Re-Reading my blog

mm, spend the past few hrs reading my previous blogs, haha mixed feelings. It seems that my writing skills seems better last time. And that, I have really gone far from who I was in the fast. Not sure to say I have matured even more or that I have slowly change my thinking to suit the environment I am in.

But whichever the case, I am glad with what has happened to me, be it good or bad, as they have really shaped me to become who I am today, now.

I am... Gundam.. opps.. nope.. i mean.. I am.... sLeePy! :p

Wootz, sLeePy bLoG gets out of the dust yet again

Well Well Well, It seems where ppl write blogs daily, I do them yearly.. or maybe bi-yearly.. haha

Anyway, kinda feeling damn sianz today, so itchy backside went to find my blog..


Here's a super duper condensed summary of last year happening,

Basically...

I worked for 1year plus.. that's about it.. life still kinda sux... and all the problems I had, are still with me.. just that they have been viewed differently cuz my mindset has also changed kinda dramatically.....

omg, 2years never write blog aredi?

Hmm, recently tried adding a friend on frienster, and as a result, got reminded of a blog i used to write. Out of curiousity, mainly to confirm if my blog has been deleted, i login to my blog. Surprise surprise, it is still standing strong, albeit a little dusty.


*blows 2years worth of dust off sLeePy bLoG*

Well, been a really long time since i posted, but life have really changed a lot (for the better i hope) over the past couple of years.

To make long story short, basically,

1. I survived the horrible year 3 of mass projects in NTU (imagine doing 7modules in one semester, with 4core modules being project based [taking up 40-60% of total assesment] as well as 1 lab]. Really glad i made it with minimal "damage", both physically and mentally.

2. Finished IA, both good and bad things happened, but all in all, a good experience and exposure to have. Learn alot about the finer things in life, as well as the softer skills which are about as important as the hard skill one has.

3. Clear final year of uni life with decent results. Surprisingly, my final year results are slighty better than my usual. Probably becuz most ppl are overly engross with their FYPs. Anyway, my fyp is pretty jialat too, basically, it is to design and fabricate an automated water chestnut peeler.
It basically involves everything related to its design, including mechanical, electronics, automation and some programming. And frankly speaking, i really dono how i managed to pull that one off. Haha, i must been really lucky :p

4. Convocation, graduation, end of uni life! :p.. luckily for me, i got what i aimed for in uni, so was pretty please with my overall grades. The only "black" mark is that my FYP fall short of my expectation. Did not expect to get merely a B+ =(. But overall, everything is still pretty good and worth celebrating.

5. Started looking for job, a bit stressed over bills and my financial "well being" after i sat down and did my sums. Read several books, including but not limited to, a series of Robert Kiyosaki (in case u dun know, he is the chap that wrote the rich dad poor dad series of books) books, online articles on financial planning, talks and such for financial planning as well. Subsequently, i came out with a short term and a mid term plan. It dawn upon me that i need a job asap....

6. Got a job, started working. As of now, i have work close to 2 months already. Life seems reasonably good, and seems worth to be optimistic about (despite the recent financial downturn). However, anything can go wrong and it is probably best to be at least partially ready for it.

mmm updates for the pass few days

let's see.. shall start with new year day, since this is the day when i started to feel lonely =P

1st January - HAPPY NEW YEAR

nothing eventful, juz another new year day for me, think i stayed in hall did nothing except planning what to do.. or ya, took a walk to north spine to see if the offices are open.. too bad they didnt, so went back hall.. Did area cleaning, ya ya i noe it sounds army-like, for my room and clear up loads of dust.. heh.. and got one white cats with grey patches came to eat my biscuits.. dun realli like this cat tho, got that kinda kiam pa attitude..

2nd January - Sneezing day~

well, started sneezing like mad today.. and like my dear say.. started selling wanton.. walked to north spine to check if the offices are open (too that i can help my dear settle some admin matters) but too bad, they are closed. Irony is that i didnt even know it was a public holiday.. guess the walk and the sun make me a bit worse.. but nonetheless went back hall and spend the rest of the day deciding wat to do for the holiday...

was also reviewing the various plans in stars and student link to ensure the following day's registration will go smoothly.. well, think i am even more worried den registering for my own subjects.. haha, well ended up slping arnd 2+ or 3+.. i think

3rd January - Subject registration day, but not mine.. haha

mm, woke up early today, arnd 8+, cuz initially meeting my dear's fren at 930 to pass her so documents so tat she can settle the admin stuff while i return hall to register subjects. haha ended up meeting at 10 cuz of some erm... "technical" issue.. (haha she said she will be slightly late.. lalala).. met her, pass her the stuff and got some food (mac donalds i think), heh and went back hall to eat and wait for 11am.. *ie, subject registration timing, haha to my delight, it all went smoothly. with juz a click i am done.. haha and an interesting event happened too.. i was abt to sms shuzhen to tell her the issue, half way thru the sms, she called me, and told me her reg oso went well.. haha so issue solved.. everyone happie, and i can get my well-deserved rest..

din slp immediately tho, tried to play game to tahan until night time, unfortunately i fell aslp at ard 7+ and woke up arnd 9+ and then 11+... woke up realise jialat, and also feeling quite sickly, but since i cant get to slp again, i woke up, wipe my face and went to play a bit of game.. went to bed arnd 2+ and think i tossed and turn in bed till ard... 3+ den slp

4th January - Sicky Ed back in action

woke up feeling weak, miserable and feverish.. a fraction is due to the fact i am missin someone veri much.. on the other hand i realli am sick.. haha been selling and making wantons more and more.. to the fact that i ran out of tissue.. (almost...) played game whole day [oh did went to get food and stuff.. so no worries] and drank alot of water.. unfortunately, my condition didnt get any better.. my head was throbbing and i had difficulty to slp at nite.. toss and turn and turn and toss for wat seemed like eternity until slp blissfully took me away..

oh ya, was rather excited as my bro told me (after i ask him to keep a lookout for me) that there is a letter, which i am expecting, for me.. haha

5th January - IA talk,

woke up quite early and felt slightly better... the headache is gone, feverish feeling still there, but not tat bad anymore.. nose still block.. wantons still in making.. haha but went for talk and met some of my design stream frenz and chat and even "bitch" a bit abt the results.. ahha. The ia talk is downright boring and almost of no practical use (okok i am exaggerating, juz that alot of info stated are either common sense or that i have hear it from my frenz and seniors), after which, i went home with zhiwei and talk a bit on the way.. haha parted and jurong east as he is going north while i continue to my home... reached home to find no one except my 5 cats greeting me.. haha okok, onli 2 bothered to open their mouth to call me.. namely "prince" ah cheng and the "er bao" or watever the name my mum or bro calls.. haha

too bad for them, i wasnt feeling well and i was in a hurry to go back hall to check fyp results for my dear.. i onli took the letter from my dear and return some cds to my bro... The letter, to my surprise was sent b4 my dear left and i realli appreciate the thoughts and notions.. it made me feel a bit better from my illness and make my heart feel significantly better..

haha on my way i stop by the senior citizen corner and had 2 fast game of chess, think i thrashed tat guy in less than 10mins for both games.. and decided to left as they are leaving and i aint feeling well... on my way back hall, i stop at JP and got myself some anti-cold herbal tea, so luo han guo drink and some chrysanthemum tea from the herbal shop (hock hua tonics, i think). heh heh also bought 3 packets of seaweeds. yum yum..

spend the rest of the day planning a bit on my IA, some soul searching and some thinking.. i somehow feel a bit glad to be down with the flu.. the constant wanton making and selling and the blocked nose make me understand wat my dear and my mum is constantly going thru.. despite the fact i aredi can feel how they felt and noe how to understand their "pain", this illness makes me rethink and remind myself how she felt and makes me think if i am to have this kinda prob everyday how i will react.. heh.. so perhaps its not so bad to be sick after all >.<..

6th January - Saturday!

Woke up a bit late today.. and to my dismay, i missed my dear who went online by juz 20mins.. and the prob is tat i was aredi awake that time, juz tat i chose to laze in my bed cuz i wasnt feeling too well.. feel damn sianz when i realise tat.. sigh... eat a few hotdog rolls and the spicy seaweed and started playing game.. until arnd 5+, feeling a bit weak from hunger, decided to go to JP to get some food... met a fren there, chat a bit on the upcoming inter hall cchess compy.. and i went on to buy my stuff... In the end, after racking my brain and walking arnd jp 2times, i settle for mos burger, cuz it is the least queued food.. damn.. jp realli has nothing that can tickle and trigger my appetite.. got some kaikage burger, a spicy chilli dog (which is quite nice, surprisingly), fries and coke.. also got 2 packet of seaweed and 2 bottles of luo han guo drink... heh... think gonna play a bit of game later.. and meebe meeting ks for supper.. sigh.. cant wait for my dear to come back..


-worries-
recently worrying a bit abt my lodging from next year on, hopefully i can get the single room i am living now back, but it is unlikely so.. and in the event of getting a double room.. i doubt i can find a desirable roomie.. and i was thinkin of renting a room outside, but it will cost at least twice as much and the privacy level is still veri low.. thought of renting an apartment with frenz, but since the hall allocation is not cfm yet, we cant realli plan on that either...

another worry is actually not a worry, juz that i am feeling sianz abt it.. cuz from wat i noe, i am having cchess compy on monday tues and wed, and my dear is coming back on mon (and not sun which i initially tot.. =(.... ) and as such i believe i wun be able to see my dear until wed or even thurs.. sigh.. thinking of this makes my heart even a bit heavier.. =(


but there is nothing much i can do either.. so.. too bad for me.. hopefullythe cchess date will be changed so tat i can see my dear earlier =) [i heard of rumors that says the date might be changed, hopefully they are true...]

heh, that's it.. wow.. kinda long.. and lots of narrating.. kinda boring to read unless u are interested in wat's happening to me.. ahaha, but like i care.. yeah.. signing off le..
take care u guys out there.. HAPPY BELATED XMAS AND NEW YEAR =X and HAPPY BE-EARLY CHINESE NEW YEAR! la la la

results... sux.. one word.. SUCKS

ok, my results sux....
MP3004 - B
MP3005 - C+
MP3010 - B+
MP3071 - B+
MP3104 - B+
GE808 - B+

not the worse.. but cld b better.. cant believe i blog over results. will b back to blog another time... :P

laziness self multplies

haha well juz wanna say, once a person starts to slack, it will propel itself forth and make the person even slacker.. whether at work, in school, even at play, such things is evident. For example, the moment u decided to slacken down discpline on ur self, most probably u wun tighthen the discipline ever again, even if u do so, it wun be as strict as b4. For me, it really takes a lot for me to blog.. haha i am quite lazy by nature and i am lazy to think abt wat i write and to edit for grammatical, spelling and other errors. Even logging in and starting to crap also can be quite draining for me, altho unlike alot of my frenz and even brother, i am no avid blogger, neither do i put in alot of effort to make it veri attractive or whatsoever, to me, a blog is more like an online diary WHICH I WAN PPL TO SEE, OR WHICH I DUN MIND PPL SEEING, haha... and seriously, i dun care whether anyone does read it or not, tat's y i seriously dun realli care abt its tenses, language, vocabulary, structure, grammer, etc etc.. if i can understand, i realli dun give a !%@.. haha

My Secondary School

Went back home on Sunday, after dinner with my mum, had a stroll on my own and somehow walked to my old secondary school, Ghim Moh Secondary School. I missed the gathering the day b4 as i was quite sick.. and i kinda regretted it.. As i was walking outside the school, i notice many differences and similarity from last time. Firstly, the "front gate" that we used to use is no longer used, it is locked at put there, a side gate has been build and this has become the main functional gate, or so i perceive. There are other small changes but overall, from wat i can see from the outside, the place remain almost the same. Looking thru the "front" gate into the school, looking at the basket ball court, the bookshop, the multipurpose court, the hall, the class room, the labs, the staff offices, and even the school attendant's "house", waves of memories flood me and an extremely nostalgic feeling almost overwhlem me, i went around and look into the school from another spot. This time it is along the road extending into Raffle's Junior College, from there i could see the technical lab, the porch/foyer, the assembly ground, the soccer field, and even the chin up bar, where even more memories started to come back.. i cld almost say that almost all of my sec sch life was pretty good.. other than the fact that i din managed to get the girl i like, life was pretty much wonderful. I have one of the best of grades, have lotsa frenz, could play soccer, basketball, chess, even magic card with my frenz as and when i like it.. even go to my frenz house to chill out, etc.. life was wonderful back then.. haha...

well after that i walk over to my pri school, altho memories fills me again, this time it wasnt as intense, i guess pri school memories is more like a child hood memory, most distant and more vague.. but all in all.. this little stroll i took, served to remind me to cherish wat i have, wat i have which seems will be there forever might not be so after all.. juz like my sec school, which will be "mergin" and relocated to be known as Clementi Woods secondary school if memory didnt fail me.... sigh...

wish list?

my personal wish list currently

1. Neverwinter Nights 2 - cost $59.90
2. Razor Krait, or any similar cheap gaming mouse, approx 40bucks?
3. a mountable fan

but recently not having money to buy ba...
need to save up for my dear's bdae.. also need to save up for clothes that i most likely need to buy for IA... need to save up for phantom of the opera too... so.. bb to my wishlist.. have to wait until at least february.. argh...

mouse died...

duh... my logitec G1 mouse juz gimme the last straw i could took yesterday.. it started abt a week ago, where its scroll started going crazy.. started to either (i) scroll up and down repetitively without any user input (ii) refuse to move at all when user does input command... it caused days of frustration, dizziness and even headache.. cuz was reading notes on screen and u can imagine my eyes moving up and down when the mouse "auto" scrolls...
well from Sunday onwards, the scrolling problem kinda subsided, partially due to the fact i open up the mouse and did some minor maintenance, partially due to the "melee" punishment i give the mouse.. ie.. bang it.. however, when with one prob gone, the other comes, now the left click become semi functional.. i.e. it doesnt register a left click everytime u click, and if u click and hold and drag, it will give way halfway (sounds funny, give WAY halfWAY, lol)
that's it.. with this kinda mouse, i cant play chess, i cant play game and i will frustrate myself further this.. end up.. i had to switch back to the semi faulty Acer mouse i have.. first time use logitec mouse, haven hit 1 year, mati aredi.. and first time i have to dump a mouse not due to the mouse feet getting wear off or watever..

damn the s2pid claim of dono how many million clicks we can use on the mouse.. i confirm haven even click up to 1000k times.. assume i use it for 1 year, 200days (severe overestimate as i use it at mouse for half a year, bought it last sem if i din remember wrongly), assume 10click/min, 6hrs use per day, total = 10 x 6 x 60 = 3600clicks, total clicks = 720000clicks.. not even 1million.. zzz pwee. gonna buy razor krait when i am free.. but duh.. i am low on cash this couple of months.. sad case..

on exams

can onli say this time exam jialat aredi.. hopefully dun screw up too badly, if not i can kiss my 2nd upper good bye.. but nonetheless, need to prepare myself for IA, so i should not brood too much.. let's hope.. hope tat can get 2As and 2Bs and PE watever grade oso okie...
haha hope hope...

long time never update

well long time never update my blog, but exam ma, so not much time... exam finished last friday.. but was slacking and resting away.. and of cuz, was quite sick.. so din do much.. heh.. will be inputting a few entries this time.. cuz some interesting things, to me at least, did happen and i will try to pen down as much as i can remember

DUH DUH

with respect to my last post, and with awareness of how much time i have and how much i have studied.. i am reluctant to say tat the expectation in my previous post is kinda a super high end..
this sem can get average B+ considered very good le, considering i wun be able to finish studying for any single module, and considering the fact that even if i do, i wun have time to do pass year paper at all..
and seriously, i need to have avg B+ for me to be still within the "imaginary" 2nd upper range.. die die..

*pray pray* i get good results >.<

happy

hehe today, actually ytd, my dear dear did/say something which makes me feel super duper happy, not gonna say wat it is.. but juz happy.. heh.. really, recently life become so much more tolerable and in fact enjoyable because of her =X, realli wish tat exams end faster, den can have more free time... and pei my dear more =x.. and of cuz, she pei me too =x..

but then again, worried for her studies, juz as i worried for mine, in fact sometimes worry more for her, cuz her burden is much heavier den mine.. >.<... but nothing much i can do except try to be as supportive as possible ba.. and meebe help a bit here and there.. pray that she can clear all her modules =) as for me, think i wun fail, but guess i wun get all As, oh, not guess.. it's definite.. dun tell me tat i am pessimistic, cuz it IS impossible... haha i am juz being realistic, not pessimistic.. b4 anyone wanna criticise, i tell u all the situation.. my core modules... 3 out of 4 is project based.. 2 of which is 50% project 50% exam, another one is 30% project, i think assignment 20%, final exam 50%.. the onli mugging module is the onli one which i hope i can get A.. and lab also have another 2 "project" which means, i have 5projects for this sem.. -_- so u understand now ya?

yaya, i noe i am nagging, but hey, it's my blog okie.. so too bad... *roll eyes* =P bu shuang ah, leave a comment and shoot me la... >.<

recent updates

haven been bloggin much, was extremely busy and sick recently...

due to the "wonderful" weather that was arnd, i was made sickly and rather weak the the past entire week or so.. as a result.. work efficiency was super low.. my aredi jialat project was made worse by my condition... as a result.. now really working super hard to try to finish it.. imagine i left CAD lab at 11pm today.. =_=...

on the other hand, thx to all these projects.. din study much for all my quizzes.. my 2004 quiz din realli study much, luckily got 73.3% which is slightly better than the average.. i wasnt expecting anythign much so this is considered good... today had my socio quiz. think going to die jialat jialat.. haiz.. but dun think will fail tho.. think at most can get B+ for that modules...

so let's see.. lemme speculate the kinda results i can hope to get..

MP3004 - B+
MP3005 - B-
MP3010 - B+
MP3071 - B+
MP3104 - A
GE808 - B+

it is perhaps an optimistic estimation, but i hope i can get A for 3004 and 3010 also.. but quite hard.. =''(