I am so happy that i have covered a lot of ground in the whole night not sleeping revision. Not burning the midnight oil but having slept too much in the day, the eyes are wide open at night.

It's really quite, peaceful and cool. Ordered McDelivery when my stomach was growling, it took freaking 1 hr to come. by the time the food came, i wasn't really hungry already. Even the delivery guy asked "studying izit?"

As usual, once i am bored of studying, i went surfing around and i found this.



Though i do know of the existance of the automatic mahjong table, but i always wondered how it worked. Now i know how the thing worked. The video really shows in detail the mechanism of the machine. The guy who invented this thing must be real smart. I guess part of the fun in mahjong is to wash the tiles and then stack it up but for lazy ppl, this table will be damm useful.

Now my fingers are itching. damm!

It's 2.30am now and i can't sleep. Got really sick of all the readings and thus i am here to write more. haha..

Saw this on the news just now. The grand opening of Atlantis The Palm hotel in Dubai. If you think Beijing's firework was extravagant, this is just speechless. Fireworks outlining the whole shape of the palm. Wonder how much money goes into that.



Dubai is really an architect's playground. Just look at the amount of development going on there. Like those who say, they are building an oasis in the middle of the desert. I think of Dubai as playing simcity with cheat code. Building a whole city from scratch without having to worry about money. They are going to have more of such artificual island in the persian gulf, 2 more "the Palm" and "The World". I guess in 5 to 10 yrs time, flying over Dubai will be a damm interesting view. and they are going to build this gigantic airport with 6 runways in addition to the existing airport, which just opened a new terminal extension!

With all these luxury hotels and homes spinning up along the dubai waterfront, i wonder how many people actually can afford these properties? I wonder if the occupancy rates are good. well, people are willing to pay for such luxuries. How about the locals? Concepts of social polarisation and gated communites come into mind (study too much alreadly). actually, there is a lot of studies that can be done in the UAE. come on, bring them into our lectures. haha...

now dubai seems to be another country on my 'to go' list.

It just sucks that there always have to be some form of renovation going on during my exam period. It has happened for the last 2 exams in uni and now it is happening again. A unit down the corridoor. The noise of workers dragging their wheelbarrow in and out of the lift (the lift is just right beside my unit), banging the door in the process, and the noise when the unwanted tiles are being dumped downstairs, it just gets unbearble at times, esp when i want to sleep in a little later. No choice, got to shut my windows tight and turn on the aircon, and my nose just keeps dripping non-stop. At least it was not as bad as this April/May, where there was drilling in the unit up and beside mine and i could practically feel my whole house vibrate. A much nicer environment to mug will be late at night, when all is quiet except for the humming of my celling fan.

Well, I have not accomplished much. I am not panicking yet, perhaps it's because i only have 4 modules and out of which i gonna s/u one and my geog papers only starts on 1st dec, so that gives me quite a bit of time to catch up. Finally finished catching up with all of 2204, so now left with a whole chunk of 3204 readings. And i hate myself for trying to save paper and print 2 pages in one side of an A4 paper. It just makes the reading more irritable, esp when it is not a 'wow' article.

So during the past one week, other than revision, it was catching up with all my tv drama. Finally finished 家好月圆 in 2 days, caught up with other shows. I also put my culinary skills to test by cooking on some days and doing housework voluntarily. The most impt being catching up on sleep (it was really Sleep Not Enough during sch term). I hardly need to sleep 6 hrs a day now to be able to concentrate on my revision. And most impt, also had to finish up all the remaining paper work/money stuff for YEP. really praying that we can get the money in time. lots of stuff not settled yet, but i tell myself i am not going to be bothered/distracted by them. most of my team members finish exam early so i shall let them do the stuff then and not bug them now. Till then, i shall be on a Do Not Disturb Mode and if things don't go well, then so be it, we got to live with it (i am quite pissed at certain things actually).

It seems like i have a lot to write. must be because i have not written anything for a long time. As usual, entertaining myself with silly videos during study breaks.



It just makes me lol and make my day a slightly better one. Mug hard everyone! It really sucks my exam end so damm late!!!!! On the good side, i have more time to study!

While everyone is busy mugging alreadly, i seem to have been slacking a bit. After GE3204 on monday and then Viet 1 test on tue, i seem to be so free, with nothing to do... Decided to pamper myself with a whole night of drama marathon on tue night and apparently it lasted till this morn. Was still catching up on Heroes before heading down for sch. Ok, this friday onwards, i gonna start serious studies. For these few days, just relax a bit. Really, sch term is so much busier than exam period. at least i can ensure that i am getting sufficient sleep during exams..

I am really glad that DD08 stuff are on track, but there's still lots of things here and there not settled. Well, since things might always change when in vietnam, why plan now? but me being me, i will not feel at ease if there is no plan. there's still a shit load of paper work for the trip itself that i haven prepare. maybe tmr evening. no more procrastination.

Vietnamese oral test tmr... well, i don't feel so stressed out compared to the written test. Guess my spoken viet is so much better than written. I shall try to be a joker tmr during the test.. say i wanna be an singer (ca si) next time? say i like to watch violent film but like to listen to classical music?

Meanwhile, i have been keeping myself entertained with http://failblog.org/

After a few weeks of bad things happening to me, something good finally came today! Hope it is not some false hope or something, if not i am going to kill the person who told me about it! HAHA!

Well, just 2 more weeks till sch ends. Now i am left with one more major project. The only thing that is making me uneasy is my viet test and oral exam next week.

If all things go well, i shall treat myself to something good this weekend. Muahaha!