I’m squeezing so much brain juice for my subjects but nothing creative comes out. I suppose I’m not into electronics projects. 
I shall be optimistic.
iPad is out. Fantastic. Check it out. Information available only on US website. What about iPhone OS 3.2? Still in Beta I guess.
It sure sucks to feel this way. Friends ask me why I don’t want to apply for overseas exchange. I got to go through the long story of explaining because the entire 90% of tuition fees are loaned from bank. My parents do not have the money for my school fees so it’s my liability for this sum of money. If I were to go for overseas exchange, I would require probably another $10 000 to $14 000 or even more if I were to look at countries like US or UK. That’s about half of the entire 4 year course fees I would have to bear. I certainly would not want to enslave myself to so much debt.
My friends then continued to talk about how it will all work out when I get a fantastic paying job in the future… I’ll tell them that the future’s not up to me to predict and all that. However, the full stop comes only after I say even if I want to, my GPA’s not up to it. That’s the sad truth. With that having said, people will just tell me to try harder while on the other hand continue to lament how their CGPA has dropped. However, to me, it’s all very fantastic already… Maybe there’s never enough for the things you get and people may not be truly empathetic to my plight. I try filter out the things I do now want to listen but there is a limit to how much I can bear. Sigh…
A: I’m just bored, talk to me.
B: (Plugs in earpiece)
What’s the meaning of this? Shutting A out of B’s world? Bored –> Pissed
This clip is darn funny. If this was not exaggerated at all, I would really be bewildered by the level of intelligence of the Americans. Here’s some extracts, (*Spoilers ahead*)
A: How many sides does a triangle have?
B: Er, I don’t know…. Four?
A: Name me a country that starts with ‘U’.
B: Hmm…. (pause for damn long)…
A: Ok, how about…
B: What..?
A: United States of America
B: Awwwoh……
A: Is Kofi Anan a coffee?
B: I would think so?
A: Who won the Vietnam war?
B: Er…. we did?
B: Wait…. did we even participate in that?
A: What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki famous for?
B: Well… I would say that it’s judo-wrestling?
A: How many Eiffel towers are there in Paris?
B: Oh, there’s about 10 of them.
LOL…. Best! Haha. Oh, “just for laughs” is coming to Asia! The asian edition will prevail soon I believe. Not sure when.
Maybe when you are feeling all alone, find something to amaze yourself. Believe me, boredom is just temporary. Being alone doesn’t make you the strangest person on earth that people are alienating you or you got no friends. Just somehow somewhere, fate has a plan for everyone else but you. Ha, just joking about the last sentence. =)
Last day of 2009 is here. Most people would be thinking what they want to achieve in the next year. I think back and there’s many things that change my life one way or another. Let me list out an item out of every category.
Phone: iPhone
Not that I want to promote their phone but there are many things from firmware to hardware to ease of use of iTunes on the computer. It just works! I’m using a Samsung phone currently and I’m experiencing so much difficulty syncing my information from phone to computer. Recently, Samsung has updated their software to the so called “Samsung New PC Studio” which spots a new look, additional functionality but gives me the same kind of headache. Interface that lags a great deal and hangs fast if you are entering a directory with lots of songs. Apple, on the other hand has made everything rather smooth. Of course, the older generation may be incompatible with the new memory intensive applications but I need not endure with the frustrating experience of waiting after every click. FYI, I don’t own an iPhone, I just occasionally play with my brother’s one.
Book: Mitch Albom – Have a Little Faith
I consider myself as a Buddhist partially because my NRIC said so and inherited this from my parents. Every year I go to the temple to pray for a few occasions: new year, Vesak Day (sometimes), grandparents’ death anniversary, end of year. It has become a routine thing and I never thought much into why I’m keeping this religion. A few catholic and christian friends came to me to persuade me to convert to their religion and I always find myself questioning some principles of the religion, like why non-believers will go to hell? To quote what Oprah on her show, “If there’s somewhere remote where people have never heard of Jesus, but all their lifetime they have been doing good deeds, they can never be salvaged? They will go to hell?” This are the things that I thought would never be justified. However, Mitch’s argument is kind of different. Through a progressive change, his point of view on religion has changed dramatically over time. I thought perhaps there could be just one god if it exists. People just choose to see God differently. He described how faith could be a beautiful thing and yes, to some extent, I agree.
Song: JS – Officially Missing You (Tamia)
Is it the trend that singers start popping out everywhere on youTube? That could be the case but this one that I heard, oh they are good. Visually appealing too. ^.^ It’s not the kind of Mariah Carey or Christina’s hits that can make people feel ‘Wow’. I think their sweet voices are kind of nice and it’s still resounding in my head. Haha.
Event: 15th JCRC handing over ceremony
It isn’t just a ceremony to me. In my mind, I was thinking that it marks the end of year 1’s commitment. All the meetings, discussions, emails, event participation and banner painting… would be gone. It was supposed to be a load off my chest but on the other hand it made me feel a sense of loss too. A struggle between continuing on improving my studies, relationship or hall commitment. There wasn’t any life user manual to teach me where to go, I had to decide what would be right and hopefully wish it was. Well, after a semester, I think it didn’t go very wrong. I just need to try harder.
There are some other things that I couldn’t fit in a category. The other day I was looking at my Facebook status. Oh, I’ve got 710 friends and I think I know at least 95% of them. That probably didn’t sound too realistic in the real social life. How do you sms or call so many of them? I guess it matters more on how to keep the existing ones in life. This semester, my roomie cooked things for me and bought food to share with me. Well, I thought it’s a really nice thing that you can do for a good friend. I think this is what I can learn from him.
Since young, I always hate my brother because he is always the big bully in the family who will always demand to get things he wants. Proud, impulsive and impatient. He doesn’t like to lose out in anything and therefore, I will be giving in most of the time whether I like it or not. I thought since I didn’t like him, I will think that he probably thinks the same way too.
However, one day this year, my mum tells me that my brother always tell her how I help him out on studies and giving him different opinions of things on how he should work things out. She said he appreciates it much. I was taken aback by that. Is that the brother who is always quarrelling with me, the one who said all those? I just did not think that I would influence him in any positive way because I did not think I have to or should be doing. Because sometimes I get annoyed at always being on the losing end as an elder brother by getting slapped back by his response after giving an advice. I was touched but still, with my ego, I just didn’t admit so. Ha, sometimes little things do matter.
There’s also this little book that I jot down things that happen. I’m not the only author for that book but looking back, it’s fun to have it around. Sweet or bitter, it’s the things that we call memories.
Okay, what a eventful 2009. Happy new year everyone! 2010 is going to be a better one! =)
It’s already mid-December. Soon there’ll be another link on the archive that says 2010. Many years since I wrote the first post on this blog.
I spent some of the time when using my laptop rearranging the files on my computer. I just cannot stand messy files on my computer but not so much so on my physical desk. Weird right?
Kudos to scrabble team who emerged champion for hall 9! =) G O O D JOB! Hope that there’ll be more champions for other games. Hope pub sec will have enough banners to allocate for painting the champion banners.
Just celebrated my friend’s 22nd birthday. Since he was targeting a phone that he has been talking so much, I thought it would be fun to give him presents relating to that except that. I’m talking about iPhone 3G here actually. So we bought him screen protector, phone casing and even added brochures and things to lead him into believing that he’s going to get that. We did achieve that mischievous effect but turn out that it was a bad timing to be so…
He couldn’t get to register his core subjects because the school system crashed. Just after the celebration, he realised he lost his phone. I hope it’s not the case that his LG phone took a little walk since it realised that we were talking about iPhone as its next replacement. Sigh, next time better think twice before playing this kind of joke on people’s birthday. If not, perhaps induce negative Karma on ourselves. Ha.
I was chatting with another friend and I realise some people may think of me rather differently from what I think of myself. Partly due to the part that in a group, I enjoy listening to people and seldom voice out opinions unless I’m very comfortable with the group. That part of me hasn’t seem to change…
It’s the 2nd time I’ve been to Malaysia. This time I was there in Desaru. It sure takes a hell long time to travel via coach to there. It felt like twice the journey of going from Hougang to NTU and back again if not worse. 
Somehow for me, uploading pictures to facebook is always very troublesome. It fails me many times. I do not think that it is due to unstable connection. Anyway, the blog here should be more reliable. Ha. Much thanks to the organiser that we really have plentiful of food to barbeque. Stingray, cheese sausage, sambal sotong, crayfish and chicken wings etc. 
There were some candid moments in the room though. I was shouting loudly that I was going to take photo of my friend when he was in shower so that he could prepare for it. Here’s what he shows me. LOL. Profile-picture worthy!
There were many other things we did that night except sleeping. Gossips as usual were on the agenda for every group gatherings. Actually, there isn’t much to gossip about. Most of them you can actually confirm visually. Spent time talking with this year’s freshmen. Hearing their problems kind of remind me of my plight last year in terms of academics. Well, we all got to be forward-looking, shouldn’t we? Tomorrow will be a better day. Till then, I’m sleeping now. Yawn… More updates through facebook then.
It’s at this time of the year that I’ll be in a deeper relationship with my laptop. I’m touching it all over and I literally can’t take my eyes off her. She just seems so attractive and powerful. She gives me an avenue for me to alleviate my stress when I need to let go for a while. Allow me to express my confession to you. I love you darling. LOL.
Hail the power of RSS. With it, you can skip the needs to visit website. Just read the updates from your mail reader will do. You can read all your friends’ updates in an instant. However, I still prefer the traditional way of going to the site though. The look and feel of the website just gives me a more familiar appeal compared to the stone cold black text on white background you see in the mail. Haha.
I’ve been trapped in NTU for quite a while. Not quite sure what has been happening in Singapore except for what I’ve read from the updates my darling told me on straitstimes.com. I was thinking the high level of monsoon rain in Bukit Timah probably give the rich ones in that area to change a car. “Oh honey, looks like the car is in a bad condition. Should we get a new one?”, says the husband to the wife. Haha.
Something happened recently that was beyond my expectation. Just when you thought that someone would be nice to you or things will happen in a good way because you prepared for it, then it’s wrong. There can be no telling what the future holds for you, not unless you possess a pair of reveal-the-intentions/future type of eyes. I would like to have them if there were such a thing. Ha.
However, every cloud has a silver lining. Without the black, you can never see how pure white is. In comparison, I found someone else whom I could be worth being a better friend with. Let’s hope I’m right then.
My hair is still so damn short. It’s taking forever to grow back to that length. =/
Should I be more curious to poke further into non-personal matters or should I just stay out of it? Hmm… Still giving it a thought.
Here’s some pictures to help you destress the pressure for the exams. Although babies could be cute, there are some animals that look just so cute too!
I think mashimaro looks better than the blue bird. Since I don’t use twitter anyway.
Have you heard of bladeless fan that works? Yes, there’s one and it’s even more energy-efficient than the ones that have blades. It looks easy to clean too. It seems like it’s a new technology from www.dyson.com/fans/
This song by Jay Sean is so addictive. I didn’t know he’s a UK-born Indian. But the part when Lil Wayne sings, it’s so irritating. He looks sleazy in the music video.
Is there a faster way of studying like burning the notes and tutorials and ingest them? =x
It was time for a change of template. Coincidently, the pictures from the previous template that were hosted for the blog were removed by flickr due user inactivity. I kind of like the new one actually. Colours are neutral to bright. Serves to remind me to blog about happy things more often. Bigger fonts and wider spacing. Good for old people like me. Ha.
However with every change of blog templates, some things will be removed such as the tagboard and my friends’ links. It’s difficult to add back the links one by one. I’ll keep a backup of the links next time then. Ha.
In addition, I realised that I had tried to use proper English for my blog posts since Dec 2005. I recalled that back then whenever I feel like it, I’ll just write, without even having second thoughts about filtering the words I want to say through my mind. Not that I have gotten any better in my linguistic ability but I seem to have gotten used to the part about thinking-before-I-say now. I can’t end up writing stuff that I know will cause outrageous outcomes.
I used to blog about many happy events that happened to me but I seemed to have less of these up here recently. Hmm, I should try to remind myself to keep looking at the brighter side of life. :) Perhaps the best of life is yet to be?
I think I look cuter! (Thick-skinned) Haha. I realised that such hairstyle is back in trend too. No wonder they says fashion recycles its trend every 10 years. Maybe I should start marking my old clothes when I can start re-wearing them again.
Gee, but those were the times that were so carefree. I want to go back to relive those times again!
Sports day photo. I can remember the primary school teacher’s name. A nice teacher. Funny how sometimes I can remember things 10 years back when I have difficulty recalling events 2 days back. Haha. Except for the 2 tall girls in my class, back then I was about the same height with everyone else! Just that I stopped sooner than other people too. Haha.
Hope that the new friendships that were made stay on~ =)
How many times have you recalled paying someone’s kindness back with kindness? Although it’s said that when you do a kind thing, it needs no paying back but if your kindness is received by someone who has a conscience, he or she will feel grateful to you and eventually will repay you with kindness in other forms.
But there are times I just suck. I’ve looked through old emails, letters or even little things my friends wrote to me ages ago. Some of which I had totally forgotten its existence. Reading through them brings back bittersweet memories. Those may be all the childish moments that were spent together, all the naive things done together or all the tears shed together. Their sincere thoughts are all penned down on that little pieces of paper in a hope that it gets through to my heart that I should never forget them. Somehow I felt that I didn’t treat these people as well as how they treated me and I haven’t find the courage to bring them back to my life.
Many times I felt grateful that my friends came into my life. I’m thankful that they had left an impact on me and shared with me what I couldn’t learn from just books or from parents. They were the ones I look up to. However, I was wondering just how many of them thinks that way of me? I know I’m the quiet sort that will just blend into the corner. So insignificant. Truthfully, I may not want to know that answer. Some things are better left unspoken.
But as with every friendship built, there are bound to be some that hurts you deep into heart. Walls are then built, facades are then maintained. Unlike mathematics, there’s no right or wrong how you should handle interpersonal relationships. I hope to find the right formula to keep my dear friends close to my heart and the rotten ones out of the universe as soon as possible.
Getting you to see from my point of view is so difficult. You will always think from your interpretation that I didn’t care…
Recess week is here. But it doesn’t seem like a break at all. This is when project work and lab assignments go full swing into motion. Every where around in school, I see a huge crowd of students: canteen, outside LTs, study areas, halls etc. It’s like the only people not here are the lecturers and tutors.
I had said no to a few outings. Rather rare opportunity to catch up with my friends but had to cancel it due to school work. =(
Sometimes, I look around my empty room when I take a momentary break for my eyes, I feel like putting things up to personalize my room. I don’t know since when I have felt so comfortable about my room that it felt just an extension from my home in Hougang. However, when I recall the pains (I could barely squeeze myself into the car after loading my stuff in it) of packing things back from hall in April, I had decided to drop the idea.
My girlfriend’s close friend was ill in leukemia. I recalled seeing her earlier on last year and she still looked healthy. She’s only 20 this year. Her blood type is A+ and she needs platelets donation.
Platelets are the smallest division in the blood that helps to clot blood to prevent prolong bleeding. As she has to go through chemotherapy, her natural platelets are constantly destroyed by the process. Platelet donations last only 3 days before they die off so it has to be scheduled by the hospital. If your blood type happens to be A+, please help her and contact me with your name and phone number. Thank you.
I feel married to my computer engineering (CE) course. I’m sharing my all my precious moments with it. Spending time to understand and commit to it. I even dream about it. But like love, putting in effort doesn’t always reciprocate and give the same returns in terms of results. How satisfying my marriage is.
So as it is, if for the moment, I’m speaking a language that you people cannot understand, please bear with me. I feel more acquainted with computer language than human language…
Anyway, do you think it’s weird for someone who doesn’t like drinking to go suddenly go drink?
Year 2 semester 1 seems really difficult. Will I flunk? It takes more than just time to get the idea through. It seems like designing circuit isn’t really my cup of tea. It’s not my flair too… What’s more during the stressful conditions of the exams, I may just walk out of hall. Ha.
I wonder is it stress or sleeping late. I have lost lots of hair recently I think. I can no longer feel the thick and lustrous hair when I stroke my fingers through them. Sigh…
Yesterday I considered myself step down after the AGM. It felt like ORD when the 15th JCRC jumped in unison upon the declaration of the end of 15th AGM. A year has gone by. I really want to thank my subcommers for the hard work that they put in. Some of them really don’t need the points at all but they still come down to paint nevertheless.
Life has been pretty sweet. Except GPA, everything else is going quite smooth. 
Now I have my own OGs to take care of.
Now the friends that I have around seem kind of different. Friends come and go at different times. I have known that and have embraced that truth. Maybe it’s just a part of me that always like to lament on that.
Year 2 is really a fast-paced one. I can’t seem to afford long hours of not doing work. Unlike in year 1 when I’m practically having HTHTs at all nights. Sigh…
I’ve gotten a book recently. It’s not a new one, I’ve seen it before. But now I don’t ever want to look back at it, especially at the last page.
Whether I get to stay hall again will depend on my commitments this year. I know what I have to do to stay again but why am I feeling so undecided?
When I’m upset, there’s nothing specific I’ll do. I’ll just flip through everything I can see or find while my disarrayed mind tries to set things in order. I hate that. It’s not productive in any way but rotting my life away thinking about useless stuff. But I just can’t help it.
Assumption is good, probably only in science and mathematics, I guess. It’s actually bad when you’re talking about human relations. Like er… I think you’re thinking about that but I’m assuming you know I’m thinking like this. No… No good at all especially when the truth isn’t anything like what you assume. Yes, truth kills! Be it in any method that it’s delivered to you. Only difference is just which method hurts more that’s all.
Maybe I’m in the wrong. Just let me have a little corner to rant my frustrations out.
I’m back! Oh, what does that mean when I’m actually still in Singapore…
Took a few photographs with xiao bao’s camera. Added some nostalgic feel to it. How’s that? Does it look very 1980s? Haha.
I’m so addicted to a new RPG “Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4”!
Maybe if you had played previous version, you would have more idea what I’m talking about.
This game sets you into the future in 2011. Although it’s a turn-based game, it’s so interactive in terms of its game play. It’s entirely up to you how you want to strike a balance between the fighting-life and the social-life in game and different answers puts you in a different scenario. There’s so many things to do in there that you can never get sick of. Even when playing through the main game, it already takes you more than 35+ hours. Something worth a try. =)
I always think I spent so much time sitting that I would never get used to standing more than 2 hours. LOL, but my job proved that standing should be the least of my concern. Comparing that with the trouble of convincing irritating and demanding customers; facing the dual-faced permanent staff; working with solely profit-oriented boss; standing didn’t seem so bad at all! Fortunately, there are a bunch of NTU students there in the same plight as me. Sorrow shared, not as bad in the end. I don’t know how much they think of this work place but definitely not a place that I will return to.
Hmm, recently, I’ve seen my tutee more often than xiao bao. I hope she doesn’t mind too much. Haha.
Just a few weeks more, I’ll return to school not as a freshman anymore… Time passes really fast! It just runs faster after 21. Ha.
