you know your day is not gonna start off well when you get out of bed and had to rush to get ready for school. i was lucky i didn't wake up that late (late enough to force my sister to iron my shirt for me though haha) and i was 5 minutes late for class. i actually had to catch my breath later on as climbing up the whole flight of stairs up to the lecture room was really taxing.
to compound it further i lost my notepad. damn it i thought it was in my file but i think i left it in the seminar room. oh well luckily it didn't have that many important things in it. ah actually there might be. damn.
then i was late in reaching home because of delays here and there, and the jams, and i couldn't break fast in time at home. to top it all off the lifts broke down when i approached the lift landing at my block. both lifts were immobilised and didn't respond at all to any repeated button pressing. so i had to slowly climb all of the 10 storeys and reach my doorstep, all sweaty and 15 minutes past the prayer call for break fast. luckily the green tea+lemon packet drink i had to accompany me with during that climb was nice.
i've had worse days i think.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
survey
okay people please help my friend out there as you come by and read my entry haha.
She recently submitted her Travel Guide on Hong Kong for a competition and the winner wins by the most votes! She needs all the votes she can get! You can even download it for FREE to read it if you please.
http://www.guidegecko.com/hong-kong-a-diamond-in-the-rough-travel-guide/d,4986
Follow the link. Roll your mouse over the stars till ALL 5 are GREEN, then click on them. You have to register, (just fill up a few things) and i promise it will take less than 1 minute!
obviously that whole thing was crafted by my friend but do help her out and vote 5 stars okay!
haha on another note the week came and passed just like that. though this year i had a whole host of birthday wishes via sms and facebook posts, which took me an hour to reply them all personally haha. went for classes as per normal on that day and at night had dinner with clare at swensens at marina square. if we had known the 1-for-1 ice cream buffet offer at ion orchard was still on we would have went there. it sort of slipped my mind haha. oh well.
other than that nothing much has happened. i'm still trying to get back that studying groove but i think it's sort of picking up now so yea. hope i will gain some sort of momentum. damn it it's already the end of week 5! oh and just now i tried out the gamelan! haha. my friends had a gamelan jamming session to prepare for their practical test next week and so i wanted to give it a try. very interesting! and mesmerising! haha. let me see, maybe when i go to year 4 i shall take that module as a UE.
hari raya in a week's time, but i would rather fret about my lagging behind in studies than anything else. i remember last year the day before hari raya i cooped myself up at the school computer lab and finished my essay in 1 day. oh well. at least i'm due my cash injections soon!
She recently submitted her Travel Guide on Hong Kong for a competition and the winner wins by the most votes! She needs all the votes she can get! You can even download it for FREE to read it if you please.
http://www.guidegecko.com/hong-kong-a-diamond-in-the-rough-travel-guide/d,4986
Follow the link. Roll your mouse over the stars till ALL 5 are GREEN, then click on them. You have to register, (just fill up a few things) and i promise it will take less than 1 minute!
obviously that whole thing was crafted by my friend but do help her out and vote 5 stars okay!
haha on another note the week came and passed just like that. though this year i had a whole host of birthday wishes via sms and facebook posts, which took me an hour to reply them all personally haha. went for classes as per normal on that day and at night had dinner with clare at swensens at marina square. if we had known the 1-for-1 ice cream buffet offer at ion orchard was still on we would have went there. it sort of slipped my mind haha. oh well.
other than that nothing much has happened. i'm still trying to get back that studying groove but i think it's sort of picking up now so yea. hope i will gain some sort of momentum. damn it it's already the end of week 5! oh and just now i tried out the gamelan! haha. my friends had a gamelan jamming session to prepare for their practical test next week and so i wanted to give it a try. very interesting! and mesmerising! haha. let me see, maybe when i go to year 4 i shall take that module as a UE.
hari raya in a week's time, but i would rather fret about my lagging behind in studies than anything else. i remember last year the day before hari raya i cooped myself up at the school computer lab and finished my essay in 1 day. oh well. at least i'm due my cash injections soon!
Sunday, September 06, 2009
birthday
maybe i've blogged about this before.
10 years ago on this day my maternal grandfather passed away. i will always remember the date because it's just a day shy of my birthday. and also because i was alone at home when i got the call informing me that he passed away that same morning. a tragic death, i feel - he had an asthma attack while having breakfast and he passed away just like that.
10 years on and a lot of things have happened to myself of which he could not witness. i've grown up, went to a few schools here and there, went through ns and now i'm in university. graduating from a university might not be a big deal these days, but considering my ethnicity and my family background - most of the time it always is. my grandpa was to me, as fit as a fiddle even in his 60s. my paternal grandpa is still alive - 80 in 4 days' time. still looking fit as a fiddle too. i hope at least he can live long enough to see me graduate.
in those same 10 years - like i said i have grown. but have i become a better person? a happier person? singapore ranks lowly on the happiness - i was definitely much happier when i was 10. haha. young people wanna grow old faster because they wanna have freedom - but is this the freedom everyone craves for? i wanna be young and youthful once again - because life was much simpler and happier and more meaningful. though i turn a year older tomorrow, so i suppose there's no chance of an age reversal process i guess. a la benjamin button. haha.
2 nights ago i qiyam-ed for the 1st time ever. an interesting experience. it's one of those things i felt i should do before i get older and lose my zest and spirit to do such things. like how i helped out with qurban last year. a truly memorable qiyam and iftar for me i think. i hope at the end of this blessed fasting month i grow to be a better person - on the inside and on the outside.
so tomorrow i turn 23. old sia! i have no specific wish - i just hope whatever things that i do or decisions that i make, is all blessed by God. sometimes the most cruel or painful things one has to do is not the nicest of decisions - but when the situation calls for it - you just have to take the plunge and do it.
10 years ago on this day my maternal grandfather passed away. i will always remember the date because it's just a day shy of my birthday. and also because i was alone at home when i got the call informing me that he passed away that same morning. a tragic death, i feel - he had an asthma attack while having breakfast and he passed away just like that.
10 years on and a lot of things have happened to myself of which he could not witness. i've grown up, went to a few schools here and there, went through ns and now i'm in university. graduating from a university might not be a big deal these days, but considering my ethnicity and my family background - most of the time it always is. my grandpa was to me, as fit as a fiddle even in his 60s. my paternal grandpa is still alive - 80 in 4 days' time. still looking fit as a fiddle too. i hope at least he can live long enough to see me graduate.
in those same 10 years - like i said i have grown. but have i become a better person? a happier person? singapore ranks lowly on the happiness - i was definitely much happier when i was 10. haha. young people wanna grow old faster because they wanna have freedom - but is this the freedom everyone craves for? i wanna be young and youthful once again - because life was much simpler and happier and more meaningful. though i turn a year older tomorrow, so i suppose there's no chance of an age reversal process i guess. a la benjamin button. haha.
2 nights ago i qiyam-ed for the 1st time ever. an interesting experience. it's one of those things i felt i should do before i get older and lose my zest and spirit to do such things. like how i helped out with qurban last year. a truly memorable qiyam and iftar for me i think. i hope at the end of this blessed fasting month i grow to be a better person - on the inside and on the outside.
so tomorrow i turn 23. old sia! i have no specific wish - i just hope whatever things that i do or decisions that i make, is all blessed by God. sometimes the most cruel or painful things one has to do is not the nicest of decisions - but when the situation calls for it - you just have to take the plunge and do it.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
grandma's place
today i broke my fast (is that the right expression?) at my grandparents' place at serangoon. not everyone was there, especially the younger cousins that i adore so much. although my other cousins do make me laugh with their antics and nonsense so i was entertained anyhow. haha. at least it wasn't that boring as it always is. although i think i was more entertained by the micahel jackson tribute thingy on channel 5.
i thought i was going to miss that but we all ended up like breaking fast with our eyes glued to the tv screen. haha. so much for me wanting to make this a better ramadhan. but mj is really larger than life - not just a singer but an entertainer. where have you ever seen footwork like that? although i suspect he got that v neck white undershirt of his from cotton on (really i've yet to find anything decent for guys from that shop). but it was quite a blast as i've never really seen mj in action like that - although i wonder why so many in the crowd ended up tearing like crazy. just pure madness.
on another note the past few days have been turbulent. slowly but surely things have died down - although i could really really do without a lot of the things that have happened. oh well if it is supposed to have turned out like this than that is destiny - i shall just ride it out and pray that the dust will settle soon enough. it's just unfortunate that some people have been wrongly accused, wrong affected, while others just cannot think and act rationally as i would like have them to. oh well - i think i expect too much from people sometimes.
i thought i was going to miss that but we all ended up like breaking fast with our eyes glued to the tv screen. haha. so much for me wanting to make this a better ramadhan. but mj is really larger than life - not just a singer but an entertainer. where have you ever seen footwork like that? although i suspect he got that v neck white undershirt of his from cotton on (really i've yet to find anything decent for guys from that shop). but it was quite a blast as i've never really seen mj in action like that - although i wonder why so many in the crowd ended up tearing like crazy. just pure madness.
on another note the past few days have been turbulent. slowly but surely things have died down - although i could really really do without a lot of the things that have happened. oh well if it is supposed to have turned out like this than that is destiny - i shall just ride it out and pray that the dust will settle soon enough. it's just unfortunate that some people have been wrongly accused, wrong affected, while others just cannot think and act rationally as i would like have them to. oh well - i think i expect too much from people sometimes.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
annoyance
it can get on your nerves when whatever you do you have to really bear in mind everyone else's opinions and feelings.
this is getting annoying and i don't have much patience.
this is getting annoying and i don't have much patience.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
dreams
this past week i've been dreaming like almost everyday. i know myself well enough that when i dream vividly and i can still remember the dreams long after i've woken up it means that i'm really tired and worn out. the more worn out i get the more i dream and the more vivid they become.
last night (or rather this morning) my dream became an epic of sorts. considering i only really got out of bed at 315pm (haha i was supposed to go to school to print notes etc but i was too tired) that shouldn't sound so surprising. actually i got out of bed at 11am to vacuum my room but soon enough i went back to bed to continue dreaming.
i dreamt of alot of weird and interesting stuffs, of which i shall not post up here. haha. my point is this - what are dreams? are they means and ways of which the devil plays tricks with our minds? or do they really reflect what we think we want in life? or are they reenactments of what we've all gone through? are dreams really opposites of reality? are dreams precursors to what is going to happen to our lives in the future? so many questions yet all of them cannot be answered easily.
on another note i'm being referred to as a insensitive jerk, and idiot and a meano on facebook for all to see. it's fine with me. i got dumped in my first relationship and i sympathise with the sort of angst, since i myself displayed the angst publicly on this very blog like eons ago (or rather on my old blog). so i'm fine and it's probably true. i have no excuse for myself - other than i really could not see any other way out besides going separate ways. as i've said there are certain things in life in which we have to make tough decisions. i think no one else is more sorry than me that this relationship had to end in the most horrible of ways. i know how it feels like to be in her shoes and there is nothing else i could say. it's fine with me if people start turning against me or that sort of thing. things like that always happen but i don't know - at least i still go home to a proper home with a caring mom and and a devoted dad and a sister to mind over sometimes. and also God, whom i believe always open doors for people to seek forgiveness and mercy. i really hope this month will make me a better person.
oh well that's all for now. day one of fasting was spent doing nothing, since like almost 3/4 of it was spent sleeping and dreaming. haha. oh well. it's still great to know arsenal trashed pompey 4-1. its 10 years since i started supporting arsenal by the way. okay toodles.
last night (or rather this morning) my dream became an epic of sorts. considering i only really got out of bed at 315pm (haha i was supposed to go to school to print notes etc but i was too tired) that shouldn't sound so surprising. actually i got out of bed at 11am to vacuum my room but soon enough i went back to bed to continue dreaming.
i dreamt of alot of weird and interesting stuffs, of which i shall not post up here. haha. my point is this - what are dreams? are they means and ways of which the devil plays tricks with our minds? or do they really reflect what we think we want in life? or are they reenactments of what we've all gone through? are dreams really opposites of reality? are dreams precursors to what is going to happen to our lives in the future? so many questions yet all of them cannot be answered easily.
on another note i'm being referred to as a insensitive jerk, and idiot and a meano on facebook for all to see. it's fine with me. i got dumped in my first relationship and i sympathise with the sort of angst, since i myself displayed the angst publicly on this very blog like eons ago (or rather on my old blog). so i'm fine and it's probably true. i have no excuse for myself - other than i really could not see any other way out besides going separate ways. as i've said there are certain things in life in which we have to make tough decisions. i think no one else is more sorry than me that this relationship had to end in the most horrible of ways. i know how it feels like to be in her shoes and there is nothing else i could say. it's fine with me if people start turning against me or that sort of thing. things like that always happen but i don't know - at least i still go home to a proper home with a caring mom and and a devoted dad and a sister to mind over sometimes. and also God, whom i believe always open doors for people to seek forgiveness and mercy. i really hope this month will make me a better person.
oh well that's all for now. day one of fasting was spent doing nothing, since like almost 3/4 of it was spent sleeping and dreaming. haha. oh well. it's still great to know arsenal trashed pompey 4-1. its 10 years since i started supporting arsenal by the way. okay toodles.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
since the last month i blogged, many things have happened.
school has started.
now we are already in the fasting month.
and i am back to being single once again.
as for school - it's already the end of week 2 yet i feel like i'm still in slumber mode. i feel that school has yet to start - although i've really printed out a lot of my readings already. like really a lot. i wish the holidays were still here. oh well. most importantly i've had cash injections recently and is expecting some more injections in the next 2 months or so. yayy! haha.
as for the fasting month - praying terawih was relaxing just now. isn't that the meaning of terawih?(correct me if i'm wrong). i felt peaceful just now and i hope i have a great ramadhan. i hope you guys do too. for me personally, fasting month is when i can totally not think about food and water and think of other more important stuffs like studies. okay i'm not some nerd or anything, it's just 'cos i'm a full time student so i mean studies would somewhat dictate my life direction for now. so almost all resources is geared towards my studies i guess. food and water are really distractions when it comes to studying, so hopefully i'll get to kickstart this semester. well of course i look forward to this month as it is the month that is full of forgiveness and mercy- and that i pray to the Lord for his compassion and mercy, so that He guides me as much as possible to be the servant of God that is expected of all of us. i hope that i benefit greatly from this ramadhan.
as for the breakup - well it hasn't been pretty. if you ask me you could fairly say i'm the bastard in this whole equation. but ask me and hear me out before you pass judgements. though i'm really fine if i'm accused of this and that - simply because some things just cannot be explained in logical or rational terms or i have no excuses. all i know is that the decisions that i have made have been well thought out. it has not been easy, but there are some things in life that require you to make tough and life-changing decisions. and this is one of those.
i just want to be myself and be happy being myself. decisions that i've made have been selfish in nature, though i believe it is in the best interests of all parties. i feel that i'm happier off this way and i'm happy that my life has panned out the way it has so far. sometimes one doesn't realise how past decisions or actions, when looked upon in retrospect, have actually made our own lives better and happier when we didn't think that back then it would. i hope this is one of those things really. all i know life goes on, no matter how badly stained our history will be.
now i go to bed. here's to a brand new tomorrow with day one of fasting.
school has started.
now we are already in the fasting month.
and i am back to being single once again.
as for school - it's already the end of week 2 yet i feel like i'm still in slumber mode. i feel that school has yet to start - although i've really printed out a lot of my readings already. like really a lot. i wish the holidays were still here. oh well. most importantly i've had cash injections recently and is expecting some more injections in the next 2 months or so. yayy! haha.
as for the fasting month - praying terawih was relaxing just now. isn't that the meaning of terawih?(correct me if i'm wrong). i felt peaceful just now and i hope i have a great ramadhan. i hope you guys do too. for me personally, fasting month is when i can totally not think about food and water and think of other more important stuffs like studies. okay i'm not some nerd or anything, it's just 'cos i'm a full time student so i mean studies would somewhat dictate my life direction for now. so almost all resources is geared towards my studies i guess. food and water are really distractions when it comes to studying, so hopefully i'll get to kickstart this semester. well of course i look forward to this month as it is the month that is full of forgiveness and mercy- and that i pray to the Lord for his compassion and mercy, so that He guides me as much as possible to be the servant of God that is expected of all of us. i hope that i benefit greatly from this ramadhan.
as for the breakup - well it hasn't been pretty. if you ask me you could fairly say i'm the bastard in this whole equation. but ask me and hear me out before you pass judgements. though i'm really fine if i'm accused of this and that - simply because some things just cannot be explained in logical or rational terms or i have no excuses. all i know is that the decisions that i have made have been well thought out. it has not been easy, but there are some things in life that require you to make tough and life-changing decisions. and this is one of those.
i just want to be myself and be happy being myself. decisions that i've made have been selfish in nature, though i believe it is in the best interests of all parties. i feel that i'm happier off this way and i'm happy that my life has panned out the way it has so far. sometimes one doesn't realise how past decisions or actions, when looked upon in retrospect, have actually made our own lives better and happier when we didn't think that back then it would. i hope this is one of those things really. all i know life goes on, no matter how badly stained our history will be.
now i go to bed. here's to a brand new tomorrow with day one of fasting.
Friday, July 17, 2009
tough times
calm under pressure.
decisive.
organised.
these few traits that i'm sorely lacking now - hopefully a clear mind can settle them all.
i'm sorry. I need time and i need God.
decisive.
organised.
these few traits that i'm sorely lacking now - hopefully a clear mind can settle them all.
i'm sorry. I need time and i need God.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
7 months later
wow. i haven't blogged for a freaking 7 months. suddenly i just felt like blogging again. been bored these days. my pc is spoilt so can't play games, i'm just whiling time away while waiting for school to start. many of my friends have also not blogged for eons either. whether i shall start to blog again after this i don't know. this is like something at the spur of the moment sorta thing.
7 months!!
in those 7 months that have passed a lot has been done and accomplished!
1) i went through probably my toughest semester in school
2) i studied hard or well enough so much so my cap didn't change at all
3) i juggled my silat stuffs (which was like a 6th module) throughout this crazy semester
4) i fought in 3 friendlies
5) i went through ivp and actually got a medal!!! unbelieveable!
6) the 1st year anniversary came and it's still coming along well
7) i watched arsenal's season crash and burn in a matter of weeks and could not believe it all
among other things;
my collection of dri-fit shirts has increased. now i have dri-fit shirts that are white,black,sky blue,dark blue,red, green,orange,yellow,purple in colour. what a ridiculous collection of dri-fit shirts i have.
my sonyericsson s500i suffered a stroke on its left side, so some buttons couldn't be used. had to buy a cheap nokia stand-in handphone at the end of december to replace it. later on i realised i could still use the se handphone without using the paralyzed buttons. thn last month i completely destroyed the se handphone when my knee pressed hard on it when i didn't see it was lying on my bed in the dark. the screen went kaput so i was soon back to using the nokia one. then 2 weeks ago i dropped the nokia hp on the bus on the way home, so soon enough i just had to get a brand new proper hp. so now i'll start school with an se c510! not the best or prettiest of phones but still decent enough.
last december i went book crazy at a borders sale (my previous entry touched on this! haha) and well to say this frankly - i've not yet read half of those books yet - i think.maybe more. haha. you know those clothes that you wear once and never wear again? i make those mistakes too with books. plenty of them. i think i might somehow find some motivation to read such stuffs but in the end it just falls flat. what a waste of money. haha. it just makes the bookshelf looks more packed only. so i just finished reading my 1st ever dan brown book (i know i lag behind like crazy) so on to the next one. god knows though when i'm gonna read books i've bought eons ago but that are yet untouched.
i did some spring cleaning the other in my room and uncovered a whole treasure of stuffs. haha. i found a birthday present from tyan (all the way back from my jc days) which i've still yet to open and fix it up (one of those zoids thing you know). i found laminated sheets of paper from my jc form teacher which he included words of encouragement for our class to ponder over. i must admit he really actually cared for us, just that we kinda didn't respond in kind. although! he did say his future classes were worse than us, when i thought we were bad enough. haha.
not forgetting the year 2000 premier league sticker book. haha. i can't believe me and kim lin forked out money to buy the stickers and almost almost completed the book. and after all the effort and sharing the 'burden' he let me have the book. wow. and the rest of stuffs that i have - my lyrics file, my band music scores file, my thick jc history files, the books and what not - all the memories came flooding back.
memories stay, yet friends come and go, i realise. only those few that really stick it through with you - i think that's the truest of friends. i think i'm blessed. somehow. i wonder - i lead a completely average life with not many things that interest me yet somehow almost every single day i realise - there is always something to do with my friends. i wonder.
oh well. school is starting again soon in around a month's time. i look forward to it actually, though i admit the holidays have passed real fast. okay till next time.
7 months!!
in those 7 months that have passed a lot has been done and accomplished!
1) i went through probably my toughest semester in school
2) i studied hard or well enough so much so my cap didn't change at all
3) i juggled my silat stuffs (which was like a 6th module) throughout this crazy semester
4) i fought in 3 friendlies
5) i went through ivp and actually got a medal!!! unbelieveable!
6) the 1st year anniversary came and it's still coming along well
7) i watched arsenal's season crash and burn in a matter of weeks and could not believe it all
among other things;
my collection of dri-fit shirts has increased. now i have dri-fit shirts that are white,black,sky blue,dark blue,red, green,orange,yellow,purple in colour. what a ridiculous collection of dri-fit shirts i have.
my sonyericsson s500i suffered a stroke on its left side, so some buttons couldn't be used. had to buy a cheap nokia stand-in handphone at the end of december to replace it. later on i realised i could still use the se handphone without using the paralyzed buttons. thn last month i completely destroyed the se handphone when my knee pressed hard on it when i didn't see it was lying on my bed in the dark. the screen went kaput so i was soon back to using the nokia one. then 2 weeks ago i dropped the nokia hp on the bus on the way home, so soon enough i just had to get a brand new proper hp. so now i'll start school with an se c510! not the best or prettiest of phones but still decent enough.
last december i went book crazy at a borders sale (my previous entry touched on this! haha) and well to say this frankly - i've not yet read half of those books yet - i think.maybe more. haha. you know those clothes that you wear once and never wear again? i make those mistakes too with books. plenty of them. i think i might somehow find some motivation to read such stuffs but in the end it just falls flat. what a waste of money. haha. it just makes the bookshelf looks more packed only. so i just finished reading my 1st ever dan brown book (i know i lag behind like crazy) so on to the next one. god knows though when i'm gonna read books i've bought eons ago but that are yet untouched.
i did some spring cleaning the other in my room and uncovered a whole treasure of stuffs. haha. i found a birthday present from tyan (all the way back from my jc days) which i've still yet to open and fix it up (one of those zoids thing you know). i found laminated sheets of paper from my jc form teacher which he included words of encouragement for our class to ponder over. i must admit he really actually cared for us, just that we kinda didn't respond in kind. although! he did say his future classes were worse than us, when i thought we were bad enough. haha.
not forgetting the year 2000 premier league sticker book. haha. i can't believe me and kim lin forked out money to buy the stickers and almost almost completed the book. and after all the effort and sharing the 'burden' he let me have the book. wow. and the rest of stuffs that i have - my lyrics file, my band music scores file, my thick jc history files, the books and what not - all the memories came flooding back.
memories stay, yet friends come and go, i realise. only those few that really stick it through with you - i think that's the truest of friends. i think i'm blessed. somehow. i wonder - i lead a completely average life with not many things that interest me yet somehow almost every single day i realise - there is always something to do with my friends. i wonder.
oh well. school is starting again soon in around a month's time. i look forward to it actually, though i admit the holidays have passed real fast. okay till next time.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
kurban
hello blog!
i haven blogged for a few months i think! haha. sorry man, just had no mood to blog at all. then when i wanted to the exams came and passed and i didn;t have the patience to just sit down and blog for a while.
so what has been happening? nothing much i guess. i thought the exams that just passed were okay, except for one paper. at least the general feeling is better than last semester. but add to that i have a new group of people and friends who were willing to also just spend long hours at the school library, even on saturdays and sundays. for weeks we led a sad life but i hope all the effort would pay off eventually.
arsenal has gone through a somewhat inconsistent patch lately. probably the most annoying was the loss to villa following the win over manchester united. their season has been largely inconsistent, and i think its due to a lot of factors. an ineffective captain, a few underperforming players and several players who are really not good enough to make the cut. alot of people are really not the best of managers but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that players like bendtner and eboue are never going to be good enough. seriously. after eboue's horror show against wigan it just confirmed what i think of him - a player who's strength is just plain speed and that's all. for wenger to expect him to play as a right winger, his finishing is really atrocious. i don't recall him scoring and i don't expect him to do so. as for bendtner, the guy is big but looks clumsy all the time. even adebayor might be big but at least he scores and is more consistent. although i'm still tearing my hair out at how the team doesn't want to score from long range, although nasri has done so and denilson has shown he does try once in a while. i really think a few old heads should be brought in and some of those youngsters should really be sold off.
last saturday i went book-crazy at the borders sale. me and fabian went there at 12+ and left only at around 3+. i thought it was worth going there. novels went at $5, and alot of non-fiction books went for the same price too. although strictly speaking i bought more of those kiddy-books haha. as in those kind that are more interactive and with more graphics and makes for simpler reading. in total i spent $96.12 and fabian spent around $71. haha. for books i think it's no issue that i spend such an amount. after raiding borders i met up with the guys at dhoby ghaut and spent the whole day just slacking around and playing games with them. quite fun. this was somewhat like a follow-up to the post-exam party the previous night.
the other day i watched bolt with nana. it's quite funny and cute. i'm the kind that don't really laugh out even when i watch something funny or comedies, but bolt made me laugh out a few times so i think it says alot. but maybe you might want to download it online and watch on your computer though. nevertheless i think it's worth catching! haha.
yesterday i spent most of the day at tentera mosque helping out with the qurban. my 1st time ever! i went with hanan who was also making his debut! haha. there were other people like hasan, harun, hakim etc etc. i was quite an eye-opener. all 174 sheeps were slaughtered. i've never seen a live slaughter before actually. i actually felt abit pitiful initially (although one is not supposed to) but after a very short while everything felt very routine. i just got numb seeing all the faeces and blood spilling all over and there were alot of sheep to be slaughtered! haha. we didn't slaughter any but most of us just help to hold the sheep in place so that it would be easier to slaughter them.
some were fighters to the end, struggling and kicking about (i got kicked at my heels 5 or 6 times!). some had horns already. but most were submissive. they just lay still, only occasionally moving about. i think they know salvation is what they will achieve for all this. at least they know they are guaranteed paradise - but what of us? one thing is that yesterday's session made me feel closer to the Almighty.
and after the whole thing was over the smell was unmistakeable - we all smelt like sheep/goats. me hanan and hasan walked all the way to the MPSH in school so that we could take our time and bathe. along the way people could jsut see how dirty and smelly we were. haha. the smell was hard to get rid off. after bathing the smell still stuck to our palms and feet. haha. but i think it was worth the experience really. though i've got a cut on my left sole and my arms are aching now.
okay that's all for now i suppose. training resumes back later although i am going to be hampered by the cuts and bruises here and there i suppose. see you all later!
i haven blogged for a few months i think! haha. sorry man, just had no mood to blog at all. then when i wanted to the exams came and passed and i didn;t have the patience to just sit down and blog for a while.
so what has been happening? nothing much i guess. i thought the exams that just passed were okay, except for one paper. at least the general feeling is better than last semester. but add to that i have a new group of people and friends who were willing to also just spend long hours at the school library, even on saturdays and sundays. for weeks we led a sad life but i hope all the effort would pay off eventually.
arsenal has gone through a somewhat inconsistent patch lately. probably the most annoying was the loss to villa following the win over manchester united. their season has been largely inconsistent, and i think its due to a lot of factors. an ineffective captain, a few underperforming players and several players who are really not good enough to make the cut. alot of people are really not the best of managers but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that players like bendtner and eboue are never going to be good enough. seriously. after eboue's horror show against wigan it just confirmed what i think of him - a player who's strength is just plain speed and that's all. for wenger to expect him to play as a right winger, his finishing is really atrocious. i don't recall him scoring and i don't expect him to do so. as for bendtner, the guy is big but looks clumsy all the time. even adebayor might be big but at least he scores and is more consistent. although i'm still tearing my hair out at how the team doesn't want to score from long range, although nasri has done so and denilson has shown he does try once in a while. i really think a few old heads should be brought in and some of those youngsters should really be sold off.
last saturday i went book-crazy at the borders sale. me and fabian went there at 12+ and left only at around 3+. i thought it was worth going there. novels went at $5, and alot of non-fiction books went for the same price too. although strictly speaking i bought more of those kiddy-books haha. as in those kind that are more interactive and with more graphics and makes for simpler reading. in total i spent $96.12 and fabian spent around $71. haha. for books i think it's no issue that i spend such an amount. after raiding borders i met up with the guys at dhoby ghaut and spent the whole day just slacking around and playing games with them. quite fun. this was somewhat like a follow-up to the post-exam party the previous night.
the other day i watched bolt with nana. it's quite funny and cute. i'm the kind that don't really laugh out even when i watch something funny or comedies, but bolt made me laugh out a few times so i think it says alot. but maybe you might want to download it online and watch on your computer though. nevertheless i think it's worth catching! haha.
yesterday i spent most of the day at tentera mosque helping out with the qurban. my 1st time ever! i went with hanan who was also making his debut! haha. there were other people like hasan, harun, hakim etc etc. i was quite an eye-opener. all 174 sheeps were slaughtered. i've never seen a live slaughter before actually. i actually felt abit pitiful initially (although one is not supposed to) but after a very short while everything felt very routine. i just got numb seeing all the faeces and blood spilling all over and there were alot of sheep to be slaughtered! haha. we didn't slaughter any but most of us just help to hold the sheep in place so that it would be easier to slaughter them.
some were fighters to the end, struggling and kicking about (i got kicked at my heels 5 or 6 times!). some had horns already. but most were submissive. they just lay still, only occasionally moving about. i think they know salvation is what they will achieve for all this. at least they know they are guaranteed paradise - but what of us? one thing is that yesterday's session made me feel closer to the Almighty.
and after the whole thing was over the smell was unmistakeable - we all smelt like sheep/goats. me hanan and hasan walked all the way to the MPSH in school so that we could take our time and bathe. along the way people could jsut see how dirty and smelly we were. haha. the smell was hard to get rid off. after bathing the smell still stuck to our palms and feet. haha. but i think it was worth the experience really. though i've got a cut on my left sole and my arms are aching now.
okay that's all for now i suppose. training resumes back later although i am going to be hampered by the cuts and bruises here and there i suppose. see you all later!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
i'm now blogging on my sister's lappie.
mine is down. damn it. and i think i can only collect back my cpu tomorrow. haha. i seriously think i've a problem with computers since they always spoil all too easily.
in any case raya has been very mundane. we didn't go out this weekend, and only went out on the 1st day and last saturday. not that i took advantage of that and studied anyway. but i'm now bored and just sian my lappie is now the subject of yusri's it jinx. oh well.
anyway raya every year is all the same routine things. only this year i see mre of those minah and mat couples going out and doing their routines. i see more of those see through kebayas and ther figure-hugging tubes. those long skirts with slits that go high up to the thighs i've yet to see though. one of these days we're gonna get those cleavage-baring kebayas you know. don't bet on it not happening.
the other day on my way home i saw this mat and this secondary school girl with her uniform on. the mat was going off so they did this customary handshake of theirs (you know the kind stupid minahs submit themselves to do with their so-called 'elder brothers'). but this was revolutionary. first the minah shook hands and placed his palm on her forehead. then she pecked both the cheeks of the mat. thn the mat returned the favour and did likewise. and then to top it all off - they then pecked on the lips. then the mat went off.
wow. i'm sure they are not even together in the strictest sense of 'in a relationship' but look at the elaborate customary goodbye ritual. wow. i'm amazed it has already progressed to such a stage. i've always viewed girls who show their 'respect' to elder guys by shaking hands as stupid. for what rational reason should they show such respect? i'm sure at this point in time girls can think for themselves what is right and what is wrong. what sort of pleasure or honour they derive form such acts i cannot fathom the slightest. it's all linked to the 'abang angkat' and 'adik angkat' thing which i find even more ridiculously absurd. i've always viewed such things with utter disdain.
pardon me if i sound too strong, but sometimes i feel that my own community is really heading towards self-destruction. we make up almost 15% of the singapore population, yet only 4% of our students make it to university level. indians make up 7& yet 10% of their students make it to universities. there is a huge disparity in that. how can that not be possible? during fasting month i see malay people still sitting around at coffeeshops not only sipping coffee but beer at that. people are struggling to make ends meet but we have youths who spend their time idly and can be seen at their worst at night and especially weekends. then when such problems spiral into out of control, then who's to blame? parents? the stupid kids themselves?
then suddenly the onus is on the government or even the few malay elites to take on the problem. is that fair i ask you? when are they ever going to realise that we are at the bottom rung of society in every sense - economy, education, social status etc etc. but all they wanna do is to make babies all year round and drink beer and idle and etc etc.
i have friends who drink beer, and aren't probably the most pious but at least they have something called common sense. common sense to know what in life they want to be, and know what is stupid and what is not. at least they know what they seek to do in life. sometimes i wonder what else do malays lack. if religion cannot provide a meaningful guide in life, at least common sense should. or even a sense of why can't i do better than him, or i want to be like that guy kind of mentality. but it's sorely lacking, and i fear when i grow older the malay problem will just be a mega-problem. till then i would think it's too late to stem the tide.
pardon me for my strong feelings. i just feel sometimes when it comes to issues regarding malays, i can't help it but feel very strongly about it. yup. so that's all.
on a lighter note i think i'm receiving much more duit raya than in previous years. okay dah. toodles!
mine is down. damn it. and i think i can only collect back my cpu tomorrow. haha. i seriously think i've a problem with computers since they always spoil all too easily.
in any case raya has been very mundane. we didn't go out this weekend, and only went out on the 1st day and last saturday. not that i took advantage of that and studied anyway. but i'm now bored and just sian my lappie is now the subject of yusri's it jinx. oh well.
anyway raya every year is all the same routine things. only this year i see mre of those minah and mat couples going out and doing their routines. i see more of those see through kebayas and ther figure-hugging tubes. those long skirts with slits that go high up to the thighs i've yet to see though. one of these days we're gonna get those cleavage-baring kebayas you know. don't bet on it not happening.
the other day on my way home i saw this mat and this secondary school girl with her uniform on. the mat was going off so they did this customary handshake of theirs (you know the kind stupid minahs submit themselves to do with their so-called 'elder brothers'). but this was revolutionary. first the minah shook hands and placed his palm on her forehead. then she pecked both the cheeks of the mat. thn the mat returned the favour and did likewise. and then to top it all off - they then pecked on the lips. then the mat went off.
wow. i'm sure they are not even together in the strictest sense of 'in a relationship' but look at the elaborate customary goodbye ritual. wow. i'm amazed it has already progressed to such a stage. i've always viewed girls who show their 'respect' to elder guys by shaking hands as stupid. for what rational reason should they show such respect? i'm sure at this point in time girls can think for themselves what is right and what is wrong. what sort of pleasure or honour they derive form such acts i cannot fathom the slightest. it's all linked to the 'abang angkat' and 'adik angkat' thing which i find even more ridiculously absurd. i've always viewed such things with utter disdain.
pardon me if i sound too strong, but sometimes i feel that my own community is really heading towards self-destruction. we make up almost 15% of the singapore population, yet only 4% of our students make it to university level. indians make up 7& yet 10% of their students make it to universities. there is a huge disparity in that. how can that not be possible? during fasting month i see malay people still sitting around at coffeeshops not only sipping coffee but beer at that. people are struggling to make ends meet but we have youths who spend their time idly and can be seen at their worst at night and especially weekends. then when such problems spiral into out of control, then who's to blame? parents? the stupid kids themselves?
then suddenly the onus is on the government or even the few malay elites to take on the problem. is that fair i ask you? when are they ever going to realise that we are at the bottom rung of society in every sense - economy, education, social status etc etc. but all they wanna do is to make babies all year round and drink beer and idle and etc etc.
i have friends who drink beer, and aren't probably the most pious but at least they have something called common sense. common sense to know what in life they want to be, and know what is stupid and what is not. at least they know what they seek to do in life. sometimes i wonder what else do malays lack. if religion cannot provide a meaningful guide in life, at least common sense should. or even a sense of why can't i do better than him, or i want to be like that guy kind of mentality. but it's sorely lacking, and i fear when i grow older the malay problem will just be a mega-problem. till then i would think it's too late to stem the tide.
pardon me for my strong feelings. i just feel sometimes when it comes to issues regarding malays, i can't help it but feel very strongly about it. yup. so that's all.
on a lighter note i think i'm receiving much more duit raya than in previous years. okay dah. toodles!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
hari raya
it's the night before hari raya tomorrow but i'm stuck here in school in the computer lab still trying to get my essay sound coherent. this sucks.
just now i ran into mehmet, one of the muslim international students here from turkey. he says tomorrow he'll be studying away in his room. that's pretty ultimate.
this year's ramadhan hasn't been the best of ramadhans. i think i can do better next time round. just didn't feel like i've done much. even raya doesn't feel like tomorrow. somehow i don't feel the excitement and the hype surrounding hari raya this year. i don't know why. it doesn't help that raya comes smack in the midst of tests and essay deadlines for many people, yours truly included.
well my mom says raya every year also have, but the chance to sit for your exams etc come only once. haha. very practical reasoning. oh well, its better spending the night of raya away in school struggling to finish essays rather than spending it in the jungles of taiwan 3 years ago.
okay selamat hari raya people.
just now i ran into mehmet, one of the muslim international students here from turkey. he says tomorrow he'll be studying away in his room. that's pretty ultimate.
this year's ramadhan hasn't been the best of ramadhans. i think i can do better next time round. just didn't feel like i've done much. even raya doesn't feel like tomorrow. somehow i don't feel the excitement and the hype surrounding hari raya this year. i don't know why. it doesn't help that raya comes smack in the midst of tests and essay deadlines for many people, yours truly included.
well my mom says raya every year also have, but the chance to sit for your exams etc come only once. haha. very practical reasoning. oh well, its better spending the night of raya away in school struggling to finish essays rather than spending it in the jungles of taiwan 3 years ago.
okay selamat hari raya people.
Friday, September 19, 2008
attitude
within the short space of 1 week i've been scolded/reprimanded/suan-ned by 3 different lecturers. i realy feel like a student with an attitude problem. maybe i am deep inside. i know in my jc days my form teacher did resort to calling my mum up after i skipped class once. haha.
last week, on monday in tutorial the lecturer, i think upon seeing me sharing notes with another guy, suddenly said out to the whole class that for the forthcoming test we had to bring all our notes, printed out on paper since it was an open-book test. tsk. i kinda looked around and realised i was the only one who didn't bring my notes to class. what an open way to suan me.
then the following wednesday i got reprimanded by the lecturer in lecture for talking with nick. okay that was really my fault, but well it was surprising. i mean the fact that i got reprimanded to that extent. although actually i've always had a history for being told off for talking in class. like countless times i think. from being scotch-taped to the mouth in p4, to jc1 when my teacher said in class - 'muhamad yusri! stop touching tan xing yi!' haha. so embarrasing, in a full lecture some more.
and then earlier on monday, me and fab got reprimanded for apparently laughing at the picture the lecturer screened during lecture. yes we were laughing softly, but for some weird reason or another the lecturer thought we were laughing at his powerpoint. twice he remarked on it in a general statement, but it was obviously directed at us since he kept eyeing us throughout the lecture and right after the moment we laughed he immediately reprimanded us. tsk. we weren't even laughing at the pictures he screened.
so 3 times within a week i got scolded/reprimanded etc. i'm showing streaks of a student with attitude i think.
okay that's all.
last week, on monday in tutorial the lecturer, i think upon seeing me sharing notes with another guy, suddenly said out to the whole class that for the forthcoming test we had to bring all our notes, printed out on paper since it was an open-book test. tsk. i kinda looked around and realised i was the only one who didn't bring my notes to class. what an open way to suan me.
then the following wednesday i got reprimanded by the lecturer in lecture for talking with nick. okay that was really my fault, but well it was surprising. i mean the fact that i got reprimanded to that extent. although actually i've always had a history for being told off for talking in class. like countless times i think. from being scotch-taped to the mouth in p4, to jc1 when my teacher said in class - 'muhamad yusri! stop touching tan xing yi!' haha. so embarrasing, in a full lecture some more.
and then earlier on monday, me and fab got reprimanded for apparently laughing at the picture the lecturer screened during lecture. yes we were laughing softly, but for some weird reason or another the lecturer thought we were laughing at his powerpoint. twice he remarked on it in a general statement, but it was obviously directed at us since he kept eyeing us throughout the lecture and right after the moment we laughed he immediately reprimanded us. tsk. we weren't even laughing at the pictures he screened.
so 3 times within a week i got scolded/reprimanded etc. i'm showing streaks of a student with attitude i think.
okay that's all.
Monday, September 08, 2008
birthday
i turned 22 yesterday.
today i shall blog about my birthday. maybe i've talked about it before but it's okay i shall just repeat.
birthdays in my family have never been an occasion to celebrate. it's really one of those standout points of my familial culture. birthdays pass like they never exist. it's not like we forget each others birthday, it's just that we don't celebrate. so at most i'll get the occasional kiss from my mom or hearing my sis saying 'wah nari birthday seh!' haha.
which is enough for me really. i don't really know why we don't celebrate birthdays, but i think it's tied to this other point - we don't eat out. very very rare, if ever. so no going out to eat, hence no going out to celebrate. even at home, i can only recall my sis' birthday being celebrated only once with a cake (when she was 6 i think?). the cake had strawberries on top, and if i remember correctly it was a mango cake. or something like that. the only birthday cake i had was when i was 4, and although i'm not quite sure who bought it, all i remember is it was a chocolate cake with strawberries on top, and we had it at my grandparents' place. since i was 4 then, there was only my elder cousin and my sis who was just born months earlier, and my mom and maybe my aunts, so it was quite a low-key affair. my next birthday cake was when i was 18 - a hello kitty cake, shared between me, fab and jj in a combined birthday celebration at pizza hut after our maths prelims exams. why hello kitty, i asked my classmates. oh, we couldn't get dear daniel, so we had to settle for hello kitty. right. i still have the photos of them up on friendster amazingly. haha.
the fact that i can remember my cake had strawberries on top of it almost 2 decades ago probably sums it all up.
hardly anything exciting happens on my birthday. in 2004 i went to school to study, in 2005 i was in camp doing running in the morning. in 2006 i spent it fixing some hardware up for my pc. i can't even remember what happened on my birthdays when i was in primary school or secondary school. it didn't help that my birthday always fell in the september holidays. haha. so last year was really weird in having to come to school for lessons on my birthday.
in any case don't take me wrongly - it's not that i'm lamenting that my birthday doesn't get recognised/acknowledged/celebrated. it's really fine with me. i know nowadays people interprete having birthdays to honour themselves in a way. out of the 365 days in a year, the birthday then becomes a day for people to rejoice and be happy for themselves and having the people that they love around them. it's perfectly normal.
in my case, mum and dad grew up in tough times, and celebrating birthdays are probably the last thing on their minds while they were growing up. i suppose that mindset still carries through to today. being as practical as they are i would really understand if they never celebrated anyone's birthdays in the family. even my sister has never grumbled or anything on this point. i accept this as the culture of my family which would really deviate much from the typical familial discourse of contemporary singaporean families. haha. so i'm fine with that no worries. and i'm sure there are people who have similar familial cultures too, and i'm sure they don't feel the least disturbed about it. of course in the event i have children in the future, i shan't impose such a culture on them - since kids nowadays seem to be born naturally as spoilt brats.
last year i had my primary school friends celebrate for me at amirah's grill. it was fun. a small mini-party of sorts. i appreciated that since i've never had any birthday dinner of any kind before. very sweet of them, especially nurul rather, to have organised such a thing. we played peribahasa charades and taboo. haha. very fun.
what about this year? as always i woke up on my birthday feeling normal, like the day was just another day. i went to school to study actually, since i knew i wouldn't do anything productive at home anyway. after studying for quite a while then i went to choa chu kang. a dinner with izy and iza. well, not exactly correct.
we made our way to cck park, and wow i was surprised and amazed at the turnout. a surprise guestlist was already waiting! for a fact i knew more people were invited, but the turnout was unexpected really. i probably can't act being shocked well, but in my heart i was telling myself wow, these people actually bother to come from afar to come and eat. i'm touched really at the turnout. so far the biggest number of people i've somewhat celebrated my birthday with. at least the food was great, and so was the company. can't really say the same for the presents, but well - i shouldn't complain should i? haha. thanks anyway. the gifts that they gave centred upon the theme of bottles, so now i have bottles of all sorts and sizes just occupying the already-packed fridge, and they are also lying around in the kitchen. haha.
in anyway thank you very much people for coming down. even though the dinner did not last long, i'm touched and amazed by the fact that the turnout was really good, and many bothered to set aside time to come from afar and be there last night. and a special thanks to my dearest who organised the dinner for me! thankyou for the cupcakes too dear! (amazingly they have strawberries on top too) oh and her friends too - funnyfriend, onion and whatever-her-name-is - for the card. thanks to all of you who also gave me gifts and cards, and thank you very much too to all those who smsed, msned, or even facebked me well wishes. really alot of people wished me well this year. haha. a far cry from those days of the jahiliah era. haha.
on another note i think my lecturer was sindir-ing me abit in class just now. tsk.
today i shall blog about my birthday. maybe i've talked about it before but it's okay i shall just repeat.
birthdays in my family have never been an occasion to celebrate. it's really one of those standout points of my familial culture. birthdays pass like they never exist. it's not like we forget each others birthday, it's just that we don't celebrate. so at most i'll get the occasional kiss from my mom or hearing my sis saying 'wah nari birthday seh!' haha.
which is enough for me really. i don't really know why we don't celebrate birthdays, but i think it's tied to this other point - we don't eat out. very very rare, if ever. so no going out to eat, hence no going out to celebrate. even at home, i can only recall my sis' birthday being celebrated only once with a cake (when she was 6 i think?). the cake had strawberries on top, and if i remember correctly it was a mango cake. or something like that. the only birthday cake i had was when i was 4, and although i'm not quite sure who bought it, all i remember is it was a chocolate cake with strawberries on top, and we had it at my grandparents' place. since i was 4 then, there was only my elder cousin and my sis who was just born months earlier, and my mom and maybe my aunts, so it was quite a low-key affair. my next birthday cake was when i was 18 - a hello kitty cake, shared between me, fab and jj in a combined birthday celebration at pizza hut after our maths prelims exams. why hello kitty, i asked my classmates. oh, we couldn't get dear daniel, so we had to settle for hello kitty. right. i still have the photos of them up on friendster amazingly. haha.
the fact that i can remember my cake had strawberries on top of it almost 2 decades ago probably sums it all up.
hardly anything exciting happens on my birthday. in 2004 i went to school to study, in 2005 i was in camp doing running in the morning. in 2006 i spent it fixing some hardware up for my pc. i can't even remember what happened on my birthdays when i was in primary school or secondary school. it didn't help that my birthday always fell in the september holidays. haha. so last year was really weird in having to come to school for lessons on my birthday.
in any case don't take me wrongly - it's not that i'm lamenting that my birthday doesn't get recognised/acknowledged/celebrated. it's really fine with me. i know nowadays people interprete having birthdays to honour themselves in a way. out of the 365 days in a year, the birthday then becomes a day for people to rejoice and be happy for themselves and having the people that they love around them. it's perfectly normal.
in my case, mum and dad grew up in tough times, and celebrating birthdays are probably the last thing on their minds while they were growing up. i suppose that mindset still carries through to today. being as practical as they are i would really understand if they never celebrated anyone's birthdays in the family. even my sister has never grumbled or anything on this point. i accept this as the culture of my family which would really deviate much from the typical familial discourse of contemporary singaporean families. haha. so i'm fine with that no worries. and i'm sure there are people who have similar familial cultures too, and i'm sure they don't feel the least disturbed about it. of course in the event i have children in the future, i shan't impose such a culture on them - since kids nowadays seem to be born naturally as spoilt brats.
last year i had my primary school friends celebrate for me at amirah's grill. it was fun. a small mini-party of sorts. i appreciated that since i've never had any birthday dinner of any kind before. very sweet of them, especially nurul rather, to have organised such a thing. we played peribahasa charades and taboo. haha. very fun.
what about this year? as always i woke up on my birthday feeling normal, like the day was just another day. i went to school to study actually, since i knew i wouldn't do anything productive at home anyway. after studying for quite a while then i went to choa chu kang. a dinner with izy and iza. well, not exactly correct.
we made our way to cck park, and wow i was surprised and amazed at the turnout. a surprise guestlist was already waiting! for a fact i knew more people were invited, but the turnout was unexpected really. i probably can't act being shocked well, but in my heart i was telling myself wow, these people actually bother to come from afar to come and eat. i'm touched really at the turnout. so far the biggest number of people i've somewhat celebrated my birthday with. at least the food was great, and so was the company. can't really say the same for the presents, but well - i shouldn't complain should i? haha. thanks anyway. the gifts that they gave centred upon the theme of bottles, so now i have bottles of all sorts and sizes just occupying the already-packed fridge, and they are also lying around in the kitchen. haha.
in anyway thank you very much people for coming down. even though the dinner did not last long, i'm touched and amazed by the fact that the turnout was really good, and many bothered to set aside time to come from afar and be there last night. and a special thanks to my dearest who organised the dinner for me! thankyou for the cupcakes too dear! (amazingly they have strawberries on top too) oh and her friends too - funnyfriend, onion and whatever-her-name-is - for the card. thanks to all of you who also gave me gifts and cards, and thank you very much too to all those who smsed, msned, or even facebked me well wishes. really alot of people wished me well this year. haha. a far cry from those days of the jahiliah era. haha.
on another note i think my lecturer was sindir-ing me abit in class just now. tsk.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
smrt
the past 2 weeks or so have been spent doing some things that i haven't done before.
last last sunday was spent running in the early morning in the safra bay run/army half marathon. okay well, granted that i actually signed up for the non-competitive 6km route. haha. i ran with hadi and liz. more of jogged rather. hadi fetched us and by 8.40 we were off (missed the flag-off by 10 minutes but no worries). eventually we did catch up with the main body that ran off at 8.30am anyway. 2 years ago i ran the 10km non-competitive one with my bmt colleagues, but this time i'm back as a civilian! haha. oh and i saw my old encik at one of the water points, and i purposely ran past the water point to avoid him seeing me. haha. during the race too i saw moms pushing prams with their children inside, and i wondered at the pace they were walkig at they were going to take forever to finish. because it rained in the wee hours of the morning, it was really cold and damp in the day, and what was worse was that the padang turned into a mudpool. many resorted to walking barefooted on it. well we managed to get the goodie bags and take as many free 100plus cans as we could. haha. luckily hadi drove, so we could change and dump ur stuff inside his car. haha. after drying up we were off to tanjng pagar railway station!
i suggested lunching there because i've been told the food there is nice but i've never had the chance to eat there. 1 problem is i've only been there once, like more than a decade ago, and that was just alighting from the train from kl and then heading home. and secondly, the railway station is really out of the way for me, and i've no particular reason to be there or anywhere near that area. well in any case the food is quite nice. should go there again sometime. the murtabak i had was really something, and the food my friends bought were quite nice too. so i spent the whole sunday morning doing 2 things that i've never really done before on a regular basis - run on sunday morning with friends, and eat at the tanjong pagar railway station. something i should really do more often (the first one see how, but the second one shouldn't be much of a problem. haha.)
last friday i went to comex and got myself an external hard disk drive from western digital. i think it's got a sleek look, and for 250gb i got it at 109bucks. an okay price for me i guess. far cry from the days when an 80gb external hard disk costed 179 bucks. now they sell 1000gb (or rather, 1 terabyte) at 199bucks! freak! i got my thumbdrive last year at 19.90 for 1gb,and now 1gb can cost you $5 only. tsk. even the cost of printers have gone down. haha. i met up with fahmi for a while and walked around comex to see other deals. like a telescope for 40 bucks that was being sold. haha. we didn't think a telescope could ever be that cheap. oh and i got to see the iphone. i didn't play with it but i just saw fahmi play around with it for a while. looks cool but abit too pricey, even the singtel plans that come with it.
last sunday was spent taking part in the smrt challenge! haha. a chance to win 2K cash was up for grabs, so me, firdous, rahman and juliana signed up as a team! initially we were put on the reserve list but on wednesday they emailed me saying we were taking part. so yup. again on sunday i had to wake up early (even earlier in fact this time round, at 5.30am!) and make my way down to toa payoh. other friends also took part in this, like hanan who teamed up with his family; iza, fahmi, fadhli and nadia formed a team; haekal was with his girlfriend and her friends; there was aisyah and her family too and hazirah and maryam with their friends. haha. well the whole thing was quite fun, even if there were alot of lame parts. haha. well the thing is it's a great way to spend with friends to escape the monotony of everyday life. running around and doing lame challenges on sunday morning was at least something different to do. after the challenge ended (came in too late to be in any prize-winning positions haha) we just hung around in the hope of winning lucky draw prizes but to no avail. after the whole thing i joined the gang in bowling, but actually we never really managed to find a bowling alley after going 3 places. so we just did what malays excel best in - just sitting around and talking nonsense. haha..
today was spent doing something i've never done before - shop in chinatown. haha. well not exactly in chinatown though. today i slept like pig and only woke up at 2pm. by 3pm we were out driving down to people's park complex (or centre) to shop at og. apparently my aunt isn't sure of the way so my mom asked me to drive. i don't really enjoy driving to the cbd at this kind of hours because of the jams, and in any case the way home was horrible, because it was really pouring and the peak hour jams were quite nasty. at least at og i managed to get myself a shirt and 2 belts so it's still okay. i've never really gone shopping at og, with my mom and aunt at that. og isn't really the kind of place youngsters would really go to shop at, and furthermore, we were in the heart of chinatown. haha. i hardly saw any malays, in fact i think i only saw one. and of course alot of aunties. haha. and now i'm thinking that i should have gotten that portable dvd drive from comex for my lappie, now that my pc is down and out for some time i reckon. but i suppose that's gotta wait. haha.
so now the fasting month has started, but even after 2 days i don't feel the atmosphere or the feeling. what kind of atmosphere or feeling actually, i can't describe properly in words, but i just can't feel it yet. in any case it's good, because obviously one can save pocket money during fasting month and still look forward to getting even more money during hari raya. haha. oh and the progress package due in october. that's quite lot of cash due. *rubs hands in glee*....
okay that's all.
last last sunday was spent running in the early morning in the safra bay run/army half marathon. okay well, granted that i actually signed up for the non-competitive 6km route. haha. i ran with hadi and liz. more of jogged rather. hadi fetched us and by 8.40 we were off (missed the flag-off by 10 minutes but no worries). eventually we did catch up with the main body that ran off at 8.30am anyway. 2 years ago i ran the 10km non-competitive one with my bmt colleagues, but this time i'm back as a civilian! haha. oh and i saw my old encik at one of the water points, and i purposely ran past the water point to avoid him seeing me. haha. during the race too i saw moms pushing prams with their children inside, and i wondered at the pace they were walkig at they were going to take forever to finish. because it rained in the wee hours of the morning, it was really cold and damp in the day, and what was worse was that the padang turned into a mudpool. many resorted to walking barefooted on it. well we managed to get the goodie bags and take as many free 100plus cans as we could. haha. luckily hadi drove, so we could change and dump ur stuff inside his car. haha. after drying up we were off to tanjng pagar railway station!
i suggested lunching there because i've been told the food there is nice but i've never had the chance to eat there. 1 problem is i've only been there once, like more than a decade ago, and that was just alighting from the train from kl and then heading home. and secondly, the railway station is really out of the way for me, and i've no particular reason to be there or anywhere near that area. well in any case the food is quite nice. should go there again sometime. the murtabak i had was really something, and the food my friends bought were quite nice too. so i spent the whole sunday morning doing 2 things that i've never really done before on a regular basis - run on sunday morning with friends, and eat at the tanjong pagar railway station. something i should really do more often (the first one see how, but the second one shouldn't be much of a problem. haha.)
last friday i went to comex and got myself an external hard disk drive from western digital. i think it's got a sleek look, and for 250gb i got it at 109bucks. an okay price for me i guess. far cry from the days when an 80gb external hard disk costed 179 bucks. now they sell 1000gb (or rather, 1 terabyte) at 199bucks! freak! i got my thumbdrive last year at 19.90 for 1gb,and now 1gb can cost you $5 only. tsk. even the cost of printers have gone down. haha. i met up with fahmi for a while and walked around comex to see other deals. like a telescope for 40 bucks that was being sold. haha. we didn't think a telescope could ever be that cheap. oh and i got to see the iphone. i didn't play with it but i just saw fahmi play around with it for a while. looks cool but abit too pricey, even the singtel plans that come with it.
last sunday was spent taking part in the smrt challenge! haha. a chance to win 2K cash was up for grabs, so me, firdous, rahman and juliana signed up as a team! initially we were put on the reserve list but on wednesday they emailed me saying we were taking part. so yup. again on sunday i had to wake up early (even earlier in fact this time round, at 5.30am!) and make my way down to toa payoh. other friends also took part in this, like hanan who teamed up with his family; iza, fahmi, fadhli and nadia formed a team; haekal was with his girlfriend and her friends; there was aisyah and her family too and hazirah and maryam with their friends. haha. well the whole thing was quite fun, even if there were alot of lame parts. haha. well the thing is it's a great way to spend with friends to escape the monotony of everyday life. running around and doing lame challenges on sunday morning was at least something different to do. after the challenge ended (came in too late to be in any prize-winning positions haha) we just hung around in the hope of winning lucky draw prizes but to no avail. after the whole thing i joined the gang in bowling, but actually we never really managed to find a bowling alley after going 3 places. so we just did what malays excel best in - just sitting around and talking nonsense. haha..
today was spent doing something i've never done before - shop in chinatown. haha. well not exactly in chinatown though. today i slept like pig and only woke up at 2pm. by 3pm we were out driving down to people's park complex (or centre) to shop at og. apparently my aunt isn't sure of the way so my mom asked me to drive. i don't really enjoy driving to the cbd at this kind of hours because of the jams, and in any case the way home was horrible, because it was really pouring and the peak hour jams were quite nasty. at least at og i managed to get myself a shirt and 2 belts so it's still okay. i've never really gone shopping at og, with my mom and aunt at that. og isn't really the kind of place youngsters would really go to shop at, and furthermore, we were in the heart of chinatown. haha. i hardly saw any malays, in fact i think i only saw one. and of course alot of aunties. haha. and now i'm thinking that i should have gotten that portable dvd drive from comex for my lappie, now that my pc is down and out for some time i reckon. but i suppose that's gotta wait. haha.
so now the fasting month has started, but even after 2 days i don't feel the atmosphere or the feeling. what kind of atmosphere or feeling actually, i can't describe properly in words, but i just can't feel it yet. in any case it's good, because obviously one can save pocket money during fasting month and still look forward to getting even more money during hari raya. haha. oh and the progress package due in october. that's quite lot of cash due. *rubs hands in glee*....
okay that's all.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
lappie
i'm supposed to be doing my readings but i'm blogging instead.
been here since 10 in the morning, and now it's past 4 already. in that time i've been writing cards, had lunch, read only 4 pages of readings, napped for over an hour, printed notes, wasted time, and i'm still wasting time. the amazing thing is that i'm blogging first time on my cutsie lappie! haha. it can be very trying since the buttons on the keyboard are quite small, but it can be done!
thursdays are nightmarish because i start at 8am every thursday. that sucks since that would mean leaving home even before the sun is out. on even week fridays i start at 8am too, so sometimes i start at 8 two days in a row! okay well, at least all the nonsensical and unnecessary stuffs that bogged me down during the holidays are now history, although there's still a few things to tie down. silat training has started once again, and even as the 3 of us are trying our best to do as much as we can, things can get very stressful and taxing at times. not like anyone really understands it anyway.
for this semester, i'm taking 3 political science modules and 2 history modules. i think the only interesting ones are the history of the usa and the politics of china. although the lectures haven't really been a blast, at least from what i've read so far things sound rather interesting. i can't really say the other modules are drab and boring, but they've yet to capture my imagination yet in any way. but so far so good i suppose. other than that, mine and nana's timetable don't clash for most of the days, so i shan't see her much in school i suppose.
other than school, there's been nothing much except to catch the olympics. haha. but it's been great watching the olympics! it's not like i can watch beach volleyball, table tennis or even swimming live so often. it's been quite an event. with phelps becoming the greateast ever olympian, and bolt breaking the 100m sprint record (and from the looks of it he could have actually run faster! how scary is that?), the games have been a spectacle. watching the chinese weightlifters in action were mind-blowing too. i still remember that judo gold medal match in which the guy won in 13 seconds! freaking 13 seconds and he won a gold medal! and the amputee who finished well in the 10km marathon swim. all these are amazing feats! add to that brazil played horribly in the men's football against argentina. haha. and it's extremely surprising that silvestre has joined arsenal! haha, totally out of the blue kind of transfer. oh well, they have still yet to find a good defensive midfielder so i doubt silvestre's the last transfer of this season.
okay so that's all. i should really get back to doing readings. toodles!
been here since 10 in the morning, and now it's past 4 already. in that time i've been writing cards, had lunch, read only 4 pages of readings, napped for over an hour, printed notes, wasted time, and i'm still wasting time. the amazing thing is that i'm blogging first time on my cutsie lappie! haha. it can be very trying since the buttons on the keyboard are quite small, but it can be done!
thursdays are nightmarish because i start at 8am every thursday. that sucks since that would mean leaving home even before the sun is out. on even week fridays i start at 8am too, so sometimes i start at 8 two days in a row! okay well, at least all the nonsensical and unnecessary stuffs that bogged me down during the holidays are now history, although there's still a few things to tie down. silat training has started once again, and even as the 3 of us are trying our best to do as much as we can, things can get very stressful and taxing at times. not like anyone really understands it anyway.
for this semester, i'm taking 3 political science modules and 2 history modules. i think the only interesting ones are the history of the usa and the politics of china. although the lectures haven't really been a blast, at least from what i've read so far things sound rather interesting. i can't really say the other modules are drab and boring, but they've yet to capture my imagination yet in any way. but so far so good i suppose. other than that, mine and nana's timetable don't clash for most of the days, so i shan't see her much in school i suppose.
other than school, there's been nothing much except to catch the olympics. haha. but it's been great watching the olympics! it's not like i can watch beach volleyball, table tennis or even swimming live so often. it's been quite an event. with phelps becoming the greateast ever olympian, and bolt breaking the 100m sprint record (and from the looks of it he could have actually run faster! how scary is that?), the games have been a spectacle. watching the chinese weightlifters in action were mind-blowing too. i still remember that judo gold medal match in which the guy won in 13 seconds! freaking 13 seconds and he won a gold medal! and the amputee who finished well in the 10km marathon swim. all these are amazing feats! add to that brazil played horribly in the men's football against argentina. haha. and it's extremely surprising that silvestre has joined arsenal! haha, totally out of the blue kind of transfer. oh well, they have still yet to find a good defensive midfielder so i doubt silvestre's the last transfer of this season.
okay so that's all. i should really get back to doing readings. toodles!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
epind
just now i went for my friend epind's wedding.
quite an interesting affair it was. we were early birds really. epind is my colleague from my days as a bmtc instructor in pulau tekong, so i went there with my other army friends. it was great to see all of them after almost half a year. as always i'm being ridiculed for my 'slenger' ways but it's okay. haha. i think at least i don't mind their company, and they can be quite fun. sometimes i don't quite understand their lingo but generally it's okay. i enjoy my time being with them and actually i learn quite alot from them. the thing about me is, i didn't really know life outside of my studies and always mixing around like-minded people before ns. then in ns i'm exposed to people from all sorts of backgrounds. so in a way i learn to appreciate that different people have different thinking and backgrounds. as always we like reminisce, and we all laugh everytime we talk about funny incidents that happened during our time in camp. in any case that was the first wedding among my friends that i've attended, and i expect more to follow. now we all come to the age where we start to think long-term - of finances, careers, and of the life partner. sometimes i think i grow too fast. haha.
the other day i went to watch get smart with nana. okay admittedly, we watched it very late since the movie opened more than one month ago. in any case the movie is quite funny. steve carell is one heck of a funny guy. i like guys who can act funnily or crack jokes but still keep a straight face. it's not an easy skill, and carell can pull it off quite well. if you all remember, he was jim carrey's rival for the newscaster spot in bruce almighty, and remember the scene when carrey made fun of him on tv by controlling movements of his mouth. haha that was really funny. get smart overall is a good movie i thought. everyone's just about asking me if i've watched the dark knight - well i'm not really a fan of going to the movies, so i don't really bother about catching the latest blockbusters and stuffs so yup.
school's going to start in 2 weeks' time - and i want to it to start as soon as possible. i'm getting worn out with so many things to do everyday. the personal organiser is really brimming with stuffs to do, and i would rather it be full of school stuffs to do. okay i guess that's all for now.
quite an interesting affair it was. we were early birds really. epind is my colleague from my days as a bmtc instructor in pulau tekong, so i went there with my other army friends. it was great to see all of them after almost half a year. as always i'm being ridiculed for my 'slenger' ways but it's okay. haha. i think at least i don't mind their company, and they can be quite fun. sometimes i don't quite understand their lingo but generally it's okay. i enjoy my time being with them and actually i learn quite alot from them. the thing about me is, i didn't really know life outside of my studies and always mixing around like-minded people before ns. then in ns i'm exposed to people from all sorts of backgrounds. so in a way i learn to appreciate that different people have different thinking and backgrounds. as always we like reminisce, and we all laugh everytime we talk about funny incidents that happened during our time in camp. in any case that was the first wedding among my friends that i've attended, and i expect more to follow. now we all come to the age where we start to think long-term - of finances, careers, and of the life partner. sometimes i think i grow too fast. haha.
the other day i went to watch get smart with nana. okay admittedly, we watched it very late since the movie opened more than one month ago. in any case the movie is quite funny. steve carell is one heck of a funny guy. i like guys who can act funnily or crack jokes but still keep a straight face. it's not an easy skill, and carell can pull it off quite well. if you all remember, he was jim carrey's rival for the newscaster spot in bruce almighty, and remember the scene when carrey made fun of him on tv by controlling movements of his mouth. haha that was really funny. get smart overall is a good movie i thought. everyone's just about asking me if i've watched the dark knight - well i'm not really a fan of going to the movies, so i don't really bother about catching the latest blockbusters and stuffs so yup.
school's going to start in 2 weeks' time - and i want to it to start as soon as possible. i'm getting worn out with so many things to do everyday. the personal organiser is really brimming with stuffs to do, and i would rather it be full of school stuffs to do. okay i guess that's all for now.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
busy
okay i haven't updated for two weeks i know.
been bogged down by lots of stuffs really. it's crazy.
ever since the last entry, i've been doing a few silat performances, had a 4 day camp, trainings in between, going to jb, and shopping for stuffs. even at home i admit i've been playing game on my computer, but still there's alot of emails and forms to settle and handle. ergh. this sucks. this really has been the busiest of holidays. i think june wasn't this busy with work and traning and ivp in between.
just now we had a silat performance for scgs primary that lasted close to half an hour. i think we enjoyed ourselves, and i'm sure the girls did too. i think none of us had ever really performed in front of so many kids and all girls at that. it was fun at least. haha. even after this there's tons of stuffs to do - matriculation fair, freshman orientation camp reunion bbq, taking over of the reins for silat, night cycling committee gathering, lunch with the nus president, invitation to epind's wedding, cmad, cycling trip to ubin, meetings and more meetings..... and the list goes on. ergh. faa suggested getting some sort of a personal organiser, which i did just now, so i think it should help. suddenly i realise everyday of the week there is always something which i think i should really start jotting down in the organiser.
well last week was the freshman orientation camp and frankly speaking, i've yet to recover from the exertions. i was a facilitator, and well i didn't really come out of my skin i admit, but i think i achieved what i set out to do. at least i tried not to be half-asleep during the camp, and i tried to interact with the kids in one way or another. maybe i didn't interact much with them but i think overall i'm quite pleased with myself. haha. we didn't win the overall challenge but i'm happy i got that group of kids. i think it was fun being with them really. as expected it was tiring, and maybe not as happening as vault camp last year, but it was still great nevertheless.
july sucks and i really can't wait for school to start. even when school starts i think there's really not much things to look forward to anyway. now i understand why they say university students really have no life.
news in the footballing world are quite shocking nowadays. as always arsenal are always offloading their best players to barcelona. this time round it's hleb, who joins a list of good players like overmars, petit, sylvinho, van bronckhorst and henry. i think there are more but i can't remember who else. the only player to move in the opposite direction is fabregas only i think. oh well, it has been reported arsenal will have to resort to selling its best players to keep themselves afloat. for a club the size of arsenal it's really sad.
okay that's all. i'll think i'll go play game first then slowly think about what i've to do for the next few days.
been bogged down by lots of stuffs really. it's crazy.
ever since the last entry, i've been doing a few silat performances, had a 4 day camp, trainings in between, going to jb, and shopping for stuffs. even at home i admit i've been playing game on my computer, but still there's alot of emails and forms to settle and handle. ergh. this sucks. this really has been the busiest of holidays. i think june wasn't this busy with work and traning and ivp in between.
just now we had a silat performance for scgs primary that lasted close to half an hour. i think we enjoyed ourselves, and i'm sure the girls did too. i think none of us had ever really performed in front of so many kids and all girls at that. it was fun at least. haha. even after this there's tons of stuffs to do - matriculation fair, freshman orientation camp reunion bbq, taking over of the reins for silat, night cycling committee gathering, lunch with the nus president, invitation to epind's wedding, cmad, cycling trip to ubin, meetings and more meetings..... and the list goes on. ergh. faa suggested getting some sort of a personal organiser, which i did just now, so i think it should help. suddenly i realise everyday of the week there is always something which i think i should really start jotting down in the organiser.
well last week was the freshman orientation camp and frankly speaking, i've yet to recover from the exertions. i was a facilitator, and well i didn't really come out of my skin i admit, but i think i achieved what i set out to do. at least i tried not to be half-asleep during the camp, and i tried to interact with the kids in one way or another. maybe i didn't interact much with them but i think overall i'm quite pleased with myself. haha. we didn't win the overall challenge but i'm happy i got that group of kids. i think it was fun being with them really. as expected it was tiring, and maybe not as happening as vault camp last year, but it was still great nevertheless.
july sucks and i really can't wait for school to start. even when school starts i think there's really not much things to look forward to anyway. now i understand why they say university students really have no life.
news in the footballing world are quite shocking nowadays. as always arsenal are always offloading their best players to barcelona. this time round it's hleb, who joins a list of good players like overmars, petit, sylvinho, van bronckhorst and henry. i think there are more but i can't remember who else. the only player to move in the opposite direction is fabregas only i think. oh well, it has been reported arsenal will have to resort to selling its best players to keep themselves afloat. for a club the size of arsenal it's really sad.
okay that's all. i'll think i'll go play game first then slowly think about what i've to do for the next few days.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
ica
okay yes i haven't blogged for more than half a month.
i haven't really had anything much to blog about really, so finally today i do have something worth blogging about.
remember the posting about me having to update my thumbprint in my passport? well the thing is yesterday i went to jb and the same thing happened - i kinda got callled up again into their rooms and half an hour was wasted. tomorrow i'm going to jb again so just now i went to ica to have this matter sorted out.
when i asked the lady at the 2nd level she told me to go to the 3rd one. so i took my queue number and waited there, wondering why i was sent to the identification card department instead of the passports department. well when i went into the room i found out why. the thing is this - my passport of course derives my thumprint from my ic. so when the person re-scanned (or updated) my thumbprint and i saw it against the one on my ic, i understood why i always have problems clearing the automated gantries at checkpoints. both sets were so different! at first glance you would think it's two different sets of thumbprints. anyway the guy said my original thumbprint was poorly done, but still - they both look completely different on the screen. so the thumbprint in the ic was the source of the problem, meaning for the past 7 years i've been going around with a thumbprint on my ic that isn't exactly mine. haha. well at least i think tomorrow i should be able to clear that automated gantry without any problems.
after that i dropped by sim lim square to try get the screen protector and maybe laptop cases. the thing is my screen is 9", and my sister's is 17". it's really extreme - one is too small, one is too big. so i walked around and i hardly saw any that could fit both. most were between 12"-15". so i didn't get what i wanted, and if screen protectors of that size were rare, don't even think about finding laptop cases of that size. in any case my lappie is really small, it's pint sized. it really affects the eyes, so much so that after a while using my lappie when i read smses on my handphone suddenly the alphabets become bigger, or rather longer top-down. haha. i'm not kidding. i'm still trying to get used to typing on smaller buttons on the lappie, so i think it will take quite a while.
the past 2 weeks have been filled up with various stuffs. so-called training camps for facilitators for the upcoming freshman camp, silat, last few days of work and just going out. so next week is the camp, and then followed by silat performances, and matriculation fair, barbeques maybe, and maybe also a chalet. haha. even holidays are ultra-packed.
i'm now just abit disturbed by the fact that the online timetable builder is not yet updated when the modules are already out. so i'm really still thinking of what modules to bid for next semester, since the political science modules are mostly such a turn-off but the history ones are very interesting. which really makes me want to major in history but well, i think i should really stick to political science. for practical reasons i guess.
okay that's all for now.
i haven't really had anything much to blog about really, so finally today i do have something worth blogging about.
remember the posting about me having to update my thumbprint in my passport? well the thing is yesterday i went to jb and the same thing happened - i kinda got callled up again into their rooms and half an hour was wasted. tomorrow i'm going to jb again so just now i went to ica to have this matter sorted out.
when i asked the lady at the 2nd level she told me to go to the 3rd one. so i took my queue number and waited there, wondering why i was sent to the identification card department instead of the passports department. well when i went into the room i found out why. the thing is this - my passport of course derives my thumprint from my ic. so when the person re-scanned (or updated) my thumbprint and i saw it against the one on my ic, i understood why i always have problems clearing the automated gantries at checkpoints. both sets were so different! at first glance you would think it's two different sets of thumbprints. anyway the guy said my original thumbprint was poorly done, but still - they both look completely different on the screen. so the thumbprint in the ic was the source of the problem, meaning for the past 7 years i've been going around with a thumbprint on my ic that isn't exactly mine. haha. well at least i think tomorrow i should be able to clear that automated gantry without any problems.
after that i dropped by sim lim square to try get the screen protector and maybe laptop cases. the thing is my screen is 9", and my sister's is 17". it's really extreme - one is too small, one is too big. so i walked around and i hardly saw any that could fit both. most were between 12"-15". so i didn't get what i wanted, and if screen protectors of that size were rare, don't even think about finding laptop cases of that size. in any case my lappie is really small, it's pint sized. it really affects the eyes, so much so that after a while using my lappie when i read smses on my handphone suddenly the alphabets become bigger, or rather longer top-down. haha. i'm not kidding. i'm still trying to get used to typing on smaller buttons on the lappie, so i think it will take quite a while.
the past 2 weeks have been filled up with various stuffs. so-called training camps for facilitators for the upcoming freshman camp, silat, last few days of work and just going out. so next week is the camp, and then followed by silat performances, and matriculation fair, barbeques maybe, and maybe also a chalet. haha. even holidays are ultra-packed.
i'm now just abit disturbed by the fact that the online timetable builder is not yet updated when the modules are already out. so i'm really still thinking of what modules to bid for next semester, since the political science modules are mostly such a turn-off but the history ones are very interesting. which really makes me want to major in history but well, i think i should really stick to political science. for practical reasons i guess.
okay that's all for now.
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