Have not posted for quite some time as sch work is really killing. glad that most of the heavy projects/assignments are over and done with and now it is time to move on to exam. somehow, i dun think i will do well this semester judging frm the status of my revision.

It was April 1st yesterday, or rather the day before and Aprils' fool day seems to have been just one normal day. I still remember when we were young, we would always play pranks on friends, such as telling him "you never zip up!" , "there's something on your back". We even tricked teachers by switching off the lights in the class to pretend we are not around, or telling the teacher that he or she has some to the wrong class. Back them, it was all these innocent fun that made life so good to reflect on. On to JC and army, somehow such pranks just stopped. I guess all of us grow up. Also, for the past 2 year (if i am not wrong), aprils' fool day fell on a weekend, so we don't have a chance to pull a prank on our friends or colleagues. So for the year 2008, it fell on a tuesday. I didn't try to fool my friend much this time round. Partly because i forgot all about it until at night. Tried playing a prank on yongchun but the outcome was nothing dramatic. It set me thinking, where has all the fun of aprils' fool day gone to?

i do realise that april's fool day is celebrated by many websites around the world. some papers will even have hoax news that are totally absurd and they will try to make you believe that it is true. i think ST did this before, or was it other papers?

this is what students in NUS tried to do..

Great freeze in NUS.

Wasn't much of a big prank, just reminds me of some flash mob thingy... and look at the people around them, they just pretend that nothing happened and they continued eating their food.

haiz.. where has all the fun gone to? if i am a lecturer, i shall play a prank on my students by telling them that i gonna give them a surprise quiz. sure to scare the shit out of some students.

a bit on last weekend. on sat, Prof Chang and Dr Lim treated geog soc to a late lunch/early dinner and games at pitstop cafe. played some really intellectual game which really tests one's general knowledge, as well as those 'boliao' shouting, grabbing violent games. i feel such games are necessary to bring out the fun in all of us. and we can get really violent when it comes to grabbing cards...

my scanner is lousy cause the colour of the photograph turns out to be very very bad.... i have this pic stuck onto my wall. haha.. i guess i gonna decorate this wall with more photos. After pitstop, we proceeded to xin wang cafe at marina sq to feast on more food, and to chit chat talk cock. i haven had such sessions in weeks and it was really a good time to let it all out, enjoy before starting on revision. i am go glad that i joined geog soc and hadthe chance to meet so many wonderful people. without them, life at nus for me would be very lonely, be it during lessons or after sch. more geog soc events coming up! all of us hang in there!

and not to forget ruth's party on fri. it was great to be able to meet up with some dd07 ppl. was a bit sian that not a lot of them came, but for those who were there, we did find ways to have our own fun. drawing and decorating cards like what we did back in danang, listening to abba songs and some old pop music like aqua's barbie girl. and yup, i have more or less decided to go back to dd08 this year. see if usp wants me or not. i was still struggling with the decision on whether i shld take on a project which i am familiar with or take on one which i know my working partners. i guess the experience of dd07 was the main reason why i choose dd08.

with the birthday girl. Happy Birthday Ruth!

ok. i should stop here. if not i can go on and on and on ................

Friday nights in the library are just so condusive for mugging. I guess this being friday, most people have gone out to enjoy themselves. Only poor things like me is struggling to complete my essay on a friday night. I haven had a decent social life for quite some time....

just night during geog major's tea, i had to promote FOC. had to speak in front the whole earth lab, plus lots of professors sitting in front.. so scary... My only time speaking in front of so many ppl was only during a performance in sec 4 (i was justice bao).

time to go home.. the library is closing soon...

was watching some high school musical with val during the GC break. searched for them on youtube and found the songs in different language.

We all in this together


English



Chinese 《1+1=11》



Japanese



Hindi


Breaking Free



Eng


Chinese 另一个自己


Hindi


gonna try to watch high school musical 2 someday...

finally got a break away from work. GC plus LRT project is driving me nuts. looking at other people's LRT project just demoralises me even more. one thing that my grp wins them (we kept to the word count). i was wondering, how the hell are they going to cut down a 2000+ word to 1000??

Last sat was Geog Challenge. Logistics part was not as stressful as the main com, but still, i was scared things might cock up somewhere. was some seating confusion initially in LT11, plus we ran out of foolscap paper. but still, it was an event well run! great job to those all geog soc members and those who came down specially to help us! looking forward to the geo-trail n finals! more work for me!!!

i am rather glad that tuition assignment are coming to me. initially thought of not continuing. then it was just taking one students. and now, i may be taking 3 of them. the gd thing, the students all stay near my house. there's one more coming up which is very very near my house and i really hope i can get it. but tuition means having to think twice for any holidays plan. can''t really dump them for 2 weeks.

reminds me of this: Part time job vs results (must do my survey if i send to you ok?)

When i thought i have alreadly finished my work and could go off to sleep, someone called me on my hp at 12am, telling me i have to submit the altered FOC poster by tonight!!! argh!!! so now, i am waiting for elaine to help me resize it.

the past few days is really crazy. but at least i am glad all my grp projects have started. LRT main stuff are done. now just need to churn out a decent essay under the word limit. for methods, we went to see godfrey and he was offered us very invaluable insights into it (which means more work for us). the research project isn't really as simple as i thought. have started research on RE projects and i realise central lib is a very good place for research after 7pm. i actually stayed till 9.45 on tuesday. they would play this corny music telling you the library is going to close in 15 mins time. and the library is freaking cold!! nus is freaking cold!!! whatever happened to the thermostat being set at 25 degree celcuis??

and on top all the sch work is GC!!! hope everything will run well this sat.. no major cock ups i hope......

the k-session today really helped me to relax and get away from all these for a while!!

I have lots to blog about in the past few days, but was too tied down and drained out to write about anything. Been busy with projects, meeting and geog soc stuff. Similar as last sem, mid sem break is no break at all.

Wed was the career talk organised by the geog dept. Along with it was the geog dept open house for the JC students. It was quite a turn out, but those who considered doing geog was only a handful. Guess most of them was forced to come by their school.

After listening to the talk from the alumni speakers, as well as fellow geog soc mates, i have reaffirmed my faith in geography. Many of the graduates speakers mentioned they choose geog because they love the topic. For me, it was the same too. I love to study about things around me since young, as well as looking at maps and creating them. I was happy when i got to do geog proper in secondary school. The only regret i have was not choosing pure geog and a levels geog back then. I thought sci was the route for me cause i did well in them during o levels, but studying them in jc proved to be a torture. Many of the jc kids choose not to do geog because they are afraid of the jobs prospects in future, which is why for this career talk, we invited alumni who are in the line of job not related to geography. For me, i feel that armed with a uni degree plus the attitude to learn, one need not fear the lack of job. Ultimately for me, it is job satisfaction that i want in future and i do want to go into a job which earns lots of money but i hate it. there is no point in dragging myself to work everyday and dreading every moment of it.

geographers with our alumni speakers!

I love the above mugshot that is going to appear in our geosphere magazine! gonna add in more ppl who are not present for the shoot. Thanks to winnie for putting this mugshot together.

yest was spent in ubin doing fieldwork for our geog project. haven been back there since dunno when. island still looks the same, which i am happy about. We should all fight to preserve this rustic part of singapore

the ubin jetty

where else can you find this in singapore?

chek jawa wetlands.. too bad by the time we reach there, it was alreadly high tide..

because we were interviewing ppl. this group of nice and friendly tourist from holland.

I forgot who i was talking to about this but it goes like this: what are the people from holland called? ans: hollanders. LOL!!

cam-whoring session

we met them countless of times and we even helped to fix their bike. I know how it feels like to be stranded somewhere with a bike that is not working (think bikequest).

managed to capture a shot of this SIA B777 approaching changi.

the fine is so cheap right??

Part of the project requires us to talk to people and it was really a pleasure talking to most of the residents and tourists. There are many things which i only knew about after talking to them and at some points, i feel really inspired to be part of the team that preseves the nature in ubin island. I really like visiting pulau ubin. It is really a good break away from the city. From the bumboat ride to cycling upslope and downslope, all of it is an different experience. those who have never visited ubin must visit ubin!!

Met up with the DesDanang ppl for dinner after ubin. only 14 of us managed to turn up. it was still fun to be able to catch up with them. towards the end of dinner, we were talking about some of the memorable moments in danang. the CCTV spiders, the kids in the house, the fight at village 8, the food that we had (both gd & bad), silly moments that some of us had... Really miss those days....

and finally.. FOC poster is up.. sorry to the publicity team as i kept bugging you gals for stuff.. even late at night and early mornings....

The edison chen pic scandal has been hot news for the past few days. Papers like wanbao has stories on it almost everyday and even the death of lydia sum did not manage to tone down this big scandal.

this clip is funny.. a dig at the scandal..

http://you.video.sina.com.cn/b/11403295-1258760847.html

I was totally bored just now and i actually went to surf the horoscope website which we were looking at at winnie's hse yest.

巨蟹座2008年星座运程

整体概况
今年度的木星位置在对宫摩羯座，正面冲击着巨蟹座，这是你直接面临外界叩门的迹象。对于他人给予的资助或要求，必须有所反应并及时采取行动。所幸处女座上的土星没有太严厉的作用施加于你，甚至具有抚平和缓的效果，让你能有充分准备和处理，将这些事情或提案逐一化为助力。你仍然跟以往一样十分繁忙，但已经能充分掌握自己的时间。

功课学业
巨蟹座今年的学业状况不是很佳，面对功课会有许多辛劳的现象，虽然已经付出努力，然而成绩表现却不稳定，这不免让你感到沮丧。然而巨蟹座不要失去信心，只要持续再接再厉，之后必有良好的表现。

工作职场
玄王星带来沉重的压力源已经良久，今年木星又进入正冲，一起交互作用之下，使你遭逢到一些挫败，你也能正面迎接这些挑战而越挫越勇。在合作关系上需要多加留神注意，事业上也有许多需要与他人协调之处，因此人际关系是你这一年事业成败的关键，你将谨慎处理沟通和语言的方面。值得庆幸的一面是，某些任务终于了结或者开展，都代表你进入了不同于以往的新局。

金钱理财
巨蟹座2008年的财运起伏很大而且非常剧烈，几乎许多笔帐目都不容小觑，以致于整个财务呈现极不稳定的状况。至少收入进帐要能够先巩固好，这是你当前维持财务的根本，也能在面临困难时惊险过关。尤其金融投资以及合伙方面，巨蟹座要特别小心，以免真的出了纰漏，造成往后难以收拾的局面。

恋爱婚姻
这一年爱情运称不上好或坏，但是有许多现象和遭遇集于一身，产生不少问题与烦恼。有伴侣的你：感情关系或许有进一步发展，双方共同拟定长远的计画。须克服一些不稳定因子，沟通是主要的问题所在。单身的你：或许是有桃花，但是需要自己懂得把握或者朋友提醒推动，表达力仍是增进感情很重要的一环。

and oh... i am hooked onto 赌场风云. can't believe i was glued in front of the tv in the morning watching the 5 episodes marathon on scv. gives me a reason to wake up early on sunday mornings (unless i catch the everyday 9pm episode). watching the canto dubbing version on crunchyroll now.. nd to improve my canto ( yest, me n huishi were trying to showcase our 'cui' cantonese)

I haven been blogging for very very long. Been rather busy these days since CNY. many many things to settle and do. so some updates on my life.

CNY was spent on gathering and gambling. apart from all the usual relatives visitiing, got to meet up with the dd07 ppl and jc frens! shall let the pics do the talking...

bel's dog. so cute hoh?

Also, i finally donated blood! i kept mentioning that i wanted to do so, but kept delaying it too. so last tue, finally got myself to do it. the whole process was not that scary in fact. after the LA shot, there wasn't any feeling when the big catheter went in.

haha.. now i am addicted to donating. shall do again in may..

yest geog soc gathering at winnie's hse is so fun! had a sumptous steamboat dinner, where jiaqi n i ate all the prawns. and of course bijoux phua's entertainment! her laughter is really infectious and we were all laughing throughout dinner. what's misssing is just mahjong. hope to have one session during mid sem break! will post pics when i get them.

wun be updating much these days i guess. all 5 modules got projects. sianz..

Damm it again. I have not had time to catch amazing race asia on tv and while i was happily flipping through straits times, i accidentally read who got eliminated. it's always shitty to find out the result before catching my weekly dose of reality tv.

so there has been a recent improvement to our transport system in a bid to deter ppl from driving into the city. It was mentioned that trains frequency would be increased in the coming week. Let's hope it is really effective in easing the morning east bound train crowd. However, thinking back, it is singaporeans themselves who are making people unable to board the train. Everytime i see the morning rush hour train, the middle portion is always rather empty. Seriously, that area could fit another 10 passengers. This is the same for buses too. If i am missing more than 2 train because of this, I would be severely pissed. In the long run, i hope bus services frequency could be increased too. Some buses are just too packed when it reaches your stop. I am hoping for a better travelling experience to school next week onwards, esp when I have 2 super early lessons.