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Thursday, 5 November 2009, 11/05/2009 10:06:00 pm

I guess another month has passed since my last posting on this blog. Life now is awfully boring. It is now tat i can appreciate why ppl say studying is better than working. and especially for me, my job is almost like staring into blank space.. Sounds good? haha.. well, at first it seems good... but once u imagine urself staring into blank space for the next 20 months, it feels a bit creepy.

And whats more, I will have to celebrate christmas, new year, chinese new year etc away from the outside world. Wif all the Boredom-Killing Days gone, i guess i just have to hope for the one year to pass quickly. There are so many things that awaits me ... The feeling of hope is my cure to this boring life now...

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Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 9/09/2009 08:15:00 pm

This blog could well be dead ..maybe no one reads it .. but anyway, i have alot of sudden thoughts and i have the urge to pen down watever comes to my mind. Thinking back, i have always wanted to fast forward to university life- im sick of my present life. With all the routine and staring into the sky, its getting boring. And it could be mentally tiring due to the lack of sleep.

But wat ppl say abt uni life is nothing positive. So i dun noe whether i wish time to go faster or slower. At present, i am bound to miss major events ( Chinese New Year, Christmas, Class Outing etc ) Planning to go out is already a chore simply cuz i work shift and there isnt a fix date im free. But fast forward one year, i dun noe if i would really enjoy the days ahead. Ppl complained abt stress in uni and tat its even tougher than JC .. I do not noe.. But one thing i hope at least is tat when the time comes, everything could go as planned- THe place i wanna work until uni starts and of course uni life in itself be a memmorable one. Hopefully all goes well..

Although these few months was tough, it taught me something important. It was to cherish. To cherish not just the time we have, but the ppl around us. Unfortunately, i didnt really do the two to the fullest. It is amazing tat i could do so many things in 2 days now. And taking time to bond with ppl around was simply amazing. To this, I regretted the amount of inaction i had cuz i didnt utilise wat i had and live life to the fullest .. But I will change and be more forthcoming.

If anyone chances upon this, i would oso like to say that this is NOT an emo post. I AM in a perfect state of mind. Just letting my thoughts run through- im sure everyone has their own thoughts too!!

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Monday, 13 April 2009, 4/13/2009 02:14:00 pm

Sad and Happy? well, this is the kind of feeling i am having now .. well, talk abt the sad part is tat im enlisting tmr !! and it will be a two months stint at tekong ... Happy, cuz im glad i worked at IRAS (with all the crappy ppl like ... ) and did not waste the time i had doing nth.. Happy also because i had been admitted to SMU accountancy !! it was a very mixed feeling .. anyway, hopefully, all goes well at tekong...

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Monday, 30 March 2009, 3/30/2009 08:45:00 pm

was transferred to the Jobs Credit department at Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and i have to revisit MATHS!!! alright , cuz some of the calculations require some sort of algebra ... and obviously at times , my algebra was so poorly done that money can be counted as negative $x .. but after much practice, i finally get use to it and get the correct ans..LOL!!

anyway, just after work, was glad to receive a call from SMU abt an interview scheduled next week... it came as a surprise cuz i only submit the application just yesterday night... anyway .. hopefully all goes well ...

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Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 3/25/2009 06:53:00 pm

ok... someone said the blog is dead ... so here it is ...
celebrated Enrique and Julian's birthday and it was really crappy... First it was the cutting of cake... den... ...

Enrique decided to feed one of our supervisor wif a strawberry ... lol

and next went to Gamehaven to play .. booked a room which consist of two computers, an Xbox fitted with the guitar hero... so some played on the com while the rest played guitar hero... booking of the room was DAMN cheap ,,, very surprised... 16 dollars for two hours !! divided by abt 10 persons who went ... its abt one dollar plus per person

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Friday, 27 February 2009, 2/27/2009 06:43:00 pm

Almost 2 months have gone after applying for this job... hahaha... i realise i like it more and more!!! And found out many nanyang ppl oso works there (ok although the first sentence we always said is " i never seen u before " haha) ... starting at a new department next week ... abit boring cuz must learn new things , and the notes are like damn thick ( althought not comparable to others like Janelle/hazel there, they are like the backbone of the Division, everything also must noe haha)... thicker than all the chem organic notes i think ... but its ok ... the environment here good can liao ... hoping April will come slowly ... really..

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Thursday, 12 February 2009, 2/12/2009 10:35:00 am

A long time since the last post, so here to update a bit. Nothing much going on now, just the mundane working life, squeezing in the MRT during the morning and evening rushhour, working in the call centre at IRAS dealing with Budget 2009 announced in Jan, and eating around the Novena area. Got to noe many new ppl at my department ..and lastly, the foods at Novena are nice!

Theres the chicken rice that everybody said it was good (though abit expensive at 4 dollars per plate) Theres this store that sells coffee milkshake, damn nice oso.. The canteen food within the office building is oso reasonably good.. Theres oso this western restaurant that is really budget: 7 dollars for a set meal which include main course, soup, dessert, coffee or tea. But still got many eateries haven try yet, but its alright ( I have 2 more months to slowly eat..haha) ..

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 1/14/2009 08:11:00 pm

Today, it was a day at Disneyland. Below is the photo for a famous attraction known as "Its a small world" Here, u take a boat ride and enter a place filled with cartoon characters from Peter Pan to many others. And, they have many phrases in different language preaching for peace in the world. Basically, they try to immerse you in a wonderland where everything is so wholesome

The hill at the back is a roller coaster ride that zip through the hill itself.

Below is the main street of Disneyland and it is called Main Street USA

And one of the highlights at Disneyland is the parade. Entitled " A Christmas Fantasy Parade" Last almost half an hour...

The attraction "its a small world" at night... They have a light display at night where the lights would 'dance' to the tune of chritmas music.

Another highlight is disneyland's fireworks. Entitled "believe... in holiday magic" This fireworks is highly sinchronised with the music and it was awesome!!! It also has the Cinderella Castle as its backdrop!!!

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Sunday, 11 January 2009, 1/11/2009 10:17:00 am

Day 3: A whole day at Disney Resort. This resort includes Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure Park. This post will be abt the California Adventure Park one. The next post Disneyland. well, for one, this theme park got a area known as the Aviator's zone where the rides include a flight simulation (really good! ) here, u r strapped to a chair and they lift u up and make u feel as though u r traversing across the many exotic places in the world. Thumbs up for this ride!!!

Picture below shows the Aviators' zone

Hollywood zone below:

As for this tower above, its a ride i dont dare to take, but for many it may be just the kind of thrill that u wish for.. in there, u board a lift that ascends up to the top. and up there, they open the lift door to let u marvel at the scenery.. And ... just when u arent noticing, it plunges down.... ok ,,, below is another picture... taken while on a ride ... i forgot le..

Went to play Toy Story. Its really interactive. We took a cart (the one below ) and wear a 3d glasses. then we r suppose to use the gun to shoot down objects while on the ride. Scores are tabulated and the high score is shown when the game ends... really interesting ... Theres one at Disneyland oso... the ride almost the same except that u can rotate the cart 360 degrees to shoot at targets ... really interesting!!

Picture of the Adventure zone :

Went to watch a live show of Aladdin. Really nice too ... and i like it ... Its the exact stage performance of the show Aladdin. At night, watch the nightly Disney's Parade ( i said disneyland was better than universal studios cuz disney has parades and fireworks which are really good. Based on rides, however, universal studios is still better ) Below are pics of the parade at Disney's California Adventure Park.. Disneyland got their own separate parades.

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Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 1/06/2009 11:16:00 am

Took a tiring 16 hours flight to Los Angeles where we first visited the Pacific Coast. Overlooking the large patch of sand is of course the Pacific Ocean.

Then visited the Staples Center- the home of the LA Lakers basketball team. And tat ends the first day.

Went to Hollywood Boulevard the next day and they have these walk of fame where Hollywood stars can plant their name there. Heres Michael Jackson

Next, went to Universal Studios Hollywood. Went to take the Studio Tour. Here, we took a tram which brought us to many movie studios. The tram oso went on to a collapsing bridge ( when we were on top, it will simulate a collapsed bridge, so u can feel the tram sink downwards suddenly.) Then the tram took us to see some fire display like this below

Oso visited a simulation of flash flood where u see gush of water splash towards the tram. Next, theres a display of Fast And Furious where they simulate how they film movies of gun shots on to the ground and an explosion on a car... the pic below was taken after the show, so nothing spectacular in the photo... but it was good if u have seen it...

We os visited a simulated Earthquake MRT station where u can feel the entire tram rock and roll while flash flood splah towards u ... It was highly releastic ....but no photograh cuz too dark to take photo ... Soon after , went back to the theme park and took some photos

Watch a live show of Waterworld. I must praise this show cuz the performers are really well-train. They fall into the water from like 3 story high very naturally ,, and i mean naturally!!! And they simulate a plane crash into the theatre, the plane just flew in and land right in front of us... u couldnt see any cables attached ... till now , i wonder how they did it ... perhaps i think they calculate the projectile motion or something like tat ... below are pics of the waterworld live show...

Other rides that i took include The Simpsons, Terminator 3D , Backdraft etc . Some like Jurassic park took before le so nvr went to take again. But all in all, Universal studios TRASHES Escape flat. ( i think disneyland is better than universal studios though AND Japan's disneyland is better than Disneyland in hollywood ) and if u want to noe wats the ride abt, wikipedia is the ans ...haha... for now cya ...

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Wednesday, 24 December 2008, 12/24/2008 09:47:00 pm

Arrived back from California in the afternoon yesterday. Quite fun cuz there were really good bargains for clothings ( 1 Levi's jeans cost 30 SGD ). Will be uploading photos in the next few posts..

A dampler to the trip was the snow storm that hit us when travelling to Las Vegas from Los Angeles. we were travelling on Interstate 15, going through a region known as Cajon Pass, when snow storm occured, causing the closure of many freeways in Southern California. We were kind of stranded in the middle of the highway for a few hours.

At first, there was Macdonalds' there so we could stay out of the chill. But unfortunately, it closes at noon due to the road closures. And we had to sit in the bus and wait for the road to reopen. And how unlucky we were, the snow just kept falling. i had never detested snow more than tat day .. Although it was good for photo taking, i must say we miss out on others cuz we wasted time here. In the end, after 6 hours of waiting, we had to head back to Los Angeles as the snow storm wouldnt subside. And it was hard time for our coach to travel cuz at times the wheel seemed to be stuck to the snow and a lot of engine power is needed to overcome it.

So at the hotel, we had to watch the news and very fortunately, the snow storm subsided the next day and the roads were reopened 24 hours after it closed. But still we wasted one day. The storm was one of its kind in almost 3 decades. well, its weather and nobody could control anyway...

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Thursday, 11 December 2008, 12/11/2008 11:59:00 pm

Going off to Los Angeles and San Francisco in abt 9 hrs time ... feeling quite tired but excited !! Disneyland, Universal studios, Grand Canyon, Hollywood Boulevard and some smaller attractions. But the downside is: 17 hours of flight , excluding 1 hr transit at Japan Narita Airport.. Can die sia .. luckily i checked got Berverly Hills Chewawa and The Mummy-Tomb of the dragon emperor on the plane .. luckily ... okays ... gg off to sleep ...

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 11/11/2008 03:39:00 pm

alright, we are near the end of the A levels ...strive abit more and all shall be over... JUst checked EA.com.sg and they said nfs undercover is releasing in singapore on 17 nov !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i couldnt wait man !!! they said it is like most wanted - a game which i thought was really worth praising ... The cop chases in most wanted was really intense, and they said the police mechanism was upgraded further in undercover ... omg .. tat sounds soooo fun !!!!! seems like i am abandoning flight simulator for undercover for at least a week after As .... Tats not all , haha, nfs undercover features cars tat never/ rarely features in any of its series ( Mclaren, Nissan etc. ) And of course, Lamborghini and Porsche are featured too ( unfortunately, dun think theres Ferrari) . Luckily my com can take the high specs it needs - 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, nvidia 6500 above graphics card .... its definitely goona be a heavy burden on my com...

i cant wait!!!

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Saturday, 1 November 2008, 11/01/2008 11:00:00 am

hmm... seems like As is coming ... and i believe it should come and go quite quickly. Perhaps like many others.. i shld plan wats gg to happen after As :

-Class chalet (19 nov -21nov)
-Tennis, badminton (29/30 Nov)
-Grad night (3 Dec)
-Basic driving theory test (10 Dec)
- US trip ( 12-23 Dec)

Many other things i wanna do, though dates are not fixed: Table-tennis, Kbox, Visit to Marina Barrage, High School Musical 3, Need For Speed Undercover, Gym , More 10 km run if theres any.

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Saturday, 25 October 2008, 10/25/2008 05:43:00 am

Its 5:45 AM now : I had been awake for almost 2 hrs, scrolling through websites after websites while waiting for morning to come. I hate this. I think my room is filled with germs, bacteria, viruses or watever u call it. Felt like sneezing the whole night through. I couldnt blame it anyway: there are stacks of papers almost everywhere, on the floor, on the table, on the shelf ... ... It is the result of many months of accumulation of lecture notes and books. I swear i am going to throw EVERYTHING away on 18 Nov. Anyway, I gave up sleeping. Decided to watch some videos but apparently after finishing Russell Peters, there arent much to watch already. Perhaps if anyone got something worth watching, can tell me ?? haha , so i will feel less bored during the night. Anyway, chanced upon this video of an airplane tat got struck by a lightning.

After watching this, i felt so much confident in the safety of aircrafts. Not tat i think it wasnt safe, but perviously i always wonder wat happens if lightning struck an airplane. Well, think i got the answer ...

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Saturday, 18 October 2008, 10/18/2008 12:30:00 pm

Read Jun Hong's blog, and just realised Need For Speed Undercover is coming out !!! And the timing couldnt have been more right : Just straight after As !!! Watched the trailer and i think its gonna be a nice game. This game shall be the no.1 on my budget list ... haha.. cant wait for it to come out ...

ok .. now its back to studying first ...

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Saturday, 20 September 2008, 9/20/2008 04:11:00 pm

Well, anyone heard of St Maarten's Juliana International airport ? Aeroplanes fly at super low levels here. This is because separating the beginning of the runway and the beach ( as u would see in the videos below) is just a mere two-way street with one line in each direction, and the airport parameter fence. Also, the runway is short - at 2100m , which is less than the 2.4 km we run for our napfa test , and thus for giant planes like boeing 747s to land, they cant afford to be airborne over the runway for too long. Or else, they would overshoot the runway.

In fact, the minimum landing requirement for such planes is similar to the length of the runway itself. So , u could imagine that kind of precision the pilot needs to ensure a safe landing. This also means that they have to touch down as soon as they reach the runway, so that they reduce the time they spent airborne over the runway. So , tats why aeroplanes have to fly low on final. I wont be surprised if u ever put one double decker bus on the road, it will hit the lower part of the landing gear. But then again, its St Maarten- a small island that is part of the Netherlands Antilles. So u wont find such buses there. The first video shows a plane landing low on final. The second one shows pictures of planes landing low on final. All at St Maartin's Juliana International Airport. Enjoy!

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Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 9/16/2008 10:17:00 pm

Today's newspaper was by far the most interesting i have read since i started reading many years back. Lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill lynch was bought over at below market price and AIG requested for $40 billion foreign reserve loan. Then, there is 16 Sept deadline for the Anwar takeover.. Nearly spent 1 hr reading the newspaper. Well, of course, the concern would be AIG for many insurance policies etc etc were bought from there. It was also really surprising that major companies like Merrill Lynch can fall prey to this crisis. Throughout so many years, i always thought it was a robust company with deep reserves. Well, all can happen rite? just like how Lehman closed down abruptly.

Alright, two more papers to go. Gradually, i have no idea why.. i start to hate chemistry. Perhaps it is all the memmorising that makes it such a bad subject to me. This, as oppose to physics and mathematics, which requires not just pure memmorising, but critical thinking. I rather be a problem solver than be a regurgitator of memmorised notes. Anyway, screw it. I only have 2 months left with chemistry and tats all im gg to have. I will 'divorce' with chemistry for the rest of my life!! As for physics, i think its getting more and more interesting.

Just read many physics articles these few days.. And increasingly, the world we live in seriously is very weird. So in essence, they wrote tat gravity is not a force. Any inertial object will fall towards and accelerate towards each other due to spacetime curvature. So, this means that, without adding force, things accerlerate. And, due to spacetime curvature, from a point to a point in space, a straight line may not be the shortest course to travel. Well,the strangest thing of all, they say is this: suppose u pass one photon through the young's double slit. Proven by experiments, Interference occur. Fringes observed.. So u have photon, it interfere with itself??? Strange. To further add on, when a detector is placed at one of the slit to determine which slit the photon went through, no interference occur. This points to a fact tat if we noe which slit the photon travelled through, they will be no interference. So basically, in order to obtain interference, we must not noe the path of the photon.

The answer they give was simple.Without a detector, the SAI function wave superimpose each other, thus there will be bright fringes where probability of a photon hitting there is high. But with detector, probability of the electron passsing the slit is one. thus, SAI function becomes a straight line. So no superposition as photons travel towards the screen.

So moral of the story: if want to see interference, dun bother to noe where photons went through. cuz u just cant do both things together.

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Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 9/09/2008 03:42:00 pm

ARGH!! today marks the 2nd or third month i have not been to MSN ... feeling damn fed up wif my com.. Notice a cycle in which 5 months after i reformat my com , the same old problems come up ( eg. " memmory ... reference .... Oxc0000015 " error always come up ). This problem exist in my current hard drive. The other hard drive ... haiz ... couldnt access the net ... ( eg. TCP/IP error or something like tat la). theorectically, both my hard drives have different problems, and they are the same old problem tat existed for many years, but disappear after reformating.

My current hard drive is service pack 1. den went to download service pack 2 so tat can install msn ... but cant ...And the weirdest thing of all: When i switched from my old hard drive to this current one, the @ button seem to swop with the " button. So if u would have guessed it, i just typed the " button to display the @ sign and vice versa.

Guess my com is old (or antique?) . six years liao.. Its a Dell computer ... and i think to me, it has lived beyond its expected life span ... but i shall try to maximise its survivality by maybe one year ? Has been studying the trend of new computers now, and i shall say perhaps my next com by then should be enough to accomodate games like flight sim !! i have been tempted by recent 500 GB computers - TATS HALF A TERABYTE!!! And then 3 GB ram , plus Geforce 9 series graphics card ... ok , tats pretty enough for me ... perhaps adding quad-core would be good :)

Wouldnt be surprising by the time one year pass, it will be eight-core 8MB L8 cache , with 8 GB ram and 800GB?? All right , its just one year away... so lets see how much computer tech shall improve..

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Monday, 18 August 2008, 8/18/2008 09:22:00 pm

Congrats to Singapore Table Tennis team !!! i think they did pretty well to earn them a second place in olympics. Although Lee Jiawei did not fair well during the clash between S. Korea and Singapore, i think she was able to put off a great fight against World no. 1 Zhang Yining. I would not have expected her to win anyway , so i think the results she achieved was ok. Hopefully, she can soar even further by achieving a bronze for singles... Im gonna watch the match if she makes it to tat stage!!!

The olympics is once again full of miracles. By chance, i happened to on the TV and i saw how Usain Bolt smash the world record. YES, i think he SMASHED it .. With time to slow down and den finishing with a world record is definitely unheard of in a 100m race. Tat is also after the fact that his reaction time was the 2nd slowest among the racers. Guess his timing could have been improved by a further 0.2 s if he ran to the fullest.

And was it the opposite of miracle to have cause the ungraceful exit of Liuxiang? I remembered how he was featured in VISA advertisements. To the disapointment of many, he withdrew today due to unknown reasons. He could have been the star who is poised to win a medal in the 110m hurdles, but it seems like 4 years of effort and waiting have come to naught. And now, its another 4 years to go to see him shine at London ...

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