Dear TomHa,
This is cute.. those were the exact same words that I uttered in the crevasse in NZ!!!

Phunk

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Dear TomHa,
This is way funky... Annie lennox during her prime best. Can you believe that she's the one who sang the LOTR song Into the West??

G'bbye mates...

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Dear TomHa,
And so, it had been a week of mourning, perhaps more. The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, had died in a freakish accident after having his chest pierced by the barbed tail of a sting ray while shooting an underwater documentary in the Great Barrier Reef. What a way to die dude, you survived taipans, cobras, crocs and yet you did not survive the sting ray, a supposedly gentle creature. You had been a good man, helping those people in less developed countries to catch snakes and stuffs, your shows are really funny and I learnt a lot. Thanks!

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine.....Planets
And so, Pluto is relegated into a dwarf planet in a recent astronomer's meeting or something like that. Somehow, I am feeling sad. Sad that the Why did Mickey go into space joke would make a lesser imapact than before and as Newsweek aptly puts it, the ommission of Pluto would not upset the school children now, but those of us who had been brought up to the notion of the nine planets.

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2 matters of little impact on my lives, 2 'Crikey' ways to fade into oblivion....
RIP dudezz...

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!