It has been a while since I last added an entry onto my spaces (maybe more than a year? haha). Since I am suffereing from a very severe abominal cramp at this moment , which prevents me from doing anything other than to sit still in front of my computer (not even sleep), I thought I could summarize what's happening to me so far ...

 

Just finished my second float, it was an entirely different experience from my first one. The adminstration was different, the friends made are different, the tasks I did were different, and many more .. This year we did not manage to secure any awards, most of them went to KR, and the remnants were distributed along Temasek and Shears. (I shall not comment on this :X). Although this is certainly regretable (I thought from a distance our float was wonderful), but sadness did not overwhelm me as KR float was intricate in terms of details, exquisite in term of workmanship (Albeit from far I strongly felt that both our floats are sight to behold huh ... pardon me). In addition, I got to interact and know some interesting ppl and we did have some very enjoyable moment together in the midst of the arduous and excruciating production phase. (Yep this is about the only time when I did not sleep for more than 5 hours for 2 weeks, worse than NS training ..).

As now everything has come to an end, I will really miss those thing, although it is really about time to move on ... I must say thank everyone who had made my past 1 months a very special event in the history of my life :  )

 Of course, I must apologize for not being able to help out with the post-float clean-up, I've been sick for almost the whole week including now .....

 

Before float I was busy with special term and reservice (yep is it the 3rd one ? ahh...). The special term didn't go too well, it was during the special term that I spent 2 weeks at home for the first time in 1 year? haha. The reservice was as dull and uninteresting as expected, but all the reunion made it bearable. (Except for the few inconsiderable, idiotic indians who smoke and shouted right to 3 am, causing most of the platoon to lose much sleep..)

 

Now that the new semester has started (which happened to be my last year haha), everything is not going in the right direction. Huh, firstly on Monday I had my first KTV session in many months, huh with a different bunch of ppl and it was a totally different experience (Huh, it was to celebrate Huiying 21's birthday). Anyway, after that KTV I found another person who can sing without a mic just like Poh Zhong Hong, that will be Panda Kin .... huh if both of them were to be singing the same sesson I guess no mic is needed ...

 

Tuesday: Finally met with my Honours project supervisor, who happened to be my UROPS supervisor, yep the project was a continuation of my UROPS except that we are interested in elucidating the mechanisms instead of measuring the catalytic activity.. tough job hopefully I can survive...

 

Wednesday: First day when I fell sick .. thought it was a flu and would go away soon but I was wrong ...

 

Thursday: Went to YIH to consult a doctor, he gave me a combination of panadol, chlorophenylamine and Pseudo ... HCl typical drugs for cold .. and apparently costed me 2 lectures due to the incredible drowsiness it effected on me...

 

Friday: No more fever, but still down with running nose and cough, still feeling weak ... lucky there is no lecture today...

 

Saturday: Still down with the same symptoms, but manage to go home after all. Guess it was a long time since I last played the piano in my house, getting a little bit out of tune .. the middle C is a bit flat .... but nevertheless I still enjoy playing it and improvised endlessly for hours on it ... I tried to sing a few songs by accompanying myself .. I realised that Jay Chou, "THe longest movie" is a very nice song, with complex harmony and a nice melody, though I didn't manage to hit the C# which happened to be the highest note in the song (need more practice). When back to hall after 9pm ...

 

Sunday: Feeling weak, and at 7pm I suddenly fell a sharp pain in my adominal which lasted until now and still have not subside ...

 

And now finally for some resolutions

 

Hope to get what I aimed for when I first came to NUS at the end of the next semester (which is my final one)

 

Hope to finish the perfect pitch training...

 

Hope that my friends will be well and leading cheerful and fulfilling life, same for my family

 

Hope to get well Ha Ha finally

 

THE END.

Today has gotta be one of my most lucky days.

 

The first incidents come when I was doing my lab, I spent 2 hours setting up that ancient HPLC machine and just as I was so happy that I was able to run my sample. I started the run, and came back half an hour later and the machine was leaking ... Ah .. I still need it for the rest of my project ... hopefully the other one can be used or else I'm in very deep trouble ...

 

The second one came when I reached my room. I found out that the tutorial of my CM4222 crashed with my IT1002's lecture Ah.. and not is round 3 and all the other modules are worth thousands of points if there is any vacany at all. Now I am deciding whether to drop IT1002 or not or else I will be missing 5/12 lectures ...

 

Shortly after I realized that I did not ballot for my IT1002 Lab Ahh.. better do it tomorrow , hopefully still got the slots I want or else I really have to drop it...

 

The third one was when I went to photcopy an article in a book relevant to my presentation only to find out that some of the parts were missing due to the photocopy machine. O my goodness wat a day ...

Today is the last day of the holiday haha , and this is a summary of what I have done during the holiday.

 

1. Completed 2nd ICT:

Terrible experience ... over garang CO , super WaYang OC and incredible lousy Ration delivery (during to starve us to death and still want us to train hard). The only good things about ICT are chances to meet up with some long lost platoon mate and well spend most of our free times playing cards and talking "crap". And the next ICT will be at June cool (eating my holiday again..)

 

2. Wrote 2 new songs:

Ah.. no motivation to completely arranged them haha , still trying to write the lyrics...

 

3. Sing KTV

With Ang KK, ZY Chan, Eddy Wee and POH .. very fun sessions , sang for 5 hours almost lost my voice...

 

4. Celebrate Angus's Birthday

Bought him a cake, played MJ and finally he some $$ but too bad the $$ ended up in my stomach in the end (it was mine to begin with).

 

5. Officially the president of SLB !!

Since Mr Wu is not longer qualified to be the president , I automtically suceed him LOL

 

6. Played tons of DOTA

Ha guess won't be playing when school starts ...

 

7. Bought GeFore 8800 GT

Costs me 400 bucks .. and the only game I get to test its power is Hellgate London which unfortunately is a sucky game (Waste my money) and great I found out that direct X 10 is only for windows vista ... hence i dun even get to see the legendary directX 10 graphic with my 8800.

 

8. Screwed up my CM3221

Freak , that's the worst chemistry module grade I got .. and now I'm taking its upgraded module CM4224 or 2 cant remember .. got to work harder...

 

9. Celebrated my brother's birthday

Well it was the first party that was ever organized in my house .. well and it was the first time that my parents ever received any gifts from 3 of us lol.

 

10. My brother played FANTASIE IMPROMPTU in C#

Great that is one of the 2 songs I ever wanted to play on piano eventually but no motivation to practise it yet plus I dun want to spolit my casio electronic piano.

Well, it has been a long been since I last blogged anything..

 

Have been living in hall for about a year.. haha got to know a lot of new ppl.

 

Anyway it is exam period Ahh.. and I am too slack for my own good.. Got to work harder..

 

ICT will come straight after exam .. it's going to eat away half of my holiday ... anyway will be having hand ball training and chinese drama during the holiday so it's not much of a holiday...

 

And also will be doing my research project during the holiday also ha ha .. that's the "best" module .. 8 credit but 20 hours of lab a week .... well at least I got to experience what research is really like ...

 

Have been writing a new song .. got the chorus and tons of candidate for the verse .. but only 2 lines of lyrics haha .. huh guess will finish it after the ICT ...

 

Lastly, Good Luck for the Up Coming Exam for all students' friends of mine

Yep it is holiday again ... but doubt I have much free time during this holiday haha

It's float from June to August(Yep almost the whole holiday, from Mon to Sat haha), so not much free time ... Only Sunday... And hopefully can have at least one KTV session with the pioneer guys ... and are we having a bbq this time? XL destroyed the last one, it became a memorable steamboat (Angus lost all his spoons!, will make u lose all your forks if we have a steamboat this time).

 

Supposed to watch Pirates with Melvin and company but he didn't give me any further info ... haha

BX said we are having a KTV this week after his exam but also no further info from him..

 

Yep going for soccer this sat, with jc friends and their friends.. a competition haha, going to be quite bad consider that I only played once after I orded for 2 years (good luck to me, and dun blame me for lousy performance(disclaimer))

 

This is about all ... will post more things when I got time ... which actually I have a lot nowadays .. ah will post more thing when I am not that lazy...

 

 

     Been very busy with tests , hall activities and cca...

1. took a few days without much sleep to make a clam shell which earns KE float an extra of $1500 for our rag and flag!!

2. Signed up for too many first aid duties ....

3. Tests tests tests and the utimate one - EXAMS!!

 

     From Angus and ZY ablog it can be seen that they are under tremendous stress, but I am quite helpless about it ... all I can do is wish u all luck and hopefully the path before u all will some how straighten.

     And BX seems to be having a lot of fun LOL.

     The rest are all mia, well played dota with Alvin a week ago on saturday haha (opps supposed to be studying...). Poh Zhong Hong must be very busy with his WOW expansion.. Didn't manage to see any of the pioneer in school...

 

      OKay it's time to be more organized and study hard, else my CAP this sem is going to suffer a hard blow. As for the rest, good luck !!

Hellooo... just some thoughts...

     The more I study the more I feel that most of reality isn't about black and white, it's about how much black and how much white you have the mixture - in another word, it's just different hues of grey... Many things I learnt in school support this, for instance the ideal gas law which we learnt is never true, statistics tests never give u anything absolute it only gives u the probability, orbitals do not hold electrons all the times it's only 90% that they reside in it, electrons can have both wave properties and particles properties - so are they wave or particles or nope? And finally to make thing worse we have the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle ... which essentially says that there are a pair of observables such as momentum and position which you can know the exact value of both simultaneously ... in addition we have the Godel's incompleteness theorem which says that there exists things that cannot be proven to be true or false .. oh man ...

     That's just examples from science ... in our society such uncertainty also exists, and guess most of us has seen some of them. Backstabbing, exploitation and so on...

     Guess I am facing an identity crisis haha, I am uncertain about what to believe in. I used to believe that saving people is meaningful but on second thought if we do not have the rights to take away somebody's life why do we have the rights to save people?

     Haiz ... Guess that's all for the time being, hope in the future I am able to find my belief ...

     To angus( if u r reading haha): Stop mugging for your GPA of 5!!! Take it easy , just be yourself(opps). Ha anyway really sometimes I feel like it doesn't matter if you can't get that perfect score what matters is you have tried, at least you can have a clear conscience.. guess that applies to other aspects of life beside studying....

 

 

 

    Yep School has started for 1 week, Ha but that's not the point of my first paragraph. The first paragraph is about my dream ... and it's to own a farm somewhere.... yep to be a farmer in peaceful little farm in which I don't have to worry about lack of peace, assesements, competition ... just a simple peaceful life... of course there is a piano in it so I can continue to pursuit my favourite hobby ...

    Well back to reality, study study study ...

 

   

Yep Exam is finally over, and here is a short one month break ... Hopefully this break will be a meaningful one

After the still on-going fiasco with my neighbour on top which has turned from bad to worse, resulting in being "forced out" of my house ...I come to realise how limited I can do ... Yep with the imminent examination, I can't do anything to "teach" those inconsiderate ppl on top how to live more graciously in a HDB flat. Yep complaints don't help much either , HDB is powerless, MP advocates persuasion which obviously had quite an adverse effect as 1 day after they visited those ppl on top, I was bombarded with incessant noises from noon till well who knows when it's still on going although it's 11.30pm now. Haiz.. no time to do anything to them, as the exams are coming ...

 

Lesson learnt - dun take peace and quietness for granted if you r living in a HDB and dun happened to live in the top floor. Be grateful to your neighbours( on top , at the sides ) for giving you peace, as they certainly have the potential to cause destructive nuisance.

 

Yep last blog before exams, cause I will be seeking refuge in a place away from my house for the time being ... A million thanks to my uncle who offered a place for me to have peace for this period. I pray hard really hard that the school will offer me accomodation for next sem.

 

That's all, good luck to all friends who are going to have or having their exam.

I will be back to let them learn to be a considerate neighbour the hard way( of course legally)

 

 

     Ah enough of neighbours on top ... the limits of my patience had already been reached and maybe see them in court soon. Cast that aside first. Yes it's the "MUGGING" season again, the pressures coming everywhere especially on top, well cast that aside. The prospect of this sem looks bleak.. ah just try not to suffer an irrevocable damage to my CAP ... anyway guess the advent of November is giving everybody who's in this academic life Pascal and Torr and Atm and Nm of pressure .... well after this tormenting November will be a month long worth of respite hopefully for everybody.

      Well, tons of thought came to one over this October, first of course it's how inconsiderate people can get ... follow by misunderstanding is indeed the root of conflicts ... and sometimes understanding can be a root of conflict(Yes Neighbour again, Now I do understand). More, friends that understand you are hard to come by, so don't be too fastitdious ... treasure those who treat you like a friend.

      Yep it's raining in my life now, who knows when it will stop ... well it's raining in other people's life also, are we all yearning to see the rainbow after the rain? Can we hold on till that moment come? Are you all alone in this rain? Have you manage to find an umbrella which can afford you some relief? Or you just dun bother to look for an umbrella and believe that the rain will stop soon? Or do you think that the umbrella is unable to provide you with sufficient shelther and you are looking for a rain coat instead?

      Will the person in this rain ever realise that begin fussy and over optimistic will only culminate in him suffering? Will the person understand that the umbrella wants to protect him from this rain, but he must pick up the umbrella and use it?

      Yep who understands?

     

After 3 weeks of depriving me the right to sleep at 11pm, the upcoming holiday signifies the end of my patience towards whoever on top that is making all those noise from 11pm-1am every single day ... action pending...

The solution ... by trial and error haha just joking

The product of their ages is 36, so by trial and error we have (since its their birthday it must be whole number)

PRODUCT  SUM

36 1 1         38

18 2 1         21

12 3 1         16

9 4 1           14

9 2 2           13

6 6 1           13

6 3 2           11 

4 3 3           10

 

Yes there was 13 chairs as a result Angus couldn't decide between 9 2 2 and 6 6 1

Since the eldest is Mary the answer is 9 2 2

Yep any loophole MSN me haha

 

 

 

 

      Yes... I have really met a bunch of inconsiderate idiots..... They are nope other than my neighbours living on top of me. Creating a lot of noise incessantly by hammering of unknown artifacts , droppings of metal rings on the floor, droppings of not known heavy objects and dragging of who knows what .... Yep I practically can heard all this twaddle everyday , with a frequency ranging from non-stop actions to average of 5 times in an hour and frequently can still be heard in wee hour .... Gone are the peaceful days where I can relax in my room and do my stuffs ... and yes I have reached my limits and don't blame me for being mean .... I will deal with them well legally and morally ... any suggestions on how to stop this nightmare and daymare are most welcome and appreciated haha.
     Well stay tune for what retaliative moves I have installed for them ...

     Guess problems are an intrinsic part of our life, problems manifest in various forms but how to define what's a problem? Definition is surely redundant cos' when u encountered a problem u will know that it is.. One thing I realised recently is that tough problem arises sponataneously, and some problems might be inherently simple in nature but the a complete rectification is virtually impossible to achieve. When in such situation should the course of action be to resort to drastic measure or just settle for a compromise? Maybe a utilitarianism approach should be the best but what benefits most ppl might not benefit yourself most so the contradiction occurs and together with ethical and moral issues intertwined and here we have a seemingly insurmountable conundrum. Yep enough of philosophical talks, just want to wish all my friends who are having tough problems in their life all the best and may you see the vestige of light that remains in your world which is engulf by darkness and may it leads you to a solution.

 

      There are things that are integrated into our life and we might not realise its importance until we realize that it's not inseparable from our life. Well, this is also one thing that i seemed to be enlightened recently. Realising that i won't be able to stay in my little comfort (at least until recently) room forever, I have a strange feeling that never occurs to me, huh still wondering what the feeling is. I guess it's a sense of unable to bear with something that is with u for so long a time, a kinda of attachment to inanimate objects. But that's life u have to move forward as directed by time, and some things have to be given up albeit u do not want to. Guess they can only remain in your memory as a chapter in the history of your life, anyway hope that we r able to treasure all the things that are with you but could not or never asked for your acknowledgement.

Okay school started so I'm posting something academic Ha ha Ha.

Disclaimer: Names used here are purely by "chance", so don't blame me if your name is the same as those I used.

BX met Angus one day and

BX said, " I am celebrating the birthdays of my 3 daughters today, Angus can you guess their ages?"

Angus replied," Can I have more information?".

BX pondered and said, "The product of their ages in years is 36.".

Angus thought for awhile and said,"I need more info."

BX said," The sum of their ages is the same as the number of chairs in my dinning room."

Angus stoned for a long time and finally said,"Ahh one more clue?"

BX said,"The oldest of the three is called Mary."

Angus said," Huh haha I got the answer"

 

So what're the ages of BX's daughters?

 

There can be no more real love, than there can be no less contrived feeling.
For in you I found both joy and agony.

For in me I feel both confidence and trepidation.
For in life, is it a contradiction?
The soul who seeks to find the truth in it, the mind which seeks to justify the acts in it and the self which seeks to see itself .
Time may provide an answer, but it's still premature to tell.

          Communication is a very wonderful thing, it allows us to better understand one another. However, I found that a lot of times, people don't really say or do what they really what to, due to the constraint or limitation of external factors. As a result, conflict may arise due to misunderstanding. Of course, they are a lot of straight-forward people who are not afraid to express what they believe or they want. But most of the time, they end up offending the other party, anyway it doesn't really matter if they don't care about it.

 

          One of the interesting parts in communication is to analyze and interpret whether somebody really means they said or did. Of course, it's a very difficult task, which require experience, concentration and skills. Are you the type of person whose expression and intention coincide? or are you one that will compromise your intention through your expression?

 

         Ah.. human communication is such a complex function ... there are times when I don't know whether what a person really saying or doing what he or she wants or it's just perfunctory. Also there are times when I said something I don't want to but hoping that through my non-verbal ques I can get the person to understand. But most of the time I mean what I say, if I don't say means I don't want...

 

         As for now I can continue my observation on communication and hope that I can be a better listener and interpreter.

Huh .. let's see

 

1. Playing mahjong with Angus, BX , SC or Eng huat, haha not so much of winning or losing but because it's fun playing with them. Ha Ha all the stuns that Angus can come out with, all the "swearing", "cursing" and "suaning" adds color to the game.

 

2. Playing my piano. My all-time favorite. Nowaday, it has become my free KTV session. Ah.. and my nocturne op9 no2 still has 1 page left ... dunno when I'm going to finish it.

 

3. WoW. A different experience, got the priviledge to enjoy it cos' of school holiday. I got to live in a fantasy world in which I can do all the things that will only happen in fictional world and of course poh has added a lot of fun to my playing and got to know a lot of poh's friends haha, but sadly school's  starting so maybe good bye to WoW

 

4.Reading. Yep enjoyable if yo have a good book to read such as the one I'm reading on "On Beauty" which is very provoking, makes me think and think...

 

5. Watching movie. If there is a good movie to watch and a good company it'll certainly will enjoyable. I'm lucky ot have both of them in this holiday haha.

 

6. Writing song. 2 incomplete pieces and I ran out of inspiration haha maybe I'll just combine them.

 

7. KTV.  with PnR Platoon guys: there will be a lot of laugther cos' of our "star" singer Chan Zhiyong who never fails to shatter any glasses you can name. Angus who is improving on his FIR haha but ... Sin Chuen who can sing like Andy Lau Wooh.. BX who still hasn't sing his main theme yet. Poh with his loud and high voices and more more more ...

with 4/6 folk: more like a class gathering huh haha and of course we got great singers ( I dun mean me. I suck anyway haha )

 

 

That's all hope I can add more of them to this list : )