What's Up - Ceiling

2010-08-22T17:20:00.003+08:00

life after SAC was simply just a buffer time before my semester in NUS began. and in this buffer time, i went for SCAMP! and Beijing :)

scamp was really fun! i was a student once again, nonetheless new to all the environment and culture. it was also great meeting new people who are equally as blur as you, but even better to know seniors to transit you into NUS life seamlessly.

beijing was great too! now i know for myself what it really is like in China, the culture and the tradition, which is thankfully preserved with strong government support. the 8days journey couldn't be better described than the pictures and captions on facebook.

and at this present moment, i'm already two weeks into my NUS semester. Module planning was crazy, bidding for lecture slots was even crazier, ranking for tutorial slots was even more crazier, and what's more crazy than all craziness combined is being in NUS Sci Pageant itself!

Jellybean's Sci Bash was last night at Supperclub.. so much effort and time into the preparation.. dancing, photo shoots, clothes/accessories fittings, catwalk choreo training, gymming.. on top of the daily school's workload.. now that was really some serious juggling. but i must say that these efforts really paid off, in the sense that at least i didn't majorly screw up any segment.. and with the conclusion of the bash, it's just another 6 days to Sci DnD at Swissotel!

and after all this craziness, i'm going to embrace myself for a crazy school life ahead.

2010-07-11T20:18:00.003+08:00

went to my first PC show on 13 Jun at Suntec. it was the last day of the fair and it was freaking crowded! main purpose there was to get a laptop for my cousin, and we only made the purchase after 8 hours of roaming. well, that was clearly not the highlight of the day because...

my computer spoilt within the next few days after the PC show. -.-

wow.

and i bought a sound card reader and a webcam for $50. for nothing.

and i missed a great new laptop deal there.

and i paid a whooping $1500 for a new laptop at challenger.

special thanks to daryl and soedar for helping out, esp with your wonderful smoking skills! :)

fml... lol

2010-07-09T18:01:00.002+08:00

Date: Thurs, 10 Jun 10
Time: 0800hrs
Weather: Cloudy
Attendance: Dt, ken, nic and myself
Location: Batam Island
Event: WAKE BOARDING

apart from the sucky lunch, the trip to batam was definitely worth it! thankfully the scorching sun decided to tone down that day and we didn't get burnt real bad. and there only about 20 ppl that day, so we had more play time!
so
well, here are the results!

First to Get Past Pink Buoy: Daryl Tan
Furthest Distance: Daryl Tan, and almost tied by ken at his last attempt
Most Flat Face Falls: Undoubtly Nic!
Most Daring: Undoubtly Nic too! for accidentally flying off the ramp and landing properly at the last attempt!
Most Consistent: Me! keep falling at the same place before the ramp cos i didn't want to fly off the ramp like nic did. haha
Most Awkward Position: Ken, for squatting so much at the beginning!

looking forward to the next trip there! :)

2010-05-26T19:58:00.003+08:00

well, i guess this is the end of my relief teaching stint.

i must say it was a really good experience! but what makes a good experiences are the good and bad things that happen.

there is this very unique spirit within the teachers and staff in school. i think they can be best described like a container of hair gel. you can shake it, you can stir it, but they will always still stick together. i know that's not exactly the best analogy, but what i'm trying to say here is that most are willing to help one another. and on top of that, they really thank you from the bottom of their hearts for helping them. and now, that is really unique. this kind of appreciation for a act of kindness is not something you see alot in Singapore. Let's say for instance, a cleaner approaches your table to clear your table. let's not talk about those at posh restaurants and be realistic. the cleaners at our hawker centres. how many people do you see actually thank them for their help? yes, you can say that what they are doing is merely part of their job scope. but to me, i think we need to show appreciation for someone who has fulfilled his/her responsibilities. if not, i dun think we deserve the right to complain someone who has not done her role up to expectations. we can see another daily example at the busstop. as hard as we pray for the bus to wait for us while we chase after it, do we thank the bus drivers for waiting for us when they actually do? or do we just curse and swear at them when they don't. appreciation is really very much in lack in Singapore.

the students here are well, not very much as i had expected. to begin with, i didn't even know what to expect of the student's in a girls' school. i can already feel a huge generation gap between myself and them. not simply because of the difference in the level of maturity. i mean like, my friends and i weren't like what they are when we were still students! but they are still mostly kind at heart. and that's a good thing.

and i really had a good clique of relief staff also. which really made things so much easier each day. :) really thankful for them.

but i guess i still do not like the administrative stuff.. but what to do.. and there's seriously lots of meetings.. and from what i've been seeing, most are really irrelevant. if meetings equate to higher interaction between the leaders and the staff, i think it comes at a heavy price of efficiency, especially when there is no interaction in the meetings. like there's only the "action" part of "inter-action". like a one way deal.

at the end of the day, i still want to teach. :)

2010-05-04T19:59:00.006+08:00

in mathematics, we assign letters to represent different variables. this enables us to actually present what we are actually finding.

similarly, in life, we assign different names to different objects in order for us to actually name the object instead of trying to describe it with a myriad of adjectives.

so actually, are any of these real? in math, we can easily replace the variable x with another variable, let's say m. parallel, what we call a bowl by english speakers is called 碗 by chinese speakers.

so which is real?

and if this bowl breaks, do we still call it a bowl, or do we call it rubbish? did the bowl become unreal the instant it broke? but how do we even measure that "instant"?

of course, the above logic is arguably simple to understand.

physical things apart, let us look at things that we cannot see.

our thoughts, our feelings.

first feeling that most of us get after we get a cut on a finger; pain. why do we feel pain? why do we even call pain, pain? if we had assigned the word happy to the feeling pain, would i be correct to say that i'm feeling happy that i got cut?

the answer is simply no, because it the definitions of the words pain and happy are inherent in us since birth. and this is what makes us human. to be able to appreciate of the fundamental meanings of these words, and to be able to express them freely, musically, literally, verbally.

but what if all of our understanding is wrong in the first place?

most of us would have heard of this saying, "seeing is believing." there are other sayings that go "there is more than meet the eye."

once again, which is true?

scientifically, the latter definitely holds more truth. consider the entire electromagnetic spectrum. what we humans can see is merely a small fraction of what there is around us, also known as visible light. (from my rough calculation it is approximately 4%) what would we see if we can actually look out of this range? similarly, what would we hear if we could hear beyond human limitations?

does this coincide with the scientists' claim that we humans are only using less than 5% of our brain capacity?

that aside, this sets us into the motion again, is what we see and what we hear real?

the most concrete fact that i can think of are fishes. some fishes are known to be able to see infrared light, and the mackerel can see ultraviolet light. so what do these fishes see? are they able to see the corals and other marine life as we do? if they can, would they look the same as what they look to us? if they can't, does this mean that the corals that we see do not exist for these fishes?

imagine an organism that can see x-ray. like our x-ray images, would we only appear to be a moving skeleton to this very organism? would our skin and flesh appear to be non-existent to this organism as well?

so think again, what is real?

back to the discussion of the reality, or rather, the un-reality of our thoughts and our feelings.

following the example of the broken cup, if we say that anything that dies/diminish/change form is something that is not real, wouldn't that render all our thoughts and feelings unreal?

and that is true biologically too. someone once said that you would never step back the same place the same twice. simply because the next time that you step back, the constituents that make you you, fundamentally your cells, would have underwent countless cycles of growth and death and generation. so you are not the same you the previous moment.

but the fact remains that you are still you, your behaviour and characteristic and personality does not change with each death and birth of your cell. obviously we cannot say that the mind controls the above, because brain cells do die as well. so, is it really something else that is controlling us? or is this something just us.

and does this something control our thoughts and feelings?

by now, you would have probably been overwhelmed by how much unreality there is around us, and in us. if we are able to come to terms with this fact, wouldn't all our problems be solved instantaneously?

why, you may ask? all that is left to do is to change your thinking.

because there is no real solution to an unreal problem.

2010-04-26T22:23:00.001+08:00

ok! update on tj duathlon!

woke at an early 5.30 to have milo and bread! i hate eating shortly after i wake up, especially if i don't see the sun. haha then cabbed down to soedar's house and set off to ECP!

saw many roadbikers, and guys wearing imba tights and shoes and gear. chen shao the informant told us that they were quite strong! hahaha and suddenly any hope of winning was lost. lol..

the race began pretty much on time.. and it was so scary! everyone was like making a mad dash forward, like competing in a 1km race. i quickly ended up into the middle of the pack even though i started right at the front with kai sheng, the legendary runner. hahaha.

shall not bore u with the details of the first leg! came back at a notable 21:55 though. so i thought that i was overly fast cos my fastest yet was just 23min. =p scared i wldnt have the energy to complete the 2nd leg of 5km.

while waiting for nicky to come back, i went around to chill with soedar when we saw a guy on mountain bike returning! which sent us into panic mode and waited for our partners' return at the transition area. turns out that guy only completed one lap instead of two. -.- lame...

so.. soedar and i saw chen shao zooming towards the final turning point first. followed by nicky and dt! nicky was pretty close to chen shao at that time.. about +1min behind only.. so when i saw daryl returning instead of nicky after chen shao, i was set into total shock. i thought that nicky had fell down, which wld kinda mean GG for us.. haha turns out that he had thigh cramp, and went into a wrong fork. and that set us back from position 2 to position 6.

and came the final run! i dunno what i was thinking, but i was just running, and running and running! my heart was pounding, my lungs were screaming, and my poor feet were burning! and i actually felt like puking while returning! shortly caught up soedar, and eventually the other runners, one by one.. damm shiok to overtake ppl =) and then i saw a lightning blue guy in front.. the legend.. hahaha.. just when i caught up with him and overtook him by abit, he decided to switch on to full gear and went on to do his famous 400m sprint.. and then.. GG.. hahahaha no energy to sprint already. =p

well, at least i came back at 20:33! fasttttt mannnn... i didn't know i could do that kind of timing! woo hoooo! jud, dun be jealous if u're reading this. hahaha. and nicky and i got our 2nd place =)

that's basically the exciting part.. disgustingly long wait for prize presentation.. and a totally lousy luckless draw -.-

oh well.. till my next run.. adidas sundown marathon team event =)

2010-04-06T21:20:00.002+08:00

now that i've signed up for TJ duathlon 2010, i realised that it's been a long time since anything interesting happened.

and the inspiration of this post coincides with the previous few posts, ie. running!

anw, i suppose the most notable event in the past few months wld be my ORD, which wasn't particularly significant. and i guess the readers of this blog also know that i'm teaching, and still is, at SAC. which is why i figured that there wasn't a need to blog in the first place.

blogs, to some are a place where they can rant all they want about the world. to others, it is a place where they feel to express their deepest feelings, obscured or not. and since i do not usually have alot to say, and neither have overwhelming emotions to pour out, there was simply nothing to blog out!

and thus, i have come to a conclusion that the purpose of this blog is for me to record down significant events/incidents/thoughts that i would like to remember i years to come. =)

for now, that event would most probably be the duathlon, of which i have already began training for!

and today while talking to one of the uncles i realised one thing through our conversation. i am purpose driven!!! if i had not signed up for this event, i would not be even running in the first place! like after stopping for about 8 months..

the people at the stadium are nice too. some still remember my name, and are genuinely concerned over my weight loss. remember they last saw me 8 months ago when i was still actively running/swimming/gymming. haha. and i got good advice and encouragement too! which is good cos these 3 weeks are going to suck.

that's it for now. till my next post, ciao.

2009-10-20T20:05:00.003+08:00

they say that i'm a REALIST!!! which is summed up by Planner, Facts, Heads, and Introverted.

Summary of Realists

Loyal and steady workers who meet deadlines
Believe in established rules and respect facts
Think of themselves as mature, stable and conscientious
May appear too logical or tough-minded and forget their impact on other people

hmmm... depends on what kind of situation i'm in la i guess.

Full results here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index_5.shtml?personality_type=realist

and to take,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index.shtml

2009-09-26T17:36:00.002+08:00

end of sept! just one post to begin and conclude the month.

erm...

umm...

like nothing much happen leh...

haha got la, my birthday lor. (weird, suddenly all the leh/la/lor start coming out, not like my usual style hahah)

celebrated first with my fellow army friends. namely cocaine, chi chi, lam, and my tan. notice the coded names, just in case i breach ops sec! just joking! met up at city hall mrt on fri night(dictated by cocaine), which was a mad rush home first, and my first(and i think last) surprise was my tan, whom i wasn't expecting at all. ate hor fun at Thai Express(dictated by cocaine) which turned out to be just ok, and not enough to fill my stomach. btw, i had a bowl of dinner at home before going out. chi chi was killed by the spiciness, and god knows what happened to cocaine's phone. hahahah. fastforward 1x venti dark mocha at starbucks, shared with my tan, and fastforwarded to home, where i ate another bowl of mi fen. =X bloated. but shiok.

it was tuition first followed by 0506 mini meet up. no one's fault actually it was mini, since our class was already mini to begin with. one or two ppl missing would decrease the population by FOLDS. dt was already with nic to repair his phone/some dunno wad device. and in the end he didnt have a phone for tat night which was quite retarded. and siyao appeared. for dunno what reason, 3 guys standing together = road guide. and we debated over the definition of "过马路", to which we arrived at no conclusion. and shu appeared.

and the search for SWENSENS began. sing"old mcdonald had a farm", starting frm the quack quack part.
and a wrong turn here,
and a floor up there,
walk here ask there everywhere no where,
in the end nobody knows,
where is SWENSENS at.

that could just sum up the search for swensens. when we eventually reached there, it was like seeing heaven, better still, we sat beside the uber tempting buffet, particularly the waffles. and a staff there was nic's EC. can see her face in the fb pics! hahaha. had a baked rice, followed by the bdae cake/ice cream thingy, even though it wasnt my actual date of birth. and dunno which idiot decided to sing bdae song. haha paiseh sial. that was followed by apple and bananas crumble, and it turns out to be a treat for me! hahaha shld have ordered more man. damm! hahaha

the next item was simply unbelievable. I WENT TO A LAN/GAMING SHOP AND CHIONGED L4D for 2hours.

now that's a surprise, more like i surprise myself. lol. it was quite fun to kill shu and nic, and especially siyao. actually, it's just fun to kill siyao cos of his "eh cheebong" kind of reaction. hahahah. and i was way out of dt's expectation, since it was 2 of us VS the three of them. but it's not the kind of game u can play alone without getting bored. haha. and then it was home sleep home...

then on sunday, it was steamboat for lunch and dinner! eat until damm shiok the past few days. dunno gain how much weight sia, since i never go run/swim anymore. which reminds me of the coming nike run =X

thanks to all who remembered my bdae! =)

working wise, still busy, even though i just got my understudy. actually getting an understudy increases my workload, still need to teach him, slow down my speed. sianz. hopefully he can master the ropes in one to two months.

and i conclude that I am just freaking noob narrator while blogging. and my sister says "yup" -.-

2009-08-20T19:31:00.002+08:00

yay new update! haha

1. AHM Run Results - 10km Men, Bib No. 60615
Finish Net Time - 51.19.10
Finish Net Place - 126th (2765 positions ahead!)
In Last 4km, I passed 956 runner, and 0 passed me! make me sound damm pro. i like. HAHA

Damm Cool! Can see results and race info at this link.
http://www.runpix.info/sfa09/ge.php

Lots of room for improvement too! haha

2. New Tuition Kid. Yes! money money money~

3. Singapore Flyer. Some nice scenery, and fooling around on the cabin during the ride which felt way less than 30-40mins. haha and looking downwards is abit freaky for me! makes me wonder how it would look/feel like at 10000+feet! hmmm... hope i get the chance to.

4. Weak attempt to ride nicky's road bike. but at least i managed to eventually. legs not long enuf. wth. tempting to get one, again. -.- argh.

5. Watched PONYO PONYO!!! dunno if the movie is intended to portray a drowning world, or talk about japanese legends, or just talk about a goldfish that doesn't look like a goldfish. Did you noe tat ponyo is a freaking GOLDFISH?!?!

6. Bballed! after like so many months. everyone lost touch with the exception of kenneth, lol. me dt nic managed to get some back later though, at the sheltered court, where we got owned by some sec sch kids. haha but shiok la, so long never play.

7. Ops Duty. -.- great way to end a nice weekend.

8. And the work week starts again...

2009-07-30T19:43:00.000+08:00

something new to blog about this month: i passed =)

2009-06-14T21:56:00.002+08:00

the work week was boring. got a few arrows here and there, which kinda sucks. my sis asked me to say F U to the (arrow firer), hahaha and that i'm such a loser for not daring to. -.- best.

swam on friday, which reminds me how i much i hate public pools.

saturday was a stay home day. except i went to tm to buy some pillows. "saved" a total of $180 from buying 4 pillows! muahaha. and made $120 from selling my mum's handphone.

swam with my sis today at tampines swimming pool(public pool again) and managed 30 laps! hahaha. been bad to 2 guys just now. first one was swimming back stroke, which is just so damm so inconsiderate in a crowded pool. so i switched to breast stroke and shuff some water into his face before quickly swimming away. =) not the first time i did this move though. hehe

2nd one was this guy trying to squeeze in between me and my sis and accidentally pulled/scratched my leg. didn't like the fatty's face, so i quickly sped up and went in front of him to prevent him from over taking. lol so shiok. and evil.

my sis wrote the following. "my sister complained that i am smelly, i didnt believe so i raised my arm to smell my armpit, SnIFF SNIFF, make that 2 hairy armpits and it still smelled HEAVENLY"

ya like totally. -.-

my sis say my writing style very boring. which is true. haha wad to do? lol

2009-06-07T18:31:00.002+08:00

it feels great not going to camp on a working weekday! and it's even better knowing that after waking up late and enjoying myself for the whole day, my office guys are still at camp at 5.10pm when i'm already shagg-ed out. hahaha

yes, i was officially out of camp on friday! haha. met leon in the afternoon at safra gym, which totally kinda drained out of most the energy i had. hahaha he's just monster when it comes to lifting heavy stuff. but good to gym with a pro around though.

then met dt at the swimming pool, still at safra while leon went to get a tan. he's quite fair, referring to both of them. and by the time i got out of the pool(leon left early) i was so dark, which is like my normal colour that i like. hahaha. unfortunately dt didnt get to add a tone of darkness to his colour.

after swimming, i was totally super hungry, actually more like already hungry while in the pool. me up with nicky, who was also at safra bowling alley. headed down to somewhere in tampines for dinner, upon my strong recommendation and suggestion. and damm the stupid stall which had folded. -.- went to our eventual destination, ikea/giant, for dinner. ate a lousy $4.50 pasta, which i made up for by drinking 5 cups of ice lemon tea and half a cup of coke. =D absolute greatness. shockwave, as jud wld call it. haha.

made nicky finish his colesaw! haha he did not LS, at least from what i know until we parted our ways later in the night.

had a mini debate along the way to giant with dt whether we shld return the plates before leaving the place. our eventual conclusion was that everybody had a different role to play(like total defence). my role was to reduce the workload of those poor aunties/uncles. dt's role was to play the bad guy and provide jobs for these poor aunties/uncles. hahha.

checked out dt's potential new hybrid bike at giant which cost about $350. like mountain bike frame with road bike tyres. had some fun fooling around giant, and get static shocks from nicky, who claims that he generates some negative ions by sliding his slippers across the tiles. getting a electronic weighing machine for my dad, which we used to determine that dt had the heaviest forearm. -.-

dt brought the usage of "noted" to it's peak that night, literally brought it to higher heights. haha.

it was 9.10pm when i reached home, i ate another bowl of noodles. still very hungry, obviously. and i died over the weekend. hahaha

2009-05-30T23:22:00.002+08:00

the weather's been frustrating! super super hot with a 5min shower just now. which just made things worse with high concentration of water vapour around me, and this phenomenon is normally known as humidity.

maybe that was why i was getting more and more irritated through the night yesterday.

anw, i gym and played badminton today! haha nothing much to talk about also. just that my right forearm is aching like crazy now.

yesterday was Eat With Your Family Day. my office guys call it the Eat Your Family Day, which i guess is quite common around the retarded ppl who get this EWYFD thingy. yes, my office is full of retarded ppl. i wonder how many ppl actually ate with their family yesterday. i mean what can ending one hour earlier do? so many limiting factors! like, family still working(for one, my boss didnt go back on time, not that he actually knows that 5.30pm is the time to pack up and go home).

any recommendations of movies to watch in 2008 and 2009??? =)

2009-05-27T20:49:00.002+08:00

a few random thoughts!

the toilet bowl sensor in tampines one is damm powerful. While changing out my uniform to civilian clothes, the sensor actually sensed SEVEN usages! and flushed a total of eight times, inclusive of the first time after i shitted. =) it's weird it didnt auto flush after i shitted actually.

saucony run was on 24 May! drinking redbull and being high from adrenaline definitely helps! i finished 9km in about 42mins! haha note that i was supposed to run 10.4km. but at 9km point there i saw a toilet, and thinking about all the damm gross toilets at the finishing point, thinking about my bursting bladder since before the start of the run(refer to earlier point as to why i didn't go pee first), thinking about my "achievement" and being all satisfied with myself(i planned to run 55mins since i didn't really train much so my timing at 9km was quite good), I WENT TO THE TOILET. hahaha and after a warmth release of my by-products, i got lazy. that added about 10mins into my timing btw.

AND I WALKED THE LAST 1+KM. or about there. hahaha. last 100+m got alot of ppl, so i just sprinted and won myself some cheers. hahaha.

it was a great run, though i kinda regretted stopping. but heck, still got ahm! saw a couple of friends, went for FREE foot massage, won myself a TOWEL and some brochures, ran with my sec sch teacher for awhile, walked to tj and the busstop far far away and eventually got my ass home.

on a more serious note now, i guess most guys in army have heard about the late 1WO Tan from commandos. i wldnt be saying much, but i really feel very sorry for him, esp since i have been minutely helping out take care of what needs to be done. i hope his family members find their peace quickly.

life is very fragile.

2009-05-19T20:17:00.002+08:00

Tag Replies:

rae: hahaha i said hi to you back what.. anw it's so wrong of me to say that you were blown here by monsoon winds, since there's no monsoon in australia right? hahaha
nat: i didnt say one day wad. i said 24hours! blehhh... blog is blog what.. fb is fb.. different! at least maybe got some ppl might catch what i posted on fb and reply, eg arvin tang ur frog. lol
eBlockHead: lol getting posted out wun improve your chinese chess anw.
bluekel: haha u stalk until got leaves come out that's why you tag. nv scold u.. just cursing. OF COURSE YOU ARE NOT MY BFF LA! ONLY WANG WANG CAN =)))

(last part damm gay)

i had no energy to go past 3k today -.-

2009-05-17T23:06:00.003+08:00

i figured that it wld be more effective to reply the unusual amount of tags on my tagboard here instead of spamming my own tagboard. hahha

jeanette: haha i also eat brocolli!
eBlockHead: i will rape you in chinese chess. my stand still stands. haha
natalia: i'm not nuts, you are! lol and it's spanning from over friday afternoon to sat morning.
rae: hello ray ray = rays = race hahaha did the SEA monsoon blow you here?
cocaine: u stalking my blog zomg. disgusting you. asshole
eBlockHead(again): it's a sucky timing mind you. -.-

tadah! anw my sis just spammed some blue unsightly facial cream on my face. so cannot slp now. wth.

before i forget. STUPID SAUCONY RACE PACK SUCKS BIG TIME! waste my time... zzz... gonna boycott it man. lol hope the run wld be good. at least can compensate. haha

2009-05-17T11:42:00.002+08:00

saucony run next sunday! sure die one lor.. at least i still trained abit more for ahm and nike run last year la.. hahaha

i ran 4k in 21.30min -.- haha i might just spill over the 1hour in saucony. lol which sucks.

i'm not looking forward to office tml. there's this new auntie(40year old) coming to our office permanately! she's notoriously infamous for being demanding and scary. =X a total turbulence to what nice balance i've been enjoying for the last 4 months. zzz.. cannot afford to take MC tml.. when i really got a flu la.. =( sick still need to OT last week man. haiz.

anw is anyone going for the TJ marathon thing??? feel like going but haven't found anyone i can hang around with the whole night.

gonna go poop now. and i'm damm hungry

2009-05-09T23:20:00.000+08:00

in the last 24 hours, I
bball,
run,
swim,
gym,
run.

damm shag man.

2009-04-27T22:12:00.002+08:00

guys, contrary to popular belief, or rather, your belief, MY BLOG IS NOT DEAD. it was never alive to begin with. haha

cannot blame me ah.. totally unexciting life here. well, maybe except for getting new and big cases at work, and weekly full court bball at my house, with or without my dear classmates. haha

well, can't say much about my work. and bball is just bball, with occasional excitement such as potential outbreaks of fights. which occurred last sunday. it was just so damm funny, this botak tatoo-ed guy wanted to beat up this other guy who tatoo guy accuses him of being rough and foul-ing and wadever nonsense. it's like pot calling kettle black? hahaha tat tatoo guy was way worse than the other. lol.

and just yesterday a bad pass leading to a stray ball nearly hit an aunty. the aunty, say about 50 years old was with her son. what was just so damm amazing was she screamed CCB. it just stunned the entire court of ppl, well, except for this fierce guy who chiong up to her and yelled back. so there was this shouting competition, auntie claiming that she was in pain, when the ball never hit her, and fierce guy throwing vulgarities at her. lol. she glared and me too, since i was going to pick up the stray ball that missed her. hahaha. oops.

thanks to soedar and nic(i think) for not wanting to play at the damm sheltered court in a damm hot day(expected 38 deg), i got a damm tan. -.- not like i'm already not black enough. hahaha

other than bball, which i've talked about alot already, i've been viwawa-ing and facebook-ing games. haha. not alot la. mainly chess, the most fun game ever. keeps my mind working as well, thank goodness. hahaha. i love chinese chess. hahaha.

anw, my knee seems to be getting better already. not so painful during bball, can run 4k. damm shiok. of cos i should still take care of it. maybe it's swimming that is helping it as well. like water therapy, if there's such a thing.

DUTY TOMORROW!!! DUTY ON FRIDAY!!! LABOUR DAY!!! ZOMG

2009-03-21T18:26:00.002+08:00

zomg i cannot believe that i actually spent nearly 6 straight hours playing the computer today. and only 2 games! some eXXXX(i dunno how to spell it. it's like warcraft 3), and all time favourite, both at home and at work, STPF2@ super turbo puzzle fighter2!

i kinda suck at tat e thingy at first, but i manage to stay alive for quite some time for the 2nd game. lol not my kinda game but it's a new exp.

and i declare i OWN dt at STPF2 HANDS DOWN. HAHAHA

one of the few computer games i'm actually good at. lol. and there goes my whole day, from 9 to 5? lol, inclusive of travelling time of cos.

thanks to dt's mum for nice lunch and walnut cake. and the coke frm dt which i didn't really want. lol.

i'm not looking forward to trying another 7 hour gaming session

2009-03-20T20:30:00.002+08:00

damm bored, as you can tell. haha. first time doing some notes thingy on facebook. doing random quizzes. wahjong-ing in viwawa, which i just started again last week. next thing i'll do after getting off the com wld most probably be finding food, watching tv and sleep. i hope the last agenda comes quickly. heheeeeeeeee

http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

Your view on yourself:

You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

2009-03-10T18:31:00.002+08:00

Sacuony 100Plus Passion Run

Date: 24 May 2009, Sunday
Venue: East Coast Park, E2 (Angsana Green)
Time: 0645hrs - 1200hrs
Distance is between 10-15km. and early bird closes on 31 Mar.

Tag if you're interested! i haven't found anyone to go with me yet.. haha

http://www.singaporepassionrun.com/data09/index.html

there's also this

Life's a Beach thingy, organised by NUS FASS. dunno if jud's involved though. it's at tanjong beach on 28 Mar. but i dun think i'm going for it cos there's simply no one else to form team with. hahaha.

http://lifesabeach.nusartsclub.org/

oh well!

2009-02-07T11:59:00.002+08:00

just tried this webpage..
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

then go the one below for results quite accurate i would say.

http://www.personalitypage.com/

this is my result.

http://www.personalitypage.com/ESTJ.html

and some super accurate highlights.. hehehe

The Guardian

"They honor traditions and laws, and have a clear set of standards and beliefs. They expect the same of others, and have no patience or understanding of individuals who do not value these systems. They value competence and efficiency, and like to see quick results for their efforts. "

"The ESTJ is usually a model citizen, and pillar of the community. He or she takes their commitments seriously, and follows their own standards of "good citizenship" to the letter. ESTJ enjoys interacting with people, and likes to have fun. ESTJs can be very boisterous and fun at social events, especially activities which are focused on the family, community, or work. "

"The ESTJ puts forth a lot of effort in almost everything that they do. They will do everything that they think should be done in their job, marriage, and community with a good amount of energy. He or she is conscientious, practical, realistic, and dependable. While the ESTJ will dutifully do everything that is important to work towards a particular cause or goal, they might not naturally see or value the importance of goals which are outside of their practical scope. "

go to the link above if u are interested (in me). HAHAHA

weekend duty sucks =(

2009-01-21T22:37:00.002+08:00

duty sucks man! had to wake up at 3am... so effectively i only had four hours of sleep from 11pm to 3am before i went to teach tuition after work. luckily i managed to catch 39 winks in the afternoon. it's not 40 winks cos it wasn't enough. hahaha

and my shit got stirred in office again! now it's like front stab. instead of back stab. haha oh well quite used to it already. maybe one day they will find no more place to stab on me cos all the wounds still open.

it also doesn't help that i'm feeling kinda sick. feverish i guess. and bad sore throat. splitting headache. KKKH and ah lam, esp KKKH chanced on the opportunity to pull my hair. it feels quite shiok AFTER they pull, but not when they pull. as if all the roots in my scalp were being rooted out. crazy. can't imagine a hairless patch on my head. all these just before CNY! all the germs and viruses lurking around the ops room, and the recycled air from the air con. so the G/V(germs/viruses) go on a tour around the room, before they eventually invade us. even breathing sucks in that room. stale air. simply gross.

happy CNY! and dt we will triumph in our ECTO conquest!

2009-01-18T20:17:00.003+08:00

this weekend was ultimate slack. only swam with dt on sat morning. and i'm proud to say that ECTO Project has resumed! ECTO Project will be completed in the near future. and after that we will expand the scope and boundaries of our project. hahaha if you even know what the hell i'm talking about.

and dt's mum been secretly complaining about me making his son commit sinful deeds in the ECTO Project. hahaha. his mum also labeled him as a lousy coach. dt and me is like bob bowman and michael phelps. HAHAHA. no la. is lousy coach and lousy student.

after the swim and going dt's house in an attempt to make him shower/change, we had lunch at my house. haha that bastard just refuse to drink healthy soup! hahaha so waste can! not M-CUBE at all... lol. asshole.

and project dt's cny shopping was a total disaster. everyone was sleeping! hahaha so we ended up at tm stoning around. and instead of going to the real shops for his shopping we went to places like TIMES, COURTS, TOILET(me only), TOYS'R'US and dunno what la. haha. of cos we had our rountine mac's cheapo ice cream after lunch. 70 cents man! zzz.

in just about half a day, 4 ppl that i do not usually see commented that i'm super tan/black/chao ta. amazing. hahaha

i guess that's all for my weekend. spent the whole day at home doing nothing. haha. and my knee's painful.

yay! swim in camp tml again!

2009-01-09T21:15:00.002+08:00

i just realised that this is the first time that i do not write the date wrong for a new year. maybe it's because i've worked through december last year, looked forward to christmas and the new year cos of the wonderful holidays. lol. it's just amazing. i always thought that everyone will get the date wrong. haha

i've been playing texas hold'em poker these few days thanks to the new guy in office. hahaha. and the only reason why i'm blogging now is cos i just lost all my chips(nearly $3000) in a single bet i was so damm confident of winning. there were 3 diamonds on the floor, other 2 were lousy small cards. i had a diamond and a king diamond. the only way another guy could beat me was to have ace diamond. and he had it!!! zomg. couldn't believe it. -.- just my luck.

this is obviously something i wldn't do in real life. i'm a safe gambler. =)

and i started swimming again! hahaha swam thrice over these five days. damm shiok especially when the water is so cold in the early morning. i actually keep awake longer if i swim/exercise as compared to when i do not. i wld feel so slack and lazy and sleepy and so sian about everything and when i look at the stupid ORD counter on my computer screen i cheer up abit cos it's hitting 365days but next to my counter is my fren's one which is like nearing 30. and i feel sian about the whole army thing again. well that's life. it will soon be my turn to add my ord counter on someone else's screen. or put a note in someone else's calendar in the com or handphone.

that would be fun. hahaha. i'm already starting to enjoy teasing those ppl with more than 700days left. HAHAHA. too bad if you're reading this and if you are one of those poor victims of the said misfortune. hahaha. your time will come so dun worry.

here's a reminder to everyone that all existing ez-link cards will be invalid after 30 Sept 2009 this year. so do remember to change ur cards. but i really dun see any cause for the kan-chiong-ness i saw at tampines interchange this evening. there was a LONG QUEUE
just to exchange! omg. so retarded... still got 9full months leh..

and i'm tired. i wanted to go sleep, but my 2nd sis jio me watch BOLT on her laptop. haha cannot say no one... hahaha ciao!

2009-01-06T19:22:00.000+08:00

chui. seriously damm chui... for the first week of the new year... knn

2008-12-30T21:08:00.002+08:00

2008 is going to be over! which is good. it only feels as if i enlisted just last month. though it also feels like forever before i eventually ORD.

2008 wasn't spectacular. in fact, it was really really

nonetheless, in this last week, not in chronological order cos i had it all messed up already,

i had a surprise half day off, which is actually half the market price of what other ppl are getting.

i played pool and won 4 out of 4 games and had pasta mania.

i got a FABULOUS "XMAS PRESENT" from my boss.

i played bball at 1pm. it wasn't really hot though, lucky us. even chin hock the boon lay kid came!

i had a family gathering for x'mas, and i got 3 towels for a present. haha

i drew a really fierce bugs bunny when i was super awake at 2am.

i played facebook games.

i watched the first madagascar movie.

i went to ecp/blk85 and ate aloe vera de guava, which really sucked.

i played and practiced on the last score/music i learnt.

i went for my pri sch class chalet. which was really really good. haha

i limped around with a painful knee.

i think there are other stuff... but i can't really remember. this one week is like 1000x more happening then my entire 2008 la.

it was really difficult getting this post out. it was like weeding a desert. oh well. just hope that 2009 wouldn't be as difficult as this.

cheers to the end of 2008 and early ending of 2009! =D

2008-12-14T17:53:00.000+08:00

BRB. lol

2008-12-08T22:03:00.001+08:00

super funny! especially the second video. first one is called

Internet Love Song (She Blocked Me)

and the second one is

The Mom Song

2008-12-08T00:09:00.003+08:00

it's the first time someone used a few simple lines to sum up what a person i really am pretty accurately. hahaha. it feels good and and i'm thankful for it. lol =)

2008-12-02T21:34:00.000+08:00

december is finally here again! woohooo~

it's a time of many holidays, half days, medical appointments! =D

damm shiokkk...

still, it's pretty boring. -.- haha..

improve improve!!! rahhhhhhhhh

2008-11-25T21:45:00.002+08:00

some highlights for the month of november.

exciting WW3 in my office! hahaha. weapons started of with pistol, then machine gun, bazooka and finally the 1 x nuclear bomb which killed everyone! woohoooo!!! lol

got my new running shoes! damm shiok and light. and so i started running again, after getting the green light from my physiotherapist. but somehow my knees, especially the right knee seems to hurt quite a bit. and i timed myself for 5k today too. did 23.59. lol so zhun i did sub 24. lol.. slowly improve la!(u have to hear me say it to get the meaning properly, it's a office joke. lol)

me and dt are going to join nus biathlon. the sprint series relay. lol.. which is why i need to improve my 5k timing aso. dt swimming so imba already.. must win one! ahha so i cannot pull him down. haha.. and he might just join singapore biathlon aso. ch already signed up and his unit sponsored him! which i dun really feel like joining. haha unless my camp sponsor me also. lol which i doubt is really possibe.

it's almost a year to service also! going to be 11months in about 2weeks, too bad i don't have fitness cut, if not can serve two months less. sian. take napfa for nothing. -.-

i guess those are the few highlights i had. haha not a very exciting life i lead.

ciao..

2008-10-30T22:46:00.002+08:00

i think having a overwhelming will power is just amazing. seriously cool and useful.

it's quite scary to entertain thoughts of euthanasia. tributes to the GP Packages for which i wouldn't have known the term in english.

the A level season's back again. GOOD LUCK TO ALL! i'm sure readers and candidates of this little blog can do really well! for the fact they have the time to read so much nonsense instead of mugging. hahaha.

exercising really expends energy that would be wasted on random useless thoughts.

i love swimming. woots. really makes me wonder how a sea swim would be like.

still not good enough.

2008-10-11T16:27:00.000+08:00

i need to become stronger.

to carry everything.

2008-10-10T23:40:00.002+08:00

i've been barely at home these few days. reach home, maybe online awhile then slp already and its a new day again.

i'm not doing great. and i kinda just had dinner.

i can see it coming. of cos it will, but i didnt expect it to be so soon. this is one thing i haven't been really cool about. still quite ok now, but we'll see..

just damm fucking tired.

2008-10-07T21:44:00.000+08:00

i'm always part of nobody.

2008-10-05T22:29:00.002+08:00

now i've got a bloody singlet tan line. arghhh... who would expect the all so shady weather in the morning to be such a stealthy tanner.

so it was bball, swim, and swim again. hahaha and i borrowed FLIPPERS from dt! gonna try it out in camp swimming pool. =)

anw i walked with dt to simei. and i managed to determine that for every walk over taking a bus to simei i would earn myself an ice cream cone. and for every 70 times i walk i would be able to get 71 ice cream cones! thanks to the new rise in bus prices. -.-

and jud pangseh-ed today.

i didnt get to meet my swimming objectives today. which is 1. to kick butterfly properly. 2. learn turn kick. simply because dt didnt hear me say it. but my butterfly kick feels better now. hehe

u oblivious or something?

2008-10-04T17:52:00.002+08:00

some wishes are better off not made. but you don't feel better if you don't make them.

i need

2008-09-28T22:50:00.003+08:00

ok it's been almost 2 weeks since i last blogged. hahaha very lazy. expecially after that long break from camp.

actually i kinda forgot most of the stuff that happened over this 2weeks.

except last sat was my BIRTHDAY! really big thanks to my family. =)

today was quite good also. a really sporty day. bball in morning(got a singlet tan line) then i went home to eat( and managed to mark a E Math P1 for my sis tuition kid). after that me jon dt nick gymed at melville and the first three went for a swim in the pool. not tat jon and dt did alot since jon's agenda was to swim and dt doesnt gym. oh well. then jud came along to study abit by the pool side(wonder if she was there to see jon's hot bod! haha joking i dun wanna get kicked balls. lol) passed her her cdo singlet too.

and i got sunburnt. that is freaking damm rare can. lol especially since i'm already so dark. haha

tml go ops duty.. mega sian. lucky wed's a holiday! =D heng sia

till then! =)

P.S. WENDY wishes to make a statement here. so i shall help her advertise abit abt the post prom bash this year. its on 1Dec at DXO. its going at $18 before the end of oct(it comes with a free 1 year NEBO membership too)! its gonna be at $25 after that.

2008-09-16T20:20:00.002+08:00

yayyy stupid open office course finally over! =D and i'm loving this 2 weeks. cos i'm not in camp this mon, tue, fri and next mon, tue and wed! WOO HOOOOO!!!

but the main point is that i'm not in camp on a WEDNESDAY!!! =))) that's the best man.

and today's lunch REALLY REALLY SUCKED. the tanjong pagar mkt was damm crowded as usual, so we(me cocaine leon derron and clement) went to AMARA HOTEL coffee shop.

unfortunately the stupid coffee shop didnt had any vege shops so i had my next best choice for lunch. indian vege.

and it could just have been the worst choice that i have ever made for lunch.

IT WAS SO DISGUSTING(no offence to anyone) I DID NOT FINISH EVEN HALF OF WHAT WAS ON THE PLATE.

those who noe me enuf should know that i hate wasting food, so you could really tell how bad it was.

there was four potato dishes. 3 of them in different curries and one in the currypuff. all the curry and the currypuff had an excessive number of seed spices. so you could just imagine. only the currypowder curry was ok. so i was mixing it everywhere to try and make it taste better.

and i was wrong again.

they also had some wierd curry/mixture thingy on the rice and apadam. I CANNOT DESCRIBE THE TASTE. not that anyone on the table could. hehe i had all of them try a mouthful of it and they all ended spitting it out and chionging their own food to cover the taste. too bad for them, the smell and taste lingers, and when u burp. HOHOHO. lol

there was salad too! which really looked appetising and of cos it turned out otherwise. it was just plain chopped raw cabbage and carrots. -.-

i also had a cup of yoghurt drink. its a set menu la so i just took it anyway. just imagine the taste of any plain yoghurt drink you can find in ntuc. ok. now replace the thick liquid with a diluted one. remove the vanilla flavour and the milky taste. make it about 5times for sour than it is already. finally add some unknown green stuff on it. have a taste and there you go, tat was my free yoghurt drink. =)

the curry puff, though not really nice, was the best.

although i ate so little, i was really damm full. and surprisingly, i havent LS yet.

and i ran with my dad at the stadium yest and today after i came back home so its abit of exercise there. shiok.

that's that i guess. and i got a OPEN OFFICE WRITER ADVANCE CERT! without doing anything. like seriously doing nothing but my own stuff. hehehe pro sia

ciao. and its a wednesday tml. damm

2008-09-15T21:53:00.002+08:00

ok. finally this weekend was interesting.

i didnt play bball on sat. actually i didnt exercise at all on sat.

and i played bball on sun morning, and surprisingly the soccer ppl came and didnt play. phew. tink they didnt had enuf ppl to chase us away tat day. actually come to think of it, its just yesterday.

after bball, where ken got injured by nick(nothing new), i went to teach tuition. and it was a blood voimitting session. -.-

and luckily there was some chill time at dt's house later. ken went hospital to see his foot i tink. then nick left after i came. and jud came after i came. hahaha then we watched wall-E and Iron Man.

it was quite coincidental both movies were about technology.
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wall-E

i thought wall-E was really making a loud statement though it was a movie without much dialogue. firstly it really showed how dependent humans are on technology, to the extent that they have not walked for more than 700 years. its amusing how they finally learn how to walk again near the end of the movie, cos its like a returning to the beginning.

secondly, it foretells the impending doom of earth's future. our irresponsibility in exploiting and our irresponsibility in not doing anything much to save it and our irresponsibility in abandoning it at the end.

thirdly, in relation to my first point, our dependence on technology to the extent that we live in delusion in the sense that we still think that technology has done more good than bad in our lives. similarly, the human touch and love for each other that has been replaced by communication over wireless(and emotionless) contact. so much so that it has become virtual.

lastly, as it comes so strongly at the end of the movie, whether this earth can be saved is strongly dependent(i suddenly had an urge to type positively correlated i aso dunno why =p) on our urge and will to do so.

so the question is, should we look into the race's viability in outerspace, or should we devote more attention and resources towards saving this earth of ours.

afterall, this is the only earth we've got.
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iron man

its obviously an action pack movie. and the effects and technology used was good too. quite funny to think of it actually, using technology to make a sci-fi technology movie like iron man.

using weapons to destroy weapons, using violence to stop violence, using power to overwhelm power. is this just like the chinese saying 以毒攻毒？using poison to counter poison. or is it all about a balance of power?

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oh well.

2008-09-10T23:08:00.002+08:00

and after reading my blog together with my silly sister(SS), i think my blog is one hell of a boring read. lol. actually i kinda know already but oh wells. hahaha quite evident from the desertation of my tagboard, says my SS.

2008-09-10T22:57:00.003+08:00

it was nearly two weeks ago since i last blogged. been wanting but yet not willing to blog. cos abit lazy ah. hahaha

ran the nike run on 310808. it was quite an ok run la just that got alot of slopes. zzz.. and it drizzled halfway. lucky it wasnt too big. although a guy slipped behind me and groped my butt. hahaha.

and it was a 3day office week. =) thanks to some open office course i had on thurs and friday at tanjong pagar. played soccer like crazy on wed night after work in camp since it was going to be the last time we were going to play soccer with the ord guy. damm him and i missed his ord treat on friday.

and it was saturday again and we played bball in the morning.

its seriously quite a boring life that i have now. =( haiz...

and today's wednesday wasnt so bad. haha. phew...

2008-08-28T09:37:00.002+08:00

damm. been really sick since tuesday, had mc for wed and thurs. eh... not chao geng please. really sick la. -.-

yesterday could have been summed up by a few words. sleep, eat medicine, stone/watch tv. hahaha.

i also realised yesterday how long it has been since i touched the piano. nearly a month? hmmm...

i hope i can recover quickly enough for the nike run this sunday.

anw the results for AHM 10km open. so idiotic they counted gun finish. our gun finish all 10mins more than our actual net finish. hahaha. hope i can do better for nike run.

Bib Name Nationality CheckPt NetFinish GunFinish

FN1462 JUDITH SIM Singaporean 0:44:17 00:52:45.45 01:02:30.30
MN1494 NG WEI XUAN Singaporean 0:45:06 00:53:54.54 01:03:39.39
MN2429 LIM CHUAN LI Singaporean 0:45:01 00:54:47.47 01:04:33.33

2008-08-24T22:01:00.002+08:00

omg. got owned by jud and wx[(who got owned by jud aso =X) and i tink he's reading this haha]

dumb error. i ran into the 21km competitive ending. -.- and i dunno my actual timing. tink its ard 1hr.

running a race is so different from running a track!

1. they dun have alot of markings for the distance. i only saw a 7km one. dunno the pace aso. zzz
2. soooo many ppl. no straight clear route. cut here cut there very tiring leh.. hahaha
3. got slopes... -.- ok la. got upslope means got downslope lor. shiok.
4. the water points are so irritating. so many ppl just slow up there and jam up the whole place.
5. turning point sucks aso. literally walked around the turning point.

oh and got free flow of 100+!!! and according to jud, that's SHOCKWAVE~ lol

the padang was so muddy so me jud and wx walked around barefooted. hahah got quite alot of stares though. =X

not bad, saw quite alot of frens at ahm. hahaha. too bad didnt see ah fit with the ndu bunch. lol

nicky hang around with us for awhile. then we went of our separate ways. i went to clark quay to get my nike pack.

it was simply horrendous. the queue so so freaking long i couldnt see the end of it. zzz wasted my time going there.

the whole nike thing gives me quite a screwed up impression up till now. the website sucks and now this collection thing too. -.- the ahm organisation was so much better. hmmm...

and i choing-ed buffet for lunch. woots. damm shiok after being hungry for so long. lol.

watched usa-spain men bball finals! quite exciting ah spain trials US so closely. i kinda knocked out half way unknowingly for awhile. then continued to watch water polo men's final. US- dunno who. forgot already. haha.. until i really cannot take it already and i slept on my bed.

watched the closing ceremony for beijing 2008. it really sucks when all the advertisements keep disrupting the show. worst of all, a repeat of a few boring adverts. -.- it really spoils the whole mood watching the ceremony. terrible man. i can understand if the adverts are from the main sponsors. but adverts for some chn 5 show? zzz

i hope i got off tml.. hmmm.. ciao

2008-08-20T22:40:00.002+08:00

two math qn for everyone! (esp jud! haha)

1. A triangle has 3sides, 19x, 24x and 28x. It has an area of 250cm sq. Find x.

2. A triangle has 3sides, 5x+12y,12x+5y,13x+13y. Prove the the triangle has an obtuse angle.

anw i ran my first ten km today and i finished it in 51min 7 secs!!!

woots. aimed for 2min15sec per lap = 56min15sec for 10km

freaking ran 25rounds in the stadium. lol...

evening run ah.. cooler. heh =p

2008-08-10T18:45:00.001+08:00

AHM RACE PACK COLLECTION

Date: Fri, 15 Aug - Sun, 17 Aug
Time: 10am - 6pm
Venue: SAFRA Toa Payoh

NIKE + RACE PACK COLLECTION

Date: 24th August 2008 (Sun) & 25th August 2008 (Mon)
Time: 10am to 8pm
Location: Central Square Fountain, Clarke Quay

http://inside.nike.com/blogs/humanrace-en_SG/2008/08/07/race-pack-collection

2008-08-07T20:03:00.002+08:00

a little update.

1. i lost my goggles. =(

2. tues and wed past relatively fast. and now its already thurs.

3. you cant trust any stranger online.

4. got ppl ord in 30 days... haiz.

5. our cdo medics suck. hahaha

6. been sorting out all the folders in the com.

7. i dunno wad else to say.

8. oh ya sy dun pangseh on sat! (goes out to jud too. =p)

9. weekends are here but i got ops duty on monday. -.-

10. i'm hungry though i just finished dinner. lol

2008-08-04T19:06:00.002+08:00

i staged a show without any audience.

anyway, watched a singapore short film yesterday night. the storyline is quite normal, its about this reporter who wants to interview this strange old woman living in a 1room hdb flat. so along the way, she interviewed some ppl and one of them actually realised that this reporter lived in this neighbourhood with her dad last time. she walked out of her dad(the mum left the family when she was young) because the dad did not want to migrate to australia where she would be living with her husband-to-be(the husband is actually a 52year old lecturer at the uni where the reporter studied in). apparently the mum left becos the dad was easily contented, living on the leftovers from restaurants everyday.

later on, the reporter managed to see through the camera her cameraman was holding that the old lady was holding on to a knife, and seconds later the knife was seen to be dripping with blood.
both the reporter and the cameraman rushed to the old lady's flat to find only darkness and stench. it was only with the torchlight attached to the camera that they found the old lady lying on the floor with the bloodied knife. a chunk of meat from her thigh was also seen to be missing.

and there was a sudden scream. the reporter and the cameraman moved further into the house and were simply shocked. they saw a big fat naked man sitting on the flooor, mouth dripping with blood, and holding a piece of bloody fresh meat on one hand. he was hysterically screaming"MA!!! WO YAO ROU!!!" in english"mum!!! i want meat!!!"

and you see the link. the screaming was really really scary.

so after this whole saga, and upon the reminder of the old man(who unveiled her true identity) that her dad scrimped and saved just to send her to australia(because she once mentioned to him that local universities are not good enough) to study, she went back to the house she used to lived in.

and the shows end there.

quite a good watch.

really. when reality is more scary than a horror movie. that makes life a horror movie by itself. hmmm

2008-08-03T17:47:00.001+08:00

i won DT in freestyle yesterday!!! =D

won him by 1 SECOND!!! when he had a 7 second lead. hehehe...

but still... I WON!

zzz

2008-08-01T19:47:00.000+08:00

please take pity on the poor tormented soul.

bah.

2008-07-29T20:25:00.002+08:00

today in office was hell as well.

turmoil man...

damm stressed out now. haiz.

being a clerk doesnt guarantee a good life.

chui ah... damm shag

2008-07-28T21:30:00.002+08:00

TODAY IS A VERY BAD DAY.

1.GET 3X EXTRA DUTIES. how bad can it be man.. cant spell out the story why i got these extras here. haiz.

2.GET SCOLDED. for something that somebody wants which is redudant and a double effort.

3.GET 2 CUTS. on the same toe.

4.GET 1X BIG HEADACHE. after so much nonsense in office.

5.GET 1X EXTRA KOPI-O(which i didnt mind after all these nonsense/headache) cos my ma'am dun drink coffee.

what a day man.

2008-07-27T16:57:00.002+08:00

thursday was boring. except for tuition. which could only made a boring day worse. -.- still no improvement on the guy though. haiz.

friday was branch outing. had badminton in the morning, then watch Red Cliff at Century Sq and had lunch at sakura in tampines safra. boss finally found a worthy opponent for badminton and he was damm happy. laugh like some evil monster. red cliff was not bad.. i'm not really critical in being a critique but the pace of the movie was just nice i guess. at least the different parts were sufficiently spent on then being rushed through. and lunch was simply full of cakes. hahaha. cakes, ice cream, more cakes, some VERY SALTY mushrooms, tau pok sushi, 8 baby tomatoes. hahaha. then got bdae cake for my ma'am somemore. lol.

after lunch i went back to tj to get my sgc since i had nothing to do in the afternoon. met some juniors and i played badminton awhile in jeans. haha. too bad most of the guys i know were having napfa that day in sch.

had bball on sat. a father was playing with his kids in the court, so i waited for them to finish playing. its really quite heart warming actually. haha. drizzled abit but its stopped in like 1min. -.- played until ard 12.30. nicky was out injuring everyone again. and i got a small cut near my left eye thanks to him too. haha but he got his due retribution aso. lol. serve him right.

and then i knocked out at home and slept until 6. quite rare that i actually slp in the afternoon. haha. and i went to my grandma's house as usual with my family.

watched 5minutes per sec on youtube this morning. its not bad actually. kinda like an emo japanese anime story. the storyline isnt exactly new but yet u just dunno wad to expect later. hmmm..

went back to slp after lunch at 12. hehhh. dunno why i'm so tired. made a long journey to toapayoh safra again to play with kids and the busride was simply revolting. bus driver dunno how to drive. -.- so jerky. hahaha.

jud and nat were my partners today and it was quite fun. hahaha. AND JUD DROVE!!! hahaha. she's quite good actually. way better than the stupid bus driver. jud can consider being a bus driver as a profession. hahaha. very steady and cautious aso. unlike my office ppl who drive at 100km+ recklessly(but they claim to be skilled). so it was quite a safe ride home. hehhh

rocks to be driven around eh. =p lol.

and that's for today i guess.

2008-07-23T20:51:00.003+08:00

drinking coffee is just like smoking, only better. so why smoke? its more warm than cool. hahaha. i still dunno why ppl call me uncle when i drink black coffee. -.- its just a drink! haha. coffee with milk doesnt seem to be as effective in keeping me awake compared to kopi-o-gao.(black coffee concentrated)

living a life without regrets isnt easy as it seems, but we will all strive towards it right?

As We Think, So We Become

The thought manifests as the word
The word manifests as the deed.
The deed develops into habit
And habit hardens into character
So watch the thought and its ways with care
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings
The shadow follows the body and never leaves it
In the same way
As we think
So we become.

think about it.

2008-07-17T21:40:00.002+08:00

REALLY. the downside of someone who books out everyday. dealing with reality and using more brains than he shld while serving army. terrible man.

anw, i dunno wad i've been busy with but i've been busy. the OOC(open office course u NS ppl haha not out of course) CALC- BASIC was REALLY basic. quite boring and i cldnt slp cos the class was so small. sianz. didnt really learn much too.

i think everyone shld start using Open Office. Almost the same, some parts better than microsoft, some part not as good. but its free! totally free! at least we dun have to resort to piracy. just google open office and u can download it for free easiliy! lol

got shot with about 20 arrows when i went back to office. and i had freaking 57 emails just for monday and tuesday. -.- haiz. but morning swim was shiok. hahaha. i want to swim every morning but i need a freaking partner to do that. -.- and nobody's willing to reach come at 7.20. zzz

and i took half day leave today! my grandma's tv died on monday afternoon, which me my mum and my dad went to get one for her tat very night. and delivery was scheduled this afternoon so i took half day leave to help see things lor. only got my aunt and grandma there. that's tat i guess. wanted to go learn how to sculpture some balloons but the guy not in the office. suay man. the online guides arent very good.

then.. i went to exercise abit.

on a side note, i think i'm really becoming deafer. sensitivity to music is now at a all time low. cant even pitch properly to my piano at home(which has about 3-4 broken strings and a few other on the verge of). can tell the notes of the piano without looking luckily. cant play out the music i hear so easily now aso. which is mega sian-ness. i also forgot alot of songs tat i played before. which is like double major sian-ness cos the songs i listen and play are those tat i like(and cannot find the score) or other ppl like so i learn to play. so not remembering them is like quite a loss to me. =(

and i would like to sing. and learn design technology. haha

2008-07-13T22:03:00.003+08:00

havent been updating often. very much of a mundane life in army. weekends as well. except that auntie rae is back in singapore for this 2 weeks and we finally had a class gathering! hahaha. glad to see everyone well also. although shu left before i reached. heard that she demanded a bdae party for her next week. dammmm thick skin. LOL. tat's shu for u.

i've been having this localised headache thingy which hurts down from the head through the neck to my teeth as well. damm. its only on the right side of my head.

and i just had durian not too long ago. and before tat i was helping clear chocolates in the fridge. i just finished nice soup. and i'm going to eat instant noodles now. =D

hahaha. nv do anything much today dunno why so hungry aso.

anw, just collected my cert frm sch on wed afternoon. haha cant explain why i had the time to go back tj on a wed afternoon here. met up with a few tutors and some juniors as well. and the receptionist was rude. -.-

hmmm.. other than that not much happening aso la. and i'm on open office course tml and tues! hahaha coolness. not really actually.

ciao.

2008-06-28T23:41:00.002+08:00

ECONOMICS IS A TERRIBLE SUBJECT.

it teaches u to compete, to fight, to exploit, to hail money as the king.

terrible man.

the world has only got worst ever since economics was developed.

and now the ice in the north pole is going to be gone by sept this year! and nothing seems to be done. everybody's worried but nobody's doing anything. the only things done are all those stupid conferences and paperwork which are not helping but wasting more resources. -.-

and bush can still put economics in front of the environment.

HAIZ.

i dun think the world would actually stop working for just ONE day to do a LITTLE bit to help salvage the environment. tsk. not like one day is going to help alot but u get my point.

terrible.

2008-06-25T20:03:00.001+08:00

this is a darn good singer.

and here's the TJ video. quite funny esp when mr sim eats his goreng pisang. LOL. there's 3 parts.

2008-06-23T19:29:00.002+08:00

ok. finally a post off my busy schedule this few days. lol.

went to swim with my dad and mum and cousin on friday night. first time i actually swam at night! haha but there was still disgustingly alot of ppl though. zzz. swam for almost two hours.

went to play bball with ken, dt, soedar, wx and wx's fren by the name of wei jie who actually lives in the same block as me. i'm like in 859 and he's in 859A. ok tats beside the point. and i got a singlet tan line out of it. lol

then afternoon went to watch You Dun Mess with the ZOHAN at kallang leisure centre there. my first time there and actually there's nothing much inside. guess the only attractions there are the indoor ice skating arena and bowling centre and the movies. its called FilmGrade! never heard of right. they got 6 small theatres la. screen feels abit smaller too. and this is my first movie of the year! only watched 1 movie last year which was the Transformers. anw the ZOHAN thing is really just F.O.C. Full Of Crap so you should watch/stream online which is Free Of Charge. oh yes dt finally treated me to a meal for the long overdue treat for me sitting in for him at the College Day. hahaha shiok.

went to watch jud play netball at the netball centre after that. her opponent team was so small! puny man like 13-14 year olds? hahaha. had to leave for TP safra at around mid 2nd quarter to play with some 40 kids. =)

the mom was so freaking rich.

cant spell out the prices here. she hired a professional balloonist and a kinda body painter who paints pokemon pictures and all sorts of nonsense on the kids's arms. and the professional balloonist was so professional la. got an auto pump somemore. and twist twist until a car came out. very very complicated. he can do so fast somemore. scary man. rent the place already so ex man...

so after that i rushed back to my grandma's place hoping tat i could play with my little nephew some of the toys i brought back from the party. too bad he went home already. and i slept at ard 1am tat night.

woke up at 8am for another party again. and it was raining somemore. my shoes were all soaked wet by the time i got there. major sian-ness. and my sis dragged me and my dad to the gym after i got home. was already freaking tired after the gym. and i went to AHS for some ball game. which wasnt really tiring since i didnt run much.

me ken and wx went on to tampines to meet soedar for more bball! and the tallie ah beng was so useless. so fierce and violent la. just whacked wx off like tat. wth la.. all his team-mates shorter than me all more pro than him aso lor. ass man.

and so i finally went home and reached home at about 8. had dinner and went to my grandma's house again for some card game. and i lost all the way! zzz.

by the time i got home again at ard 10 my eyes were barely open already. but farenhiet 9-11 was so intriguing i decided to watch. haha but my body decided to go on strike and i knocked out at 10.35. lol.

and this morning! went to swim about 12 laps with my AMPO(assistant manpower officer). and i gym-ed during lunchtime. chui man. zzz got damm pissed when the ration i/c accused me of not eating. AGAIN. bloody hell.

dunno wad they thinking man. ACTUAL CONSUMPTION or just scanning for the record? system glitch! admin lapse! knn. actually made me raise my voice la. rahhhh~

and tat's tat i guess. wad a weekend

2008-06-18T21:54:00.002+08:00

Here's the exciting PART II!!! =D

dT says: hahaha dT says: old friend

dT says: asking me see his tagbord

AhW is the emonemo.. says: if i just pasted the top.. wad wld ppl tink?

AhW is the emonemo.. says: hehe

dT says: people would think u need plastic surgery after im done with u dT says: lol

AhW is the emonemo.. says: HAHAHA

AhW is the emonemo.. says: i go blog now

AhW is the emonemo.. says: haha

dT says: ...

dT says: bitch

dT says: haha dT says: u watch out!

see how fierce he was. tsk tsk. wad was he protecting and defending? wad was he trying to hide? hmmmm...

lets convene a board of inquiry and investigate into this matter! haha

went to swim today in the morning and gym-ed during lunch time. tired man.

and as expected my sec 5 tuition kid didnt do his work again. haiz. his father aso like bo chap bo chap one. wad to do? zzz

sian

2008-06-17T19:55:00.002+08:00

right. no chapter 2 here! yet. =p hehehe

it feels been a really long time since i went home straight after camp. suddenly not used to going home in daylight. haha but i fell asleep instantly as usual. really damm tired. thank goodness the june holidays are over, so will have lesser tuition frm next week onwards. phew...

but the sec5 kid is really driving me nuts. wld be really damm happy if he could manage a C for e-math this year. less than 4 months left still can play so much and slack. dun understand this type of ppl..

kids these days.

anw. i went to run at the stadium before i went home. i thought i still ran quite fast! hahaha. saw some ppl that i knew at the stadium too. hmmm...

and i'm meeting my officer and the lifeguard for a morning swim at 7.30 tml. haha. cant swim alone now after the death of the 2NSFs last week.

aching.

2008-06-15T10:27:00.002+08:00

In a recent conversation with Mr Daryl Tan...

dT says:
ok i cant tell...
dT says:
u like... some weirdo sending love to everyone
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
?
dT says:
oh lol wrong window
dT says:
haha
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
OMG
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
hahahha
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
who u talkin to!
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
i shall copy this convo and blog it
AhW is the emonemo.. says:
MUAHAHAHAH

and then he threatens to disfigure me... hehehe. more updates regarding this conversation. what will ppl think? =) haha

2008-06-10T21:00:00.003+08:00

i got the TEACHING AWARD! MUAHAHAHA

didnt expect to get the scholarship anw. lol.

so i have to major math and study some physics!

thx to everyone who wished me luck or supported! =D

2008-06-09T21:42:00.002+08:00

hello there? please carry on and move on. are u listening?

leo club the 25th. 11 in singapore, 1 in philippines, but in 1 world. connectivity is the key.

people ORD in 19 weeks. mine is in 19months. wad a sian thing to see people around u ORD. u combat people wun get this type of emotional torture. haiz.

my talking and speech has been pretty slurrish recently. a result of army life? haha. might as well say my mind's not been processing properly.

strangulation. by what?

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2008-06-08T18:22:00.002+08:00

what a week. teach tuition every night.

send john off last night and slept at almost 2am?

woke up at 8am to play with kids on weekends.

just had a mega 3hr long of bball session with dt and soedar.

i liked the last 3V3 match with soedar and the try-to-be-serious guy in my team. still find him quite irritating though. but the fattest opponent was more irritating. -.- and they were good. wad a fierce match.

absolutely wad i need. fierce-ness.

haha.

funny how i'm not very physically tired now. wierd. just mentally tired. got this bit of headache tats always lingering around.

and i tink i got my first full blown pimple this year? LOL.

its a workday tml again. sianz.

2008-06-06T19:57:00.002+08:00

qn: what's the most violent body part? all answers are welcomed on the tagboard! haha

answer will be revealed when it is revealed!

anw. life's really boring. been drawing alot these few days for the book the 25th leo bod is going to give john gobok tml when he flies off back to philippines to do his visa before he goes HARVARD to study econs. wad a topic. but wadever that keeps the boat afloat right?

yes and i noe nobody would believe that i'm actually drawing. more of sketching i guess. i will find someone with a scanner(used to be dt's job last time hehe) to upload my sketches! then u can see. must see hor rachel lim in australia. you wun believe i drew it. muahahaha.

talk about talent discovered. or is it talent un-discovered? hmmm

almost taught tuition every night this week. a lucky break for me today cos tonight's one was cancelled last min. quite heng aso la.

and im getting back to music again! muahaha

2008-06-03T21:11:00.001+08:00

living in smoke, with smoke, on smoke

smoking's part of my daily life now. zzz...

huff puff puff~

YOU ARE SO TALL =(

2008-05-29T22:11:00.001+08:00

no call yet.

hope i dun die from fatigue! how i wish i could go down and slp at the medical centre downstairs from my office every afternoon. =(

2008-05-28T22:11:00.001+08:00

please shed hope on my life!

staring at my phone. maybe staring at it will make it ring. lol

2008-05-25T02:45:00.000+08:00

i was the king of the world, last year, this time.

2008-05-23T23:43:00.002+08:00

went back to sch for mardi gras today. in the end a short talk with mr low re-affirmed the way to go for the interview. let the passion ooze out of your skin! set it ablaze! hahaha. easy to say but tensed situations are like ewww.

so mardi gras. had quite some fun being high myself, and i saw alot of ppl from my batch, some juniors and seniors whom i knew. so it was actually quite good. managed to kope some drinks and a light stick too. haha.

mr jared oh chin hui came too! he said he came over to check things out(think he spying for stuff to do in tms. lol) great guy and still buldging with muscles. been a long time since i saw him.

boss is going to fly off to USA on 7 June. dunno when's the next time i'll be seeing him again after that. haiz. he's a really good friend.

i miss the tj vege food, the uniform and ppl in it.
i miss the tutors, and the fun that they bring.
i miss the library's silence, and the occasional roar that complements it.
and i also also miss the way home on the bus and the company along with it.
i think i just miss TJ life, where laughter, joy, love and of cos work was abundant.

haiz... oh well. just looking forward to uni life.

still cant get over the fact that all's lost now.

2008-05-18T18:07:00.001+08:00

first post in this month.

and the first great news in awhile!

i've got an interview for MOE Scholarship! =D yeah man!

just hope i get it. hehe

2008-04-28T21:34:00.002+08:00

check this out. lol. hope u can see the text

2008-04-18T20:16:00.000+08:00

the last one whole week was terrible.

2008-04-17T06:33:00.001+08:00

someone special, so what? big fuck ah

im only a stupid pes E clerk can.

i'm really starting to hate the people in this camp.

2008-04-17T05:25:00.000+08:00

ARGH!!!

2008-04-14T20:42:00.002+08:00

fucking hell tolerate in office, tolerate at home, tolerate with myself at night.

its only when i play bball that i dun really have to think about anything. swimming is a lonely sport so it doesnt really help, though the cool water might just help to cool down the steamed head.

dunno how much more i can take before i blow up and blow everyone up. i would think that that day would be very very ugly.

2008-04-10T21:50:00.000+08:00

i might just go crazy one day

2008-04-08T19:08:00.002+08:00

The eventual ending would be obvious if someone else was in place.

2008-04-07T12:53:00.002+08:00

root to what you think
stick to what you believe
stand for what you trust
fight for what you want

just like msn nick a long time ago, i'm just bad at giving up.

yesterday night was really great. looking forward to the next outing. haha

2008-04-02T20:49:00.001+08:00

wads going on over there? the last happy day was so far ago.

2008-03-27T19:25:00.002+08:00

APRIL 29 is ONE FREE SCOOP BEN n JERRY's ICE CREAM DAY!!!

the following outlets will be participating in this event from 12pm-7pm:

The Cathy
Raffles City
United Square
VivoCity
White Sands
Jurong Bird Park
Singapore Zoo

hehehe... =D

2008-03-26T13:29:00.001+08:00

Obama a distant cousin of Bush.

Close political rivals - now there's a connection in their family histories

It has emerged that Barack Obama is a tenth cousin, once removed, of the man whose job he wants - George W Bush.

They are linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.

Mr Obama is also a distant cousin of the actor Brad Pitt while Hillary Clinton is related to Mr Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

The ties of the US Democratic rivals were established by a respected US genealogical organisation after three years' investigation.

Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama can also boast a long list of other famous relations.

Christopher Child, from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, says that the politicians' ancestries show they have more in common than they think.

The Society, founded in 1845, is the oldest and biggest non-profit genealogical organisation in the United States.

The research, conducted by Mr Child and Gary Boyd Roberts, came up with some extraordinary family connections.

Clinton and Madonna

Mr Obama is the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya.

Hollywood glamour comes to the Democratic candidates' campaigns

He was previously identified as a distant cousin of US Vice-President Dick Cheney.

His political lineage includes not just President Bush but also Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S Truman, Dick Cheney and Winston Churchill.

The connection made with Hollywood star Brad Pitt adds a welcome splash of glamour to his family tree.

But Mrs Clinton's kin has much more of an exotic feel.

Her distant cousins include the singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morisette, as well as the beatnik author Jack Kerouac and Prince Charles's wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles.

She and Angelina Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed. They are both related to one Jean Cusson, who died in St Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.

If the Hollywood couple, collectively known as "Brangelina", decide on a very extended family gathering, it could provide the perfect opportunity for the two Democratic presidential rivals to get together.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7313789.stm

its really insane how they can track back to 1662

2008-03-22T23:51:00.005+08:00

the electric violin. lol. madness.

Czardas by Monti - Maxim Vengerov(one of my favourite videos)

Meditation from Thais(learnt this song in pri sch and i got to perform it for some celebration. lol)

check his face out. lol. look at how he exudes his confidence! omg. damm funny.. hahaha. looks like tat emoticon eh? haha. watch the 17-20 seconds of the video below. lol. such dynamic facial expressions.

the electric shock! haha. must check out his face after he dio switch on and switch off.

等著你回來

what number am i?

2008-03-15T23:41:00.002+08:00

delighted this morning as i left house for the mrt station today. hahaha.. u could say cloud 9. =D

met the class at dover mrt for nus open house. which i thought was pretty ok only.

then went to swim with daryl and it was just an ok pool aso. which had some balls with interesting mechanism tat make it spray out water once in awhile. hmmm.. got tanned abit and most imptly we got caught! hahaha. and dt left his wallet at the pool and had to get it back frm the guard who caught us. lol. but before that got this angmoh guy came over to us and here's the conversation.

angmoh: ya a professional swimmer?
dt: erm... i was a competitve swimmer. but not anymore.
angmoh: oh! its a delight to watch u swim! your strokes and everything are so beautiful!
dt: er... hahaha thx (obviously very pleased cause he started swimming butterfly and everything else after the angmoh left lol)

then went around with dt and eastpoint and there was a basketball league going on outside. haha then i attempted to shoot in the ball for a NTUC voucher. i was the first to try and i got an airball. -.- but it was straight! then after much persuasion daryl tried but he missed too. too bad for us. hahaha.

so tml im going to swim with my clerks at 10. tamp swimming pool! so near to my house. hahaha..

sometimes i just wonder why.

2008-03-13T13:06:00.002+08:00

i really just want to talk things out. but the opportunity does not present itself to me, neither does it when i seek it.

its a whirling pool of madness amidst this rain.

life's on a line, hanging on a thread. cliche but theres meaning to it else it wldnt be used so often.

2008-03-10T21:12:00.003+08:00

was watching S POP just now and zhang xin ze was on tv. used to listen to his songs on the radio and i kinda missed them. so im going to spam some songs here. haha.

2008-03-09T00:05:00.003+08:00

for all the time i didnt wanna think about it today, i felt really really great.

im quite fine with my results though.

u shld just stay happy in your own way, in your own world.

really tired of waiting for everything, but wad else can i say? but i really want it so im going to wait. and see how things go.

hmmm...

wanna bloody hell bite off my tongue. hurts.

2008-03-06T22:03:00.002+08:00

as i walked home today from the interchange, i suddenly remembered how fucking badly i wanted to beat benedict last time. how the class cheered when i finally beat him in a math test and almost phy in prelim. then i really wondered what the hell all that was all about. it really didnt mean anything to me now. whether i win him tml or wadever, i dun really care. its my own future anw.

and i'm really surprised by the number of ppl who msg-ed me or msn-ed me to wish me good luck even though it may be sometime that we kept in touch. well, for that i'm really thankful that i'm still alive in some ppl's life. thank you all.

till then, check for tml's update. ciao.

2008-03-03T17:28:00.002+08:00

3 March 2008

NOTIFICATION OF RELEASE OF 2007 GCE A-LEVEL EXAMINATION RESULTS

1. The results of the 2007 Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level Examination will be released on Friday, 7 March 2008.

2. School candidates may obtain their result slips from their respective schools from 2.30 pm on 7 March 2008.

3. Private candidates will be able to obtain their results through the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board’s website (http://www.seab.gov.sg) after 2.30 pm on 7 March 2008. They will also be notified of their results by post.

all right guys. this is it after soooo much speculations from seemingly reliable sources(sorry guys)

http://www.moe.gov.sg/press/2008/pr20080303.htm

2008-03-02T00:17:00.002+08:00

i dun seem to be able to find a comfortable footing at my work place. politics can really be wear you down if you are expected to take sides. taking a neutral stand isn't a solution here.

its already bad enough during daytime. but it just gets worse at night.. at least i've got COY in the day..

most ppl dun use vulgarities for what they mean. its just making their language more colourful like how a linguistic person would with adjectives. heard my boss going "f*** you la knn cb! HAHAHA" the vulgarities came across really strongly(and he's talking at a really loud volume, adding some literal sense to the strongly part) and i tot some guy was getting screwed by him until i heard the HAHAHA part. turns out to be his old buddy. -.-

and f-ing shit hole that's stuck in the mind. or is the mind creating and getting itself stuck in the shit hole?

what if all the normalities(if there's such a word) were all wrong? wouldnt that make everyone who's supposedly normal abnormal and those normal seem abnormal? scary.

that's bloody perception. who's to say what's normal and what's not?

not me. im too insignificant in everyone's life.

my voice's like a whimper
my thoughts' like a whinge
silence is silent and not deafening
no where to pour my soul.

sorry for the angst/emo/disquietude/Weltschmerz (wikipedia this) post. not feeling very good.

2008-02-26T21:19:00.002+08:00

"Cloning is one of many mechanisms species use to survive in a dangerous world. Indeed, the diversity of reproductive strategies seen in animals staggers the imagination. Some reptiles do not determine sexes gentically, but rely on different incubation temperatures to determine the development of males and females. Other creatures can switch sexes during their lifetimes, being born male and developing as females. Still others can switch sexes based on behavioural cues in the social groups. There is no one way development, grow and form sexes. There are many varied ways."

The Straits Time 25.02.2008

This abstract is actually an article about a female "dragon"(some lizard/reptile species which i cant rmb its name, but thats wad they call it) who managed to lay several eggs which eventually hatched into little dragons. What's amazing here is tat the last encounter this female dragon had with a male dragon was a few years ago. this actually implies tat the little dragons are actually clones of the female dragon. Note that cloning is something scientists have not been really successful at, but it seems so natural for this female dragon. Maybe cloning is already all around us, just tat we are unaware of it. It just so happened that the owner of the female dragon rmb-ed tat he did not have any male dragons. cool-ness. ok tats for the cloning part.

Then later in this abstract we see that some animals are actually capable of changing sex during there lifetimes for several reasons. and this "behavioural cues in the social groups" is especially interesting. the quote sounds so human tat it seems tat humans could also be experiencing this sex change too. some scientists claimed tat the increasing number of males with increasing female characteristics and behaviourial patterns is due to the shortening of the Y chromosome. One tat is brought up in a single opposite gender environment would tend to behave like the general likings of the environment. Similarly, some people would just realise their homosexuality at a later phase of their lifes. The point im trying to make is tat this sexual evolution tat we see in some animals is happening to some people as well. We are just one step short of the physical change, which i guess could be easily made up for nowadays.

2008-02-21T19:06:00.002+08:00

this month or two has really been bad for me. like really really bad. i dunno how i'm going to make it through...

and congrats to singapore in successfully holding the 2010 inaugural youth olympics.

i always have so much to say. but when i get to start saying, i dunno where to begin and end up not knowing wad to say.

2008-02-07T13:43:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year! haha. me and my 2 sisters almost got killed this morning. at approximately 8.30am there was a loud bang that woke all of us up. it came from the fan and the cover was gone! and one of the fan blades was broken! as i was closest to the switch i flipped and turned over and switched off the electricity in the nick of time before anything serious happened. hahaha so drama. but yeah its true. quite scary. cant imagine if the blade flew towards any of us. yeap wad a fantastic way to start a new year. lol.
then went to my ah ma house for an ang bao spree. lol. and so now im back home ready to take a nap since i slept at 3 last night. haha.
ciao! feel like swimming now though.. hehe

2008-02-02T17:55:00.000+08:00

TOP 10 WAYS TO DESTROY EARTH

10 Total Existence Failure

You will need: nothing
Method: No method. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed.

Utter, utter rubbish.

9 Gobbled up by strangelets

You will need: a stable strangelet
Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange quarks. Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible.

A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero.
Earth's final resting place: a huge glob of strange matter.

8 Sucked into a microscopic black hole

You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.

Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.

Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.

Source: "The Dark Side Of The Sun," by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that's what I'm putting.

7 Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction

You will need: 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter
Antimatter - the most explosive substance possible - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible - and much easier - simply to "flip" 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.

Method: This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces.
How hard is that?
The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is - if you do the lengthy calculations - given by the formula E=(3/5)GM^2/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT.

To liberate that much energy requires the complete annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc^2) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces.

Earth's final resting place: A second asteroid belt around the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require - which is not necessarily the case - then smaller antimatter bombs will be around long before then.

6 Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation

You will need: a light bulb
Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too.
Slightly possible.

Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of varying size.
Earliest feasible completion date: 2060 or so.
Source: "3001: The Final Odyssey," by Arthur C. Clarke

5 Sucked into a giant black hole

You will need: a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to our planet is 1600 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting V4641.

Method: after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you'd most likely move both at once.
Very difficult, but definitely possible.

Earth's final resting place: part of the mass of the black hole.

Earliest feasible completion date: I do not expect the necessary technology to be available until AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That's in an external observer's frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.)

Sources: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy," by Douglas Adams; SPACE.com

4 Meticulously and systematically deconstructed

You will need: a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them; ready access to roughly 2*10^32J

Method: Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit. Yes. All six sextillion tons of it. A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic railgun, which was once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the Moon to Earth - basically, you just load it into the driver and fire it upwards in roughly the right direction. We'd use a particularly powerful model - big enough to hit escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second even after atmospheric considerations - and launch it all into the Sun or randomly into space.

Alternate methods for boosting the material into space include loading the extracted material into space shuttles or taking it up via space elevator. All these methods, however, require a - let me emphasize this - titanic quantity of energy to carry out. Building a Dyson sphere ain't gonna cut it here. (Note: Actually, it would. But if you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, why are you reading this?) See No. 6 for a possible solution.

If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.

Earth's final resting place: Many tiny pieces, some dropped into the Sun, the remainder scattered across the rest of the Solar System.

Earliest feasible completion date: Ah. Yes. At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.
Source: this method arose when Joe Baldwin and I knocked our heads together by accident.

3 Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument

You will need: a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it... perhaps Mars

Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. ANYTHING. The concept is simple: find a really, really big asteroid or planet, accelerate it up to some dazzling speed, and smash it into Earth, preferably head-on but whatever you can manage. The result: an absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in Earth (and, most likely, our "cue ball" too) being pulverized out of existence - smashed into any number of large pieces which if the collision is hard enough should have enough energy to overcome their mutual gravity and drift away forever, never to coagulate back into a planet again.

A brief analysis of the size of the object required can be found here. Falling at the minimal impact velocity of 11 kilometers per second and assuming zero energy loss to heat and other energy forms, the cue ball would have to have roughly 60% of the mass of the Earth. Mars, the next planet out, "weighs" in at about 11% of Earth's mass, while Venus, the next planet in and also the nearest to Earth, has about 81%. Assuming that we would fire our cue ball into Earth at much greater than 11km/s (I'm thinking more like 50km/s), either of these would make great possibilities.

Obviously a smaller rock would do the job, you just need to fire it faster. A 10,000,000,000,000-tonne asteroid at 90% of light speed would do just as well. See the Guide to moving Earth for useful information on maneuvering big hunks of rock across interplanetary distances.

Pretty plausible.

Earth's final resting place: a variety of roughly Moon-sized chunks of rock, scattered haphazardly across the greater Solar System.

Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500, maybe?
Source: This method suggested by Andy Kirkpatrick

2 Eaten by von Neumann machines

You will need: a single von Neumann machine

Method: A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design.

So crazy it might just work.

Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun.

Earliest feasible completion date: Potentially 2045-2050, or even earlier.

Source: "2010: Odyssey Two," by Arthur C. Clarke

1 Hurled into the Sun

You will need: Earthmoving equipment

Method: Hurl the Earth into the Sun. Sending Earth on a collision course with the Sun is not as easy as one might think; even though you don't actually have to literally hit the Sun (send the Earth near enough to the Sun (within the Roche limit), and tidal forces will tear it apart), it's surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight. But careful planning can avoid this.

This is impossible at our current technological level, but will be possible one day, I'm certain. In the meantime, may happen by freak accident if something comes out of nowhere and randomly knocks Earth in precisely the right direction. Earth's final resting place: a small globule of vaporized iron sinking slowly into the heart of the Sun.

Earliest feasible completion date: Via act of God: 25 years' time. Any earlier and we'd have already spotted the asteroid in question. Via human intervention: given the current level of expansion of space technology, 2250 at best.

Source: "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers," by Grant Naylor

lots of funny and cool stuff at http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp-1.html

2008-01-27T19:05:00.000+08:00

alright i've survived my one week at hendon camp. nothing much ta i can say there though. haha. then went for jun jun's bdae celebration yest and stayed over. saw alot of tms frens. hahah. then slept at ard 4 and woke up at 6.30. then i went to TJ for old clthes collection. stupid john got us into manual labour work when we could slack in school. haha but its a great bonding session for anyone i tink. but the work we didnt cldnt compare to the one me john and jin hui did last year. we were in the red container the whole time moving all the newspaper the whole school collected so tat it wldnt overflow on one side. lol. tats the most tiring part. heard the pic of the 3 of us is going to be in the year book. =p and coincidentally i was botak this time last year too. lol.

ok ciao. very tired now. abit burnt/ chao ta.

2008-01-19T17:14:00.000+08:00

argh.. i just woke up again. i slept at 11 last night and woke up at ard 12.30 today. and i slept at 1.30. it was ard 5 when i woke up. =p hehehe tired.but got abit of headache from sleeping so much though.

anw im posted to hendon camp, which is the commando's hq. lol as a CLERK la. hope they treat me as a clerk and not a commando clerk. hahaha. good luck to me!