Vietnam 07

Took me quite a while to write something about the trip. Finally gathered enough motivation after my first paper in 3 months is over.


Flew to Ho Chi Ming City with Jetstar. We kinda paid more than we should. The very next day after we paid for the tickets, Jetstarasia decided to come up with a $2 promotion. What a good omen!


Day 1:

Checked in to a wonderful guesthouse "Blue River Hotel". The staffs there are simply fantastic. The facilities there are new and clean. With aircon, attached bathroom, cable television and free internet usage, it cost 6 USD per pax per night. How I wish they have this everywhere in the world.

Dumping our bags, we embarked on a "7 hours City Tour" recommended by our little blue book.
With a little Holland all thanks to ____ (I shan't mention name) and a few short cuts, we managed to keep the tour to within 7 hours with plenty of rest in between. Some (mis)adventures also took place: chased by dogs, vendors, disrupting traffic flow.

First meal in Vietnam, at Pho 24, just before walking round district 1.


Different sizes of noodles.

Kanghao with a street vendor prior to being harassed by a coconut drink vendor for 2 whole streets

Overcoming the language barrier to buy a cup of "mix ice" desert. It took two NUS students to do the job with a wtf hand sign (look carefully and you shall see) from Alex.

Final Destination "Jade Emperor Pagoda". I was sincerely hoping to see something grand. Maybe not as grand as the grand palace of Thailand but at least a little taller (my understanding of pagodas is that they are supposed to be tall), bigger and filled with a few more statues of deities. This is seriously not a site worth visiting for Singaporeans who have see many many more variety of temples in their lives. This is not withstanding the fact that this is the most out of the way tourist attraction in the city tour.

Concluded day one with ~20 fake pirated adiddas polo tees.


Day 2:

Dragged ourselves out of bed and had our first breakfast in Vietnam. We asked for coffee but they served us both coffee and tea. That is where we learn that vietnamese usually starts the day with a cup of tea.

Took a long bus ride to Cao Dai Temples. It's a temple built like a Christian church decorated with Buddhist lotus, emphasis place on direction like in Islam and Taoist influences in its rites. There are another 3 religions involved but I can't really remember. It was really an eye opener.

Front view of the temple


Different colours symbolise different "religion"

With so many tourist staring at them, taking pictures with flashes on, they still carried on with the mess.

Visited Chu Chi tunnels, indigenous product of Vietnam war and a very popular tourist destination now. Watch a super low quality video that was produced like 20 years ago? The irony is that it is shown on a huge plasma screen that will cost me more than a year worth of allowance. There's more than tunnels in that place. It's is more like a open concept museum that show case how the people lived in the extreme conditions during VW. The highlight is the tunnel where I gave up on the first exit and some ang mos didn't even bother to try since they know they will be stuck somewhere along the tunnel.

After crawling through 30 m of the infamous tunnels

Concluded the day with more than 100 hours worth of DVDs


Day 3:

Mekong delta day. Took boats everywhere in the region. Visited honey farm. Took pictures with python. Witnessed coconut sweet production line.

Kanghao tasting the wind.

Snakes like this are available everywhere for people to take picture.

Straw hats with a plastic cover.

Concluded the day with more DVDs and polo tees.

Day 4:

The designated shopping day. I bought a cheapo backpack that look sturdy enough for 12 USD. Walking in the crowded Ben Thiam Market for the next 2 hours was quite physically and more importantly, mentally demanding.

Ate Pho at Pho 2000 a shop patronized by Bill Clinton when he visited Vietnam. More shopping followed.

Girls went for their long awaited pedi and mani cures, Kanghao went to for his hair styling. Gary and I made our way back to our room. My last meal there was from the fast food chain a shrimp burger, supplemented by a baguette with some fillings from a road side store right next to it.

Concluded the day with a flight back to SG!

TV and Smoke

When I was younger, my parents used to tell me that I might just blow up the TV one day by watching the TV for too long. It was their desperate attempt at preventing me from becoming a TV addict. I didn't really bother with their threat then and no TV blew up. However, it never happened until today when the TV was barely switched on for an hour. Too bad I was too kanjong in preventing a fire from starting, I forgot to take a picture of the once in a life time scene.

I am officially sick but not bed ridden. I have gave up on my deceiving myself that I am healthy to go out, jog, swim, night cycle.... but luckily I have a stockpile of movies to kill time. Watched, Hitch, Hostel: Part2, Shooters and Letters from Iwo Jima in the past 48 hours

Special sem is more enjoyable than I had expected when I signed up. The lecturer is humorous yet the questions he asked, the comments and jokes he made are all quite "enlightening". How I wish that all engine modules can be as interesting as this. I know I am sick but I am still sane enough to know that I am daydreaming. There are also interesting people in that class. Overenthusiastic smart alecs seem to be in abundance in lecture, while overenthusiastic freshies are in abundance in my tutorial group (7 out of 13 people).

Nightcycling was kinda refreshing; most of the participants were sick. In addition, a total of more than 3 hours were spent on fixing the bikes and one eventually gave way. Went to a grand total of ONE eating place (mac at ecp is not counted). The saving grace is the bah chor mee that I have haven't tasted for months.

Saw damn a lot of people skating at ecp. I didn't know it is still the "in" thing now. Maybe I should really try inline skating soon.

9 days and counting....

In another 9 working days:
1. I will not need to wake up at 5.30am every morning.
2. Take extra care when eating soupy food
3. Squint my eyes at the monitor all day long
4. Use an antique nokia phone

Although this attachment is one of the most enjoyable so far(maybe because that it is one of the shortest), I hope this is my last one.

As of tomorrow, I still have another 2 months before school starts. Hope my procastinations do not put the two months to waste. Actually there isn't much I can do other than play, rest and a little tiny bit of studying for my special term. The past one month hasn't been so bad. Even thought I did not really do something very fulfilling, at least I feel fitter than a month ago which give me higher confidence in getting a silver for IPPT. It's worth a hundred dollars! Which can be use to offset my 124-dollars-more-expensive-than-if-I-book-now-budget-airline Vietnam trip and maybe the "so-going-to-happen" bintan trip.

From my experience in the past one month, I come to realise that Singapore is indeed a small island. First day of work, I bumped into Zhichao, my mids batch mate, who is studying in NTU, in NUS library. Second week of work, bumped into Nick, another one my mids batch mate who also happened to be my secondary school CCA mate and JC school mate, working as a waiter for a catering company. All thanks to the coincidence, we got to do a lot of catching up. Third blk outing, bumped into Waihan, friend from the JC days, sitting just one seat in front of my during the screening of pirates 3 (rather disappointing movie though). Plus a few hi and bye friends that I met on the MRT and bus rides home. I guess I managed to spot them because I can't just simply drop my head and doze off the moment my butt hit the seat anymore. Nevermind. In another 9 working days i can sleep on the bus/MRT all I want.

Random Post

There is something wrong with blogger. The input system isn't functioning properly. Nevertheless i managed to upload a pic(below).

This was how my corridor looked like on my last day in Sheares. What an amazing sight. That's how much junk people collect in their rooms over the year. I guess this pile of rubbish would had given the cleaner a surprise the very next morning.

Been back to NUS once since I shifted out. Just to help a friend access the library. Nothing much changed except the demographics during lunch time. Everything seemed the same except that the place was generally less lively and you feel like you are hearing a foreign language all the way.

Well, I am really enjoying my stay at home. At least, I got much more time to sleep and do my own stuff. This makes me wonder if I should contiune staying next sem. Traveling is bad but bearable my from experience these few days. I can always sleep on the bus. Money I save can be better spent elsewhere. But then, I will most likely miss the wonderful people there. Nevermind, I still have a long time to consider.

Personality test

Accurate to a certain extend...

Get to know yourself better

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties. (i know i am not a bias person, but I never knew that I was suppose to be diplomatic)

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes. (quite true leh)

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person. (erhmmm not really true)

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education
You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job. (i am suppose to convince myself that I like to study..... my job is indeed unusual, about 2 people per year will take up the job.....)

The right job for you:
You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success. (no comments)

How do you view success:
You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying. (typical try-to-make-you-happy statement)

What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear. (so i shall offend everyone around me starting from tomorrow, no one shall receive any form of help from me at all and don't try to make me buy lunch for you all)

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve. (oh my god, if i give good advice george bush is the best president in the entire USA history)

Mugging days

I am really amaze with myself that I managed to mug for hours at a stretch. Hmmmm, but I am more amazed with people that can mug for 14 hours straight. Does mugging such long hours really helps? Even if it does, I will convince myself it won't. Somehow, I will be tempted to deceive myself that watching 14 hours of anime in one shot helps mugging.

I am blogging now because some "yandao" is using the gym to watch something and I can't use it (i am trying hard to fit into my uniform). I wonder what's so important that he needs the privacy of the gym to watch it?

Girl is a truly amazing species. They expect guys not to get angry when they repeatedly whack them on the back. Yet, they get angry when guys laugh at them. They expect their actions to be reciprocated yet, when guys help them with things, they take it for granted. They whine and throw insults and expect guys to pay more attention to them and yet when guys rebut them with simple logic they start crying.

I am typing all these because I am really pissed off with someone. Seems like I get pissed off more easily during exam period. Really need to manage my temper. Come to think of it, if I don't vent it out, won't I end up like the south Korean guy that killed so many people?

I give up, not waiting for the gym anymore, bed is more comfortable than gym.

ME

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they never say i am a boring person leh.

Pre exam period.

Signs of exams nearing: more people go to the study room/library, people get moodier, people do more silly stuffs, less people turn up for hall/block events, emptier comm hall.

Signs of exam stress: people quarel over the cyberspace, more posters being defaced, practicing "heavenly kicks" on doors, babble non stop without thinking.

Hmm, I just realised how popular blogging is. Almost everyone I know has a BLOG. I wonder why? Maybe it's just a trend, like how everyone used to own a personal website in the past. But definitely, it is a trend that is here to stay. With every new addition in life, different problems will also arise. Now quarels can start just from blogs and carried on to real life. In sec school days, quarels started form IRC too but we were childish back then. Being in Uni now, I thought people around me will be more mature. How wrong am I.... I guess childishness will always be a common feature when people congregates.

SO says I am fat. I am just heavy lah not fat. Anyway, SO u are LIGHT!

The "real" Night of 77 Stars

Night of 77 stars 07 continued the tradition of all previous block C concert proud tradition of being totally incoherent to absolutely anything but remained remarkably entertaining. The dancers were should part time as stand up comedians, those you see in Gags or Just for Laugh on sbs buses TV mobile. Using Janice contagious laughter, KY's kickass expression, JS's good looks, Tat's MR singapore's muscles, fx's dance moves and wendy's (how?) pinch, I think they can easily be the funniest group of standup comedians ever gathered. Vulgarity also gotten a whole new meaning under the creativity of the girls. Hokkien songs sounds kinda scary now after watching an Ah Beng hold an umbrella going after a ... girl. The level 8 performance really epitomise the incoherent theme. Kenneth also unnecessarily displayed his song writing talent. But I guess he is really sad, if not he wouldn't have even composed that song and performed it infront of the very eyes of his armh armh. It just shows that armh armh-ness is not the way to go. Other than that, I also found out that he is damn good at creating decoys and I have to be the unfortunate one. If his room is burn down or something, it is really not me.

Nus open house

Helped out at Sheares for the NUS open house. It was really quite boring. Not many people would want to visit the halls because not many people intend to stay in hall. If NUS would lower the hall fees, I think a lot more people would want to stay. But I guess it will never happen in the near future.

Teenagers nowadays, at least those coming to NUS really give thorough thoughts about their future. Of course, it is a good thing. I didn't even bother to go for university open houses or faculty talks. Now the first few questions incoming students asked are, "is Life sciences the way to go for the future?", "Is the job prospect for electrical engineering good..."......

Another thing is that JC student really don't know much about hall. With so many seniors and friends in hall, is it really that hard to know more about the various halls in NUS? Ask so many bo liao questions about the different halls. Some even think that all RH are meant for rafflesians. While many others think that all science student should go to KE7 since it is the nearest hall. Since I am from Sheares (and they know it), what kind of answers can they expect? Of course I will put down the other halls to promote sheares lah. Maybe I was once like that...

Year of the Golden Pig

Chinese new year comes with hongbaos and new year goodies. Hongbao wise, it seems to be lesser and lesser each year despite the economy doing better and better. I suppose it just the people getting stingier and stingier.

Being an undergrads also implies that CNY is really short. With midterms one week after CNY who could possibly really enjoy chinese new year. In addition to midterms, there were tutorials and assignments to add on to the misery. Although I cut short my CNY and went back to hall, I played majong almost everyday. It is really an addictive game, very addictive.

Organising CNY dinner during the "week of midterms" isn't a wonderful job too. Late nights were unavoidable but thanks to the kind and understanding Deco IC and chairperson, the week didn't become worse. At the very least, I still had the night before the tests to study and it is not as if I would have studied way before that. Luckily the dinner turn out quite well despite the expected low attendance and unexpected lack of food.


Hieu is really enjoying himself being the Vietnamese Chai Sheng Ye



C-towners left in hall.


Hope everyone has a prosperous Golden Pig year ahead!

Posters 2

Posters can not only show how unpopular you are but also show how popular you are. After an event certain posters with a certain guy disappear before you can even walk back to you room. Luckily for me, steal one and fence off some attacks for the poster.

New month resolution

New month resolutions:
1) I shall be on bz mode only when i am really busy and away mode when I am really away. In case someone say that I am HJ again.
2) I shall not lag behind in tutorials since i know i can never do catching up.
3) I shall take picture of people drooling in lectures and send to the professor to inform them on how "wonderful" their lectures are.

Posters

Somehow or rather, posters are getting more and more popular in hall. Some serves very general purposes like appealing to people to support IHG games. Some serves to tell people of specific events. There are also posters that just serve to raise the profile of people in committees or sports. Well, when you have pictures of people everywhere in hall, there will also be some vandalism. I guess some people just like to show their displeasure by tearing down posters of people they don't like. I guess no harm is really done but I sure hope those who tear down the posters feel better. If not the money spent on printing the posters will be totally wasted. I think a better way of showing their displeasure on a certain someone would be pasting post-it notes beside, around or on the posters. Firstly, they can really substantiate why they hate that person (on the poster). Secondly, it save money. A piece of post-it is definitely cheaper than reprinting a poster. Thirdly, post-it notes are small and the process of pasting it shouldn't take more than 3 sec. Therefore, the chances of you being caught is quite slim. For those whose posters are torn down, maybe it's time to reflect on what you have done wrong.

Its 2007!

I think it will be a great year ahead. Why? I didn't flunk my sem 1. I played more majong then all of sem 1 combined. I did a 13odds for the first time in my life and in fact first time seeing someone win with it. My bank account didn't go into serious deficit.

Exam period.

Exams coming soon --> stressed up people --> weird antics --> more ponding--> everyone get wet and dirty --> try to make more pple wet --> everyone get ponded --> pple wanna take revenge --> girls can't pond guys --> adopt april's fool style pranks --> powder on the fans --> get dirtier --> mops, brooms, rags --> clean up --> back to study.

Neighbour

I never complained.

YIH

After spending 1 hr at YIH wellness centre, 30 min of waiting for consultation, 30 min for the blood test results, the doctor declared that he don't know what's wrong. At least the results shows that the swelling and pain in my foot is not caused by wart, virus infection and fracture. I supposed it just implies that i can continue to play sports.

Confused fellow

If you order mee pok mai mee, you know the store owner will talk about it no matter how trivial you think the matter is. Why? Which idiot will order mee pok mia mee? However, when you overheard that storeowner describing your beyond this world antic while you are enjoying your mee pok without the mee, you think it's very unethical and complain to those around you. You go on and on and on about can enjoy mee pok with mee too so that you can prove the storeowner wrong (it confusing because I am trying to apply "da vinci code" here). So much so, you went to take picture about you eating mee pok with the mee and post it on your blog and yell how wrong the the store owner was (not in the literal sense). So you have now proved that you can eat mee pok with mee, and salivate at the mee, what else are you going to prove? So are you really enjoying the mee now? Or maybe, you always wanted the mee but want to generate publicity? Or are you just simply confused?

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The haze is back !!!

After its absent for the past few years, the haze is back and back in full force. From the NEA website,

3-hr PSI Readings ( 7 Oct 2006 )

Time

7am

8am

9am

10am

11am

12 noon

1pm

2pm

3pm

4pm

5pm

6pm

7pm

3-hr PSI

89

101

119

130

I am now witnessing psi of 130. I wonder will school ever be suspended because of the haze.

How you know you are a phantom

When your level guys are executing a prank outside your door to scare the girls and you don't know it. Furthermore, thinking that it's someone from else where very convincingly.

Why you shouldn't drink when you can't drink.

1. You may puke.
2. You may puke in a public area.
3. You may puke in a public area and someone else will have to clean up.
4. Combine 1 to 3, you will waste alcohol.
4. You may sprout nonsense (and sometimes, you may live to regret that. Think Mel Gilbson.)
5. You may disturb other people, spoiling their fun and distrupting their activities.
6. You may dirty other people's bed.
7. You may piss off your girl friend.

Seniors treat Juniors

We have to be the batch that treat the seniors in year one and then treat the juniors in year 2. But anyway, it's a fun filled experience cooking swedish meat balls (mini version), which turned out quite delicious. For future suppers, Tat will supply meat balls (bigger ones).




3 kg of pork


More meat balls


Pepper spiked meat ball (I still don't know who is the lucky soul who gotten it)


With the gravvy which is supposed to be white.

How to get yourself ostracized in hall?

1. Blast music day and night without any sense of time.
2. Join comms, skip all activities and boast about how many point you will be getting.
3. Talk as if you own the hall/make senseless complaints/give impressive proposals for comm and do nothing ----------in short talk big.
4. Try all means and ways to get what you want, using unscrupulous methods, resorting to backstabbing etc etc.
5. Enter someone's room uninvited (similar to barging into someone's room) in extreme cases, never even bother to knock (what have their mothers been doing????) Furthermore, sit down and complaint about personal problems, making senseless complaints about hall and go on and on with empty talks. Never fail to ignore blatant hints that they are not welcomed and will never leave the room till a sentence is mention right in their face (and despite that, he may just choose to ignore it).

However, the above will not apply (to a large extent) if you are damn shuai or damn pretty. Life is unfair isn't it?

From my lecture notes

When I was a kid I prayed to God for a bike. My mother overheard me and she said, "That's not how God works." So I though about it, stole a bike, and prayed for forgiveness.

Post from a SEP student

There is 2 amazing thing about this post I received in my yahoo group. Firstly, I always thought that SEP will be fun but somehow his experience contradict my belief. Hmmm... maybe the rest of the Singaporeans found out about his CAP and got jealous. Secondly, power of love is really amazing -- to the extent of changing someone's language ability in a short span of time.

extract from the post after his

Posted by: "YuCheng Lin"

Tue Sep 5, 2006 6:39 pm (PST)

Dear Danny,

I refuse to believe that your English has improved
from Primary School
level to University Level in the past 3 months. I
prefer to think that you
got someone to draft this email for you since it is
addressed to someone
really important :P
.........

Posted by: "Danny Choi"

Tue Sep 5, 2006 1:01 pm (PST)

(To my "dear", there is another one I wrote specially for you but I tot this one is interesting too -__-)

Lonely… Fascinated… Inspired…

It is a mixture of feelings. It is like a love-hate relationship.

My journey to Munich so far has not been a smooth sailing one. To begin with, I fall sick on the day of my departure.

It is so ironic. I caught the flu at the clinic where I went to get a Flu jab.

Things, I believe will be so much better if I am with the right company. As a happy-go-lucky person as I always am, I thought that SEP students will naturally be friendly with one another. Well, it seems that I am quite wrong this time. The people who come to Munich is simply hmm… is quite into their own world la.

Sick and alienated, I am in this part of the world 107300km from my home, where English is not to be understood.

At first, I feel really sad and down, and dont really like Munich despite its beautiful architecture until 2 minutes ago.

As I am writing and trying to record down all the shity thing I went through, I realized that I really have to think hard to recall all the unhappy things that happened!

And I realized they happened, and I forget about it unless I make an intentionally effort to recall them. That sounds real stupid right, to make an effort to dig out something unpleasant.

And that is not all, so far in Munich, the experience that leaves the deepest impression in me is not all this unpleasant experiences. That impression is so clear that my brain has been telling me to pen it down since I begin to write this email.

I was walking down the streets in Marina Platz and there I saw a crowd of people. Curious, I approach the crowd and suddenly, I saw a football pumped high up into the air. I squeeze through the taller European, expecting to see a handsome Brazilian performer doing amazing football stance. But what I see is a short figure wearing a Brazilian football shirt. He had short curly hair and dark skin. He was doing the football stance like any good football player. Just that, instead of standing on his feet, he was standing on artificial legs, and he was using his two walking sticks, his head, his neck to do his football magic.

I think he does more than football magic. I leave him a 5 EURO note for what he had taught me.

Life is not always bad. It depends on how you live it. There is no limit nor barrier if you have a passion to do something.

I am not sure if he likes football, but he never gives up and sits down on the cold street floor waiting for a coin to be toss at him

I am not sure if he does it for a living, but when he does his tricks, his eyes are focus, his mind fix on what he is doing, he smiles.

Now that I am writing, I feel how weak I am. I have legs. I have arms. I am just sick. I have so much more.

I begin to remember myself sometimes saying to my friends, Why are you always looking at the ½ glass of water that is missing, cant you feel the weight of the water you already have?

I think it is time that I said that to myself.

This trip is wonderful. So is Munich. The ugly thing is my mindset that I began with. No difficulty is difficult unless you think it is.

I think what the street performer has said was echoed by so many great people, All is in the mind.

If it rains, smile. The rain will stop. But when it does, only those keep their heads up will see the rainbow
Danny =)

PS: My internet is still down (unstable) so blog is not up yet

Cheesy Pick up line

Guy: Miss do you have a rasin
Girl: No...... I don't
Guy: In that case, do you want a date?

People are different

When I was younger, I always believe that everyone thinks the same way since everyone go through the same shit in school. In fact most people i know are damn on, ableit in a different way. Since everyone is unique, this is no surprise. Maybe everyone just have to learn to respect differences if they are not strongly against your religion, principles and belief. I seriously hate ponding turn ugly which can happen quite often if certain personalities are around. Although I am against ponding, and trying very hard not to get involved in one, I still won't spoil the fun by showing everyone the face when i am ponded and stuff. Like i really really hate people dwelling on the stupid name HJH, even so at times i feel like skinning those bastards alive (in fact there is only one guy lah). Maybe one fine day in the not so long future, I may just explode and set fire and burn him alive and laugh at his ordeal. Even I don't set fire on him, there is a high possibility of me making sure he experience 10 times as much torment when i get the chance. I didn't know I am so evil.

1. Remove all false facades - we are all not actors and actresses
2. Think about others - the world don't revolves around you
3. Don't waste people's time - if you think your time is precious, it's always enlightening to know that everyone has the same amount of time as you

Take a step back

For a short while after reading Tuesday with Morrie (a nice book), I consciously think about the content of the book. So much so that I believe that the book will make my life a more fulfilling one. After a while, other things came along and some things had to go. Being a last min/happy go lucky/bo chup typical guy, I subconsciously lose sight of the teachings of the book. However, one thing that I remembered and still practise after so long is "taking a step back". I don't mean the famous army slogan, "Suffer in silence" or even siam from everything. Those who have read the book should know that it roughly means allowing yourself to experience something fully before "taking a step back".

I have never been ponded before today and I never really liked the idea of ponding people. After today, I must say, ponding is a fun event for the ponders. Despite being dragged by so many people, I can constantly hear laughters and see the smile/grin on their faces. Not many activities can achieved this result with so little being planned or done. Being ponded is not really that woefully or scary, you just lose the bragging rights to say that I have NEVER been ponded. With all said, I still don't like ponding.Of cuz that's totally my personal stand. Some people can be a totally love ponding and think that they are king of ponder. Well, happy ponding people then. Adopting some ideas from the blk meeting, other activities can be more practical. I think bitching sessions work 100 times much better. I know it's bad to bitch but sharing a common knowledge or understanding bond people better.

Sitting in a meeting observing people can be quite entertaining too. Especially it involves a clash between tradition and changes. As time moves on, things will change for better or for worse. Good tradition should be kept while dumb tradition should be dumped. I must say, I am quite resistant to changes that leads to the unknown. Trying to scrap a tradition without giving concrete alternative proposal is really like navigating without a chart or topo-ing without a map. Why not do what Singaporeans and engineers do best? Being a Singaporean engineering undergrad, I think we should just attempt to modify the idea to our liking, instead of creating our own tradition. Some of the damn bloodly stupid passed down tradition is really bloodly stupid but shouldn't we take a step back and look at why it was born? Shouldn't we salvage instead of killing it totally? I believe if operation ikea is being passed down because it has its own plus points. Over the years, there have been many new initiatives like movie marathon, wear the same colour days but not everyone surived. Being a survivor of such a unforgiving system definitely mean something.

NEL powerfailure

What's the probability that you are on your way home when you found out that NEL is down in four stations? I have such good fortunte to experience that. Hoepfully it will be ready soon, if not i will just give going back to SH a miss.

Taiwan!!!

Day 1:
Departed Singapore at 1pm and reached Taipei at about 6.30 after 5 hours plus of cramping ourselves in the "beloved" jetstarasia seats. It is a "wonderful" experience no doubt.
The next greatest experience was the unnecessary amount of time we walked around Taipei main station in search of a hostel. The biggest and most "wonderful" surprise we had that day was the hostel "suit"(as stated in the website) that greeted us.

Our "beloved" bedspace

Day 2:
After about 1 hour of sleep (the damn aircon is faulty and it's about 35 degree), we woke up at 5 am and left the godforsaken place in search of breakfast before making our way to taichung. After the "wonderful" experience, we decided to stay in a hotel instead. Which is a smarter choice, considering that we paid 300NT for a night with no air con in a hostel and 400NT for a room with nice bed, individual bathroom and most importantly, a television with access to over 100 plus channels.

After putting down our backpacks (we were using backpacks because we knew we would spend a lot of time searching for hotels), we followed a tourist map and walked about 2 km to their main shopping mall 中友百货，which is really a gigantic takashimaya which is about 12 stories of shopping. Then we met the most friendly people we had ever come across who gave us a treat in a place we would only have seen in 食字路口。

view from the hotel room

yixiang was extremely happy that he got to ride a bicycle in Taiwan. I am still quite puzzled by that thought. Garry got to ride a scooter and almost lost his hand.


Day 3 and 4:
Nothing much other than shopping and shopping and shopping.

Day 5:
Visit Leofu village, I am still figuring out how it get this English spelling. The only ride I enjoy is the Vikings.

Day 6:
Went Taipei and continued with shopping shopping and shopping. We also got addicted to the free throw machine which is a craze there. There are tonnes of shops filled with those machines and they are always occupied.

Day 7:
Continued with the endless shopping and watching garry and yixiang indulge in their favorite activity, shopping for posters. That night also mark the disposal of Garry's most prominent facial feature, his mole.
Day 8:
After even more shopping, we are back to Singapore.

Think

Gone were the days when I could speak blatantly, when I could earn myself a nickname that I don't really approve nor liked. Now, everytime before I string a sentence, I will take a look at the particular seafood that likes to move in a very awkard manner, over the shoulders (at least I don't need to deal with starfish) and give the sentence a make over. It's just amazing how a simple thing needs to be put across in a extra super duper indirect way. Sometime I wonder it such habit will grow one me and somehow prevent me from getting senile in the not so near future.

Tester's Final Words

Your slope.... no good....... stalled engine.

Parrallel parking............... forgot to signal and check blindspot.

U-turn....... a bit slow........

Silence..............................,,.

After this, go over to next door and watch the video.

24 days and counting.......

I wonder how is it like to nua at home with nothing to do and nothing to keep you occupied? I guess I won't have the chance any time soon. But it seems that nuaing can drive people to extreme boredom. As if I really don't know who wrote those things on my tag board.

I shouldn't be in Engineering

My results have spoken again, for the second consecutive semester they have been telling me that I shouldn't be studying engineering. My better performing modules are all GEMs and SATORs, even my better engine modules are all not really related to engineering, like programming and CTW. Sigh.

Peak Hour

I wonder how many people are traveling around during peak hour. For the past 2 weeks, I have been bumping into people on my mrt rides home. The most memorable one was meeting MunKit. He said to me "Junhao, do you know how say I was when I saw you in uniform?" in a very solemn tones that did not suggest that he was joking at all. The funniest one goes to the person who refuse to acknowledge me despite seeing my name tag. Hopefully my ride home will always be full of surprises.

SAE, Viscosity, API, Flash point

After countless rounds with the zzz monster in the morning and a few great battles with it after lunch, I think the only information I find useful is how to choose a better engine oil for the car. But I don't own one and I don't think I will until a long long time from now. I wonder when will be the next time I come across Society of American Engineers, SAE 10w40, American Petroleum Institute........... Nevertheless, I still love outstations, at least there is a greater possibility to go home early.

Nice titles

this title prompted mr pissed-off-waiter to come up with even more meaningful titles, " I Have Two Legs".

and gave mr-liver the idea of: "My Car Has Four Wheels".

Anyone interested in producing the above two titles can approach me for their contacts.

Life is weird

Known each other since sec 2.
Saw each other more than I can keep count.
Chat quite often on MSN.
Study in the same school.
Stayed in the same hall.

Yet, we had never talk to each other other than hi and byes.

And today, somehow, we ended up standing next to each other in an ultra crowded mrt carriage.

Punch the correct ear

at tampinese mrt:

me and yx: wah new ear hole arhz?

gk: yar, i just punch it before you all came.

me: eh, i think your ear hole is on the right side leh

gk: yar lor, what's wrong with that

yx and me: hmmmmm..... *right ear not for gays meh?*

gk: never mind lah


after 30 min of chatting

gk: i think i better go back and punch another ear hole.
I not sure worried about people suaning me but more worried about guys molesting me in club.

another 30 min

gk: taking off the ear hole is much more painful than punching
let me rest for a while to get used to the pain..........

I miss hall

I miss the movie marathons, the talk cock session, midnight sepak, MPSH soccer, free food, uncle vincent supper, my broken pull up bar, loud music blasting when I am trying to sleep, the lounge, getting trashed at boogle, kaiyuen talking to someone 100 m away, kathy shouting for ky from her room, clumpsy people doing clumpsy things, eleborated birthday celebrations, eogmssssss, (noticed i don't miss committee stuffs).

GE fever

interesting invite for a birthday party.

Resolutions for VA

1. Don't slack as much as previous VA
2. Get at least silver for Ippt
3. 2.4 below 9.30
4. Save some money
5. Bet less than $500 on worldcup
6. Don't chiong
7. Swim a lot
8. Finish my books at home
9. Learn something useful
10. MOST importantly, rest well

Uniform party (overdue pictures)

blogger ate up my previous post and I am too lazy to reupload the pictures again (until now).

freshie photos
me and drama queen
sexy darius and macho jason
darius's fantasy
charlie's angel wannabes
me and two chio bu *puke
trying to add fierce ( but I know i failed miserably)
Block photo

Reading week

before you know it............ it's reading week => one week to exam => die lah.

life sux, how come time passes so darn fast. I am going to be year 2 soon. I mean, wtf, how come midshipman course seems so long while uni life just zoom/zipped/fly/slip past you?

I think next year will be my final year in SH, really hope that I will enjoy more of hall life more. Therefore, i will only join things that I like, do things that I enjoy and (in a crude term) F***k care things you don't like but pple expect you to do.

Back to mugging.

sign off,
mugger Ho.

Sunday night

It's Sunday night all over again. Just a short while to the damn monday. Have i rest enough over the weekend? I think "Have I finish all my tutorials and stuffs sounds more like a valid question." Sigh.... life sux. Is working life better than this? I surely don't know. Everyday, you just slog like a zombie (unless you are seriously doing something you like). When you reached home, you will be so damn bloody tired that you have no energy to do anything else. Some how, just some how, every friday you will feel energised and full of enthusiasm about life. When it's sunday, you will ask yourself. Is the weekend well spent? Not, Have i finished all my work? Then, you go back to cursing mondays.

April Fool

Woke up to see a strip of powder acrossed everyone's door. I thought that was it. Had my breakfast and returned to my room as usual. Then, an egg drop from no where. Which *&*(&^ son/daughter(s) of a Bitch/ Bitches did this? Now my whole bloody room smell like rotten egg. I sincerely hope that for the rest of ur stay in sheares hall you will be getting rotten eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everyone pls don't tell me who did that (in fact i don't think its the girls), if not i can't guarantee myself that i won't do anything evil during exam period like pouring honey into ur shoes, spiking ur milk/drinks/food with laxatives or setting your room on fire. Beware you bloody *(()^%&*%*(&^&*(&&07 of a ()*&*%*^&)*) !!!!

Now i think the coridor smell like rotten eggs too.

Ok lah, I am not really that angry. The first paragraph is meant to tramatise you for a moment. If any of those unfortunate events really do happen, they are not my doings. I am not that evil. At least not as evil, inconsiderate as you.

Anyway, to all graduating senior, all the best in your future endeavors.

exams and thereafter

This sem seems to zoom pass just like that. Nobody like tests, I am not exception. Most people like what comes after the exams, the long school vacation. I don't........ fish lah, another 2 months worth of mental degeneration.

At least there is taiwan to look towards to. The thoughts of going there with 2 desperate just ord guys do make me shrudder at times but I guess they could have changed that much in 2 short years. Hoepfully.

Mr. Politically Correct

As the name suggest, he is always doing politically correct things. He think long and hard before he speaks. He prepares standard answers for frequently asked questions. All this just because he wants to be politically correct. He don't want to offend anyone so he gives noncommittal answers. Everytime there is a dispute, he will stay far away. If the crowd decide on one action, he will never go against them. To the extent that it appears to people that they have no mind of their own. In meeting, they are just parroting what others has mentioned. In a casual conversation, he will be paraphasing your sentenses. Don't you just hate this kind of people?


-------this has nothing to do with the title----------------
don't you just hate it when you are trying to concentrate and someone is trying to make himself deaf?
life sux

cmb concert

Cmb should hold all their concerts in MPSH. In fact, they should arrange the chairs and switch on the air con too. Anyway, the concert was quite enjoyable.

In another ~2 months time, the senior will be leaving. I wonder how the juniors will be. Will they be as %&%^$^#%* as my blk g***ls? Looking on the bright side, they will be almost twice as many freshie girls as freshie guys.

Catching up

I realized why Singapore is often described as a fast-pace society. Everything is moving so fast that almost everyone I know is doing catching up. Just walk down my corridor (blk c lvl 6 short wing) and you will understand. If you do that, don't be surprise that there is a guy that look like some famous male "video clip personality" staying next to me (KY is really not the guy in the video). I only missed 2 days worth of lessons and I feel like I am light years behind.

Anyway, there are a few photos I would have put it up if not for the bout of flu that kept me in bed for 2 whole days. I shall post it all up now.

Uni and Hall life can be so stressful that my neighbours resort to drinking beer (which they termed as "happy juice"). Bitching sessions are also more frequent nowadays as everyone get more and more fed up with life. Lounge is also quite happening nowadays as people gather there to destress by playing boggle (which i don't really know if it's destressing). Some people even avoid their room altogether. Sigh..... uni life sux

Jason sleeping in the lounge at 10pm.

Took these 2 photos at tt's birthday. So many people are putting on braces now and turning les (just joking). And what is GL (with that kind of expression) looking at? SL?

I also notice a trend after the tammy video. Everyone seems to be comfortable with more adult themed conversation. HY shoot R rated topics off his mouth like nobody's business. Cee Star even featured tammy albeit a disgusting one. NX said things like, "I like french kiss, it's so sweet."(althought I seriously quoted her out of context). ZH has his own definition of "happy juice". Conversations in the lounge start to revolve around M word more often.

I also had a wonderful birthday. Shan't eleborate.

Initially I thought I stopped at the wrong level when I saw my door(picture below). Anyway, thanks for all the "loves" on my door. On the side note, if you are trying to be anonymous, you can try to change your handwriting or try not to ask me "ur door very nice hor".

days of carrom gone.

Days where carrom is the daily entertainment are gone. Just when I thought there was a chance of hitting the carrom striker with my fingers and sending seeds into the pocket, the blk decided that majong is more more important and converted the one and only carrom board into a majong table. How sad........

cineleisure makeover

Secondary 2 is about 8 years ago. Visiting cine leisure again sure bring back memories. All the time I spent at arcades during holidays playing virtual striker 2, catching endless movies..... sigh those were the time. Although I kinda regret wasting time then and there, I can't think of a more constructive way to spend those time anyway. Anyway, I felt like a sua ku at cine today. I never knew there is level 9. Needless to say, I don't know about the new screens, the new ultra huge and modern looking lan arena and private game rooms(which double up as a study room). Sometimes I really wish i am in secondary 2 all over again.

To those who haven't watch the movie My Girl and I, you may want to reconsider? It's funny, but not as funny as crazy first love. It's touching but not as touching as my Sassy girl. The ending is non existence. However, the lead actress is ultra sweet and pretty. That alone may be a good enough reason to part with your $7/ $8.50.



Received another egg bin as a birthday present today, that makes me an owner of 2 egg bins. I wonder why. Do I look like an egg or they know I desperately need a bin to throw away all the rubbish that is piling up in my room?

Forever changing

Everything is changing (more like upgrading). Some foreign delegate once mentioned to me when I was esorting him back to Pan Pacific Hotel, "Singapore is forever building". Somehow, I didn't realise this until he mentioned it. I guess most Singaporeans are so used to seeing construction sites poping up one after another that we are immuned to them. Can we still visit places that we spent our best times 10 or 20 years down the road? I know I can't since VS has shifted to a nice new building. Even if buildings remain where they are, they are not the same old buildings that we are familar with. VJ has added a nice student lounge (with a pool table), renovated the forum, airconditioned the hall, changed the front gate, added funky and striking pictures in E block........ (never ending list). At this rate, it won't be long before odac room is "revamped". I wonder how it will look like then.

going to watch arsenal vs real madrid now. arsenal better not lose

Deserted

Amazine discovery at Bryant's birthday: One my my secondary school friend deserted when he is halfway through NS. I though such things will only happen in war-time movies or novels. Apparently, he applied an exit permit to malaysia and from there, took a plane to canada. If you are thinking that his family condone such act and he is happily living in canada with his relatives, you are wrong. The most shocking part of the story is that he is living in a refugee camp there. What on earth was he thinking then? Leave your family for a refugee life. Nevertheless, it's a sad thing since I guess I won't be seeing him again in my life.

What should i major in

You scored as Engineering. You should be an Engineering major! Engineering 92% Theater 75% Chemistry 75% Psychology 75% Sociology 75% Philosophy 58% Mathematics 58% Anthropology 50% English 33% Art 33% Linguistics 17% Biology 17% Journalism 0% Dance 0%

Busiest weekend ever

Coming weekend:

DnD on friday (i wasn't supposed to go.....)

VJC home coming on Saturday (floorball......)

Bryant's birthday on Sunday (another 21st birthday......)

Katong dinner

Hungry souls are advised not to continue reading this post.

It was like any other night without our dearest uncle Vincent.

around dinner time, hungry souls all over the block will start msning each other and to find company for dinner. Like any other night, we gathered at level 4 and set off without deciding where to eat.

As david drove out, we finally decided. Katong Laksa. After a long journey along ecp (and witnessing 2 traffic accident) we finally arrived at 328 katong laksa. It has been years since I last went there. How I miss s62 times. After eating the Singapore acclaimed Katong laksa, the guys decided to continue our eating frenzy with "5 stars Chicken Rice". It was only so-so but the bill came up to be not so so-so. I guess it will be my last time there (unless someone is treating me).

Anyway, as we were walking back to David's car, a Hagen Daz shop must be along the way. Unable to resist the temptations, most of us came out of the shop with ice cream in our hands. (TO all hagen daz card holders: your card may expired before you know it, as in the case of darius).

This is the first night that I am not having supper since the end of Chinese new year.

sEpaKkKKk

Had the most fun game of sepak since IHG. I think we finally stopped playing like amatures. Almost all of us can set, kill, pass, receive........ althought not 100% but we are slowly progressing towards it.

There is still soccer and hockey 2morrow. Despite my reluctance to play --I am too nua since MIDS -- i shall "show face" and most likely, enjoy the game as well. Hiakkzzz i am suppose to mug.

Mid term break.

I am bored....
So bored that i decided to take a picture through the blinds in my room.

Announcement in the IVLE

Saw this announcement in my IVLE. It's from my Heavenly Maths lecturer, who is a damn humorous guy.

Hi guys,

I just got the following letter from the FASS.

******

Dear A/P Aslaksen -
I have your students turning up at Dean's Office, requesting access to our roof top to take photographs during sunrise and sunset, and they claim it is a project for your class.
Due to security and safety concerns, our rooftop access for AS7 is restricted, I would also not encourage students to access rooftops of FASS buildings, as I believe OED would have some concerns about general safety and potential damage to waterproofing in these areas which are not meant for congregation.
I would appreciate your advising students of other methods to obtaining the necessary photographs for your project.

In the meantime, I will decline their requests to access the rooftop.

Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards

*******

I definitely want to encouarge and reward creativity and imagination in the homework. However, you need to show common sense, courtesy, safety and follow rules.

You also have to remember that if you ask a bureacrat a yes/no question, the answer is always "NO"!

The story I told about a group of students last year who were approached by the police was just because my students had found a very unusal place. The police did not chase them away.

So by all means find great places to take the pictures, but don't get yourself into trouble. Please try to stay out of trouble and don't bother the bureaucrats too much.

OK?

Helmer

Lawyers

lawyers nowadays...........

Jian hong's21st birthdays

Heavenly mathematics

does it remind you of primary school? Yes, I am really an Uni student.

Movies to watch

Fearless - I love Jet Li movies (minus his hollywood outings),

Annapolis - 50 000 applied, only 1200 accepted (and I know one of the 1200),

X-men 3 - The phenoix is coming

CNY is coming

Chinese New Year is coming. Like always, I am not exactly looking forward to it. Isn't it just like any other day with the exception money changing hands, either through hongbaos or gambling. Like every other year, I don't think I will get much Hong bao money. My relatives arn't exactly close and everyone will be stoning away. Worse still, I don't have many cousins around my age. The one that is closest to my age is already a father of a two years old son. Furthermore, I am from the navy. This eliminates the possibilities of a having a conversation based on how sad, pathetic, abused..... we were during NS. None of them is doing an undergrad course now which further preclude topics that is closest to me now.

Seeing relatives once a year can also be a chore. I have to memorise all their "titles" all over again. Why can't everyone be called "Aunty" or "Uncle", we are in Singapore arn't we? "Relatives" also like to ask questions that you have no answers. Seeing that my cousin who is one year older than me having a son, I forsee that they will ask me when is my turn despite the fact that I am only 20 (not even 21). They may also ask question like, "How are you doing in school?" ...., which can actually be quite hard to answer I guess I will have to prepare some answers that will affect them so much that they won't bother to ask me anymore questions.

How I wish I could go overseas during CNY? Sigh..........

I am stuck in SG with tonnes of assignments.

Extra Ordinary General Meeting -- EOGM

"EOGM! COME EOGM!"

That's what I am hearing from where I am sitting now. All the block comm members are desperately finding people to meet the quota. Here I am, typing away in front of the computer while more than half the hall are stuck in the Hall listening to issues that they don't even care. Some of them are there just for the sake of being there so that the meeting can proceed. I was once like them. Then, I was naive and had nothing on hand to do. The idea of sitting down on a chair in an air con environment talking cock seem rather entice then. Now, I have 4 tutorials and 3 assignment due this week, one meeting to attend in 1 hr time and the sepak takraw waiting for me after the meeting. How can they blame me for not attending EOGM.

This very EOGM(can't they think of an acronym that can be pronounced), is going to discuss about a system about shearites changing block and elect new members for the Point Award Board. Am I going to change Block? No. Do I have enough points to stay? Yes. So what do I have to gain out of the meeting? Nothing. I see absolutely no reason for me to attend. Anyway, most shearites won't change blocks during their stay here. So why bother? Just because of one odd case, you have to waste 100 odd people's precious night. That's the efficiency of the JCRC. Welcome, to Sheares Hall.

Disclaimer: All above views my personal opinions, if you are offended, you can always talk to me personally. Despite all that I have said, Sheares Hall is still a wonderful hall with wonderful people everywhere. I have never regretted choosing sheares and enjoying everyday of my life here. Life can't always be rosy, can it?

IHG

It's halfway through IHG now and life is slowly getting back to the hectic way of life. It's all about rushing to lectures after waking up late and doing last min tutorials once again. Well, at least I enjoyed the IHG and the trainings. I am never a competitive sportman by any standards. The closest I went was inter class soccer with my beloved secondary schoolmates of sec 4E and inter faculty soccer in VJ. This time round, I really trained hard and played hard (albeit I played a fringe role in both sports i participated). Hopefully next year, Sheares can do better in the sports I am going to participate.


that's me heading a synthetic nylon resin ball with my head (bone and skin plus a bit of flesh)

Tab TV

Just caught a glimpse of Tab TV in the lounge. Woah, I didn't know what great power controversial isuses on TV has on the audience until the very moment that everyone was captivated by the TV. At least I got something out of it -- I know that 1 in 10 000 people can be born with a XX or XY chromosomes defect. In another word, you can be male when you are 12, female when you are 13 or vice versa. Amazing right? You'll never know, you may not be what you are.

MOSS

It was really fun at MOSS. I witness for the first time that a guy was being violated with girls. That's the fun part of changing with people who usually don't club -- funny things happen. Ultra guai looking people can actually dance, people sprouting nonsense when they have a little too much alcohol and claiming they aren't and girls screaming at things that are so trivial (I strongly believe they are a little tipsy or they are just trying to attract attention).

Meeting people who I haven't seen for eons at MoS is sort of a surprise and a rather pleasant one. Eddy, one of my best friend in secondary school is actually there. I miss old times. "God of CS", jingsong and buaya king terrance quek were also there with their poly friends. Chong guan the acrobat was also there. He has become more yandao and I almost couldn't confirm his identity. I miss old vs, everything about it, from friends to canteen food. There was actually people who write to The Sunday times and lobby for all single sex school to turn co-ed. I guess such people have nothing better to do. Ask any one who graduated from VS, 90% would choose to go to VS again given a second chance. I guess this will be the same for most all guys and all girls school. Try asking a co ed student the same question, (from my experience) they will most likely say they feel no sense of belonging to the school.

Sem 2

It's the rainy season once again. It has been raining for the past 3 days and the weather still refuse to dry up. All these rainy days some how make me a more rested person.

IHG has also ended as far as I am concerned. Although hockey didn't really perform, sepak achieved what we set up for. Infact, I am quite happy for sepak since we won KR. I am also quite glad that I got to play in both sports when so many others didn't get the chance to, ableit for short while.

Now I know the feeling of being in a losing team, I am really undecided on whether to stay in hockey or not. I really don't want to be in a team that has no future. Anyway, I can't really play hockey that well too. My absence won't make a big difference. Unless I really train hard for hockey, I don't see myself good enough to compete in IHG next year.

Today being the first day of school means a lot. Firstly, there are new faces in hall and most guys are praying quite hard that there will be more chio bus around. Secondly, we are seeing people we haven't seen for a month of so. Next, the noises and rumbles along the corridoors and common area that has been on a holiday is finally back again.

Hope this semester will be as wonderful as the previous.

Ministry of Sound

Stupidly paid 25 bucks for the cover when everyone else managed to get in with 10 bucks. ArghHhhh.........

It has really nice decoration. I felt like a country bumkin exploring a city when I was there. Taking photos at all the stunning backdrops and wowing at all the rooms.

Photo of Pure (one of the many rooms in MoS)

Each room has its on unique theme, ranging from HipHop/RnB to pure Trance. Since we are Singaporeans, the more popular rooms are the Hiphop and retro rooms. Anyway, the retro room really look colourful and it made me feel like I am in the 60ies.

However, I didn't really enjoy myself. Maybe it's the music, the crowd, or I didn't drink enough. I don't know. Anyway, I should be going there on the 14th Jan again. Hope it will be better.

ps: to those who knows Ow Zhao Hui, stay away from him when you see him in club (especially girls)

Isn't it great that we live in the present?
We can crap about the past events, bitch about people in the past and laugh over mishaps in the past, without any consequences.


majong kakhis


eventual loser in indian poker

they are laughing at each other

New Year, New Resolutions

It's the time of the year again! Everyone is making new year resolutions. According to some Nobel prize winner of economics, it may actually work. "economics" he said, is the reason behind the success of some resolutions. Basically, it means 破釜沉舟,after telling everyone your aims and goals, you won't want to fail them due to egoistic reasons. Mr Sim, the chairman of Creative, said it during his motivational talks and used it when he declared war with apple but failed quite miserably. At least, he didn't go back on his words.

So here are my resolutions(hope I won't eat those words),
1.Gold for ippt (something that elude me since bmt)
2.Pull up my CAP(even 0.001 will do)
3.Sleep more
4.Save more (for SEP)

There is only 5 I can think of now. How weird. I must be still half awake after the new year “celebration” at SO's house. However, at least I know these 5 are the more important ones since I still type them out in my present state of mind.