Good news and bad shows Friday, Feb 22 2008 

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Firstly,

Congratulations to Singapore for getting the opportunity to host Youth Olympic Games 2010~! Maybe through this, we’ll be exposed to the world enough that they finally stop thinking that we’re part of China.

Secondly,

DON”T EVER WATCH MEET THE SPARTANS.

It’s possibly the WORST show ever made that is released to mainstream cinemas.  I can’t believe it grossed so high in USA. And I can’t believe I know people who actually enjoyed it. It’s really … unbelievable. And that coming from a person who enjoyed Scary Movie and, heck, even not another teen movie, all lame parodies of blockbusters.

But this one is really the worst of the worst. I can’t emphasize more on this. It just takes all the cultural stuff that is happening and plonk it into a mess of a film, if you would call it a film. But seriously, it’s not funny at all.

It gives you negative consumer surplus, and negative marginal utility. It’s money wasted, and time wasted. You’re almost better off shooting yourself.

The only good thing about the show is that it is barely over 60 minutes. Still, it’s 60 minutes too long!!!

 

A Challenge. Wednesday, Feb 20 2008 

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Galatians 1:10

“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.” 

 

The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver. Sunday, Feb 17 2008 

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Today’s service humbled me once again when I realised, again, that I am truly unrighteous, so I should stop thinking that I am righteous, or that I so-called deserve the righteousness imputed in me. Why do I need to be constantly reminded of this fact?? Worse, why did I even think that I had been righteous at all… Everytime I get carried away, something bad happens.

Just when I thought I have stopped swearing for a very long time, a run-in with an unreasonable lecturer caused me to utter the F word again. And I considered that even more tolerable than the subsequent bitching and whining that followed. Even if I cannot control the swearing, which is still not an excuse whatsoever, I certainly can control bitching, but I didn’t. And of course there are really really many other sins that I shall not mention here. Bleah… It’s a long journey of transformation, but I will place my faith in God that someday I will truly bear fruit… right now, I must be patient.

 

Cinderella Sunday, Feb 17 2008 

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Cinderella – Steven Curtis Chapman

reminds me of a song I heard 10 years ago, Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle. damn nice…

 

MCQ tests are deceptive Friday, Feb 15 2008 

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Must constantly remind myself MCQ papers are NOT meant to be easy.

last semester for fluids we had 5 mcq to be completed in 60 minutes, i couldn’t finish them! and i got 20/100.

Now, almost the same nightmare repeat. 10 mcq in 60 minutes, I at least 4 wrong already. bleah. At least one mid-term over. Time to take a break!

 

Not Enough Time Monday, Feb 11 2008 

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.. and I’m still blogging.

But seriously, it’s not that we don’t want to quit the habit of rushing assignments on Sunday nights and “kind of” completing them during lecture on Monday morning. Oonyong and I were just talking, after 2116 tutorial, about those people who can finish assignments the moment they receive it in their workbin. And we’ll take roughly one week later to complete (they are usually due one week after they are issued.)

So we decided to plan our work. Today I’ll complete heat transfer tutorial in case I’m called to discuss tomorrow, and if time permits (which is unlikely) I’ll attempt the particle tech tutorial.

Tomorrow, I’ll complete the fluids lab report and send it to my labmate for compilation. If time permits (which is unlikely), I’ll attempt the physical chem and econs tutorials.

Wednesday, after my physical chem lab, I’ll begin on the presentation for our reactor design project. Thursday, I’ll study for the kinetics test. Friday, I’ll complete the physical chem lab report, but only after I sit for the kinetics test in the afternoon….

… And the cycle repeats. We still only can begin work in the weekends and complete on Sundays. I wonder how the other people can do it. This blogging session takes up less than 15 minute so really it doesn’t explain anything.

 

Stop and Stare Monday, Feb 11 2008 

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This town is colder now, I think it’s sick of us
It’s time to make our move, I’m shakin off the rust
I’ve got my heart set on anywhere but here
I’m staring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands, just take the wheel…
And every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal… for the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I’m moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I’ve become what I can’t be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you’re ‘here’ not there
And you’d give anything to get what’s fair
But fair ain’t what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see

They’re tryin to come back, all my senses push
Un-tie the weight bags, I never thought I could…
Steady feet, don’t fail me now
Gonna run till you can’t walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I’m standing down…

Stop and stare
I think I’m moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I’ve become what I can’t be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you’re here not there
And you’d give anything to get what’s fair
But fair ain’t what you really need
Oh, you don’t need

What u need, what u need…

Stop and stare
I think I’m moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I’ve become what I can’t be
Oh, do u see what I see…

-Onerepublic

 

明日歌 Saturday, Feb 9 2008 

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明日复明日，明日何其多！

我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。

世人若被明日累，春去冬来老将至。

朝看水东流，暮看日西坠，

百年明日能几何！

请君听我明日歌！

 

A different cny Saturday, Feb 9 2008 

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Like 2007, this cny holiday is meant to be a catchup session, what with lab reports, assignments and quizzes the following week. But because my whole maternal family-side wanted to go on a cruise, I had little choice but to join them. We went on Star Cruise Virgo, for a 3-day 2-night trip, which stopped by at some place in Malaysia (i have no idea where because I didn’t go down).

And…… it’s the same as the last time I went for a cruise, which was 10 years back. Looooooots of restaurants, and that’s about it. Sigh..

But luckily I saw that coming. Hence, I brought all my lecture notes and assignments on board – and had some fun scaring my younger cousins with them. In the end I didn’t study much, though. Spent most of my time in the arcade playing the surprisingly addictive motor raid and panic park with my cousins, or atomic bomberman on my cousin’s laptop.

Note that everything we did could actually be done without hopping onto the cruise ship and blowing hundreds of dollars per pax in the process.

I guess the older generation wanted to gamble in the casino – while most of the younger generation could have gone there, we gave it a miss because the casino is very small, lacking in atmosphere, and did not have those $1 roulette-machines which we could afford. Arrhh nvm, it’s the company that counts, to quote one of my cousins.

And now I’m struggling with the problem of procrastination. Supposed to finish two sessions of webcast yesterday; instead I watched two episodes of simpsons, and I only just finished watching the webcast a few minutes ago. This kind of pushed back all my work by one day.