Crane

Crane
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Kids...

Cheerful kid in climb adventure
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Dear TomHa,
Kids.. They really brighten or spoil your day.

This batch made me a happy man for the whole day!

Testing

Old scooter
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Test post.. my Flickr does not seem to work well these few days...

Gold

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Dear TomHa,
Congratulations!!!Wenyang struck gold in the Round Ubin canoeing marathon challenge after some rather interesting comeback. Read about it... Quite inspiring. Anyway, I also struck some gold two weeks ago. Yeah! I got gold my gold for IPPT yet again! Woohoo! Additional $200 to spend in October. Haha. This time it was rather freaky. I jumped over the mat for my standing board jump and then the PTI said no count, damn it. And then in my 2.4km, I reached the 2000m mark at 7:30, quite shocking and so I slacked off the last 400m, to the wrath of the conducting officer who gave me a dressing down for being so conceited. Anyway, I finished in 9:18.. Haha, damn it, It had been a long time since I went under 9min.

Today, I woke up at 6am and realised that I had woke up too late for AHM. Very angry with myself and went to run round my neighbourhood to burn off all the carbohydrates that I had loaded myself with yesternight. Ran about an hour before diarrhoea overtook me enough to make me stop. Recently, especially after IPPT, I decided to slack off abit in my excercising. I had not done stairs for like 3 weeks already, but I realised that running had certainly become a way of life even though I hated it. I felt uneasy not running. It is like going to clear bowels. I hate to waste time on things like this, but in the end you'll feel uneasy if you do not do it. Ok, quite a weird analogy.

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Yesterday's volunteering service at Climb Adventure for the Touch community kids was really meaningful. Terence said that this kind of thing gives good karma, and well, the seniors were also the ones who like disagreed with our spending of funds on this kind of mountaineering-unrelated things. Anyway, many thanks to Faizhal for letting me be the speech guy for the event. It was a good experience.

Ok, I do not know what to write already. So bye!

Carpentry

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Dear TomHa,
Something struck me recently... That I am not exactly as enthusiastic about my grades as what my other classmates are doing. I mean...They like freaking know how the module is tested, what is going to be the format for the examination, whether it is mcqs, essays or anything like that and projects in the middle of the sem are group based or individual-based, blah blah blah... Seriously, going by their standards, I am like the slackest person alive. I go onto CORS, look at the module listings, look at the description, see what they do, and the most enthusiastic thing that I had ever done is to THINK TWICE about taking that module. And if I like it and its tutorials and lectures and whatever else does not clash with my core modules and other commitments, I take it. No second question. Follow your heart...

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A student just answered the most damning thing that I had ever seen in my entire in my life as an educator. Ahmad walked into the room and knew immediately that his mother had put on the air freshener in the house... What sense did he use to achieve this observation??Common sense... What.... I was so stunned... She is like mocking me....

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Recently, I just spent a bomb renovating my brother's room, as I am about to move into it as my sister is growing too old to share the master bedroom with mom and dad. Hence, I had to move into my brother's room which is like bigger... How ironic... Anyway, it is almost complete... alright.. I admit that I started a long long time ago, but I procrastinated for a long time to get a working desk or table and finally, I settle for one of the tables in IKEA's Galant series. It is a wonderful table. Now my room looks so much like a office. And, as my lazy father would have done, in accordance with his Teach him to fish and he can fish FOR YOU So, I had learnt to use the drill, I can saw, I am now an uncertified carpenter, plumber, electrician, cleaner... The worst part is that my mother has unlimited wants for these professional services. Damn it, I want a son like me.

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Sigh.. Just a side note... I want an arm like this...

Eh.. Hold on... It's mine!
Haha..

Happy New School Year!

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Happy Birthday Singapore!

Busy

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Dear TomHa,
I had always hated the re-opening of school, and boy am I glad that it is only 2 more years afterwhich I can ditch this dreaded feeling for the monotony of a working-class life! Woohoo! Can earn my own keep, can go travel should the boss be benevolent enough to give leave and best of all, can finally be as responsible as I can be as an adult. Shall elaborate on this adult thing later, maybe in other entries ba...

I have so many thing to buy, not including the many textbooks that I have to get, which I might not in the end and spend precious amounts of time cooping in the central library freezing myself to cold eternal hibernation, you are not alone if you did not understand what i wrote jus now.. I have so many things that I want to buy. Couple with the fact that I always have this mentality that that if I have the latest in-thing like a crumpler bag, an ipod and things like that, I would potentially have MORE friends in University. But alas, I am too giam xiap to get any of those high end products. Hence, I think I should stick to be sitting in isolation.

A new pair of decent looking walking shoes, and stationeries are top on my buying list. Think I am going those ulu market to buy the shoes and spend a bomb in Popular soon, given that I never keep my stationeries and that I had lost like my 2021st ruler since I started learning to use one.

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It was rather funny last week when I was educating a J2 boy regardding the intricacies of Faraday's and Lenz's laws regarding magnetic induction. My favourite-est topics in physics as I had never had had problems comprehending and applying those theories when I was in school. However, this boy over here had some problems and HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY!!!! Faradays law states that

the electromotive force produce is directly proportional to the rate of change in magnetic flux linking the coil...

Or something of the like... and no matter how hard I tried to explain to him, he just cannot seem to comprehend the aeroplane fly through magnetic firld generate current example. And hence, the smart alec over here, tried to be smart and used a little comic example. I illustrated to him that Magneto is a magnetic source, emnating magnetic fields out of his body and he needs force to fly himself or walk across anywhere... Hence, the interaction of this force and the magnetic fields that he controls would produce electromotive force and turn him into...

Electrico!!!!

He was not as amused as how I wanted him to be and we buried into TYS immediately thereafter.... Kids these days... no sense of humor...

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Finally finished the MIR 5 video. Some parts are pretty shocking and funny, at least to the insiders. I wonder if they should still be on... hmmm... haha... Not going to give them until the very last minute!

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Of Farewells

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Dear TomHa,
Well, Kelvin has left for the States, another one that I had personally sent off, and another one to the States... Can't they go to some more exotic countries like India or China to study. Duh! Haha, anyway, wish him the best of luck, he has been a really good man. Was really touched the other time when he agreed so readily when I invited him over for media launch. Was kinda desperate the other day, and some people cannot just say "no" and had to ask all here and there to say "no" in the end. I mean, I can understand if you are not free but you have no reason to be questioning till that irritating degree only to say no.. It meakes me feel like a freaking salesman. Ar.. whatever, perhaps I am overly sensitive in those stressful days of skirt chasing coupled with media launch and term tests...Anyhow, good luck Kelvin, yes, you have had a mean streak but you were a good man. Seriously.

Went over to ton-ed at Andrew's house yesternight. It was a very reminiscent feeling, especially since me and Junjie haven't stayed over at his house after our RV graduation. Andrew was still at his quirky best, with facial expressions that could rival Jim Carrey at his best. Belting out all his usual life stories only served to provide further entertainment that got me chuckling like crazy. Zengdi appeared rather depressed. Hope he gets over his problems real soon. Yihan, ar.. He's still the same, the blur cock who did not even know how to get to Holland V. Junjie though, still had not started bidding for his modules, which is like incredible. Wish him all the luck in University.

Watched a show called Equilibrium starring Christian Bale(Batman Begins) and Sean Penn(Borormir) which is basically about a distopian world whereby men thought that they had eradicated wars and ensured peace throughout the country by suppressing emotions through a medicine called prozium and burning all forms of artefacts, paintings, music, anything nice and can invoke emotions. It's been said that emotions is the one thing that divides humanity. Anyhow, Christian Bale plays Preston who is like the highest ranking cleric which is essentially very zai soldiers under the Father to suppress the rebels, aka those who had stopped their doses and are 'feeling'. Sense offenders, they are called in the movie. Sean Penn's character, like Borormir, was killed by a projectile again. Sigh... Ha. Anyway, somwhow, Preston forgot his dose and started feeling and started to fight back the administration and the Father. Very interesting and matrix like. There is this new form of invented martial arts called gunkata and it's been said that through millions of computer simulations, they are able to predict all the possible angles in which the projectiles will fire from and through this anticipation and repelling it in a very taiji manner, they can kill the enemy in a very zai way. The action sequences were really good. Another good recommended movie by Andrew, yeah!

And then they watched futurama, a cartoon that is probably too satirical that I cannot understand and did not laughed at too much things. Apparently, seeing brains flying around and making all people except for the dumbest person on Earth who turned out to be the hero in the end is not my cup of tea.

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Oh Yah, had my La Mian at Crystal Jade yesternight. Felt so damn happy!

Never ending crisis

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Dear TomHa,
As the fighting in Israel continues, more people are going to die. As the earth rumbles under the crusts of Indonesia, igniting waves of terror, more people are going to die. As people carry on their daily work of destroying the Earth's natural resources, ALL of us are going to die. I am not painting a cock and bull armageddon story. It is a fact, one that is plaintiff for all of us to see. The 2-day ceasefire has ended, marked with the endless bombing of Beirut by the Israel air force. Well done, all that is left of Lebanon as I can see in the pictures are ruins and devastation. Is it even suitable to live in?

Hizbollah is not resisting Israeli occupation... They are attacking Israel...

Some American prof in NTu said something like that. It makes some sense, however, it can't really put reason to the actions that were carried out by Israel.. They are destroying lives, lives of the innocent who perhaps know of Hizbollah's militants as some people with weapons living next to me. Also, this is not the way to solve a conflict, isn't it? The more Israel destroys Lebanon, the more the resentment will escalate, the longer the UN procrastinate in pushing for a permanent cease fire, the more the lebanese will hold resentment for the outside world. What really left me in complete aghast is the how lightly UN let go of Israel's atrocious act of bombing a UN headquarter just because the US is still supporting the Israeli cause.

Israel is fighting a Vietnam War. A war in which they might win all the battles but lost the war. Resentment against them are sky high. No matter how good their artillery and whatever bombs may be, resentment and hatred are some intangibles that cannot be torn apart by the sheer scale of military power. Israel is breeding terrorists and militant groups when their aim from the start is to exterminate the threats from these people. How ironic...

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I hope there are no mid term tests this semester. I am planning to go Padang, Indonesia to climb Mt Marapi (not the unstable Merapi) and relax throughout the whole week. I heard it is a good place to relax. The people are lazy and importantly, they make really good coffees! WoohoO!