healthy lifestyle campaign
hmmm for the past 3 days i have been very proud of mysel.. got the motivation to drag my lazy ass to go jogging and throw in abit of static exercises. well the motivation came when i was talking to my fren about ippt and was reminded that the gold money is 400.. okay im not saying i will obtain a gold.. but its something to work towards right?? plus have been getting in more vege in my diet, so that's good too!!
but all the hard work of the past 3 days was ruined in one nite at marks. number 1 killer was the lamb, and surprisingly , i had 4!! this has never happened before, as usually each one take one, then no more.. GG.. and today the last piece was sitting there screaming for ppl to eat it.. and i gladly obliger.
number 2 killa was the roast pork.. ooo with the apple sauce.. it is indeed one of the best sio bah i've eaten. number 3 was the beef stew.. and 4,5,6 are the potato salad n the pasta and the mushroom with some fillings (dunno what, taste good can ready)
and then after that we went to dota.. so causing me to sleep later than usual... bahhhhhh...
but it was good....
character of the day: MOGUL KHAN (kublai khan's brother)
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3:11 am
next year
next year,
things are going to change
going to drink less beer
and start all over again
gonna read more books
gonna keep up with the news
gonna learn how to cook
spend less money on shoes
pay my bills on time
file my mail away, everyday
only drink the finest wine
call my gran every sunday
resolutions
baby they come and go
will i do any of these things
the answer's probably no
but if there's one thing
i must do, despite my greatest fear
im going to say it to you
how i felt all of these years
next year...
-performed by jamie cullum
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10:28 pm
got it?? got it!
yupps, 2 days after the previous post, i finally got my email from toronto telling the the subjects that i am able to take (got 6 of them). but then i would have to re-check with my school if that's the subjects that match the ones in my syllabus. so we can say we're almost 90% confirmed that im going.. (i really hope sooooo)
haven't recieve the big package from them yet, waiting to recieve then i will know when i school starts and when we will go over. so ian, watch this space and warm up the car!!
in other news, i finally got my first a this semester, in the form of my psychology module. yupps, its a pleasant surprise, although it won't count to my grades, but its nice to see an a doesnt it?? kekekeke
well the grading system in ntu goes something like this:
DI - DISTINCTION
A - EXCELLENT
B - VERY GOOD
C - GOOD
D - PASS
E - MARGINAL FAIL
F - FAIL
if the ppl up there were die hard dota fans, it would have looked something like this:
DI - BEYOND GOD LIKE!! SOMEBODY STOP HIM!
A - GOD LIKE!!
B - WICKED SICK!!
C - DOMINATING
D - PAWNING
E - A HERO HAS FALLEN!! 6 MONTHS REVIVAL...
F - you are better off playing dota...
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4:11 pm
frustrated
every morning (ok ok afternoon) i have the same routine. after waking up, if i aint going out, i'll walk over to the hawker centre opposite my house to buy lunch back. (in fact im so sick of the food, i need variety!!. then i'll eat and watch some afternoon tv, usually sports or discovery travel and living.
well it might seem normal, but at the back of my head, i only want to do one thing, check my school email. so you know how it is right when you don't wanna get disappointed too early, so you try to stall time, do as much things as possible and not check your email until a certain time.
then i'll check it at around 3 or 4pm. (cause thats the time nearest to knock off time, so then maybe some nice soul will send the email im waiting for) and its always the same thing. emails from orientation comm, from mech camp comm, from some stranger asking me if i want a bigger penis (who doesnt?!) and from other strangers who ask me to go for some seminar or talks. but that one elusive email just doesnt seem to want to get to me.... my confirmation email from university of toronto.
my friend got his email today, but then its because there are subjects which they don't approve. so what's my status??? i really want to know. really really.. like what hua hui said, even a no is better than a maybe, cause at least you move on. but that false hope really kills, esp when after they say yes, means i hafta rush and do a whole load of admin work.. better say yes early...
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6:58 pm
everybody wants to be a rock star
i read with interest the huge sign up for the straits times rock band concert. apparently there are 200 over bands that signed up (or was that 800?? forgot liao i think 200 more realistic lar hor).
i appluad the idea to set up this rock band thingy, i guess in some sense it challenges the youths to channel their energy into more positive means (i think somewhat copy awakening's idea leh). but its juz hilarious to see the profiles of the band (the life section tries to feature a band now and then...) and the names of the band is quite apalling, i don't even wanna talk about how some of them dress.
so one word that came to mind when i saw the pictures: wannabes. i guess im making a really big and wrong generalization, but how many of them are actually doing it for would i cliche'ly put it the love of music. yeah im going to be blasted for not supporting local music again (but then not many of them write their own songs, so its more of supporting covers done by local musician)
looking back, i can safely say i picked up the guitar becoz i wanted to as the ah bengs puts it jio charbo (u can see im not very sucessful). whereas some of my pals went on to achieve greater things, like leeson who spun off from a small grp of us who just wanted to have fun after our o-levels in 1998. so that was something i eventually realised... i wonder how the bands will continue after they get 'kicked out' of the competition. how many will actually carry on the passion and eventually get to greater heights. or will they all die off because they realised like me, playing guitar doesnt get you the chickadees.
but kudos who fuel their passion and ambitions with determination and hard work. to continue practising and jamming, to pen songs that will be able to reach out to the masses, first in singapore, and then to maybe the region... then maybe we'll see a new dawn of local music...
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1:13 am
anti piracy is such a bitch
went shopping today! whee finally, i bought myself a cap from topman and the hamburger hill dvd plus gorillaz demon days. well i just realised that the gorillaz album has that anti piracy player that prevents u from ripping the songs out. well that's just great... how can i forget not long ago that some guy wrote in to the forums to complain that this prevents pod users from transfering the songs to their ipods, stoopid me. anyway the writer has a point, becoz if you buy the cd, apparently u can take part in some contest that lets u win an ipod shuffle, so see the irony in that?? ok now gotta figure a way to disable the damn player..
stoopid anti piracy ppl..
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1:03 am
the weekend i din dota
finally mech camp is done with. so that's one camp down and one more to go. in the end everything fell into place nicely despite of the initial hiccups of being able to get only 6 schools to participate. on the whole i would say i had fun. espcially thankful to the ppl who really put in effort to see thru this camp.
i initially wanted to say more, but i suddenly writers block (or rather kenna engineer engrish syndrome.. ) so that's all for now. stay tune to read about my encounter with the guy who thinks its sad that im not from mechanical and aerospace engineering and cant provide much help, but yet am the group leader of the kids (maybe thats why my grp din win... *shrugs*)
Oh i came home today and got a letter from international relations office.... i got... my travel grant!!! which adds on to the continuing irony of giving me the funds to travel without telling me if i can go in the first place...
all i need is a life of dota.. with me and my khakis...
"luna and sven 2005"
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11:58 pm
decaying slowly
i really need something to do, been super non productive as of late. correction, have been super lazy after my psychology exam last week. i have tonnes of books left untouched which i know i should start reading (yes my super hero book is not yet done, cos im freaaaaking lazy). so what do i spend my days doing??
well i think i don't need to answer that one, first is dota, second is tv, lots of tv, so its either tv or dota. damn, i really need a new hobby, have said that i wanna learn some flash, but then i cant get past the first tutorial of the help that macromedia provides, i need more motivation.
sitting here on my ass the whole day, wanted to bring my fat lazy ass to go jogging just now, but then after sitting down for too long, my butt forms a natural glue that makes me stuck to my seat. haiz..
and furthermore have been waking up at 12pm or 1pm, i really hate waking up sooo late, its like my whole day has been eaten up. damn sianz.. oh wells, i shall go wallow in self pity and more chocolates..
"what u give is what you get" - the hollow
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5:11 pm
dun blame my lau bei lau bu
was reading the papers yesterday about a certain singaporean girl blogs (i shall make it annoynomous, but you should already know who) about her inclination to have romps with ang moh men. so recently she posted her nude pictures on the blog. apparently a close source told me she's not chio..
but that's not i want to talk about here, i mean i really have nothing against ppl wanting to post their naked pictures on their blogs, in fact i encourage it. (juz kidding, pld dun quote me, else i'll have to face a firing squad in a place not far from my home). but rather, some ppl were interviewed to see their reactions to the post. and one man, whom is a 30 plus year old man said that he felt this reflect the bad upbringing by her parents.
i felt totally injust for her parents. im sure at 19 years old, the girl would have full cognitive ability to appreciate what she is doing. so regardless of her upbringing, i think if she was that horny and sluty (oops, no name calling), she'd have done it anyway. so why fault the parents. lets say a 40 year old man commits pedophilia, do we then drag out that his parents never bring him up properly? that's unlikely the case right? we could say that he was sexually abused as a young kid, but then that is totally irrelevant to upbringing what.
which parent in the right mind tells a kid explicitly "don't go posting ur naked picture on the internet". if they even know wat internet was like 10 years ago. i think the responsibility lies totally with the girl. and with regards to myself, i really hope no one gives flak to my lau pei lau bu juz becoz i did something disgraceful, i assume full responsibility (i ususally blame it on the voice inside my head, nope not from God, but from the third person in me.. shite, too much psychology) and will eat the shit..
okies that's all i hafta say.. now to take some naked pictures of myself and post it..
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10:19 pm
lack of sleep makes bone clinks to bed
reached home at 5 this morning, thanks to the ever addictive defence o f the ancients. and then woke up at an unearthly hour of 8 this morning to go to school for my travel grant interview. the interviwers were really nice, but i think my lack of sleep caused me to anyhow answer the questions. but anyhow getting the grant is useless if toronto don't confirm my place, so UoT ppl, if you're reading this, i really wanna know if i can go!!!
after that came back with lunch,ate showered and concussed till 4. supposed to go shopping one, but yesterday's activities totally took the toll on me. so i guess i'll postponed it till tmr. i oso dunno what i wanna get, any suggestions?? tag tag tag! (slut way of gettting tag hits, muahahhhaa)
but on the other hand starting to get broke, if you guys are reading this, and have job lobangs and are thinking to yourself "hmmm vincent seems like a nice fella, although i really need this job to feed my family, but i don't mind giving it to vincent becoz he is nice guy" then do let me know too!!
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6:11 pm
beautiful in my eyes
you're my piece of mind
in this crazy world
you're everything i've tried to find
your love is a pearl
you're my mona lisa
you're my rainbow skies
and my only prayer
is that you realise
you'll always be beautiful in my eyes
the world will turn
and the seasons will change
and the all lessons we will learn
will be beautiful and strange
we'll have our fill of tears
our share of sighs
my only prayer is that you realise
you'll always be beautiful in my eyes
you will always be
beautiful in my eyes
and the passing years will show
that you will always grow
ever more beautiful in my eyes
there are lines upon my face
from a lifetime of smiles
when the time comes to embrace
for one long last while
we can laught it about
how time really flies
we won't say goodbye
cos true love never dies
you'll always be beautiful in my eyes
-beautiful in my eyes, joshua kadison
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5:45 pm
maybe tomorrow
tmr's my psychology paper, well quite scared cos not really prepared, and also quite bo chap since i really don't need the grades anyway, just looks good that a computer engineer has taken psychology aint it?? muahaha. its mcq and 4 essay qns, hopefully i can just score on the mcqs and walk out after that, then pang seh the essay qns.
yupps, and i really wanna go shopping tmr!! or soon.. freaking great singapore sale and im not doing anything? plus need to get me a book on flash, since holiday nothing to do, better upgrade myself abit.
kz this post is really bo liao, nothing to do, thought i'd like to tell everybody what i'll be doing tmr lor.. hahaa
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11:22 pm
all knowing parents
the other day over dinner, my parents and i were talking bout durians. so i jokingly said why don't we eat durians and drink beer. and my mom said "cannot! will die one!" (which i already heard before, and apparently everybody knows oso), so i asked her how come will die, and if its proven?? she also dunno, but its just that everybody said so. apparently its known by everybody aint it??
soo if u think you knew the durian one, let me shock u with 2 other combinations my parents warned me about. first is mangosteen with sugar (or coffee) and the other is beef with ka-na-ji. although i dunno whats the reason, my all knowing dad says its due to some chemical reaction inside the body. (ok my bro and i had this little joke that whenever dad says something 'scientific' we'll call that moment 'soil erosion'.. becoz that was a term he kept using last time when there was this spate of disasters in m'sia.. heehee)
then just yesterday my parents went to this place called quality road (i dun even know where is that) and bought like 50 bucks worth of ice cream cos there was a sale .. where one cornetto apparently only cos 55cents. so now my freezer has like 3 boxes of ice cream. i asked the, 'eh no need money wan ah' and they said 'aiyoh u know how cheap anotz??!' im thinking to myself 'cheap oso no need to go over the limit rite??) and 3 boxes was after we gave 2 to 3 boxes away.. best.. now i can eat ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner.. im not really complaining ..
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11:57 pm
hairy day
well, woke up at a damn pathetic time of 830 (realised we dota'ed till 3 last nite) to go to school for the orientation filming. hmmm i would not have been sooo upset if xiuhui din tell me that i was not needed today!!! apparently my shaman (rastha!!) costume is not ready and that i have to wait till the nxt time to film with the next bunch of comm members who couldnt make it today. and since i was already there, i guess she had a good time torturing me by making me an 'extra' cast. i gotta admit she and chuanie did a good job lar.. cept i was made to do silly things .. hmm but im not the only one lar, all of us looked really silly
then went to ses and almost fell asleep there. subsequently went to acjc to wait for wee lock the swimming instructor to join us for dinner. it was so cool going back after soo long, we just walked around the sports complexed, chilled out at the cafereria's sofa (which we assumed was donated, cos it looked quite buang, and the coffee table is definitely from our favourite swedish furniture store).
yupps, then we headed down to marina square for dinner, i tell you, that place is sooo totally revamped, we stepped out from the carpark and the first thing we saw was like restaurant looking, it was damn nice (this place called center stage, which is a conglomerate of restaurants with the center portion being like a 'shared' place) totally recommended for guys to bring chick-a-dees (as mark puts it) , cos they have this jazz piece in the middle (by jazz piece, i mean a jazz band). yupps, only problem was we were a bunch of 5 guys in a damn nice setting, but ok lar shan't complain.
nxt up was harry's @ esplanade, its like super uber damn long since we went there to chill. standard order was the green room which is napkin's number 1 harry's drink. yupps, paul p(ok the p stands for a name i dunno how to spell, but it is pronounced as poon-nai-door-rai). fantastic sets, he played a jamaican version of hotel california which is damn funny, and damn awesome. but the problem with him is that his set is damn short and his break is damn long! plus there was this old lady who was dancing by herself while he was playing, i mean i really R.E.S.P.E.C.T her self confidence and such lar, but it was rather distracting.. short of saying she was mad, but she came across as abit eccentric.
so that was my day for today.. a long one.. and guess what?? we din play dota today!! great achievement!! yupps, gaming resumes tmr!! (forgot to mentioned lock and jerm had this ice cream called gaming warmonger which i thought would give them the urge to play dota). muahahaha...
okies.. NIGHTS
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1:19 am
done in 15 mins
every semester we students face the bane (nope not bane hollow) of registering for our subjects. last semester was especially screwed up for me, leaving me with a sucky timetable. well this time round, surprisingly, it was so smooth i couldnt believe it. usually this is what happens:
all the kan cheong spyders will go down to school to use the school computers, esp the library ones because of the myth that the computers are in sync with the system clock, so basically you'll get the subjects you want faster than the rest of the world who aren't using the school comps cos they won't know the exact time to click. of coz prior to that, you must have planned out everything swee swee, ready, waiting for the clock to strike at the exact time and then the fastest mouse click wins. plus with the new time table planner that ntu has implemented, it makes planning and clicking even easier (not always true, becoz due to some ppl not listening to instructions of registering FOR THE SAME CLASS FOR ALL SUBJECTS) you might not be able to get one or two mods, and the headache begins. so bottom line is, if you are the fastest mouse clicker, you win (similar to playing DotA)
the past 3 sems i did in school, with the last sem's one in the library which totally screwed me up. so today i was wondering should i stay in school to do registration but i was too darn lazy to hang around in school (esp playing dota till 4 this morning). n hence i pia home, bought char siew, shio bar peng back, munch it down, and began my battle. surprisingly, i logged in 15 mins earlier, click click abit.. then not time yet.. then felt the urge to pang sai, so i quickly did a 3 min stint in the throne, and then came back to click click 2 more times, then the subjects were added sucessfully.
so whats the winning formulae?? the school library myth is bullshite, and taking a shit before you do ur subject registration gives u the edge (not lothar's edge). yupps.
but i guess the funny thing is that i actually hope not to be able to attend lessons nxt semester cos i really wanna get my exchange place in toronto, so a smooth subject registration might prove uselss afterall (unless of coz i dun get to toronto, and even if i did, i'd have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN, but over there.. haiz)
*note: certain terms that u see above that you do not understand, are totally dota related
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2:32 pm
intra cell olympics
another session of sports today, and here is the current standings:
men's singles tennis champion: angie
men's singles tennis runner-up: me
men's singles table-tennis champion: angie
men's singles table-tennis runner-up: hua hui
men's doubles tennis champions: hua hui and me
men's doubles tennis runner-ups: kai and lock
so what does it say about all this??
UNDERDOGS ARE OWNING!!
... and angie is owning the men..
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7:07 pm
