Nightmare Reacquainted

It's the 2nd week of school and already I have stayed up till 2am in the lab doing homework. I thought I could postpone the inevitable just a little while longer, but I guess work is a very insidious thing that just creeps up on you under the cover of procrastination.

I met a sophmore the other day, and when asked what was her reason to join my chosen profession, she replied that she liked chemistry and that her father and sister were engineers as well. She also added that she found the introduction course abit of a challenge. Such innocence in the young ones is a rare find indeed. I give her 10 to 1 odds that she will change major by the end of the semester.

The other day, some freshie came into the building and asked for directions to physics. 2 thoughts struck me almost simultaneously. 1 was she's cute, 2 was but stupid. I mean, walking into a building that's so obviously NOT the physics building to ask for directions TO the physics building? She could have asked anyone walking outside. Unless of course, she actually saw me inside and had an ulterior motive... Hehez.

Oh well, have to get back to work now. Can't wait for Friday. Going to Cedar Point this Labour Day weekend. Yeah!!

Last thoughts: Pr0n is Private!! (This goes to EBOF and A-E)

Oh What A Night

And no Woonkie, that's not what it means. I know, I suck.

But anyways, life in this 1st weekend of school has been good. A real contrast to the dreariness and loneliness of summer. Aside from the occasional skipped class and missed homework, everything has been going smoothly. Seeing friends again, moving in, eating free pizza at callouts... I would feel more alive, if it weren't for the fact that I'm still sniffling.

Anyways, to the subject of the Title. The Champions Of Excellence came over last night and we had a great time. We ate ice-cream cake from Dairy Queen and played Konga and chatted the night (Well, it wasn't the whole night, just about 2 hours). Thanks for coming guys (& girls). Hope you enjoyed yourself. I know I did, and I mostly pwned at Konga too. Even though (despite much insistence to the contrary) I hadn't played that game for about 2 months already.


This was My Birthday Present. The most Excellent Prince Of Persia. Although I think it's an easy way out(What shall we get him? I know! A game for his gamecube!!), it's still a very very excellent game. Thanks guys.

Because of that game, I have now come across Stuck Gamer which is an awesome site. You can see many many videos of games. I'm afraid that I'm gonna be spending some of my time over there from now onwards, just watching. Haha. Yes Kwong, I'm a P.O.S.

Well, that's it for now. If I finish the God Of War videos, I'm gonna go get a haircut.

Nostalgia Attack!!

So here am I cleaning my apartment and trying to unpack for stuff, when I stop to read some of the cards I've received since I came here. This reminded me of the cards I have back home. I was reading all the cards I received since 1999 last week before I flew. It was real nostalgic. There were names that I haven't seen or said in over 5 years. There was a little regret that I no longer knew what happened to them, but I guess what I have, I have to treasure more. Family, Friends, Fubareds.

Life Sucks When You're Sick

Yeap, especially when school has already started and your birthday is tomorrow. I guess it's because of travelling long-distance, moving and unpacking stuff and early morning classes that I'm not feeling too well. I just hope with plenty of rest and water, I'll recover by this weekend. I already forgot to do 1 homework already because of this stupid flu and fever (although it's really fscked up that hw is due on the 3rd day of school).

In more interesting news, NEW PICS ARE UP. Under 2 Weeks of Summer '05. Go check them out to see what I did in my short summer break, the friends I met up with and my Birthday cake.

Like I said earlier, it was really really great to be back. To see old friends, forget my current worries and recharge my batteries. I think that it's a good thing I recharged cos this semester is looking really really scary, with 4 labs and research and 2 other ChE classes. It's not gonna be pretty I think, I just hope I can survive.

You know where you stand when you see what kind of grant you get awarded. I thought that I did pretty well last semester, but turns out that I'm just a small fry compared to the rest of the cohort. But hey, at least my efforts got some recognition, however slight and miniscule.

Well, that's about it. I'm gonna go check out the freshies later at the callout. Here's to wishing. (for a better flu-free tomorrow)

Disadvantages of Returning at the Last Minute

Aside from being jetlagged on the first day of school, you really don't have much of a chance to unpack. As of right now, I'm still without my chair, lamp or shelf. And there are still a half dozen boxes in the living room calling out my name. AND on top of that, I have 730 classes, so I really didn't have much time to do anything... Which means that I might still be unpacking this weekend. Nuts.

Anyways, this is just to tell all my readers that I'm doing fairly well (aside from the bloody flu I'm having) and I want the pics from Numero Duo and Kwong. So please hurry up with that, and I can post them for all to see yah?

And I really wanted Conan, but Fossil is good too. =P

AWESOMENESSITIC FOOBARISTIC FRIENDS

That's what I Want To Say to everyone who came last night. I don't have much time back home but you guys (& girls) really made my day. Thank You.

It was really nice to be able to chill with all of you again. Just like old times eh. Boy we sure are getting old. But at least we still managed to hang out and have fun. I'm sure you guys treasure such moments as gems in your lives. And I'll be sure to keep them safe in a corner in my heart, so that I can always retreat to it to whenever life seems down or things seem bad, I know I'll have you guys.

Hope the new game you learnt was enjoyable. =) Go spread the joy to others!! Hehez.

Cheers to the last 7 years and cheers to the many many years ahead of us!!

I did it.

This was the previously alluded-to pic that my blogger was screwing up for me.

OpTiMuS iS Da BoMbzOrz!!

It's Official...

My days of DOTA-ing are behind me... I used play this during freshman year, but back then, this "all-star" mode was only in its infancy. Now when I come back, there's like 294058394806 heroes to choose from. I get really really lost...

Today had a birthday celebration *hint hint* with my relatives before I leave to go back to the cornfields. Quite touching. I got this awesomenessitic card from my aunt that I'll post once I go back and take a photo of it. If I can get a job overseas, the time I have left to spend with them won't be plenty so I'll enjoy it while I can.

Well, since I'm enjoying all the local stuff here before I have to return, I might as well try to swim more often and go out more. Considering the amount of coastline Indiana has and the number of (asian) girls (in short skirts). Some people, I suspect might even comment that there is more coastline than girls...

Yet another birthday celebration tomorrow *HINT HINT*. It might be my last for awhile with the guys. Let's make it a Blast shall we?

Interesting Things

Went to the dentist today. Hopefully I have whiter teeth now. Then went shopping for stationary and comic books in Orchard. Bought $20 worth of stationary (And hopefully enough pencil lead to last me for awhile). I FINALLY finished the Full Metal Panic comic series, 9 books in total, over 3 years!! Now I can just wait for FMP:The 2nd Raid.

Anyways, while in Books (Kinokuniya), Ah Seng and I came across this Russian book. Apparently, lamp in Russian is "Lahm-Pah". Please feel free to insert your own dirty joke. We were laughing at the language aisles for sometime over that one.

Had dinner with my old JC classmates (or at least those that we could still contact) yesterday. It was fun reminiscing about old times and interesting to see how old friends have changed. I wish I could post the pics now guys, but unfortunately, my USB cable is not with me. So you'll have to wait awhile. My bad.

Lastly, I just had to show this pic (bloody hell, tried to use blogger to upload, but the alignment is screwed to hell). Hilarious. He'd definitely get my vote.Taken from 8 Bit Theatre.

Actually, come to think of it. It's only 1 interesting thing...

Halfway Thru...

Well, it's the weekend already. I wish I could have more time to spend here with family and friends, but unfortunately, academic scheduling forbids that. So I can only make the best of this remaining week. At least I've met up with some of the friends already and can meet up with some more next week.

Anyways, I've spent most of the weekend reading. 2 books concurrently in fact. The first (brought to me by the miracle of the internet) is Angels and Demons. It's a very interesting read, and discuss a little bit about the clash between the two pillars of belief, Science and Religion. Personally, I don't care much for religion, but after reading the book, I would say that it did provoke some thoughts about 'God'. Nothing much to actually change my beliefs but it was interesting nevertheless.

The 2nd book (brought to me by the kindness of CHF and ZHENZ) is The Science of Discworld II:The Globe. While I've always liked Terry Prachett's style of writing, I believe that the first book was more interesting. This one talks about culture and society, and how our ability to tell and understand stories have differentiated us from other apes. It's a lot harder to substantiate stuff like that and still tell a good story. So it's kinda disappointing as a book. But I still have the 3rd book in the series (also brought to me by the kindness of CHF and ZHENZ). Hopefully that will be a better read. Interesting to note that I could only find those books on the UK Amazon...

Lastly, we have a 'new' president. La di da di da. Like anyone (who is even slightly cynical) expected anything else. I won't comment on this blog. Too much potential repercussions, but it's interesting that the dirt on the other nominee(s) didn't emerge until they stated they wanted to run...

Finally Dim Sum

Just a short post. Going to get the car tomorrow so have to wake up early. I finally had dim sum at Red Star Restaurant. The food wasn't too bad, and the prices were reasonable. But I had a chance to eat the marinated steam pork ribs. My favourite dim sum dish. That was a loooonnnngggg time coming and they tasted so good. The flavour was accentuated by the company. It's a real comfort being back among old friends. THANKS GUYS.

I think I might owe Apple Singapore an apology. Apparently, Ken says that he's accessed the internet before using a powerbook. Since that occasion was in the past, and with a different mac (I tried with the mac mini), I might be wrong. I'll try to confirm that before I fly. But what the heck, just hoot first. 先斩后奏。

Post-Mambo

So I went Mambo last night to check out the old spots. Nothing has really changed there. Retro songs are still blasting, hot chicks are still dancing but there was an huge influx of botak (clean-shaven) army boys that really destroyed the atmosphere. And that's ALL I have to say about that.

More Foods I have Eaten.

11. Vegetarian Mee Hoon
12. Minced Meat Noodles
13. Bak Ku Prawn Noodles
14. Durian Cream Puffs (Wanted to show the GOODWOOD PARK ones, which I ate, but couldn't find the pics)

Well, not that many different foods this time round, but I still have a little over a week. So plenty of time.

P.S - You are one sneaky little bugger. Never say anything one ah... TSK TSK TSK. All the best. Remember, no glove no love.

Pictures

So I went to this restaurant on the 60th floor. And the view was pretty good. Real panoramic but who wants to see panoramic shots? They are a dime a dozen. Instead, here are some of the more esoteric shots taken tonight.


I believe if we could look through the eyes of someone in a drug-induced stupor, the world would look something like this.


Here is a case of misleading imagery. The chinese menu title reads like "The Fairy Descends Into The Mortal Realm". So thank god for the japanese and english menu descriptions. If not for them, I believe some Chinese would be really disappointed with this dish.

Credits for photos go to my dad and the less handsome son (hint: not me) respectively.

Weekend

One weekend down, only 1 more to go. Not much time left at all. Still so many people to see, so many foods to eat... At least it's good to see the guys again. I think once we all graduate, meeting up won't be as easy as it is now already. That's a pretty somber thought. We are all growing up and nothing we can do to stop it. Just try to make the best of it I guess. And act young, something that I think we have no problems doing. Especially people like Zh, still so juvenile...

But anyways, meet with (pimp)bang today for brunch at Holland Village. Quite a lot of stuff to eat there. So here's more stuff to add to the Foods I've Ate:

6. Katong Laksa
7. Fried Kway Teow
8. Chee Chong Fun
9. Ban Mian
10. Chwee Kuay (not sure about the spelling)

About Apple Inc,
Apple USA = Real thing.
Apple Singapore = Pleasure by Masturbation...
It is the cheapskate immitation of the Apple Spirit I think. The concept of a hip-store is destroyed without internet access. It's just another Power Denki that specialises in Apple stuff then.

Finally, it took me 3 days to resume my duties as the family chauffeur. That slacker brother...

P.S - Said slacker can really sing. Well, at least compared to me... Har har.

430 Am

It's 4:30 am and I'm waiting for my hair to dry. So in the meantime, I'll just list down what I have done in the 27 hours or so since landing.

Things I've Done:

1. Bought textbooks. Something that costs this much and will give me a lot of headaches in the future was only S$48. And this was only S$51. So I paid a total of S$98 (tax incl) for something that I can only afford in the states if I sold my worldly possesions. What a rip-off.

2. Went to sing K with the guys. It was a blast seeing them all again, although the inevitable ribbing started the moment I opened my friend's car door. Still, I wouldn't trade that experience for (almost) anything in the world.

Food I've ate:

1. Lor Mee
2. Xiao Wan Mian (Sorry, couldn't find an image)
3. Xiao Long Bao
4. Roti Prata (Chanai for the Malaysians)
5. Roti John

So that's like 5 down and lots more to go. Ha ha ha. Life is GUD.

Back

Just got back. Will post later. Just wanted to say something about spending the better part of 4 hours in a plane surrounded by 9 kids. They NEVER SHUT THE SHIT UP. Bloody hell...

And people, you guys can start MSN-ing me already. =)

GODAMNIT!!

GODAMNIT!! My Spider Solitare record has fallen back to 61%!! Must be the current 6 game losing streak that did me in. DAMNIT!!

Well, it's less than 24 hrs to my presentation, and less than 48 to my flight. Once again, I wish all the people taking finals, all the best.

And moving really really sucks.