One of my hamsters, Xiao Pang, just passed away this morning. So sad...
Think this is the first time i cried over the passing away of my pet hamster. Had a lot of hamsters in the past, but it was always just foul mood for a short period and no tears.
I doted a lot on Xiao Pang, and since he was shan's pet, it felt even worse.
Buried him in the garden outside my room.
Hope he is leading a better life now up there.
Haiz, I always get too emotional over animals...
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Wishing Francis n Sis eternal Bliss!!!!
Today is my Sis’s Engagement Day!!!!
She looked so beautiful in her gown. I still can recall the days when we were all still small and fighting with each other over petty stuff, and boy, she’s getting married today. Time really flies. She looked so happy during the ceremony and even more so after it. Wish Francis and her will be forever in Bliss!! Looking forward to her traditional wedding! I'm sure it will be fun!
Term break really flies by when u really needed it. It seems like I din do as much as I would like to. Plenty of projects and assignments to do, and I’m still not quite done with some of them yet.
Gotta step up a gear now, must be on par or ahead of the class progress. And quickly depose off all the projects. Must score straight A’s this sem!
Just took my IPPT on Saturday. Gold again! Ha ha. I dun expect anything lesser than that anyway. Actually I can feel that I’m not as fit as in my prime years, and I’m taking longer to recover from the exertions (actually its more of due to insufficient time to warm up). Whatever. Still got 2 more IPPT in CAT X before I can get an easier timing! Dun you guys think that life hits the expressway once u go beyond 21?
She looked so beautiful in her gown. I still can recall the days when we were all still small and fighting with each other over petty stuff, and boy, she’s getting married today. Time really flies. She looked so happy during the ceremony and even more so after it. Wish Francis and her will be forever in Bliss!! Looking forward to her traditional wedding! I'm sure it will be fun!
Term break really flies by when u really needed it. It seems like I din do as much as I would like to. Plenty of projects and assignments to do, and I’m still not quite done with some of them yet.
Gotta step up a gear now, must be on par or ahead of the class progress. And quickly depose off all the projects. Must score straight A’s this sem!
Just took my IPPT on Saturday. Gold again! Ha ha. I dun expect anything lesser than that anyway. Actually I can feel that I’m not as fit as in my prime years, and I’m taking longer to recover from the exertions (actually its more of due to insufficient time to warm up). Whatever. Still got 2 more IPPT in CAT X before I can get an easier timing! Dun you guys think that life hits the expressway once u go beyond 21?
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Strange day
I had started to stay-in, but since dear’s mum was in hospital, its only right that I should pay a visit. So I had planned to visit dear’s mum and go home today.
My family was going to have a dinner with De Bao’s family today (for those who dunno yet, De Bao will become my bro-in-law in 1 week’s time), and I wasn’t informed cos they thought I was too busy with my work in school so they left me out.
Dear n I went to the SGH to pick up her mum as she is discharged today. She had a surgery to remove her kidney stones on Wednesday. Her mum looks so happy to see me, and even more happy to leave the hospital ASAP. After having dinner with dear’s family, I parted with them to take the MRT back home.
Just as I was stopping by the video shop to watch one an old show on the tv, I checked my HP for sms and found that I had a missed call from mum, so I returned the call and mum sounded surprised and the first thing that she said was “How did you know it?” I was puzzled and din understand what’s she talking about, then she told me that they were involved in an accident, and are going to CGH. So I rushed there immediately.
After I reached CGH, I found mum in the A&E and to my relief, only dad n sis got slight impact injuries. Bro and Mum are alright. Then did I know that they were hit from the back by a taxi on the expressway in a serial accident. Luckily they did not hit any cars in front of them. Then I traced back the time line of events to discover something strange.
Mum called me at 1939 to tell me that they were having dinner with De Bao’s family (I missed that call), but I had knew that already from an earlier call. When I returned the missed call at 2040 outside the video shop, it was almost directly just after the accident had happened. That explains why mum asked me “How did you know it?”, when nobody had informed me of the accident yet. The timing of the events is so strangely coincidental.
Anyway, dad n sis had outpatient treatment and only had complaints of strains on their neck. Luckily it wasn’t a serious accident. Otherwise… scary, better dun think too much.
Am I lucky to have avoided this accident personally? Or I’m so jinxed that people around me always end up in the hospital?
Hopefully this doesn’t start off another series of me having to visit the hospital every now and then, just like 3 years ago. It feels terrible to always send/visit your loved ones/frens to/in hospital.
Well, to those who are interested, my bro’s carplate number is 3901, go buy the 4D if you want. It’s a lucky number anyway. Used to turn up in various permutations on an average of once per month or so. Go figure.
My family was going to have a dinner with De Bao’s family today (for those who dunno yet, De Bao will become my bro-in-law in 1 week’s time), and I wasn’t informed cos they thought I was too busy with my work in school so they left me out.
Dear n I went to the SGH to pick up her mum as she is discharged today. She had a surgery to remove her kidney stones on Wednesday. Her mum looks so happy to see me, and even more happy to leave the hospital ASAP. After having dinner with dear’s family, I parted with them to take the MRT back home.
Just as I was stopping by the video shop to watch one an old show on the tv, I checked my HP for sms and found that I had a missed call from mum, so I returned the call and mum sounded surprised and the first thing that she said was “How did you know it?” I was puzzled and din understand what’s she talking about, then she told me that they were involved in an accident, and are going to CGH. So I rushed there immediately.
After I reached CGH, I found mum in the A&E and to my relief, only dad n sis got slight impact injuries. Bro and Mum are alright. Then did I know that they were hit from the back by a taxi on the expressway in a serial accident. Luckily they did not hit any cars in front of them. Then I traced back the time line of events to discover something strange.
Mum called me at 1939 to tell me that they were having dinner with De Bao’s family (I missed that call), but I had knew that already from an earlier call. When I returned the missed call at 2040 outside the video shop, it was almost directly just after the accident had happened. That explains why mum asked me “How did you know it?”, when nobody had informed me of the accident yet. The timing of the events is so strangely coincidental.
Anyway, dad n sis had outpatient treatment and only had complaints of strains on their neck. Luckily it wasn’t a serious accident. Otherwise… scary, better dun think too much.
Am I lucky to have avoided this accident personally? Or I’m so jinxed that people around me always end up in the hospital?
Hopefully this doesn’t start off another series of me having to visit the hospital every now and then, just like 3 years ago. It feels terrible to always send/visit your loved ones/frens to/in hospital.
Well, to those who are interested, my bro’s carplate number is 3901, go buy the 4D if you want. It’s a lucky number anyway. Used to turn up in various permutations on an average of once per month or so. Go figure.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Staying in liao
Been quite a busy week
Attended the Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) preview seminar conducted by Adam Khoo on Monday. It feels pretty like some of the MLM talks I had been to b4 (I’m not in any MLM!!!) But some of the things which he said actually coincides with what I had read before in a Napoleon Hill Book. To summarize the useful stuff I had picked up from this seminar:
Set clear goals (it is ok to set goals which may sound ridiculous now)
Plan how to work towards them (its pointless to have goals without action)
Take ACTIONS!
I liked this quote: “Success is not a want, it is a MUST! Do whatever it takes!”
I dun advocate stepping on other people or doing unlawful or unethical stuff la, do whatever it takes means going out of your comfort zone to do the things that you have to do. Its good that I’m taking HRM now too. It is also emphasized “stepping out of your comfort zone” to get some of the tasks done.
Done an interview with HWA on Thursday for the HRM project. Skipped 4 periods of lessons just to conduct this interview. Luckily I managed to stun BC’s car to go there. Ha ha ha. Its so ironic in a sense that when BC was around, I never went to HWA with him, but when he’s away then I have to go there.
Will be starting my retreat from this week onwards, meaning that I will not be going home till exams are over. Anyway I feel it’s getting quite pointless to waste so much time to travel home n back when the only incentive of going home is just to see my dog. Everyone is not around most of the time. I feel so alone when I go back. Might as well feel alone but still be productive in school when I stay in over the weekends. Can’t really study well at home anyway.
No Life.
Attended the Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) preview seminar conducted by Adam Khoo on Monday. It feels pretty like some of the MLM talks I had been to b4 (I’m not in any MLM!!!) But some of the things which he said actually coincides with what I had read before in a Napoleon Hill Book. To summarize the useful stuff I had picked up from this seminar:
Set clear goals (it is ok to set goals which may sound ridiculous now)
Plan how to work towards them (its pointless to have goals without action)
Take ACTIONS!
I liked this quote: “Success is not a want, it is a MUST! Do whatever it takes!”
I dun advocate stepping on other people or doing unlawful or unethical stuff la, do whatever it takes means going out of your comfort zone to do the things that you have to do. Its good that I’m taking HRM now too. It is also emphasized “stepping out of your comfort zone” to get some of the tasks done.
Done an interview with HWA on Thursday for the HRM project. Skipped 4 periods of lessons just to conduct this interview. Luckily I managed to stun BC’s car to go there. Ha ha ha. Its so ironic in a sense that when BC was around, I never went to HWA with him, but when he’s away then I have to go there.
Will be starting my retreat from this week onwards, meaning that I will not be going home till exams are over. Anyway I feel it’s getting quite pointless to waste so much time to travel home n back when the only incentive of going home is just to see my dog. Everyone is not around most of the time. I feel so alone when I go back. Might as well feel alone but still be productive in school when I stay in over the weekends. Can’t really study well at home anyway.
No Life.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Back to Company...
Went back to Flextronics this morning for the interview I’m supposed to do for HRM. Its been about 2 mths since I last saw my colleagues. Most of them gave me the surprised look when I sneaked up on them. (it’s the 7th month now) It’s pretty fun to go back once in a while and lunch out with them.
Been pretty stagnant in fyp. Tutorials are not being done as I would prefer it to be. In short, I had been slacking. Was not quite motivated to stick to the monk lifestyle (stay in sch to study till 2300 everyday) since dear is not around to accompany me. Luckily Eric has exactly the same modules as me, and he is one of my ‘god’ frens. So mixing around more with him has actually spurred me on to put in more efforts in my studies. (to keep up with him)
Think I have grown fatter over the last few weeks. Must start to step up on the intensity of my runs. Also gotta start preparing for my IPPT. Hopefully I can retain my gold level. Ha ha
Been pretty stagnant in fyp. Tutorials are not being done as I would prefer it to be. In short, I had been slacking. Was not quite motivated to stick to the monk lifestyle (stay in sch to study till 2300 everyday) since dear is not around to accompany me. Luckily Eric has exactly the same modules as me, and he is one of my ‘god’ frens. So mixing around more with him has actually spurred me on to put in more efforts in my studies. (to keep up with him)
Think I have grown fatter over the last few weeks. Must start to step up on the intensity of my runs. Also gotta start preparing for my IPPT. Hopefully I can retain my gold level. Ha ha
Monday, August 01, 2005
Not happy...
First week of school is over already.
I had been startled into doing some soul searching by some events lately. But there are more important things to do at hand.
Got a ‘C’ for my IA. This really throws a huge wrench into my endeavour at getting a 2nd upper. I had done my fair share of work during IA to at least warrant a ‘B’. Even my frens in the other departments have gotten ‘A’ when they had did less work than me and my EEE IA mate in my department (he got a ‘B’).
The only conclusion is that our stupid NTU tutor did the damage.
Anyway, he’s got a lousy reputation that even my bro had singled out him as the sup to avoid for FYP during FYP selection (my bro din know he was my NTU sup for IA then). Speaks volume about him huh. Dun wanna waste my time bitching on this worthless sh*t
Anyway, I din know that we can appeal against this result just like the normal exams until it was too late. So nothing can be done to remedy this now. The only thing that I can do now is to score as many A as I can in the final year. This lousy grade for IA will be my motivator.
For this semester : 7 modules
Target : 6 A (the last one being my biz minor, a min B would suffice)
Well, back to the soul searching part I was talking about earlier.
Din really enjoy myself during the FOC, but truthfully speaking, this year’s FOC is the most organized among those that I had attended so far.
I was the videoman for the camp. I dun get to mix around much with the people, partly due to my job, and the other factor being that I’m not sociable. It doesn’t really affect me that I dun have much frens sticking around with me most of the time, cause I’m pretty much a loner. But during events like camps, when u see people in groups having so much fun together, more or less it does affect me as I realize that I dun have anyone around me, and I’m not having fun. I’m an outcast.
This is something that I have to do soul searching on. In the midst of my pursuit for excellence in every tangible thing that I do, I missed out on one of the most important yet intangible thing in life. Socialising.
Humans are social creatures, that’s why civilizations are formed. To be able to survive, one must be strong. To be able to succeed, one needs more that his individual strength. And that comes in form of networking. Or simply put, you need friends to back you up in your ultimate quest. (unless it is something that can only be done by yourself alone)
I need to open up more and social more. I dun want to be the loner standing at one corner of the auditorium during convocation when everyone else are busy taking photos with their frens. I need to do soul searching.
I had been startled into doing some soul searching by some events lately. But there are more important things to do at hand.
Got a ‘C’ for my IA. This really throws a huge wrench into my endeavour at getting a 2nd upper. I had done my fair share of work during IA to at least warrant a ‘B’. Even my frens in the other departments have gotten ‘A’ when they had did less work than me and my EEE IA mate in my department (he got a ‘B’).
The only conclusion is that our stupid NTU tutor did the damage.
Anyway, he’s got a lousy reputation that even my bro had singled out him as the sup to avoid for FYP during FYP selection (my bro din know he was my NTU sup for IA then). Speaks volume about him huh. Dun wanna waste my time bitching on this worthless sh*t
Anyway, I din know that we can appeal against this result just like the normal exams until it was too late. So nothing can be done to remedy this now. The only thing that I can do now is to score as many A as I can in the final year. This lousy grade for IA will be my motivator.
For this semester : 7 modules
Target : 6 A (the last one being my biz minor, a min B would suffice)
Well, back to the soul searching part I was talking about earlier.
Din really enjoy myself during the FOC, but truthfully speaking, this year’s FOC is the most organized among those that I had attended so far.
I was the videoman for the camp. I dun get to mix around much with the people, partly due to my job, and the other factor being that I’m not sociable. It doesn’t really affect me that I dun have much frens sticking around with me most of the time, cause I’m pretty much a loner. But during events like camps, when u see people in groups having so much fun together, more or less it does affect me as I realize that I dun have anyone around me, and I’m not having fun. I’m an outcast.
This is something that I have to do soul searching on. In the midst of my pursuit for excellence in every tangible thing that I do, I missed out on one of the most important yet intangible thing in life. Socialising.
Humans are social creatures, that’s why civilizations are formed. To be able to survive, one must be strong. To be able to succeed, one needs more that his individual strength. And that comes in form of networking. Or simply put, you need friends to back you up in your ultimate quest. (unless it is something that can only be done by yourself alone)
I need to open up more and social more. I dun want to be the loner standing at one corner of the auditorium during convocation when everyone else are busy taking photos with their frens. I need to do soul searching.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Back from Redang!
Haven been updating my blog regularly since I finished my IA, since most of the time i spend blogging is during office hours on IA.
Anyway, a quick update on wat has happened in my life in the last few weeks
Went to KL on 18 n 19 June with Dad, Mum n shan. Pa n Ma were going there for some health talk (sounds like MLM to me, din bother to find out more) and I made it clear to Dad that I won't be joining him for the talk, so it was shopping n sight seeing for me n shan.
It was on this trip when I realised that sometimes its better to handle your holidays yourself or someone whom u know u can rely on. There was huge timing problems with Dad and his frens. We arrived 2 hours early for our departure bus trip, and arrived another 3 hours early for our return bus trip. All thanks to Dad not getting the proper timing with his frens who organised this trip. I had to waste another 2 hours running around KL just to accomodate to Dad's request.
Otherwise, the trip was pretty fun.
Lessons learnt from KL trip:
- Always do your homework on your destination before you go there. It really HELPS a lot.
- Never let people who dunno a shit about travelling and scheduling to liase for your transport, they will just simply burn your precious time in huge quantities, and they still think they are always correct!
- Never travel along with people who dun have the same mentality on travel as you. Unconsensus during travel is simply a waste of time and
spoils your mood. (those tai-tais really can drive you nuts)
Just came back from Redang a couple of days back. It was pretty ok too. Shan did the searching and booking of the resorts, as well as for the bus transport as well. We saved probably around SGD60 this way. Stayed at 'Redang Bay Resort', which was pretty good, compared to the Pelangi Resort we had stayed at 2 years back. Redang is still as great, just that it is sad to see those needless pollution going on, and the effects of global warming which raised the sea levels. The coastline have receded quite a bit since my last visit. The dives were pretty good. Finally got to see a sea turtle after so many dives!
Thursday, June 16, 2005
2nd Last Day of IA
Tml is the last day of IA. Had a farewell lunch with my colleagues at Jack's Place. Quite a coincidence my frens and I patronized that restaurant at the start of our IA and to end the IA with a meal there as well.
Baked some cookies to give away to my colleagues as a parting gift just before I leave. Specially packed 4 small bags of cookies to give away to my mentor n sup in the 2 dept. Spent 3 nights to make the cookies. Made 2 batches of cookies on 2 nights, and the last night was spent packaging them. It was fun, but pretty tiring to bake them in small batches cos of the small oven that i used. The taste is there, but the presentation is a bit off target. Ha ha. At least not too bad for a first-time baker. Thanks to Dear for pointing out all the mistakes that i made on the 1st batch. Will try out some of the recipes in the cook books that dear had borrowed from the library. The food in the pics look good!
Will be going to KL this weekend with dad mum n Dear. It will be my first visit to KL as far as I can recall. Just a short trip to eat and shop. Sort of like a celebration to end of IA. Hopefully I can get to walk across the sky bridge on the Petronas Towers.
Baked some cookies to give away to my colleagues as a parting gift just before I leave. Specially packed 4 small bags of cookies to give away to my mentor n sup in the 2 dept. Spent 3 nights to make the cookies. Made 2 batches of cookies on 2 nights, and the last night was spent packaging them. It was fun, but pretty tiring to bake them in small batches cos of the small oven that i used. The taste is there, but the presentation is a bit off target. Ha ha. At least not too bad for a first-time baker. Thanks to Dear for pointing out all the mistakes that i made on the 1st batch. Will try out some of the recipes in the cook books that dear had borrowed from the library. The food in the pics look good!
Will be going to KL this weekend with dad mum n Dear. It will be my first visit to KL as far as I can recall. Just a short trip to eat and shop. Sort of like a celebration to end of IA. Hopefully I can get to walk across the sky bridge on the Petronas Towers.
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