My laptop has officially flipped. THe keyboard doesn't work at all. And the best thing is, when i sent an email to toshiba to ask about how would i go about getting the thing fixed, they sent me a list of dealers in INDIA... INDIA for god's sakes. Some people just can't read. Either that, or they see INDIAnnapolis only... What a bunch of bloody male chickens.

I'm dying without my own personnal laptop. I have to go to the comp labs every day just to do my work... ARgh. And i can't play many games either... double argh (argh argh).

Things are NOT going well for me at the moment. My laptop is down, I'm sick and i still have 2 tests to study for next week. Plus on top of that, i have to prep for the PSSA's annual dinner and dance. Currently, I'm still at the pc lab doing adverts. Or at least to the best of my illness-addled brain can do.

I remember a some people complaining about my spelling. I just discovered dictionary.com. It's a god send i tell you. Along with it's counterpart, thesaurus .com, my spelling as improved tremendously. =)

That's all the bitching i can muster for today. I gotta go back to work. Ai Kun Liao.

OK people, I know it's been awhile since my last update, but don't blame me. Blame the University (who shall remain annoymous to protect myself). I have had 2 exams , 2 projects due and a fund raiser in this absence. I didn't even had time to email my parents so you can't complain... There.

Now that that's settled, I can get down to bitching proper. You might have observed that the main page is not updated properly. There is a very good reason for that. Mainly, MY LAPTOP IS SCREWED UP. THAT LOUSY SHIT ASS TOSHIBA SATELLITE IS F***ING WITH ME. I so swear to God. The right cursor key is like permanently depressed. This makes any work, ANY work impossible on that. The only thing i use it for now is listening to MP3s. And even that is screwed up at times. Argh. What a time to be stuck in a small college town with NO toshiba dealer within 50 miles...

Anyways, I'm trying to get info on how to process an international warranty claim now. So hopefully my laptop will be back up and running in about 2.... months. Till then, I will have to rely on the "trusty" pcs in one of the various laboratories to do my stuff like communicate with the world and my homework... Looks like i have to pitch my tent here(the pc lab) already.

Lastly, I managed to post some pics of the fund raiser before my laptop went the way of the dodo on me. It's not very much, but go check it out. I'll go back to praying to the God(s) who look out for wretched, forlorn laptop users like me for a ray of light. I have to go for classes now.

Well, riding the fast canine on Earth (Greyhound) was an experience that I haven't had in a very long time. I kinda remember when i was young, there were such bus trips to Malaysia and other places. So the Greyhound was something like that. A 3 hour trip to the Windy City Chicago.

Ah... Chicago, Home of the Bulls, Cubs and (recently) Gawee Lee Jack Jin. I had about 40 hours to spend in Chicago after arriving there on Sunday afternoon. So I went to Chinatown and ate dim sum. That's the best thing about Chicago - the food. Purdue food doesn't even compare to the stuff Chicago has to offer. I had dim sum for lunch and a cornucopia of Singaporean food. Or at least close enough attempts at Singaporean food. Chicken rice, bak ku teh, char kuay teow (not so good)... I'm salivating again now... Although I didn't get my fishball noodle, dry with chilli, I was satisfied. But such food doesn't come cheap. Overall, over a 2 day span, i think i spent more on food than on my hotel.

So I went to Chicago for one main thing. To eat. What's new right? But i managed to squeeze time from pampering my palates to see Gaweeee. The University of Chicago is a pretty place, with lotsa ivies and gardens. I went in fall so there was many shades of red, yellow and brown contrasting with the green creepers on the grey buildings. It's like the school caretakers purposely grow ivy on the building. Even the modern looking buildings have ivy on them. The photos for this trip will come when i can see Gawee online again so he can pass them to me.

Walking Chinatown, University of Chicago and downtown Chicago took up the better part of my first day and only night in Chicago. I went to see the John Hanncock tower (94 floors high, at that height, a penny dropped can cause serious concussions) and went to the famous Cheesecake Factory. It's verrrryyyyyyyyy gooooodddddd. The tiramisu cheesecake is fantastic. And i'm sure that many many people will agree. Definitely try it if you have the chance.

On my second day, i woke up late so i could only visit the Shedd Aquarium. It's really interesting. I didn't know that there were eels that mimiced sea grass. There was also a pair of hongkong chicks that were hanging around the amazon exhibit. Consequently, i spent an inordinate amount of time looking at Amazon turtles, crocodiles and frogs. =)

I didn't manage to finish touring the aquarium though before i had to run about 15 blocks down the street to get to the Greyhound bus terminal. So that was all for my trip. Photos will be coming soon.

Whee!! It's October break!! A long weekend for all the long sufferring students in Purdue!! I'm going Chicago this weekend. Meeting Gaweeee on Sunday, go down to chinatown, chill out a bit. Then I come back on Monday and piah(study) for my Comp Sci test on wednesday. Don't you just love it? Uni life?

Anyways, for those people who directly bookmark this page (and i'm sure that there are a few), the main page has been updated. Go check it out and comment in my guestbook. Go go, shoo shoo.

Next weekend, the Purdue Singapore Students Association is having a food fair to raise enough cash for our annual dinner and dance. We hope to reach 1300 dollars in ticket sales. And I'm the sales in charge. A very stressful job i tell you... I have like 2 white hairs in the span of planning for this event... But people still say I look young. =) Hehe.

Once again, go check the main page. Go go, shoo shoo.

I'm so dead. I have 2 exams in less than 48 hours and I'm online doing my blog... Don't you just love me?

To all the chemistry/chemical engineering students, I feel your pain when you study chirality and optical isomerism. I spent 2 hours reading 6 pages and 4 diagrams and i still gave up understanding that concept... Again, i'm so dead...

So i'm typing this entry before i start on my other subject, philosopy, another head-banger topic. I have like 100 pages to go through by tuesday morning 10am... I'm so dead...

On a lighter note, I'm level 13 already !!! W00tz!! And it was only 4 months ago i was a mere level 8 with a 25-17 record. Hahaha. Now i have a 72-53 record. w00tz. According to battle.net, that puts me into the top 15 percent of the frozen throne players.

R0x0r.

I just got Dreamweaver from Macromedia Studios. So I can start revamping this site. Hopefully, I can learn how to use that thing in less than a month and by christmas, you'll be seeing a new zueig.

Just discovered central heating yesterday. Haha. Thank god. Turns out that you actually have to turn the thing on, in addition to the central heating system working. Nearly got myself burnt in the process. But finally, central heating!! It's a godsend.

Anther thing i just discovered, my first white hairs... ARGH... Imagine, 2 and a half years slogging in the army and i can still maintain a vibrant shock of black hair. I come here and within the first 1 month, my hair starts whitening... Shocking man, simply shocking.

Oh yeah, a post departure shout out to Zee. Hope you arrived safely in UK. Cheers

Screw Wednesday night. It's ,according to weather.com, (33-32) * 5/9 approx 1 degree C now...

And i still have to study for yet another exam. Argh.

I guess I'm learning to integrate exams into my daily routine. I can't be studying for exams forever yeah.

Well back to the books.

Woah, cold night coming in man. Just the other day, someone said "Wah, you so big still afraid of cold ah?" when i said i was afraid to bathe at 3am in the morning cos of the weather. Well, on wednesday, I will be experiencing my first sub-zero night. At 29 degrees F, that's like (29-32) * 5/9 approx -1 degree C...

Brr.....

And i will try to cut down on spelling mistakes in the future...

AND I"VE FINALLY FINISHED THAT GODDAMNED STUPID IRRITATING CS PROJECT!!!! W00TZ!!! W00tZ!!!

Now, it can burn in hell...

Phew, a breather in the midst of yet another hectic week. I just had my Computer Science exam yesterday. I would say it was easy but i dare not make such claims anymore, in the light of what happened with my last 2 tests... So, it was bloody hard man!! No way anyone could have finished it in 20 mins and have time to check it thrice before submitting it. (Hopefully, this works. If it does, i still have 1 more test next week... heh)

But other than that exam yesterday, there aren't anymore pressing stuff for this week. Although there is a project due next week along with another exam... So i can afford to relax a bit.

In FASHION news, I just bought a P cap and a P beanie (a beanie is the kinda woolly thing u wear on your head to protect ur head and ears from the cold) at 40 percent discount. I paid like 20 bucks for what was originally worth 31 dollars cos our (american) football team trashed Arizona by 40 points. So the university bookstore was giving 10% per 10 points. Score! Haha. Now, i wear the cap everyday cos i always get "pong pong" hair in the morning. NO MATTER how much i dry my hair before sleeping, i still wake up with a 2 inch 'fro... Irritating.

Well, i ought to be going for my classes now. (took the time to print my homework to type this blog, don't you just love my dedication?)

Argh, I'm not having a good time man. Not that there actually was a pREogative(corrected the spelling already.) to have a good time in college, but i think most of you get the idea.

Very sian week. My results are less than sterling and more than mudanely average, which is a bad thing. Cos this is the ang moh level (just in case some red hairs are reading this...) we're taking about and i'm(we're which ever way suits you better) much better than that. And you just know it.

Argh, Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch .

Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch.

Bitch Bitch Bitch.

Bitch. No, i'm not done bitchin' but i'll give it a break now. Argh.

And so the pressure resides and the bitching starts... If you don't want to hear this, just scroll to the end with the nice stars...

*******START**********
#define EXAMSCORE_1 71
#define AVE_EXAMSCORE_1 67
#define PROB_EXAMSCORE_2 86
#define EXAMSCORE_2_A 90
#define EX_TYPE_1 'CHEM'
#define EX_TYPE_2 'MATHS'

//Looks familar eh, programming students

int (void)
{

For exam_type = EX_TYPE_1
{
Rant = " DAMN SIAN... The paper was harder than i thought it to be. The way they phrase the answer was like Chem S like that. Very exact and demanding... But it's ok cos now i know what they actually want, the next time, I can deliver. It also helps that they will only take the best 3 tests out of 4 to go with the finals' results. So, I will work harder!!! *neigh*"
}

For exam_type = EX_TYPE_2
{
Rant = " EVEN MORE SIAN!!!! Careless mistakes!!! I would have gotten an A if not for careless mistakes i guess. I'm eating my SAF GOTEX boots now... Bloody hell. Still, an 86's not so bad, i don't have to work that hard to pull it back to an A. Just allow this eh, don't say anything about this please."
}

//CS sucks. And yes, i know i forgot all the semi-colons.

return(0)
}

*****END******

On to other news and opinions, I am beginning to regret taking philosopy. I think i mentioned this earlier, but now, i really have no *(&#@$*&^$@%*^$# idea what's ACTUALLY going on in class. I mean like yeah, you nod your head (if you're not nodding off, that is, at the lecturer, but when you go home and try to review the stuff you allegedly learnt, it resembles something that got hit by the SirCam worm. Scrambled data... Going in all different directions. In short, super catch no ball. And I'm not alone. If DSTA scholars can't understand this as well, well the lecture must be weird right? Either that or DSTA scholars are stupid. Haha. J/K.

Anyways, I'm going for "pparty" this Sunday. "Real japanese food, masterminded my real japanese chef(s)" Haha, tanoshimiru yo! Looking forward to it.

I gotta go, I'm late for a meeting. Till next time, faithful readers!!

Ok, the project's done. So 1 down. 2 more to go!

Went to the Job Fair today. Basically just paratrooped my "resume" around. Considering that it was only 1 page long with like 5 cm spacing, it wasn't much to speak of, but it's a start. Hopefully, I can do something more concrete come Intern Fair. Maybe, just maybe i can get a summer internship somewhere. Anywhere will do. Just as long as they pay me. Haha.

Wel,, back to studying!

Fair warning first. I have 2 tests and a project due within 96 hours. I won't be updating much in this time frame.

Ok, so I might want to join competitive ball room dancing now that LQ has said that it's pretty much fine. (all the ah sohs have disappeared.) Phew. Or maybe i should just go for social? Any ideas?

I hate Computer Science. I've been stuck on CS for like most of the day... Damn C programming... Shoulda gone into business management or something... More girls, less work. Sheesh.

Enough whining for now, I'm not thinking very clearly. So gdnite all.

Late for my 0730 lab... again. Damn. I gotta get a louder alarm clock that will ring again after i slap it.

Luckily, today's lab was relatively simple again. So arriving 10 mins late was not a set back. But if this carries on, i think the TA (teaching assistants) will remember my name well. For all the wrong reasons.

Anyway, i had an email scare yesterday. I changed my Hotmail password and forgot what i changed it to. I tried longing in so many times that they gave me a "your account has been temporarily disabled" message. And all i could think of was "no shit, all my contacts lost!" . Real scary. Luckily again for me, Derrick suggested trying all the possible permutations of what possibly could have been my password. And on around the 30th try, I got it right. That took me 2 hours to try as Hotmail kept disabling my account after every 2 miscues... Phew. So I can still reach ya guys!! NO PROBLEMS!! =)

There's a mooncake festival celebration later tonight. I'll probably go, they got mooncakes all the way from Chicago! Anyways, here's wishing everyone a happy (if belated, in some cases) "Zhong Qiu Jie" (Mid Autumn festival).

I'm gonna hit the sack man.

Yet again, I am pressed into action. It's 4 am over here now. And my hair's dry. It's been a pretty tough week so far (mainly cos i failed to do a SINGLE homework over the weekend). I've been rushing deadlines for my lab homeworks. And i still have a pre-lab report to write for my Chem Lab on friday morning... I really should have done some work on Sunday instead of playing Ultimate (well as ultimate as 6 gusy running around like headless chickens) Frisbee. Saa... (jap for oh well)

Reading for a philosophy quiz on friday. It's worse than Eng(lish) Lit(erature) man... If p is q and if p is not q, then my brain will explode. Or something like that. And the prof looks like a real junkie. He has a white hair so long it reaches his neck. He also has a beard that extends way beyond that, to about the the 1st intra-costal space (that's the space between your 1st and 2nd rib bones for the anatomically dis-inclined). In fact, if you met him in a dark alley on a winter night in new york, you'd think he was a homeless hobo. The kind that go around proclaiming the end of the world. But he's pretty fun so it's ok.

I just had dinner with Yumiko today. It was kinda unexpected as we were supposed to meet on friday night for dinner. But who's complaining? (notmeanyways) Oh yeah, I'm going to watch David Copperfield in Purdue. It's next Mar and I would offer to buy tickets for you guys, but i think that it's kinda far for most of you. If any of you want to see, the details are Thursday, March 25, 2004 @ Purdue University 7:30 p.m. Tickets are going for 20 and 26 USD. Consider this a trip to visit me if you will with an extra show attached or the other way around.

Well I hope that I can update before Sunday but for the love of god *Please dun kill me* <--squeaks JJ.

Oyasumi!

Interestingly, I had a very strong desire to write about something this morning but I forgot what I was supposed to write about already. I blame a 3 hour class schedule spanned over lunch time for that. Oh wait, now I remember. Horrors, I hate Mondays. My classes on Monday span a 3 hour period starting from 1130. This means that there's NO LUNCH TIME for me!!!! Damnit. Today, I had to resort to eating a salad for lunch at around 3pm. AND i had to walk like 15 minutes from my hall to do so. *grumble grumble*

I hate mondays... And it doesn't get much better on Wednesdays as well. The only consolation I get is that my classes start at 1130 on Wed, so I have time for breakfast before that. On Mondays, I have classes from 0930... So like midway through my 130 lecture, I can start hearing my stomach rumble. How embarressing...

Onna no hito ni tsuite (in regards to girls), I just made another accquaintance today. She's a Hong Konger. Seems like a nice girl. But if language were like cash, my Cantonese would be worth around 7 rupiah... (which is greater than my hokkien which would be around 5 rupiah)...

And I have a dinner date. w00tz. On friday.

Quick note to everybody, I was trying to receive a file from Derrick (the handsome VP of the PSSA, btw) when i realised something. File transfers are waaaaay quicker via MSN than IC. The transfer rate via ICQ was like 60kb/s (and bear in mind this is a intra-dorm transfer on a LAN connection). WTH?? 60kb/s?? A ninja turtle could finish of the whole FOOT organisation (ah.. nostalgia) before my file transfer finished. BUT, when I tried the transfer the same file via MSN, the transfer rate jumped ten times to 680kb/s. TEN times. woah. So now, I can watch LOTR:TT by tonight. By continuation of that thought, I can get busted a happy college student. =)

So morale of the story boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, use MSN messenger for file transfers but shove it to William H Gates every other time.

It's the weekend!!!! WootZ!!!!! After working till 130 am for my Chem Lab this morning and waking up late for the said 0730 am lab, it's finally the weekend!!! Yeah. I went to the ballroom dancing callout yesterday. It's was huge. At least 250 people turned up. That's like more than 8 times the P(urdue) S(ingapore) S(tudents) A(ssociation) 's turnout. Well, at least they were giving out free ballromm dance lessons, instead of some lousy psuedo-cough syrup drink... ( If you ever read this, and you know who you are, please change next year's refreshments)

Ballroom dancing is fun, but I'm not too sure I wanna join it this sem cos it's pretty time consuming and I already plan to join a couple of other organisations. Still, it's something that's worth considering as the (G:G) ratio at the callout was at least pretty normal ,i.e 1:1. That's more that what can be said for some other organisations... (but we're working to change that).

More menopasual female comparisions: the weather now is flushing hot and cold man. At 0730 am, it feels as if i donated sperm, they could just leave the vials oustide on the pavement, instead of some freezer. But when the sun shines at around 930, things start warming up. And around noon or 1pm, it's hot again. Hot and cold flushes. Hot and cold flushes. Legendary signs.

Lastly, I think philosophy is weird. I can't quite catch what the tell the prof is trying to convey. It feels like literature but there's no real solid text to study. It's like trying to bath in a track suit. U feel wet, but aren't getting clean. Weird.

Well, I'm going out for dinner. Cya.

Itadakimasu! (jia peng liao)

Remeber what i said about it being hot in Purdue? Well, it turns out that the weather is like a menopausal female:(yeap, you guessed it) unpredictable. After my Mich City trip (which, incidentally is NOT in Michigan state but Indiana instead), on our way back from there, it started raining. And it just kept raining till yesterday night. That is a grand total of around 54 hours of non-stop (in one form or another) precipitation... Talk about a soggy weekend. And it was a long weekend as well... <--whine.

Well, so i went down to Lighthouse Premium Outlets, Michigan City. It's a factory outlet so the things were kinda cheaper than say Walmart. Well, kinda anyway. I bought a Timberland hooded sweat shirt and 2 reebok running shorts. After that, the whole bunch of us went back to around Purdue for chinese food. Along the way back, we (as in my car and all it's occupants) got lost and so instead of taking 2 hours to get back, we ended up at the erm, restaruant (i guess u can call it a restaruant) around 730pm when we left Mich City at 420pm. Talk about major hor-lan(d)ing (army speak for getting lost).

So that was pretty much it for Sunday. Considering that it was pouring like hell when we got back from dinner, I just spent the rest of the night cleaning up my room. (We forgot to close the windows completely before leaving...) On monday, it was still raining so i just pretty much stoned at home and did a bit of homework( something that i haven't had to do in a long long time), watched a bit of anime and played a bit of games. (if you want to reproportion my daily activity log, it's up to your imagination). Oh yes, I went out to Mcdonalds with Yumiko. I had a great time. And so Monday passed without much fuss.

I should end here. I'm going for a Society for Business Engineers callout later. They give free pizza. I eaten only 3 ferro rocher for the whole day so I'm quite hungry already. Tomorrow there's an American Asian Association callout. That's a MUST go. There's also ballroom dancing. Another should go.

Ciao