Woo!

Yay exams WERE over, haha! Been lazy to blog until now. Well its weird that after exams I have been feeling really strange. I can't seem to catch a lot of sleep!

Normally I would sleep earliest around 2am, now? 11pm already start feeling groggy and drowsy and the best part is... I wake up at like 5:49. Wah lau like those 老人lor! Sleep very little then maybe early morning wake up and sweep the floor or go outside to the neighbourhood central to buy breakfast back home. Most probably it would be 斋米粉! Hahaha!

Now can start to feel for KC when she insomnia but why my insomnia come in the holidays one? I don't mind waking up earlier but not so early lah! WTF I wake up before the birds start crowing and beeping and cheep-ing.. Ok they just started.

Today I went to Msia and took the yellow bus from JE. As the guys wanted to go to Larkin, we saw that the bus route went there, asked the price for the ticket then we bought it. KNN WTF, that's the biggest 贼船 I have ever sit in lor! NB!!!!! The bus went by Tuas 2nd link then went to GP bus terminal. Its almost at Tian Lye restaurant liao (black pepper crabs anyone?).

After that, we have to change a bus. The bus number was 666. How ominous right? Enz called it the Devil's bus.. right... and did I remember we were boarding it? From GP, it didn't turn right into the long stretch that goes back to the NSHW, omg it went from the super duper ulu 'mount akina' type of roads. Then the driver also like ferrying tofu, Initial D style driver. The body roll on the bus was atrocious man! Then Liu Jing was eyeing me in a worried way which was kind of funny... hahaha! Like, are we going to die here in a devil's bus in the middle of nowhere?

From Jurong East to Larkin bus terminal, it took us approximately 2 hours journey. Jesus... really a bit pain in the ass after we alighted. We were thinking (ok la rather only I was thinking) maybe the locals would laugh like siao after seeing Singaporeans come to Larkin on Devil's bus. Somehow this created the loudest laughter registered for the whole day :p

I also realised that Holiday plaza is a vice city. Hahaa no la but well they do sell many games, dvds and cds at 'discounted rates'. Lol, yeah so basically the main aim of the trip was to go Larkin check out the price of the coach to Genting, and to stock up on movies and games. By then it was already 8+ so we just went to the Big horse garden to eat our dinner. Is it called Taman Sentosa? Not too sure.. maybe JK or $9.90 will know better.

Aiyah wanted to blog more but the Sun is rising liao.. Duh.

Its the exam season again

Oh yeah it means more of mugging and mugging, how boring can that be?
Revision is going on smoothly but slowly for biophysics, partly because Janaky's monotonous voice is echoing in my head.

Sometimes I just feel damned stupid, can't study faster and just absorb every shit thing then go to exams and do a decent grade. Or am I just lazy?

I am so bloody frustrated

Quick break!

The weekend has passed in a flash! :(
Well the exams are drawing near anyway so its about high time to start mugging. Its also been weeks since I listened to Mr Brown's podcast on how to zhng your car and we're still laughing about it. So here's a few useless facts about the podcast and its contents~

1. The turbo sound that Mr Brown mentioned really does exist. I've personally witnessed the sound on a souped up Honda Civic before. Most hilarious in my opinion :p



2. The stickers that are meant for cars are all waterproof. For obvious reasons.

3. The blue neon undercarriage lights are illegal not standard.

4. Same goes for aftermarket retrofitted HID high intensity discharge jinon (Xenon) headlamps. Currently a host of cars from cars have them fitted as a stock option so they are allowed. Toyota Camry (facelifed version), Honda Odyssey(facelifted version), Mazda RX8 are some of the examples. Without proper alignment, HID can be very glaring to other road users. Faulty installation of the ballast may also result in a fire hazard.

5. Spoilers are not supposed to protrude from the car body. More info @ onemotoring.com.sg

6. Honda vehicles in general have a higher insurance premium compared to other Japanese makes in the same class. This is believed to be caused by Honda's bad reputation among insurance firms as a boyracer's car.

7. The loudest exhaust I've ever heard came from a Lamborghini Murcielago/Gallardo along East Coast Road (Katong). It was cruising at less than 60kmph I estimate. The 2nd loudest came from a bike's pipe. The sheer volume triggered 3 car alarms as the bike went past. Bloody fucker zhng so loud for fuck.

8. Lowering springs are available for lowering the car. Lowering the car brings benefits such as better aerodynamics (Ground effect) as well as higher stability due to the lower centre of mass!

9. DOHC stands for dual overhead camshafts. The camshafts are mounted on top of the cylinders and there are separate camshafts for inlet and exhaust vaults.

10. Changing an exhaust to a larger one (in diameter) does not necessarily mean better power. Most probably the low end of the engine's range will lose some power and gain some power at the high end.

Oh well enough of my boliao-ness. But ...

Mr Brown never include the following:

1. Add the dark dark ah beng tinted film.
2. Mugen sunshade sticker.
3. Change steering wheel to Momo 3-spoke steering.
4. Wide bodykit.
5. Huge sports rims. Preferably CHROME.

HAHAHAA!!

My personal opinion on zhng-ing your car. By all means do go and personalise your car but just keep it civil and don't zhng your exhaust until it wakes up the whole neighbourhood. Its plain fucking stupid and inconsiderate. Might attract angry drawings on your car paint anytime.

Zhng your car with HID, jolly well make sure your HID doesn't blind other road users. As for Mitsubishi Grandis' rear LED lights, I'm sorry jkaiser but it comes stock leh =/

Look fierce can, don't drive fierce except on the track.

It all goes up in smoke

PC Lee's seems to have won the battle against smoking, apparently he has been abstaining from cigarettes for quite a few weeks already so I thought most of the army guys would know and try to egg him on. (Not egg him on to pick it up again ok!)

However he has had new issues so all the best to you brother!

Recently also watched on TV that 李铭顺and er forget it my Mandarin sucks. Quan Yi Feng and Huang Hui are pledging to quit smoking. No doubt some part of government awareness campaign. Well but I do applaud their first step in coming forward to try, especially Quan Yi Feng. Evidently her daughter is emulating her smoking at home, and she said she felt guilty and that she didn't want this bad smoking habit to pass down to her daughter.

Been reading a few posts from a fellow Phy major and feel that althought we don't really click/clique, I kind of share the same sentiments with him. That both of us don't really excel at studies, like spending power and being in control. Talk about finding a 知己 in the most unlikely places.

Of KFC and silly blunders

One fine day, my younger sis developed a craving for KFC. So we browsed through the discount coupons very happily and chose our meal.

Then we drove to BP plaza and I parked the car at the carpark opposite the shopping centre. As we were walking towards BreadTalk, Pei suddenly asked me 'kor where's the coupon?'

I went limp in the knees cos I thought she brought it. Dammit, We came without the fiaking coupons. Nb... so I ended up buying PIAC (Pasta in a cup) and she bought something else, oh I remember now. She bought the 4 piece devil drumlets from KFC. So we were both quite pissed at ourselves for being so damned forgetful while trotting out of the shopping centre when... WTF! The guy from KFC is giving out the discount coupons! KNN! Asshole why wasn't he there when we walk in. Damned suay man!

After cursing and contemplating whether to knock the daylights out of that bugger we reached the car and... lo and behold...

THE COUPON IS ON PEI's SEAT!

YYYAAAARRRGHHHHHH!!!!~~!!!

20/20 Vision...

What is 20/20 Vision?
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Visual acuity is typically measured with the use of a standard eye chart called the Snellen chart. It was devised by Dr. Hermann Snellen, a Dutch Ophthalmologist, in 1862. It was originally used at a standard distance of 6 meters, which is about...

Read more about it here
Scroll down until you see the Snellen chart. Yes, the one that you have to look at when your health booklet has to be checked in primary school.

Well at least its stuff that I never knew. "Godma" gave us this site for circular aperture diffraction stuff but well as you surf there are always interesting things that you find out!

:) (why am I smiling when I owe my godma 4 lab reports and a 45 minutes VIVA? ccb...)

Insomnia?

Am I suffering from insomnia? I told JK I was going off at 1:30. Until now still unable to sleep, damn it!
At this rate I won't be awake in time for solid state physics. Freakkkk!!

Gah! Gdnite all.. my neighbour's rooster is gonna start crowing in 1 hour's time.

Lingering thoughts

Been thinking quite often these days, one is about a letter to one of the local paper's forums. Actually it came out from Jingkai's mouth lah but anyway this person was suggesting a death sentence for hit and run criminals. Most probably the idea came to him for the recent case of a taxi hitting someone or some vehicle and didn't stop.

As I watched the news where the one of the local vehicle repair workshops got a plaque from the SPF for being an alert and vigilant citizen blah blah .. it just came to my mind, what would I have done if I hit someone and there's no one around and the person I just hit is confirmed dead. It would be a farking dilemma wouldn't it? I would surely be in one, now does that spell any troubling traits about me I wonder. As Jingkai told me he would surely stop since he didn't want to be forever haunted by this incident, I also searched my mind for a piece on conscience.

What if you surrendered and admitted to running that person over? If this law is passed then you'd better be prepared for a noose around your neck. Well that just means game over right?

However if you ran, well you would probably end up hiding for the rest of your life, probably in any country if you can really get out in the first place. And being haunted by that incident forever. I don't know which is better but both options aren't that good in the first place.

I also realised that my studying pace is so freaking slow compared to my peers. Most of the time JK can finish revision way ahead of me while Zeff can really chiong last minute and yet know his stuff much better than me. So now really quite worried about this, I mean this isn't just about acadaemia but part of a life-long process. Learning self improvement is very important and I also realised I have quite a lot of other flaws. That day while I was revising M&C I realised there was a mistake in one of either JK or KC's drawings/workings/explanation. Though I knew it, I just didn't open my mouth to spit it out. Weird right?

So after a day of thinking the next day I forcefully made myself explain how a circuit worked to KC. Hur hur.. that was really silly and yet enlightening. Machiam doing a mini presentation.

So much for weird traits about me. Have you searched your soul today?

Photos!

Section analysis of a standard 10 micron grid. You can see clearly the recesses every 10 microns.
A 3D image derived from contact mode AFM. This means that the tip and sample are actually "touching" each other.
Power spectral density image of contact gold. This time I'm using a picture derived from the phase difference between some signals. (I also blur) Don't ask me what is PSD, it just gives a lot of information.
A flattened image of the standard grid. Look at the phase picture on the right. It provides fricking accurate pictures of the surface characteristics. In this case, you can see the roughness on the surface.

Since these experiments were all performed by me, please do not infringe copyright laws. MY VERY FIRST OWN COPYRIGHT PICTURES!!!

Arrow from Hai~Ren, nearly forgot about it!

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Nothing to blog about :/

Recently really tired and busy. More busy than tired actually but well I'm fighting the good fight. Been downloading some songs from The Carpenters and they really have soothing songs that never fail to make me... drowsy? SHIT..

Anyway I'll upload pictured from AFM soon. Just to make you people even more bored. Hur hur hur~~

1 lab report/viva and biophysics test to go!

Faraday's effect explained..

Warning: The below entry is full of technical and weird physical nomenclature so if you find Physics a turn off please look away from your monitor screen. LOL~

What is Faraday's effect?

One observes that when a plane polarised light passes through a magnetized medium (eg: a glass cylinder subjected to a B-field), the plane of polarization is rotated and this is known as the Faraday effect. Michael Faraday discovered this in 1845 and this is one of his more 'unknown' discoveries relative to the discovery of the transformer.

Basically we start off with a 50W halogen lamp and then a the light beam passes through a filter, hereby filtering out all but a particular wavelength of light. This filtered light goes through the first polariser, set at 90 degrees before passing through the glass cylinder. Note that the glass cylinder is placed in between 2 poles of an electromagnet such that direction of the B-field is parallel to direction of irradiation. The light then passes through a 2nd polariser (analyser) before a focusing lens is used to focus the image of the cylinder's image onto a translucent screen.

Procedure: Since polariser is set at 90 degrees, we would expect extinction to be at 0 degrees. However the plane of polarisation would be rotated by the B-field and hence we would expect some non-zero value of delta phi. We do this by adjusting the analyser to find the point of maximum extinction.

The B-field values were also varied by controlling the DC current supplying power to the electromagnet, and we find that the greater the current the greater the Faraday's angle. So delta phi is proportional to B.

I won't go into detail about the Verdet's constant, because its just mathematical stuff. Lazy me wahaha!

Why does this effect occur? This is pretty interesting stuff at least to me. What do we mean by plane polarised light? We are essentially talking about the direction of electric field when we say plane polarised light. Plane polarised light can be visualised as LCP and RCP light. LCP = left circularly polarised and RCP = right """

We can consider it like this because if we consider light to be circularly polarised, the 2 circular vectors always have a resultant which is along the plane of polarisation. For normal materials, the refractive index varies proportionally with wavelength (the lower the wavelength, the higher the index of refraction)

For most materials, there is a UV resonance frequency or associated wavelength, such that peak resonance is reached when this particular wavelength of light passes through. Refractive index is a maximum at these points. When these materials are subjected to a B-field parallel to direction of irradiation, something occurs and its known as the Zeeman effect. Nabeh, I also dulan at this point.

What Zeeman effect does is, it shifts the point of resonance in different directions for LCP and RCP. So what sense does it make? Ok imagine LCP and RCP passing through the medium but LCP experiences a lower index of refraction while RCP experiences a higher index of refraction. When they recombine again after travelling through the medium, add up the 2 vectors and you get a new plane of polarisation. Cool..

So this BRIEFLY explains what the Faraday effect is about. Hope whoever is reading this understands. If don't understand, don't find me wahaha! Kidding. :)

Ttangchili & His Friends

Its just a name of a very small notebook I had when I was a young boy. One day, we went to an excursion to the zoo and the teacher told us to bring along a notebook to take notes so I took this little notebook.

(Sun Bear) crawls, have fur, black colour, have four legs.

(lama) 4 legs, brown colour, have fur, doesn't have tail, eats grass.

(polar bear) it swims, can stand, can crawl, have fur, bigeg colour (biege), 4 legs, eats bamboo poles. (??? confused with panda?)

(Rhino) 3 horns, 4 legs, a tail, dark brown, eats grass.

(zebra) black and white stripes, 4 legs, a tail, 2 ears, a head.

(ostrich) has feathers, black in colour, 2 legs, 1 leg (Guess I was seeing things), 1 head.

(leopard) have spots, black in colour and some orange in colour. 4 legs 1 head.

(python) biege in colour, 1 head very long.

(King cobra) very very long, black in colour, scale's colour (gold) 1 head

(Giant turtle) very large, has a shell, 1 head, 4 legs.

(penguin) has 2 wings, 1 tail, has feathers, 1 head.

(elephant) 1 trunk, 4 legs, 2 ears, 1 head, 2 horns, 1 mouth, 2 eyes, 1 body.

Faraday's effect

Made me so damned tired, everyday have to type report and research dunno what Zeeman effect. Jesus, enough of electron orbitals and energy gaps!

Just finished typing my report, it sounds damned intellectual when its not and it even talks about pupil dilation as an error source. Haha, Beng should know about that!

Basically this semester seems to be quite packed for me, haven't had dinner at home for a long time already! But strangely, I haven't really been missing it. I really hope this momentum can be carried on (conservation of general momentum) hur hur...

Its a wrap!

Argh..

Basically the last week (this was supposed to be a National Day blog), I've been working as a general helper for the Singapore open shooting championships. So much stuff to blog about.. don't even know where to start..

The wiry issue..

We worked at score-takers at the shotgun range and for the skeet event, the referee will have to walk around with a hand-held wired remote that activates the skeet 'house' to shoot out a clay pigeon. So the problem came when the referee has to walk all around the range and the wire would get tangled up IF the referee zig-zagged in between the range's pillars.

Well in my opinion, this type of thing is really very simple, just that I kept quiet but JK did not so he politely suggested to the referee that perhaps he might want to stick with walking in front or behind the pillars, but not both at the same time. Which kind of got us into a "pep talk" from TP, the overall IC (OIC) for the general helpers.

As we both agreed, its a waste that people like TP don't sign on in the army because he's so bleddy kanchiong spider.

TP: "No matter what, he's still the referee and because he's a nice guy, that's why he didn't say anything. If its other refs, he sure 'kan' you upside down."

How stupid can you get man, this type of thing is called initiative and JK tried to convince him that suggesting this to the referee would only make everyone's life easier but he 'eh xi' refuse to listen to us. Duh! Stuff like we are here as general helpers and we're being paid to help etc etc.. really dumb shit in my opinion.

Even if kena fuck by ref, I always have the option to just go home lor.. like this is a permanent job.. anyway JK made a good point about the job being a short 6 days assignment and it wouldn't be worth making an enemy over this type of crap. Couldn't agree more about that!

Oh btw, happy belated birthday Buddy (I wished you already though :p)

Promotion!

Saintvida.com has opened shop! Set up by a friend of mine, it offers a range of stylish wear for the fashion conscious crowd. Do pop by and take a look, personally I'd recommend the ladies' tees..

PS: Princess, anything caught your eye yet? :p

The Sixth Tuesday

Excerpts from a book I read in ICT.. quite a meaningful book by Mitch Albom. It was a bestseller and a very popular book read by millions of people around the globe. It belongs to the 'self improvement' genre of books I'd suppose but the author writes this book with a unique way, kind of like a recollection of accounts. Go read it if you haven't!

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The small horrors of his illness were growing, and when I finally sat down with Morrie, he was coughing more than usual, a dry, dusty cough that shook his chest and made his head jerk forward. After one violent surge, he stopped, closed his eyes, and took a breath. I sat quietly because I thought he was recovering from his exertion.

"Is the tape on?" he said suddenly, his eyes still closed.

Yes, yes, I quickly said, pressing down the play and record buttons.

"What I'm doing now," he continued, his eyes still closed, "is detaching myself from the experience."

Detaching yourself?

"Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important - not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach."

He opened his eyes. He exhaled. "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."

But wait, I said. Aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?

"Yes."

Well, how can you do that if you're detached?

"Ah. You're thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."

I'm lost.

"Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails."

"But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognise that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'"

Morrie stopped and looked me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.

"I know you think this is just about dying," he said, "but its like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

Greatday.com

I was reading this particular day's quotes and it talked about suffering setbacks and encountering low points in life. Well to most, that's just all that meets the eye..

Apparently the sooner we accept that these challenges and obstacles are part of life itself, the sooner we will quit whining about them and get over these difficulties. That life itself matters in the journey, not the current nor the end point.

Pretty useful stuff for a troubled mind anyday~

Public outrage!

Phew.. just finished reading todays papers and 1 whole page was dedicated to the NKF/TT Durai affair. Which was the Forum, only 1 article called for level headed thinking, the rest were more or less from angry/irate/irritated/disturbed readers.. *shakes head*

10-12 months of performance bonus.. that already is terribly uncommon in the public sector. 25K/month and add the bonus in, up to 600K per year.
Mrs Goh said it was peanuts.. sure it was peanuts if NKF was a profit-making outfit but it relies on public donations man. Anyway I think she did the right think by publicly supporting TT Durai because if she also condemn him, then NKF might really cui..

I saw the online petition's link yesterday but didn't sign it because I thought it was kind of bo liao.. I always thought that online petitions can't be taken seriously. Why?

The following is an illustration only..

99. Mr. A (TT Durai has tarnished the reputation of NKF and therefore his resignation is only rightful such that public confidence can be regained)
100. Ms. B (We will not continue to donate until TT Durai resigns and the $ is properly taken care of)
101. Mr.C (F*** you KNNBCCB you LIAR I HOPE U HAVE GONORRHOEA AND UR MOTHER FATHER AH KONG AH MA *****************************************)

Well at least that's what I always see in online petitions. But what to expect, when thousands of people are physically marching in the Philippines to demand President Arroyo's resignation, we can only switch on computer and sign petition. What? Better than nothing what..

Mr X and FKN are fictional characters as below hehe...

Now I'm just wondering, is there any law that governs non-profit organisations on transparency etc. Like at this point of time, would Mr X get into trouble with the law? From the way I see it, that we have decided to donate our money to FKN, we have a right to know where our money has gone. Since FKN's CEO hasn't been accurate about how the money has been spent, would that count as fraud or breach of trust? The public's trust that is.. well that's a question I've been pondering.

叔叔 & Bryan

Well pardon my bad hair but at least Bryan looks cute right?

2nd week continued..

The 2nd week was by far much xiong-er than the previous week. And with that comes more 'legendary and breathtaking moments' with the men of signal platoon..

I remember that we didn't have much to do on Monday because as usual the officers are planning and planning. So it goes without saying that the guys tried to gamble themselves crazy with bouts of in-between and blackjack~ By then WWM was attacking Digital Fortress and I was finishing up Tuesdays with Morrie.

Outfield!

Well we moved out at about 10 or 11am on Tuesday, not that sure of that timing now but I remember we went out before lunch. Oh well, Willis gave me a little priviledge for my bad back so I sat at the vehicle commander's seat in front. Ahhh~ air con just before moving out.. what a godsend!

When we reached the concentration area, it was so damned familiar and I remember this was the conc. area that 42 'pioneered'. Perhaps for ATEC or one of the countless full troop exercises but who can remember? Well as a welcome gift, the jungle soil had a stranglehold on the tonner and we got stuck in the mud. So well, we just stopped and deployed there and then. Haha!

The worrst thing was that, we were beside a swamp and we were damned sure it was like the mother of all breeding grounds for those sickening mosquitoes. Bloody hell.. thank goodness PC gave me some mosquito coils to use and WWM had a lighter so we smoked a lot there.. oh by the way the lucky ass PC didn't need to move out at all because he was attached to PNR platoon and so he was dead bored in camp and could sleep till dusk till dawn till dusk till dawn.. Arghhh..

We got ready, camouflaged our vehicles, did our line-laying job and then just waited. There wasn't much to do but to wait for lunch and when it came, it was almost 2pm. Freaking hungry if you ask me..
For those who had been through countless outfield exercises like us probably finished our job quickly and thought of little else as we waited for the dark of night. For people like BSO who had only been through AOAC, well he was forever a kanchiong spider and kept asking us to tidy up this and tidy up that. Fark man, be lucky we still know how to operate our equipment, it was nice and tidy everything was up and running so why you just go find something more constructive to do?

Ughh, bleddy replacement..

Deep in the dark..

Still didn't have much to do since CO gave instructions that external lines were not needed except for BnSA and mortar. And when we did reach mortar platoon, they were going back to camp. Paradise liao, nabey... lay so long for f***! Not to mention Ong WK gave us a lot of problems dunno chut what pattern. We were on a land rover and then he opened a dispenser pack, ran the line through the roof of the rover and then gave it to me and Willis to do rift knot. And I think everybody doesn't know how to do a rift knot except for the 2 of us. LCP K Lim is automatically striked off so that only leaves 看医生 and 贼神, with the former leaving for Canada permanently and the latter still in polytechnic.

Anyway I could see the exasperation in the brigade "pui-gade" guys and they were really quite dulan with Ong WK. Well which is no big surprise hahaha..
In the end go back to conc. area, TK and Chin had invaded the line tonner and were sleeping on the benches. K was sleeping in a weird position as usual and Willis was sleeping on the bench too. Leaves no room for me so I went to find WWM and talked kok with him until I got hungry. That's when I collected my ice-cold popsicle.. hur hur!

Weird sleeping positions..

LCP K Lim wasn't nicknamed "All Terrain Sleeping Machine" for no reason. He has the ability to doze off standing up, in superman position, seated on a chair and head on shoe cabinet as well as.... upper half body on tonner bench, legs on the ground sideways. Its hard to describe but he's sort of like doing the twist but with his eyes closed.

Well Chin went back to his BX to find a spot to sleep so that left G, me, Willis, K Lim, TK Tan(sleeping like no tomorrow) and Ong WK. With an army of mosquitoes to fight off as well as the midnight heat. Its a wonder how TK, Willis, Ong and G could actually fall asleep. The air wasn't even moving and Ong could bloody SNORE. KNNBchao turtle..

Suddenly, K went like "阿!! 我的背!!" A few seconds later amidst some struggling there was another "阿!! 我不可以动!!" The silly ATSM had finally found a position tough enough. Although he was able to sleep, he was finally awoken by the pain caused by sleeping in his ultra funny position.. -_-"

That would be the joke of days to come.. as well as TK ooh-ing and aah-ing at around 4 or 5am.. Almost like he was having an orgasm.. wahhaha!

Paradise now OUT!!

WIth the orders to RTU, we quickly packed up our stuff and kept the camou net back into the tonner. We were never happier to see the clean white sheets of our bed and plop onto them. Not before having an ultra long shower though! We reached camp at around 2pm I suppose. GX didn't come back till 5 odd and he was cursing and swearing at his commander.

None of my fucking problem!

CPL A was about to mount up his rover when his commander asked "Eh, how come don't have water? No jerry can?"
A: "Nobody asked me to draw"
Commander: "Where is my container? Don't have container how to drink water??"
A:..
Commander: "None of my fucking problem!"

His commander then went outfield WITHOUT him and left him stranded in camp, without a vehicle, without anyone to follow and he had to draw jerry cans himself. WTF! This type of shit coming out of an officer's mouth, I think we as ORD NS men deserve better than this type of shitty commander. Can tell him to go back to OCS or wherever he came from. Even if we did kok up, which we didn't, he could have treated his men in a nicer way. Bloody big fuck, I'm quite tempted to scratch his car. But nevermind ICT is over. That was one big boo-boo of ICT anyway..

Those of you who know who his commander is, just keep it to yourself. Later I kena sued ah.. then I really chao turtle liao.. appointment same as per 42SAR lor.

After the exercise, we didn't have much except for handing/taking over and some maintenance to do. Dismounting of signal sets etc..
The next few days were some lectures, talks about MIW websites and their services and another IPPT test on Thursday. 看医生 got a silver timing, bloody bugger I think he was engineered to run. (His best timing for 2.4km is about 8 minutes odd, he ran about 11 minutes odd that day)

Well we had a fabulous dinner the night just before battalion cohesion night where we played some really kok games, tug-o-war which HQ won and had some beer. As usual CO downed jugs and cans of beer like no kick. His belly really gives it away.. -_-" but at least he has slimmed down compared to the first time when we saw him.

Later on in the night, I told PC I wanted to download a song from Michael Jackson. He helpfully offered the following..
1. Jillie Bean
2. Save the world

Wahahaha!

Out-processing

We thought that it was over but it wasn't. Somehow the CSM arrowed us to go tidy up the washing bay just as we were about to fall in at parade square with our gear. We made our way there and cleared the washing bay and kept the fire hose back into its holder.
PS: The head of the hose resembled part of the male genitalia. Wahaha and the head squirted some water on Chin. Needless to say, Tk joined me with his cackling laughter wahaha!!

Back to our bunks, this guy from the next bunk nicknamed "Steamer part II" because he always looks super blur is still running around in smart 4. He doesn't seem to have any idea that we are about to out-process and the goon is dunno doing what. Really a steamer.. oh and if you were wondering who's steamer part I, its K Lim.

That's about it for the ICT.. bleah!

Oh and for those who want to cut their GIRO arrangement with the NKF, you can do it via Internet banking.
I've already decided I won't donate to NKF anymore, other TRANSPARENT charitable organisations could use my money.

2 weeks of pain, constipation and endless waiting..

Seriously there's quite too much content about ICT that's worth blogging. How about just some highlights? Hehe..

In-process
Me, Chew, Gary and PC met at Zhenghua's Kim San Leng coffeeshop to have an early breakfast. By then the 2 goons had already smoked at least 2 or 3 sticks of ciggies, blackening their black lungs further before I arrived. I was late because I had to pack my slightly damp clothes and stuff into my bag. Ahh.. the result of last minute underwear purchasing.. Hehe!

Also noteworthy was that LCP G aka 看医生 did NOT turn up in ONLY full uniform. Thankfully if I might add.. LOL!

Me and Chew kena marked for not having proper haircut so the 2 of us had to surrender our PRECIOUS pink ICs to the RSM's clerk or whoever he was. Then we cleverly went to our bunk first instead of queueing up for the barber's. We tuang-ed for a while and with our cunning sense of timing, we managed to siam the parade. May I exclaim "song bo?"

Later on, meaning the next day, LCP 看医生 finally found out his IC was confiscated because of his long haircut, not because the unit would return it to him at the end of 2 weeks. Winner... -_-"

Well as per the first ICT, first few days are full of planning so we had a lot of free time to ourselves. Some carried out their individual body maintenance (IBM), some read books (WWM, me and PC), some read and re-read and re-re-read the newspapers (practically everybody). One lonely soul was in S1 branch trying to get a chance to talk to CO and it was only when we went to E-mart that I bumped into him.

It was the glorious! It was the legendary! Or as quoted from LCP CK Chan "World's greatest" 笑饼!!!! LCP K Lim!!! He really was the 'star' of this ICT.

Cold, hungry, tired and to top it off, fuckin wet.

There was a live firing exercise conducted at Basic Main Range (BMR) and it would also serve as a showcase of Armour's firepower to the CDF (Chief of defence force) of Singapore and Malaysia. I won't go into details but it would suffice to say a PA system was needed and 2 sets of 29 inch television sets would have to be set up to show the CDFs some particular images.

We had set up the PA system the previous night as a mini-rehearsal of sorts so setting up the PA system on the actual day was quite a simple task. Next was the TV sets. After we had set them up, and everything was swee-swee, it started to rain as WWM predicted correctly. He quoted Murphy's Law by the way, basket...

Anyway what happened next was that the rest of the companies ran for cover while we ran towards the PA system and tried to get everything under shelter as fast as we could. Looking back, I can only say that the situation couldn't have possibly gotten any worse because I think it was raining damned heavily. We were soaked to the skin within minutes.. Big bloody F.. and it was only 9am. Cat 1 status till 0930 hours. Nabey Chao Turtle!

0930 hours, went to set up the PA system again in our wet and soggy underwear as well as SAF's latest "liquid cooled goretex boots". Morale at this point, was not even at ground zero because I had already declared morale has gone underground through quivering lips and chattering teeth to Willis and BSO.

Actually if you noticed, we didn't save the TV sets. That's right, we didn't. I was damned happy about it anyway because the TV would bloody spoil and it would be CO and BSO's own problem since CO arrowed the task to a super understrengthed and over-arrowed platoon and BSO gong-gong go and accept it. (Note: 9 men were taken by RSM to be sentries for the BMR live firing)
We later learnt that GX and BSO went to rescue the TV sets by placing them on a tonner. Problem was that the tonner's flaps were all opened because it was serving as the seats for the audience. Which meant that it might as well have been left in the rain.

Bang, boom, bang-bang-bang!
I witnessed my first armour live-firing that morning. With a huge boom and a small shockwave that followed, the AMX-13 tank engaged a target 800m away. My personal favourite was the 40/50, the BX engaged a target and fired 3 tracer rounds, vapourizing another target. I could only smile to myself as some cockanaden NSFs still gong gong wait for the tank to fire with their digicams. Why?

They didn't wear earplugs. Hur hur hur.. needless to say I think none of them managed to get a good shot because their hands were covering their ears..

Well, LCP K Lim got to go back to camp to get ANOTHER BLOODY 2 TVs for the VIPs but he didn't bring his earplugs. Well done.. Willis suggested putting ricola into his ears instead. Hahaha! Joke of the day man..
Anyway carrying those 4 TV sets was no joke and I ended up straining my back muscles quite badly. Bad enough to be unable to take a crap without grimacing.. chao turtle..

That was one of the main highlights of the week, the other one being IPPT.

No more SOC, no more IPPT, today is my book out day, doo da doo da dey..
We went to Khatib camp to take our IPPT test, which was ridiculously near Veggie's home. Hurhurhur.. the test is now fully computerised, with all of the stations using photogates to ensure that you do chin ups or sit ups properly. PTIs were also on hand to "no-count" people such as Steven Lim who did about 10 odd chin ups. I think all of them were no-count because his arms were not straightened. Cheers to our superhero..

Well, WWM told me to chiong the first 2 rounds of the 2.4km run so I tried to follow. Off we went and WWM ran at a very fast pace, I decided to try to follow suit and before I knew it, WWM tripped a guy and the guy fell onto the ground. Sibeh zer.. but WWM shouted sorry while increasing his speed.. wahaha! I also decided not to stop because if I e-brake, people will kick my ass and we'll all buang into one another into a huge ball and we'll roll out of the track..

Ok crappy jokes aside, I failed miserably at 13:10minutes. Bah... not even close to passing.. WTF! I was walking by round 4 and totally cui-ed by the time I finished. Conclusion: Chionging is dangerous and may not necessarily produce results. Chao turtle..

More about the next week's activities later...

And off I go~!

To Sungei Gedong chalet for 2 weeks that is! Been a long time since I wore those boots, tied those garters around my shins and strutted my marksman badge around. (Don't tell ppl its 100m range one leii..)

Well on the bright side, will be working with many of the guys I am terribly familiar with. See you guys soon and hope we can conduct our mody baintenance as well as horizontal exercises soon. Thunderflashes, smoke grenades, ninja poofs and etc etc. Of course, how could we forget 'battery charging' as well as 'line laying' (to the canteen)

Gdnite!

Hey hey...

Its almost D-day and I'm fretting about it :x

Been reading just a little bit, Tuesdays with Morrie as and when I can spare the time and energy. Seems quite interesting so far. Most of the time, I find that book titles never match the content. They aren't a clear indicator at all!

Got this site from Zeus' Garden. Its Zhihao's site.
Greatday.com

Actually there was a quote I like and wanted to put here but it was explicitly stated that the material published there cannot be redistributed. So I'd better watch my ass on the net and be a good obedient citizen :p

Argghhh!!

I so so so so so should not watch 绝对 Superstar... I don't want to kena bad karma!
Arghhh its so funny WAHAHAHHAA

Project Atenza begins! 

Well, you can faintly see some dirt and grime.. it did require some effort to clean it up 

There you go, a nice and shiny surface preparation.. 

The job is done! 

Well, I don't have photoshop so.. My right ear is being melted by the Sun and she's joining Inuka the polar bear for a jog presumably.. 

I forgot its name. Let's just call it 'seemingly harmless green lil snake' 

I know its name ok! Its called the reticulated python!  

Technologic

Featuring heavily in my iTunes right now, Daft Punk's Technologic. You guys should be able to recognise it from the Apple Ipod's commercial.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
load it, check it, quit - rewrite it,
plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
view it, code it, jam - unlock it,
surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
name it, read it, tune it, print it,
scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it,
turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Physical training.. yahoo!

Eh to celebrate my pathetic results, I went for a long run. Haven't done that in a long while, and I ran right after work. Somehow my legs managed to support my body alright lah..

Ran for about 13 minutes moderate pace with majority downslopes towards Jln Pakis from my home towards BKE where I stopped just before BKE. I would have loved to go on and made a big round ie: making a loop at Bkt Panjang/CCK exit. Guess nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about anyway.. wtf~

I ran until I could squeeze out sweat from my singlet wahaha! Could it get any more graphic than that? Anyway these sights were common back in the good ol' 42 SAR. Anyway I ran back to Jln Pakis, took a slow jog towards my 'track' and proceeded to do some 'circuit training'. This basically involved running on the road in 1 direction at quite a high speed and running back at a slower pace to recover a little bit. I was totally drained for the 2nd set so I ended up doing some calistenics.

Which consisted of the standard 20-50 and I added in 10 burpese(s) for good measure. It was incredible that I made it back home with my legs intact..

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Had a bunk outing with the guys today. It was fun although you could sense that we had lost touch, moments of awkward silences and nobody saying anything. Ok la granted it wasn't exactly that bad, maybe Dr Lee and me were a lil' tired. Him from his hectic dentistry schedule, me with driving a van. Hehe, Henry seems to have gained some weight (must have been the beer that pwn3d him!) Got to test-sit in the Corolla Altis thanks to Beng and Yeing! Quite a fun experience haha, Beng's driving was very fast and smooth except when he needed to change lanes or turn. Well, I'm a new fan of VVT-i engines now, perfect for city driving! Thanks again buddy!

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Oh and to my Princess =P

You can do it! Go Go Go!!!~~!!!

Meeting your targets..

I've managed to meet mine, which is to pass all my modules. Given that I've obtained a C for my quantum mechanics, it suddenly seems like everything is possible. Perhaps except QM2. Well but that's another semester away.

Although my grades are sucky, I could at least give myself some credit for clearing 6 mods, and 2 difficult ones at that. Oh well, its time for my run! Yeah!

Atap chee...

The Nypa fruticans or Nipah as it is commonly known, have pollen fossils found in deposits dating back to 70 million years ago! Leaflets are used to make roof thatching (ataps), house partitions, hats, umbrellas, baskets and mats. The young leaflets are dried and used as cigarette wrappers and leaf stalks are burn as fuel. Sugar, wine (toddy) and vinegar can be obtained by processing the sweet sap tapped from severed flowering stalks. Atap- chee, a sweetmeat, is made from young seeds, and served in a local desert call ice-kacang.

More descriptions of mangrove flora.

Kena arrowed..

Ok la at least its an easy task, from Hai~Ren somemore.

Musical meme/baton/whatever

Total volume of music files on my computer

2.95GB, 766 files.

The last CD I bought was

I can't remember, I think it was Frank Sinatra's greatest hits.

I'm a sucker for oldies.. haha

Song playing right now

Heaven's drive by L`Arc~en~CielDamned, it was Gerry and the pacemaker's You'll never walk alone just a few seconds ago.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me.

Acoustic Alchemy by L`Arc~en~Ciel
Vincent by Don McLean
距离 by 叶良俊
最美 by 江美琪
Corazon Espinado by Mana w/ Carlos Santana

I hereby dedicate "Vincent" to Mr Vincent Soh :)

Five people to whom I'm passing the baton
The princess
Jingkai
BFSW
Henry
Beng

PS: Eh PC, start blog la time for some online bitching :p

Very gian..

About spying on my neighbours.. ooops I meant birdwatching at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. So does anyone have POWERFUL BINOCULARS to spare?

Phishing for my password!

Almost a target of 'phishing' 

Once again its time for internet security lesson. Don't ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever...... fall for this. If you become broke, don't say I didn't try to warn you guys :p

Why would DBS bank randomly select me? If I don't reply, my account will get terminated? Sounds terribly fishy to me. Luckily I consulted the streetwise JK haha! If not the phisher would get about $500 richer I think!

Basketball or soccer courts?

I remember quite vividly a few years back, our Nan Hua gang liked to play weekly soccer around the Jurong/Bukit Batok area. If there was a big group of people playing basketball, we would try to find another court but if it was like only a few people, we would invade the court and start forming our teams.

Its a wonder how we didn't get into any real trouble since the way we played soccer was like, pass-pass-pass-blast the soccer ball towards the goal or the single goal post. Normally, 1 team would have additional 'defenders' which came in the form of... the basketballers! Voila! Who sometimes bore the brunt of full power strikes thanks to us.. haha!

It was interesting how we treated those basketballers as inanimate objects, we would use them as an obstruction to impede the paths of the opponent, or hide behind them and suddenly spring a sudden attack. I can't recall the number of 溅招 invented which involved the use of other people not playing our game.

Just came back from a jog and I managed to jog without stopping for like 13 minutes. That totally sucks but it should do for a 2.4km run haha. Did a 'mini circuit' training too at the unfinished road, where a Lamborghini Gallardo zoomed past. Its been a long time since I went for swimming, perhaps around a year or so. Anyone on?

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Update update!

0. Be very nice to gf!
1. Solder and fix up a remote control. (fixed!)
2. Do jigsaw puzzle.
3. Tidy up table and print out all the MM notes for archiving!
4. Collect my Atenza emblem!
5. Short trip overseas if possible.
6. Test out Soft99's Authentic Carnuba wax on top of Glare for ultimate shine!
7. Cut hair, and get my stuff ready for high key ICT! New field pack to buy!
8. Can't think of anything, maybe I'll buy Meguiar's high endurance tyre gloss :p (bought Armorall's tyre shine though)
9. If possible, get rid of my SX1 for another phone! Problematic phone..
10. Think what to do with my cow (Hehe.. for me/Yuanz/JK to know and you to find out)
11. BUY A COMPUTER CHAIR, BLEAH.. NEVER HAD A SWIVEL CHAIR B4! (finally!!!)

Of holidays and what not..

Basically these holidays have been really shitty for me. First day of holidays I had to rush down to the shop to help out. Should I repeat RUSH again? KNNBCCB..

Didn't help that I was ecstatic the previous night and I played CZ till the birds were chirping. Well done.. I drove to Katong with bloodshot eyes. I think all the aunties could sense that I didn't sleep a wink and didn't disturb me for once. Fucking fucked up day.

Luckily I 'woke up' soon and it wasn't long before the lunch crowd came. My dad returned from his chinese physician and he didn't seem like he sprained his back a few hours ago. CCB.. I hate my life man. Why can't my dad and mum just hold a normal boring office job that doesn't fucking REQUIRE ME to help out.. Then again you gain some you lose some.

Before I explode.. goosfraba....goosfraba...

Woohoo!

Its over! Ok it was over 2 days ago and first day of holidays which was yesterday, kena dragged to work already.. wtf! Considering I was gaming till early morning, it was quite a miracle how I survived a day at the coffeeshop the next day.

Anyway since the holidays have started I must have a list of things that I must try to do again! Yeahhhh...so here goes!

0. Be very nice to gf!
1. Solder and fix up a remote control. (fixed!)
2. Do jigsaw puzzle.
3. Tidy up table and print out all the MM notes for archiving!
4. Collect my Atenza emblem!
5. Short trip overseas if possible.
6. Test out Soft99's Authentic Carnuba wax on top of Glare for ultimate shine!
7. Cut hair, and get my stuff ready for high key ICT! New field pack to buy!
8. Can't think of anything, maybe I'll buy Meguiar's high endurance tyre gloss :p (bought Armorall's tyre shine though)
9. If possible, get rid of my SX1 for another phone! Problematic phone..
10. Think what to do with my cow (Hehe.. for me/Yuanz/JK to know and you to find out)
11. BUY A COMPUTER CHAIR, BLEAH.. NEVER HAD A SWIVEL CHAIR B4! (finally!!!)

too much quantum mechanics, apparently does wonders to your reaction speed.. 

Evil rants.. not from me though!  

Power of Physics?

This might be old news but anyway, just saw a type of torchlight that doesn't require batteries. The mechanism is based on Faraday's law of electro-magnetic induction.

What happens is when you shake the torchlight vigorously, a powerful magnet moves along the central axis of a copper coil. The induced current allows a capacitor to store electric energy and power up the torch's LEDs, since LEDS consume much less power than conventional bulbs. Damned impressed at the simplicity of this idea... I might consider trying to DIY this project, homemade 'milkshake' torchlight anyone?

Any electrical engineer keen to join me? Wahaha!

On hindsight, maybe not.

"the shakable light hor, i think use liao will get more frust. shake like a mad man, the light a bit only" - taken from mycarforum.com

New IM worm hits...

For your convenience :p

Extra extra extra!

Ninjai episode 11 & 12 is out! After a long hiatus for oh-so-many months. if you haven't seen it before, enjoy the flash animations!

Priceless quotes #2

"忍无可忍，就拿出心中刀，插向仇恨心！"
LCP Tan Ch** H*ng

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If you could map out a person's personality, his soul, I wonder how would one divide it into basic elements ala Periodic Table in chemistry.

As I grew older, I figured out some of my personality traits. I remember in P4, this boy called Desmond gave me a real big slap on my back with his palms for no apparent reason. He did it in the school bus with perhaps all his strength. I managed to feel very angry just before I burst into tears. I recall after I told my then 'best friend' Andrew who was a TKD student, he told me he gave Desmond a reverse thrust kick to his head the next day. Well it sounds frickin naive but i believed him, anyway I didn't see Desmond around so couldn't be bothered with that asswipe anyway..

Then I went into NS, it really was a culture shock. I remember during PC interview, my PC said I seemed like one of the 'zai kia(s)' meaning I was one of the 'finer recruits' if I may say so. He asked me if I had any grievances to bring up, I still recall he was like totally methodological (wait a minute is there such a word?) about asking it..
2WO Sim: Lee, any family problem?
Me: No sir.
2WO Sim: Money problem?
Me: No sir.
2WO Sim: Got girlfriend?
Me: No sir.
2WO Sim (muttering): No girlfriend problem *while writing down on my interview booklet*
Me: Actually sir...
2WO Sim: Ya..? (is that dulan-ness I sense in his tone?)
Me: Sir, actually I a bit of culture shock, in school and at home, whole life never heard so many lan jiao, chao chee bye, kan nin na compared to 1st day in BMTC..
2WO Sim: Lee..(chuckling) you have to get used to it, this is the real world lah.. don't believe next time you go out to work it will be the same. Don't take it too seriously..
Me: Yes sir.

Thinking back, I am also confused man. My family upbringing was moderately strict, Buddhist family although we believed strongly in certain Confucius' (Confucian? Confusion?) values such as filial piety etc etc.. Never had much conflict at home, at most minor squibbles between us siblings etc. Never really had a fight, or real quarrel with other friends or classmates. People said I took after my dad, which I thought was a compliment since he seemed always so cool headed and practical. Everything he said made sense to me, more often because it was logic at work. My "ECU" was slowly tuned to his "throttle inputs" becoming more and more familiarised with him and his expectations and values.

Patience and tolerance, he taught me, was much of a desired virtue to possess. Till today, many friends around me believe I have quite a high tolerance level. However I am slowly starting to feel that tolerance level dipping, everytime I get angry at something, everytime I make mistakes and I have to take the blame. I suppose I have a huge phobia of failure and making mistakes, like when I was still around 12 and I started complaining to my dad that I was tired or something like that. That was in the coffeeshop and he gave me a slap right there and then.

Perhaps from then on, I absolutely resented the feeling of embarrassment and whatever other emotions and feelings that might lead or arise from that. I just quietly listened when others lectured me but when their backs turned, I cursed them and their whole families, either I asked for death to take them swiftly or I would just hurl vulgarities in my mind, elementary stuff like "fuck off from my world and I hope you die fucker". It served somehow as a way to let off steam although it was all inside of me. I only started rebutting my siblings during secondary school, among friends I don't recall any real bad incident. Perhaps there hasn't been a chance for this to take place anyway.

As I became an adult, I absolutely resented being lectured by someone else. I just couldn't take it unless it was absolutely logical and I admitted it was my own fault. The bottom line was that if somehow someone made fun of me, I would feel terrible, my stomach would heat up and my chest would get really tight and I can really feel adrenalin, coursing through my body. It was my brain, releasing all the proper hormones to get ready for a fight, to bash the other fucker who had offended her master if I may refer to the brain as a female organism. This feeling has intensified over time, even as I type I can feel perfectly what I am describing now.

ST said that the biggest sin of us Singaporeans was Anger (Wrath) and I actually am quite surprised that I am somehow quite a frequent committer of this sin. In fact, doesn't this seem like a movie? 'Anger management' and I'm Adam Sandler. They say, it isn't the constant lava-gushing volcanoes that are dangerous, rather it is the dormant ones that wreak havoc occasionally.

Come to think of it, maybe a fight during younger days might have been beneficial.

Anyway for a summary..
1. I am extremely phobic about being 'excluded' (non-acceptance) or made fun of. I'm sure I will fly into a rage if that happens.
2. I am extremely phobic of embarrassment.
3. I am extremely phobic of failure.
4. I lack discipline.
5. I need to find an avenue to really vent my anger or find a shrink.

PS: Thanks PC for sending me that song, it was highly therapeutic.

Priceless quotes..

Me: Sian ah... think won't be staying back liao morale hit all time low..
JK: Morale? 我的morale已经拿来抹地了...

A time to kill

Kill off Kronecker deltas, orthonormal scalar products and what else there is in quantum mechanics.

Think I've blogged about this before but I'll just blog about this again, when you gift somebody a 'want' instead of a need, sooner or later it will turn into a necessity for him. For me, that 'gift' was the use of a car, and occasionally when I find that I don't have access to it, I get very weary and lazy. Damned, what I need is an army lifestyle right now, minus the cold water shower though.

Recently I saw in ST, the greatest sin most people have committed is anger. For me it would have to be sloth! I'm so frickin lazy these days, waking up late and easily distracted. Maybe a cattle prod would do me good... electrocuting me out my dreamland every morning at 0700 hours..

Now that the 'atenza' emblem is here, will have to meet up with the forum guys to collect my stuff! Oh and did I mention I'm contemplating taking up class 2b lessons in the coming holidays, kena poison from Jingkai already zz. Somemore he pillioned me home last night, brrr it sure was cold man with cold rain drizzling down.

This will be it for now, back to killing..

Shit happens..

and fugly shit happens once in a blue moon like yesterday night. Its easy to forgive but its difficult to forget. Stupid bitch

Hehe..

Aiyoh, try harder leh you guys.. wahhaa 

Silly game

Silly game

Hmm damned hope I don't get addicted to this..

Nice short film

Short film about local soccer

Haha, reminds me of our secondary school days, go around the area looking for field, playing void deck soccer and so much more.

How to spend $$..

Just saw this off MCS and quite perturbed.

See this!

Now, would you spend the amount of money like him on your own vehicle? I'm just a little curious to see who would actually be willing to fork out that kind of money to mod your ride.

Not to mention, I'm sure at least 3/4 of the mods featured are cosmetic modifications only..

Bo liao..

Read BFSW's blog and subsequently went to read XX's blog. Hehe, ah lian snatches cab from the number 1 blogger in SG for no apparent reason. (Oops, number 1 bloggr or snatch cab for no apparent reason?)

Anyway, I managed to read most of the forum posts inside OGK forums because I think at that time the forum's bandwidth still allowed for unregistered people to view all the posts inside. I dunno man, save for a few, it seems like all the people in the forum are brainless.. I shan't continue.. LOL.

I never knew that in Singapore, life can be so drama even online.. well if XX's claim is valid then actually it wouldn't surprise me. Just a couple of days ago, I went to the Esplanade to watch the 'Mosaic music festival', some jazz band was giving a live performance. Some people who ate glassplexin or optical fibre for lunch stood right in front of us and a whole crowd behind. Happily jiving to the music oblivious to perhaps 20 or 30 odd pissed off people. Perhaps they forgot they were wearing opaque clothes, stupid cockanadens. The above mentioned cock-sters include ang-mors as well, nnb whoever said only locals were inconsiderate? At one point of time felt like shouting 'OEI' a-la-Jianwei style (NH inside joke) but decided at a public performance it wouldn't be too gracious either. Too bad I didn't bring my metal water bottle, which had a 'peace' insignia inscribed on it. JK should know better.. hehe

Where was I? Oh yeah for a summary of the happenings in XX's oh-so-drama blog, I suppose you guessed it. Its in this entry's title.

For BFSW

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=4084914301

Survey about Pokemon.. hur hur hurrr..

Taking the first step..

The first step, isn't it often that the first step is always the most important? I have to admit many a time I have failed to take the first step and I'm still learning to try to take it whenever I can. Like joining JK for Tumkur, somehow I declined. Like going for consultations, somehow I never go. Like going for rock climbing sub club, even somehow that didn't materialise. Sigh..

Is there something wrong with me? Even Yilin who mugs all day long is in CBLC.. Ivan is in Arts Club, Beng is in CHESS, Henry even though he isn't the most social type but he plays table tennis with his friends over there. Zeff is involved in Science Club's publications, JK needless to say, project Tumkur under his leadership, I already respect his balls to even try leading something. Why am I not taking a step forward? I'm not stepping backwards but I'm going to have zero displacement. I haven't even experienced hall life yet, which many people including my Geog lecturer say that it is part and parcel of University life and you wouldn't have experienced University life if you have not experienced campus life.

At most, I go for tennis with Beng and I'm grateful for that. At most I go for soccer with the NH guys and I'm lucky to be in such a closely bonded (sounds familiar?) bunch of friends. At most, the bi-weekly jog with PC Lee and yeah I'm really very grateful for finding such a close friend from NS days. I'm probably rank A in his heart while he's just rank B, I guess I do take friends for granted at times, don't I?

I look at my elder sis, school basketball team in BPGHS, Health & Fitness club in NJ, then NTU I think she stayed at hall for at least 2 semesters, was active in Talentime's committee, and did well in her studies in the end. Think the lowest grade she got was B and she got a 2nd upper class honours. Which means she's just below the Chinamen/SG elites.

Looking at my younger sis, the other extreme, dabbled in piano, organ and the guitar and soon lost interest one after another. Joined band in RV and literally never looked back, continued to be part of RV's alumni band after joining JJ's band as well and was part of the West Zone's band as well. Sometimes she comes home after my parents are asleep, and out of the door before they are awake. Which of course led to the detriment of her acadamia during JC1, flunked a couple of subjects with the combination of Art/Econs/Chemistry/Maths. Strangely enough she dropped Chemistry which in my opinion as a weak Chemistry student, is a freefrag. Nevermind, so after repeated warnings and chidings from my parents she still continues to be very active in band concerts and performances so now her A level results are out. Needless to say it wasn't very good except for Art which she nailed with a distinction.

I suppose our conservative family has really looked down on her "art work" and she has really proved all of us wrong but in the end, she has really failed where it really mattered (read: full A-level cert). Maybe she isn't really cut out for the standard 'maths/science' path like I wasn't really cut out for Physics. I'm sure her resume will be outstanding though for all the CCA stuff she was involved in.

Back to me, table tennis in primary school, which was enjoyable. Continued it in secondary school, training wasn't provided so it was terribly boring. Joined computer club hoping it would be fun and it was slightly better with students taking more initiative rather than teachers. Highlight was NDP 96 where we were forcefully drafted into Dance Society's training which I think was for the better of me. JJC, nothing much except joining the pathetically existing Health and fitness club. NS, nothing much, no comment but overall it was a good experience. NUS, made friends at O-week and really haven't done anything outstanding yet except to dabao 2 modules.

Strangely, at this point of the semester there still seems to be hope. Perhaps its because I know its tough to be failed for my 2 arts modules (Who ever fails arts essay-based modules?) unless you skipped all lectures and tutorials. Maybe its because I have stunned a white board marker at 2nd year lab, scribbling equation after equation whenever I'm free. Maybe its really because I am desperate now, really desperate enough to decide that I need help for my maths module, and my E&M module for good measure. So much that I'm quite sure I have taken half a step forward already, at least towards acadamia redemption. Hell, maybe its just that I'm aiming to scrape through Uni life, rather than to come out better equipped to face the world.

Haven't blogged like this in a while, sure feels weird but hopefully my other half-step will follow up, for my own good.

Of whiteheads and blacking out...

Well actually for quite some time now I have been visibly irritated by a whitehead residing on my right eyelid so after twitching around in school the whole day I decided it had to go.

Step 1: Wash your face to make your skin as _____ as possible. (clean? not-oily?)
Step 2: Proceed to scratch and irritate the site of the whitehead.
Step 3: Pinch the general area with thumb and index finger so that the skin above the whitehead suffers even more damage.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2 & 3 (ouch...)
Step 5: Upon skin breakage remove the whitehead by gently squeezing.
Step 6: Sob uncontrollably before passing out on the toilet floor.

Ok step 6 was irrelevant.. haha!

Furget about fur.. *viewer discretion advised*

Saw this off MCS and its on Ivan's blog as well.

Super gross and unfeeling, and like Ren Xian Qi and Zhou Hua Jian have said on animal planet, "When the buying stops, the killing can too.."

The beautiful solution

Solution 1 is not really the best solution but nevertheless if it was somehow used, could possibly allow all the dwarves to be set free by the 2nd day in the worst case scenario.

Two dwarves start off by falling in the parade square. A third dwarf takes a look at them and if they are the same, he falls in at the side. If they are different, he falls in between them. Hence he always separates the 2 groups of dwarves, dotted and undotted. Going by this logic, the dwarves do not need to communicate but it does require the first few dwarves to take some initiative. So extending this argument, by the time the last dwarf falls in, there are 2 clear cut groups and he falls in between the 2 groups and he takes a 50% chance by putting up his hand. If it is wrong, he will leave his hand down on day 2 and the dwarves will be set free!

Smart solution!

Solution 2 is the 'zai' solution as Henry and I both agree, it took our brains a bit of warming up to understand it at first! Even now I also a bit blur so I shall just copy and paste the email haha!

Ok, the one dotted dwarf case is trivial:

The dotted dwarf himself sees no other dotted dwarf, and realized that he
must be the one, so he raised his hand.


Two dotted dwarves case:

[from a dotted dwarf eyes] he sees one dotted dwarf in the group. But that
dotted dwarf is NOT raising his hand as in case 1! Why didn't he raise his
hand when it seems that he is the only dotted dwarf?

So, there must be one more dotted dwarf than what he actually sees. Since
he can see everyone except himself, the "one more dotted dwarf" must be
himself.


[from non-potted dwarves point of view] they saw two dotted dwarves. They
also suspect that they themselves are dotted. So they observe the two
dotted dwarves. If there ARE REALLY TWO dotted dwarves, then, by day 2,
those two dwarves will put up their hand. Case closed.


(Stepping immediately to a sample case)

OK, I am a dwarf. I see 2 dotted dwarves. I assume that I am not dotted
(I don't know whether I am really dotted or not). So, I asumme that the 2
dotted dwarves that I saw are really the total number of dwarves. So I
wait 2 days. By right, If there really 2 dotted dwarves in the group, they
will know that by day 2, from previous argument.

If by day 2, the two dwarves that I saw really raise their hand, and the
king release us, then I know that the are really 2 dwarves in the group.

But what if the 2 dwarves didn't put up their hands? WTF are they doing?
Assuming they are not blur, the only possiblity is that there are actually
more than 2 dwarves!! But I see only 2, so I must be the third.

At the same time the non-dotted dwarf always sees ALL the three dotted
dwarves.

So, a dotted dwarf himself will always be the one who realized that he is
dotted, if by day r, the r dotted dwarves he sees did not raise their
hands. They are waiting for him! (Each dotted dwarf has this view-point
that the remaining dotted dwarves are waiting for him by the end of day r
if they are not released).

Are you dumb??

Hehe so how is it? Have you all got the solutions yet? So far I suppose only JK, me and Henry know the solutions as well as J but she doesn't seem to be very interested in the puzzle. :(

Anyway just went to KTV with J and her bro's friends and sang a lot of oldies. Think along the lines of "ah li shan de gu niang" and ... another one that goes.. "chang jiang chang qian li..." Oh man.. ok they were yesteryear's hits but.. er.. haha.
Anyway due to the low frequency of KTV visits my voice has deteriorated tremendously (although it never was anything to shout about in the first place..) and almost went off key a few times. Phew, when I went off key I wasn't singing with the mike and J glared at me for a moment.. oops! LOL

Went to the MCS gathering and wah.. really damned intimidating.. so many people and so many cars. I should have taken a few pics but it was quite dark already. So maybe another time, managed to meet my secondary school friend there too!

Enjoy your mid term break guys, I'll do some catching up!! Academic catch up I mean :)

Hello!

In line with my blog's 'motto', I will shout now that I am bored. Studying for tomorrow's tests so taking a break from my break. Haha..

I certainly hope I gained a few kg from the festivities, I ate lots and lots of rubbish like barbequeued pork slices (bah kua) as well as egg rolls aka love letters and half a container of pineapple tarts. This year confirm HUAT AH!

Anyway happy new year to all, CNY has 15 days so technically I am not late! Been quite busy lately with schoolwork, Dagomir is forcing us through "indirect coercion" to participate in his tutorials which is a damned good thing. After his tutorial today, I went to get a papaya milkshake minus shake. Which is papaya with milk.. within MINUTES of downing half the cup, I had to run for the loo. Papaya is always such an effective laxative.. at least for me -_-

My unfortunate witness was none other than Mr Jingkai the great man himself.. haha now you know why I swear by papaya's power?

Well and do you guys remember A? The guy who did the geography project with me last semester, his MSN nick was bordering on disgusting (at least to me) on Valentine's day because it roughly described him receiving flowers from another guy. Baahh, I wish Charles was around and he would start cursing and cursing non-stop. While I have nothing against people who are homosexuals or bi or whatever.. because I am oriented the other way, reading such stuff makes me cringe. Like the way I cringed when I watched Passion of the Christ, only a little bit lesser perhaps.

Visiting relatives alone sometimes is really a whole lot more fun as I discovered lately. Driving the APC to visit my relatives and being such a late riser, most of the time I'm the only guest in my relatives' places and actually got to be 'closer' to them instead of usually listening to my parents chat with them and us watching boring CNY entertainment shows on TV.

Like when I was at my 4th Aunt's place, chatted with her a lot regarding my late grandmother and she said I was one of her favourite grandsons. Anyway my late ah-ma is the 重男轻女 type so that spells half the story already. She also related a few funny incidents when she was a child herself, being chased by a lunatic right into their house until my ah-ma intervened and being so scared of the lunatic that she slipped over a pile of wooden poles and landed flat on her butt. Apparently she was so afraid that she didn't dare to tell my ah-ma about it because she would get told off or even smacked anyway if she told my ah-ma about her bruise.

There's also the legend of my eldest uncle being the head of the family once my late grandfather passed away. Heard that he was almost like a tyrant, if you disobeyed him or if you broke a bowl or spoon, he would use his knuckle and knock it real hard on your skull so much that a bruise would surface immediately. I think people back then were real sadistic or that people nowadays are real soft. What do you think of my sadistic family?

Then there's the 1 about my mother, she's so damned suay man. My mother's brother was a perpetual bully and one day stuffed a hammer or a spanner into my mother's schoolbag and my poor ol' mum carried the freaking heavy bag to school and didn't dare to take the bloody tool out because she would be damned embarrassed. A bit evil man, in my opinion.. zzz

Here's a puzzle that I still don't understand the solution to. Try it anyway, its given to us by Dagomir anyway..

There is a king and a group of dwarves on this island and the evil king has enslaved all the dwarves. The king offers the dwarves a chance everyday to be able to go free if they can fulfill 1 condition.

Condition: All of the dwarves must fall in at this parade square every morning and ONLY those WITH the red dot on their foreheads must raise their hand. This is the only way for them to escape.

1. Some of the dwarves have a red dot on their forehead. (this is not a racist joke/puzzle)
2. The dwarves do not know if they have the red dot or not.
3. The dwarves are infinitely smart but cannot communicate to each other. (cannot wink, talk, gesture etc)
4. There are no mirrors on this island and assume they cannot use the seawater to see their reflection.

I love these logic puzzles man... so damn fun!

Sociology....

Been reading Emile Durkheim's readings for a few days now and I find him quite amazing. Especially with regards to the theory of labour division as a society 'progresses' so as to speak. The reading even throws in a couple of Darwin-ian views to support Durkheim's views.

Damned. I think humans are getting stupider every minute. People living in the last century are such great thinkers, people like me already have trouble deciding what to have for lunch!

Excerpts from my conversation with Dr. Lee

4eVeR RiVeR says:
ya lah..
4eVeR RiVeR says:
anywae, relax ah..
4eVeR RiVeR says:
this yr I relax alot than last yr
4eVeR RiVeR says:
last yr like I'll dun sleep and mug thru out e nite one
Momo^* Getting in, being moved. Zoom zoom!! says:
i cannot relax liao ah.. i relax i going to fail like siao.. i already did super badly last sem ah
4eVeR RiVeR says:
this yr I sleep at 12am or latest 1am, regardless finish or not
4eVeR RiVeR says:
and I got better results
4eVeR RiVeR says:
haha
Momo^* Getting in, being moved. Zoom zoom!! says:
haha sleep is v impt...
4eVeR RiVeR says:
yes..
4eVeR RiVeR says:
more organised this yr also
4eVeR RiVeR says:
got my study pattern back after e 2 yrs in army
4eVeR RiVeR says:
infact.. almost starting to like studying liaoz

Chaos during group selection for 2202.. 

Introducing the all new ang pao chia! 

Zoom zoom! 

Cute disney sunshade bought at IMM.. 

Taken with our digital camera~ 

BBQ

Had a farewell party for WWS and we got to have a BBQ at Downtown East.
Did I tell you guys that I love eating BBQ chicken wings? Hehe.. especially when they are nicely and evenly cooked and golden-brown in colour.

Which reminds me, I am craving for "Luo Jia Liang's" chicken wings already! Will tell you guys more about it when I have sufficient evidence!

On another note, a bit sorry to Nick when he requested to borrow my car or rather my dad's car for use. Apparently his gf wanted to meet her friends in town, Orchard to be specific. I had to decline him flat in his and Joycelyn's face, I really have to draw the line clear here. I'm certainly not willing to let anybody who hasn't driven a car for a few years fetch his gf to town in my dad's car.

Who would have to take responsibility if something bad happened? I cannot be held accountable, its too heavy a risk. Then again declining him flatly in front of his gf might be a little bad so I was having some mixed feelings on the way back home. Come to think of it again, making him lose a little face is better than losing 2 lives. So.. sorry buddy if you're reading this ( I guess not :p) but I had to decline you. As a matter of fact, I would have declined anybody else.

Some musings~

Just read the 'famous' xia xue's blog a while ago cos the topic came up in BFSW & J's MSN conversation.

Seems like she criticised Fiona Xie (yeah the actress) because she thinks that Fiona's blog is hypocritical. Whatever, maybe she is maybe she isn't. All I can see is that her blog is quite devoted to God since she mentions Him in all her entries I believe.

It just came to me that people nowadays seem to be kind of spiralling back to the Stone Age or something. Our lives seem entwined with hatred and contempt, when with our higher standards of living we should actually be enjoying life more. Shouldn't we? I also read this particular blog, saying how little we get to experience the human touch nowadays.

I don't think I have an idol, and my idol definitely isn't FX because I seldom watch local TV in the first place, not that I hate her or something. At first I thought her acting was quite plastic and her voice was really wispy and all that. Soon I didn't much bother about that since it didn't really make an impact on my life. Well I realised the importance of actually having idols around through my cousins who were quite idol crazy. (For the Taiwanese boyband Energy)

Once I asked my aunt if her daughters were spending too much time and money on chasing idols. You know, the typical idol-crazy teenager, queueing up overnight for their beloved band's tickets and attending concerts, autograph sessions, promotional events etc etc. Well her answer was that at least her daughters have a certain someone to look up to. Most probably unlike my delinquent cousin who is obviously a deviant person with respect to my family who doesn't really have an idol, a goal, a certain direction to work towards.

Reading xia xue's blog, I almost thought I was watching wrestling. Her style has not changed much since I first read it a year(roughly) back. Her thoughts are IMHO a little exaggerated or biased. Almost like my prima donna cousin (yes, the one with the BMW 7 series and Fairlady Z) in some sense.

Oh well, no offence meant to anyone mentioned above. I tried to be as coherent as I could :p

At the end of the day, it all boils down to perspective. Your own, that is, which will determine your own mood and feelings.

Meow!

Hehe.. on the evening before we sent Henry off to blizzardy US of A, Beng joined me and J to the cat shelter! Oh yeah! To those involved please do not spread around the location of the cat shelter too openly because I don't know maybe trouble with the law etc. Hope you guys understand!!

Anyway I can feel that quite a number of cats have gone, most probably adopted by other cat-lovers out there. Kind of miss Shar Shar the beautiful Persian, his/her cage is now so empty without his/her presence. I forgot the name of the "cat with the saddest eyes in the world" too, too many to remember. The Indian caretaker was also quite funny, she kept saying the same phrase over and over again. "Stripes I'm going to slap your face!"
*HAHAHA*

The highlight of the session was probably playing with the cats with a laser pointer. The cats would just chase after it (except for King Charles) and keep running after the red dot without a clue it actually came from the laser pointer in our hands.

Anyway so far still very sluggish I think everyone is in the holiday mood or is it just me? Shyat man, need to wake up and start doing tutorials and readings. Problem is that the readings are sooo boring! I can't imagine how to keep awake just reading 1! Time to sleep.. sleep is very impt!

Zzzz

Stuck on my MM tutorial now, Englert might be a great teacher according to Christian but his tutorials sure are hard. :(

Dago has finally realised the existence of something called IVLE. The ass, emailed the whole lecture group as if he just found a new toy like that. Duh, can somebody slap him with a whiteboard eraser?

Despite having the large majority of today to do my work but still made little progress. Better buck up soon! Few more days and we'll be through... (to the next week of more shit and crap ass!!!)

HENG!

I thought my eventful Friday was over but this will be one of the most 'memorable for all the wrong reasons' Friday yet.

Drove to PWC building near Lau Pa Sat to pick up my sis together with my parents in Scooby and then went on towards People's Park in Chinatown to search for travel agencies because they want to go on a holiday to perhaps Korea while I don't feel like sacrificing my whole Tuesday full of lessons. And there are other reasons which will become apparent later on in the next few weeks.. Hehe.. :p

Anyway I was doing a U-turn at near this .. rooster 'ornament' near Chinatown.. and it wasn't very well lit. So I checked right, couldn't see a thing but the car before me had disappeared. So, right side clear. Checked left, cars were turning out from another street but they were relatively slow and it was one of those 50-50 situations. You could either go for it but you would have to step on the gas a little more than usual but should have no chance that anybody will horn/high beam/come close to you. Or else, wait another gazillion years.

I chose the first option so I stepped on the accelerator and zoom Scooby dutifuly delivered some useful torque and I started turning out rapidly until my dad shouted in a very kan cheong tone.

"EH EH!! 小心!有人!!!"
By the time I slapped the brakes on, the ah pek was still happily crossing the road not knowing that my bonnet was going to hit him. I can't believe that there are people who live so obliviously to the dangers of the road. And he had to cross the road exactly at the part right after a U-turn which is a pretty bad choice for a jaywalking spot.

End up, my bonnet kissed his knee I think, luckily he wasn't injured. That ah pek still gave a rude gesture but nothing obscene or vulgar. Anyway he continued to cross the road since ALL the vehicles behind me gave way thankfully and did not proceed to run him down.

Bumped into PC Lee somewhere along Chinatown and related the story to him. As I was telling him "that ah pek cross road is look straight ahead one, damned confident that he is not going to kena any cars, machiam I-robot walking."

What a day, I'm thankful to be in my room, not behind bars..

And although I initially cursed the ah pek a lot, I hope he uses proper pedestrian crossings next time and opens his eyes wide. To all readers, learn from my lesson please, the spot where your car turns to is a potential blindspot so check just before you are about to accelerate. Also, be wary, VERY WARY of elderly folk, some of them walk on the streets like they don't want to continue living anymore.

*Phew...* what a day..

Yayee! Its Friday!!

Despite Friday having only 1 lecture, today still ended up as quite eventful. First there was SZX's lesson where I tried valiantly and unsuccessfully to draw a Japanese actor. Nevermind, I think I draw skeletons pretty well now.

After that, proceeded to canteen and ate the ice cream waffle with blueberry ice cream and some whipped cream. Wah.. not bad but I was starting to get a bit sick at the ending so its definitely not a staple for me. Went to Clementi to pay the URA fine and topped up my pathetic bank account. Next I drove to IMM, parked there and went to Tanjong Pagar to meet J for lunch. It was on the way there that I finally met the long thought to be extinct...

INDIGENOUS MRT NATIVE!!!! WAHHHH!!!

I boarded the train at Jurong East station and then at Clementi, more people boarded the train and it was getting relatively crowded and as usual the area near the train doors were quite packed. Then we came to Buona Vista and I noticed this woman, around her 30s or 40s, she came into the train and she immediately flung a cardigan/sweater/piece of cloth on the floor and she proceeded to happily sit down. Yeah man, right in the center of the door area facing the door which WILL open all the way till Raffles Place or City Hall I can't recall. So I started eyeing her suspiciously like "wtf is she doing... siao za bor etc etc"

She sure made herself at home, she was wearing a skirt (the type of formal office wear) and she somehow managed to sit so that her legs were tucked outside and pointed backwards if you get what I mean. The sitting position that if you're not flexible enough, you should not attempt. Anyway she morphed into the cross leg position (the type us students sit when in the school hall during assembly..) and she opened her bag which I assume was the free NDP gift since it had so many sponsors on it.

Next up was a minor hairdressing session, she started combing her hair and brushing her long tresses in front of the door. By this time I had noticed something white flash across on my left but I didn't really catch what it was so I continued looking at the ... "weird auntie" at best. We reached Commonwealth and I could see that this secondary school couple were going to come in through THAT door. So I happily waited while the couple looked through the glass window and thought that this cabin is relatively empty.. haha.

Sure enough they almost stepped on her (dammnit, LOL) and somehow they decided to ...tadah! STAND IN BETWEEN HER AND THE DOOR. OMG I wanted to laugh out so loud my toes were quivering in protest, maybe my sideburns were vibrating already...
Then I noticed the white thing again.. its the TEETH of the auntie standing beside me! HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!! It is SOOO damned funny she is trying hard not to giggle and when she does, she will let out a SUPER ULTRA FUNNY grin and use her arm, which is holding on the the safety handles on top, to shield her face which is like exploding with laughter. I swear I almost involuntarily sniggered with her together.. almost.. haha!

Anyway after combing her hair, the weird auntie started to.. tadah #2.. DIG HER EARS! EAR POO! Using her 4th finger (I observed her very carefully) she reached behind her neck and under the cover of her long hair, she will proceed to 'mine some gold' out and then, TADAH #3... FLICK IT AWAY with her thumbnail! Fantastic..

After all this mental trauma, fellow passengers had a short workshop on how to tie your long hair with a 'scrungee' (no idea how to spell it). Weirdo finally alighted at Tiong Bahru station at which I think all the passengers in the train let out a collected sigh. All this time the auntie had been half sniggering half quivering beside me, maybe she was even funnier than the weirdo herself. Haha..

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After having lunch with J, I walked her back to her office and then I took the lift down 20 storeys.
Ding! 17th storey - 2 office girls walk in.
Ding! 15th storey - I think I saw the Sun..

A young lady in her 20s or early 30s I suppose flashed the whole lift a mega wrong, GIGA watt smile. I supposed she knew one of the other 2 girls so I didn't think much of it.

Weird... how come they aren't talking?

Ding! - 1st storey, I was about to walk out of the lift then I remembered the stupid lift door closes very fast so I shifted my weight, about to walk out liao then shift it back to press the 'open' button.

"Thank you!" chirped the Sun.
"Welcome" I replied nonchalantly.
"That is so sweet!" the Sun replied in the most... honey, sugar, ester, chocolate, strawberry saccharinely sweet tone I have ever heard. Oh and she blinded me with her GIGA + 1 watt smile.

I was blinded on the way home, what a day..