Back in 2013!

Neglected this blog for quite some time. Decided to blog after reading yl's article. lol.

2012 had been a really slack year for me. With the first half slacking in REC and the second half in NTU without having to work extra hard. I sort of flow through last year without much memorable events. Lots happened with GF of course, but personally nothing much.

THIS year is a crucial year for me. Work and commitments will be presented in front of me this yr. No much time to slack ard really. Challenges ahead both financially, academically and career-wise. Looks like i need more luck than last yr to pull it through. No i dun mean not working hard and depend on luck, but the luck that complements with effort.

Its really sad that the last sem is coming and no more socializing with innocent characters. Colleagues always have an agenda in mind and its hard to find a true friend with so many guys in a firm. All would want to get promoted, buy a car and house, make lots of money, be successful. I dun know how much money is needed to live in Singapore. I would prefer to be useful at work, having the motivation to complete the task. From many friends experience, this doesn't seem to be easy to achieve. That's why i need some luck to find me the right job.

Short term plan for the first half of the year is simple: Get above GPA 4, get employed and some luck in the BTO exercise!

Hong Kong and holidays!

Went furthest away from home for the first time! 6 days is a bit too long for a holiday, especially with everyday walking from malls to malls. However, i really missed the days once is woke up after a good sleep back home! Perhaps we are still a bit short in terms of budget for such a long trip, if we got more money it would be more fun!

Mapleleaf guesthouse was cheap cheap, $30 a night! The place was really small but a least it has a heater and tv, plus a nice Miss lee which provided us discounted advance tickets! Thanks to her also we do not have to queue for the cable car on day 1. The cable car trip felt something like a kusu island trip. There got sell nice beancurd! Almost like lao ban...but the fishballs sux.

2nd day was victoria peak! riding the tram was normal, just an uphill ride. Then went to madame tussauds museum! Took lot of pictures! The scary trail was not scary at all! No Beckham too :( He apparently "went" on a tour. After which, decided to go on adventure and find jumbo restaurant...managed to find it but the price is a bit high end. We spent 1000HK for dinner but i think its worth it to be emperor for a night!

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Hello blog blog!! long time no see. Last paper to go only!! YAY! which means that no exams for a year! woohoo! This sem is just another typical lazy sem...nothin much to think about. Maybe its much easier to think about hong kong.

So many nice movies this sem, and have only watched one. But that one actually caused me to be awake for a number of nights. Recently realised that the soundtracks with the movie rocks too!

Dunno why im in hall now...maybe because i knew that go home will slp and being here would make me feel more settled. Haha, it always the case that u believe ur actions will contribute to the results but more often than not, its not directly related also. It depends on others too, depends on luck, depends on karma also. See, Life is not within your control so why control it?? Just leave it to someone else and think about the things you enjoy, but not the things u worry abt.

October Celebrations were great!! Ate quite a few cakes this month. All plans worked out smoothly...perhaps except for my own study plans! :x

Tutee failed her promos, tried to persuade her to go poly but seems like she's going to remain status quo. Which brings me to something on my mind. People do not like changes, they prefer to remain in their comfort zone since they have been in it for quite some time and probably has started to get used to it. Maybe this is what our stable Singapore has contributed to it? Our life from young to university is almost expected...aces exams, holidays, prepare for next exams again. An element of uncertainty is missing in our life. For example how exciting it would be if Singapore gets flooded like bangkok and we have some disruptions to our life! I think people would think im crazy but im sure we would have an enriching experience of being tgt with our family, trying to escape from the waters. We would have been more adaptable to changes in our life then! Additionally, we could learn to be happy more without the need of achieving something to be happy!

Recess week!

Recess week was kind of gone in a wink. Tried making cupcakes with dear dear on Friday before going to annual dinner. The cupcakes was decent, only a bit too sweet! We should make more flavours like raisin, bananas and chocolate next time! Suddenly i felt im not so bad at baking! haha. Then it was annual dinner, food sux, games sux. The mc kept talking about appreciating volunteers which kinds of pisses me off. Its more like 160 volunteers forced to pay $10 for appreciation and u telling us this shit? its like taking credit for stuff u didn't do. I will never be there if there's no minimum number of tables la.

both orientation was ok. Youth did it for the first time and i must say it was quite successful. few freshies missed it but those who came enjoyed themselves. The games are fresh and the loose schedule, gambling and BBQ made the camp relaxing and interactive. Luckily we decided to stop the confidence challenge halfway when gust of wind blew, it rained like 10 minutes later. Thankfully, we were in chalet by that time.

On the other hand, RSPID orientation was rush and full of games. Seldom got time to play cards, and we spent some time on travelling. It was OVERNIGHT cycling, i personally felt damn shag. The freshies had fright nite before, should be worse for them. The freshies among them was well bonded because of that but support from the seniors was cui ttm. Wonders how v camp would work out but i might be not ard myself at that time.

Toro got a buddy over the weekend! Its called DA TOU!! cos its head is bigger than loser's already big big head! But i still dunno its a gerger or boiboi...but it like deardear! short hand short legs!

Learnt how to make mooncake today! really very easy eh, dunno why outside have to sell $8 for one mooncake...

Just returned from mayday 3D concert, and i dun have the usually music ringing in my ears after concert feeling. it just wasn't the correct atmosphere, and it feels like watching youtube actually. $20 not very worth it. rather save for their next concert. haha

Busy busy week ahead! its difficult not to watch EPL on a weekend! :x

Recently a lot of free activities! Istana, baybeats, museums....how nice if all these were to continue throughout the year. Then the pockets of all bfs in singapore would be fat! Enough spare for investment! haha. Still havent got my trading account leh, but youth have been eating up some of my money so im still a bit short to invest...oh wells.

Meeting up youth freshies later today. There's so many free thursday for them up till end oct. Kind of shiong to conduct something for them every thurs, but i think its neccessary rather than additional. A group with poor bonding would not show their support for anything in the future.

Sch starts with lab! And have to learn how to apply fourier transform to do the lab...lecture today was abt oscillations, and it happened to be what i taught during my tuition for A lvl physics. All taught in 1 hr! stressed!

Last week of vacation was great! not too hectic but fun enough! JB trip was cheap, simple but not very relaxing. We walked quite a bit and carried tidbits ard JB. The dinner was ok but we were suspicious of it being rotten food. Saw very cute cui kia which made noises when hit! Nice to use it to hit someone's head! :)
Universal studios was super worth it with 20% discount! And i got to save on 3 diamonds! where can find such a deal! heehee^^ We started off with a crazy ride called human on Battlestar Galactica. It feels like Genting Spaceshot when it was coming down, deardear got a bit giddy and hence we went ard looking for a gentler ride. Then i saw the jurassic park roller coaster which looks much more friendlier. We decided to ride on it but im wrong! it turns sharply real fast and the worse thing is we were sitting facing back and our legs were dangling in the air. Poor deardear then got really sick after the ride and we sat down somewhere for a rest. The rest of the afternoon was walking ard, taking it slowly, attraction by attraction, and spending the time looking for PANDA! The peck peck was much cuter! who cares abt the fat panda?? haha. then saw fireworks at night! i think its the fourth time i saw fireworks in these 2 months, a bit sianz of it already...

Time flies and seniors are graduating while new grp of freshies coming in soon with recruitment drive looming next wk! hopefully can get enough volunteers! Then can pang kang soon! :)

last week to holidays! spent quality time at deardear's hse ytd, just slacking ard :) will not have such liberty when sch starts. haha. next sem is going to be busy with more lab plus tuition!

Went to ndp preview! lots of wayang by the uniformed grps. Same wayang every yr lar, omg. When we go to camp where got so high-tech. The signal set im using has been ard for at least 10 years. But the show segment was interesting though. Shows the stages in which a singaporean grows up in. I think it can relate really well to the crowd rather than previous years theme like culture, our history and propaganda of the PAP in the past. *yawns*

Im really happy to be in Dory for igc. At least theres no hunters in my grp and everyone seems interested in volunteering. RSPHI was the biggest promoter, but u have to understand that they have to do this when they got so many centres around the island. The freshies gel themselves on day3 and that when the seniors start to slack and leave them to interact. My grp have more gals, dunno whether its a blessing but it means that we guys SA get the chance to participate more and be more involved in the group. VH presentation and elders visit was super touching. Song by bene and video tgt never fails. The planning was sucky anyway, lots of last minute changes and waiting time. poor freshies have to blindfold 4hrs for sp initiation.

Holidays seems like it just started! It feels really good to have nothing on your mind, and all u need to think about is what u should do later. Still got 3 weeks to enjoy! Tidy up the room today, and its still not completely tidied. At least it doesnt look so much like a warehouse now!

Harry potter was quite lousy, predictable ending and no much action. transformers was better. Realized today that there is quite a number of things to do in Jurong thru random googling! haha, shall go to these places in the next few weeks! <3

Anyway, teaching tuition was not easy! its challenging to think of how to do and how to explain at the same time. My mind was blank for a number of occasions. On the bright side, i think it will really helps in presentations and in thinking while speaking.

Somehow its great to kao beh abt the same thing with the ppl who is in the same boat.

I just dun understand their logic or wadsoever rationale. To me its just a matter of inefficiency lor.

Ok, at least i got $370 when i come out of this shithole....

in camp -_-~~~

Been 2 fruitless and boring days...more sianzz days to come...

Nothing is related to us and all we here for are to shoot a few targets and walk the 5km in the woods. wad a waste of my vacation...

At least there's sat to look forward to!! :))

going camp!

time flies. it has been a year already and im going to see those few guys again. Hope that this in-camp goes smoothly.

Holidays has been in patches. i dun really have an memory wad i did week or the week before. Its all about living each day as it goes. $$$ still haven't reach me yet. no $$ means no holidays. perhaps life would be better when im out of camp!

Holidays!

Finally a few days to slack at home entirely! These few weeks have been about work and pator-ing...but my $$$ still havent reached my pocket! Feeling damn poor now :( Its best if i try to stay at home as much as possible this month, but i shouldn't waste my holidays like that right?
Camping at ECP for the first time with our new tent! Really romantic atmosphere with so many couple ard hanky-panky. Rented a car for ourselves! This car doesnt look very impressive and indeed its speed is something like a children's bike. However, it is really good for a ride along the beach and some picture snapping along the way!
Then bought dinner from the hawker center! The satay was nice but the rest was so-so. Watched the stars after dinner while waiting for midnight to strike. The sky turned from clear to threateningly cloudy. haha, bad sign for results. This appear not to be the case as i got B- for thermo! and its the first sem i didn't have an C! Also tells me that i should be able to get my second upper if i stop getting Cs! Poor deardear kind of stuck, but means that she could enjoy her last sem in NTU le.

Vertical Marathon last sunday. Same building really spoil the anticipation of climbing stairs, most likely will not join if its the same building or sundown is more attractive. We knew wad is waiting for us at the top, and i didn't have any WOW feeling when i reached the top unlike last yr. I felt we climbed faster than last year maybe because of less rest time at the lower floors, but the official result is not out yet but who cares. Saw westend trainees going for special olympics category, westend volunteers are really committed in going all the way rather than RSPID volunteers who just do what is expected of them. Most of us are struggling to make rspid a part of our life. The rally was one of the most cui one, blk D and rspid seems to have their fortunes changed...no situation will remain forever, there will be ups and downs for every CCA regardless of how powerful the CCA is...

end of exams

Im finally home after bringing all the stuff from hall back! Don't know whether will kena stomp for bringing a pillow and a pail onto the MRT :x

Life is back to normal after today! no more staying up late to study or do tuts! But then once a problem is solved, another comes up. $$ will be the concern from now on. Predict that i will be broke at ard mid june...lets hope im not right!

Missed my 'nice smelling' bed and toro! sleeping at home is always great! At least i would fall asleep faster.

Star Awards tonight! At least something to look forward to after listening to lectures this afternoon. Sat night was damn sianz, mediacorp getting more and more bullshit. It seems like an international channel, channel 8 showing taiwan and channel U on korean. -_-

Mindef has been contacting me quite often of late. Its really damn irritating, they always like to bomb u with "surprises" during exam period. Now i got recall manning right after exams on 24 may to 7 june, this time confirm will tio, another excuse for me not to find 2 week job during that period...

Blogging at the slackest time of this sem! Friday morning! Things have gone quite well this week, completed lab report with some help and HW210! Deardear's luck also improving, finding her 'long' lost wallet and winning any match she predicted. Youth and Id stopped for exam break, which means its the real exam period now. Maybe to others, the whole sem, or maybe right after recess week is considered exam period, cos they are always equally busy. It really impossible to differentiate their workload before exam and during exam, it seemed equally heavy. But for me its the period after lab, EID, CCAs has ended. More nights and weekends of mugging in school. Thermo is really the killer subject, shall spend more time with it but i cant seemed to understand it like i cant understand girls. :x

Life has been rather monotonous recently...sleep late, rush for afternoon lecture, finish sch, go home flip notes and realised oh shit, im lagging by half a sem! i think i really should take a short break after my lab report and HW presentation. Break doesnt mean relax...its taking a break from sleeping too much. Maybe go gym, go running, try getting up early to prepare breakfast and skip schooool! so that i would not be so sianz of seeing shafts and alloys. But first, i still got to finish lab report! haizzz....

Wah! so long never touch this blog le! time to dust off this poor thing! Quiz week ended!!! yay! and im relatively unscathed! target to do up lab report by this friday and continue the momentum of mugging...

Breakup season now...perhaps its the pressure from sch work which made everyone more frustrated to deal with relationship problems. lets count...theres abt 1,2,3,4! so many couples breaking up at one time, and it took a year for 3 couples to form in rspid and none so far in youth! Goes to show that its tough to get together but could be easy for a couple to break! Hopefully mine will stay long and sweet! its not without its problems but which r/s doesn't?

youth elections next week. im seriously not having any hopes on it since last year's disappointment. Just hope that the next person would keep up the cohesion and inject more ideas to spice up the yr ahead. I hate to say this, but frankly i think that rspid comm did not inject new ideas...they were committed to the cause but its like jogging on the same spot.

Someone just didn't understand from my point of view.

It's not simply i didn't trust you,

but can't i trust myself more than you??

I dun know wads pissing you off,

but i rather go to sleep than think about it...