Quick blog
I think Chem engin has sucked up the life in me. Haiz, didn't even had the time to stop a second, think and blog. even as i am blogging now, i am actually doing my chem pre-lab assignment. well, decided to blog just to say a few things.
1. last night's union ball was cool. congrats to guoyong and romona who made it to the top by winning Mr and Miss NUS. you all have made our OG xenus proud.
2. gary and me were really color-corrdinated. we wore the same shade of color from our shirt, pants and even to the ties we have brought, which we decided not wear in the end.
3. liked my hair last night though it wasn't that outstanding.
4. wayne's birthday celebration 2 days ago. glad being invited and say huimin, melissa, wenbin, nicholas, paik, dunstan, liyin. Did i miss anyone?
5. Made it into acapella group.
well this blog ain't short after all. check out yingkai's blog. he's now in US.
back to chem!
Singapore darling - Li Jiawei?
just before i attend the tutorial for critical thinking and writing, i shall exercise my brain a bit.
Has Singapore found a new darling? Li Jiawei has brought Singapore so close to the medal when she made it to the semi-finals. Although she has lost to a lower ranking opponent during the semis and also lost during the bronze medal placing, and of course singaporeans are dissapointed for her lost, Singapore is still proud of and will be always behind Li's achievement. So does that conclude that Li has become the next Singapore darling?
Comments please.
And off to my lesson. *Yawn*
I know you care for me
hey pals out there. i am so touched for al l the constructive advices you all have given me. well at least i know that someone out there still cares for me, although i am such an idoit and an introvert.
i think i over priotized homework. i don't know what got into me, and i think that my 24 hrs should be spent hw.
but nick is right, if i don't like it, i can leave. or i also can make more friends if i stay.
jason, hope you are doing well. if your school is so ang mohs, then be the special non- angmoh there!
shan: i love to go wake boarding, but i think during holidays would be a better time. and yup, i should do what i like and live a jeremy's world.
sy: so glad to have a listening ear like you at almost all the time. *weep* *touched*
nick, yau, alex: hope you all had a unbelievable great time at taiwan. so how's
bing lang gals and
zhen zhu nai cha?
cher siong: if you ever read this, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! realised i am two days late. ok shall msg him later!
myself: live a much better life!
Dear Aunt Agony
Dear Aunt Agony,
I am in a dilemna. I am stuck in a position which I don't know how to handle.
How should i start?
I have gone to this interview for some society. However, I went for the interview just to accompany a friend of mine, and partly because I wanted to know more about it.
Now, I have successfully got into this society and so did my friend. But I suddenly did not feel comfortable and welcomed to be in this group. My friend had all the fun because many of his already known friends were in it too.
I did not participate any of the activities planned at the moment. Just because i did not feel comfortable.
Sometimes I just hated myself.
Now, the society had an event coming up and I asked this friend of mine to pull me in a part of the organising group.
I felt my inactiveness and unwillingness in the society had let my friend down. But I didn't want that to happen. But I really felt unwelcomed and uncomfortable.
Maybe you would ask me to try for a while and maybe I would love. Or maybe you would tell me to quit since I hated it so much.
I would try to make a better day.
Aunt Agony, if you ever read this, please tell me I am an idiot.
Thanks.
Yours truthfully,
The Introvert Hermit.
A minute of your time and mine
sometimes the better you know yourself, the more you hate yourself.
don't worry, i am just refering to myself.
i am really an idiot. i think if i set up some company or a club, i wouldn't employ myself or sign me up.
confused? whatever.
it's just so great to have good friends around.
chem lecturer is really slow. average speed: 1.2563453 x 10^-9 page per hour.
physics lecture: it's a whiz. stop to think and you are lost.
maths lecture: blink and you will miss the lecture, aka speedy to the max.
spore studies: love it!
genes n soc: dun understand but humor is not missed.
ctw lecture: i think my copying speed improved.
i hope i can get into resonance aka acapella group.
night.
p/s: don't bother to calculate the page per hour i stated in chem lecture. just a number.
Another day in university
agree with sy that shouldn't blog that often. should use the time for better purposes. anyway met up with her for dinner at Mac, after the welcome tea by ge yao. wasn't that interesting or at least i thought so. so many china chinese, and i am not a racist.
cant understand what's
modus ponens, modus tollens and terms like that. fear for the worst for critical thinking.
met up with ex cg mates from tj for lunch. had a bit of searching for engine canteen, though i am in engin fac. some people just changed, for the better of course.
daily highlights are as above. i hope ronald susilo could bring back some medals from olympics. yup, it's the olympics for these few weeks.
still have lessons at 8 tomorrow morn. bye. and night!
Sometimes i just wonder...
as compared to my uni life, i realised how army is so boring, and meaningless. there is everything to write about now in my life then previously. ok maybe it's just school starting and there are so many welcome teas and all. so i take back my words about boring army life. maybe i will appreciate that when the tutorials and tests come in.
today's rather slack cos there's only an hour long lecture. so finally could wake up late, make better breakfast, blog in the morn, do tut, go for bizcom interview, which i don't think i can make it, meet up with gary and discuss maths, go for physics lec, gorenny's room and do MORE maths, and go for NUS band welcome tea.
i think if i blog my everyday stuff everyday, there will be no time for my work.
i think being in NUS is like a popularity game. when you walked around with a couple of people, you are bound to bump into friends from all over the place. it's like sometimes you see the friend you walking with says a thousand of hellos and you are the one who kept so quiet, but on the other times, you are like helloing every single fraction of the second.
gary is fascinated when he sees so many familiar faces and he will brag how interesting that is.
hmmm... for me, don't give a bloody damn...
really tired now after some game and playing of instrument section in band. maybe i should not join at all, i think the horn's sufficient with Siwei around.
so should it be jazz, dance, acapella, ge yao, biz com, or NUS voices for me?
or does any of the groups want me?
or maybe i should be a hermit for good.
nightz!
The New Chapter
after years of inactivity in using my brain for effective purposes, it seemed to be rusty when i attended the very first lecture of maths. well, it wasn't smooth sailing at all right in the beginning. I LOST MY WAY!!!, over shot the bus stop i was supposed to alight. well, at least i woke up early.
finally found the location of lt 7A, then found out that all that has been registered for almost three years ago for maths had gone to the drains. haiz, see what army has done to me?! anyway, the day was rather draggy and tiring because of the 5 hours lecture i had to go for that day. had block supper that night and made a few friends. and before i forgot, i almost won a SS text but only got question half correct, so in the end i bought the text. haiz!
wednesday wasn't any better. the 5 hours lectures torture continued. it was a rather rush day because during the four hours break in between lectures, i went to queue to get my laptop, went to buy notes, eat lunch, met up with my OG and get free diary, and went back again to collect my laptop, went back to PGP to put my laptop, and then rush to physics lecture which i was, but of course, late. i was amazed with myself. and so NOW I HAVE MY NEW IBM T42 THINKPAD!!! and that is why i am online now writing this blog.
today's rather slack with only an hour lecture in the noon, so can catch up with notes reading, blogging, making breakfast, tutorial doing and maybe going for bizcom interview with gary.
these few days, i get to know my neighbours better, although i kept forgetting their names. but there's this ONE memorable neighbour of mine. i barely know his name (it's en something) and he treated me like his old old friend. it seems to be nothing wrong with that, and maybe i am over-sensitive and stingy cos i am the only child and have everything to myself. BUT when he laughs hysterically over the not really funny scene on singapore idol, roll on the bed and play and tickle my pillow as if it was his childhood pillow, i was quite shocked he felt SO at home, in fact i was more shocked and tickled than minding him doing that.
pardon me for my bitchiness. I am the ONLY child! what to do?
i wonder how gary feels when i used his laptop and stayed long hours in his room, during my non-laptop days?
hope everything will go on smoothly. and now it's tutorial time!
hope you had a better day!
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!
today we celebrate our nation's 39th birthday. however, i don't really feel the atmosphere this year like the past few years, ok although i was in taiwan on national day 2 years ago, and had some *special task* last year, this year is exceptionally quiet. Why? Why? is it because of the change of prime minister, as we all felt the unwillingness of his Mr Goh Chok Tong's departure from his position when he gave his last national day message as a prime minister last night.
i missed that speech though because i was meeting my long-time-no-see-cum-ultra-enthusiastic og mates. and so we met at marina promenade to enjoy the game of heart attack with poker cards although we could see policemen patrolling around the area. but of course, after glimpse of the rehersal by cyndi wang and 5566, and the failure to get in the area for concert, we sat along singapore river, anticipating night to fall and the show to begin.
i think it's a worthwhile wait, because the fireworks display was almost spectecular if not for the only 5 mins duration. it's like i have never viewed fireworks display in my life before. here are some of the snap shots:
flowers in the air
the camera could never captured the feeling and beauty of the fireworks. we chose such a good spot that the fireworks were like falling on us.
driving today was different. there were almost no cars on the road. so it's rather smooth sailing.
school starts tomorrow. hope everything will be smooth.
sayonara!
2 more days and school starts!
it's not that i a, so excited about school starting, but the thought of work, exams and lectures give me the chills. especially after chatting with seniors yesterday about the workload and school stuff.
and so we went to have bbq at east coast park. well, the turn out of freshies is still not bad, considering only about less than half of the class signed up. anyway, 9 freshies turned up, including me of course. quite a lot of the seniors turned up though. realised that they are actually a bunch of quite enthusiastic people. below are some pictures from sentosa and east coast park.
the award-losing sand castle at sentosa
joanne insisted we took photo with the tortise at sentosa
CN7 seniors at east coast
those who turned up from CN4A
CN4A and CN7
and when mum, dad and i were at tampines collecting the toaster, here's whom we bumped into:
this pic costs my dad 5 bucks but of course for a good cause
pretty right?
school starting soon. sighz...
Nearing the end...
it's coming to the end of the week, which means that the school term is starting real soon. it will be soon the end of a long long break from studies and the beginning of a different journey in life. will i make it or lose it? i hope it will be the former.
this week is supposedly orientation week but due to the low turn out of people, we (the class) did not participate in a few actitivies such as the flag day and scavenger hunt. howeve we did go down to sentosa yesterday to have (for me) another session of sun-tanning-burning. had more interaction with the class and senior (Bernard).
watched the movie
The Village on wed with
shan,
pris and
zy. for the benefit of those who haven't watched the movie yet, i shan't revealed much about the movie, but i want to say that it's a typical
M Night Shyamalan's movie which always provides unexpected twists and surprises. the setting took place in a village, which on the surface, looked so peaceful and the people apparently shared no secrets among each other. however, this village is haunted by ''those we do not speak of'', which or in fact
who tried to harm the villagers. ''Those who we do not speak of'' lived in the woods and forbidden villagers to go through, so the villagers basically lived in their own world and were cut off from the rest of the world. however, an unexpected incident required a blind girl,
Ivy Walker, to walk through the woods to seek medical help for his lover,
Lucius Hunt. i think adrien brody (of
the pianist fame) acted quite well as a comic relief as the village mad guy. look out for the director's cameo role in the film.
the movie showed more than horror. it's a love tragedy, a film about truth and lies, about relationships. the play of colour is interesting when yellow became the colour to protect the village from ''those we do not speak of'' and '' the colour we do not mention'' which is red is to attract the uninvited. clues are given throughout the show in leading to the twist of the movie, but it does not end there. expect more surprises throughout the whole of movie. its
macbeth meets
the crucible meets the
secret garden. however, the twist comes with not much impact as that in
the sixth sense, and i think that the movie ended quite abruptly.
i will give the movie 7.5 out of 10 for a
night's movie.
enjoy!
First day of school? Not just yet...
well, finally get to meet SOME of the classmates of my class for orienatation. well we just break the ice, get to know our senior class, decided to skip flag day together, and discussed some info about bidding and details of modules, stuff like that.
realised i knew quite a few in my class.
anyway last sunday was the fireworks festival, and here's what i can see from my house.
nope. not a terrorist attack.
so yesterday, after freshmen inauguaration ceremony, went orchard with
gary from pgp, to meet up with
ziyang, shan and
pris! ate some nice and cheap pasta which in the end i ate half chicken. too bad sy didn't join us. and while shopping at cineleisure, here's who we bump into.
beauty and the beast
so that's how the firat day of school gone by. today supposed to be ubin trip with my class and senior class. skipped.
naughty me.
tata!
