Study Days - 12th April - Pretty Boys

We did something nasty using Johan's camera.. Who's the prettiest of them all?

Study Days - 11th April - Jumping Jacks

We were bored and decided to take a synchronized jumping photo. It was no mean feat and took us like 14 tries which equates to alot of jumping, finger pointing and plenty of laughters.

We actually got it right on the 11th attempt. But they said my hands were stuck in my pockets and hence voided the photo. I thought it was a good jump on my part.

All our valiant attempts. It's really not easy when shooting using an unpredictable camera timer.

Study Days - 10th, 11th April

Sleeping Alda

  
Me - World Featherweight Champion Contender.

Sometimes we have breakfast


Like chee cheong fun, which wasn't too good.


And ordered pizzas for dinner


The bunch of tea ladies, or kopi-sohs


and sometimes we sleep

Color blind

PFA Premier League Team of the Year 2007 - Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra (all Man Utd); Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Cristiano Ronaldo (all Man Utd) & Steven Gerrard (Liverpool); Didier Drogba (Chelsea) & Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham)

PFA is a bunch of nuts.

the keeper and 4 defenders come from a team whose defence isn't even 2nd best in the league. good defenders don't toe-poke the ball into his own net while his keeper is running in the opposite direction, and this is just one of the many blunders we've witnessed. what a joke.

carragher has been immense for liverpool the whole season, and last season and last last season if anyone bothers. so was carvalho for chelsea. and fabregas for arsenal. gerrard wasn't even close to his best for ages.

they must have picked half the team before the first ball was kicked last august.

The Proper Shade of Red

I am half a manchester united fan. I stay up past 2am watching livescore.com, waiting for middlesbrough to kick their ass.

And my half of a man u fan is twice greater than that of my room-mate's, who is a man u fan, like half of those red devil fans claim they are. i can't believe he has watched more than one out of their last 10 games.

In fact, I'm quite sure I've celebrated more goals that man u had conceded than he did for goals that they scored.

I am a Liverpool fan, and this is why
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/lfc_story/quotes.htm

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talk

it was a conversation so short, the scrollbar didn't appear.

it was a conversation so short, the scrollbar couldn't scroll.

sunset

I wish i have my camera with me now.

the sun sets,
gradually hiding behind the clouds
the amorphous body of grey, traced out
by hand in blazing gold
the skies casted in heavenly shades
of pink and blue.
colours mysterious even,
to van gogh's hues

funny, but perhaps not so strangely,
i'll miss the ntu exam period,
and the sunset that comes with the end of each day.

Dived!

Yeah i'm back from diving at Pulau Lang Tengah, neighbouring island of the more well known Redang and Perhentian. Reached Singapore on Tues night, a day later than I had thought, no thanks to some tricky information from my friends.

Nice island, decent resort, good weather, okie food, great snorkelling (if you know where) but the diving was kinda disappointing from what we had expected.

will update again when i feel free. which shouldn't be anytime soon.

and here's something interesting that I chanced upon while searching for the amazing mimic octopus that weilong told us about: scary shit from the ocean depths

glad we didn't bump into any of these monsters.

diving!

Off to Pulau Lang Tengah till monday nite
i'm hardly prepared for it.
may i see good stuff there

bloop bloop bloop

5 hours

it's almost 3am now and i've absolutely nothing constructive since i got back from the library at 9 plus pm. that's 5 fucking hours ago. i didn't know it's that long. these are times when i hate my room.

send me off for time wasting.

i need to play soccer.

news flash in brief

- finally submitted my fyp report today.. an end to the countless days of intensive brain juicing. all in, i wrote only about 50 odd pages of rubbish, but that will do. i can't imagine my supervisors and examiner taking more than a cursory glance at all our hard work. i'm tired man. but it's not over yet.. that bitch of a report has got a second calling due in a couple weeks.. the amended final report or whatever. when can i start attending my lectures and tutorials again...?

- xphysique's over. we finished somewhere in the anonymous middle of the pack, and didn't bother to stay behind for the results that day. abseiling went okie.. not that scary. in fact, it's nothing much once u get both legs over that 6 storeys high ledge. we ran like dogs right from the start, covering a hefty distance from youth park till marina bay. got stuck with a screwed up bike during the cycling element and everyone were just breezing past me. no good. the river crossing part was lame. canoeing was tiring.. and that's about it.

of all days, my body chose to give up on me during the event. initially my left knee gave way. then something went wrong somewhere under my ribs, and i ran the last few stations with what felt like stomach cramps... fucckkkkk... the internal organs were all scrunched up in a knot.. most disturbing. i tried to hold my breath and run, but realised that i couldn't go very far like that. i had no choice but to wobble along like a wuss. but still, our team had fun.


- today, something's wrong with my knees still. i climbed the stairs like i'm 75, with sharp pain somewhere. maybe soccer this sunday will put things right.. it's been too long man.. i'm leading a deprived life.


- diving at pulau lang tengah 30th march till 2nd april. 3 projects and 2 assignments to complete by then. and an amended fyp report. 10 days. then comes exams. i'm brilliant at getting myself into shitloads of agony really.

- the green form appears on the table asking me to tick the date that i'll vacating my hall. i don't feel quite ready for this. i'm actually graduting soon.. a bit too soon. i signed it with somewhat a heavy heart.

facing death and spitting in its face, and then start a new blog.

i'm an invalid.

the bane of meritocracy.

my final year project report is due in 8 days. i estimate around 60 pages is needed. a whole week of good intentions, and i'm still at page 2 of the introduction. not to mention the other 4 projects due within a month. if this is football i'll get red-carded for time wasting.

up to my ass with all these stuff to do. or up to my neck. whichever is more intense. and did i do them? nope. i casually flick it off my mind and started a new blog instead.

oh-brilliant-shit.blogspot.com

this is where i'll detail down whatever places that i've explored. my travel blog. where i show off my skillfully edited photos. starting from the recent Gunung Stong trip. will add more when i find time.

fyp fyp.. i am much braver than i think i am, or ought to be.

one more time

today is a cloudy day, a hollow weekend

so is this the end that is long overdue, or yet another false alarm? i'm tired too. shall not think about this for now.

i'm feeling absolutely moodless to do anything that requires thinking right now. would have gone for a run, but for the niggling knee problem that's back again. a little longer than usual. hope it holds up for tmr's xphysique.

speaking of which, i'm not even sure how the event is like. zero preparations. not that i mind though. would have joined it just for fun.. but now that i think of it.. i do need to raise some money if i'm to go mt kinabalu and diving in may..

fond memories of such races.. in the 'Mazing Singapore Race, zijing + fei + feli + me.. Team Cucumber finished 6th out of 100++ teams.. but if anyone would care to listen, we were firmly headed for the top 3 spots till the organizers screwed it all up. still, that was a good experience. we were a happy team then.

in the NTU ODAC's Rat Race, junwen + feli + me, we finished 3rd, and we strongly suspect the 2nd team cheated. still, we were a happy team.

then in the Great Maritime Adventure, fei + feli + me, we got promoted to 3rd after the team ahead of us got disqualified. easiest race among the 3, kinda silly.. and lotsa money. Won $5k and some mp3 players, though ironically, that was the saddest time, and also our last event together.

i hope we have fun tomorrow, alda + weisiong + zhenhan + me. dun fall off from abseiling and die. thinking about abseiling makes me nervous, just a little.

A bit of Stong

and fro

back from Gunung Stong, Dabong, Kelantan, Malaysia. Failed to take better photos.

In fact, the bloody batteries ran out. All 4 sets of them.

Off to Gunung Stong

Off to Gunung Stong, Kelantan. shall take better photos this time.

bits and pieces

suddenly sleepless on the first night of the lunar new year.
some random shots from whatever's on my laptop..


caught a rainbow in school a couple days back, and happened to have the camera with me.


after upping the shadows.. rays of light beaming from the rainbow

some gifts from Friendship Day. i suspect only girls know about such a day.

from Iris.. some Hershey nipples chocolate.


from Jasmine and Clare.. more chocolates and cookies


from Yanqing.. some hand-made cookies..


with their powers combined.. i'm prolly due for another sore-throat.

Thanks ladies.. how nice of them.. and in return, I give them ... my friendship. i'm nice.


I cut my own hair again. i think it's not too bad.

At the airport, night of 18th Feb

Boy Exuberant. Panning shots are difficult with my cam, when the viewfinder blacks out once you hit the shutter. it's time for a better one..


testing my settings while waiting for Charlene. somehow i like this shot, despite it suffering from a poor 0.3s handshake. didn't realise that was her in the background, surrounded by friends and family.


Finally we met again. Farewell, small one. Another one off to Australia for studies, perhaps staying there for good. Weiting's flying off to Sydney as well in a couple hours. Zhuomin's happily in HK for this semester. blah.. I'm departing in June to play reserve league football for Liverpool too.


A lorry with huge ass joss-sticks tied to its side. Spotted numerous other cars with aunties holding such joss sticks out of the window at Selegie, 2am. thoughtful souvenirs from late nite temple outings.

The sum of life.

I'm still alive
yet dead broke

Diving trip to Pulau Lang: $460
Trekking trip to Gunung Stong: $95
Hostel fees : $658.75
Misc. sch fees: $62.85

Sub-total: (-)$1276.60
Monthly allowance: (+)$200
Currently working income: $0.00

Balance: (-)$1076.60

More often than not, life just don't add up.

The benefits of striking Toto: Priceless.

Animal instincts

I saw this strikingly pretty bird in school yesterday, it flew past and above me to a tree across the road. Following its path, I stood transfixed for at least five minutes as i watch it pecking away at the branches. Then hop hop, upside down it stood, just as firmly, and peck peck away, all over the tree, sounding it out for worms perhaps.

A caucasian student walked past me and smiled. Maybe she would have smiled wider had she seen what i saw. Nice. I later identified it as the Pileated Woodpecker. Not a rare bird as I thought it may be, but still something hardly ever seen in an everyday life of Singapore.

Still on birds, last Sunday while on the bus to sunday soccer (which was fucked up by some people who lacked faith and integrity), I saw a brown hawk-like bird soaring above Sungei Punggol before it dived down head first into the river. Wonder if it caught a fish. Nice.



Of course the somewhat rare eagle who lost its way and landed up in singapore, and eventually found by us a couple years back. White Head Eagle is it? can't remember.

Maybe i have a hidden talent and passion as an ornithologist.

More on wild-life, sort of. Funny incident while running in school last night. On my left was Hall 14, on my right was a forest that buffers NTU from the army training ground. This guy was standing on the pavement and staring intensely across the road. As I ran past him, he waved his hand and pointed towards the forest.

I turned and saw a couple in the weirdest of dating place, sitting on the sloping grass patch which directly face the dark and hardly romantic forest. They were hugging in the dark.

'What's that?' .. he asked ... 'Monkey?'

Animal instincts, primitive needs.. whichever is weirder.