Thursday, May 15, 2008

Long Gone...

Dear Friends,

As you may know by now, this blog is long gone as the owner has been MIA-ing for quite some time. Well, I may revive and revamp it, depending on my mood and the availability of my free time. See how things go then...

Adios...

Saturday, May 12, 2007

SEMAKAU LANDFILL CUM INTERTIDAL WALKS PLUS CLASS CHALET

The weekend after exams was filled with loads of fun and pleasure... My class-rep was very on to organize the above-mentioned, which I'm both proud and glad he did. Actually the main aim for the walk and talk was to allow us to be familiar with a module which we gonna take the following semester and blablabla, all the academic stuff... But to me, it's a good chance for my class to gel closer. Moreover, some of my classmates will be going overseas too, so this maybe the last good thing we gonna have then...

So, on Saturday night, some of us camped overnight at the Marina South Pier, which was damn pekcek. My class-rep said tt he knew tt place and even promised us a 24-hour McD there. Thus, I relented and went for the camp-over, rather than to meet on Sunday at 6AM, which I'm 100% sure tt I can never wake up in time. Therefore, the few of us (mostly guys) met at Pasir Ris MRT at 10PM to put our luggage down at a friend's place before setting out to the Pier. It was a long long walk to reach tt Pier from the nearest MRT and there was practically nothing there! No McD! I felt kinda disappointed but bah, at least I'm not the only one suffering. We were like beggars, lying down on a concrete path outside the pier. Most managed to sleep but as pampered as I know, I was rolling left and right until the sun comes up. Sadz. The floor was dirty and hard, and there were few mosquitoes attacking me too. Sigh... So in the end, I didn't sleep at all...

After what seemed like an interminable wait, morning finally came. My other classmates reached the pier one-by-one. Once gathered, we set off towards Pulau Semakau via boat. The island looked better than what I had in mind. Anyway, we set off for the intertidal walk, and before reaching the shore, we had to trekked through a jungle trail and there goes my only pair of shoes... completely covered in mud and other things you dunwanna know. My whole body was covered with mosquitoes too. Sadz life. But the open shore was another story. It was a rare scenery to behold. In short, the feeling was syok!

We were walking through the intertidal zones where we get to see certain types of corals and creatures. We had some hands-on too. I held two types of sea-stars and one of them is HUGE. Also, I got forced to hold the disgusing sea-cucumber. Gosh, you can feel the internal organs moving on ya hands and the other end of that creature will squirt a stream of water. Disgusting. Anyway, once I get hold on the pictures, I'll most likely post them up on my Friendster account. Picture paints a thousand words.

The landfill component was a less exciting... So let's skip the details. After the whole morning of sight-seeing, we were shagged out. We then went back to Pasir Ris to get our luggage for our chalet and headed for the chalet. Well the chalet was supposed to be a fun-filled thing, but sadly, not many of my classmates could join us. Anyway, this is also a good thing, coz we have only ONE bedroom enough to fit no more than 6 people. We had a BBQ tt evening and we celebrated the birthdays of 8 of my classmates. As usual, what is a chalet without cock-talking session. There were about 8 people in the bedroom but sadly only 4 participated in the confidential talk about each others' lives (or more like love life)... while the rest of them pretended to sleep and listen to everything we said. Haha chickens. So since this part is confidential, nothing much will be said about it...

The following day, we sent 3 of our classmates off the airport as they were going for some Work and Travel thingy. Slowly, the chalet get less and less people... I stayed back another night with 4 other survivals. We eat leftover BBQ food and find things to do to fill our time. Nevertheless, I truly enjoyed the company. Well, time really flies and we are going to be Year 3s soon. My class-rep may go for an exchange program for a year so there may not be anymore class activities, unless someone else step up. Few others will be going for other exchanges too and some, like myself, will be applying for Industrial Attachments. Well, I do hope that my class can continue to be as close and such... This really make my Uni life more bearable and enjoyable... My class can be one of the "on-est" class in NUS, and I do hope we can at least maintain it. Come what may then... Looks like this is a damn long personal entry... Paiseh and more updates about myself soon...

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Bye-bye Year Two...

Time flies... And it really does... quickly and painfully...

Again... as expected, I'll do my usual post-semester write-up on the modules I've survived over the past 3-4 months. So let me warn you 1st, it's gonna to be BORING... Here goes...

CE2183 - Construction Project Management
Well, the module is o..kayz...lah. Pretty interesting stuff to study, just that the Continual Assessment components are crazy hell a lot! Super waste of time doing those endless reading assignments, guest-speakers write-ups, term paper and that stupid Primavera project. This engine module is like an arts module... so many write-ups and essays to hand in! Sianzzz...

CN2116 - Chemical Kinetics & Reactor Design
The very name of it is already so turned-off... This is by far my WORST module or subject I've taken in the history of my academic life. Til the day of the exam, I still dunno 70 plus % of what's going on in this stinking shit module. And for my final exam paper (which was 25MCQs in 2 1/2 hours), I finished everything in less than 1 1/2 hours and started relaxing while others around me were still busy calculating and flipping through their notes, blablabla... Well, I totally gave up on this module and my fren who was sitting somewhere behind me was kinda shocked to see me so relaxed. I even took my calculator out without even using it (except to calculate how much time I have per question) and to think of it, this paper got a lot calculations summore! So all I did was pure 'gut' feeling and anyhow tick liau. Haha, pro huh... So looks like I'm more than screwed for this 70% paper unless luck was on my side that day lah...

ESE2001 - Environmental Processes
Hmmm... This module is kinda relaxed... Nothing much to mug for compared to the above. But I know I didn't do that well for the paper, few blanks and errors here and there... Oh what the hell... I don't think I'll see that Prof. again...

ESE2401 - Water Science & Technology
Again... I thought it was a calculation paper, but ended up quite a lot of writings to do. The exam paper was damn cheap-skate. The Prof. recycled hell lots of questions from past years papers, which, sadly, I didn't do much 'coz there weren't any answers for me to refer to. Anyway, it's over... nothing much can be done by just grumbling over it...

GEM2003 - Why History? The Turbulent 20th Century, 1914-1989
Why history? I also dunno... By the time I started bidding for modules, all the arts gems I wanted were of no more vacancies, so left with this one with hell lots of vacancies left. Thought that it'll be like secondary school history, I take it lohz... But I was so so wrong... I couldn't understand the Angmoh Prof. at all... so after attending about twice his lectures, I skipped the rest of them liau... The textbook which I bought was also untouched... Virgin book man... waste of my money... For this 2-hour exam paper, I took only one hour to complete... Well I don't have much to write about and I've used only a total of 4 pages. I really dunno how on earth others can even submit 2 booklets! Siao eh!

So to summarize this crazy semester of mine... I am the most relaxed compared to previous semesters, not becoz I think I'm damn smart... just that I'm so tired of everything... Tired of school life, hall life and my life... I spent most of my time youtubing and daydreaming about useless things... In all, I think I'm kinda disappointed with my performance and my lackadaisical attitude... Well, it's holiday for me now... I better do more soul-searching before it's too late... Sighz and sianzzz...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. But you borderline on being a total perfectionist. Agreeableness: You have low agreeableness. Your self interest comes first, and others come later, if at all. In general, you feel that people are not to be trusted. And you're skeptical that anyone else really feels differently. Neuroticism: You have high neuroticism. It's easy for you to feel shaken, worried, or depressed. You often worry, and your worries prevent you from living life fully. You tend to be emotionally reactive and moody. Your either flying very high or feeling very low. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium. You are generally broad minded when it come to new things. But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it. You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Post 22nd Birthday Report

Just realised the true meaning of BUSY. No. That word is simply not strong enough to encapsulate the real essence of the crazy, hectic lifestyle I'm leading. Anyway, finally I had some quality time for myself and it's time to feed my malnourished blog again...

Yup, I'm already 22. Fast huh? And, as expected, I'm still single :D. Well I really ask for it. Anyway, let's not touch on that. My birthday this year was... FUN. Many funny things happened.

Firstly, on the Saturday before my Big Day, I was involved in Karang-Guni, which is something that I'm so not gonna do again. Haha. Well, eventhough I went for just 1 slot (out of 2), the work is enough to kill me. Knocking doors on every floors on different blocks, smiling and greeting people, asking them whether they have old clothes, newspapers or equipments to throw away. Hard core man. I was sweating like a pig carrying those things up and down the staircases, cause most HDB flats don't have lifts on every floor. Anyway, it was near 7PM plus already that the work ended. And I got to rush back to hall as I had a dinner appointment with 3 other people.

By the time I reached hall, it was already near 9PM and the three were still waiting so patiently for me. I'm so touched, yet so sorry for holding their dinner back till so late. Anyway, Nat and KM brought some food over and Ash prepared her Salty Chicken. Haha. Good stuffz. After that they had a surprise birthday cake for me in my room and Wing joined in. I was so exhausted after the whole thing and I immediately hopped onto my bed.

Monday's the day. Went for lesson. Then my class asked me out of the lecture theater during the break, and it's definitely something fishy. Yupz, the usual birthday celebration that my class is famous for in NUS. We're the only class in NUS insane enough to hold frequent parties and gatherings, which I'm very very proud of. Anyway, starting this year, my class is playing this Birthday Angel and Mortal game. Well the rules are simple: Everyone will get a mortal and all he/she has to do is to buy something for the mortal on the mortal's birthday on the behalf of the class with a standard budget of S$20-28.

Firstly, my angel wasn't there to reveal himself but he handed my present to another person to pass to me. When I opened that plastic bag, I saw a nice brown bag, bearing the lable "DKNY Be Delicious Men". Haha it was nice of him, coz I did mention that I like that cologne. Anyway, I thought that was the end of it considering the budget we have, but NO... deeper down in that plastic bag, I saw a red box. I was just speechless as I take the DKNY Be Delicious Men out. Original, 100ml, and packaged very nicely. I really didn't know what to say. My class were pretty amazed too and some started to complain that my Angel super spoilt the market. Haha. Well he seriously did. That thing costs more than $100.

The funny yet weird thing was that my Angel knew that the budget was within that mentioned range but he still got me this! My class-rep told him that he'll be refunded $28 max and my angel still didn't mind. He didn't mind paying for the rest. And what's worse? I don't really know him well and obviously likewise for him too. We only talked ONCE!!! Moreover, he rarely comes for lessons and joins my class for functions and such. Well, what more can I say? I've met a "real" Angel... and all my classmates wished that they're his mortal too. Too bad for them then...

So to sort of show my gratitude to my friends who cared for me in one way or another, I've decided to try something that I never did before - to cook. The following Saturday, I prepared pumpkin pies and simplifies Hakka noodles for my classmates and other friends from hall. Few of my classmates came over earlier to help me, especially XW who prepared few delicious finger-food for that day. So thanks a lot. It was the very first time I cook and such a scale (roughly more than 20 people turned up) and gosh, I bought a lot of food. I learnt how to cook over the phone with my mum. Well, apart from the accidental heavy usage of salt on the noodles and the lack of sweetness in the pie, I guess I passed my 1st attempt. Haha. Well, if I have the time again, I'll try to improve my skills and prepare better dishes then.

Phew, this is a real long entry, after so long of MIA-ing. So far I'm enjoying myself apart from the heavy commitment in hall and the chasing of academic work. Have to see how long I can survive these then. So hope there's more of me in the future then. Bahz.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Ferris Wheel

"Life is like riding on a Ferris wheel...
You go up and down,
but you're merely revolving around the same thing..."

Sunday, December 17, 2006

I'm so damn stupid...

My ears were craving for new nice songs for quite some time already. There's a CD I always wanted - Earthsongs by Secret Garden. Then last Thursday, I couldn't take it anymore. I decided to buy it, since I have a 20% discount offer in BORDERS. I rarely read books see, so might as well use the offer for CDs. The original price was $25.90. After discount and GST, the final price was $20.76.

Satiated, I kept listening to the songs and blablabla. Then last night (Saturday), I went to Vivo City to do my usual window-shopping. I decided to enter Sembawang CD Shop, to check out the price of the CD I just bought. Well, curiousity nearly killed my cat. I shouldn't have entered that cursed shop.

In Sembawang, that Secret Garden CD was so damn nicely packaged, in a nice box. And I turned to the back of the box, and to my horror, it has both CD and DVD!!! CELAKA!!! What's more? The CD has a BONUS TRACK, which mine doesn't. PUI EH!!! And it only costs $22.90. I felt as if I'm the stupidest guy in the world. Just 2 days ago (2 DAYS ONLY!!!), I bought that CD. Damn man. If it was like 1 years ago then I seriously don't mind buying the packaged CD in Sembawang lah. ARGH!!!

(SLYS is having manic depression right now. He may or may not be back to his blog for some time. So, if necessary, contact him in the usual ways lah)