Remember, remember the fifth of November

Finally watched the Wachowski Brothers' latest greatest work, V for Vendetta. Drawing parallels to our reality, it is the most thought-provoking movie I have seen this year, concerning the issues facing us all: 9/11, the authorities and other unglorious entities. Anyone knowledgeable enough to be reading blogs, would require no further elaboration on these matters. Few dare speak up, even fewer dare take action.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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無可抗拒的四大


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Winged

Day by day, I have become less impressed by the people and organizations around in this country. I find people who are placed under great pressure and struggle for that stability of a job, choosing to ignore any childhood ambitions that they might have, only coming to regret when they are past working age. It is a pity, so many abled bodies, and brilliantly wired minds, given the plentiful resources, but yet such poor effort to break the cycle. Such an irony that our forefather's success has clouded the young's foresight and robbed us of our wings. I'm getting all these impression from this article, mind you, food for thought.

Now, I may be quite gung-ho about certain things, and actually transforming thoughts to real world actions. But the amount that I have done is almost negligible as compared to what I envisage, but my methodology is oftentimes unpleasant to others. I'm not bothered about that, though I do recognize the need to evolve accordingly to a project's needs for success. Yes, I'm still learning about handling matters in a less explicit and explosive manner, such as when Ant adviced me to tone down and rethink carefully about Act V given the effort thus far. I was almost prepared to throw it all away, but common sense and cool-headedness sometimes prevails.

An activist only knows how to protest and makes things worse, but an entrepreneur knows how to bend a corner and solve the problem in small steps that lead to a big change down the years to come.

Another thing which I would like to harp upon is that I see no reason to memorize a textbook to full array of words just to reproduce them on test papers. What good is it to re-piece a known existing concept beyond one's own understanding and solving a problem for which an answer has ALREADY been found? There may be some merits in sharpening minds at this practice but it is of little value to overall human progress. Just today, our Math teacher proclaimed that this education was a big failure, the same thing which my Chinese teacher did 3 years ago, the latter whom has left the service and the former probably will sometime in the brief future. From what I see, we are all encumbled in the legacy of the past, a begone generation attempting to infuse the steps taken to obtain that knowledge into us, it is all so easy to duplicate. The question now is, who will create?

Here's to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,

disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.

And these lines, my friends, sits on a sign somewhere in Cupertino, below a certain fruit symbol that has a chunk bitten out of it with the words calling Think Different since 1991.

Sky In a Train

Sitting on the train ride back, I noticed the intricately patterned clouds in the sky coupled by a mushroom of rays emitting from the setting sun. Some of the beautiful things in this world don't cost anything in money but just some time to appreciate. I'm picking up a new scent here.

Expedition 6's group members were known today to much high expectations of 5 star hotels and making ourselves at home in a foreign land. The root beer - mentos experiment would likely be on the expedition itinerary.

網羅

启RLS隊其中成員昨天趕來向我們宣告了一項重大突破.他在星期一裡頭內多次成功取得連接到國立大學的無線網絡.我們估計用戶系統至無線服務器有超過500米距離,實在不可想像是何高等級的無線播放器.以下是從旧設施所取得的影證


其次,今天的體育課令我又愛又恨.愛在於活動刑事有大幅度的改善,尤其是在創意上.令我又狠的是,活動稍微顯得激烈,造成本少爺手掌心紅腫,接近六小時卻還沒消退. 但長途來看,若我們下幾週來仍然依照活動進行,瑩牌夢想並不太遙遠.

Reversi

The tables were turned around against us today, but I don't think we could have expected anything different given the mindset of people in this country. I guess I have stumbled into yet another asteroid field this new term and will have to shed a lot of baggage, especially the pet project. It has become increasingly frustrating to manuveur about and there has been lots of flake with but cheap support.

Given that another year of my life is about to pass by in 2 weeks time, I best be drafting out that roadmap which I have told the eagle about. I have continued to remind myself that this current stage is as superficial as the people who stand by it. We know that many do not. And the game has yet to begun.

Brain Academy is now open for applications.

V-Dip

I realise that I will have an uphill task keeping with the (tution) class for various topics. The chapter on Gases is proving to be a real pain with 12 different variations of the same equation. Moments is even worse no thanks to my previous teacher's unorthodox teaching methods or lack thereoff. The one other thing that amuses and partly baffles me is how stoned those RJ and HC ppl appear to be and their taste for absolute poor humor, I guess that's a sign that we are really worlds apart.

Reading through various Wikipedia entries for the last few days have left a lasting impression in me as to what must be done for the future. Today is the future.

Anyways, a cool video of the A380's assembly here.

Deitageist

The last few days, I have been locked amidst shreiking finance ramblings of annoying relatives and the ever elluding finishing line of homework. I have satisfied myself with the few pleasures of good junk food, cyber anime and a new machine which I call Geist.

Geist was built on Monday of this week, utilizing commoditized components, the only thing fresh from factory being the 160GB WD HDD I had bought out of poor value analysis. Its a good thing the $25 loss in value was well-compensated for by whatever I learnt in the few days that followed in setting up the various daemons by CLI.

With Geist, tea finally has a platform, its a dream come true in years.

Singapore Dreaming

I refer to this article which jerked me out of the weekend's sobberness.

How often have we been told to postpone our dreams or intentions till "after graduation" or "after you grow up". And while at school, we cave in to the peer pressure coming from the hot-pot environment culminated from years of clone education. In undertaking the path of ideals and pragmatism that is the Singapore Dream, we fail to see the paths that veer of perpendicularly in flight. They are numerous and treacherous, but hey, whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And that is why there is much reason to celebrate the diversity and strength of our human race. The world would be so much boring if everyone were just doctors, lawyers, engineers or teachers. Hence I'm convinced that the contrary would be far better.

I relish in the occasional discoveries of taking an alternate or new route to frequented places, or a new dish which I concocted up from my solo visits to the supermarket. The Esplanade library, though much distant, was a great change from my usual study haunt, the Woodlands Regional Library near my place. What with the sunlight coming from the bay of the Singapore River and the occasional tourist with a camera, its another unique perspective sitting in the Esplanade Library. But it shalln't stop there, I shall discover more places to find enjoyment amidst the bitter medicine of studies. Then again, how many of us would gladly wish we were studying again once we enter the workforce. And how many would be working in occupations they barely had half an interest for (meaning subjects you wouldn't even care to read up about during your free time).

During secondary school, I had thought that the hours were long and I had no free time. But come tetiary school, I found the former to be the contrary. Going by this logic, then JC would probably be heaven once one is ejected in the working world. That shall be food for thought in consideration of a career path. As for conformity to the Singapore Dream, somehow one has to break free. There is no formula (which we all would love to get our hands on), else it will be just another Singapore Plan all in all.

I staunchly refuse to be yet another clone, standards conformer, chess pawn, or call it whatever derogatory term you like. I want to tear down the concrete encavements, pioneer the standards, paint the workplace bright red, green, blue yellow and wear T-shirts to work. To do that, I shall become my own boss of my life. I don't believe in becoming a doctor or lawyer cause I'm not that noble in the respect of saving lives and I DO NOT think lawyers count within that category either. After graduation, I will eat humble pie for a few years to raise capital, gather a group of like-minded friends, and engage in enterprise. Any afterthoughts or regrets are irrelevant when you have got great company together and an endeavour worthy of enterprising to chase after. And that shall be my perogative.

Partee 2

So tired after another fun and delirious outing, what from the beach to Markoos' house. Pictures tmr!

the rush

Its an open secret that most people in the cohort are now camping up to midnight for their location of choice, WOW! So there, we have a (holiday) rush going on. Let me just say that I'm going Shanghai cos the flight will be SIA, LOL. Happy holidays.

Progression

I have just settled on the thought that everything around us has something to do with movement, regardless of progression and regression, from movement of parcels, thoughts and light.

An interesting fact here is that the FedEx logo actually has an arrow pointing towards the right that subliminally implies progression of sorts.

So much beautiful rythm amidst all that movement, you just have to notice. I have taken to walking to school from the MRT these days in the morning, both to boycott the lousy SBS service and also to work out while the air is fresh. Being stuck in that lousy concrete/metal shell, nobody seems to know what they are missing out.

Ok, I'm off to the library to work again.