Pitstop

Got a little time now, will write something before I forgot.

Did okay for the Applied Chemistry quiz earlier on, questions are manageable. I should stop sitting beside the staircase, 'cos I got lousy positioning and the invigliators keep using the stairs. Joseph sitting at my 'vantage point' doesn't really help either (he's not well prepared).

Keep seeing nicks on msn with nicks that talks about the mid-terms that have already passed. I love this, especially on how it links the F1 race with his mid-terms:

'Qn: What do raikkonen, massa, ferrari and my midterms have in common? --> Ans: All gg' - Kelvin Chew

Wow, if he screwed up as badly as what Ferrari did in the race, I guess he must, like Massa had
a. prepared really well, (did decently on training sessions)
b. and able to answer every question correctly. (qualified on pole position)
c. But found out that his calculator is on radian instead of degree mode, which means his calculation is all wrong. (got screwed up by some other factor other than himself)

Then again, he's doing humanities, not engineering or sciences.

One more paper on Friday, before a diarrhea of essays for submission in two weeks' time. Did I mentioned about some Art Jam business proposal due pretty soon?

I got a bad feeling about this.

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Edit: Oh just saw this on msn:
'Citi & undergrads share the same slogan: they 'never sleeps' ' - Alex

Well said, Alex. I think I'm going off to bed, haha.

Recess? What recess?

It's like I have to do so much more things to complete during the recess week than those weeks in school.

I got this feeling that everybody thinks that since it's recess week and you don't have to attend lessons, so you will have lots of time to finish your projects and essays. Not to mention that you will also have time to catch up on the things you had learnt for the past 6 weeks in school. Oh did I mentioned that you have two quizzes right after recess to prepare for?

"Enjoy your recess!" I wonder how much do they really mean it when they said that...

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14 Sep 08

I didn't know that families and friends gathers for Mid-Autumn Festival until I found out that do so in Hong Kong. All along I always thought that the Mid-Autumn Festival is just an excuse for people to stuff themselves silly with mooncakes (I don't really like them) and pyromaniacs to finally play with candles and sparklers.

So it's kind of symbolic that my aunt and her husband from Hong Kong (uncle, I guess? Don't really know the term) came for dinner with my family and my grandmother. I'm really glad that they flew over here or else it will be just like any other Sunday night.

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17 Sep 08

Met Corina on the 179 bus. One of the rare times where my school day actually starts at 11:30pm due to cancellation of lectures in the morning. Come to think of it, how come so many of my lectures and tutorials are canceled... The school must be cheating our school fees.

So we were on the bus when there's this funny looking seat that looks damaged with one side lower than the other.

Then a guy sat down on it and the seat instantly gave away with a loud crash. The guy stood up and quickly moved to another seat.

And you thought no one will sit on a damaged seat, but no... There's ANOTHER girl, who looks super tired, also went to sit on that seat. Down went the seat again and this time she moved even quicker to another seat than the guy earlier on. I guess she don't need any caffeine to stay away after that.

So who's the real victim over here? Not those two that sat on the damaged seat, but rather this poor girl that sat BEHIND it. On the two occasions the seat gave way, it collapsed backwards onto the lap of the girl that's seated behind it. Poor thing, I guess that must had pretty much spoiled her day due to the face that she has over the whole incident. She must be thinking which pile of crap she had stepped on to deserve such 'luck'.

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And there's two quizzes that I had for the past week. I studied hard for them but I still feel that I didn't managed to score well (enough). Guess, more hard work is in place for the quizzes after recess and the finals in about a month's time.

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There are times where things seems like running me down and I really want to quit or wondered why am I doing all these? Luckily there's support from people that I know and I'm really grateful for it. Thanks.

Akan Datang

Busy week, tons of things needs to be done.

Look ahead Danny, respite in the form of recess week is just beyond this week.

Updates soon (I hope)..

Sick

There's this virus spreading around in NTU, people in MSE is falling sick after one and another. Guess what? I'm sick too, there goes my weekend.

Saw this picture on Jingjing's blog about her Nike Run.

Broad shoulders? Check. Tanned? Check. Not very tall? Check. He looks like pretty pissed off that he can't run due to the human traffic jam ahead.

Gloomy Days

Click picture for source

The weather's pretty gloomy these days, it's almost two weeks when I last saw the sun. Mornings are soooo much harder to climb out of bed because of the nice cool weather.

02/09/08
Saw the longest queue ever for 179 on Tuesday at about 10am. Maybe it's due to the rain and the lack of 179As after 9:30-ish, the queue stretched from one end of the bus stop to the other. Luckily I managed to cut the queue as I saw Adabelle (I hope I didn't spelt that wrongly) at a 'strategic position'.

I think conversation between Kahhui and Adabelle can be summed into two words: Mutual Suan'ing. Had a good laugh though. Saw a guy sitting beside Adabelle after we got off the bus, nothing strange right? But Adabelle is sitting in the direction facing the back of the bus and there's like so many seats that is unoccupied. Chee Hong...


04/09/08
Found out how did Shining and Wileen managed to maintain their impressive GPAs (I'm easily impressed when it comes to GPA, you just have to be higher than mine). Met them while waiting for the Biz Team meeting on Thursday. Finally understood what does it mean to mug and mugged they did. I think they will somehow memorise the whole textbook when the examination period starts. Somehow it made me feel guilty about my relative lack of effort in my studies.

Didn't know that Jingjing is the DJ for the NTU radio from 7 - 9pm on Thursday nights. Go support her if you're still in school during that time.

The Biz Team meeting went well until I spoke to my small group. I think I take some time to warm up to others and I really hope that they don't feel that I'm cold and unfriendly. Oh wells, at least I managed to end the meeting at 9pm and gave them really little things to do, so they should be (hopefully) grateful for that.

What's up with the 179 service after 8pm? I waited at the South Spine bus stop for about 30 minutes before I managed to board one. Maybe one should wait at the North Spine when it's late, 'cos two 179 passed me packed with commuters boarding at the North Spine. Met Kliff, Wanting and Sheena on the bus. Poor people who went for the FOC meeting and didn't went for supper after it because of the long trip they have to make to get home.


Kliff was like sharing with me the importance of (non-academic) FYP while still studying (Isn't he like attempting one right now?). And Sheena's trying to pull me in as a sai kang warrior again. More sai kang? Oh no...

Bad Reputation

When doing group projects, I guess there bound to be thoughts of whether can one work well together as a team.


What if that a certain someone carries a bad reputation? Maybe that person is known to talk a lot but when it comes to crunch time, he can't walk the talk. Or maybe she's known to be someone of questionable morals. Are you able to work with them if you had known of such thing?

Definitely, it will somehow affect me when it comes to dealing to them, but is it really fair to judge one's working ability when he/she has a bad reputation that isn't related to the work he/she does?

Anyone faced such a thing before? How did you manage it?

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Joel treated lunch when we met up for a meeting to discuss about the whole Business Manager thingy. The boss and Valeria did most of the talking and I did most of the eating (haha). I guess it's because I'm totally new when it comes to this Business Manager thingy and I still trying to feel my way around, while Valerie seems to be a 'lao bird' at these kind of things.

The boss picked Sakae Sushi. Luckily, the place is crowded and I immediately suggested Ichiban Boshi at the Esplanade, which serves Japanese cuisine that's so much better than Sakae. I mean if the Donburis in restaurants taste almost the same as the one at Canteen A, the place really must be not up to standard. Anyway, it's a treat from the boss and it's up to him to decide where to have lunch.


Anyway when returning to the MRT station, there was like a human jam at Citylink Mall due to the millions of people going to Suntec City for COMEX (Click picture for source). I mean how will you have the mood to hunt for bargains when you're being squeezed from all directions. And if Citylink Mall was that bad, I can't imagine how bad the situation is at COMEX. Citylink Mall was so packed that they had opened one of the emergency exits that behind BreadTalk so that people can get out of the place and walk to Suntec City without using the underpasses of Citylink Mall.