Sunday, September 30, 2007

SAT woes

i've been steadily scoring poorer and poorer in my mock SAT tests. in fact, in my last test, i only scored like 600 for maths. i had 10 consecutive qns wrong for identifying sentence errors, and my essay is getting nowhere. to make things worse, next week is my actual SAT, and i'm aiming for stanford. hmmm, wonder if i can still make it...

~shakes head and sighs~

anywayz, here's a quik quiz.. very obvious one. answer all the qns first b4 looking at the answers:

Qns:
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get catgut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?







eh.. dun cheat!!!





Ans:
1) 116 years, from 1337 to 1453
2) Ecuador
3) From sheep and horses
4) November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours
5) Squirrel fir
6) The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs
7) Albert. When he became king in 1936, he respected the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert
8) Distinctively crimson
9) New Zealand
10) Orange

~oops not so straightforward yeah?~

Friday, September 28, 2007

screwed up overtime

yup that's wat happened lah... my branch had to stay back for some prep with our bosses to prepare for an upcoming audit. prior to this day, we've been doing lots of drawing and tracing. wah do so much until my eyeball gonna pop out liao.

so on this fateful night, we worked hard and toiled on until 10.30pm.. cuz of this, i failed to see ms goon off at the airport. could sense the sadness in her voice when i called her to tell her that i would not be able to make it. yeah understand the feeling. zheng books out on sat night, chork on overseas training, vanessa overseas, bernie with an upset stomach.. so think i was her 'last hope'.. gasp!!

haiz wat to do leh.. anyway, hope ms goon wil enjoy herself at cambridge. haha must send back some photos of your blonde classmates yeah? haha

Thursday, September 27, 2007

just so blessed

wow wow wee yea... went to DON at tanglin mall for dinner with popo and yeye.. had taht korean bulgogi beef rice thingey... ummm... damn shiok and nice. filling too... the nice sunny side-up egg on the top adds to the stickiness of the rice, just the way i like it.

did a bit of window shopping after dinner. walked past 'that cd shop' and heard those kind of familiar tunes that you usually hear on 90.5 and on tv ads, but never knew the title. (oh yeah, for those who didn't know, i'm an oldie fan. lol) walked in and.. JACKPOT. the whole album had all those popular songs that have lasted through the ages and have been used countless times on tv... like 'music to watch girls by' (interestingly, that's the title of the album by high society) just heard a few of the songs and went "wow! must really get this album"

then the big heart-stabber came when i saw the price tag. bleh... 36 bucks!!! hmmm gotta consider.. but then, quite suddenly, popo just took one album of the rack, asked me if i liked it, and immediately ran to the cashier to pay for it. i was like "woah! that's fast!" and the album was mine... wow, how deep is their love for me

you know, i must be really blessed... did some reflection just now, thinking how good the Good Lord has been to me, even though i've been disobedient and simply a wretched person. He's given me such great parents who love and support me all the way; loving grandparents to shower even more love on me; good health, a house to live in; great pals in camp too... what more can i ask...

yeah wat more can i ask, except for the Good Lord to continue to draw me close to Him...

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ONE DAY
More than I could hope or dream of,
You want to pour your favour on me.
One day in the house of God is,
better than a thousand days in the world.
CHORUS:
So blessed I can't contain it.
So much I gotta give it away.
Your love has taught me to live now.
You are more than enough for me.

Monday, September 24, 2007

something's missing

yeah.. feeling the pinch once again for not persevering.

the other sgts were teaching their guys some stuff, something that i would have liked to do. but well, guess i'll never have the chance to do it, since i don't have my own men to look after.

still, i was able to walk around after lunch to kaypoh at their coy line. taught the guys some wrong stuff which i later corrected. (prob its a good thing i didn't teach them anything) haha so much for being a TO... lol

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Happy Birthday Pappy!!!

Gee, Dad is really getting old. yi4 zhuan2 yan3 (in a flash of an eye), he's 49, and having lots of white hair. haha must be the stress at work that he goes through each day. he's been complaining a bit about work and wants to get out of it. oh well, he calls it a mid-life change (something to that extent lah) .. as a good son, i just accept it as his wish, since its his life. yup...

so today, to celebrate, we went out with popo and yeye to colbar, near temasek club. apparantly, this place was an officer's mess in some camp last time. then with the construction of the semi-expressway near aye, they shifted there lor. haha the chinese food there was really good, better than chin chin to be precise. price was a bit steep, but well, now with gst going up, inflation is settiling in.

on a side note, think we were the only table eating chinese food; everyone else was going western, so yup think that's what we'll do next week =)

on a separate note, at bs today, got to share a bit of my heart with jonas about my throwing in the towel early problem. oh wll, at least feel better that yup, can share it with someone lah...

you know, though i've confessed that i may have been disobedient, and i know that the good Lord has forgiven me, i still feel unworthy of Him. honestly, i feel that He's still somehow pissed at me. maybe it's just me thinking too much, but hey, when your friend pissed you off, won't you still remain grouchy about it for a few days, even though you may have forgiven him?

Nah, i don't think God's like that... Thank God for that

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11Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. 12The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.
13"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17"When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' 20So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
21"The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.[
b]'
22"But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. 24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.

-Luke 15:11-24 (NIV)
35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.
38But my righteous one[f] will live by faith.
And if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him."[g]
39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed,
but of those who believe and are saved.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Split away suddenly

FINALLY, got a chance to see the physiotherapist. wah she quite pretty and young one leh... haha... quite nice also.. think she was able to diagnos my problem more accurately then the other specialists i've seen so far.

yeah, now just me and my buddy, together with the others in my branch. Gee i miss the time we new commanders could just be together in the bunk, talking cock with each other, comparing how screwed up our lives are, or just supporting each other, either through prayer or just waking each other up on time...

so yup, both of us will be the boss of our bunk now... gotta go clean up the bunk too. so freakin dusty...

well, gonna miss the good ol' times... but err come to think of it, its only just 3 weeks together
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haha i like this m1 ad... heard it was the indian restaurant owner who thought out the whole idea.. real smartz..



LOL

Monday, September 17, 2007

choices and stubborness

hey yo... its great being able to just blog here without anyone disturbing you. haha

so yup, i'm out of sispec and now at my home unit, the place where i'll be for the next 1 year and two more months. its an infantry unit by the way, and well, that means more chionging all the way.

anyway, went to see a specialist about my knee. interestingly he didn't ask me to go for an x-ray to see if my condition got worse. But oh well, after a few leg 'tests', he recommended 6 weeks rmj to go rest the poor knee before flying off to brunei.

Pretty thankful for that, cuz well, at least i get the rest from all the rushing that i thought i would have to face in the unit (just like bmtc and sispec). Interestingly enough, unit life really isn't so bad after all. On the contrary, there's quite a fair bit of free time, so haha not that bad after all.

More interestingly, into the first week of unit life, my RSM told me that cuz of my condition, I might get posted to be an int spec. Haha guess the amount of joy I felt after that. whee at last a chance to try something different and new.

however, my posting still wasn't confirmed yet, until further into the month when everyone else was slotted in nicely. so I did have the worry that, hey, i may not get what i want.

so what did i do about it? just persisted in prayer for that whole week, pleading with God that He would grant me my dream post. and in fact, that was the first thing on my list each night.

you may say i may be a very pious, religious person, but hey, that's where i think i crashed and burned badly. cuz in my prayers, i was just stubbornly praying that i would get what i want, instead of praying, "Oh Lord, let Your will be done' Worse still, i kept pleading for my request to be fulfilled, knowing full well that what i was doing was wrong. i mean, i did ponder to myself that by just letting God decide where i go to, i may get a better deal in the long run. but, i guess i just chose to throw in the towel along the way, and quit the path of faithfulness towards my God.

I feel ashamed... ashamed at cutting down my own cross

Well, i've gotten what i want now, but i'm beginning to feel the pains (and regrets) of stubbornly choosing my own path. I'm now separated from my pals who came here together with me from hotel platoon 3. and well, i really treasure these guys (bk, meng hwee, weijun, jar-min), but gotta let go of them now as they trudge out their own paths in their own company. also, i have no section to lead. wonder if it is a good thing or not, but well, guess i missed the essence of being in an unit.

thankfully, God still never forgot my fear of loneliness; Joel also got posted along with me. well, at least someone else I can talk to, but well, 2 guys tend to get familiar with each other too quickly, and then we realise that there's nothing else left to talk about. that's when the coldness sets in again. sigh... hope it stays wrong between us...

do hope my pals are having a great time together with their company and each other.

~Oh God, don't abandon me~


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8 "Hear, O my people, and I will warn you— if you would but listen to me, O Israel
9 You shall have no foreign god among you;
you shall not bow down to an alien god.
10 I am the LORD your God,
who brought you up out of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11 "But my people would not listen to me;
Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 "If my people would but listen to me,
if Israel would follow my ways,
14 how quickly would I subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes!
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him,
and their punishment would last forever.
16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;
with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
-Psalm 81: 8-16

Monday, August 20, 2007

Back again

ok now blogging for the sake of blogging.l haha so i'm now using one of the comps at rocky hill mess. our dear OC is gonna sing shang4 hai3 tan1... like wth.. lol...

ok so gonna have some fun now, won't take too much of guang hao's time.. thx lots !!!

cheers

p.s pay you??? you WISH AH!!!

Sunday, July 22, 2007

SURPRISE

gee... once again, using the airport terminal to blog now. Heading off for taiwan now. For what purpose? shhh.... can't say anything about it..

oh well, feeling rather quesy about all this. I mean, am i ready for it?oh well, we'll see....

can't wait to get my own laptop, then i can continue blogging normally...

ok going on msn to see if anyone is online... to those who seee this new post, well, that shows that i'm still keen on blogging, just that my mum's laptop sux,and well no time lah..

God bless

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

YAY!!! Can FINALLY post!!!

phew.. finally logged into blogger in beta, at the free web access terminal at the budget terminal.. lol...

think my mum's laptop super screwed up. Of all things, cannot post. So yeah that's why its been super stagnant all this while... anyone has idea on how to fix my cookies?

anyway, i think i may wanna have a switch soon... may want to change to some other blog provider like livejournal or something. Any recommendations from any of you?

ok ok gtg and run about to explore the budget terminal. will try and talk more when i come back...

Kor Prajao way porn!!!

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

ok better than i thot

yeah.. maths 's' today lor... haha thot i would be sleeping through most of the paper, cuz i was super sleepy this morning, with my arms aching like crazy (dunno why, but i dreamt that i was helping some hospital test their new blood pressure machine. the pads go on both arms, and they squeeze real hard...)

surprisingly, though i couldn't complete an entire whole qns (unlike those maths philes), I could do at least 2/3 of the whole thing... yup fully awake too during the paper. quite a miracle somehow, cuz I only slept at 11.30 last nite... hmph

so yup, thank you God!!!

oh by the way, does anyone have the lyrics for 'endless love', the song by jackie chan in the myth; also, anyone got lyrics for qian li zhi wai also? haha pass to me in hard copy if you can yeah? my comp can't read chinese =(

kk few more days left.. let's go sleep...

zzzzzz

Monday, November 20, 2006

f for f maths

yeah... f for f maths... screwed mechanics... and the stats qns were weird man... i got a 2 sample Z test...

grrr.... cambridge is getting weirder...

Friday, November 17, 2006

Phew... one more week leh

aiya... past few weeks have been like bitter-sweet... maybe i just whine about a few stuff that i can remember lah:

phys got 6 mistakes for mcq liao. then phys paper 2 was like a mad killer lah. Their beginning to ask really weird and random questions. Eg: "Define the radian!!! Like huh? Isn't this a freaking maths question???? And even if it is, maths will never ask this kind of rubbish...

screwed chem paper 3. spent too much time on the first question on electrolysis. cathode reaction is wrong. its not H+ lah... then no time for the inorg section, which I usually do last.

ok on the good side, f maths was do-able. Think I can get my first A, in like the whole row of EEEEs and an O. Ok B is fine lah... But real scared that they will slaughter us in paper 2.

Oh and the biggest joke of them all: the topic that got the entire engin fac so worked up
(esp Medusa Beethoven) DID NOT COME OUT!!! Wah stupid lah... Waste so many weeks on lectures, extra lectures, tutorials.. extra lessons with jonas (which really helped a lot ;op ) and having to tolerate Beethoven's non-stop ranting on how she has to 'shou shi can ju' (clean up the mess). haha lol

seems like everyone is still in the exam mood and mugging hard... think i should do the same too...


yup even good old raffles is into it too

Thursday, November 02, 2006

All the BEST!!!

haha yup one of my biggest worries is over!!! spent the past 4 days just purely mugging for gp. wonder if it was a good idea, but well, gp rather important in getting the course you want in NUS. Heard from my pastor that those who dun do well for gp must bid for their course, while those who scored for gp were 'assigned' the courses they wanted. so yup, cannot overlook gp.

oh well, i did qns 3, if you are curious. AQ was weird. summary is tough...

oh well, anyway, gotta do the next thing on my schedule, which is to..... burn my gp notes. oh but before that, yeah just wanna wish you guys:



God's eagle so that you can SOAR!















and God's rook for security and peace of mind..







Yup mug on hard. God bless =)

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30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40: 30-31
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10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe.

Proverbs 18:10

Friday, October 27, 2006

disillusioned

you know, the a-levels are coming close. ideally, i thought i should be more or less on full steam, ploughing through my notes and my books, revising every single detail and mechanism, practicing lots more past year papers, wasting less time.

of course, that's an ideal. and in real life, we always deviate from the ideal scenario. I dunno.. I really wanna push on, but i feel so sian, so tired. like doing the same thing all day long..

the other thing that puts me off is my speed at doing things. i dunno, somehow quite a few pple can like do 2 papers and mug 1 chem topic a day, for eg. then here's the not-so-smart me doing 1 chem topic the whole screwed up day.

oh and you know how pissful it is to keep practicing at something you know you are weak at, hoping you will improve. and lo and behold, you don't. and then the smarty pants all around you are like scoring so well, so much better than you.

haiz... guess i should aim slightly lower. after all, I'm not the very high standard kinda chap, so why bother to fight my way into such a high standard, high class kinda uni where all the smarty pants all go and then i feel the same thing i've been facing for the past 2 years again 3 years down the road. anyway, what's wrong studying here?

haiz... just dang tired. my eyes especially. mugging like this is gonna make me so short-sighted that i'm as good as blind. yeah, many so many people play so much longer than me and their degree is still 300 to 400, while i haven't played any game in ages and my degree is over 700. haiz unfairness of life.

then again... real life deviates from the ideal, so just live with it...

Monday, October 23, 2006

eye wrinkles


sian ah... blogger take so long to upload the images i want it to upload. it keeps saying its uploading, circles 1 round, then stops there. oh wait its up now.



haha guess that's what you get when you mug too much huh? just look stoned with huge eyebags.. gosh..

kk go mug...

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you believe?

Friday, October 20, 2006

:@ contagious :@


yeah that stupid mask that i got yesterday or 2 days ago when I went to tan tock seng. haha wore that with the raffles sweater. Haha i look my darth varder's doctor with the hood on. hehe










sianz got my enlistment letter on tues. bmtc skool 2... haha heard from my cousin that its the school that they like to show off to parents. it's the school with the nicer cookhouse, and (most importantly) its the school that's closest to the ferry terminal. hahaa so those in skool 1, sorry ah.. must walk further in... much further in... lol

hey tell me if you are in the same skool as me yeah? haha the more the merrier... lol

happy mugging !!!

Monday, October 09, 2006

everything crushing me down

aiyo trying to complete US uni apps. no time for fluids leh... then gotta see miss wang tml and i haven't prepared much yet. grrr....

oh and i feel sad for you nj pple. your gp compre was like worse than tough. and i thot my skool's one was the worst of the lot... haha...

hey hey dun waste time... go and study!!!

Thursday, October 05, 2006

2nd last day of skool

can you believe it? 2nd last day of school formally. So quick.

Can you even believe that I went to school today with practically 4 hours of free time?! Yup that's true, cuz its only civics as the first period, then GP, which was another free period, and then chem, which was also converted into a free period, and then recess was next.

Oh well, class breakfast first. soooo very nice of Mr Lee to buy so much Tiong Bahru char siew bao, siew mai and other stuff. We also had jiashun's chao fan and potato wedges. Then there was the cake for all the birthday babies from August to October. Gosh you should have seen the cake from Secret Recipe. Wah so sinful!!! The chocolate melts in your mouth literally and the whole cake is just chocolate and cream. Whee... Calories=> Fat!!! =(

Of course, then got the usual concoction by chork for zhong ji mi ma. This time round even better... Got hell lot of stuff, like bits of potato wedge, scrambled eggs, chilli, creamer all thrown into lemon tea. then mr lee halfway through added in chicken skin?! Like yucks man... haha the time i played, never zhong again, so ;op



The concoction, with the chilli, cake, scrambled egg and chicken skin floating


Chork VS Mr Lee.. Who will zhong4?

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haha suay lor mr lee... haha but kudos to mr lee and the others for allowing us to have so much fun today...

Oh and yeah nxt time you play game of life, be a tech support. Then you can earn a hell lot when people dunno how to spin the wheel properly. haha that's how i got rich and won everyone, while poor zhiyan was like... well poor.. hehe

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Nothing much to say bout NYAA today as well... couldn't shake hands with the president as he was feeling ill, so someone else took over. haiz so wasted, but hope he gets well soon. haha recognised the MC's voice... mum told me later that it was Mr X from 90.5 or sth...

after the ceremony, we just took some party shots here and there in our blazers. yay finally what we have been working hard for has finally paid off..

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kk back to the world of dreams

Friday, September 29, 2006

2nd heartbreaker

yup... officially scraped through gp... my gp grade has been like a sine curve-- up and down, up and down, and this time, its way down...

oh and can't believe I actually wasted my chance of going home early today, when I had the chance. CAn't believe I actually wasted 2.5 hours playing hearts when I got such LOUSY grades!!! wah rao feel like slapping myself..

Haha sorry guys if I seem to be whining. Thanks for teaching me the game and for letting me shoot all of you unknowingly that time. Still wondering how I was able to do it... -scretches head-

Anywayz, gmail is screwed. Can't log in, so send emails to my other emails for now yeah? And yeah, my blog design badly screwed cuz I can't find a good file hosting service. Anyone knows of a good and FREE one? thx

Oh and err... dun think I'll be coming online often for now, prob till after the As, so yup may not update so much... May upload jokes once in a while to help you guys destress yeah? HAha

kk all the best to the guys at ac having their final years. Meanwhile, study hard and play harder after that =)

I found the original version of 'We didn't start the fire'. well haha enjoy it. lyrics provided too...

bye for now. God bless ;op



WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
by Billy Joel

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo


CHORUS


Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...