too much time to think about these
there's a straits times article in today's papers (read it on the online version) which was talking bout unsw starting a campus here but charging a large fee. well thats not what bothers me, the fact that bothers me is, there seems to be a general perception that between the 3 local unis, nus is seemed or thought to be the best?? okay, now a most part of you are going to be thinking has napkin man gone bonkers in ntu?? is he actually so proud of he's school??is he actually so bo liao to be bothered bout this??.
well im just abit annoyed that with no ranking system in place whatsoever, how the hell do ppl make judgements like that?? do they base it on the courses they offer? cut off point for entry??value addedness?? employment opportunities?? hmms its just so weird, and people are also saying smu is the school to be in. well true to the extent because i know the girls there are blardy pretty, but other than that, why the hell would i wanna go there if i have no absolute interest in business??!! well if jio'ing girls was a paying job i'd gladly go there then. and nanyang business school offers the same degree with honours in 3 years rather than the 4 of smu so im thinking isn't it faster to do it here? ohh yes but one has to consider that the more time ur degree takes, the more time u can spend jio'ing char bo, so yeah thats actually a smarter alternative, plus the fact that u get subsidised golf lessons and an occasional swim from bintan back to spore.. splendid.
ok im not defending nan-da here, in fact im quite chessed off with some of the things in the system, but i guess i'll survive. i just wish ppl could stop comparing schools as if their livelihood depended on it. but if u must, go NAN DA!!!
another point of interest: i was watching discovery travel and adventure the other day and they were introducing hawaii and some fruit company on the island of maui. apparently they find starfruit and most particularly durians an 'exotic' and different thing from the norm. in fact, they even mentioned that durians are so rare that they fetch a price of 30 -40 US dollars. cant believe it!! if those durian ppl from here were doing business there, they'd be rich!! or we should juz start to export durians there, the fta will work to our advantage, cept of coz we gotta convince bush that durians arent bombs in disguise..
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6:00 pm
are you dumb
this stoopid link has been circulating around in my school, please do take this test, it really makes you feel dumb... click here
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1:16 am
why do i need lecturers
today's lecture was quite weird, this indian (seriously manz, i dunno why it's gotta be them) lecturer was teaching us some concept which sounds bo liao to me in the first place. but its quite difficult to understand, so everytime he explains half of a concept, he says 'this part u can go home and read, im not going thru it'. then came the atomic bombs of bo liaoness. he ended the main part of the lecture early so he could touch on a very important example, so important right? then i really paid attention lar, and again he speak halfway then ask us go back and solve the rest of the problem.
okay so now im thinking:IF I KNOW HOW TO DO IT THEN I ATTEND LECTURE FOR WHAT! he juz go 'do this as homework, do that as homework'. as far as i know, the only form of homework i do is tutorials, and lab reports and such, not some stupid lecture slide question that u are too lazy to elaborate on, i mean if he gave a proper working step to do it, i'd still be okay with going home to try it. so now i don't even know how to do anything, and i won't know what the hell will be going on either since i haf no idea how to do it. kudo's to those hardworking ppl who actually went to do it, seriously, u guys on the 5th row from the front( which is actually the first row with ppl in it) u deserve my utmost respect, cept for the fact that you all prolly came from the same FREAKIN country as the lecturer, and yeah not excluding you hardworking folks from the country of ping pong peng nam. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
ok now i just sound like a sour loser, which i am in fact, to get pissed off over work.. oh well whats new, my life is a bore, so sue me..
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10:04 pm
thank you come again
well i've just got the worse fuggin day, ever. okie it prolly might not be as bad as whats gonna come, but its bad. firstly, it started off like a normal saturday with saturday lectures (yawns). so normally walking to LT, drop by macs to get a sausage mcmuffin with egg plus a cup of good ol 60 cents coffee. feeling happy from mc muffin, then it starts.. the sneezing, my nose was running like a leaky tap. and the lecture was super dry and sucky. totally don't get what the hell was going on.
then back to hall with packet lunch. seems normal cept nose is still freaking leaking. then started on the tutorials, with a leaky nose, its a sucky experience to not be able to concentrate because ur nose decides that it needed a lil attention today. okay manage to complete one set, then came the other one. it was something that needed to use some program to see whether im rite or wrong, but i cant get to that stage because the stupid compiler decides that '..' is expected somewhere (its LTSA in case tech savvy ppl are thinking its programming, its programming with an modelling program, so its like pseudo programming). after dwidling with that stoopid '..' problem for bout half an hour, i decided to give up, pack up and leave for home. (up till now i still dunno where the hell im suppose to put that '..', i mean for crying out loud, GIVE MORE CLUES ON WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG!!).
so while still pissed off with that unsolveble dots, took a bus and the mrt. next was the incredible smell of the indian worker nxt to me, he looks like an indian worker lar, so i'll take it as an indian worker. don't mind me,he doesnt smell of sweat or what, he smells of that dunno thing they use to drench their body with, or maybe shower.. i think its some variant of piss or something. not trying to be racist here, but totally don't need that after spending so much time worrying bout dot dots.plus i remembered then that i forgot to bring my worship chord sheets home!!
dropped by clementi for awhile to buy ah ma her favourite tapiocal kuey from clementi pasar malam. then next is home. i realised that dad is entertaining some frenz over our place. don't get me wrong, im not anti social or against dad having frenz, its juz after all that shite i thought i could chill out and complete my 'dot dot' problem while cable surfing and having a nice cold heineken. but now that they are over, they are watching soccer, which i suddenly don't feel like watching, abit needed to be alone. but the plus point is the wine is flowing cos they are quite hardcore.
and so i decided after reading the papers and juice(shud go read, this month's issue teaches us why clubbing is bad for us). i decided to tackle the 'dot dot' problem again. and so while optimistic that i can at least solve it, i couldnt but i knew i could refer to my lab work which i already did half which was correct and that i emailed myself from the lab. and the the bombshell... I FREAKIN ATTACHED THE WRONG FUGGIN FILE!!! now not only am i not able to solve the 'dot dot' problem i haf to go freakin REDO my lab!!! wtf manz..
okays now im just going to throw everything down and enjoy some good old tv, and wine and potato chips.. thank you come again!
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11:24 pm
blogspiration
hmms, its true, everytime i get an idea to blog bout something, i don't write it down, then i go do all my work and in the end forget what i wanted to blog about. and usually in the wee hours of the morning, so my recollection is at its lowest point. im shure we've all been thru this, indie boy spoke of it before.
and right now it feels like i have lots to say, yet too lazy to type it out. there's a little of everything that could be said, but there's no concrete way to put it in words. oh wells..
juz enjoyed a prata..
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2:35 am
no honey
im pissed off!! while walking back from the super market, i was happily eating my honey dew, then while talking, i dropped it!! the whole slice, i think i only ate like a bite from it. so heart broken now. sob sob, those were good memories honey dew!!
no feeling to blog now.. maybe later...
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8:27 pm
intellectual slump
have just watched the 3 dumbest show to be shown in the span of the month, over the weekend. on saturday, i watched harrod & kumar goes to whitecastle and dodgeball . on sunday went to watch white chicks with stallion and clem. well all 3 were typically brainless shows, but they just had to be watched. its like being on a quest to be dumber or something, but hey, at least i got the laughs, and laughing according to the experts helps prevent errr prostate cancer? or depression?? or what was that it prevented?? oh right it prevents the IM GOING TO JUMP DOWN FROM 6 STOREY syndrome..
in other news: dad bought me a new fridge.. and its the medium kind, not small lil bar fridge.. moving it up was a bitch, but now that is up.. its time to PARTY!!
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1:47 am
4 cups
of coffee today.
woke up at an amazing 1330hrs, yep, u guessed it, i skipped my lectures again, figured they're not worth going for, can read up on my own. (and most of the time im proven wrong when my results come out). had my first coffee at 1700hrs.
came back from lab and decided to do abit of work, but got stuck, so went for rugby training instead. in case u're wondering, no im not in the school team, its just the hall team training, we're just starting out, so yeah alot of work to do and patience on the side of the seasoned players. then went for dinner, had my 2nd cup of coffee at 2030 hrs.
then came back and finished the rest of the work i was stuck on, went to view the fridge, i decided against common sense to actually test the fridge, which i should have, but i dunno, it looked fine so i decided it was okie, gonna carry it back with my roomie on monday, we're thinking of taking the bus.
supper was next, had mee soto and roti prata. the mee soto was so spicy that i had 2 kopi peng, and now im waiting for harrod and kumar to download finish, which is just about right, time to go sleep.. its a nice day.
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3:20 am
theivery corporation
was quite upset that there were so many unused invites that day. i could have brought my whole hall down for the event and hopefully convert 1 or 2 to the ever beautiful sound of trance/house/tribal alliance.
well it ended up very good after all, at first when they took over the set, they were really playing rubbish.. then kicked in the d&b with some sort of indian trance music, then it just rocked on from there. well for our side i guess there wasn't so many ppl, but i think we truely enjoyed the music, i only had 3 bottles of beer even, and din have anymore, which was good, it meant i was enjoying the music not under the influence..
well if only indie boy was there..
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5:47 pm
