Well, on the first read, I thought it was going to be some sorta freak/miraculous kind of news. But turns up that baby’s mum conceived through father’s sperm which was kept in the sperm bank before he went to war in Iraq. Miracle? Guess it very much depends on how you look at it.

There’re so much implications, so many issues here if you were to put some thought into it. But just plain looking at it superficially, I think it is a really sweet and brave thing for the mum to do. Raising her child all alone, conceiving the child in the first place for the love of her husband. It is wow.

But still, I wonder is this a right?

Well, I’ll leave that to God. There are many things in our lives that we cannot fine explanations, and we often engage ourselves in certain activities without knowing the reasons why. But that’s how life is I guess. Not going to let tomorrow’s worries bother me. For today has got its own troubles. Or so says Jess: “be prepared to be wowed each day”. Sums it all up.

And so this week started with the Materials Science test. Guess I did okay, probably a B+ or A-. Thing was, everyone thought they could have done better. My inclusive. It’s kinda sucky when you take a test and you don’t know where you actually got wrong. The learning process is lost here. But owells. That’s how it goes around here in NTU. Getting along with it.

Abandoned Joel on Monday evening and went for tuition. Got an sms from Sheng. She was having this problem with her tuition kid. Kinda funny. Haha. oops! Went back home, did some work and prepared for Tuesday evening. It was gonna be a short 15-20mins, but there’s just so many things to consider. The place, the time, the stuff. Even the weather. Everything. It was a good thinking process though.

Got a ride to AH from Dad. Saw the surgeon and it’s confirmed that the surgery would be on 2nd May. People, please come visit me if you can. I’m gonna be there for 5 days. FIVE DAYS. I can’t imagine myself stuck in the bed for 5 days. I guess I’ll be clicking my laptop away. NO. wait. Do they allow laptops there in the first place?? Dang!

Gave tuition in the evening. Ran a little late and had to rush back to Bishan. Managed to be there on time. Guess everything went as planned. But… I don’t know. Having mixed feelings about it. Perhaps I’m expectant. But I think it comes down to the point, where I’m just too… URgh.

A card, a cross, a cake, a lighter, 2 candles and an MP3 player,

Yes my dear friend. Perhaps I should give myself a chance. It’s amazing how you can suck info out of me with the circumstances we have now. You really are good. =) it’s a trait that you ought to have huh?

Giving myself a chance now.

Oh, I’ve got my first birthday gift! Haha. But I guess it doesn’t it. Or rather I won’t fit it. XL? Haha. I’m not that huge, no? I’m big. But not exactly that big. Haha. oops. Thanks anyway, if you’re reading this.

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Thanks Jo for helping me ask about that NS thingy. Haha. Called MIND*F and they were very nice to help me settle everything. THANKS! =)

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Teengae mutant ninja turtles movie is opening on my birthday! Haha. Childhood memories! Well, reminiscence. RIGHT Ling? Haha. I can’t remember what you typed yesterday night, but I’m sure Joel and I had a VERY good laugh. Something like… remimise? YA. That’s it. REMIMISE. Oops!

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No botak for lunch today. Eric’s having beef tonight. He’ll start barfing red meat if he went today. SY’s having it tonight. Rick’s probably still asleep. Haha. So, back to my staple. CAI FAN. Haha.

Have a great weekend ahead people. I know I will have a good one. Coffee tomorrow afternoon (I won’t be late!), dinner at home (it’s been a while), supper somewhere (fluttering again), church on Saturday and chilling out with the peeps after, basketball on Sunday, meeting up with the 6ixists, minus one who’s in China. We’ll Skype you. Don’t worry. Haha. Heard there’re more people coming. Goodie. Sheng u coming?

Last but not least, as you can see I’ve changed the template. And I kinda like it. But the thing is, the chatterbox is gone, and I’m too lazy to install it again. So, please leave comments at the bottom of the posts if you wanna tell me something alright?

Thanks a lot! God bless you nice people out there.

huh?

I’m very very very sleepy and tired. What a way to start a new post. Been mugging quite a fair bit for the materials science test tomorrow morning, and all the crystals and metals and alloys are forming eutectically in my head. Not good not good. Totally drained. Sneaking in here to try and keep myself awake.

Let’s see… so what happened for the week. Somehow updating has become a weekly affair huh? ha. Let’s see. Monday, school, tuition, and last minute ‘date’ with a mean person. Tuesday, can’t really remember what went on, but I know I flunked my physics test. Wed, hmmm.. lunch at the Quad with the guys and got caught in the rain whilst walking back to hall. Thursday was happening, with 3 double botaks and a giant sausage. It was great. But too much of it makes you fart beef. Eric’s going to be crazy next week. Rick should drive, just in case. Did some corny storyboard with Sy, rick and ah-ya. So almost fell asleep during the presentation.

Friday, lab in the morning. Tried to finish it fast, and rushed down to camp to collect the DETIC file. Kinda waste of time. Could have done it through the mail. TSK. Met up with JH at coffee bean and started mugging my Mat science.

Had supper at HV. Took a couple of photos and everything was fantastic. Salmon salad, chicken mushroom burger, and the funny way of cutting food up. Well, what more could I ask for once again? Got kinda lost near Kallang. Stadium link, stadium road, stadium crescent. URgh.

Skipped tuition on Saturday morning. Went straight to the coffee place and mugged for Mat science. Sat there till my butt ached so bad and my vanilla latte turned warm. Walked around Northpoint and finally decided what I wanted to get. As when I got it, I couldn’t believe myself that I actually did get it. I must be out of my head to get something like. I think I’m crazy.

Went for the church gathering/discussions at 6. All the way till 10 we were engrossed in very informative and thought provoking discussions. What strength!

Rushed back home to have supper with dad. Had a couple of Erdingers, and went up to meet cousin CJ and Wende at their flat. Only got back home at 3am.

And so, here I am. Sleeping at 3, waking at 8, feeling like a zombie, went for morning service, sat at the coffee place and mugged, went down to Tampines to play ball with the hall seniors, and back to hall at 8. I’ve been reading so much of the textbook. Yet, I don’t know if I can actually tackle with the questions tomorrow. How nice.

Oh, I finally got my big, black, nasty crumpler. Brown was out of stock, and it’ll take MONTHS for the next batch to come. So settled with black. Not that bad I guess. Goes with everything.

Alrights. Back to the books.

Another week gone

Cousin Cindy & I. Been wanting to post this up. CHIO.

Alrights. Where was I. Long week has passed. Really long week. Mega-billions of cells died and half my hair (those on the head) were gone. 3 tests in one week. How nice is that.

First was physics. Totally screwed it up I think. Could only do 3 out of 5. And most infuriating was the solution of the other 2 questions popped right into my thick skull 5 minutes AFTER I stepped out of the room.

Then was math on Thursday. Think I got the first question correct and I having doubts in the second one. ‘Scheming old fart’ was how SY described him. Series, convergence, divergence, limits, roots, comparisons, power series, taylor series, Maclaurin series… URGH. They suck to the core. Guess what’s next? Multiple integrals. Remember when you the times when you did A math in secondary schools, or C math in JCs, or math in high schools or polys, and you come across this little ‘s’ looking symbol called the ‘integral’? And we use it to solve questions of integration? Well, guess what? ‘Multiple integrals’ means there’re MULTIPLES of them. How gross.

Rounded of the test week with the GV12:”Aesthetic and creative techniques in the moving images” module test. Well, as we thought it was going to be rather easy and we’re quite well prepared for it, I ended up writing 8 FULL pages of essay within 2 and a half hour, and Rick did 12 FULL pages within the same time. Did an approximate word count before handing in the script. And I was shell-shocked. There were no less than 4000 words on that paper I handed in. I cannot imagine how many words Rick had on his script. It’s pure insanity. I wonder how we did it.

Had our first drawing lab on Friday morning. 2 point perspective sketching. Once again, thinking it was easy, we entered the lab with joyous mood. Half way through we were sweating, and towards the end, we were cursing and swearing that darn radio. Didn’t really help when my nose decided to turn into a permanent mucus-tap.

Freaking Radio

Went for tuition in the afternoon and I’m starting to feel appreciated by her. It is so much different now, tutoring her as compared to a couple of years back. Really touched by her determination to do well.

Dropped by my aunt’s in the evening and hanged out for a while. Caught up with Timothy. He’s gonna do ‘tourism’ in SP. That’s really wonderful. Able to do something that he wants and he likes.

Drove the family back and took the car out for a spin. Went by Trinity to pick QQ up and had supper at Chomps. Bak chor mee and sugar cane. =)

Tried calling a couple of people out for drinks after that. ( I mean coffee/tea.. not beer/wine). But to no avail. End up reaching home before midnight and realized how tired I was. Knocked out at 1+am - the earliest time I’ve slept in the entire week.

Gave tuition on Saturday afternoon, and went straight down to Yishun after that. Sat in the coffee house with a nice cold caramel latte, my MP3 and my dearest MATERIAL SCIENCE tutorial. Darn the wretched phase diagrams. 2D-3/4 axis graphs with lines ALL over the place. Easily 10 calculations can be done it. I went half bald there, and broke the Boeing pencil Alv gave me when we were in sec2/3. I had it with me for 7/8 years and I broke it whilst doing tutorials. How nice right? Depressed to hard on the button by the side and the whole thing sunk in. It’s rooted there permanently now. URgh.

My mess at the coffee house. Got so bored that I started taking pictures.

Caramel latte, pure choc, and a yummy little piece of cake.

Packed up earlier and went down to church, having enough of the balding effects tutorials have on me. Helped set up the place and saw the worship team rehearse. Then went to the other room to play the guitar for a while. It’s been a really long while since I’ve last touched the classical guitar. It was Christmas if I recall correctly. At Ott’s place. Stairway to Heaven still sounds nicer on the classical.

The discussions ended at 10 and we had supper. I guess, you now know what you can tell him ya? Remember, it takes 2 hands and clap. ONE hand can’t clap anything. (try recall me doing that one hand clapping thingy, and the guy who was supposedly staring from behind) And I liked the walk/drive back home. Really. =)

And so, today marks the last of this week. Great game in the morning. Tengda and his GF came. Was surprised that she actually PLAYS ball. Tian, really… too bad. You should have been there. You would have met your match. But we had fun all in hall. My leg hang in there as well. Which was good. It felt REALLY good thrashing those ignorant, impolite, arrogant punks. 7-1. how’s that for us being stupid? I shot 2 over your overgrown head you ditz. Haha. Alright alright. Pardon me.

Gotta know that Mike moved out with his fiancée to AMK and they’re gonna have a house warming soon. Gonna get him a rice cooker. Hahah. Anyone wants to chip in? =)

Went walking around in the afternoon and got a some stuff. New socks, new triangles, and a new Chinese brush with a small bottle of black ink. Thinking of writing some stuff when I’ve got the time. Or maybe even draw. But think doing that on A4 paper would be quite yucky. Shall drop by Bras Besar.

Sat in at the same coffee place again and tried doing Physics this time round. Not so bad I guess. Motivation from last night’s encouragement when we were just walking by the ‘satellite dish’ building. Thanks!

Went for service in the evening. Tried asking someone to come along but didn’t work. If you would, I think you should give it another try. =) it’s different. I’m serious. Do consider alright?

So here I am now. Back in the room with 4 walls, plenty of clothes and papers and books lying around. Just had subs and I only have got ONE cookie. Why does she insist that there’s TWO??

Anyways, have a great week ahead everyone!

Just before I stop typing, just wanna leave a thought for you guys to ponder. Do think about it.

How do you think you want to live your life? How do you know that the way you want to live your life is the best?

If you don’t, then here’s what I’ve learnt. If you want to know how to live, you must learn how you want to die. Think about it. Seriously.

God bless!

THE week.

Someone stole my chocs. They're missing.

Wow. One week’s over just like that. there goes my recess. Completed what I set out to accomplish. But it seemingly felt that I could have done more. Especially the revision part. Spent more time bumming around than sitting down and studying. Not good… not good.

Nonetheless, it was a good I should say. Starting off with the really nice Tuesday where things start to seem quite interesting. Started off with coffee and engineering maths with JH, tuition with Phyllis, and the blatant late afternoon chocolate shopping in Taka. Royce was a good choice I guess, though I’ve not tasted any of it myself. Was rather shabbily dressed at that time, but owells. Who cares. =)

Dropped by MFPS with mum’s van and went back home. Took dad’s car and dropped by AMK after everything. It was nice. Really nice. And er, well… interesting. Drove the expressways and dropped by Jo’s the give her the card I wanted to give her since the CNY but didn’t had the chance. I like your specs. Really. Doesn’t make you look toot la. You look rather… creative. =) like some sorta artist. COOL.

Drove back to school with really nice company on the phone. Did some tutorials and packed the room. Grabbed my lappy and drove by Eric’s place for a while. It was 1am in the morning and the PIE reminded me the speed tracks you see in the arcade racing machines.

Spent Wednesday mugging at the library, trying VERY hard to do the double and triple integrals. It really SUCKS. Yes I’m complaining again. How nice. Almost went bald in the library. Went stairs climbing in the evening. Couldn’t jog cause of the rain. 80 stories. Dang I didn’t time myself. The view at the top was good, and the constant msgs coming in. Hehe. Guess that’s what’s been pushing me all the way.

Went back to school on Thursday and well… seriously contemplated dropping by MF. But, owells. Something just put me off.

Then came Friday. Met up with SY and Eric for lunch, then took a ride from Eric to AH. Was talking about bikes and school stuff along the way. Really appreciate the ride. if not, most likely I would be caught in the down pour.

Went along with the physio, and saw the doc eventually. So my report says that I’ve got a cruciate anterior ligament, a damaged but intact posterior one, traces of fluid round the knee, and meniscus debris somewhere along the side. Ends up it’s my choice now, if the op is to happen. if it does, rehab will be for half a year, and I would be on braces for about a month. Basically the muscles would go to waste for that period of time, and I would most likely turn into a tv junky. If not, no more pivoting with my knee, no more TKD, no more basketball, no more sprinting, no more tennis, no more breaststrokes for swimming. So I guess… it’s quite obvious huh?

Met up with Ber late night and the funniest thing happen. it was rather embarrassing when people started asking me how was London, and someone actually suggested that I’ve been waiting since secondary school. It was hilarious. But I hope things are clarified. Had a good talk, and yes, maybe that’s why we can click! Haha. because we’re like the way we are, so we click. 5 years k? 5 years. =)

Saturday morning was for tuition, and the afternoon was for a little mugging, which was exactly productive. Only managed half a tutorial, then shooted out of the house, thinking I was gonna to be late, only to be put off by an hour. =p But it was alright. Really. =) I kept myself entertained ‘walking around’ and reading my book. Thanks for dinner and beer. So do you now know the difference between light and dark beer? Haha. guess not.

So you’re sponsoring me my bag right? Hehe. THANKS! And hey, I like your shoes. Have I told you that already? *grins*

Went off early to meet up with my cousins and Wen De. It was great. I didn’t know we could really crap so much. Though I felt really bad for having Macs as early-morning supper. Guilt. GUILT.

Sunday was… wow. Well, though only 6 turned up, we had fun at the court. Well, some people were disappointed by the attendance, but I’m certainly pleased that we could at least play. Be happy with what you have I guess.

Spent sometime talking to my folks and gave Eric his birthday present. So SO glad that he liked the book. I thought he would be disappointed by it or what. I guess Peter Pan really does wonders! =)

Met up the RT in the afternoon to mug a little. Well, completed the other half of the tutorial I couldn’t finish on Saturday, and spent the rest of the time yakking away. Someone was half blur, and very easily conned. I was ‘warned’ and ‘threatened’ by her little ‘mishaps’. How nice. Hope you enjoyed your mango drink. =) and I think we should try the photo hunt again sometime. This time, wear your specs.

Off to church in the evening, and well, I was really glad to be there. The serenity and peace that I felt. Thank God. =) another week ahead, more angels and devils to deal with.

And so, to sum off the week, had dinner at the Marina Square HK café. Toasts, pork chop spaghetti, and 2 mugs of iced milk tea. What more can I ask for? How about a glimpse of the fire works and the rather embarrassing bus ride back. I’m glad that I found the balls to do what I did during Christmas.

Hope everything’s fine for everyone out there. Well wishes to everyone, especially to the one at academy, the one at the ulu lala land, the one having MOOnday blues, the one having sorethroat and too much male-oriented problems, the one having crazy serotonin levels in the head, the one having ulcers and plenty of assignments, the one with 3 mid-sem tests this week (me inclusive), and the one who’s having a headache right now and need to be shouting at 30 little monsters.