Randomness

It's hard to think of titles for posts 'cos of the way I think and write - randomly.

Heard Zhou Jie Lun's newest album. I wasn't impressed. Musically, it's the same and you can't make out the what in the world is he mumbling. In fact, I think this is one of his more 'mumblish' albums. I mean there's just so much similar songs you can take before people grows tired of you, for me this seems to be it. Then again, when you're have a large fanbase, you can put out sub-par albums and people will still buy them.

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Is life in universtiy that stressful? I've met some people that seems to be hit with depression. Talk to your friends or family about your problem. It doesn't help bottling things up.

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Five years since I've last chatted with you online. Time really flies eh?

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Anyways, Happy Light Festivals to who ever is reading this. You shouldn't if you're in NTU, because you should be studying for your exams!

A shout out to Mingjun, Happy 22nd! Maybe your next one be much better (this doesn't only apply to your birthday *hint*).

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Now it's time for me to head back to my cave...

Maybe that's how I'll look like after the exams are over!

Our work is never over

Holiday better be well worth it

I'm so not looking foward to next week and the weeks after. Quizzes and lab reports, and the finals right after those. What more can I say? It didn't help when Grimsdale suddenly gave announced that there's yet another quiz on the same day as my thermo-die-namics quiz.

You know there's this chinese saying that 'you taste the bitterness before the sweet' (damn my half-baked chinese translation). I just hope that the sweetness is proportional to the bitterness.

Didn't realised that the Nam (LWN Library) opens before 8:30am, so I kind of missed the opening of the Gates for the Mugging Ghost Festival. Found this recording on youtube.


And now for a first person view.


Saw how quickly they run once they are in the library? Scary... Wonder if the same thing happens at the other libraries.

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Nearly spilled water onto my laptop when I saw this while I'm clearing my email:

The lines are so corny.
'I won't feel cold in exam hall'
'it's cold in here but is alright'

Add in the 'come-and-punch-me' look of the guy and the 'haha-paiseh-i-dun-really-wanna-wear-this' look of the girl, sure put the Allwell 'because-i-love-you' ad to shame.

Anyway, I've saw it before and it's pretty decent looking. But 20 bucks? Why so ngiao? Give to the entire cohort like what NBS did with their white (and ugly) NBS t-shirts. Must show that MSE is rich enough to give such things to their students.

Maybe that's why the air conditioning is so strong in the LTs and TRs nowdays, I sense a scam to sell these pullovers...

Our work is never over.

Corridor 'Washing'

Got home today and found the floor wet due to the corridor cleaning. You know, they use this water jet thingy to wash your corridor like every month.

I think they should reconsider calling it cleaning because it's like totally opposite of clean once they're done with it. I think it's because I'm staying in a corner unit and they start 'cleaning' from the lift landing.

So somehow all the dirt will be 'washed' to my door step. Usually, when someone is at home, they will ask them not to 'clean' the area in front of my home, but this time nobody's at home.

Imagine the horror when I reach home. Luckily my shoes and slippers are kept somewhere or else they will 'shun bian' wash them as well.

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What's up with people 'releasing pigeons' on me nowdays? I know it's not intentional but it sure spoils my day when I'm like looking forward to it.

Our work is never over

Murphy's Law

"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way" - Murphy's Law

It looks like Murphy's Law is in full effect for me these few week. It's just like things aren't really going my way. Maybe I'm accumulating all the bad luck now and then things will get better during the exams period. You know, equilibrium effect?

Anyway I'm finally done with the HRM project. I somehow feel that the real work was done in the last two days. So what's happening in the first few weeks? I don't know, it's like everybody are running around like headless chickens, unsure of the direction that we are supposedly going. The thing is that no one seems to be worried about the project in the initial stages until like the week before the submission of the project.

Another thing I've noticed during the project was the lack of a central place where there will be free electricity and internet access for project meetings. Coffee chains are normally crowded and you can't really make much noise in the libraries. So how? We decided (reluctantly) to meet up in SMU for the project discussion. The funny thing is people will say SMU but have no idea how large SMU is. It's like saying 'Let's meet at downtown' but not specifying which building to meet at. On top of that, more time is spent trying to figure out how to connect to the internet rather than doing the project itself.

All in all, it's a relatively frustrating project for me. Maybe I'm not really made for group projects or maybe my standards are set rather high for myself and it sort of applies to the rest of the group members.

Talking about members, I've attended this CAC Members' Night like on thursday. One word to describe it - 'BORING'. It's more like an event where everyone of the special events members interacts within their own special events. Maybe they should just name it CAC 'Get to know your own team members' Night.

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Something Joel said that made me think abit, he said that it's difficult to determine whether you should go after someone based on looks only.

So you should go for character instead? Rubbish.

How you going to find more about someone's character if you don't even have the interest to know that somebody? The determining factor is still whether someone's looks is deem attractive enough for you to find out more about him/her.

(I know I sound incoherent. I'm just typing what's in my mind at the moment. And Danny thinks in such a disorderly manner)

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About the post below? Don't read too much into it. It's most likely not what you think it is. Seriously.



Our work is never over

Why hold on something that doesn't really reciprocate your effort?
Is it time to move on?

Ignore him, Danny's not in a good mood. He will get over it. Hopefully.

Two Weeks

Quizzes are finally over. Somehow I just feel that I didn't really perform as well as I hope to. I guess there's a certain distinction between doing well and wanting to do well.

I think I'm in this phase of my life where I really got this desire to do well academically. Some background, I never played hard in primary school, breezed through secondary school and slacked through my JC years.

I've actually got this essay draft that's due tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon but I just can't start. I got no idea as to how to tackle the essay question. I know that's it's a really basic GP question but unlike most GP essays in JC, there's this need to cite references and I can't find those that really support my case.

I don't think anyone is here to read gloomy entries. Here's what Danny is up to over the past few days.

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Recess week:

Had a small gathering with the FOC group over at East Coast Park.

Funny thing about a certain underpass to ECP. Before entering, Wei Chiat said that the underpass always stink when he uses it and there's a mild stench of poop when we entered it. However, everyone's running when they're approached the center of the underpass, 'cos the smell is overwhelming. I didn't run, because it's not cool to run, I merely walked briskly.

Now that's like only part one of the 'smelly underpass' incident. Part two happened when Rosa was on the phone with Mr Han, who's crossing the underpass at the same time.
She said something along the line of "The underpass is smelly!"
Mr Han replied "Where got?"
And they continued talking for another few minutes until Mr Han said "Wah, it's really smelly!"

One can 'smell' the underpass like the curve above.

Did/found out the following things:

Butt pain due to cycling like close to 3 hours.
Saw a really tired dog playing ball in the waters.
MJ's is having fun with 'holiday'.
Saw a few NTU people, including Kian Huat's hall friend.
Andrew's poor attempt at rollerblading.
BBQ's tiring when you're the one cooking.
Dogs are always attention magnets.
CAC people REALLY like to get their pictures taken.
Overdose of hotdogs and chicken wings.
The losers always remains losing when playing 'Asshole Daidee'.

Pictures at Prawn's Website, more on facebook (look in Steph's albums).

Mugged for the rest of the week and wondering why are some people so free.

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2 Oct 09

Had 'cohesion dinner' with the Business Manager Team on Thursday at the Palette. More than half of the team came, which is a good sign (I hope).

Actually I was wanted to give it a miss due to my quiz on the following day. But Joel 'defeated' me with the following line:

"Oh I also got a quiz tomorrow."

The funny thing is that Joel didn't know that there's this electronic number board, something like those queue number system you have in Canteen 14 (or is it 15?) and ended up waiting for the order at the counter with Barath and Yojit. I did the clever thing and went back to my seat and 'entertained' the rest of the team.

The food was above my expectations. And it didn't cost a single cent, all thanks to Joel. It ended later than I really wanted to, as I really wanted to study for my quiz. But in the end, I think that it's time rather well spent.

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3 Oct 09

First driving lesson. Clutch work is alot difficult than expected. It's like you have to do so many things at once while driving and the road looks different when you're behind the steering wheel.

Can't wait for my next lesson though. Need to get the hang of the pedals.

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Many find blogs with pictures are more interesting that those that don't (like mine). I mean look at either Kian Huat, Joyce or Prawn's blogs which are full of pictures. I somehow think that they bring their camera everywhere they go and takes pictures whenever an opportunity arises.

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I know that I don't normally pick up my phone when I'm at home. It's because hardly anyone messages or calls me and it's usually the other way round. So I don't check my phone that frequently (sometimes, never) when I'm at home. I hope those missed calls on my phone isn't that urgent..


Our work is never over