Rain. Rain. Rain.

Yes it has been raining non-stop for like 42hrs consecutive already. Terrible. So much for global warming. Singapore's getting colder instead! Anyway woke up ready for school today only to realize that it was raining super heavily. Yayness. A good excuse not to go to school. Anyway today's lecture's for 2 hours only, so not really efficient to go to school. Anyway since I was wide awake, I could get to my work right away! I never knew my day's so long. That extra 4 hrs I save a day on travelling's really very useful. Completed my lab report and sent it to my group-mates to vet. The great sense of achievement. Haha. Anyway damn awesome, now my tutorials are all done way ahead of tutorials in school. Feels really awesome. And I don't have that struggling feeling I had last semester, which is a damn surprising thing since I'm doing like 2 level 1000 mods, 3 level 2000 mods and a level 3000 mod  this semester. I really enjoy what I'm doing I must say. Grades aside, these modules are all great. =P

Anyway the weekend's really well spent. Saturday met up with my TMS family. First birthday celebration in the year 2011 for the January babies. We realise that it's too much of a hassle to celebrate everyone's birthday separately, so yea, now we grouped them by month. So much better. Anyway we had lunch at Manhattan's Fish Market before heading over to Chai Chee CC for K! Haha.

 Damn fun. And must really thank Li Wen for organizing almost every outing! Yea we nag and crap a hell lot, but at the end of the day, we still appreciate your effort! =D

Anyway left a bit earlier to meet my bro to shop for some last minute new year stuff! Couldn't get any shoe that I like from Parkway. So sad. BUT. I went shop for other stuff as well. So at the end of the day, I was wayyyy over-budget. Haha. But anyway, I continued with some shopping on Sunday as well. Went to Vivo to shop for shoes, the last item on my must-buy list before my mum nags at me again. Haha. Anyway it was cheaper than I expected. So awesome.

Anyway just came back from a good run. Omg after not running for like 2 months I still can run 8km under 40 minutes. Haha. I'm quite surprised. Haha. But yea, it's the weather. So cold and breezy. Really feels like running on the treadmill in the gym, plus the scenery, minus the boredom. Running really helps to clear you mind of all the stress and nonsense that's happening in your life. And it really helps you sleep better at night. But then again, it's not that I don't sleep well. In fact, I'm usually so tired at the end of the day that I can drink a cup of coffee and the next moment, poof! I sleeping like a dead log! =P But that's a sign that I spent my day fruitfully. Wahahaha.

I'm telling you, an extra 4 hours a day is damn awesome. I even got time to watch my 超級星光大道 7! This season's a season of the rise of Chinese singers outside of Taiwan. They are damn good compared to previous seasons. And the winner's damn expected. 李佳薇 won! But she's really damn awesome.

Listen to this song she sang in the finals. It's called "Listen" by Beyonce. I really though she lip sync throughout the song. It's unbelievable for a live performance. =D


The power of an effective bilingual (trilingual for the case of 李佳薇!) I think they have an advantage in everything they do. So kids out there, whether you want to be a doctor, engineer or singer, please go brush up on your English and Chinese!  Haha!=D

Post-Orion CIP!

Yesterday was the post-Orion CIP trip! Haha. We did like a mini-amazing race sort of event for the youths who are supposedly at risk of delinquency. But yea those kids were actually really nice and fun people! And it was really fun facilitating in the event. It was even more hilarious looking at those kids play those games. Haha.

Me and Sai were the station masters! =D

My station was actually some ball game which I was quite skeptical about at the start. However, it turned out really nicely and nice to see the kids having great fun. It was at this Woodlands Waterfront which I found so ulu, but the kids managed to find the place so easily!

The damn awesome playground. 

Anyway the penalty was like running through this playground and I think it's really fun. LOL. Anyway our station finished pretty quickly so we decided to go bum around at the other stations. Oh and thanks a lot to adeel for the ride! =D

Bumming around!

But my station was the first one so yea, after all the teams completed it, we just bummed around at the other stations. Haha. We even had time for some monopoly deal! =P

The whole lot of us after the event!

Yea, a really well planned event by the team again. Hmm. I'm really tempted to join Orion 2011. Should I? Haha. I shall seriously consider! (but most likely yes!) =D

Ok after that we had group dinner!

My carbo-loaded meal! But damn nice! =P

Ended up queuing really long for Ichiban Sushi at Causeway Point. But actually it didn't felt very long as we were all happily chit-chatting away. Haha. But yea, the service there was pretty good I must say. They managed to clear a table for 12 for us despite such a long queue. Really thank them for that. And the food came really quickly too! And the quality is way better than Sakae I dare say. So yupz, overall a great evening spent with them as well. Yupz, after that I went home with Jiamei and Choon Keat coz we were the only 3 east-siders. Haha. Oh I finally know of the fastest and most comfortable way to get to Woodlands Interchange! Haha. Take Bus 168 from Bedok. Takes only 1 hr and you can sit all the way! Haha.

Yea so today's a really well spent day (away from my tutorials and notes), and yea I really enjoyed myself. Just some thoughts about teenage delinquency. Sometimes I feel that these kids are not exactly delinquents. Rather they are just lost and misguided youths. You can really differentiate between them just by interacting with them. These kids at YGOS are so kind and polite, I really can't imagine them to be kids at risk of delinquency. So yeps, I believe that society should remove these "labels" from them and give them a chance to do something useful and meaningful in their lives. I believe that everyone's born for a reason. Yes, they may not be the best academically, but understand them better and you will definitely find something they're good at. So I really appreciate these youth help organizations like YGOS which help remove these social stigma about kids who don't excel in their work, and give them more confidence and direction in their lives.

Mid Week Post

Yea finally the end of Wednesday. Day started with 4 hours consecutive lectures. Differential equations in MA, followed by even more differential equations in CN. Yawnz maximum. Haha. Oh yanshan came to crash the 2116 lecture too. Haha. Anyway I really dread Wed as it's the only full day of the week (only because of an 'awesome' 5 hours of break in the afternoon. Anyway today's 5 hours was quite well spent though. Haha. Lunch, work, bum around, crash lecture. I crashed CM1502! No lah actually I wasn't even listening. I was busy doing my 2116 tutorials. LOL. Haha. But today turned out much more fun than I expected.. LOL. Anyway it's week 2 and yea, I finally got a taste of what I will be experiencing in the semester to come.

The module that I'm really enjoy now is CN2125 Heat and Mass Transfer. It's super mathematical in nature but that's exactly what I like. And the Prof Wang is really good, especially during tutorials. Really enjoyed the module thus far. As for CN3124 Particle Technology, I don't really know what I'm studying. Haha. Plus the lecturer is... ok you get it. CN2116 Chemical Kinetics is proving to be quite a challenge. The concepts seem to A-Level-ish. Except that Prof Lee removes all possible assumptions and everything goes haywire! Tutorials are deceiving. Looks so fundamental but reality slaps you in the face when you see the solutions. So simple, so elegant, so mind-blowing. Really makes me feel like I probably failed my Physical Chem back in JC. Haha. But I feel damn shiok when I can actually solve something. Haha. LOL. MA is boring. Coz it's absolutely dry and laborious. MLE is pretty easy since it's just JC chemistry. Haven't started my CN2108 lab yet. But I've heard really differing views about lab from seniors thus far. So I shall see this Monday when I have my first lab session before commenting about it. But yea, I'm actually quite glad I didn't overload more this semester. I can feel the difficulty level rising exponentially as the weeks past. Hope that I can catch up before everything starts to pile up!

Oh and need to buy my new year stuff soon before my mum starts to nag! Haha. As for now, time to make up for the lost sleep. =D

Awesome Sunday!

My bro's really a pro. One moment he say he wants to go for a holiday and the next moment, he off! Haha. Damn efficient. Anyway yea, just back from sending my bro off for his trip. But before that, my family went out for a nice Sunday lunch together. It's to celebrate my Dad's birthday too. =D

Settled down at Dian Xiao Er for lunch. Ok the food'd pretty good and the view is really awesome! You can see the entire Resorts World Sentosa from there.

It's a bit on the expensive side though, but it does not matter since it's my Dad's birthday! Haha. We are all not fond of birthday cakes and stuff, so yea, a good meal together beats them all. Oh and my family has the tendency to over-order food stuff. So yea, ate a little too much. =X

Anyway followed my parents to shop around for winter clothing. They are going on another holiday without me! Hokkaido leh! Omg this is the n-th time they are leaving me in Singapore and flying off by themselves already! Unfair! They keep going off during CNY and I can't just pon school for so many days. Damn. But yeps, they promised that they will visit me in the US if I go for exchange there and yea, can go tour around then. One more year to go! Anyway shopped quite a bit at Vivo. And women will always be women. My mum's supposed to shop for winter stuff, then suddenly,diverted her attention to look for bags. LOL! They just can't have enough bags. Haha.

Oh and I finally decided to get a mono-laser printer to print all my notes and stuff.

All the money I spent so far on buying the refills for my inkjet is really burning a big fat hole in my pocket. And it's pretty cheap. 100+ bucks only! Haha. It's definitely worth the money (and time! My inkjet's really slow!). And it's so nice and small as compared to my inkjet. =D

Oh and yay I can collect my new spectacles this week. It's a dunno what retarded lens that is especially good for your eyes and a Tag Heuer frame. I love it man!

But damn it took really long. Heard the whole long bullshit from the optician about how they have to send my glasses over to Japan to get it made and assembled. Haha. This time I really spent a bomb on my glasses. Haha. But yea for my eyes, it's worth it. Actually my dad asked me if I wanted to do Lasik but I still think that the technology is still pretty new, so yea, giving it a couple of years more before I go for it. And I think I look a bit weird without my glasses. LOL. Ok I will stick with my glasses for now.=D

Ok enough of crapping for this week. I'm still not done with my work yet! =(

Annoying Saturday Morning...

Back from school.

Saturday, early morning, insufficient sleep, 3 hours of travelling and a 30 minute test. That basically sums up my "eventful" morning. Why the hell must they put a 30min test on a beautiful Saturday morning?! Yes, I was damn irritated. But at least the test was easy. So yupz, that's why I WAS pissed. Haha. Anyway, I stopped by Queensway to get a new shoe for my everyday wear. And only today I realize how convenient it is to go there. I can just take 33 from NUS to Queensway, before taking 14 from there to home. Oh plus I got it for quite a bargain. Awesome. =D

Anyway this week's the first week of semester 2! Like the first semester, the first week's only filled with lectures. I think I planned my timetable pretty well this semester - very few breaks in between lessons. But the downside is Thursday. 2 hrs of Math followed by 2 hrs of Chem Kinetics in the same LT. Really shag out. I'm still don't like to attend lectures alone. But thank goodness, I only have to do that for Chem Kinetics. Oh I managed to find khakis to attend MLE lecture 2 with me! Awesome. And lab is every alternate week only. So yay! Super slack mondays every alternate week. Hmm.. but thinking again, I may end up having 3 day week if I watch online lectures instead of actually attending it. So tempting. But I shall be a good boy and drag myself to school (drag because almost every alternate day starts at 8am and the other days end at 6pm You can do the Math =X). I'm still wary of Karma. Haha. LOL! And no more midterm clashes! Damn happy. Midterm clashes can really kill you - a lesson I learnt the REALLY hard and painful way. Oh and another thing. I really can't believe my luck. For all my tutorials this semester, I got the same tutor! Not any tutor. It's the same *crappy* tutor I got for CN2122 last semester! Gosh! Really can't believe my luck. The probability is so low, yet I got them all. If only I was so lucky for 4D. =(((

Oh and Tuesday, I went back for TJC Open House! Lecture ended early so I waited for the rest in school before heading down to TJC! Yea managed to look for most of the teachers. I realize it's always the few of us that are going back regularly to visit the people who I'm so grateful of - the teachers. And the teachers still remember our class leh! Omg so 感动!  And they are still nagging at their present class about how nice my class was! I guess 01/06 really left a deep impression in many of the teachers. Yea the open house this year is definitely more packed and fun than the previous year! So yeps, feel so happy for my school! Somehow I get this sense of home whenever I step into TJC. The familiar and ever so friendly environment. Yeps. Actually, I also get the same feeling when I go back to TMS as well. I guess this 2 schools have played a HUGE role in developing me to who I am today. So yeps, really really grateful to this 2 schools. =D

I'm telling you the weather's insane these days. It keeps raining! It seems like I need my jacket almost everyday else risk catching a cold and freeze during lectures. Actually, I'm already coughing and sneezing away. Damn irritating. 

Ok I need to start doing my tutorials. They are piling up real fast. =(

Oh man! School's starting again!

Omg school is starting! Ok, this semester break's pretty short, but yeps, it has been pretty well spent I must say. Anyway got went to school on Thursday to get my WP paper back. So much for the suspense, coz I already got my grade for the entire module. LOL. But since I was already at Clementi, so I went over to get my textbooks for the the upcoming semester.

Bought the textbook for Heat & Mass Transfer and Chemical Kinetics. I'm really becoming broke because of all the textbooks I'm buying. Haha. But since I'm definitely becoming a chemical engineer in the future, I guess these textbooks would come in real useful. Haha. Yupz, feeling curious, I flipped through these books, and was really happy to realize that everything's very Math. Awesome. Oh and notes are up too. So I spent my quite a bit of time printing them out. 

Yupz, finally comfirmed all my modules and stuff. I will be doing 6 core modules this semester, namely

CN2108 Chemical Engineering Lab I

CN2116 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design

CN2125 Heat and Mass Transfer

CN3124 Particle Technology

MA1506 Mathematics II

MLE1101 Introductory Materials Science and Engineering

I'm insisting on doing CN2116 despite everyone telling me that it's a pretty much killer module like CN1111 and CN2122, coz I really want to do CN4201R or CN4246R next semester, and it requires CN2116. So yupz, wish me luck! Oh and I'm delaying EG2401 to semester 6 coz I feel that the workload this semester is pretty heavy already. =D

Anyway the last couple of days have been pretty bad for me. Down with a pretty nasty flu. So yupz, forced to stay home. Sian. And I haven't been exercising. Damn. Oh and I was thinking if I should run the Standard Chartered Marathon this year. My last marathon was the SCSM in 2007 just after I ORD. Haha. And yes that's definitely the fittest period of my life. Haha. Hmm.. really have to consider this carefully coz I really need to be disciplined enough to put aside quite a bit of time every week to run. Oh and the pain. =( Hahaha.

Oh it's the New Year - 2011!

I realized that every year, I always countdown with the peeps from 01. Damn awesome people to hang around with and spend the first moments of the new year with. Anyway the evening started with dinner with the standard 01 peeps, minus Vincent who's in London, Wan Yee who's in Denmark (maybe somewhere else in Europe le.. LOL) and yupz, that's about it.

I think the food at Ootoya Japanese Restaurant at Suntec City is quite good! Haha. And it's not that expensive. Haha. Definitely worth the try. Anyway after dinner, walked around for a bit before heading over to Marina Square to countdown and watch the fireworks!

I feel that it's the atmosphere that makes all the difference. Yes, the fireworks was great, but coupled with the festive atmosphere and the result is a night not to forget! Haha. 

Loved watching the awesome fireworks with 01 peeps. Hanging out with the 01 peeps, we bound to do stupid things...

HIP-sters in action!

More retarded stuff with Qi Hui wondering what we're even doing. Haha!

It's really funny. The peeps from 01 are one of the wittiest people around, but hanging out with them, you call feel your IQ really falling! Haha. It's always full of nonsense and just FUN! Haha. It's quite unbelievable that we are able to just crap throughout the night. Yes it's really very funny crap. Haha. I think it's the amount of time we spent together as a class during JC days tthat we accumulate so much in common - the whole treasure cove of inside jokes. Haha. Damn I love just being around these people. It just makes you forget all your troubles and everything, and just feel damn happy! Looking forward to many more countdowns with 01! =D

Next up, New Year's Day. Yupz, today was spent with the awesome peeps from 00/10! Actually I don't know how exactly we got along too! It all started in TJC. But not as students, but as relief teachers! Haha. Anyway somehow, we all got to know each other and tadah! We became good friends! Haha. Must be all the lunch and bumming around together that made us so close as a relief teachers group. Haha. Oh and not forgetting all the school activities and everything. Really fun group of peeps! Damn awesome. Yupz, anyway it's the usual gathering at my house. Haha. But before that lunch at the new Bedok Point. Haha. The moment I stepped into the mall, I realized that the entire mall is dominated by food outlets! Yupz, there's quite a good mix of food outlets there. Anyway as expected, everyone was super late. Haha. But forgivable coz everyone's busy having fun till the wee hours of the morning the day before. Haha. Anyway, settled at Bishamon Sapporo Ramen restaurant. Yupz. Anyway had a pretty quick lunch before heading over to my house.

Yayness! Shi Ying brought Wii!

Haha. I'm telling you Wii's really great fun for gatherings! Haha. Maybe I should get one real soon. Damn awesome fun. But it's damn tiring! Please do not be deceived by the innocent looking controllers. They can really make u sweat! Haha.

Yupz, so we ended up alternating between Monopoly Deal and Wii. Haha. But yupz, played the entire afternoon away. Haha. Eugenia joined us later in the evening and off we went for dinner.

Somehow I feel that the East has this special aura. It makes everyone feel so laid back and comfortable. Really homely feeling. And there aren't that many people around unlike almost anywhere else in Singapore. And the most important thing - everyone seems less in a rush than in town or other parts of Singapore. That's why I just love the East!

Anyway, we decided to settle down at Xing Wang along East Coast for dinner.

I just love the French Toast and Yuan Yang from Xing Wang. That's something I will definitely order when I'm dining there. Haha. Anyway with Ser Yang around, we had our fair bit of cam-whoring. Haha. And it's New Year's Day! So yupz, let's just enjoy ourselves and do stupid stuff together. Haha. Damn fun stuff.

Ok, now we know who are the pro-cam whores. Haha! Anyway after that went back to my house for more fun! Haha. Sometimes it's just so nice to be able to sit around in a cosy environment and chit-chat and just have some simple fun with cards and everything. The simple pleasures of life. Haha. And I didn't know that there's this new hubstation in my guest room! Damn I'm gonna hog it down to my room. Haha. And time seems to pass so fast with the 00/10 peeps around! Haha. Really enjoyed the night with them. Guys please organize more gatherings! We need more gatherings! =D

These entire week has been really fun with all the outings/gatherings and whatnot. Really tiring week, but I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. As such, this semester break is one the most well spent holidays in my life. And I have to say this - I'm really blessed to have groups of really awesome friends that have played a pivotal role in every single aspect of my life! You guys rock man! I definitely couldn't have achieved so much in my life without you guys! Looking forward to many more years of friendship ahead!