wow... it's already CNY eve... having reunion dinner soon... time really flies when ur busy... haha

had dinner at cafe cartel yesterday... lt treated yc and i for his great grades last last sem... haha its funnie huh... the three of us... how we meet up for these treats and each others bdaes every year for the past... ermm 3 years... and going just 1 year back behind that... we did not even noe of each others existance... haha but yes... ocs was indeed the melting pot... or rather maybe it was sch of artillery... haha... or more accurately... brunei... try as we might for the past 3 years... we still cannt discern how we even started talking to one another... haha there was no reason... no cause... no explanation as to y any one of us would have opened our mouths... haha and yet miraculously we stand today as great pals... haha the mysteries of life huh... haha

i think we've also aged a bit... haha yc was complaining that he's gonna be 24 soon... wow 24 does sound old... when barely 3 years ago... we celebrated the significant 21st bdae... haha considering that how over the years... we have changed in a very indiscernable fashion... i tot last nite was a great nite in fact... a very very enjoyable nite... but we really did not do anything... we just met up for dinner at 7... in ps... and we stayed at cartel till around 11 plus 12... we did nothing except chat... and yet it seemed like we still had so much to talk about... haha... whence in the past... the order of the nite would include activities like a movie.. pool... lan gaming and other pursuits of entertainment... now we can actually derive immense satisfaction from mere conversation... haha i think we're grown...

just a few days ago... after badminton... i sat down with francis and wq for "supper" (wq's dinner) at a coffee shop in jurong... haha sat and chatted till after 12... yeah... much like those coffeeshop uncles... haha but yeah it was such an invigorating experience... haha relaxing and entertaining without costing much... (ok fine... francis had to have his yam ring which sapped 4 bucks from my wallet but i was ok.. haha)...

hmm so it seems i've aged... both physically and mentally... haha but i guess its a good thing... haha... happee chinese new year to u all... haha may u find happiness wealth and success in the year of the dog and keep ur close frends close by... gong xi fa cai!!!

{4:20 PM}

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haha.. i totally agree! my main social activities have evolved to become coffee sessions, lunches, dinners with loads and loads of chitchats.. and i'm definitely still having as much fun.. if not more!

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wat a tiring day... after realising halfwa in the middle of the night that i had a jap vocab test today whilst i was watching badminton on tv... hahah i slept at 2.30 and woke up at 5 to study for it... hahah sometimes i wonder y i even bother since its s/u but well trying to be disciplined... haha anyway jap tutorial was filled with like 13 or 14 girls with only another guy and me... and the worst part is both of us are prob the worst in the class... hahaha wat is it with japanese and girls? hahaha i am deluding myself... haha they are probably working harder than me... haha well at least i dun seem to be the worst in class... yet... haha the other guy din do any of his homework i think... hahaha... and the really weird thing about today's class... was that everytime i had a question to ask... the french version would pop in my head... hahaha really i dunno y in french... like when i wanted to ask when to use certain phrases... the formuation of the question appeared in french in my mind... haha i think my mind treats foreign languages as the same... haha

oh well... short post... posting to keep myself amused... haha gonna mail tkm and ask him to gimme 2 weeks break from the thesis so i can fully memorise the 2 systems in jap first... hahaha.... i refuse to be among the lousier ones in class... haha

{4:43 PM}

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sometimes i really wonder y i even bother to blog sometimes... haha when i really have nothing much to pen down... i mean i really dun wanna waste my time writing abt wat i ate for breakfast or how many times i had to go to the loo... but on the other hand... at least that kind of post is short and takes much less effort to generate... haha...

yes there are days when blogging simply becomes a chore... haha its understandable... after a long day... the last thing one needs is to have to sit in front of the comp and "relive" the day again... haha

anyway... i was just thinking abt stuff the other day... have u wondered how ur gonna bring your kid up next time? would u do wat ur parents did... or have u sworn never to be like them at all... i mean really... to some extent... parenting is a really tough act of balancing extremes... think of a simple case... in order to teach ur child responsibility... u could make it known that the outcome of a certain event would be solely determined by his/her reactions... and then when the outcome is back... sit back and allow ur child to go thru the process of learning from his mistakes... or u could tell ur kid the same thing but if anything bad happens... break the fall of the kid... depending on how one looks at it... both have their pros and cons... and the thing is... it really doesnt matter which one the parent chooses... simply because that parent would not know which technique would work for the kid...

the 2 most extremist points of view in child upbringing... in my opinion would be either to severely restict the child's actions and warn and punish if necessary shld the kid flout the rules... on the other hand... one could take a softer approach targeting the understanding of why certain things SHOULD or should not be done... some say the first method works... others prefer the second... but i fell... there is no overall better way to do things... it really all depends on the individual kid and the need of that kid... the character of that kid... parents have to be sharp and alert to watch out of signs such as tendencies to rebel against authority... or the extreme build up of angst... so what may or may not have worked for u when u were a kid... may or may not work for your own kid... and it is especially tough when one has multiple kids with conflicting behavioural patterns... haha...

so really... if one were to have a book on parenting... it would not be about which method to us... but rather... a package designed to train parents to identify intrinsic traits their kids were born with... and to handle their kids based on these properties... haha

on another note... i've realised something... i've been finding it increasingly more and more difficult to express myself these days.... i think i havent been reading and writing as much as i shld have... and i dun really have an clue wat's going on in the world today... haha... this is so sad... haha... oh well... i think the situation is not as dire as it sounds... haha... heck its time for me to watch badminton on tv... haha till i think of something better to write... bleah... (yes i tot wat i just worte was horrible...) hahahahhahahah

{11:13 PM}

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hahaha... today was spring cleaning day for me... haha after a great time last nite... i awoke to my mum asking me to help her carry up 2 new chest of drawers she got from ikea... hahaha... and so the cleaning of my room began... haha guess wat i found... my old manbreak cd... i started to play it and got stuck at the second track... hahaha i kept repeating it... hahaha in fact its still playing now... hahaha...

KOP KARMA

people getting locked up, getting held up, getting beat by the cops they pay for,
people getting lazy, gun crazy, going mad in a traffic jam,
someone wants to kill themselves, have to fight themselves, got to hear myself think for awhile,
people getting blamed, people being maimed and we got to pay for the mess that's made.

Chorus:
these are the things that drive me crazy,
these are the things that make me mad,
these are the things that pull my hair out,
these are the things that make me bad
these are the things that drive me crazy,
these are the things that make me mad,
these are the things that pull my hair out,
these are the things that make me bad.
get up before you get beat down,
get up before you're not around,
get up before you get too much,
get up and see the other side.
get up before you can't decide,
get up before you lose your mind,
get up before you're out of time,
get up and see the other side.

people getting locked out, getting sold out, getting judged by the job they hold down,
people getting laid off, getting paid off, getting killed in the place of work,
people getting ill again, got to wait again, got to beg for immediate help again,
people got to look about, got to spell it out, are we gonna adapt to the facts or get on out.

Chorus

are we here or are we lost,
are we happy just to watch,
are we being overcautious,
are we being overlooked,
are we thinking,
are we dreaming,
are we satisfied existing,
are we sick to death of violence,
are we derelict in mind.

Chorus
these are the things that drive me crazy,
these are the things that make me mad,
these are the things that pull my hair out,
these are the things that make me bad.
get up before you get beat down,
get up before you're not around,
get up before you get too much,
get up and see the other side.
get up before you can't decide,
get up before you lose your mind,
get up before you're out of time,
get up and see the other side.

hahaha... first time posting lyrics i think... haha i think its a very bad way to do things... cos it looks weird without the music...hahah speaking of music... haha yesterday's concert was pretty entertaining... haha its been a while since i heard so many crappy pieces played together in one concert... hahaha i think most people there really enjoyed it... haha although i think if there was someone to actually get the audience to start singing along... it might have been better... haha but i'm sure the patients had a good time... haha dinner after that was good... haha chinatown nearing the cny is crazy... haha saw quite alot of tourists too.. not bad... they are smart to chosoe this period to come to singapore.. otherwise china town would really be quite dead... hahaha... anyway we had a hearty meal... oily too... plus dessert... nice sesame tang yuan in ginger soup... aaah yum i feel like another bowl now... haha... aaah i REALLLY like hanging out liddat... haha jsut to eat and chat and basically chill... with nothing to think abt other than wat to eat next and where to go... hahaha if only life permitted us to do things liddat more often... haha

oh well... australian open starting tmr... haha time to update my blog conscientiously hahaha...

{9:13 PM}

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waaah finally had my first jap lecture today... its so different from learning french... haha i recall the slack atmosphere with totally no stress when picking up french... haha jap on the other hand is stressing me out already... hahaha i guess its really the attitudes and mentalities of the french and the japanese... the teachers in both senses are good... or rather... i think i've been fortunate to have good teachers... haha but their styles are so different... hahah well we'll see in the coming weeks if jap is really that stressful...

in the meantime... i've not made any progress with my thesis yet... haha still trying to tie up loose ends of the previous paper and now tkm has given me another 4 more to read... hahha guess i'm not really gonna be that free this sem afterall... hahah... ok time to go eat dessert.... din run today cos raining... sigh when will it stop??

{8:55 PM}

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waaaah time to put my plan into action...

万事俱备, 只欠东风...

where is my 东风... VICTOR!!! hahaha

{10:07 AM}

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haha had one of those dreams last night again... that could possibly be from those action flicks... haha really very heart pounding... hahaha typical hollywood cliche-ness... hahaha

anyway german min bid currently stands at 102 and japanese at 353... but its still early in the morning... haha...i hope i've allocated enuff points for them... haha shall take a look again at 1500h... haha wow first time in a LONG LONG time that i've actually had to monitor bids... hahaha damn... shld have just taken philo as a regular module instead of a gem... hahaha waste so many points... but who knew that i would be taking 2 lang this sem rite? haha

kings of convenience are coming to singapore... i think... i pressume my sis will be going... haha i wanna go to... but i doubt any one would want to go with me right? haha possibly gerri if only mbbs wasnt that near... hahaha... oh well... off to grab a bite... a 15 heure!!

{11:22 AM}

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haha... finally spent the whole day changing the layout... well as u can see.. not much change after all... in fact i think i may have made it look uglier... haha but what the heck... it suits gerri's one stop seamless criterion... haha...

bidding for jap and german starts tmr morning... if i dun get german i will probably take coding theory... which i really dun mind taking except for certain someone(s) who are in the class as well... hahaha... plus its supposed to be a math free sem... haha sigh... been looking high and low for students... haha really hard when u havent graduated... haha... basically i want either j2 or sec 4... those that will end this year... cos i dunno if i can take them next year cos i'll be back in the army... but i dun mind j1s as well... but really it's so difficult i'm actually contemplating getting a part time job... urrrghh otherwise this sem will really be a total waste of my time and not to mention $$$... haha...

my right calf hurts...as well as lower back... i've come to realise that i really do need to start stretching properly... haha never took it that seriously before and now i realise that the aches are starting to take long and longer to go away... especially the back... hahaha...

gosh its raining again.. haha not that its a bad thing... i love the cold wind... hahaha

{7:31 PM}

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had quite a fun game of badminton today... singles as usual... cos spencer is on attachment... haha why my default partner always so busy one ah... hahaha... isnt it cool when u play with someone and the mo qi is just there naturally? haha

anyway played singles again... haha and i lost to francis again... 3 sets... i wonder when the last time i beat him was... which brings me to the point i was highlighting to roon last night on msn... i think i'm mentally very weak... like when i'm running long distance or running a race... i tend to give in to the negative thoughts of giving up more than i shld... i guess the same applies for badminton... haha i mean... in the second set i caught up from 9-2 to 11-11 and won it 15-13.. and in the third it was only 9-6 when i started to feel like 3 points difference is such a BIG gap that it would be impossible to catch up... why do i feel liddat? honestly i dunno... but i noe i feel damn horrible when i think abt how little willpower i have sometimes... haha oh well...

u noe how it is when u really dun like a person... and when he'she appears... u immediately look away and the though "omg why is he/she here" passes through ur mind and inadvertably ur facial muscles as well? yeah it happens to me with a few people... these people i'd rather not spend time with... y? because i get drawn into a vortex of negative emotions... haha seriously... i start by feeling digust toward their every action their every sentence... and i show my displeasure... then after a while i feel guilty for being so mean... and make an effort to be nice... haha and that really is the worst part... i'm nice to them cos i'm guilty... urrrggh!!! it really irks me... how i wish i could be indifferent... i have no idea how i managed to do it with soem people but not with others...

i guess if u really know me... i think i'm a pretty difficult person to get along with... i think i demand too much from other people... and sometimes i dun even have the moral high ground to make such demands in the first place... and here i am complaining abt other people being elitist... i'm such a contradiction... i hate people who act all high and mighty cos they went to some us university to study... and then i think abt whether i've also been as bigotted in a smaller sense... and the truth i cannot deny... i admit i have had very elitist feelings once in a while... i dun make it known but i feel that way and its just as bad... maybe its getting lesser as i move on in life... maybe it'll eventually terminate... i dunno...but for now... i'll eat a meal less if i every have such thoughts again... i dun want to end up being and another one like the person i dun like... the world doesnt need me to be like that as well...

haha another thing i want to say is that... never once in my life have i expected someone to understand why i behave the way i do... i mean sure i can explain to u if u want to know... but will you ever really experience things the way i did or do? i really dun expect people to excuse me for things that i do or say just cos my past has affected me in this way... i always try to accept people's traits without trying to understand y they behave like that... and if i cannot accept they way they behave then even if there are reason behind them... i really dun believe in being more sympathetic... i mean isnt that really wat frendship is about... about totally accepting a person and accepting most of his behavioral traits without the need for reason? haha just some random thoughts... hahaha it's a gloomy day and my back hurts again... urrrggh... time to stretch it...

{5:42 PM}

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wow... it's been a while and i have not done anything.. neither finished sorting out my pics nor changing my blog skin... haha

it's really tiring to change it... so i think i'll leave it liddat for the timebeing... haha... happee new year to all who reads this... i have a good feeling about 2006... and i have many goals i want to achieve this year... haha as for new year's resolutions... haha i tot last year my resolution not to curse people went pretty well... hahah i din curse anyone at all... haha so that must continue this year as well... haha... i guess now its also time for me to develop some patience and tolerance for the things other people do that totally irk me... haha... i cant let life's little inconveniences trouble me...

as for goals... haha my primary one would be to finish the half marathon in 1hr 30 min... although a more realistic time would be 1hr 45 min i always believe in setting higher goals... that way u fall amongst the stars even if u dun reach the moon... haha... oh yeah and for stand chart marathon... should finish in about 3 hrs 10 min... haha... we'll see how that goes... haha

anyway i'm finally done setting up the joint blog with gerri roon and francis... haha it's ohfourtuna.blogspot.com... haha and i'm glad they liked the layout and pic... hahaha... oh well... nuff sed about that... time to go watch tennis... haha hope everyone has had a great 2005 and a even better 2006 to come... cheers!!!

{9:06 PM}

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