Thursday, November 30, 2006

Drool-ed




Dear TomHa,
Check This Out! Oh my god... I just virtually flooded my room with my drool. MacOsX Leopard is way too cool! Oh my god. Seriously, the only reason why I am still in Panther is because Tiger did not really impress me much as its capabilities are much the same as in Panther. But, with this new addition to the feline MacOSX family, I am so going to save up for my new mac next year! Woohoo!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Edit..




Dear TomHa,
This is UBER FUNNY!!!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Shacked..




Dear TomHa,
Bored from failing to understand mechanics of machines as well as what I would have liked, I went to do some of the abs programme that Joseph set us to do during HC days. Boy, I am like sweating like hell now and my abs are like screetching in pain. But it is a good feeling, a good sense of nostalgia, of remembering the good old days of a team of muscle-bounded men training in the dusty compounds of the Chinese High Swimming pool...
Pain is good...

Super Funny.. Bush in Hawaii!




Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Duels




Retire




Dear TomHa,

I guess whenever any great sporting icon retires, there will be a tinge of sadness overflowing in the hearts of his followers. Afterall, sporting greats inspire confidence, superiority and many other emotions which my failing vocabulary could not describe at the current moment. When Michael Jordan retired, I admit that I felt so sad, it was as if my world was ripped apart. But luckily, when he retired, Lance Armstrong came about, inspiring a new era and defining new meanings to the word "impossible." But he is human noentheless and retired too. Pete Sampras, Micahel Johnson, Zizou, even Fandi Ahmad inspired this tinge of sadness in me. Now, Ian Thorpe had retired from swimming at age 24. No more Thorpe-Phelps rivalry, no more Thorpe-van Hoogenband(I hope I got the spelling right) rivalry. Well, at least he did not retire against a backdrop of failing sporting achievements.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Why examinations make you fat...


Dear TomHa,

I no longer clean my room, no longer tidy it up, keep drinking coffee, keep eating instant noodles, chocolates, running gears are there for show only, no wonder I gained 2kg in the past week... Ar!!!!!

Friday, November 17, 2006

勉强しながら, BLOGGING する


Benkyo shinagara, BLOGGING suru
To blog while studying


Dear Tomha,
Here you are.. the Cassia tree that I was talking about...


Notice the chinese characters for studying in japanese? pretty much summarises the torment I am going thru!!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Concentrate!!




Dear TomHa,
I cannot tahan anymore.... this inability to concentrate is killing me. I cannot simply put my mind to the tasks at hand! ARRRR! And my brother is watching so many interesting movies right now! Superman, Batman, Xmen, all the men that I had not watch yet! He said it is sort of a revenge on me watching movies during his mid-year and then I said that he forgot that apparently, I was at India during his examination!!! What am I typing anyway... Why am I here?

Anyway, the Cassia fistula trees outside ITE Clementi is in full bloom. Pink some more.. really looked like cherry blossoms. But... I did not have my camera with me... Damn...

Mata-ne!

Friday, November 10, 2006

Freelance




よ(yo)! TomHa,
Today was quite a day... went to pray 观音菩萨 at my neighborhood temple as i simply am not pious enough to make my way down to Sibei Road... Now wonder there wasn't any divine intervention when I was struggling up Hanuman Tibba. Anyway, that is not the point.. I am really not pious enough...

So, then I went for lunch at my favourite Hokkien mee stall in Bt Batok Shopping Centre (those kind with a lot of coffee shop and HDB stalls kind) and freakingly, I saw E-fung, Stephen, however you'll like to call him, anyway I don't think he knows my name even though we chatted for like an hour plus over his lor mee and my Hokkien mee. In then end, given that we are connected by the identity of having gone through the MIR program, we had to talk about mountains after all the talk about his impending North and South pole thing, his freelancing job ( He earns $5- 8k freelancing, voyeuring around - Now, WY you can stop medicine liao...), photography... Was surprised that I could talk so much to someone whom I knew through books instead of acquaintances.

Anyway, in the end, the conclusion was that mountain changes people. You'll look at things at a different perspective from before, taking more things seriously, although I must admit that I still got a long way to go before being a matured person, but, on hindsight, I realy see some improvement, however minuscule it is, in myself. In the past, you ask me to design a cover page, i would just ask you to fuck off, and even if I were to be so polite to accept it, the job would certainly be those kind of 2-hour finish job. certainly did not expect myself to spend 2 full days, pon-ning lectures and lessons, coop-ed behind my laptop or desktopdesigning that stupid thing. Must admit that I am super inefficient in design though.. so my 2 full day might only be someone else's half a day. I wouldn't expect myself to spend so much time researching on the monsoon, consulting even the Geog Professors who had no inkling of relationship to me! Shall blog my findings and research after exams... Man, I had changed, not that I had matured or anything, I had started to become more responsible in doing what that I like to do! Next improvement that I would like to see in me is to be more responsible in what that I don't like to do as well!

Quotable quotes from coffee talk:
Mountains... they make you realise what that you really want...
Stephen Chow.