Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Wrapup


I hate to say this, but this year's Chinese New Year was a tad bland as compared to last year. The only alcoholic drink I have around is Japanese sake, which is very weak. And so I have been embarking on a massive food gorging exercise these day thanks to the festive mood. Oh well, not that huge, but enough for me to conduct some food reviews at the same time. I chanced across the KFC Golden Salad, the McD Fan-tastic burger and some lousy Malaysian restoran. Took quite a lot of pictures, but it will take days to write the reviews I reckon. The jewel of all my reviews for this round is an iPod Shuffle which my aunt passed me to fill up with music from somewhere, heh, not implying anything XD All hail the almighty Apple.



Money collecting this year was not as profitable as the previous years. I get tonnes of RM aka Ringgit. What good is a Ringgit back in SG, not very! Oh well, count my blessings I have to. I congratulate myself to having sent out all my overseas letters, and hopefully receiving some from the correspondents. Thank God the library opens tomorrow, I can finally go do my work in peace and away from the keyboard. I have arrived at the ultimatum that computers around me are a terrible distraction no matter how noble the intentions of instant access to information and solutions? Solutions, talk about that when I start work.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Unplug

Pity the class only got 3rd for the decorations. Yea, I got insider info.

Headache man, good thing there are 5 days ahead to rest my mind upon. Yesterday's concert was a decent field test, I would give the MBU crew 6 out 10. Ok, so my class people are still debating over the class party which I believe firmly stands at Friday. On the other hand, after a talk with Karan brewed the mischievious thought of changing subject combinations, it seems the worst had come to materialize yesterday. What happened?! Well, our new CSci teacher is not a full time teacher here and comes in at obscure timings which extend my Wednesday to 4.40pm, as good as no CCA. Additionally, because Haoyi thinks the syllabus is bland, he's gonna swap combis to Chemistry. So there we have the spark in a chain reaction that has broken the most exclusive club in the whole school. What is to become of me, it seems I may be forced into Chemistry at this rate. Then at the same time, I'm gonna swap Econs for B&M. I am convinced that Econs is not my cup of tea after being able to fall asleep in Joseph Wong's class, who is supposedly the most funny and interesting teacher around. So there.

Anyways, met Karan, Mun and PSK going off to Chinatown to do the Chinese project. Since I had a serious need to get some pictures like they were going to, I tagged along. On the bus, we met our 4.9 gang going off to watch Fearless the movie. I dunno what happened, but they arrived there 10 minutes before the movie and without tickets, so they decided to go LAN. Met Kaijun and Daryl at ThaiExpress where my original company were eating. I henceforth declare ThaiExpress a waste of money, buh.



As for today, I'm gonna be clearing up my room which has fallen into dismay a week after I last cleared it up months ago. I have also finally half-fufilled my wishlist item of sending cards to overseas friends, thanks to Mun for sending out one. I hope it reaches in time, still got one more to write. Alrite, time to get some old hardware out and put online for sale. Cash is much needed for the enterprise.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

处在明日中

Sofia
Someone commented to me yesterday about my approach towards life as "Living in the world of tomorrow". How funny, its so true! Tomorrow will always be better has been the mantra I've based my recent fractions of life upon. The problem being that I'm rushing to get into tomorrow. Lots of people I have been working with have mixed reactions regarding this but I don't see any other way out. If the present is so bleak, you work to make it better by tomorrow. Isn't that the way its meant to be?

Due to long term exposures to technology, I must also add that instant gratification is one of the conditions I strongly adhere to in working towards tomorrow. Now, there are lots of laggards out there that like to mull and take their time, I have no idea why. Its horrible to live in a world where things are so disastrous. I think this crap ideal of mine started from watching the Biccentenial Man movie, and the ante and been upped in Spirits Within. So there.

Sopranos
On side note, I have been adhering to a self-imposed ban on blogging for the last 22 days. Nothing spectacular about the 1st or 2nd weeks of school, namely Orientation and Bridging, really ugly weeks. I have seen how some people do 180 degree U-turns in their outward and inward relations in such a brief time. By God's grace, I have gotten into a decently happening and caring class. My last best class was 2.11, but no one seems to reminscient much about that. This first month will be a great test to filter out the undesirable persons from before.

CNY decoration fever has hit my class pretty well now that class spirit is on the gain. By inspiration of Vickie, everyone has been posthumously installed into the Staplets family with a Staplets title. Mine is iStaplet, *applaud applaud*. Ok, another win goes to her for that human outline right outside our class which has been raising quite many stares from people slowing down to examine it. I'm reminded by that big shot's house in Soul Society in Bleach coupled by 2 hands raising a big banner proclaiming the name of the owner. Retardedly brilliant and funny. This decor seems to have the same effect. Another class down the corridor has accomplished the same effect by cutting 2 holes in their postered door for people to peek in. Only pity is our class has yet to sanitize the clinical condition of living. We need cushions, carpet, cupboards, cookies and coffeee!

The team has been making quite a number of breakthroughs in the last few weeks, albeit not in a pretty fashion. But still, if you take into account the intentions and concepts, its pretty groundbreaking. Phuan commented that my sudden bouts of revelations are hardly welcomed to her since she now has a harder time fixing the documentations. Apologies over there. I dunno how well it will turn out, but it should in some part or another. Karan seems pretty optimistic about it. As a tomorrow person, I should be too! Why not? Here we go again!

The fire alarm went off on Thursday, thanks in part to the paper buttons. 5.5 people were breaking into funny fashion outside their class.


After which I followed the company (Moh, SKai, QZ, Shivana, Bill Pill, Mun) to visit Royston who is bedridden in SGH for a lung collapse. I must say its not a kind of occasion I would wish to see again: a friend, classmate or family member in the hospital.To add salt to the wound, it was Toh's Birthday too, along with Liew that day.



And so there we were, Mun, QZ and Shivana were boasting about the numerous operations they had gone for that ranged from appendix to stomach flushing. Kiahua, clammy and kevin came slightly after. Sigh, hopefully we don't meet for such occasions again, its real depressing. To anyone concerned about Toh, he's well on track to be discharged and was out yesterday. Stay strong everyone! Tomorrow will be a better day, cos ID7 says so.

Tagalog
  • Friends of MR
  • Brainwashing
  • Enterprise
  • S.adv

Sunday, January 01, 2006

2006年 第一天, 瞭望往年

2005 was a bad-ass year for numerous things in ID7's world.

Absence of the PDA
Rise of Greater Digital Storage Media
Rise of the iPod
Lukewarm Embrace of Open Source
Lukewarm Embrace of 3G
Embrace of Google
Setback in Internet Community Prowess
Climax of Photography
Months of Do As Infinity
Building of Flagship Computer Systems
Last minutes Chinese mugging
Low moments of CCA
Days of Surreal Wilderness
Lukewarm Anime
Months of JDorama
Rise of Digital Archival Index
Miniscule Wave of enterprise
Year of Goodbyes

Be gone with ID7, ID8 and 2005 in 2006!