Very true quote..

This is such a good quote and thankfully I read about this quote quite a long time ago, perhaps in secondary 2. I hope that by sharing it here, everyone can improve their lives and their relationships with all the people around them.

"How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. " (Matthew 7:4-5)

I won't bother explaining this quote because its basically quite.. trivial for you guys to figure it out.

Quick break #4.

Just had to rant this off my mind.. zzz here's one of the most annoying MSN nicks I have ever seen..

..* 小さいゆみ Lord! Give me Jolin tickets! Hope i can tio! *

Hmm instead of praying that I get something, how about I pray that the Lord instead gives something to someone IN NEED instead. Huh.. fancy praying for some lottery or something, I really think its absurd.

No offence meant to anyone in this post, if you took any.. too bad.

quick break #3.

MM was a disaster of epic proportions.. so I'll leave it to .. Ah Bao to mark my script.. sigh..

Physically I feel a bit weak and I seem to be falling ill soon if I don't go for a run or something like that. Then again I really have no time to spare. Today was spent studying Geography the whole day... with quick breaks in between at most 1/2 hour I suppose.

Read on the papers a touching article, apparently Robinson's group kept a cancer stricken lady on their payroll and paid for her medical expenses for 7 years, right till she passed away. Just wondering how many employers are willing to do that much for an employee nowadays.

Oh well, its heartwarming news in this age of ..cold blooded killing, suicide bombings and senseless violence.

quick break part 2..

Here's a link to the full sized wallpaper of the car.. in all senses, it is quite a stunning car.

You should be able to see the xenon headlights already (that blue-cyan colour) which are claimed to reduce glare to oncoming motorists. TP however does not allow xenon headlights to be fitted onto local cars unless they are factory fitted, meaning they come with the stock cars. (Evidently if you mount the xenon lights wrongly it will cause not just more glare, its fricking like staring in the sun when you look at your rear mirror etc.. Hehe.. reminds me of that nice song by U2)

Oh where was I? Hehe.. dream cars don't cost cheap lah its price is quoted at $418,888 only. What most people learn in a lifetime probably.. -_-"
Anyway AMG is like the sporting arm of Mercedes Benzand they are kind of 'highly regarded' in a way. Each engine that has been constructed by AMG will be signed by the engineer in charge as a 'sign of quality workmanship etc etc.'

Quick facts about the Mercedes Benz E55 AMG..

Engine layout: V8, 5439 cc (your road tax $$ fuel $$ fly away...)

Maximum power: 476 hp/bhp (for some reason bhp= braking horsepower..)

Maximum torque: 700 Nm (if i remember correctly, avail. from 2000 rpm onwards, so if traffic jam you accidentally tapped the accelerator... -_-")

Top speed: 250km/h (most mortals won't need to go anywhere near that..)

Century sprint (0-100km/h): 4.7 seconds (Faster than Impreza WRX STi & Evo VII/VIII.. no more fears of silly ah bengs/crazy taxi drivers.. lol!)

All of this which means.. its a supercar for the even richer than rich ah peks.. haha but its ok to have dreams what.. since its a dream might as well dream big!
Hohoho.. back to reality.. PC2174.. the module taught by the 1/2 million research grant lecturer.. basket!

ZZzz..taking a break..

Just saw a nice cute picture on Zhihao's blog. (Zeus' Garden, its linked)
Its a Garfield comic strip that shows Garfield and Odie taking a break.
Here comes the funny part,..
Garfield "These breaks are getting so long we need breaks in our break."

Haha.. couldn't help laughing a bit at that silly comic strip.

Oh I just heard that Olinda has been voted out or rather Sylvester has been voted in. Which just goes to show how talent-blind SGreans are or how rich SG ah lians and ah bengs are? I can only imagine the immense amount of disappointment that Olinda feels right now.

Er.. anyway if Sylvester somehow wins SG idol, I'm sure almost nobody except his kee siao fans will endorse him as a Singapore idol..
*shudders at his rendition of Music of the night*

Oh well I guess the Singapore idol should be clear by now its gotta be Taufik since the only other true talent has somehow been out-voted. Oh well, weird huh now that its the exams, or rather whenever the exam period arrives, all the tv shows, all the games, all the blogs seem more interesting to watch to play and to read. Damned.. at this rate I'm.. er.. the printout on my wall says "Never talk to yourself negatively" so I'm gonna shut up and continue on my Legendre's equation and God knows what else..

woohoo.. this is a nice candidate for my dream car? :p  

What the.. holy crap!

Proof that effort is inversely proportional to results..
2nd QM test I deproved by 3 marks.. GOD!
*starts swinging pigtail in regular circles teochew opera style..*
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Electronics..

Since a few weeks ago, the electronics in my house or rather in my possession started to chee-ba-boom (terbaboom).

Fricking peeved right now, number 1 casualty is dear laptop which in my opinion is quite a good laptop, the Fujitsu S6210 or something like that. The heat it generates also helps to keep the said user warm in the lab.

Number 2 was the relatively new television set (Toshiba). Apparently one fine day, J switched off the Air-con(which LEAKS water.. thank god not mercury) and somehow the TV switched itself off as well! We repeated this experiment a couple of times and it was rather successful, yielding the same results time after time. However, the TV kind of got reset and all the channels were lost. That's ok until I discovered that there is NO SOUND at all. So that's number 2..

Number 3 is my table lamp. After serving me for.. 2004-1995 = 9 years, it decided to take a break NOW. Thanks man, now is my exam period and you have to 'pichiak' now. I think a trip down to IKEA is inevitable.. waste of my time.

Number 4 just happened, its my hi-fi. It cannot read CDs and can only play radio.. wtf! Thankfully after some tinkering and kicking it has resumed serving its master faithfully!

Number 5 is not really electronics but its the bloody house. For those who have come to my house before.. you might understand better. The thing is I never approved of buying this house in the first place. Now? Bloody shoddy workmanship, my door cannot be closed because the door frame somehow shrinks, or my door expands, or both happens. This is incredibly evident during rainy days which is like now. Better still, there's a pipe that goes vertically through the kitchen and it leaks. So now the kitchen floor is wet with rainwater which I assume has mixed about with some beautiful green fungi in the fricking pipe.

I can almost predict a number 6, Scooby giving up on me on a rainy day. So I shall really look out for myself these few days! BFSW claims that its because I was racist but hey.. (the last time she suffered an electronics catastrophe was because of the same thing too) I don't think so. Only Number 4 and the water leakage has occured after I put 'that nick' on my MSN.. hehehe

Oh well after reading my buddy Fruchee's blog I think its impossible not to have racism with such people existing on the face of planet Earth. If that caucasian.. ah fark it.. if that ANG MOR talked to me like that in the lab, I'd make sure he swallowed some radioactive radium for lunch. That pretty well expresses my view on buddy's blog, that guy is a total imbecile. He probably has .."mierda" for brains!

Workloads.. zzz

The culmination of poor time management = ..

1. Presentation on Friday.
2. Long report for electronics.
3. Short summary (which can't be short anyway) on mechanics.
4. Viva for my x-ray experiment.
5. Exams..

Can be done lah.. I mean.. must be done!! Wargh!!!!!

A response to Henry's post.. haha.

What do you think of NUS being ranked 18th among the world's top 200 universities?

This was taken from a Yahoo! poll... you can see it on yahoo.com.sg if you want to.. haha!

I always knew our universities were world-class - 21%

I'm surprised but am very pleased - 26%

Makes me wonder what the ranking criteria were - 51%

There you go.. haha... well it wouldn't be tough to guess which option I voted for anyway..

amazing stuff...

SINGAPORE: The Traffic Police and enforcement officers from the Land Transport Authority caught more than 260 errant motorists on Saturday night and early Sunday morning after a 5-hour operation.
The 267 motorists were nabbed for traffic offences like speeding, drunk driving and illegal modification.

The operation was conducted along areas such as Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, Woodlands Avenue 7, Clemenceau Avenue, Paya Lebar Road, AYE and BKE.

143 motorists were caught exceeding the speed limit and 13 were arrested for drunk driving.

Another 77 motorists were booked for illegal modification offences.

During this operation, the Traffic Police also gave out letters of appreciation, road safety advice and goodie bags to motorists.
For the first half of this year, the Traffic Police issued 32,000 summonses for speeding and driving while talking on a mobile phone.

This is an almost 37% increase compared to the same period last year.

The number of motorists arrested for drink driving in the first half of this year is up 26%.

However, the number of fatal accidents and serious accidents were down, about 7% compared to the same period last year. - CNA


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Huh wtf? goodie bags? hahaha

amazing stuff...

I dislike noisy people..

Being a relatively quiet person, or maybe I only talk more crap in the right group of friends.. I really really really really dislike (read: hate) noisy people.

Take Singapore Idol for instance.
I mean no offence but the contestants' fans are really pissing me off. Whenever a contestant finishes a song, they cheer (read: SCREECH) at the top of their lungs. I swear I cringed at least 3 times when I watched the show today. Thanks to the hordes of adolescent girls screaming and cheering for their respective idols.
Whenever the judges pass a bad comment, the fans start booing. Ugh.. I really don't like that because its like you're disrespecting other people's opinions outrightly.
I honestly also don't quite understand the craze about Singapore Idol, especially when I saw the idols go for meet-the-fans sessions. One particularly disturbing image was of this girl, she was crying for LORD'S SAKE and started blabbering something about how much she loves Sylvester Sim.

I don't know if I'm jealous or not (craving the attention of crying, teenage pre-pubescent girls??) but the last time I saw these images of crying girls was somewhere during the 1990s when they filmed a documentary on Michael Jackson's life. Michael Jackson vs Singapore Idols.. hmmm

Ok lah like my relative once commented on her daughter vis-a-vis our relatively rebellious cousin: At least she got idol what..(her idol was the Taiwanese boyband Energy), unlike XXX, no idol to look up to now look what he has become?

Listening to: Fans STILL SCREAMING cos my mother is watching the videotaped SG Idol, did I mention my sister watched it also before my mother came back? Fans screaming X3.. ok Gurmit just told the crowd to SCREAM.. FUCKER!

Really look like some refugee.. don't you think? 

This will be the ransom if our 'kidnap' is successful! I seem to remember kidnapping is punishable by death in SG? 

one day I went to school without my wallet, then I went to lab without calculator, then JK kena my disease..  

Burning diodes..

Hehe.. I was doing an experiment and after much calculations somehow, from the equation given, I have calculated that the temperature of a diode when I was using it was a grand...

479099 Kelvins only.. well if you convert it to degrees Centigrade/Celcius then its 479099 + 273 degrees. Obviously something is wrong with my calculation or the equation is assuming some stuff that I don't know..

479099K.. maybe the Sun's corona lah .. diode.. siao ... my lab would have melted..

Japanese workaholics..

This post might be a bit retro but well.. I managed to find this interesting bit while doing some research for my LSM1302 (Genes and Society) essay.

Those affected by the sarin experienced (short- and long-term symptoms) (incomplete list):

.bleeding from the nose and mouth
.coma
.convulsions
.difficulty breathing
.disturbed sleep and nightmares
.extreme sensitivity to light
.foaming at the mouth
.high fevers
.influenza-like symptoms
.loss of consciousness
.loss of memory
.nausea and vomiting
.paralysis
.post-traumatic stress disorder
.respiratory problems
.seizures
.uncontrollable trembling
.vision problems, both temporary and permanent

Witnesses have said that subway entrances resembled battlefields. In many cases, the injured simply lay on the ground, many unable to breathe. Incredibly, several of those affected by sarin went to work in spite of their symptoms. Most of these left and sought medical treatment as the symptoms worsened.

Give me a reason...

The following error message always pops out when the motherboard decides that it hates my USB mouse.

"One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance to this problem, click this message."

I always proceed to click it but wait.. if the mouse has malfunctioned how the f- am I supposed to click it? Bah!!!!