today

alright, finally i have come up with a name for my D&D event already and i'm quite excited about it. the next thing is to propose it to the committee to see if there's any objections to it, or if there are any better names that anyone can think of =)

i also kinda have some idea of how i want our website to look like, but unfortunately, nobody knows how to do such a webpage using the Flash program. so sad, or else i could have learn from him or her too. nvm i shall continue sourcing for experts haha!

there was this event in my school today, heard it was the International Advisory Panel thingy and of cos, there was lunch catered for the guests. and guess wad, we the students finished the leftovers for them! haha... not every student though. just some cheapo students like kheng boon and i. wasn't hungry initially, but when i saw that there were people eating out there, i just joined in the fun. the school shld organise more of such events. the food was surprisingly yummy. the vegetarian fish was the best i guess. followed by the chicken wings and the mutton. saw some styrofoam boxes there for packing food, and i was thinking if i should bring some food back for dinner instead (in the hope of saving some money).

lecture kinda sucked today. didn't understand wad prof sadler was talking about and she was just there in front babbling away at bullet train speed. bah.

i saw a picture last night, which gave me a very weird feeling. actually it isn't really weird, it's just that somehow i feel some kind of connection to the whole picture in general.

congrats to siew hoon on becoming an aunt today.... her newborn nephew has the same name as my friend though they're spelt differently. made me recall the times when i keep wanting to name myself Newton HAHA! (such a big clue to wad the newborn's name is haha)

time for dinner... and then i really need to start work soon. yawnzzz wad a sleepy day.

another death... rest in peace 許瑋倫

everyone was talking about the death of taiwanese actress, 許瑋倫, this morning. i was like kinda confused about who she is. so after checking it out, i realised i didn't know that that actress is 許瑋倫.

freak accident was wad happened isit? something like that.

one interesting fact though, she has the same birthday as me.

can check her details out by clicking 許瑋倫

interhall swimming

it was initially a good weather for swimming when i woke up this morning, until the rain decided to descend onto us just when the competition is about to start. and the cold rain cooled most of us down by the time they decide to carry on with the first event even though it was raining. wad amazed me was that even after deciding to start, they still could delay so much time till it kinda stopped raining by the time the competitors are up on the diving board. -___-

yep so out of 5 events, we qualified for 3 events and went into the finals. but still we didn't manage to win and our overall ranking dropped due to the lack of good swimmers like we had last year.

my previous swimming manager even came down today to swim for us! her name's ailing (our senior in sbs also). i rmb her last sms to us last year after the interhall games was... "once in my swim team, always in my swim team". and today when i saw her coming down to swim with us, i was very happy cos she can rily do miracles with her swimming haha. at least she could help us close up gaps between us and the other competitors. i guess everyone's morale was boosted by her presence.

although we didn't perform as well as we did last year, i think there's also no regrets cos everyone gave in their best! nice swim hall 12 swimmers!

*the dive*

*swim team and supporters*

well so that's it for interhall games.

my cousin is back in singapore with my uncle from melbourne! they're here for a one-month holiday and maybe to spend CNY with us? HAHA.... kinda surprised when my dad called me to tell me that my cousin's looking for me haha... shall go visit them at my grandma's place this weekend.

it's another monday tomorrow =( 12 hr day for me in school tomorrow.... zzz

happy bday kim

it's been a very bad week with the blocked nose and the throat that has been sore like it has never been sore before. and up till now it's still not recovered, although it was soothed for a day only after i took a Streptils on thurs.

woke up super late today, at about 10 plus in the morning? sianz, like half the morning gone and then i went back to slp straight away after lunch! goodness, and i only woke up at 3.15pm when i'm supposed to be at kovan at 3.30pm to meet the birthday girl and her good fren. luckily the bus came when i reached the bus stop.... and so off we go, to paya lebar where the 21st bday celebration was to be held. the hse is freaking huge i tell u all.

anyway.. happy 21st kim...

when i saw this key being given to her, i was like very curious. why should a key be given? so they explained to me... and i realised i wasn't given a key at all...? and everyone's supposed to get their keys? hmm.. nvm...

and today i was on the bus towards kovan, the bus captain stopped the bus at the bus stop for this lady who was chasing the bus with her husband. when she got up the bus, she was like so tired out la! so poor thing haha! and she juz walked into the bus without tapping her EZ-link card. suddenly the army phrase came into my mind, "shag cannot think liao" haha! den the bus captain was like "大姐，你没有 tap 卡" haha... when the bus captain said that, i immediately realised that the lady looked like Andrea (from sbs) haha and some ppl do rily address Andrea as "大姐" haha so funny.

swimming ihg tmr.... but for now... it's bed time...

today...

okay, so i won't be getting any emails from my school anymore with announcements being sent to "Biological Sciences Year 2" because i've been promoted to Year 3 in OAS's records. and it can't be changed until the new semester. so crap rite? techonology is so 发达 now, and they can't do something as simple as just putting me (or us) back under Year 2.

*click to enlarge*

so now the vice-dean has gave instructions to all profs that all announcements are to be made on Edventure instead of thru email. i'm not very fussy over how i receive my announcements, but i just feel so amazed that OAS can't do something so simple. haha...

and i saw this girl sitting opposite me in canteen 14 during dinner, and she looks like jac!! but a taller version la haha....

tat's all for today... (not to mention that today's 2 lectures were very badly given).

我可以

2nd week of sch gone....

ok, guess my prayer was answered this time round, and all's well again... or is it? hmm...

i suddenly feel like taking up a minor in comm studies, as i have told shuwan. actually i did plan to take it before in sem 1 last year, but i did not, and i put the thought behind me already. but this morning, the thought re-surfaced again -_- so crazy. why comm studies and not business? well, because i guess since i'm already in ntu, why not take something else that i can't take outside easily next time? business.... well, i can always take MBA in a private school. haiz, but guess i should forget it since i've already used up all my unrestricted electives already (or rather almost all).

haiz, i shouldn't be so fickle-minded in future anymore. always regretting things that i did not do.

it's gonna be another tiring weekend for me again. i so can't take it. i need alot of rest... falling sick ain't a good feeling afterall. and the one who wanted fever wasn't me! it was shuwan!! argh... stupid fever, go away... go look for shuwan..........

tutorial craze, supper hop, and electives

yesterday was quite a terrible day. had to rush to complete my tutorial from 5.30pm - 7pm (MRT? Mad Rush for Tutorial) simply because the tutorial had to be done by this morning 8.30am, and supper hop was like 7pm - 1am last night? really madness. fortunately, i managed to complete it, though it wasn't done by 7pm ytd evening. (wad am i talking abt? confusing)

anyway last night's supper hop was quite okay. i didn't go for the previous one last year, so can't rily make any comparison whether it was more fun or wad. but somehow the atmosphere seems to be missing. half the time on the bus, i was like almost dozing off except for the return trip back to hall where stella was talking to me non-stop from the time we boarded the bus till we reached hall. felt kinda weird cos initially i got abit bored as the event went on with everyone talking to each other in their own worlds, but on the return trip when everyone was halfway in dreamland, i have somebody talking to me all the way till we reached hall.

places we ate at comprise the hawker centers at jalan besar, old airport road, and geylang. the first place (jalan besar) was quite a flop from my point of view (or taste). the food wasn't very fantastic, but i had no choice but to eat smth cos i was so famished.

subsequently, the food at the other two places were not bad. quite worth it i think, the oysters at old airport road is vv nice!! wanna go back there to eat again, but that place is quite out of the way. nvm, shouldn't eat too much unhealthy food.

didn't really get to take much pictures... but here's the photo of my group...


yeah, and i got the HW111 slot i wanted finally after weeks of waiting and shld rily thank wei tzer for it... thanks a million~~

now.... shld i drop BS802? i can see the future oredi. i can see that i would not be doing BS802 afterall. ok shall drop it when siewhoon wants the slot =) yeah i guess it would be this way ba... still hoping that everyone can get the electives they want. quite upsetting to see how evil NTU is...

the human mind

i just learned something new today. or rather, it isn't new. it's just that i have never registered it in my mind before.

what am i talking about? well, it's actually just the belief that the mind is a very strong factor in a person's life, and i'm typing with regards to the lecture i had earlier this evening on Mind Over Stress.

the lecturer just gave us an idea of how strong a person's mind could be. so strong that it could play a very significant role in our daily lives, and even in the aspect of multiple personality (or what most people know as split personality).

a simple example, a healthy person being told that chemotherapy is going to be administered on him/her. and the person is also being briefed on what he/she will have to expect physically and mentally. in actual fact however, chemotherapy was not carried out on the person. instead, he was just being administered with saline treatment, which would not cause, for example, hair loss. however, simply because he was telling himself mentally that "yes, i am going through chemotherapy. chemotherapy makes one loss hair. yes, i'm going to lose my hair." and true enough, he started losing hair. such is the power of the human mind.

how does the mind play a role in people who experience multiple personality? it may sound kind of exaggerating but i believe it is true. a person who suffers from torture to his external body may one day experience dissociation. dissociation refers to the person's mental separation from his external body, and starting to fantasize him/herself as another person in another world at the same time, so much so that, there could even be incidences whereby the physiological aspect of this person could be in two different extremes! for example, in reality this person is short-sighted and needs to wear his spectacles to see clearly. on the other hand, in his own fantasy world, he has totally perfect eyesight! it's simply so amazing because these two are the exact same person we're talking about. it's just wonders that our mind can affect us mentally.

there were many examples given by the lecturer, which actually jolted me and had me started thinking how i always tell myself, "oh shit, this semester is hell. i'm gonna suffer another 4 more months of hell." i think it's time i stop telling myself such demoralizing things and buck up for this semester.

11 more such mondays to go. every monday is 8.30am - 8.30pm and it's kinda dreadful to have to have such long days. it's not that i want to doze off during the elective class at 5.30pm but i'm just so tired out. and i'm typing this whole entry with my eyes half closed and my brain fully shut down. another day full of lectures tomorrow... yawnnn

wonderful piece of music

if anyone of you remembers the music from the trailer of "The Day After Tomorrow", here's the piece =)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

this world is going crazy...

ok, i think i have a little more inspiration on what to blog about today. it isn't really about anything good, neither is it about anything bad. but just some thoughts that crossed my mind today.

firstly, school's gonna re-open soon, to be exact, this coming monday. i've checked my new timetable, checked the electives that are allocated to me. if i am to acknowledge both electives and stick with them through the semester, it's gonna be one helluva hellish semester for me. it's going to be a visous cycle once again, the question of whether to S/U a certain elective or not, the question whether i can do well or not in the new semester, the question of how i am going to prioritise my different activities, studies and friendships as all are equally important to me. once again, four traumatising semesters are awaiting for me to go through, but on the other hand, it seems like many new things worth learning are also hidden within the 4 hellish months ahead. we shall see when the time comes =)

secondly, i kind of envy my other close friends in another course. we are all students of the same university, but how come they have so much lesser cores to handle. maybe they do have more electives to clear. but this is so ridiculous... 2 cores vs 6 cores. it's a big difference. i'm just jealous cos they can have the free time to do other things besides concentrating on the core subjects. i wouldn't mind being labeled a BS freak, oh god, pls let me have fewer core subjects too... kinda impossible. if i could have that kind of timetable they have, i'd be able to take up a few tuition jobs and get some income for myself man... haiz.

thirdly, i think people around me are too (i can't think of the correct word to use). why can't people forgive and forget sometimes? don't they find it tiring to dwell on certain unhappy matters for such long periods? no, i am not the one who did anything wrong. i'm just an outsider with respect to whatever that had happened. but it's seriously affecting me too. i find life very tiring sometimes to have to deal with people. you'd get what i mean if you have close ones around you that keep harping on certain issues, talking to you as if you have done something to let that person down, not wanting to say anything about whatever that happened. i really feel very trapped cos i don't even know what is going on. it's really getting on my nerves. if someone else has done u wrong, go settle the score with the person, go get the issue solved. once, twice, thrice, i give it to you. don't think that my tolerance level is as high as the OUB Building. so please, be more mature. if you feel the need to talk to someone else neutral, please do so and not treat her or him like she or he is your punching bag that you can hit non-stop. 看了都不顺眼！ i mean, life is like this. things - either you get them or you don't. sometimes no matter how hard you try, things may not go your way. luck isn't always on your side. i just want everyone to take things easy sometimes. if anyone 得罪 you, just 忍一时风平浪静， 退一步海阔天空. there is no point in trying to make everything go the way you want them to be cos you know there'll be a limit to how much you can do. sometimes one should just practice the 10/90 rule.

the 10/90 rule isn't really a rule, but it's just a guideline on how you should live your life. 10% of anything that happens is up to the individual. 90% of the thing that happens after that is up to luck, fate or whatever you call it. 谋事在人，成事在天 - this chinese phrase is so correct, man can only do so much, the rest is really up to fate.

i just hope all my friends out there would be happy, and not allow too many things to 气昏了头, and forgetting that there are people out there who are really concerned. that's all i can say. if anyone is not happy about what i have said tonight...... i oso can't do anything =)

another day out~

yups, spent the whole day outside once again.

lunched with xiang & kim at Tak Po in Chinatown, their dim sum is not tat bad la... except for that horrid chicken feet.... i think it's quite a waste of money for that dish haha. after which, it was shopping at people's park complex and vivocity.

met weichao and pinjie at vivocity cos maidu's having their OG outing there? watch movie? hmm...

finally had my Dublin Mudslide again at Ben & Jerry's, and had a peek at the Swedish ship, Gotheberg, wic is docked beside Vivocity. there's actually not much thing to see in it.

dinner @ Wild Rockets in Hangout Hotel with some friends and colleagues. the food there is damn good but not as good as Pierside Kitchen's though. but its signature dish, the laksa thingy, is really yummy. i wanna go back someday to try it again.

that's all for today. this seems to be another dry & boring entry, but nvm, it's just a record of wad i did today... still dun have much inspiration for blogging. zzz....

watched my show finally~~~

it turned out to be a wonderful day today! finally got to watch A Night at the Museum today and the show turned out to be better than i expected. the show is quite touching towards the end, in the sense that it showed me how a person could actually turn his bad situation around - when there's a will, there's a way. however, some parts of the show were quite unrealistic (not to mention that statues in the museum can come to life in reality), for example, Larry (Ben Stiller) could actually read up so much information in the library about history within 1 day after working nightshift and having to handle all the live statues. quite impossible right? haha. if it were me, i'd have fallen asleep while reading those books.

dinner was good too, just that towards the end of the day, everyone was tired and didn't feel like doing anything (except for those mahjong freaks!). celebration for us having surviving the 2 weeks of work for sony...

met mickey at compasspoint gain city today too.... mickey's also one of the staff i see during my working days at amk gain city. weird to see him having to run to two different outlets on weekdays (sengkang) and weekends (amk).

not much inspiration tonight, so i don't rily know wad to blog about... hence i shall end here. good night =)

last day of work...

okay today's finally the last day of work. no more having to wake up at 9.15, wash up, putting on the sony polo tee, and taking bus 132 to amk gain city. and no more having to eat fried rice for dinner.

anyway it had been quite a horrid day. customers flooding in, leon rushing us for timesheet and him leaving without our commission list (he simply has no sense of priority and responsibility). does it kill to wait a while more while i finish serving my customer? just my luck to have such an employer i guess.

but it had been 2 tiring, but great, weeks of experience in the retail line. think the promoters will be jio-ing both of us (as in brian and i) to dragonfly (in vivocity) next week. but sad to say, sch would have started already, and weekdays, it's hard to go la. shall see how.

i just wonder how come i don't feel any excitement about any activities now. for example, wasn't i supposed to be so looking forward to the arrival of tomorrow, when i can finally watch the show i wanna watch? wasn't i supposed to be looking forward to the dinner treat on thurs? maybe things aren't just really going the way i wanted it to be. or maybe people ard me just do not care about wad i think or how i feel when they say or do certain things? or maybe i am just not demanding enough, not wanting to make sure things go the way i want it to be. i just realised that lately, anything that others say, i'll just go "okay lor, since most of you want it that way."

or rather, as usual, maybe i'm just tired. somehow i just can't help but feel a certain way about things that are going on. o' heaven, set me free from all these nonsense can? thanks in advance...

new year, great start

happy new year, pull your ear!!!! HAHA..... it's 2007 finally (not that i'm really hoping for it to arrive so soon) but well, it's a brand new year and i rily rily hope that this year would be a fantastic year for me =)

and work today was wonderful! myself, i sold 3 LCD TVs!! sony on the whole, we were the top seller today! woohoo~~ we're good. wad a great start for a new year =) really hope gain city gives us the commission for the LCDs man since we helped them clear so much stocks. although the chances are not high, the hope is still there i guess.

oh oh, and i got a chance to go to a customer's hse today! i had to help them carry their LCD TV up 4 storeys! they have no lift there, faints. rily tired me out man that few minutes of bringing the TV up. but no choice, cannot expect the wife and daughter to carry. but fortunately, they have a car, so i get a free ride there & back =)

it's the 2nd last day of work today. and time flew so quickly today seriously. when customers are flooding in, time really flies. i don't know why, but somehow i guess i'm gonna miss working there and mingling with the other promoters and staff there. some of them are really great friends! haiz.. 天下无不散之宴席. how true...

kinda scary to think that the next semester is starting next monday. goodness. it only seems like yesterday that i was enjoying myself at the chalet with the BS ppl... sigh...

aiya shouldn't keep sighing on new year's day. 2007 will be a great year i believe =) just have a little faith.