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A missed opportunity

>> Saturday, September 24, 2005

If i was a few hours earlier, i would have gotten my hands on this

Courts Bukit Timah is having a grand opening sale and the 4 megapixel camera is only selling for $199. So cheap right? It comes with 3.4 optical zoom and the size is very small also. By the time i reached, the 4 mp cameras are all sold out and there were only 3 sets of the upgraded 5 mp camera left which is selling at $299. The offer for the 5 mp camera is good but it's definitely over budget for a good bargain. Sigh...

Next time should wake up earlier on weekends to read the newspapers. :(

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Belated Mid-autumn Festival

>> Friday, September 23, 2005

Had my hydraulics extra tutorial today and went for the Mid-Autumn Festival organised by NTU with Fuli after my lesson. There were quite a lot of foreign students around as most local students go back home on friday night. Many food and game booths were set up and we attempted some of the rather interesting games, eg. pulling out a table cloth fast so that the things on the table don't drop down, darts with unusual scoreboard, etc.

We each collected a goodie bag after playing the games and went to see the performance. It was NTU Chinese Orchestra performing and guess who is the conductor? It's AJCO's conductor Huang Sheng. His hairstyle and his slightly exaggerated conducting movements has not changed one bit.

A picture of NTU Chinese Orchestra with conductor on stage.

Went to view a huge lantern set up in the middle of Nanyang Lake before continuing to view the stage performances. Our cca's was next up on the list and we enjoyed some melodious songs and nice vocals. The 3 singers were hand-picked in the auditions and they had performed well on stage. After taking some photos with some of our cca members, we left as we did not plan to stay throughout the Mid-Autumn celebration until 10.30 pm.

Coincidentally met Timothy again for the 2nd time this month on my way back home. Singapore is small indeed.

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Movie Day

>> Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Gs visited my hall today since it's NUS's term break of 4 days. Actually he wanted to study here but didn't accomplish much with the 3 of us around. Originally planned to watch Be With Me but it's not showing at Jurong Point so we watched Cinderella Man instead.

It's quite a good movie with some intense and realistic boxing matches. Renee Zellweger gives a knock-out of a performance as James' supportive wife and Russell Crowe delivers his goods as usual. Although the filming style is rather conventional, the story is based on a true life account and packs an emotional punch. It is without a doubt an effective inspirational story.

Cleaned up my messy room after nearly 2 months without sweeping or mopping the floor. Looks much tidier after i swept and hand-mopped the floor, rearranged the things on the table, etc.

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Bad Day

>> Monday, September 19, 2005

Been having tests after tests today and my brain is over-utilised. Compiled some formula sheets for easier revision on sunday and been trying to memorise lots of physics formulas. The material science and maths test are manageable but the some of the physics questions are rather ambiguous. At least i don't have to worry about them anymore.

Went to HSS library in the evening after dinner to print some new notes as i've never been there before. Bad choice! The computers are very slow in processing the print jobs and i have to wait very long for a big document. Not only that, the options i selected are supposedly correct for double pages but turned out opposite with respect to the front page. The worst thing of all is that it overcharged me by $2.60 as i've selected 4 slides on a page but apparently the system charged the total number of pages printed the number of slides instead. A really stressful and unlucky day. :(

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Can I Quit Uni?

>> Saturday, September 17, 2005

Haiz... Been rushing through my assignments and revising my tests lately. So many things to study and so much work to do! Sianz... Still got my formal lab report totally untouched, my aerospace assignment that needs to be typed and my CAs. Arggg... Headache sia.

Just found out yesterday that one of my closest friends is attached. Happy for him for finding a soulmate but sad that he will be spending less time with his good old buddies. Why can't everyone of us be attached at the same time then the problem will not occur? I'm up for grabs, who wants me? Haha... i'm just crapping. I wonder how to sustain a relationship through the stressful university life though.

Ok, back to my mugging or i'll flunk my tests. :(

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Handphone Craze

>> Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Was downloading games and themes for my new handphone on tuesday night until 6 am! I was quite shocked with the enormous amount of games i can download from the internet and transfer to my handphone. Overall, K750i is really a thoroughly amazing phone although the ring volume is a bit soft in a noisy environment. The sound quality is great, the picture quality is great (except indoor shots), the colours are bright and clear, the ringtone and message alert customisable to play mp3, able to record video and sound, lasting battery life, and lots more.

Wednesday, met up with Bing Feng, Anthony and Xi Kun again to discuss the aerospace project. We planned to go National Library but decided to go SMU to take a look instead. Xk had asked his friend to bring us inside and help us get a study room. Along the way, i found out that SMU has significantly lesser students than NTU and NUS. Take a look at this picture i took in the underground passageway.

There was totally no one in the tunnel at the time of the shot and along the way to the study room, less than 20 people walked past us. It is a really conducive environment to study in but it feels weird that there are not many people in the school, considering the people space ratio in a JC, seconday school, etc.

Inside the study room, we set up the laptop and arranged the tables for discussion until we discovered that we cannot access the internet there. It either had to be correctly configured or we needed an account to access the internet. We left the study room after 10 minutes inside and proceeded to the new National Library.

Basement 1 was packed with lots of people and we headed up to level 7 (Reference section). People with bags are required to put them in lockers. Since we got no other place to discuss, we have to make do with the hassle of bringing the required materials after depositing our bags inside the coin-operated lockers.

We finally had some headway after we compiled a content page and collected quite some info from the extensive collection of reference books. We then split the project into 4 parts for our detailed research.

A picture of the cityscape from National Library Level 9. Click on the picture for high resolution of the picture taken from my K750i.

Met up with Edwin, Clarence and Derrick later to watch Kim Ki-Duk's The Bow at night. The story is as usual offbeat at the hands of the acclaimed director. The study of greed, lust and sacrifice is well-crafted but disappointing compared to his previous works, namely 3-Iron, Spring Summer and Samaritan Girl. The cinematography is fabulous and the setting picturesque, a fishing boat amidst the limitless ocean .The main flaw is in the story which lacks oomph and emotional resonance.

Someone stop me, i'm spending too much money!

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Busy but not doing homework

>> Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Monday, met up with my group to do the aerospace assignment at Woodlands Regional Library. It was not a very productive session as we have only 1 laptop shared among 4 people and the assignment requires us to gather much more information outside of our textbooks. We were searching the library for some relevant reference books but there were not a lot and we had to rely on the internet.

Without a clear aim and purpose, we wasted quite a lot of time and finally decided to have lunch. A break from the tough assignment, we spent a lot of time chatting about unrelated stuff for almost 2 hours.

Didn't have much to do at home at night and decided to tidy up my entire room. Spent a whopping 6 hours to set up my room TV & DVD set, clear all the mess and get rid of unwanted stuff. Tired.....

Tuesday, finally got my mother to buy my K750i for me. Extended my father's plan to purchase it for $438. Went out with Paul, Liyuan and Kang Rui to watch Red Eye in the evening. The show is exciting, intense and gripping. Rachel McAdams and Cilliam Murphy display great acting chops and make the crime thriller realistic. The story is tightly wrought and the pace never declines. Quite a good effort by director Wes Craven.


Picture of my new handphone

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Grandma's Birthday

>> Sunday, September 11, 2005

My grandmother has moved into my house temporarily and it is her birthday celebration today. The buffet lunch is all vegetarian and many of my relatives came. As usual, i had a hard time greeting some of my aunties and uncles with my poor memory. Some of my cousins went up to my room to play computer games.


My family with my grandmother


Singing the birthday song

We had ordered 6 canadian pizzas also as we have to cater to people who prefer eating some meat. Everyone of us were full after finishing the pizzas and more and more people started to leave, except 3 of my young cousins who stuck to my computer and gameboy. I was thinking, contemplating and considering whether i should go suntec and buy the compaq laptop.

After much consideration, i decided to go suntec to examine the laptop further to see whether it's really worth to buy. However, my sis stopped me and brainwashed me into not buying a laptop. No more new laptop but i'll be getting a new pc soon (my current pc has an old age of 7 years).

Didn't do any homework as i couldn't concentrate with the number of people in the house. Tons left to do!

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