Lost Momentun in Studying...
Sunday, November 28, 2004
The lightly pattering of rain.. the flickering christmas tree lights of the decorated church outside my window.. Macy Gray's Winter Wonderland on Perfect 10.. oh my gosh it's the holiday season.
Why am I still studying?
Coz I've effectively wasted my day away.. well.. not as bad as the past two.. but I definitely say I could have been thrice more efficient and accomplished more. Now to hope that I can finish the syllabus tomorrow.. or later (look at the time).
Somehow my blog entries are not timely published.. blogged 2 days ago on xiangying's and yiling's birthday but still haven't shown. Stupid blogger.. so Weijian.. i've been blogging but if it doesn't show it's not my fault.. what to do?
And yes.. mobilisation.. can't believe that one of us has gone for mobilisation already.. thought it would come so soon.. "How can they call you back it's not 6 months yet??" Hey wait.. it's more than 6 months already...
Haha and so I started to think about Eric telling me that they would recall me back to fight ATEC if he went for his overseas course.. and I still told him "Don't worry they can't call me back one I'm still studying.. just go for your Taiwan course.." Oh so this possibility may come true after all.. though deep down I'm actually looking forward for ICT with my same gang of guys.. I dunt wanna screw their ATEC up.. haha.. after all i've been out of touch for so long and they've been training so hard..
And talking to Weilong the other day.. it's either they put me in 490 or they forget about me totally.. I dunt wanna be S2 of some old-man battalion.. worse.. be OC.. worse still.. be PC.. *shudders*
(And the chickens start to crow. Dammit the rain must have stopped.)
Watched my brother play solo at the Chinese High concert yesterday. Kinda proud of him.. =) He sounded really good.. though lack showmanship.. haa.. And Chinese High band is still the same.. overpowering lack of dynamics.. airy brasses and squeaky clarinets.. and watching the Student Conductor wave the baton away (rigidly) brought back bittersweet memories of my band days... (I was the student conductor back then...)
Though I've been planning to go to the Computer Fair for so long so long.. I guess I have to give this year's Sitex a miss... oh but there's so many things I wanna get:
- Cordless Mouse
- Webcam
- Seinheisser headphones
- Bluetooth adapter
Doesn't sound like a lot.. but if I get all of them it's gonna cost me a bomb.. sigh I must at least get someone to buy the $19 Logitech Cordless Mouse for me!!!
And I think come this holidays I'm gonna spend a bomb.. self-indulgence...
Gonna sleep now. Waking up to a greater mugging day ahead... (3 more days)
Signed off at
5:10 am
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Revival of the dead blog
Friday, November 26, 2004
I really dun wanna type today coz it's not the end of the exams yet.. but so many things happened today..
I literally wasted the whole day today.. according to plan. Need to detox from exam stress. 5 more days to the end of craziness.. that means 4 more days to start on CM1502 which i haven't even started.
Maths sucked. Not only did I leave questions undone.. those that i did were carelessly wrong. Though expected... after doing 2 past year papers I can't snap myself out of making stupid mistakes. Well... welcome to the bottom of the bell curve.
Hmm.. so how did I waste my time? 1. Played The Sims 2. Watched Super Size Me 3. Planned for birthday celebrations 4. Went out to buy birthday cake 5. Watched Singapore Idol 6. Continue planning for birthday celebrations...
So it seems like a long drawn planning? Well it was.. to coordinate 2 people (it was both Xiangying's and Yiling's birthdays) at the same time.. had to beg people to act (Xiuying to act as the fainting babe... Kayping to act as the "4th contestant"... Suzanne and Stella to faint as well haha).. tackle sensitive issues (who should lure Xiangying up.. Weijian or Francis?) manupulating situations (getting Yiling back from Suntec... getting Xiangying back from business...) encouraging people to participate amidst exams.. well.. I abandoned 3 earlier plans before settling for the final one...
So here's what should have happened:
Xiuying will go talk to Yiling in her room at 0045 hrs.
At 0100 hrs, Xiuying will have gastric pains and ask Yiling to take her medicine box from Suzanne
Suzanne will make a big deal out of it and call the whole level 5 to level 7 to see how Xiuying is. THe main idea is to get Xiangying up.
By then Xiuying should have knocked out. The girls suggest calling the guys to carry her to lobby while MQ calls the ambulance.
The guys come up with the cake. Jingwen and I will go talk to Xiuying while the rest of them prepare the cake behind the crowd of girls.
I will say "Oh no it must be the expired tang yuan I gave you. I forgot it was last weeks."
Jingwen will say "Hey don't go you still owe me $2."
Xiuying will wake up suddenly and give Jingwen $2 and we will all sing birthday song. [anticlimax.. but well..]
And here's what happened... and what didn't
Yiling came back by 0020. I called Yongsheng to pack up and get Xiangying back. And I specifically told him to keep it a secret.
Ah yes and the power of love. Some people just too daft or can't bear lying in front of loved ones. He told her everything
COCKUP 1: XIANGYING STARTS TO SUSPECT
CONTINGENCY 1: Suzanne to talk to Xiangying to convince her the guys not doing anything
Xiangying called Yiling to ask if they guys are planning anything.. Yiling obviously knows nuts.. but was on her guard. Xiangying asked Lilian the same question.. luckily Lilian knows nuts too. Xiangying asked Suzanne.. who did a clean denial.. of course.
COCKUP 2: XIANGYING WENT TO YILING'S ROOM AT 0050 HRS
CONTINGENCY 2: Told Meiqiang to go to Yiling's room. Everything as planned just that Meiqiang had to keep Xiangying in the room when Yiling went to get Suzanne.
COCKUP 3: SHEARES SHORT FILM WAS OUTSIDE LEVEL 7 AND BOTH GIRLS THINK THAT WAS PART OF "OUR" PLAN
CONTINGENCY 3: No effect. Divert attention away from us. Proceed as planned but delay H-Hour.
COCKUP 4: SHEARES SHORT FILM STARTED TO SING THEM BIRTHDAY SONG. CAN'T GIVE XIUYING HER 'MISSED CALL' CUE.
CONTINGENCY 4: SMSed her to start when the Short Film peeps were gone.
Xiangying called me.
XY: Are you in your room?
Me: (Trying to sound as normal as possible) Yah why?
XY: Did you drive? Do you have your car?
Me: (Puzzled) No. Why?
XY: Nevermind. I'll go look for you later.
Truely puzzled.. took me a few seconds to figure it out... Xiuying had "fainted". Kudos to our Drama Queen!
Suzanne called. Time for the guys to go up with the cake.
COCKUP 5: XIUYING DIDN'T KNOCK OUT. SHE WAS JUST TERRIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE. COULDN'T EXECUTE THE $2 PLAN.
COCKUP 6: THERE WASN'T THE "CROWD OF GIRLS" I EXPECTED. THE GUYS WERE HIDING AT THE LIFT LOBBY.
CONTINGENCY 5: Did the $2 thing anyway.. with no effect
CONTINGENCY 6: This one stunned me. I can't just start singing the Birthday song as planned coz it will be damn off. I couldn't hint to the guys to come to the room with the cake in any way and in that short time both birthday girls were looking away from the door. Ok.. so if they don't come, I will bring the girls to them. Suggested that Yiling and Xiangying help Xiuying down to "Francis' Car".
And yeah, ambushed by the guys with the cake. Happy Birthday girls!
And of course.. what succeeded but the normal "ponding" and shampooing of the girls.
And of course.. their retaliation by stealing slippers.. what's new?
Haha so I'm beginning to admire myself as a strategist and a contingency king. Think being both an armour officer and and an intelligence officer helps haha... though I really wanted to execute the first plan which was way more complex and required 10 times more coordination than this one... I must establish myself as the master of Counter-Manouvoure Force Operations (as we armour kias fondly call CMFO).. haha infantry birds sorry you lost out on the most exciting parts of military warfare... happy walking in the jungles.
And I so miss army. Weilong came to visit me today.. with 3 packets of Ah Balling Tang Yuan. Quite some catching up. Can't believe that less than a year ago he was my trusty spec and now he's a teacher-to-be and I'm a freaking student in this University of Hell. He certainly doesn't look 26..
And relationships can be so fragile. Ben just ended his 4 year relationship like that.. and they were already planning to get married!
Ok.. it's 3.3oam.. wow. It's time to end the slack day. Come tomorrow it's full force of biaaing!!!!
Signed off at
2:40 am
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Filling my bottle with pebbles
Thursday, November 04, 2004
visiting hours for my imprisoned laptop. 4 hours of battery life per week and there are 3 hours left. Today is thursday.
Blogging isn't exactly the thing I want to do amidst exam stress... 16 more days and I dun think I've prepared enough. Quote Angie "There's a CAP I want to achieve and at the rate my revision is going I can never hit that CAP." Think my situation's worse.
Blogging is therapeutic (yes i got the spelling right this time). So here goes.
If I put a white pebble in a bottle for every good thing that happened today and a black pebble for every bad thing that happened.. would the bottle be more black or more white?
Black Pebble: Today was supposed to be the release of the Chem mid-sem papers. Felt sucky in the morning.
White Pebble: Paper will be released next friday. Temporary sigh of relief.
Black Pebble: Jiooed her for lunch. "I usually eat with my class." Bah.
White Pebble: I drove up and down NUS/Pasir Panjang Road like nobody's business today. Kinda like driving up and down TOYOTA/MALCOLM axis in TVMA. Running errands.. having lunch.. going for lessons.
White Pebble: I think my parking improved. haha.
White Pebble: Sat with her during Physics Lecture.
White Pebble: Offered to send her back to PGP.. which she excitedly agreed.
Black Pebble: I offered to send 3 other pple to PGP.. all of whom I don't know.
White Pebble: 2 of them were chiobus. Gabriel described one as the previous Chem Eng top seed.
Black Pebble: 1 of them was a guy. And I think he's a likely competitor. Ok maybe I'm being overparanoid
Black Pebble: She was sitting directly behind me all the way. Didn't even get to hear a word of thanks from her.
White Pebble: I finished my Maths and Physics Tutorial.
Black Pebble: I tooka hell lot of time and I still got a lot of questions I dunno.
White Pebble: SCRC took my idea of orange words on the black T-shirt. Big deal.
White Pebble: We made koniyaku in less than 30mins. Shows that if we set a time for what we do we can complete it within the time limit.
White Pebble: Guiming gave me his Rag T-shirt for free. Coz he can't fit in it.
Black Pebble: It's past my sleeping time of 3am.
White Pebble: If I stop now I'll still be sleeping earlier than my usual 4.30am.
So what's the colour of my bottle?
Ok visiting hours over. Back to jail you sinful machine!
Signed off at
2:53 am
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Guilty as Charged
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
To the defendant: Fujitsu Lifebook E8010 S/N R4700235
You have been charged under SECTION 1 of the MUGGER ACT that you have directly caused the plaintiff CHIO WEI HAN CLEMENT "distraction in the course of his studies" and have been found GUILTY.
You are hereby sent to 5 weeks imprisonment in the cupboard or until the end of the plaintiff's final year exams (whichever is later). You are only allowed as much usage as your battery life allows per week.
The court adjourns.
Signed off at
3:43 am
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