stoked:)

2009-01-15T22:03:00.001+08:00

Moved to

http://storyofaguitargeek.blogspot.com

2008-10-16T23:22:00.003+08:00

Why do i always have to learn things the hard way?

2008-10-15T23:34:00.002+08:00

One of my students just sent me this sms

"Thank you for today's lesson. (: It was really great! "

This is the first time any student has sent me a thank you sms! i am wow-ed. haha i can and never will become a full-time teacher, but i must say these things make your day. Its especially satisfying to see your students being able to play after teaching them, and developing an appreciation towards the instrument and the music :)

On a seperate note, i dont know why i seem to have lost motivation for the things im really passionate about. Namely guitar and running. i cant blame this on anyone i know. it irks me that i've such low discipline, and strength of will. ive just been so tired out the past weeks. Also admittedly, ive allowed distraction to come into my life. Good distractions, but well, one must know when to draw the line :) i dont think she reads my blog anymore, but im really proud of bailing who hit a sub-2hours for the boston half marathon! Suddenly, i miss running with her and the other ac cross people!

Just had a second interview with B-M today. Mixed feelings. i think i rambled too much! There was one point where i was elaborating on something and i momentarily forgot the question she asked! Thankfully i regained my memory without too long a pause heh. ive rehashed this over and over with nadia and daniel alr and ive gotten bored talking about it haha. Dangerous writing stuff online too.

ive been so busy, that i only realised that my birthday was coming one week ago! Someone actually had to remind me about it! haha im not going to announce it, if you guys are my friends you should already know ;)

Bizarre love triangle.

2008-10-02T21:49:00.002+08:00

One of the first songs i attempted to play on the acoustic. Alongside More Than Words (naturally). its funny how these songs come back to you, befitting the situation.

Everytime i think of you
I get a shot right through
Into a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine
but it's a problem i find
Living the life that i can't leave behind

There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
And everyday my confusion grows

Everytime i see you falling
i get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for the final moment
You say the words that i can't say

i feel fine and i feel good
i feel like i never should
Whenever i get this way
i just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves
Like we were yesterday

I'm not sure what this could mean
i dont think youre what you seem
i do admit to myself
that if i hurt someone else
Then i'll never see
Just what we're meant to be
-Bizarre love triangle/Frente

haha for the record, there's no love triangle! The lyrics are quite open to interpretation :). Out of curiosity i searched online for its meaning, and i found a whole range- some amusing, some weird and some that hit home.

aiight. shall go study for 431 quiz tomm.

2008-09-30T00:20:00.005+08:00

argh. i have tons to do tonight. but here i am procrastinating. why? writer's block. geez. Writing to cure writer's block. hopefully writing about non work related stuff will give me some mojo.

i have a personality profile assignment to do NOW due tomm for 428. its so journ. incidentally, after crisis management lecture today, im starting to think that doing a double in journ/pr is more useful than ad/pr. Furthermore, im only interested in the copywriting side of ad. but, i havent taken so many of the journ prereqs! all my ad modules will be for naught. And i cant write under pressure.

My hands are itching to play guitar. oh ya. im getting my first wah pedal tomm! A second-hand dunlop 535Q. Of course i gotta mod it to true bypass. its not the best wah pedal around, but it'll do- for now. hahaa ive been plagued by gear acquistion syndrome! (GAS)

ahh. okay. id better work. september is ending, time to wake up.

2008-09-19T01:44:00.004+08:00

431 presentation over today! :) 430 mid term submitted tuesday! Recess in one more day!

Seal's "kiss from a rose" has some intense lyrics. i love how the mixing was done for the instrumentation. i want to study MP&E!

im facing the same choice you had to make 4 years ago. If you could make that decision, so can i. Mind over emotion. i want to look back and have no regrets.

You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain.
-Seal

2008-09-13T23:36:00.013+08:00

back! Told you it'd be soon. And im in a significantly better mood:)

Maybe its cuz ive had some sleep. Just woke up actually haha. its 11pm now!! Came back, sat on the bed, and promptly fell asleep. Thank goodness i didnt sleep through till next morning, what with com430 AND com431 awaiting me.

Jamming is tiring. Was at tony's place in the afternoon jamming with him and two of his friends, and we were at it for close to 5 hours. We're playing a few songs tomorrow at his farewell/birthday party. We managed to find some decent goodbye songs...not sappy ones like 'leaving on a jet plane'. Heh. Everyone ive asked so far for song suggestions would invariably name that song!

i like jamming at tony's. ive mentioned before that his room is like a studio in itself. i love his marshall amps! Tube amps with the warm 80s rock tone that i love. Today was great fun. We finished practise quite early, but we all got carried away and started playing other stuff:) i am going to miss jamming with tony. And playing with good guitars always makes me happy.hahaa oh yes. i have found the love of my life!

Isn't this a thing of beauty?

Of course i mean the guitar. :)

hahaa i realise something! this is quite a nice picture because...complementary colours! Red-green. purple-yellow. See i still remember visual comm.

Anyway!
The Ibanez JS 1200 Signature model! Ah. i covet thee!
Got to play with it again today :):) i tried it out when tony first got it about two months ago.. it was love at first sight/feel/note. i used to think signature models were overrated. This is perfect.

Aesthetically- Gorgeous candy apple red.
Feel- The neck is very comfortable. i love the thin ibanez neck and jumbo frets. Enables you to execute fast licks with ease and fluidity.
Tone- Joe Satriani. Enough said.
Oh ya. Its very light! Much as i love my Epiphone, its frickin 5kg.
Now i am in such a dilemma whether to get it or not! The rational side of me knows i should save the money for gear acquisition instead. But my heart (and wallet) alr belongs to the JS! sigh.

Had dinner with the parents after that at bukit timah. They have THE best chilli stingray there :) i dont take spicy stuff usually, but for the stingray i just tahan because it is dam nice. So oily, spicy, sinful- but such gastronomical indulgence. heh.

i have COM430 report to finish up by tonight. COM431 presentation by tomorrow. Man. Next week's going to be madness, with deadlines and quizzes before recess. But at least recess week is coming. Even though everyone knows recess doesnt actually equate to having a break, but not having to travel to our island at 830 (every tuesdays and thursdays for me ) counts for something right :) Always look on the bright side. ahaha. Trying to psych myself for COM430. Dick Cheney and the wonders of image repair. till later!

2008-09-13T03:01:00.003+08:00

"One can have the greatest talent, but without the right attitude and focus, he can't achieve anything."

i wanted to post an upbeat entry (many overdue updates i know), but im not up for it now. ill come back when im in a better mood, soon!

2008-08-28T19:56:00.006+08:00

i think i may have contracted stomach flu :(
its weird cuz daniel was telling me yesterday he was down with stomach flu,and today ive been having symptoms of it. i didnt know the virus could be phone-transmitted hurhur. Nausea, queasy stomach, cough, the works. So far no puking, but then again theres nothing to puke cuz i havent had much appetite. i seriously think my immune system has gone down due to the lack of exercise! i used to be strong...invincible!heh. im supposed to go for some fitnessfirst free trial thing with dennis and yufan tomm..but probably have to postpone. ill start running again when im well. REALLY LAH.

Into my 4th week at school already.. wah thats 1/3 of the term over. Time really flies. i decided that 7 modules was just insane, and so i dropped biz law. its content heavy and not worth staying late till 730pm for two days. i like it though. ill probably take it again in year 4 when my timetable is lighter.

im seriously madly addicted to the guitar:) heh. whats new right. But so much so that im giving up social night-outs in favor of being a reclusive misanthrope confined to her room and her LP. im becoming one of them Hikikomori jap kids! hahaa. i think i may just abandon the thought of owning a PRS guitar, and get a customised one instead. More taylored to my specifics :)

Off to tackle interview questions for 401. Interview at 8am with Peach Blossom Media tomm!

2008-08-08T11:35:00.008+08:00

i really can't afford to have any distractions right now.
School has started, and i may be, possibly, overloading this semester. Just by 1 AU (25 in total), but thats enough to pack my 5-day week in school. GPA needs to go up too.
On top of that, there's guitar. Two years to prepare for auditions doesn't leave me with much time.
Then there's guitar lessons and tuition to give. My kids are too adorable for me to give them up. ya la maternal instincts kicking in. And i need the moolah.
Church commitments and ministry take up half my weekends.
i dont even have time to run as much as id like to, or to spend enough time with dear friends.

Much as it pains me, something's got to give. Now's really not the best time. i dont know how long either of us can wait. But i also know the underlying issue's not the time factor.

im not complaining, really. im typing all this out for clarity. In attempt to make sense of all that's happened. Something happened yesterday that caught me off-guard. But instead of turning to God straightaway like i should, i instinctively turned to the people around me for comfort and assurance.

Not that that's wrong. But sometimes, this just adds to the complication.

it leads me to question where do i really place my security and trust in.

Psalm 121:1-2
"I will lift up my eyes to the hills-
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth."

This picture was taken in Japan, along the long winding paths to the ASO volcano ( supposedly the largest volcano in the world.) I love nature. i could spend hours immersing myself in it. When i look at the vastness of the horizon, the untainted landscape of greenery, the tall mountains, i cant help but stop and marvel at the splendour of God's creation.

i need to be still and know that you are God.

2008-07-24T09:44:00.003+08:00

okay i dont think anyone reads my blog anymore..its been defunct for so long. But i got tagged by dear old ex-roomie waisan so here goes! :)

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs.

B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by.

C) Continue this game by sending it to other people.

#1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be?
wow. First question and im stumped already. heh. er. i guess i will have to forgive the jerk..but it will take me a long while to forget!

#2. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
haha can i have two dreams?
To play guitar at the level of Joe Satriani and Stanley Jordan.
Admittance into Berklee College of Music postgrad.

#3. What will your dream wedding be like?
hahaa i was just thinking about this yesterday! Actually, i was thinking more about what my ideal wedding dress would be cuz i pass by a bridal shop on my way to work everyday. heh. Hmmm. A church wedding. Stained glass. White. Roses. Some live music would be nice.Jazz-classical fusion. An orchestra perhaps? haha. Oh! itd be nice to have some dear old friends perform for us. like sing/play/dance/read poetry or something. (you can volunteer your services in advance. itll be much appreciated!:D)

#4. Are you confused as to what lies ahead of you?
Yes. But its ok because i trust God. Jeremiah 29:11:)

#5. What’s your ideal lover like?
hahaa. eh..A body like patrick wilson. Eyes like hugh jackman. fingers like paul gilbert (to play guitar la! what else. heh). Superficiality aside, someone who's a christian. And who loves me truly madly deeply (ugh savage garden. How cliche.)

#6. Which is more blessed? Loving someone or being loved by someone?
Eh..its more blessed to give than to receive. But it'd be nice to love and also be loved in return. hahaa.

#7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?
i guess if i really loved him, and he really loves me, but circumstances dont permit us to be together right here and now, id wait.

#8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Move on! dont be a home-wrecker/boyfriend-stealer!

#9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
yeah. being stuck in the office and knowing that ive so little of the hols left!

#10. Is being tagged fun?
yeap. hahaa it keeps me entertained for five minutes in the office.

#11. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
Embracing the 30s with zest and vigour hurhur.

#12. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Family and close friends.

#13. What kind of person do you think the one who tagged you is?
My dear wonderful ex-roomie who puts up with my irregular sleeping habits and whom i dont get to see as often as id like to nowadays:(

#14. Would you rather be rich and single or married but poor?
For now, rich and single. hahaa. Then hopefully when i eventually get married, id still have the money left from when i was single.

#15. What’s the first thing you do every morning?
Turn off the alarm.

#16. Would you give all in a relationship?
i think this takes time. Also effort on both parties to make it work.

#17. If you fall in love with 2 people simultaneously, who would you pick?
hahaha. This is so Grey's anatomy! heh like Meredith Grey, id pick the one i love more. ohh but Mcdreamy was such a pangsai in the end! Maybe she wouldve been better off with the vet eh? hahaa okay for the people i tag, i give you question #17b:

#17b. If you fall in love with 2 people, would you pick the one whos THE ONE whom you love trulymadlydeeply but theres that slight possibility he might leave you high and dry eventually, or would you pick the safe one, the one who loves you more than you do?

#18. What type of friends do you like?
Friends who make the the effort and show they care. Friends i can click with without even trying. Ah. friends who are straight-talking and give you the truth when you need it.

#19. What type of friends do you dislike?
hahaa to adopt waisan (and sharon's) answers: They wouldnt be my friends if i disliked them!

#20. If you have to choose between love and friendship, what would it be?
Love. Because love is all-encompassing. Friendship involves love too.

People i tag: xiuting, george, jac, botak jones, sam lu, joey quek, jings, bailing.

2008-06-09T01:14:00.002+08:00

im tired of being on this sick cycle carousel.

For lack of self-expressiveness today, i shall quote song lyrics.

So when will this end
It goes on and on
Over and over and over again
Keep spinning around I know that it won't stop
Till I step down from this for good
-Lifehouse, Sick Cycle Carousel.

For good.

On a seperate note, im quite happy. im going to be focuseddisciplineddedicated in madpassionate pursuit of my goal, in a no-holds-barred-nothings-going-to-stand-in-my-way kind of way:)

2008-06-02T20:28:00.010+08:00

helloo! its been a long time eh.

im beat. i feel like ive been all over Singapore this weekend. Especially the East side ( Expo, Eunos-thrice in two days!, Kembangan, Simei, Tampines, Changi-twice!)
Saturday- Preparations for jang's birthday and jam. Guitar lesson. Band jam. Sundown marathon at 12:00am.
Sunday- Running Sundown in the wee hours. Breakfast after run. Unloaded stuff at Xiuting's place- final preparations for jang's party, slept for less than an hour. Church. Jang's party. Stayed over at Changi chalet.
Today- Left chalet. Xiuting's place to collect all my stuff. One long bus ride back to the west and im finally home!

im really really REALLY thankful to God that i survived Sundown.
Isaiah 41:30 kept me going
Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength
They shall mount up with wings like eagles
They shall run and not be weary
They shall walk and not faint
The aftermath of it wasnt so bad. im aching, but not severely handicapped, and no injuries thank God. But during the run..lets just say a marathon is long! And tiring. i prefer Standard Chartered's route. For Sundown, we were made to run up overhead bridges! And slopes! We ran across the length of a few parks (East coast, Simei and Tampines), which sounds ok, but is actually boring and monotonous. The road seems to stretch endlessly before you with no end in sight. i suppose i should have trained more consistently for my run la. Timing wasn't as good as my previous marathon. But YAY. i completed it. And i love the finisher's shirt. heh. it may be awhile before i attempt another.hahaa IF i even attempt another.

oh yes. BEEG thank you to xiuting and darren for being my roadies on saturday! hahaa. they carried all my stuff including my guitar which weighs a ton, and my bag with 3 days worth of clothes to xt's place so i wouldnt have to lug them all the way to changi for the marathon. thanks xt for letting me crash at your place, and for waking up so early to fetch me! i really appreciate it! :)

im zonked. i shall now revert to a pictoral post. Camera's spoilt so not many pics. Something's wrong with the exposure:( yoke yeong and huiting send me pics from jang's party!

Jamming with band mates

Outside Odiocrib

Dont i look like a convincing drummer.

Gi-normous shoes on the shoe rack.

heh one of us commented that they looked like shoes King Kong would wear. Then immediately all of turned to the studio room next door where there was some weird metal band playing, whose vocalist was "singing" and making weird growling noises. Hilarious!
(i hope the shoe-owner does not find my blog)

Musicians and their emo moments.
Presenting....

Emo moment £1 : Darren Sam on lead male vox
So unprofessional. Hold lyrics and sing. heh

Emo moment £2: Darren Peh our real drummer.
His shirt matched the studio's drum set!

Emo moment £3:Daniel Tan on my Les Paul

Musicians and their happy moments

Presenting..

Me on my Les Paul.
An example of Tony's lousy photo-taking skills

hmm thats it. hahaa maybe i need to meet more happy people.

Random jam

Tony's room is a musician's dream: Drum set, 2 electric guitars, a marshall amp, drum track machine, some mixer thing. All he needs is soundproofing!

hahaa and THIS is how tony plays guitar!

Sundown Marathon
Before:

Raymond and i camwhoring at Changi Village Hotel lobby

At Sundown venue
This couldve been a nice pic! Well at least it shows the different people who took part, both young and old. heh.

After:-

Outside hotel lobby again.
Our nice finisher's shirt! Smiling for the camera despite our after-run agony.

Technological determinism

2008-04-21T22:35:00.007+08:00

hahaa. i was reading about technological determinism minutes ago when i chanced upon this pic on xiuting's blog. Technology even determines the way we study eh. Taken at changi airport starbucks. it's two pristine white macbooks side by side! hahaa its not captured in this pic, but two tables away from us, there was this guy using a white macbook too. Apple is taking over the world. Oh and notice what my dear friend's doing while im conscientiously studying. tsk tsk.

Psych and comm left. Last 100m!

2008-04-19T13:38:00.007+08:00

So. im halfway into the exams. Ok more than halfway..3 down 2 more to go!

Exams have been alright so far.. alot of late nights, cramming, caffeine and binging on unhealthy junk! The de rigueur for university students in singapore. thank God for His grace thus far:)

COM206- surprisingly enjoyable. i felt like i was taking advanced english oral, except that instead of verbalizing my interpretation of pictures, it'd be in writing! heh.

BS803- enjoyable to study (i am such a geek). i realise i kinda miss bio! left brain has been inactive for too long. i shouldve started stuyding earlier though!heh. but wow this one..mixed feelings. it was ok (i think), but some questions were tricky. i dont know how to feel about this paper!

COM230- !!!!?!?! The allocation of marks were like, so inconsistent. 10 mark questions required 3 pages of writing. some 15 mark questions only 3/4 of a page, and thats after squeezing blood out of stone. Insufficient time also!! The feeling of having alot to write but not having the time to do so sucks. Every single person ive talked to so far have said they couldnt finish! its like org comm last sem, except worse. When freeman came to collect my paper, i promptly voiced my complaints, and his reaction was exactly the same as Matthew Yap's last year. bah.

ive COM231 and COM256 left, but i feel like a freight train running out of steam! yesterday after COM230 was over, headed back, talked to xiuting for over an hour on the phone, had a late dinner, then promptly fell asleep. 'twas intended to be a nap, but i slept till 8am the next morning! oh my son. wasted like, a whole night!

alright, and now i shall make the mandatory post-exam plan, that everyone seems to blog about during the exam period. Aside from ranting about the exams themselves of course.

Post exam plan (In order of urgency)
1.Cut my hair! Dye too perhaps.
Huiming, stop scaring with me threats of hair loss in old age, or about getting brain damage from hair dye. Even though youre a brainy (hurhur pun unintended) science student, i refuse to believe its true. hahaa. In true BS803 fashion- Science or Fiction? FICTION.

2.Practice guitar.
3.Meet friends! Some meet-ups are long overdue!:(
4.Jamming with heelsongs and g12
5.Run. hahaa ok this should be higher up on the list! sundown's on 31st May! ARGH.
6.Give more tuition to supplement my trip to China

More to come. After 23rd April!

2008-03-31T01:07:00.011+08:00

hello world. Back from yet another blogging hiatus. This weekend has been insane. Actually the insanity began on thursday, when we started recording for COM230. For the uninformed, my COM230 group's producing two music tracks for our final assignment. NOT as easy as its sounds. For one, its multi-track recording where youve to record each instrument and its layers seperately. Also not easy when youre working with perfectionist musicians, which ill get to later. Not that perfectionism is a bad thing. im all for it, especially when it comes to musicality. But theres the looming deadline to consider, and thats when youve to strike the balance between the interests of the musicians and the sound engineers(thats us!).

We've been working with daniel(tan)'s band, and its really nice of them to help us out considering that some of them are working, and all of them are living the east-side story! They've been down consecutively 4 days in a row, albeit not all of them on some days. But two of them stay in tampines, one at pasir ris, and the other at ang moh kio. hahaa thanks daniel and jai for bringing your entire pedalboard down. 15kg and 9kg respectively! We've been confined in the audio suite till the wee hours of the morning for the past 3 days. Yesterday we cabbed out of ntu at 2am! i couldnt join them today, but the recording's finally done, and they ended early (comparatively) at 8pm!

hahaa and here's when im gonna get my paragraph's worth of complaining/whining. ive missed out on so much because of recording sessions! the timing was just bad la. i sacrificed a FREE ticket to KT Tunstall's gig for thursday's session, which was the most crucial, so i guess no regrets la. i think! SIGH! Also gave up a ticket to watch In the name of dance at timbre on sat. And i couldnt go for fun o rama at ac! And zouk flea market on sunday! :( im really sorry to all the people ive bailed out on at the last minute. it really couldnt be helped! :(

Oh anyway! we're featured in one of their songs! Harmony and backup vocals. hurhur. The 3 of us (daisy, nartz and i) have yet to come up with a name for our trio. We're so not going to use The Sugarcanes, which is what the band came up with for us (don't ask why).

it was quite an interesting experience altogether! We had our fun moments, high-with-laughter moments, stressed moments, mad( in both sense of the word) moments, tired moments, lack-of-oxygen moments (when the air con auto switches off at 10pm daily!). Problems logistics-wise (argh the friggin drum set!), time-wise. People-wise..learning to accommodate to differences. Thats about as much as i can go into on public domain ;). But its all for the music. ive definitely learnt alot. Of course im inspired by the musicians and their skill. Especially the guitar, but then again im biased.heh. im glad that we had the opportunity to work with talented musicians, who gave us plenty of material to work and experiment around with. i just hope the mixing and editing wont take that long, since we were quite perfectionist about getting a good recording!

Back to perfectionism. i think itll be a topic for another day. heh sorry for the cop-out but im beat! like seriously. i cant wait for the final product to be out. its alot of work, but strangely i enjoy it. i think id still prefer to be the musician than the engineer though ;) Pics will be up when i get them from nartz!

oh yeah. sorry for all the missed calls/late replies for the past 3 days. NO reception for starhub in the studio!

On a seperate note, i thank God for service today.
There's no greater joy than being in His presence:)

2008-03-05T14:26:00.006+08:00

Jing's creative genius especially for me

Daniel's new email

hahaa thanks guys! i feel the loove

Calluses on my fingertips

2008-02-24T02:45:00.004+08:00

Yes you are so right. i need a 27-hour day. And more discipline.
My fingers hurt, and i'm feeling frustrated.
So much to learn, so little time.

i like this quote by Xiaohan (local lyricist), and i think its so true.
"Balancing reality with idealism is being smart.
Some people think that it will pollute your idealistic creativity but you use reality to support your dreams,
And use your dreams to beautify reality."

Be realistic. But dont stop dreaming.

2008-02-20T00:38:00.009+08:00

This year one of my resolutions was to be more reflective about my life, especially in my spiritual walk with God. i realise that even though the bible said to 'Give thanks in all circumstances', i always forget to do so! Especially when the situation is far from ideal. The past two weeks have been really quite stressful. But i could see God's blessings and the many ways He has helped me through the weeks:) His grace is indeed sufficient for me!

i thank God for..
1. Freeman who postponed our audio assignment deadline TWICE! hahaa what a relief! Now its due after recess week :) Oh anyone knows if the mmlab is open during recess???

2. Helping me find a TRUE local human interest story for our pawnshop campaign in COM231. Found it in the 10th page of google search omgoshh!

3. COM206 photomontage. That i could complete it in one and a half days! but its a lesson learnt cuz i never want to go through such an ordeal again! heh. For helping me figure out photoshop and also for very nice people like jings and christina who helped me too!hahaa. Now at least im no longer such a noob.

4. For daniel(lim) who was in school on friday to borrow the micro-track recorder for me so i didnt have to come allll the way back when i wasnt feeling well.i needed it by sunday you see.i owe you dude!

5. That im still functional in school despite sleeping at 4-5am the night before

6. For daniel(tan) whos really an awesome guitar teacher, who tolerates alot of my nonsense heh. Hes dam good for his age, and he inspires me to become a much better player! hahaa and he keeps me awake at school

7. For the sermon last sunday which was very very apt. And the time set apart for the next 40 days to draw near to Him

8. For the ntu cell. Prayer on monday was really good, and training for NVM after ( even though im so sad that my 2.4km timing has dropped by 2min 19 sec from my PB!:( ) its an escapism of sorts from the rigors of academia, and i really enjoy the fellowship too:)

9.That despite the madness at school this week, i could meet sam and tony today before sam leaves for aussie tomm! Though we came to the saddening realization
that this could be the last time in a long time 3 of us can meet up in Sg again cuz tony leaves for manchester in september!:( So unpatriotic la two of them

God is really good!:)

2008-02-13T23:40:00.000+08:00

i am oh-so-tired. This week's been draining, to say the least. And its only wednesday. Suddenly i feel incompetent. And uninformed. i need inspiration. God, you are my sufficiency.

oh and dear friends please take care! Alot of people have been falling sick lately.

Saturday will be the highlight of my week. but even then,it's interspersed with project meetings and assignments.

Sorry for the rather depressing entry. i shall try to be upbeat. After all, its valentines day in a few minutes. Happy vday! Spread the loove. :)

Orianthi

2008-01-29T22:24:00.000+08:00

About Orianthi (Taken from her myspace website )
I was born in Adelaide, South Australia on January 22 1985. I picked up the acoustic guitar at six, started electric when I was eleven and left school at 15 to focus on writing songs and performing because that was all I wanted to do. I have been playing in different bands since I was 14 around Adelaide and my first support show was for Steve Vai when I was 15.I had the opportunity to meet and jam with Carlos Santana when I was 18 in my hometown. He invited me to get up and jam with him at soundcheck then later asked me if I would join him on stage that night to jam! It was an awesome experience to meet and jam with my idol...dreams really do come true! I have signed with Geffen records and I am living in LA and making my new record. I have had some amazing things happen this year, I jammed with Prince, toured with Steve Vai, made a video clip for Panasonic HD, had a song on the Bratz movie, played at the Eric clapton Crossroads festival and appeared in the New York Times buisiness section promoting Eco-friendly acoustic guitars. I am really looking forward to touring again with the new record and thanks for everyones emails and support..I really appreciate it..;) Peace and love Orianthi

wow. shes only one year older than i am. And shes already played with Steve vai..Prince..and CARLOS SANTANA! Getting to meet and jam backstage with Santana is one thing..but the man himself actually asking her to do a live performance with him in front of 15 thousand people- that very same night after meeting her! And she says in an interview (PRS website) that he didnt even tell her what songs he was going to play beforehand. they turned out to be new songs which she didnt know and she had to just wing it onstage. its not so much the famous people that amazes me (though yeah thats pretty dam amazing too) but its her skill and her single-minded pursuit of it. She's at that level where she shares the same stage as guitar legends.

Listen to her at http://www.myspace.com/orianthi

Suddenly i feel like quitting school too. heh. And moving to another country.

2008-01-12T03:52:00.000+08:00

Finally had some quality time with my baby.
It pains me to think of the 3456781238487960 hours ive wasted since ive acquired my Les Paul. And what do i have to show? Hardly anything note-worthy. He's definitely high maintenance - requires alot of TLC, and time spent getting to know him better. But its worth it cuz he plays like a dream. hahaa. i need FOCUS (and i dont mean contact lenses!).

2008-01-11T00:57:00.000+08:00

hello world! im dam happy now cuz i realise i have no school tomm! woohoo. Thats two days in a row, plus the weekend! Had no school today either cuz ive got a 4-day week this sem. im free on thursdays! Having suffered the misfortune of the 5-day week syndrome for the past two semesters, its helluva awesome to have a break in the middle of the week. :)!

jac and i met at holland today. its been awhile since ive been there. somehow holland's always been an after-school kinda place. Or in between lessons, as was the case in ac. i remember when swensens was having their 5 scoops for $1.99 promotion, we'd head to holland during free period for ice cream and then cab back in time for class. hahaa. But since ntu, i havent been there as often as before!

A few changes. Like the chicken noodles place is all renovated now. And chicken noodles costs $4! ive been eating there since mg primary and its slowly increased from $2.50 - $2.80 - $3 ->$4! Oh and Lim's Arts (owned by Mrs Natalie LIm who taught history in mgs) has a toilet within itself now! Oh and Bead Factory is closing down! 50% sale storewide if anyone's interested. But Holland's still essentially the same la. That place reminds me of sec school and jc. sigh days of auld lang syne. i felt old today as we talked about friends getting married and having kids(!!), working, and celebrating her 22nd birthday. its all happening so fast.

Anyway. im very happy with my purchases today!hahaa i realise this sounds quite bimbotic but its my blog and i ve the right to wax lyrical about great shopping if i want to. im into patent black shoes now! Got two pairs today! That reminds me. Freeman was saying during Audio in media lecture yesterday that in the industry, there are 3 aspects to consider in producing good sound - Quality, Time and Cost. However very often, the client can only settle for two components. If you want your sound man to give you good quality sound within a short duration, be prepared to spend alot. Or if you want it cheap and have the editing done quickly, naturally quality will be compromised!

So anyway about the shoes. There are also 3 aspects to consider in the purchase of shoes! Similar to sound, the first two are quality and cost. The third is comfort! How blister/callus-inducing the shoes have the potential to be. hahaa and im very happy to say that the two pairs i got today fit all 3 criteria! :) Eh. its a rare find ok. Think about it! Usually cheap shoes are dam uncomfortable or just plain ugly. Or worse. Sometimes expensive shoes can be ugly and uncomfortable too! But i guess usually you'd be paying for quality- either in terms of design or material. Or the brand. hahaa. So you see, its hard to fulfill all 3! One pair is in my size..but somehow a tad small...still quite comfortable though! And pretty! hahaa but if the olden days chinese girls could bind their feet, i dont see why i cant wear slightly tight shoes. :)

hahaa ok change of subject! Finally managed to sign up for the Adidas Sundown Marathon! Happening on the 31st of May:) The server was down all night yesterday but got through today. yay. raymond and jang are running too...and seok!!its not too late to sign up ;) hahaa. we can all have supper and eat to our hearts content after! But in the meantime, training! and dieting to lose running mass - i hope!:)

2008-01-09T22:58:00.000+08:00

im into my first week at school! i want graphic comm or psychology&comm!i need to settle my timetable soon!

Too many goodbyes this week. Saw shums off at the airport two days ago. im missing her terribly already!:(

shums' farewell at Timbre (The arts house)

But sometimes, it doesnt only take physical distance to say goodbye. You don't have to be a million miles apart to walk away from someone. its for the best really.
Try to say goodbye and not choke, try to walk away and not stumble -Macy grey

Ok enough emo-ing!

This year FCBC's going into a year of sabbath. im glad for the retreat last week with my G12, which was very timely. i thank God for reminding me once again of his faithfulness and love. i want to be like the psalmist David who yearns for God with such an intensity and enjoy such a closeness with Him. ive come to realise that nothing else satisfies. You experience the temporal highs the world can give, and when it wears off, you question what's next. Nothing compares to the joy of knowing my saviour :)

In days of yore

2007-12-31T01:28:00.001+08:00

Finally. A pictoral post! All thanks to bailing darling (it rhymes! well sort of.)

shivas, bailing and i

The himbo and i

The thorn among the roses ;)

shimali megawati!

where's the pizza?!

hahaa thanks ah shiv. enjoying without us!

Me and pseudo bailing.heh

Au revoir my friend!:( bring back hot british blokes the next time youre back! :)

Ac crossies at Xide's very big house at Tulip Gardens! haha there were no tulips there though.

Some of us

My girls:) We've been through many ups and downs together (literally!)

Gambling den!

Exco '04-'05

hahaa. Me acting as seok's bf. seok's gazing at me adoringly. Not a very convincing couple cuz we kept laughing!

Me dumping seok. seok wallowing in misery.

Our batch:) Almost full attendance for the guys!

2007-12-29T01:15:00.000+08:00

im feeling a tad sick to the stomach now. please do not place jugs of alcohol in front of me. i tend to eat/drink whatever thats placed right in front of me.hahaa i just made myself sound like a glutton, but its an absentminded thing really. i think its the lack of exercise thats made my tolerance go down!

Hanging out with old friends tonight was great. food, booze and cam-whoring. i miss ac. music at timbre was a letdown today though.

Shopping for last minute gift exchange today was hilarious. hahaa thanks Raymond for being so patient while shopping with me and for your..er..very creative input LOL. And no edwin, ive not become 'arty farty'. i was at art friend trying to make a $10 HMV gift voucher look more presentable heh.

Caught My Blueberry Nights with raymond, then went to meet the band at mind cafe. My Blueberry Nights was alright. it has the distinct Wong Kar Wai touch. But i cant believe so many people were sleeping in the theatre! tsk. there were at least two people snoring, including the auntie sitting next to me. And yeah, mind cafe again. hahaa i dont usually like playing board games at overpriced rates at a cafe with overpriced food but today was fun la i must admit. its especially fun playing games meant for 6 year olds (and above of course). heh

haha wow. im actually blogging about day to day activities. This is to make up for the negligence over the semester! heh ive been quite lazy to take photos since malacca, also since ive yet to fix my camera. you'll just have to contend with words and more words for now :)

2007-12-24T04:24:00.001+08:00

Incubus live!! 7th March. $95. argh. Should i/should i not?! Cash flow's in ebb mode right now :( But its INCUBUS! West grand boulevard's opening for them! How awesome. 7 more days to decide.

i realise that this past week, God had planned different people and different incidents to tell me the same thing. God is good :)

Heroes season 2 is awesome. but i cant watch too many at one go especially at night! heh

We've got a good thing, 'cept for one aspect. i know what i need to do, yet i cant bring myself to do it just yet.

Such randomness. its 4 AM. night y'all!

2007-12-23T01:15:00.000+08:00

im dead beat. just back from another jam session with the band. i have very lame bandmates! Laughed like mad till i got abs today. We all swapped roles midway for fun, and i became the bassist. I love bass guitar! hahaa im such a noob at it though. Elias is teaching me soon! :)

Was in Malacca this week for 3 days with Ty, desmond, geraldine, Su ern, xian lun and Seng tatt. Ty gave us a crash course in photography before the trip (sorry dude for missing your lecture!hahaa), and it was more of a photography trip than sightseeing. But. ive no pictures on me now! Parents brought the camera to japan, and they came back one day before i left for Malacca. When they passed me the cam, they told me i cant take photos in the daytime! True enough, all my daytime photos turned out looking whitewashed :( Thanks Ty for lending me your camera during the trip!

Despite the trip starting off on a stressful note, resulting in me spending $31.65 on cab fare (arghh. long story!), the rest of the trip picked up from there :) Malacca surprised me. i thought there would be nothing much to do, but the place turned out better than expected ( i still prefer singapore though! hahaa) Good food. Equatorial Hotel's international buffet was awesome. A&W! Chicken rice balls! Good photography. Will upload all the b.e.a.utiful photos i took once i get them! Good company! Watched a movie ( i am legend) for the first time overseas cuz we were too shagged to walk anymore at night. Thank God it didnt rain at all, and we had strong sunlight for photography. i need to lose weight and save money now!

Christmas is coming! A friend mentioned to me that she wasnt really in the Christmas-y mood. Which got me thinking. What exactly gets us in the Christmas mood? Presents? Cards? Shopping? Parties? Christmas is so commercialized these days. We fill the days leading up to Christmas with activities and events to celebrate the festive season. But at the end of it all, do we really feel satisfied? Have we grasped the true meaning of Christmas? daniel played a beautiful song during guitar lesson today. its called "Christmas isn't Christmas" The lyrics are beautiful. hahaa im trying to work out a jazz version of the song, hopefully ill get to play it to some of you guys if i manage to master it. but anyway. In the midst of all the festivities, i must spend some time with God. i pray that He'll give me a renewed understanding and appreciation of His gift of love to me, and to all of us this season.

Christmas isn't Christmas
chorus:
Christmas isn't Christmas
Till it happens in your heart
Somewhere deep inside you
Is where Christmas really starts
So give your heart to Jesus
You'll discover when you do
That it's Christmas
Really Christmas
For you

verse:
Jesus brings warmth like a winter fire
A light like a candle's glow
He's waiting now to come inside
As He did so long ago
Jesus brings gifts of truth and light
And makes them bloom and grow
So welcome Him with a song of joy
And when He comes, you'll know that

chorus

2007-12-10T02:36:00.000+08:00

hello world! reina's in da house. hahaa yeah its been awhile eh! its the hols now, and its been good, but ive been so so tired the past few days! hahaa even though its the hols, i feel like im more sleep deprived now than i was during exams! today i totally passed out after coming back from church at 6pm..was supposed to head to town at 730pm, but slept all the way till 1130!

The past two weeks have been a combination of fun and drudgery. The latter's due to the fact that i had to head back to pulau ntu EVERYday for this past week for ISP workshop. And after all that, i might decide not to take ISP next sem after all. i dont think im going to specialize in EBM so theres no point really. And the work load for the semester is quite demanding. ISP workshop was useful though. im proud to say that i now know how to set up and use a DSR 390 $11000 camcorder on my own, and do some basic film editing on AVID (but give me FINAL CUT over AVID anyday!) haha.

The evenings after ISP were spent chillaxing at my place with various people who were nice enough to come visit me cuz i was temporarily handicapped after the standard chartered marathon last Sunday. hahaa yes i finally did my first marathon! it was quite an exhausting and humbling experience. i can still get away with not training much for 21k, but a marathon is entirely different. i definitely need to be more adequately prepared mentally and physically next time. Really thank God that only by His grace and strength (Phillipians 4:13) i was able to complete it. Beeg THANK YOU to seok, who shared this experience with me, and ran with me most of the way! hahaa i dont know what possesed us to sign up with such minimal training, but lets do it again aiight? :) haha maybe not so soon though! THANK YOU to my acx teammates (bailing, sarahq, sarah ng, leon) who patiently waited for us till we finished (even though seok and i had to hobble all the way to starbucks!hahaa. we love yall anyway! )

hahaa ok brief summary of the past two weeks ( 27th November marked the first day of liberation, after i finished my org comm paper. WOOT. ).. Street roving for the Getyoursexyback campaign for Danny's FYP group, jamming at Fourtones with the band, kbox, recordings over at my place with various people, watched enchanted, mg gathering at shums', Mind cafe with YA pple (Sern yong was our table's "professional" games instructor hahaa) ,desmond's birthday, shopping and more shopping, dinners, catching up with some of my favourite people:). haha aiight thats all i can remember for now. im writing all this down to more or less remember what i did durign the hols, cuz its gonna fly by and im alr two weeks into the hols! aahhh and im feeling the wanderlust! My parents are over at Japan now, and theyve left me at home:( the only place ill be going is malacca next next week with the ntu/fc people but thats so not counted la. hahaa i wanna leave on a jet plane and go someplace far far away, not to some neighbouring country! oh well. hahaa aiight im going back to sleep somemore. enjoy the hols people!:)

sigh. actually all i really want to do is to practise guitar. And to sleep. hahaa. but seriously. i need to utilize this time to pick up some new techniques. daniel's prolly going to teach me this weekend, and im really stoked for that :)

2007-11-17T01:05:00.000+08:00

the quest for excellence. no matter how good we are, there will always be someone better. perhaps its natural talent, or sheer hard work. whatever it is, theyve managed to make their mark and take their skill to a whole 'nother playing field. we cant really blame our circumstances. Some are naturally born with the talent. Some have the innate drive and discipline in them to really go all out to pursue their dreams. Some have had more opportunity in life. i guess it comes down to how much we really want it. Passion is what will get us there. Note that theres a clear difference between passion and wishful thinking. Passion is doing whatever it takes to get us there. To be willing to put in the hard work if necessary. it can get depressing sometimes when you see people perform and youre like, dam. i wish i could play/perform that way. its good to set high standards for yourself. but we shouldnt get down on ourselves when we see someone better. instead, it should motivate us to constantly improve.

hahaa ook. i just had to get that out of my system!:) heh guess im kinda telling this to myself also. Feel better ok friend (you know who you are). i believe in you!

ive had no mood to study since 207 ended! its like all the steam has gone out of me. ive 3 papers next week..problem is, i dont knwo how to study for them! my music paper, which i do need to know some theory, just that, they can test virtually anything so its quite hard to pinpoint what to study. For linguistics, ive SU-ed it!ahaha so cannot really be bothered. And gv17.. haha the notes are quite little, so i keep thinking ive got quite some time to study it. nevertheless, i spent quite abit of time at my gv17 tutor's house tonight so i really should get some studying done. haha adios for now!

2007-11-06T12:55:00.000+08:00

hello world! ive been getting comments that my blog's been stagnant. its a reflection of how happening my life is right now. ive been consumed in a world of dead communication historians, and sixteenth century music a la JS Bach. Blast from the past. Not forgetting the remaining four, no wait, three( percussion's over!) other papers i have as well. Rather worried about 207 cuz it requires alot of time, which i dont have. Music analysis portfolio's due this friday and its !@^Q&#Q^(*&$^#*&%^*#&%^*&#^$(*@&^#$@ ^!@&#$*^*&^*&^&!#@&$%!*@&#^$!@#$)(*(&*%^%!@#^%&*$^%#@&^%$&*#%$&@#%$.
There, i feel slightly better.

On a seperate note, it's so easy to give in to the urge to hang on to familiarity instead of facing the unknown on your own. it's times like this that in your head, you sugarcoat the good times and downplay the bad ones. But that was then, and now is now. Once bitten twice shy. How cliched.

Speaking of cliches, i used to think the line "it's not you, it's me" was the lamest, most convenient break up line ever. That people who use it are actually thinking to themselves "it's not me, it's you" . But the former contains a kind of, partial truth. its not you, but its not me either. its more like the combination of you and me that didnt work out, and we're all essentially great individuals in our own right.

the rain's getting me all emo. Oh, and maybe because i keep listening to Not me not I by Delta Goodrem. haha. Not something id usually listen to, but its been on repeat in my itunes. When im at home(and no one's around) ill belt it out at the top of my lungs, banging away on the piano- making love to the piano as brent would say.haha. i ve always been about guitars, but lately ive been getting into piano as well:) love jazz piano. i prefer the live version to the recorded one for this song. Take a look if you've the time:)

2007-10-20T01:46:00.000+08:00

So im twenty one now. Happy birthday to me! My initial plan of having a big party fell through, but im really grateful to the different people who in their different ways (well-wishes, messages, cards, chocolate cakes, presents, good quality time spent, surprises (some not so subtle haha) , made my birthday special:) i remember every one of you and everything yall did! blessed:)

'At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.'(Grey's anatomy 310)

hahaa this weekend's gonna be the last time ill chillax, before i really hit the books. and i mean REALLY. Pics will be up here or on facebook soon:)

2007-10-13T02:18:00.000+08:00

i had my first birthday surprise for the year tonight:) Beeg THANK YOU to my G12 for orchestrating the whole thing!:) thanks guys, im really very touched ok!:) i didnt suspect a thing cuz after all its still early, and they mentioned celebrating next friday. but they said they wanted to be the first to celebrate with me. aww. hahaa to think i almost didnt show up cuz i had to email zequan my GV17 project by tonight and i was trying to finish up. We were playing pictionary and yokeyeong drew this picture of a cake (it looked more like a wedding cake than a birthday cake!), and we were guessing all sorts of ridiculous things, and then suddenly the whole group started singing happy birthday. hahaa good one. i really didnt see it coming! :) Oh and i got a mic from them!YAY. one off my wishlist:) and it sounds awesome on my roland:):)

2007-10-07T01:59:00.000+08:00

ive been so tired out lately. late nights due to procrastination. i really need to have better time management!
im glad its the weekend, though it simply flies by:( took a break today and went shopping for guitar stuff!:) i love going to Swee lee although bras basah complex is really ulu kampong. its nice and spacious, unlike most guitar shops that are really cramped and have very little walking space. You can take your time to peruse and look around, trying out instruments, admiring the gorgeous guitars on display, and i love the smell of wood there.

So anyway. i FINALLY got my amp! After much deliberation between getting a marshall or a vox , i decided to stick with what i wanted in the first place before looking for alternatives...a Roland Microcube!

In pristine white no less:) AND, i got it at 40% discount! The last time i got a 40% deal was during last year's official swee lee sale where i had to queue for more than 3 hours for my guitar! This time i didnt have to queue at all! Thank God i didnt buy the 2nd hand Roland earlier. I got brand new one for only $10.10 more!hahaa.

Heh so now that ive gotten my amp, and ive fixed my Simon&Patrick acoustic (got it back last week), all i want to do is just stay home and play guitar! im still such a noob la. i cant fully utilise the functions of the amp cuz i still cant play certan genres like funk or jazz. ive beenstuck in a rut for quite awhile, havent really improved much this past year. it requires alot of time and discipline, especially to learn on your own. but ive got my motivation back:)

The concert i missed

2007-09-21T02:56:00.000+08:00

Daughtry at St James!!!!

Photo courtesy of pang sern yong. omgggggg im soooooo saddddddddddd! chris daughtry and band is in town and i missed it:( eh thanks pang for offering me your ticket! id have gone in a shot if not for gross 207 midterms in a few hours.SIGH. i heart daughtry!

2007-09-19T00:53:00.000+08:00

i feel stupid. Has it been right there in front of me all along but i was just too blind/deluded to see it?

this is beyond being emo.i feel so jaded.tired.

i need to get my life back in order. Priorities have momentarily shifted, but i will realign them back to their rightful places.

Everthing seems to be going wrong right now. i know God is always there for me, but im only human, and sometimes all i can see is my own narrowminded viewpoint. Jesus be strong in my weakness. Help me to give thanks in all circumstances.

2007-09-17T19:22:00.000+08:00

im so looking forward to bangkok at the end of year with the brokeback brothers! travel plans always excite me. something to look forward to, especially during the exam period!

ive decided that ill be singing Love hurts by Incubus for tomm's presentation. wish me luck. i hope i dont get stage fright or do smth really klutzy! ill be playing the piano too. somehow its less unnerving to sing and play. You become less self conscious about your voice and you can use the instrument to mask potentially 'zao-sia' parts. ha!My hokkien vocab's expanding.

Today we had percussion assesment. Overall it was quite alright, thank God, even though i made a few silly mistakes. The few of us were rehearsing in a tutorial room banging away on the tables, so much so that the tutor next door came over a couple of times to tell us to tone it down heh.

i just typed a whole lot of stuff but deleted it all away. blog's too public for my own good.

:):):):):):)

2007-09-14T23:09:00.002+08:00

hello world. At long last its the weekend. TGIF!!!

i feel so drained this week..late nights have been taking its toll on me. i need to have better time management. As i learnt from Modern Levites conference, as musicians we need to be worshippers not just onstage, but also offstage. Our lives must be an act of worship to God. But this week i feel that its been a struggle for me. i chose to make certain decisions out of convenience, even though i knew it did not glorify God. But it is not by my might, nor by power, but by His spirit (Zechariah 4:6) that will help me overcome my weaknesses, and i must make the deliberate choice not to compromise any longer:)

Next week is madness. Two-oh-seven midterm on Friday. Percussion Assesment on Monday. Org comm essay. A certain someone's 21st in the middle of the week hahaa. ohhmyy and individual presentation on Tuesday for GV17 my vocal module! i need to start singing like nobody's business this week heh. Music cadences homework by Thursday. LOTS of music theory to catch up on. argh. The music analysis module is getting better..dr chong's really quite good at explaining stuff and everything's kinda at the back of my head and ive a vague notion about most things, but its gotta be at the top of my head and not the back of my head! hahaa looong sentence. But its quite frustrating, being out of touch from theory for so long. i feel like ive to constantly play catch up. Being in a class of music teachers, masters students and nie students can be quite daunting too. it is interesting though. i only wish i took MEP, olevel music, or alevel music before, itd make life so much easier.

Some other things thats been going on.. training for stan chart. hahaa ive 55km of mileage to make up for the previous two weeks. Joining darren's band for jam sessions next week. We're still lacking a bassist though. ohh ill finally be starting guitar lessons! :):):) hahaa everyone thinks ive been having lessons all this while, but ive put it on hold after only one lesson cuz its quite costly. But after much persuasion the rents have agreed to sponsor most of it, so its now much more affordable for me. Thank God!

im looking forward to the weekend!

i'm falling in love with Jesus, over and over again. -Over and over/Paradise Band

2007-09-12T23:44:00.000+08:00

For once i actually feel like blogging. Quite alot has happened and im in an introspective mood. i want to blog about Modern Levites Conference too. But yeah, that has to wait cuz my org comm essay beckons.

In the meantime, ill cheer myself up by thinking about my wishlist!ahahah. A significant day approaches. :)

In no particular order of preference..
1.Roland Microcube amplifier
(ill be getting this as soon as SOMA, Informatics and NTU pays me!)
2.Guitar books on lead guitar for Rock and Jazz - Found at Yamaha or Swee Lee
3.Adidas white jacket
4.Electric Bass guitar - i want to play bass again!A cheap practise bass will suffice for now:)
5.Nike running jerseys
6.Timex watch - My old one has sentimental value, but all thats left of it is the watch face. The strap's completely broken off hahaa)
7.Big black bag
8. 8 GB Ipod Nano - the newest version!
9.Mic - hahaa humble beginnings towards a home studio
10.Vouchers! - Zara,forever21,guess,river island, aldo, diva!

2007-09-04T11:55:00.001+08:00

A classic.

Slide away (Acoustic live) - Oasis

2007-08-11T02:19:00.000+08:00

hahaa got this off ernest's blog. My meez.com character.

2007-08-09T00:57:00.000+08:00

Back to school. its been quite nice and slack, with no tutorials and tues and thursday off this week. today was tiring though. Not enough sleep the previous night, ive gotta get out of the nocturnal lifestyle i had during the hols.

My timetable's not quite settled yet. im thinking of taking the minor in music..but there's that audition to go through first. Still contemplating whether i should take it or not. No one wants to give up COM206:( i got my percussion elective though! YAY thank God. getting AUs for playing drums!:):)

A day of His power tonight was really awesome. its exciting seeing the Love Singapore churches come together as one body, and i could really feel God's presence:)

ohh seok and i have decided to do the full marathon this year. 3 and a half months left to train. heh. Sir says its tough, but still doable. Will be meeting him this tuesday to discuss our training plans. 42.195km..bring it!

oh Happy national day people! Happy birthday singapore. This is home..truly...where i know i must be.....hahaaa i dont know why this song's stuck in my head. i cant remember the new national day song

2007-07-15T01:46:00.000+08:00

argh im so frustrated! Hysteria by Muse is stuck in my head, particularly the guitar solo in the middle. its such a simple solo, but i cant play it without the tabulature!! i try not to look at tabs cuz i dont think its a good way to learn. sighh. i guess im used to playing by hearing, so its frustrating not to know the guitar fretboard well enough to know where the notes are. i have the melody stuck in my head and i hate having to rely on tabs to figure out how to play. i think the best way to learn is to familiarise yourself with the fretboard, and then you'll be able to play anything as long as you know the melody. Of course theres alot more to consider like speed, and other techniques like bending,vibrato blah blah that add colour to the music, but im talking about basic melody lines here.

Yus and i were talking about the violin and he asked how i knew where all the notes were when there's no fret differentiation unlike guitar, and the violin "fretboard" is so much narrower. i was thinking about the years spent playing the violin and i realised that all those mundane exercises like scales, chromatics, arpeggios really helped build a strong foundation. And that way even after not playing for 4 over years, i can still remember how to play. i guess the bottom line is if i really want to be a good guitarist there's no two ways about it. i have to build that foundation again, even if it means doing finger exercises to build speed and familiarity. Yus used to practise for 3 hours every day when he first picked up the guitar. He's playing professionally everywhere now. His story is quite inspiring cuz he had no music/ theory background so he got to where he is by sheer hard work. hahaa ok sorry for rambling. just typing what im thinking.

Went dragon boating for the first time today as part of training for Curl'07. its quite fun, but the thing about canoeing/dragonboating/kayaking is that i always have the urge to jump out and just swim to shore after about one hour in the boat. hahaa i suck at paddling ok! The boat/canoe/kayak just doesnt move as fast as i'd like it to heh.

CS FOC ended on Friday. Beeg thank you to everyone who helped me in 'The Office' route for Fright Night. i dont know how many of them will get to read this, but to the cast of hungry ghosts (literally. We had quite an enjoyable time snacking while waiting for the freshies), Jun,Faiz,Pang,Boons,Chrystal,Sharon,Phillip,Faiz's friend(sorry name slips my mind, but still much appreciated!)..THANK YOU !!:) Didnt really get to know the freshies this time though. Was out sick for the first two days.Only went down on Wednesday night to check out Human Cluedo. Went to wala after that to celebrate Max's birthday. Timmy was playing, and omg power 98's Rozz and Ngak from Timmy are together! Thurs was spent preparing for fright night and fright night itself, which lasted till about 3am.

Only had about half an hour of sleep before heading straight to Ngee Ann primary which is in Kembangan!omg. Was sooo stoned during class. This is what happened when i decided to sit down with the class for a change. Usually ill be standing next to Yus while he teaches.

Girl A next to me: making random comments

Me: Smiling and trying to answer coherently

Girl B to Girl A:You better keep talking to teacher 'cuz i think she's falling asleep.

My favorite kid made my day again. Hes this little chindian boy who's potential heart-throb material hahaa. He volunteered to stay back after class to help me keep all the guitars even though school was over for him. When i asked him to go home and play he said its ok cuz he had alot of time after school. awww. adorable!

aiiight. im beat. Too lazy to upload pics, so you'll just have to contend with my words, words and more words for now:)

2007-07-09T12:28:00.000+08:00

And so. How time flies. im home-ridden today. Sore throat and im coming down with a flu. Also general fatigue from the lack of sleep the past week. Gonna miss the first day of CS FOC today. it'll be just me and the tv today, as i work through The OC dvds bevan dropped off. YAY. ive got the entire season 1 and half of season 2 with me hahaa.

The past week has been..interesting. Many happy high moments, but also a few sad ones. but im done brooding. ive decided to surrender the situation to God, and despite having the peace and knowing that ive made the right choice, it still saddens me. i suppose im not completely ready for closure yet, but im thankful that circumstances have made it easier for me to make that inevitable decision. i dare say i dont regret all that's happened, but perhaps i could have made things less complicated. Done certain things differently. hahaa i realise ive just contradicted myself, but i dont expect any of this to make sense at first read so ive given up trying to sound coherent. heh.

Ed Silvolso conference during the weekend was really good. Am excited to be a marketplace minister!:)

Had my first electric guitar lesson with daniel. hahaa its just too time-consuming to learn on my own. Hadnt touched my baby in awhile cuz my amp is spoilt. Speaking of which, i want to get a roland micro-cube amp!Any good deals on it please let me know.i cant believe i missed the sweelee sale this year, where i couldve gotten it at halfprice sigh. Oh and the basement of peninsular plaza has soo many guitar shops!

Daniel made this remark about how he had never seen a female lead guitarist soloiing on the electric before. i was about to retort in indignation when i realised that ive never seen one myself either! Acoustic guitarists yes, but no female lead guitarist. Correct me if im wrong, but i guess guys are more inclined to play the electric cuz there are so many technical aspects to it. All the gadgets from pedals to distortion amps, cables, and even the instrument itself. Its amazing how many different sounds can be generated from one instrument. guys also tend to spend more money on gadgets. We girls spend our cash on..other things. heh. im already very pained at the thought of having to spend 100 over dollars for my amp, but its a necessary investment. Am really stoked and looking forward to more lessons soon:)

Started work with SOMA (School of music and the arts) to assist an instructor to teach guitar. Had my first job last friday assisting Yus at ngee ann primary school. Man kids are so lucky nowadays. In primary school i only got to learn the recorder. Now schools are hiring instructors to come over to teach things like vocal training, song-writing, guitar, keyboard. And the school actually bought 40 over guitars for the kids to play during music lesson. Handling a class of 42 kids is no joke. Furthermore, Yus and i were told not to scold the kids, so unless their form teacher reprimands them, we can't really scream at them even when theyre really asking for it! hahaa not a kids person as you can tell. but sometimes as yokeyong said, the kids can do things that really make your day. There was this adorable little boy who came up to me after class ended just to thank me personally. And its kinda rewarding when you see the look on the kids' faces when they hold a guitar for the first time.

alright. quite a lengthy post to make up for the infrequent updates. i dont mind sleeping for another gazillion hours.

Nothing's quite the same now, i just say your name now.

your song

2007-07-04T05:07:00.000+08:00

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
Far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Well every moment spent with you
Is a moment I treasure

I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
-I don't wanna miss a thing/ Aerosmith (Armaggedon OST)

hahaa the lyrics are quite sappy..bordering on cheesy. But somehow when Steven Tyler sings it, he manages to convey the heartfelt emotion without sounding cliche. i like. And Armaggedon is such a sad show.

2007-06-29T02:07:00.001+08:00

i'm glad you're back, even if only for awhile.

2007-06-24T01:28:00.000+08:00

Back from the Rock for Wayne gig at the Glass house. Went with shums and shuying to support bryan (West Grand Boulevard). im dead beat. My ears are still ringing, and my feet sore from standing for 3 hours and being trampled on countless times. But it was awesome! This was bigger scale than expected. i pictured a live gig outdoors with 1 or 2 bands, but this was indoors with top-of-the-line sound system and lighting, and AIR CONDITIONING!:) Rock for Wayne saw a slew of local bands coming together, a tribute to the late Wayne Seah from the Suns who passed away in his sleep. Really a reminder to seize each day..carpe diem!

Performances from Force Vomit, West Grand Boulevard, Electrico, Caracal, and the Astroninja All Stars. Levin from Ronin was amongst the ALL Stars, performing here even after a gig with Ronin this afternoon at cine. Even though they're all essentially rock bands, each group has their own distinct sound. Gotta hand it to Force Vomit for putting together a decent performance even without their lead guitarist present. Electrico is really good. i love Semicircle Punch by West Grand Boulevard! The guitar rifts and lead intro to that song simply gives you thrills.

The crowd was crazy, almost like a mosh pit. People around were screaming, dancing, jumping, carrying up people and body shoving one another. i even got pulled into a group of random strangers who were dancing around in a circle hahaa. There are some really talented musicians in the local music scene. Takes a helluva lot of practise to reach that level! im inspired. Some pics from tonight. None of myself cuz i look sweaty and ick in most hehh.

1.Rock for Wayne

2.West Grand Boulevard (bryan extreme right)

3.Guitarist Darma(sp?) from West Grand Boulevard. whoa.

4.Caracal

5.Electrico

6.Amanda Ling from Electrico

7.Wayne Seah's drum set

8.People being carried

oook im going to sleep and i must try to exercise tomorrow morning to run off all the chicken wings/stingray/hokkien mee/satay tony and i consumed yesterday for supper. adieu

2007-06-22T01:07:00.000+08:00

Hello world!
This place has been rather devoid of pictures/words. Too busy and when im not busy, too uninspired (lazy). And the rents were in Japan so they had the camera for the past two weeks.

Yesterday i played the game of Fastest Fingers that NTU's notorious for. It was highly stressful. my mac crashed 3 times in half an hour! Brought down my dad's acer, so two laptops were poised side by side. But a slight hesitation cost me one module! i didnt notice that there was a second button to click on- the confirm subjects button!arghhh.Elaine called from the US of A and i was lamenting to her while persistently clicking for the next hour or so, but to no avail. So far ive only got 8AUs registered. What a scary thought. CS207 and CS 255. Couldnt get CS206. Thank goodness the admin's gonna open more slots, but my timetable only allows me to take that module in one particular slot! Tomorrow's another day of fastest fingers, or not. Noone's really sure whether that's the case for electives, but i'm still gonna be at jac's place at 9am tommorrow because my mac's dying on me!

im looking forward to taking the electives i chose:). Hopefully theyre slack enough to pull up GPA. And Improv sounds fun, its a practical course so i think we'll get to play some music. There's an audition though!scary. I hope ill be able to get CS206, and at least two of these..
HL101 Intro to Literature
GV17 Magic of Voice in the World of a Singer
AAI280 Improvisation
BS101 Biology
Too bad all the CS modules i wanna take are only available next sem!

omg siwei just told me he saw me on TV! In some commercial! im not gonna say which one till i see it for myself and decide whether i look glam or not.hahaa

Read something interesting in "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill his word. The story of Abram and Hagar in Genesis 16 is an excellent example of listening to so-called good advice during a time of darkness, rather than waiting for God's light. Abram went through thirteen years of silence, but in those years all of his self-sufficiency was destroyed. He grew past the point of relying on his own common sense. Those years of silence were a time of discipline, and the reason we are all being disciplined is that we will know God is real. Have I placed my confidence in God himself, not in his blessings?

2007-06-12T05:09:00.001+08:00

oh my word. ive work at 10am later today! Sleeping for 13 hours straight after getting back from muar on sunday leaves me highly awake now still!

Muar trip was exciting! really thank God for all that He has done for me and for the rest of my sistas in this trip:) i thank God for the spiritual family He has placed me in:) More updates soon.

Anyway i blogged just to post this up!hahaa the pictures are nice. My personality description under Read my VisualDNA is quite accurate for most parts, and then some.

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2007-06-05T02:36:00.000+08:00

Hanging out with pang today showed me one thing-guys can be such shopaholics too!

Anyway, im so sad!!! i jsut received an email notification that i got into the elite mile category for the Amlene Orchard Mile. But ill still be at muar on race day!:( im hoping i can come back on Saturday night instead, but its highly probable that i might not be able to get back in time:( Anyone interested in taking my place let me know! Sunday 1oth June 930am, at orchard, one mile race (1.6km) , girls only. hahaa prizes are pretty good.. adidas sponsorship for top 3 and cash prizes for other winners.

2007-06-03T01:16:00.000+08:00

Please don't anyone else have a pink-themed party.

Sop's early birthday celebration today marked the 3rd pink-themed party i've attended in 2 months. ive worn whatever pink clothes i have already!hahaa. But among all 3,sop's has got to be the pinkest of the lot!The entire place was reaally nicely decorated, albeit in different shades of pink.Even her cake was pink too!ahahaa. But everything was very nicely done up though. haha it looked like a wedding reception from outside!

21st birthdays are nice in the sense that you get to hang out with old friends you've lost touch with. All the usual mg babes (except SALA!) were there, but others like shaz and gracia whom i havent talked to in dam dam long were there too:) Ex-Acsians like sweelan, esther,manee,bryan.melvin. its at such functions that you realise how small the world is. Everyone knows everyone somehow, and there are fewer degrees of seperation between friends than you thought.

Went for dawn's party on friday night. she's one of the very few primary school friends im still close to. babe im gonna miss you SO much when you go on exchange! My close friends are all flying off to europe one by one:( saaad! That reminds me, ian's leaving next week!

Photos yet again. hahaa i realise ive alot of pics with my mg girls. they trigger the photowhore in me:)

Sop getting dunked!hahaa

Some of us:)

Beware the apparition

ook so what else happened over the week. Headed back to school for fright night video filming, and another time to meet the ntu cell. Tuition at TYA. Catching up with various people over lunches,dinners and suppers:) Settlers with the timonians ( we should meet again before we're all busy with sports camp!). guitaring ( i love jazz!) Working on sop's 21st present with sher-painstaking work.ive never done so much art in a loong time! Watched pirates (johnny depp's hilarious!). hahaa ok i should really stop blogging at the wee hours. ta

2007-06-01T05:16:00.000+08:00

Such skill. im humbled to the dust. :)

i thank God for the people he brought to me this week who are so single-mindedly driven by their various passions. To show me the hard work required to attain that higher level. But above all, i want a God-centered ambition.

i need to start attending to the various commitments ive been putting off.

2007-05-31T02:30:00.000+08:00

I've got it all, but I feel so deprived
I go up, I come down
I'm emptier inside
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing
And why can't I let it go

There's gotta be more to life
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me
'Cause the more that I'm trippin out
Thinking there must be more to life
Well it's life, but I'm sure
There's gotta be more to life

I've got the time and I'm wasting it slowly
Here in this moment I'm half-way out the door
Onto the next thing, I'm searching for something that's missing

I'm always waiting on something other than this
Why am I feeling like there's something I missed
- (There's gotta be) More to life, Stacie Orrico

ive never been much of a stacie orrico fan. Her songs are too pop and teenage for my adult ears.hahaa i make myself sound so old.
But anyway. the lyrics for this song really ring true. its quite funny how God speaks to us in different ways. This week the title of this song kept playing in my head, even though i havent heard this song in a really realy long time. Decided to go look up the lyrics on a whim. And as always, He spoke at just the right time:) In the busy-ness of life,its easy to put God on hold. But after awhile, after all the ephemeral pleasures of life, the temporal highs, you realise that the only thing that truly lasts, and that truly satisfies is spending time with Him:)
its also amazing how God can use someone as young as her(she's 17 if im not wrong) to reach the world with her music.

Oh yes, here's an excerpt of an interview with Stacie Oricco about this song.
Stacie:It talks about searching for satisfaction and fulfillment in the wrong places and how we try to fill our lives with money, relationships, love, or whatever to satisfy us, and how those things aren't lasting.

How would you respond to someone who told you "there's got to be more to life." What would you say to them?
Stacie: I think that's why I'm so excited about this song – for people to come and ask me, "Okay, you're talking about more to life, so what is it? What do you think it is?"
The joy of getting to express the only thing I've found in life that is lasting.
Sure, some people might respond "of course you can say that, since you've got everything going for you." But at the same time, it's that much more applicable, so I can say, "yeah I have had incredible opportunities, gotten to travel to wonderful places, and I am very fortunate.
But at the end of the day, those things aren't all fulfilling and the only thing that I've found in my life that offers ultimate peace and comfort, true love and fulfillment, is in my relationship with Jesus Christ."

2007-05-26T01:09:00.001+08:00

The points system for hall is terrible. The presidents of 3 different halls couldnt even get in?? Main comm member of Sports Club couldnt get in??!! Where's the justice !

Xiuting and i explored some of the lesser known places of Singapore today. Went to people's park and chinatown to hunt for accessories. the cost price of the accessories in Sg is actually alot cheaper than their selling price. Making accessories can be quite a lucrative business. i found an exact replica of a necklace that i bought less than a week ago at diva and the total cost of its constituent pieces is almost half the price that i paid for! Bought the pieces to make an imitation and im gonna exchange the diva one for something else!haha.

i find that even though its the hols, i still don't have enough time to do things that i REALLY want to do. like sleeping. Not enough sleep. And running. And playing guitar. The jazz guitar book i bought a few weeks ago is still wrapped up in its yamaha bag. And spending more time with God. the hols are passing way too quickly, and i havent even found a proper job yet. im still in a dilemma on whether or not to go for the japan immersion program. i want to support my parents in the pilot launch of their business and some of my friends are going too. But then if i go, i wont be able to go to muar with my g12, something i was really looking forward to. but its japan! i havent gone back in 4 years alreayd:( But there's the expenses to consider too. parents are willing to pay for me, but i feel bad about it! the japan trip's quite costly and they've already given me some funding for hk. Furthermore its a business, so i feel like i should pay my own way, at least partially. how now brown cow.

2007-05-25T01:38:00.001+08:00

Ok i really should sleep soon. im trying to adjust to a healthier lifestyle. Sleep early. Wake up earl-ier. try to run in the morning. super healthy eh? In japanese "Ogenki desu ne?"
haha yeap. ive finally gotten around to taking japanese lessons! jo wanted to try out the group lesson that my mom teaches, so i went along with her yesterday. quite a good refresher course, ive gotten so rusty over the years its terrible!

Anyway, today something blog-worthy happened.guess where i went today. i went to the Singapore zoo!hahaaa. And to all you doubters, ive got pictures to prove it. i havent been there since CIP in sec 3 when i had to sweep the floor of the reptile kingdom!omg. terrible laa. exploiting school girls only ah. haha

Anyway, it was fun hanging out with the CS girls:) im really not an animal person, but it turned out to be quite interesting reading all the different facts about animals, and discovering that there are so many variants of different species. For instance, there are SO many different kinds of monkeys in the zoo la. Chimps, orang utans, gorillas, those tiny ones with the white paws(cant rem the name), and my favourite-the proboscis monkey!hahaa. its nose gets bigger and saggier as it gets older (see picture 6). i think i like the lion/tiger/cheetah/jaguar/leopard/puma the best, the cat kingdom basically. i hate cats per se (looks evil and too high maintenance), but i quite like the larger cat species:) One interesting fact: The cheetah can run at speed of 114km/h, but it can only run a maximum of 300-400m, otherwise its body gets too overheated. But usually it is able to catch it's prey by then. wow.

Tons of animal pictures, but i havent selected which ones i like best, so ill just put up the human pics first haha.

1.Joey Quek!now we know.hahahaa

2.group pic:)

3.Taking pics with fake animals

4.More fake animals

5.ditto

6.The proboscis monkey

7.In the shoes of a kangaroo

8.Waisan and ruyan on a van

9.i want a cute little ang moh kid with curly blond hair!

10.the dog from the animal show

2007-05-23T23:39:00.000+08:00

Hong Kong

hahaa its been almost a week since i came back from HK, guess its time for an update.
Had a helluva time there. i love travelling. i love feeling like im living in this alternate universe; an ephemeral escapism from reality. Just emmersing myself in a whole 'nother culture, meeting different people, and feeling like im entitled to live it up to my heart's content, one new experience after another crammed within those few days.

Alot of HK reminded me of Singapore. The tall buildings. The cosmolitan cities. The traffic. The MTR.(but hk's way cooler, with their signboard of blinking lights, which signals the next station that's arriving!hahah very useful for tourists who cant remember the chinese names.) The shopping centres in Mongkok which were reminscent of far east and bugis street. But the pace of life is much more hectic. People just push you along if you don't go with the flow. The crowd at Tsim Sha Tsui station everyday after work is comparable to the masses at Orchard station on Christmas or New year's.

Best part of hk's gotta be the food. omg. all that yummy dimsum! Met up with huiting who was on her exchange there. She brought me to this superbb restaurant (name slips my mind. ive gotta ask her again!). Really really good dimsum for quite a reasonable price!:) On the last day alone, shums and i had xiaolongbaos for lunch, and more dimsum for dinner! The restaurants are good of course, but the street vendors and small cafes along roadsides have pretty decent food as well!especially the food stalls along the streets of mongkok!:)Sinfully greasy chicken kebabs and really cheap tacopachi balls!Wonton noodles and beef balls! oh man, i sound like some makansutra book. omgg and we found Krispy kremes!In HK!hahahaa. Instead of buying hk delicacies like egg tarts and chinese desserts, shums and i lugged back one box of a dozen each back home. we wouldve bought more, but tigerairways terms and conditions stated no perishables, so we were afraid they'd disallow food to be brought back. You can imagine the amused glances we received from the Caucasians at Hk airport.

The shopping's madness too. hahaa i think we spent most of the time eating and shopping. There's not much sight-seeing really. We got to see the Symphony of Lights, and we visited the Avenue of Stars. But most of the time, yeah, shopping and eating. hehh. We went to Causeway bay, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mongkok, Admiralty, Central, Stanley Market (which was mainly to sight-see rather than to shop actually. its a quaint tourist-y place and prices are exhorbitant!). Oh and of course, Chai Wan. The very last MTR stop, which was the nearest stop to our place of residence.

We stayed in this huge mansion on a mountain in Tai Tam, courtesy of shums' dad's friend. Accomodation free of charge:). The view from the house is gorgeous, overlooking a clear lake and a backdrop of mountains. hahaa shums and i were full of good intentions to do some running, to increase our red blood cells in the high altitude!Brought along my trainers, but our nocturnal lifestyles prevented us from waking up early enough to exercise. heh.
Getting there on my own on the first day from Macau airport was CRAZY. omg. i almost died having to carry my luggage everywhere. In one day, i managed to take all modes of transport in hk. Singapore--(Plane)-->Macau airport--(bus)-->Ferry terminal--(ferry)-->HK island--(MTR)-->Chai Wan station--(Cab)--> Tai Tam. that was quite an experience.

Travelling with shums was the best!hahaa.We've the same love for anything vintage or rocker chic, so we always choose similar things while shopping:) Our shared love for bargain hunting led us to spend way too much time in the streets of Mongkok and H&M! We're both nocturnal beings and we always end up reaching home at close to 2am everyday, sleeping at 430am and waking up at 12pm the next day. haha oh and we both dislike chinese desserts and im ashamed to admit that i didnt try a single one during my entire stay in hk.heh. Oh yeah, shums has a really good sense of direction!she can remember street names really well somehow, which is very useful for a noob like me hahaa. i love how we can have serious introspective conversations at one moment, and then laugh like madcows over the retarded things we say and do in the next. Love ya loads,foodie with the food face!hahahaa :)

On a seperate note, ive decided to backpack Europe next summer! jonk suggested this june, but that's way too soon after hk:( The lucky guy. Plenty of time to save up if i wait till next year i guess. hahaa bit early to be thinking about holidaying next year when this year;s hols aren't up yet, but im dam excited la.hahaa. shums will be in paris by then :(:(, but then i can visit her when i go over next year:) tony will be studying in europe too! All the architecture..the food..hahaa ok shall not get too carried away. shums i want hk pics soon! Some pics for now, will upload the rest soon!

2007-05-14T02:19:00.000+08:00

woohooo. im off to hongkong in a couple of hours!

2007-05-11T09:58:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERMS!
hahaa sorry i know this is one day late. Stay forever 21 babe!:) xoxo

getting dunked!HAHA

Some of us at sher's 21st

2007-05-10T22:35:00.000+08:00

i dont know if i overreacted about the conversation we had on tues.i'll know soon enough though. hahaa sorry sop and desmond for going all ballistic and thanks for letting me rant. i guess the one good thing that came out of all of this is that you showed me that everything is within our reach if we want it badly enough. Cliched as it may sound, you inspire me.

Anyway. yesterday the ntu/fcbc cell people came to my place. Just when they were settling down in my living room, someone switched on the main light and then suddenly there was this burning smell. We looked up and to everyone's horror, there was smoke emitting from the lamp shade. It was a hanging light and everyone was sitting under it so it was quite a scary sight to behold. So anyway, when my parents came back, i told them about it. Upon investigation, we found the cause! The burning smell came from a bug that somehow landed inside the lamp and it was being roasted alive. GROSSNESS. the smell still lingers whenever we switch on the light. i must say eau de barbequed bug does NOT smell so hot (i dont mean that literally)

Today i got the day off from work!wooot. The road show was cancelled for thurs and friday! No more standing. No more being greeted by the pinched,uptight looks of passerbys in corporate wear.No more having to ward off strange old men. hahaa waisan's face was priceless when we received the news. Her facade of indifference was so convincing in front of the organisers, but the moment they went away, her elated expression mirrored what we were all feeling. The pay's good but standing for 6 and a half hours per day is no easy feat, and also not easy on the feet! i was wearing dam uncomfortable pointed covered shoes on the first day. The organizers were quite nice and became alot more lenient over foot wear as the days progressed. Learnt my lesson and switched to my adidas sneakers the next, even though it didnt match the outfit at all. Oh speaking of outfits, we had to wear this white top and lime green skirt which made us really conspicous. Embarrasingly during the 2 days i was working at raffles place, i met people i knew, from former colleagues at AIA, to ac cross juniors.

While i was standing at different locations of raffles place distributing flyers for the road show, i was reminded of the AIA days. Working there for close to 3 months has made Raffles place synonymous with my AIA experience. We've visited practically every (cheap but good) food places over there. Caltex house, the multi-storey hawker, Golden shoe, China square, Lau pa sat, and ocassionally Carl's junior. Even though the job scope was standard admin stuff, i had alot more fun there that ive had working elsewhere. And of course my partner-in-crime and favorite bimbo queenie made work life alot more entertaining! it was quite funny how our group gradually switched from channel 8 to channel 5 as the language of choice with the two of us around. hahaa and its amazing how boredom can inspire us to do such retarded things: The burn book, our questionnaires, coded names for everyone (HG,Chubs,Shrek the evil ogress), lengthy toilet breaks, our song of the day,photowhoring, the mail room, hitting on younger guys, after-work shopping sprees. Our office was quite scandalous also, what with the d&d&boyfriend triangle, and the king&queen! i remember long long phone conversations with derick, having to be his aunt agony, but well,i guess he also ended up being my uncle agony in the end heh. There were quite a number of temps working together, and even though some were not always on the same wavelength (hahaa qb you'll know who im referring to!), we still had good fun somehow. On the last day queen b and i took many photos wanting to compile a collage of time there, but we never got around to doing it. haha so,some pics from way back.

1.Queen b and i. queenie's 'secretary' look

2.Derick and i

3.AIA guys and i. supper at east coast

4. Some of us at derick's 21st

5.My very cramped work space

2007-05-04T00:09:00.000+08:00

Whirlwind week. it's been insanely busy but frickin fun. Next week ill be starting work, cuz my cash flow is in ebb mode (yes, already.sadness!)

Met up with my favourite girls yesterday for ladies night:). We boycotted zouk ( sala and shums are anti-mambo) to club hop instead. The plan was st james, the clinic and then mos, but we only made it to the first two stops cuz the blood alcohol level was running high in some people already. ( Not me though. Several incidents have made me quite wary of free flows. ) hahaa it was a fun night.

Almost picture perfect. haha

All of us minus peili

More pics up soon. ill be away at seniors camp for the next two days to be a friendly ghost for fright night hahaa. And i cant wait for my 1.25Gb RAM to be installed cuz my mac's been painfully slow! aiight, laters.

2007-04-26T03:04:00.000+08:00

Two quotes of the week
ying2: Lets burn the midnight oil and drink it down!
Kenneth:Just throw a bomb and smoke!

Today 7pm at Hall F SRC marked the end of it all. At long last. Right now it hasnt really sunk in yet and while i was out just now, i kept having the urge to go back to school and study!hahaa.thats quite sad eh. But yeah, if i wasnt so tired now id be delirious. ITS OVERRRR:)

No more mac delivery,miyojo chicken cup noodles and nescafe original. No more late nights-Correction, no more late nights studying. No more edventure which is so unadventurous(ok bad joke). No more 103,105,107,108,111, and MB102(thank goodness.) The latter had been my last paper and it was tragic. i think it was the worst among all my papers la. haha but nevermind. shall just trust God and not think such sad depressing thoughts at this stage!:):):)

The past two days have been madly stressful preparing for 102. Only had time to study that after the cs papers were over which essentially left me with, yeah, 2 days. And i felt like slacking alr cuz all the cs pple (except those who had electives) finished their papers alr!

Beeg thank you to these people for their help in the past 2 days and for making it more bearable somehow:)
hx the violent farmer: For borrowing the finance textbook for me and for the study sessions

sop: For her nbs registered calculator!And its the same model as mine which is even better!haha. but they didnt even check in the end la cheat my feelings.

mengheng: buying lunch today when i was too stressed before the paper to leave the room. and getting COFFEE cuz the vending machine chose the worst time to sell out.and his attempts to make me relac

ying2: for going through a similar plight with her biz law and for being unglam with me while dashing after stoopid bus d hehh

Headed all the way down to town after the paper. its been quite some time since i ventured out of the island into the heart of mainland singapore. Good food at din tai fung, good company and really good music at timbre made my day:) the acoustic guitarists from EIC- PROness. ill be going timbre again on sat (west end boulevard- shums' bf!hahaa) and to catch Timmy next friday. Am loving the hols already. And i finally got to satisfy my xiaolongbao craving:)

On a final note, really thank God for his faithfulness and reminders of his love during this period. jo led worship last friday and this song kept replaying in my head
Faithful God
I serve a God who is faithful
And he will never fail
When i'm in the desert
he's a river of hhope
i serve a God who is faithful
His faithfulness prevails
Lord I put my trust in You

i serve a God
Who is faithful and true
i will hide
In the shelter of Your wings
For I'll find my rest
In your faithfulness
Yes i serve a faithful God

no matter what this life may bring
heartaches and pain
through it all i'll turn to you
And call on your name

2007-04-18T03:10:00.000+08:00

In a whole 'nother world.
Enough said.

2007-04-17T17:26:00.000+08:00

Of Bobo dolls and Hypodermic needles

One-oh-three, i bid thee farewell!
i dont know how to feel about the paper. Ethics are always tricky so i hope i didnt write out of point!
Anyways 1 down 5 more to go!

2007-04-12T19:35:00.000+08:00

i dunno if having a room all to myself is a boon or bane.

My roomie's gone home so im all by my lonesome here and my neighbours aren't around either. Its supposed to make me study better innit? But here i am online and blogging. it seems that i need people around me who are studying to make me feel pressured to study. Then again, i cant study with too many people around cuz ill get distracted. haha i think i just dont feel like studying no more.

And without waisan around to wake me up, ive overslept thrice in the past 2 days! Wanted to take a one hour nap at 12 last night, but i woke up disoriented at 5frickin am! Then i wanted to take a nap at 8am for half an hour cuz im only semi-functioning at that time of the day, and i ended up sleeping till 10am! My body refuses to listen to me when it needs sleep.

ive been doing alot of exam binging too. Too many macs delivery and instant noodles. To add to my guilt, on my way back to hall, i met my ex pri sch mate and her friend running gamely up the slope to can B. Mind you, thats one heck of a slope, reminiscent of the one we ran up countless times at turf city during acx days. need.to.run.

boons showed me a blog yesterday, that incidentally happened to be my friend's brother's blog.what are the odds. its a small world, too small. it got me depressed for awhile cuz a particular post of his about a particular subject echoed my sentiments exactly. it was uncharacteristic of me but hey, i cant always be the eternal optimist. i dont know, its like, seeing someone explicitely putting how you feel into words that ring so true to you..it made me see the glass that's half empty, and with cracks you've never noticed before, and who cares about a frickin glass anyway.
Was asking God about it, and he reminded me (again) of how i should seek His will, not my own ambitions. Just to completely trust him, cuz his thoughts are higher than my own. If there's supposed to be a way out, he will make a way. So i guess ill just leave things to Him for now:)

And i thank God cuz he sends just the right people to tell me the right things at the right time:)

2007-04-07T17:01:00.000+08:00

omg. Just blog surfed and read a couple of my engineering friends' blogs. Theyre all lamenting about studying, being tired from studying, gpa and counting down to the exams.

Whereas I on the other hand, have yet to start studying proper. CS curriculum is such that we STILL have to work on projects/reports/presentations 2 weeks shy of the exams. This weekend, 3 written reports demand my attention. One of which is a 40pg group report, the other, a 12 page individual report which i have yet to touch. The 3rd is a group report too, but ive to compile everything. i definitely had more time to study last sem. Shouldve made use of that time to pull up my gpa, but i was too distracted by many things. i guess im more focused this sem, but now even if i want to study early, i dont have the time. This sem, we have more demanding modules (103,105) and ive one additional subject, finance, in which half my tutorial class consists of china scholars. The average's gonna be frickin high.

i dont mean to rant, but i just had to let this all out. After the disappointing revelation that gpa is a deciding factor in many things, even if its not explicitely stated (elaine, you'll know what im talking about), i promised myself that i wont let something slip out of my grasp so easily again. Creativity and originality of idea often give way to statistical merit in Singapore's rigid academia. Next sem theres application for exchange program, which is based on first year grades, and i want to do more than just meet the minimum requirement.

I hope this sudden force of motivation is not ephemeral, but will translate into some form of action.

Lord i look to you.

2007-04-06T03:32:00.000+08:00

Chariots of fire
Eric Liddell's final race 400m

This clip shows the final scene in the movie Chariots of Fire. The film is based on the true story of British athletes preparing and competing in the 1924 Olympics. It specifically highlights the life of athlete Eric Liddell.

Eric Liddell was a 100m sprinter. He was also a Christian, who's life was centered on God. He and his sister were called to China to be missionaries, but before that, he was a professional athlete, and God blessed him with a talent in running to bring glory to him.
Liddell was quoted saying
""I believe that God made me for a purpose... (the mission), but He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure."

As the clip shows, Liddell represented Britain in the 400m event, not his speciality, the 100m sprint. Why was that? The story behind this was that Liddell was initially scheduled to compete in the 100m finals. However, the event fell on a Sunday. Despite immense pressure from the Prince of Wales ( who personally scheduled a meeting with him) and the British Olympic Committee, he refused to compete, as it compromised his Christian convictions. He wanted to honor God on the sabbath. He did this, despite the high probability that he would be barred from the Olympics altogether. However, at the last minute, he was assigned to run the 400m, an event he hardly ran. A totally different event from what he was accustomed to.

God divinely appointed someone to send him a note just before the race. The amazing thing is that that person was his opponent from the American team, Jackson Short. The note said "As it says in the book 'He that honors me, I will honor'"

This film really reminded me that God will honor his servants. i want to live my life and use all that he has given me for his glory!Not so much for honor, but out of love for Him.

Psalm 20:7" Some trust in Chariots, some trust in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God."

Col 3:17" Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

2007-03-31T23:49:00.000+08:00

HIgh stress. Finished cs111 slides. So many last min changes. ive to do 108 soundtrack and 103 report by mon!

Sports camp comm photoshoot today at Sentosa.im red. Like totally sunburnt now. My face hurts and my shoulders hurt even more. i think i burn more easily now cuz ive been deprived of the sun for too long! even if i do my long runs ( big IF, its getting more seldom these days), its always at night. but instead of looking jaundiced, i now look like a cooked lobster. i think i prefer the former. weilian and acuvue were filming us trying to play soccer, volleyball and frisbee all at the same time! We kept taking jump shots, trying to synchronise all of us jumping together. Experimenting with different angles. Trying to fit all of us standing in one row holding SPORTS UNLIMITED SU14 in one photo. Taking photos of us in the sea. Videotaping short speeches for each of our individual portfolios. i wish i were a freshie again!
Oh and cafe del mar is tres chic.i want to go there again soon! sadly id ont think it'll be soon enough.

took quite a long nap when i got back. its strange, but lately ill almost always dream whenever i take afternoon naps. Had a really bizarre one again today. ive always wondered why we're able to remember certain dreams so vividly, almost to the exact detail, when others we almost instantly forget when we awake. My dreams also always contain random people from everywhere, like somehow my different groups of friends intermingle and all know one another. Dreams are also an expression of the subconscious. ive discovered that sometimes ill dream about what i desire subconsciously when im awake. i also tend to dream about the last person i talk to/interact with before i sleep. Like today, i was msging clarence about his party just before i slept, and i actually dreamt about him and we were all at his party!i remember tt waisan and jonk were in my dream too and a couple of other pple whom i cant remember. so rojak. i can remember another dream that i had last week, even till today! Dreamt of joey, ian, shirin and boons!hahaha i told boons about it and she said she wonders why she was even in the dream when she didnt even do anything.she was just a bystander but i could still remember her being in the dream.i also dunno why i dreamt of the 3 of them out of the blue, especially shirin whom i havent seen since ac prom!

ook quite a long and rambly post. im off!

2007-03-26T12:09:00.000+08:00

Back in hall. Having a short break before tutorial starts.i need to buy a new alarm clock!!

im pretty stoked.The trip's actually gonna materialise!!!:) My parents are the best. They agreed to pay for my airfare! ive gotta cover the rest on my own though. And Sher's coming tooo!:):):)

The down side is that ive gotta cut short my trip. Theres CS senior's camp from the 3rd-5th. Wanted to leave straight after, but the rents think 2 weeks in hk is way too long, and they claim theres nothing to do there. Eating and shopping is a waste of time in their books.So ill be there from the 11th-19th!!

ive done a break down of how im gonna save up some cash, and its quite tragic. i cant spend more than $8 a day on wkdays while im in school.That includes lunch,dinner and supper. im gonna be working tonight too to earn extra moolah. Work's ending this week. its been quite fun and slack actually. One of the better jobs ive had thus far.

im a happy kid!:)

2007-03-25T01:13:00.000+08:00

His grace is sufficient for me.

This week was another helluva hectic week. Finished 105 survey (high stress finding out that we did one part wrongly at 2-frickin-am, with only one other group member who was half awake,and having to redo the entire section), spending all Wed afternoon at bishan for 111 talking to animated old ladies over the phone, finished 103 presentation, finished MB102 presentation. Hours of editing after school on Friday.

Most of today was taken up by church commitments. But i trust that God will multiply the time i have left and increase productivity:). Was soo tired on my way back that i almost missed my busstop cuz i was sleeping on the bus. Wanted to run tonight after a 1/2 an hour nap, but ended up sleeping for 2 hours straight.When i woke up, it was 9pm and pitch dark outside.

Gargeband's pretty cool. My vocals sound better when i add the special effects heh. Thinking of whether to come up with an original soundtrack (minus vocals) for 108, but its quite time consuming. i dont have any fancy guitar pedals as well to create effects. We kinda want the film to end with a bang, and im thinking loud guitar riffs, or a guitar solo accompanied by a 3 piece band for the ending part. But i cant possibly do all that. Frustratingg. And my baby simon&patrick has a crack on its neck and its getting bigger the more i play!i dont think its repairable:(

During the deanery awards, kairu,estelle and i were talking about forming a CS band. yayy more jamming partners:)

Visited an ex schoolmate's blog and im impressed that hes improved so much musically/lyrically. hahah and he wrote a song for his gf who's my friend too.suh-weet. How nice to have a song written and played for you!And posted on public domain!ahaha but must have standard la. His band recently won some competition overseas too. That familiar frustration kicks in. My music's been on a standstill for quite some time. So much i want to do, so little time. i heard joyce from Cs is going to the US to pursue music, to do drums.Lucky!

Alrightt im going to sleep.again.hehh.Seems like once i get home, i jsut feel so comfortable that i feel like sleeping all the time. Hall's convenient, but i definitely miss the comforts of my own home and room. The haven where i can be in a world of my own. Ta.

2007-03-22T02:37:00.000+08:00

Back from cs103 group mtg.Our project's finally donee!!wheee. We were at MAE then shifted to SAC and stayed there till 130am!hahaa alot of digression in between, but its completed at long last!

On our way back after escorting rach back to her ulu hall, elaine,siwei and i tried hitching a ride back from random vehicles that passed us. After some futile attempts, (including one evil girl who just waved at us and drove past with a sadistic smile on her face!!) some nice girl called denice from NBS sent us back in her ntu van!so nice!nbs pple are the best!hahah.

And here's narcissim unleashed. (Some of the overly grotesque/hideous images have been censored and are strictly for internal circulation.) Oh and im proud to say that rach is now a macbook convert, after experiencing firsthand the wonders of macbook photobooth!

2007-03-20T15:49:00.000+08:00

omg. CS111 project. the talks organized by Wings that i was gonna cover on were cancelled at the last minute and there are NO MORE for this month!!!And our presentation is due on 3rd April!! im gonna do an interview with this speaker tomm. Hopefully ill get something substancial to support what im writing!

Anyway that aside.
im going Hong kong next hols!WOOOHOOOOO.

Exams end on 25th April. ill have about a week to enjoy and live it up here, before heading to Hk with shums on the 3rd. CANNOT WAIT!:) We might even stopover at Taiwan, time and money permitting. The best part is that our lodging will be free!And our airfare is dam frickin cheap! Reading amelia's blog and how shes having so much fun on her Hk exchange makes me wanna go all the more!hahah.Sher, sop , sala if youre reading this join ussssss!!!:D

Oh i suddenly remembered!Huiting's on exchange there too!!!All the more reason to go!:):):):)

But first ive to get through cs111, hours of editing for cs108, cs103 presentation and report. And finals. ok dam depressing. Not going to think about all that.

IM GOING TO HONG KONGGGGGGG!!!!

2007-03-17T23:58:00.000+08:00

g12 conference this weekend. Experienced God is such a real way, and in a way like never before:) Am exhausted now, just got back. Will post up reflections tomorrow when ive consolidated all my thoughts. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine:)

The conference was timely.This week's been turbulent,both physically and emotionally. Aside from school work,quizzes and sleep deprivation, it was a pretty rough week cuz of a few things that happened. A maelstrom of conflicting emotions. i guess everything was just pent up, without an outlet for release. Was too preoccupied with school stuff to really give much thought to it, so everything was kinda suppressed. i realise i tend to internalize things. Could be because by expression, ill be acknowledging it and making it a reality. ill be forced to deal with it, when id rather just keep it in the recesses of my mind for the time being. i guess it also stems from wanting to maintain the facade that everything's well and good; the human inclination of refusing to display any trace of vulnerability. Met up with jac during the conference break today. Thanks babe for understanding ilu!

hahah the previous para's so emo! But im all good now. Nothing like being in God's presence:) Was reminded of this song by evan earwicker today at the conference. i cant find the youtube clip for it, but ive the cd,if anyone wants to borrow let me know:)

Dance with me
Words and music by Evan Earwicker
Many songs will fade away
Few things will remain
Melodies and harmonies will change
But i'm hearing a new song

I'm beginning to hear the angels cry holy
Love song of God, rise in me
I'm surrounded by you
Here in your glory
Love song of God, rise in me

I wanna be romanced by the King of the Ages
I don't want to sing of a passion I've never known
I wanna get lost in the beauty of Jesus
To dance through the night around your throne

So dance with me

2007-03-13T01:31:00.000+08:00

im stressed!!!

My MB102 quiz this friday is worth 20%!omggg

Theres still CS105 to study for this friday oso!

Universe bbq on thurs, so ill have to give up prime time cramming the night before the quizzes.

St james on Wed which ill prolly have to forgo again.

G12 conference this wkend, which im really looking forward to, but another wkend gone just like that.

My roomie's asleep and im staying up to make up for lost time. Hall life can be quite distracting. And i can still find the time to blog.

Despite everything, my thoughts still wander. Clearly, my heart has stopped listening to what my head tells me.

i can do ALL things through CHRIST who strengthens me -phil4:13

2007-03-12T00:34:00.000+08:00

Everytime I think of you
I get a shot right through into a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine but its a problem I find
Living a life that i can't leave behind
There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
But thats the way that it goes
And its what nobody knows
And every day my confusion grows
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say
Frente-Bizarre love triangle

Time waits for no man. Time to move on.

2007-03-11T03:52:00.000+08:00

Yayy new template!:) Combined two templates into one to get this final result.i feel much more enlightened about html now. But really, html's all about trial and error, and in a strang way, its quite therapeutic to fiddle around with it. You feel so accomplished when you get your desired result:)

i ve gotta sleep soon, but before that a quick update on my blog with its revamped template! hahaha. you know, all my previous blog templates had dark backgrounds. This is my first time getting one with a white background and its a refreshing change. Also, ive got more space now to ramble on and on and on and on and on and on, without the post looking too long. My previous template was much too narrow.

Went back to ntu today to help out with the sports club booth for ntu's open house. weilian and acuvue did a good job on the open house video:) Go take a look at waisan's blog to view it. Putting aside all personal bias, i still would say that SU13 was the most fun and most well organized camp ive ever attended.watching the video brought back many memories. im glad timon's still going strong and we're still mtg up. ill prob end up having to go to the zoo with them next wk, much as ive tried to avoid that place. hahah no offense to animal lovers, im just not an animal person! After open house and talking to joshua chong on friday, im feeling quite inspired to perform my biz mag duties.i need to get more quality sponsers and also more jobs, so if anyone has job lobang out there PLEASE LET ME KNOW!:)

Was debating yesterday night whether to go for deepan's commisioning or not, considering how much MB102 ive to study. And also CS 105 quiz on the same day! But i decided not to be so bad and cancel at the last minute so i went. i'd post up pics, but somehow, the captions seem to turn up funny on my previous posts!argh.dunno how to rectify that.
It was like some mini ac reunion at safti. Ran into many pple whom i hadnt seen since ac prom! Oh and ian dominic wins the most drastic transformation award!!!omg. i totally COULD NOT recognise him when i saw him, he lost SO much weight! i tell you, its so unfair that guys can lose weight so easily!what with sam losing 9kg and now ian. And its always the pple that dont need to lose weight that end up losing the weight!hahah okok i shall stop.
Safti's a really nice place, and the dorms in OCS are dam nice la. Much nicer than ntu halls! Tsk.Army guys are so pampered these days.haha.Went there with stkanch(haha!), shivas and kaviani (sp?). i was the only chinese among 4 indians including deepan. i miss all my indian friends!i miss checking out hot chindians in ac, who certainly are a rare sight to behold in ntu!

Oh and hall life has been good so far.Had a scary encounter with some banglas while running,but aside from that, its all been good:) Shall update more soon!

Finally, a birthday greeting to JOEY QUEK!hahah happy 20th kiddo!:)

2007-03-04T00:46:00.000+08:00

ive been on a photoblogging spree of late..hahaa taking narcissism to a new level.

Wala tonight. They have the best music there and tonight was no exception. Met up with my mg babes and im missing 'em already! Had the best time catching up,albeit all of us having to shout over the loud music. By the end of the night, all our voices had that raspy, phlegmmy quality. As ian loo would put it, husky phone sex voice. riight.

Guitar at wala

All of us

Sher,sop and i

Sala and i.

Shums and her signature stoned look. Too funny. Denice in the background

Candid! denice and sala

aww.charles and sher.

Us minus peili.

Sop in the driver's seat!yayy no more 61 bus rides back together.

2007-03-03T03:21:00.000+08:00

Had a good time tonight!

Earlier in the evening was spent meeting up with joey for dinner. Sorry dude for making you wait again!and yes, come crash my hall anytime after camp!:)

Went for hall one production with seok and shivas to support elaine and justin.Laughed like mad when i saw justin's pic on the poster!hilarious.Good original compositions and the band was pretty good too. Had supper at the soup spoon and then headed over to smu cafe after that. love the place. Theres a fooseball machine, some archade game thats a hockey puck table thing, and pool tables!man. why doesnt ntu have such things??! And they serve alcohol there!Alcohol on campus?! Dont know why but we were laughing like mad half the time and over the most ridiculous out-of-point things the entire night. haha anyway pics!

Hall one prod

Raffles hotel toilet is frickin nice

Justin playing Uncle Ben.ahaha check out his hair.Perfect for his role!

elaine!Far and away the best of the lot.hahah.Well done babe!:)

mad cows

Ravenous

gluttony

Interior of the cafe.

Seok looks dam pro (looks being the key word.ahaha ok but she's better than i am!)

adios amigos

2007-03-02T04:20:00.000+08:00

omg. can't believe im up at this unearthly hour. ive gotta stop being so nocturnal. Taking a break from the Mac WWDC proposal to advertise for my two friends.

This week was the birthdays of two of the nicest people i know.
Shimali Megawati Rotiprata (aka. Shivali Nayak. Nickname coined by Lucas ting, much to her chagrin)

Jonk (aka Jonathan Kwong). Amazing musician/photographer and my personal IT tutor:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY you guys!:):)xoxo

More pics up soon..some behind the scenes pictures taken during filming for 108, and pics of various pple ive met up with:)

and its back to the proposal.ta

2007-02-27T00:49:00.000+08:00

Hellooo!My blog's been rather stagnant i see. Sorry for neglecting you blog dear. You're still of primary importance in my life..especially in times of boredom.heh

anyways, national vertical marathon on sunday! sarah and i arranged to meet 2 hours before our event, cuz we got the event time and reg time mixed up!But aside from the slp deprivation, it was quite fun.Better than expected, though i think ill stick to horizontal running!And i missed my desired timing by 3 sec!!Heard from waisan that some pple in women's open completed the 60 storeys 1380 steps in 10 min omg.How do they do it??!i feel vertically challenged.hur

National Vertical Marathon '07

Republic Plaza, tallest building in Singapore.

Sarah and i.sarah looking semi-catatonic..we were there at 750am!!

Went back to school today with my roomie waisan and howard to clean up the hall room. Looking forward to living there, but the move's proving to be quite the hassle. ive to make a trip down to ikea, coerce my dad into driving me to sch one day so i can move all my stuff at one go, and grocery shopping. If all goes well ill be able to stay after the term break!

Speaking of which, the term break's helluva hectic. project mtgs practically everyday. Assignments due when school reopens and tests awaiting. Filming for 108 at my place tomm. Filming's fun though, hopefully it wont rain on us again! Catching up with pple in btw. Sala and shiva's bday celebrations. i dont wanna go back to school!heh. Oh and i SO need to study. Hit me up for study sessions pple!

2007-02-10T21:50:00.000+08:00

Missed going to attica with my mg homies in a bid to try to complete the work thats been accumulating. esp for my finance module!ironically its the subject that interests me most this sem. There's supposed to be free champagne there tonight!:(

Today was so not my day.Got frickin lost on my way to tuition at touchyoungarrows cuz they changed the location. Got frickin lost on my way back too.

Hot date with two patricks yesterday. Patrick Wilson and Patrick Dempsey!

The former starred in Little Children, which i watched yesterday with tony. Uni and being stranded on pulau ntu has made me socially retarded. the last movie i caught was (long pause).. One last dance. omg. frickin long ago. And i watched it before it was showing in the cinemas what's more.
im not a big fan of Kate Winslet but i must say her academy award nomination for best actress in this movie is well deserved. Patrick Wilson's an inspiration to work out and get fit. hahah i want him as my personal fitness trainer! its a good film, albeit controversial themes such as paedophilia and too many psychotic pple running amuck.hahah. its a tad long,but i like how the plot slowly unravels with its intricately woven twists.

i had my date with patrick no.2 when i got home. Grey's anatomy season 1 was showing on tv!!yayyy.was dam happy la. Only got hooked onto grey's during season 2 and i didnt watch much of season 1. Can't wait to relive the mcdreamy/mcsteamy days this coming march!Grey's anatomy season 3!!!!

2007-02-06T04:26:00.000+08:00

The good thing about old friends:
they know you inside out,
they know who you really are.
The bad thing about old friends:
they know you inside out,
they know you too well.
The good thing about old friends:
you can count on them to tell you the truth.
The bad thing about old friends:
they tell you the truth even when you don't want to hear it.

Old habits die hard.Thank you, i needed that. im sorry. (you know who you are)

2007-02-02T04:30:00.000+08:00

:)

you made my day

2007-02-01T00:13:00.000+08:00

jac and i woke up at 5am to run today!Will wonders never cease.

hahah im quite proud of us and especially proud of jac baby cuz she's getting into long dist running too!:D Also if not for her, id have never gotten up this morning! i woke up so frickin early that the security guard wasnt even on duty yet and the side gate near my block was locked, so i had to take a longer route by the main gate. Ran from my house, to hollandv, to ac to meet jac, to acsi and singapore poly then back to the canal. hahah it sounds longer than it is actually. Got out of my house in a sleep induced stupour but strangely enough i felt quite invigorated once i started running. i love the cold morning weather and the stillness..how you feel like you own the roads where its devoid of traffic and exhaust fumes.hahah. We're gonna do this at least every tuesday morning, my only non 830 day. Till i move into hall that is.

Speaking of which, its almost confirmed that im gonna stay in hall this sem!WOOOHOOO. ahahah confirmed on my part that is. Whether the administration approves is another thing, though ill prob get a room la, just depending on which hall. Yayyy. Am quite looking forward to the complete autonomy though ill make sure it wont end up biting me back.heh. Will probably move in after CNY during the recess week.ill invite y'all for room-warming sessions once ive settled in:)

Sanctification week this week. Tonight's session was really good. its amazing how you've read certain passages of scripture or heard certain things before, yet God can speak to you in a totally different way, and about things that are so relevant to you. Also being reminded of God's grace. How we can experience such fullness of joy in his presence and if we align ourselves to his will:)

2007-01-27T08:28:00.000+08:00

Oh boy. Yesterday after getting home from the seniors' fair, i had dinner then decided to take a quick nap around 10 plus,intending to wake up at 11. Ended up sleeping through the night and i only just woke up! Was feeling under the weather yesterday from sleep deprivation and from being out in the cold all night on thursday and also at the fair. But im feeling alot better now:)

Yesterday was such an unlucky day! Murphy's law was especially applicable to me:(
For starters, i woke up late for school. i dunno why my bodyclock seems to be stuck at 8am when im supposed to wake up at 7 to get to sch in time for 830 lessons!

Was rushing like mad to school and upon reaching the train platform, the train had arrived and the doors were about to close. I rushed into the train, only to end up skidding and i fell rather unglamorously. On bended knee what's more, cuz by some weird reflex mechanism, i stuck out my foot trying to break the fall. i ended up landing right on my big toe..the same one which my macbook fell on last sem, which the toe nail hasnt grown back till now!! its now a nice shade of purple. i seriously hope i won't have to wait 2 weeks like the other time before i can run again!:(

After my elective, i met evelyn so we could head down to the senior's fair together. When she saw my shirt, she suddenly started laughing and i asked her why. She was like "Why did you wear this shirt for the senior's fair??!" Then it dawned on me. This was the caption on my shirt. "If my music is too loud, you're too old!" OMG. hahaha. oh for the uninitiated, the seniors' fair is actually this fair for senior citizens, to raise health awareness and promote actvities for the aged. i wore my jacket there most of the time cuz it was quite cold and also hoping the organizers wouldnt notice my shirt, but some of the Wings association people (whom we're collaborating with) did. Embarrassing la.hahah.

The seniors' fair was alot grander than i expected. They even had a ddr (Dance dance revolution) booth and a guitar para para one as well!hahah. We went for the a talk by some doctor so that we could take some pictures. It was quite informative and entertaining i must say. ahaha. This doctor was an ex-mp and also a spokesperson for Wings. After her talk there was time allocated for q&a session and there was this 74 year old guy that kept bombarding her with questions!hahah.
For instance, she had made this point earlier on how the elderly had the capacity to still lead sexually active lives and he was like,"what if we're not married and don't have anyone to have sex with?Not easy to find you know!"omg.hahah he kept rebutting her and it was like the opposition party vs. PAP!But gotta hand it to her, she countered back really well and addressed all his concerns with aplomb, injecting some humour to diffuse the tension.

ook.we've almost completed the first part of our 111 project, but most of the work we've to do is post-event work. i quite like our idea but its helluva lot of work la.

2007-01-26T01:56:00.000+08:00

Back from ocs dinner. The dinner itself seemed to be over in no time. i guess its cuz we arrived late...ian and his friend took ages to pick us up! ian, bailing and i decided to go as a threesome (the lucky guy!). Funnily enough, we actually met another threesome 'couple' there hahah.

The three of us went for supper at bedok after that. im glad bailing came for the dinner too. During these social nights, i feel that the girls are like accessories for the guys. i saw several girls just sitting around looking bored while their dates were mingling and drinking beer. ian was nice enough not to abandon us..most of the time anyway!heh.

Of course to a girl, such a function would not mean anything, not having gone through army personally, and so she'd be there just to show support to her date/friend. However for the guys,i guess its a rite of passage (aha CS 101!).. the dinner, the various performances, speeches(which we missed), icebreakers, watching the video clip while reminiscing about past experiences, the occasional hollers and catcalls from the audience when certain candid shots were shown, the mass photo-taking (yes guys have photowhoring tendencies too) ...One last reunion before they embark on a 6-week voyage to shores unknown.

bailing and i somehow ended up looking very chinese-new-year, me in my red dress and she in her turtle-neck like top.hahah nothing wrong with getting into the cny spirit early!

ian, that jackass, told his friends that we were his bimbo friends from the squad in school. hahaha and the funniest thing is that ian's called the bimbo in his camp too. i see his himbotic persona hasnt worn off since jc!

Anyway, pics! Sadly not many good ones cuz most were taken with flash and it made everyone(or at least me in particular) look either jaundiced or ghostly.Someone teach me photoshop!haha

bailing and i

Casanova

everyone

ian's rendition of "Wherever you may go" by lifehouse

er..very interesting performance.

Doesn't this look like the interior of a ship? Nicee.

im captain of the ship!

ian and i steering the "ship"

The gruesome twosome!

On board looking out into the vast oceans

2007-01-25T00:00:00.000+08:00

arghh. im highly stressed. Lately whenever i read my fellow coursemates' blogs, they're all lamenting about how stoned/shagged/drained/exhausted they are. its week 3 and the readings and assignments are piling up alr.Hello school, hello late nights.

Last wkend was totally packed with nary a time to sit down and work. This wk will be burnt again..with ian's ocs function thursday night, eunice's baptism and going down to the seniors' fair for cs111 project on friday, Sat ive gotta go for some finance seminar that my dearest dad signed me up for, followed by tuition and then shums' and jasmine's 21st bdays. Sun will be church and Surf and Sweat dry run for pract half the day. And then there's 105 assignment to hand up during friday's 830 lecture, which means ive no choice but to attend. Think ill have to give mos a miss tomorrow night.

im not gonna make the mistakes i made in sem 1 again.

argh alright.im gonna sleep to be able to wake up for yet another 830 lecture. adios

2007-01-21T17:40:00.000+08:00

Ah im finally back home..Gonna hibernate soon.

Been awhile since i went to changi village area..though i guess ill be going there again soon enough, this thurs in fact. Looking forward to it but the fact that ive got 830 lesson the next day keeps nagging at me. argh.will find a way to wake up somehow!

Back from changi holiday inn chalet with my g12 girls. Was a two-night thing, but i only could join them on saturday. Had a good time and also good food! ahahah for dinner last night, we had this really heeuge fish amoung other dishes..and it weighed 900g! On top of that, we ordered chilli stingray too,so that's really quite alot of fish!hurhur(pun unintended). hahah but anyway, i think jang and i ended up consuming most of the 900g one cuz it was dam nice and we eat the same things cuz we have the same preferences and taste when it comes to food. Heh.We were speculating on how heavy the fish was and we got a shock when we found out how much fish we actually ate!haha

God is really good. i thank him for his love and faithfulness and i think ive rediscovered my first love for him:)

Ok shall update more on it later. Quite stoned now alr. ta

2007-01-17T19:08:00.000+08:00

Grey's anatomy won a golden globe award for best drama!! Woohooo. A well deserved award i must say!:D

And some hot goss about the cast of grey's: Patrick Dempsey (Mcdreamy) and Ellen Pompeo ( Meredith Grey) actually admitted that they both liked one another! In real life! hahah. But Patrick's married!! hmmm wait, doesnt this love triangle concept sound a tad familiar??! This bears too much resemblance to the fictional one in grey's! hahah. With poor ellen assuming the role of the 'dirty mistress' once again! heh. Not sure whether this is the latest news though. Just came back from dental appointment and was reading this tabloid while waiting, which was november '06 issue i think. Fairly recent.

haha oh yeah..must be careful of what i blog about, taking into account the recent controversies over bloggers and the content in their blogs. Just a clarification, the mag didnt actually say they liked one another, but quoted ellen admitting to having a crush on patrick, and patrick echoing her sentiments. Whether it was said in jest, i don't know. yeap. just to be specific.:P

My dentist sounded alot more promising today when he said i could FINALLY remove my braces next session! yeah so what if he's said that before? This time is different i say! His tone wasnt the usual must-sound-optimistic-about-patient's-progress-reguardless-of-whether-its-really-the-truth-or-not way. He said it with more certainty and promise this time!:):) Or so i'd like to think anyway.haha. i want nice straight braces-less teeth already!

2007-01-14T01:02:00.000+08:00

arghh. i feel frickin fat. (Alliteration!) Carbo loaded for dinner and had mocha ice blended after that. With whipped cream what's more, since i forgot to tell ian to order without it. Sinful! i feel the phospholipids and triglycerides accumulating in my adipose tissues. (aha i still remember some bio!)

Had some really good thai food at lemongrass with tony, and i think i ended up eating more than him! We were sharing two dishes so i ended up eating most of mine AND some of his! And mine had more carbs! i refuse to think of how many calories ive ingested. Also, the thing is, you only realise how full you are 10 minutes after youve eaten. Hence you'll be eating continuosly thinking youre not that full yet, when moments later after you've stopped, you realise that you've overeaten and you end up feeling extremely full. Ok that sentence makes me sound like such a pig. And no im not weight obsessed. Just health conscious.

Hooked up with ian and bailing after that. shivas just touched down from india today so she couldnt join us:(( Man its been awhile since our rating and photowhoring days. The two of 'em are still as idiosyncratic as ever. i agree with tony, i miss ac!

Bumped into quite a number of ntu pple today..Sop, Ling, Waisan, Howard and Charlotte!This is what studying in ntu does to you. You only come to town in the weekends!

Went to give tuition at touch young arrows today as well for the second time. Now, you know that im so NOT a kids person. But they're kinda endearing after awhile..how they run around chasing after you, making fun of your name, calling you aunty and making you feel ten years older. yeahh..haha. Oh and pri school kids still learn english from Pets textbooks! And trace alphabets in their Pets workbook!.hahaha.i thank God for this opportunity, albeit being out of my comfort zone. i know he's teaching me to have a spirit of servanthood through his love:)

aiight, im gonna try to wake up early tomm to work off the newly acquired lipids.

2007-01-13T01:46:00.000+08:00

Jiarong's bday pics!

Yours truly. Funky african painting in the background

church pple

Us:)

Messing ard with the helium balloons..

Huiting and eunice! (jo holding the balloons in the background)

Jo acting cute hahah

jang and i. jang in a long skirt!:D

Huiming, jiarong the birthday girl and i

sistas:)

2007-01-11T21:20:00.000+08:00

Almost one week of school has passed. tomm's friday. TGIF!! haha this week wasnt too bad actually. its great seeing everyone again after the one month hiatus:). This week was also really slack considering that i didnt have any tutorials except for one module. Ended lessons at 945am today, and also tomm! Even though it sucks having to wake up at 6am, to travel all the way down to the island (pulau ntu) just for one introductory lecture, im not complaining.haha better enjoy it while we can pple!

i'm seriously considering staying in hall this sem. 4 8:30 days in a week is just too much considering my nocturnal habits. And of course, the idea of complete autonomy is highly appealing. i can go back to hall and sleep in between lessons too!hahah i cant always be sleeping on boons' roomie's bed! Eun's also moved out of her single room alr so ive got one less hall room to crash. But there are cons as well. Eating school food 3 mealsX5days a week. Doing laundry. Shared toilets. Having to clean your own hall room. Having to clean the hall toilet (ugh), depending on which hall i stay. Having to take part in hall stuff to earn points. Don't know if i can study well in hall too. This sem's especially crucial, cuz 1st year grades determine whether i can make it for exchange program, and also double major.

Anyway, i think i prefer my modules last sem! i mean, 106 was quite ok even though i dont really like public speaking. 101 and 102 were interesting and i liked them even though they were the heavier modules. 104 i didnt attend 80% of lectures so that was pretty slack for me heh.816 was the only one i couldnt stand.Thank goodness that's over and done with!!

But this sem, i only like 107! Basic media writing. Oh and my elective, biz finance. The other core modules seem too technical! im a computer noob so i forsee trouble with 108. The tutorial handbook's going to be my means of survival. im not looking forward to the website part, but filming our own movie sounds pretty cool. Getting to push the limits as to how liberal shaun how is (self proclaimed) should prove to be interesting. Prior 108 projects have included CS's own brokeback couple, excessive orgasmic noises, and a horror flick starring a serial killer dressed in a raincoat. hahaha

oh tomm's jiarong and Ben's 21st celebration! HAPPY BIRTHDAY you guys!:D Man, i feel old.

2007-01-05T02:15:00.000+08:00

Helloo world! It's alr 2 hours into the 5th day of the new year.A little late for well wishesi know..but anyhow, HAPPY belated NEW YEAR y'all!

Went to watch the movie premiere of "One last dance". My first time watching a chi movie in a cinema! Yeap. We all got to go to the gala premiere, all thanks to Ben and his free tickets..or rather, his mom's free tickets. Was pretty cool actually..cuz it was a red carpet affair..and alot of pple turned up just to see the celebs walk in. and OMG. i saw Jonathan leong!!hahah.like finally!everyone's been seeing him ard..on campus, in town..and i got to see him today!ive never been a big fan of local tv..but i must say some of the local celebs look way better in person. tv doesnt do them justice!haha. pple like Julian Hee (gay or not,definitely much better looking in person), Randall tan, Mark Zee, Nick Shen and some other tcs8 pple whom i recognise but whose names slip my mind. The female celebs look alot skinnier in person too!Man. Oh i saw francis ng too and he really does look like an older version of Shixiong!hahaha.

argh this post wouldve been alot more interesting with pics..but sadly, i didnt take any!!!!:(only one very blurry shot of george's idol 751! (or was it 715?) some new guy la.

Enough gushing about local celebs. It was great catching up with all the old charis pple again..and it was funny how vincent couldnt even recognize me!He looks exactly the same though ahaha. yeah, its been what, six years for some of them..but i dont think i look all that different.heh. Oh Samuel recognized me but i totally couldnt recall who he was at first. haha it was like extreme makeover for him la he looked so different!But in a good way of course ahahah.

Ok..oh yeah.havent posted up my new year resolutions for this year... eat less! Play more guitar! Really gotta spend more time practising.. Beeg thank you to jonk for yesterday..and also for the long wait today!!!!!reeeally sorry. ok back to resolutions..

oh yes. Need. to. run.

And pull my gpa up up up!

2007-01-04T11:47:00.000+08:00

Spell it out in a song
Bet you never catch on to my weakness
I'm singing every word for you
Here I'm thinking I'm sly
Then you're catching my eye, and just maybe
You're thinking what I'm thinking too

Come down to me-Saving Jane

2006-12-12T00:42:00.000+08:00

Such passion. Such drive. And oh such skill. To be able to play that way..
im inspired. Tonight was an eye opener indeed.

2006-12-07T14:00:00.000+08:00

Hello world. It's been quite some time since ive blogged in here. Truth is, ive got another blog. haha. ill still be updating here, but more infrequently i suppose. Livejournal's privacy and friends only function has proved to be too alluring. But blogger has been serving me faithfully the past 4 years, so i shall keep this up if no reason other than for sentimental value:)

im trying to register for subjects now. eun scared me into sitting at the computer and just keep clicking away till reg time. Fastest fingers suck. i dont know which is worse..balloting or fastest fingers. Both have their demerits. At least tomorrow wont be as stressful when i ballot for electives.

The hols have been goood:) haha alot of time wasted on frivolity. but its fun frivolity, though when is frivolity not fun? i think working for two events at Fitness and Health international(FHI) has been the only productive thing ive done so far. Oh. and running a half marathon.

2006-11-20T05:46:00.000+08:00

Upon doing research for 104 exam question i stumbled upon the wikipedia page for acjc and this is what it said under sporting achievements.

"ACJC are traditional powerhouses in rugby, swimming, water polo, badminton, golf, billiards, netball, air rifle and track & field.

Prior to 1998, the ACJC cross-country team was still part of the track & field team without a separate identity. However, ever since it became an independent CCA and had its own streamlined training program and coaching staff, the ACJC cross-country team has enjoyed tremendous success, most importantly in the national schools championships.

The greatest achievement thus far was undoubtedly the back-to-back hat-trick of national inter-schools team gold from 2001, 2002 and 2003 for the boys’ team. The girls’ team landed the championship in 1999, and has constantly emerged among the top 3 teams ever since. Even though the races have since been shifted from MacRitchie Reservoir to Sentosa and now finally to the Old Turf Club, the ACJC cross-country team continues to excel. In 2002 and 2003, the boys' team swept back-to-back individual champions. Their latest win in the national inter-school cross-country championships is in 2006. Yet another notable achievement was in 2001, when the top 3 runners of the inter-schools national track & field championships 800m event came from the ACJC x-country team."

And that's all there was under sporting achievements.

im quite amused cuz its obvious that an ex-crossie added the last 2 paragraphs, making it seem like unequal representation of our sports scene. But hey, alumnus of the other ccas could always have their say too.haha i think it's someone from the '01 batch cuz there was even a photo of the 2001 guys team next to the write up with the caption "The victorious x-country team".haha

i miss running..its been 3 weeks!and i dont even have proper runnning shoes anymore since my new balance ones died during sports camp. i want my asics GT-2110!

argh.104 in a couple of hours!

2006-11-19T18:57:00.000+08:00

Treasure of Jesus
(Steven Curtis Chapman)

What can I do
How can I live
To show my world
The treasure of Jesus

What will it take
What could I give
So they can know
The treasure He is

If I can sing
Let my songs be full of His Glory
If I can speak
Let my words be full of His Grace
If I should live or die
Let me be found pursuing this prize
The One that alone satisfies
The Treasure of Jesus

2006-11-19T01:56:00.000+08:00

bah. stoopid blogger just deleted a post i had typed halfway.

YAY.2 down 3 more to go. 101 was...ahh lets just say it couldve been better!Talk about expectation violation theory!haha.Some of the questions were quite unexpected.i mean where did communication complexity model come from?!!Hardly anyone knew what tt was la. i attempted that question but conveniently chose to ignore that part heh.

thank God that i survived the 2 most gruelling papers.:)its really by his grace and strength..esp for 102:) Surviving on 3 hours of sleep and still be wide awake for the ppr:) Even though im usually effectively functional at night, the successive late nights were taking its toll on me. Its really by his strength that i had the energy to endure two more late nights:) Was also asking God for wisdom as to how to study within the limited time. Somehow, he led me to the sections to focus on,some of which came out during the paper.God is faithful:)

Friday and sat were spent catching up with old friends, and being the aunt agony for some. its like somehow, everyone chose to have problems on the same day or smth. Friday night's study session was so not productive, but had a good time catching up with a friend whom i havent talked to properly in ages:) i dont know how things ended up the way it did, but i shall choose not to overanalyse it for now:)

oook.wayy too much time gone to waste. i need to wake up my idea and go studyy!haha. 3 more to go. I CANT WAIT FOR WED 7PM!

2006-11-09T14:06:00.000+08:00

im at my condo's study room now. there's a couple sitting directly in front of me, constantly pda-ing. It's highly distracting.

Anyway. Yesterday was a terrible day! i left my file at can A for about 1 and a half hours and lo and behold, it was gone when i came back for it! My file containing ALL my notes and readings for 101 and 102!!!

Thinking that some evil, heartless person had stolen it (and theres only 7 DAYS LEFT TO EXAMS), eun and i spent the entire afternoon frantically borrowing notes from my course mates, and also re-zapping everything on edventure. argh.

We did all that in one afternoon, only to find that last night, i received an email on my ntu account from some prof saying that he had my file!!! OMGGGGGG. i was so pissed. i mean, its like pple leave their stuff all the time at can A to reserve places.. and i had been gone for only 1.5 hours! And after i painstakingly replenished everything, i receive an email, to my ntu account of all places! i mean, if he actually went to search for my personal particulars on the ntu database to contact me, couldnt he have the decency to call me instead, since my phone number wouldve be listed there as well???! Then i wouldve found out sooner before wasting a whole afternoon! arghhhh.

i thank God that at least im gonna get back my file..and esp all my 102 notes, which defers for each individual. Different note taking styles and all. Beeg thank you to Ruyan! For lending me all her notes, and going back to hall to get the rest of what she didnt have when i asked her:). On hindsight, i think this is another episode teaching me that i really need to be more careful in the future!sigh.

oh well. no point lamenting over what's done. Gonna meet the prof on friday with eun, and i hope neither of us gives in to the urge to just start strangling him. Haha. that would be scholastic suicide.

Oh well. The couple in front of me is still at it. And i better get back to studying.

All the best for the exams!

2006-10-29T05:29:00.000+08:00

hello world!The reason im blogging at this ungodly hour is that uni has turned me into a nocturnal being. A 5am bedtime is considered the norm for me now.

At long last, my projects are all over!!! Like finally. All ive left is impromptu speech next fri, which i cant really prepare for can i. Yay. My last presentation was over last fri, and since then, ive kinda adopted this laid-back relaxed attitude. which is bad!!!! cuz exams are in 2.5 weeks time!!!!!arghh. its as though i feel like since ive completed all my projects, ive earned a well-deserved break. i rewarded myself with watching 4 back-to-back episodes of smallville on fri night after g12 mtg, catching up on sleep deprivation by sleeping till 2pm this afternoon, and then an entire day of retail therapy with jac dahlink. And now im feeling super guilty about it!

okim so gonna snap out of it tomm. time to get into nerd-mode alr!