COMMENTS
sakit sa ulo pala mag-add ng comments section.
i think the problem is may conflict ata with the existing javascript stuff, kaya ayaw mag-open ng comment window.
(mag-taglish ba?)
patulong na nga ako kay wayne mamaya. di talaga ako marunong eh.
i decided to add a comments section so i can save the comments in a more long-lasting, more organized way.
sa tagboard kasi, nawawala lang pag puno na. i save them sa notepad, pero i forget sometimes, and medyo weird lang na ganun. tapos pa, there's this comment feature that makes a message private, so if you're too *ahem* shy to post a tag, then there! diba?! but of course i'm not doing away with my precious tagboard. =)
and if you noticed, i decided to give you (and me) a break from the background music.
i like sugar ray, alright, but pag paulit-ulit-ulit na, especially nung inaayos ko ung comments over and over again, i think a "sound rest" is in order.
time for lunch! =)
NOTES TO SELF
allow me four words before i begin: LECHENG PHYSICS TEST YAN.
there. that feels better.
fresh from my (lecheng) physics test this morning, as i trekked up the long and winding uphill staircase from lecture theatre 26 to my 4th floor room via a shortcut (which happens to be a HILL, btw), i conjured up mental notes which i thought were worth remembering.
1) you can NEVER EVER EVER study enough.
badtrip. dahil sa isang RC Circuit question where i confused the formulas for discharging and charging processes, a good 10 points went kaput. (sana may points kahit papano, though... and did i mention this is a 34-item test?)
2) dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
[the horror i felt as i was about to check my inbox last time, during the first test. GOD that was scary. he sent emails to some of my friends, see. for the record, i didn't receive any mail. =)]
my high school buddy and einstein fan wilay calls it "mind over matter". or maybe it's just plain self-hypnosis. and i read too that sometimes quantity turns to quality. basta. i'm too tired to explain.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
3) NEVER EVER believe it when rotana says he's gonna fail a test or exam.
rotana is this brilliant cambodian guy who seems to have "inner peace".
always calm, always polite, never complaining even if his talkative buddy nirorn hits him on the shoulder (average of about 20x in a day) for no reason at all.
rotana's a good guy, don't get me wrong. but he's just too smart to fail.
in last semester's math exam, he told me after the exam that he thought he was gonna get F minus.
F MINUS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! that's BELOW the failing mark even! it doesn't even exist.
anyway, he got an A+. not A, mind you, which is already ceiling-high. A+, is for those, ahem, with distinction.
(um, i got a surprising B- by the way.. surprising in the sense that i thought I would fail! and this time, i was SERIOUS! =P)
rotana was telling me today that he was gonna fail this one. haha.
4) [still related with #3] just don't even compare with others.
i learned during lunch with karen and sister pau, and ivy and korinna at The Deck the other day, that ivy and kor didn't find the first physics midterm TOO difficult. i mean, they thought it was quite manageable, and not brain-busting.
well i thought it was brain-busting. and i thought everyone else thought it was.
oh well. FACE IT jose. it's so damn easy to fade into obscurity in this school you're in.
or maybe in college in general. but i don't really know.
5) and yeah. eat japanese food for lunch.
nothing tastes like it. always the anti-depressant. the surefire solution to remedy problems caused by screwed-up tests. =)
and yesssssssssssss, american idol tonight! i'm praying it's camile velasco's TIME TO SHINE this time.
i feel better already. now if i just catch some sleep, everything'll be all good.
allow me four words before i begin: LECHENG PHYSICS TEST YAN.
there. that feels better.
fresh from my (lecheng) physics test this morning, as i trekked up the long and winding uphill staircase from lecture theatre 26 to my 4th floor room via a shortcut (which happens to be a HILL, btw), i conjured up mental notes which i thought were worth remembering.
1) you can NEVER EVER EVER study enough.
badtrip. dahil sa isang RC Circuit question where i confused the formulas for discharging and charging processes, a good 10 points went kaput. (sana may points kahit papano, though... and did i mention this is a 34-item test?)
2) dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email telling me to work my ass off MORE.
[the horror i felt as i was about to check my inbox last time, during the first test. GOD that was scary. he sent emails to some of my friends, see. for the record, i didn't receive any mail. =)]
my high school buddy and einstein fan wilay calls it "mind over matter". or maybe it's just plain self-hypnosis. and i read too that sometimes quantity turns to quality. basta. i'm too tired to explain.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
dr. roland su is a kind person. he won't let me fail. he won't send me an email.
3) NEVER EVER believe it when rotana says he's gonna fail a test or exam.
rotana is this brilliant cambodian guy who seems to have "inner peace".
always calm, always polite, never complaining even if his talkative buddy nirorn hits him on the shoulder (average of about 20x in a day) for no reason at all.
rotana's a good guy, don't get me wrong. but he's just too smart to fail.
in last semester's math exam, he told me after the exam that he thought he was gonna get F minus.
F MINUS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! that's BELOW the failing mark even! it doesn't even exist.
anyway, he got an A+. not A, mind you, which is already ceiling-high. A+, is for those, ahem, with distinction.
(um, i got a surprising B- by the way.. surprising in the sense that i thought I would fail! and this time, i was SERIOUS! =P)
rotana was telling me today that he was gonna fail this one. haha.
4) [still related with #3] just don't even compare with others.
i learned during lunch with karen and sister pau, and ivy and korinna at The Deck the other day, that ivy and kor didn't find the first physics midterm TOO difficult. i mean, they thought it was quite manageable, and not brain-busting.
well i thought it was brain-busting. and i thought everyone else thought it was.
oh well. FACE IT jose. it's so damn easy to fade into obscurity in this school you're in.
or maybe in college in general. but i don't really know.
5) and yeah. eat japanese food for lunch.
nothing tastes like it. always the anti-depressant. the surefire solution to remedy problems caused by screwed-up tests. =)
and yesssssssssssss, american idol tonight! i'm praying it's camile velasco's TIME TO SHINE this time.
i feel better already. now if i just catch some sleep, everything'll be all good.
MIDNIGHT MUGGIN'
that's it. waaaaaay too much time wasted na.
todo na to! bwisit na physics midterm (at the end of the term sabi pa ni ferron) test yan.
syete. 12:09 am ba naman magsimulang mag-aral?!
tsk tsk. i just ate my apple though, and according to my sister's favorite cousin justin, apples contain more caffeine than coffee.
(i ate an orange too, which tasted like honey (oversweet) and something like wine ("old"-tasting) and some vinegar with sugar and a pinch of salt. needless to say, it was awful.)
ANYWAY, my physics book is waiting, and thus, in the words of kuya germs,
WALANG TULUGAN!!
GOING DOWN, DOWN, DOWN... and DOWN
room draw awhile ago, and several several hall residents, all sweaty if i may add, were gathered in the foyer to choose their rooms. the order they choose, is based on their hall points.
i couldn't join the room draw, since i'm not TECHNICALLY registered to stay here next sem, although it's an understood fact.
anyway, it seems like i'm going down, down, down, and DOWN.
that's four floors down. =) and to the block across my current one too.
pacey, my vietnamese friend, invited me to stay in a double room with him, since the rates are shooting up next sem (what with the coming summer renovation and the levelling-off of rates of all NUS halls). i'm not REGISTERED to stay with him, though, but i suppose the incoming freshmen wouldn't so thick-faced as to join him in a double room without his consent, right? and of course, he wouldn't give his consent anyway. =)
so that's it. F102 next sem.
closer to the dining hall, closer to the bus stop.
wash room's near too. but i sure will miss my window view. oh well!
(actually pacey wanted to even go as high as E7 (7th floor) or E5 or even my current room on E4.. dunno why he suddenly changed his mind. but it's all good!! =P)
besides, going up and down 4 blasted floors everyday just to go to the dining hall gets tiring too. =) and next year, if all goes well, it'll be pacey and me in F102, pinoy fella brice in F103, cool malaysian victor in F104, and wayne in F108 (and maybe indian friend prashant in F107?). bridging girls diana, laotian tuk, korinna and ivy would hopefully be just a floor up, and incoming sophie reginald lee up another floor.
just the company of good neighbors makes the room all worth it.
that's it. waaaaaay too much time wasted na.
todo na to! bwisit na physics midterm (at the end of the term sabi pa ni ferron) test yan.
syete. 12:09 am ba naman magsimulang mag-aral?!
tsk tsk. i just ate my apple though, and according to my sister's favorite cousin justin, apples contain more caffeine than coffee.
(i ate an orange too, which tasted like honey (oversweet) and something like wine ("old"-tasting) and some vinegar with sugar and a pinch of salt. needless to say, it was awful.)
ANYWAY, my physics book is waiting, and thus, in the words of kuya germs,
WALANG TULUGAN!!
GOING DOWN, DOWN, DOWN... and DOWN
room draw awhile ago, and several several hall residents, all sweaty if i may add, were gathered in the foyer to choose their rooms. the order they choose, is based on their hall points.
i couldn't join the room draw, since i'm not TECHNICALLY registered to stay here next sem, although it's an understood fact.
anyway, it seems like i'm going down, down, down, and DOWN.
that's four floors down. =) and to the block across my current one too.
pacey, my vietnamese friend, invited me to stay in a double room with him, since the rates are shooting up next sem (what with the coming summer renovation and the levelling-off of rates of all NUS halls). i'm not REGISTERED to stay with him, though, but i suppose the incoming freshmen wouldn't so thick-faced as to join him in a double room without his consent, right? and of course, he wouldn't give his consent anyway. =)
so that's it. F102 next sem.
closer to the dining hall, closer to the bus stop.
wash room's near too. but i sure will miss my window view. oh well!
(actually pacey wanted to even go as high as E7 (7th floor) or E5 or even my current room on E4.. dunno why he suddenly changed his mind. but it's all good!! =P)
besides, going up and down 4 blasted floors everyday just to go to the dining hall gets tiring too. =) and next year, if all goes well, it'll be pacey and me in F102, pinoy fella brice in F103, cool malaysian victor in F104, and wayne in F108 (and maybe indian friend prashant in F107?). bridging girls diana, laotian tuk, korinna and ivy would hopefully be just a floor up, and incoming sophie reginald lee up another floor.
just the company of good neighbors makes the room all worth it.
THIS ONE'S DIFFERENT
i read somewhere that when conversing with people, especially those you meet for the first time, don't talk about 1) politics, 2) something i forgot, and 3) religion.
apparently, these are stuff that are "sensitive", so to speak, and thus i have been careful to talk about those things only in the company of GOOD friends, or i just talk with people in general about political slash religious stuff with utmost caution, free from blatant opinions and firm biases. i found it's best to keep an open mind, and even better, if the person you're conversing with similarly keeps his mind un-closed.
anyway, as the internet seems to bolster the interconnectedness of assorted um, stuff, i was surfing again this afternoon when links led to this and that and that and finally this. anyway, i'll expound.
i was downloading music files again, and then i realized, i didn't already have 5 candles by jars of clay yet, when i thought i had it in my musicbulk folder.
a search for jars of clay led to a string of christian songs which included collaborations with caedmon's call and sixpence none the richer, which i downloaded.
[oh, i should tell you now. this blog's about religion and faith. proceed if you want.]
anyway, i thought, are caedmon's call and jars of clay catholic bands?
(maybe i was blessed by the christian (not catholic though) music in the church concert of wayne, kor, ivy, and jeunesse which i attended yesterday.)
i mean, i know it's not much of a deal whether they're catholic or not, but it sure any fact about them would add some texture to the beautiful songs they sing.
i searched and searched, and although it wasn't EXPLICITLY stated, i think jars of clay and caedmon's call, are catholic*. or maybe not. maybe it doesn't even matter. but i know that catholic sites mention them i.e. joint tour to catholic universites and colleges, mentions of them in catholic groups' homepages, favorite music of religious guys etc..
i learned too, from my searching, that mel gibson, the director and producer of the passion of the christ, is catholic, and so is jim caviezel, the guy who plays Jesus.
i must mention though, that they do not go around and proclaim themselves as catholic to promote their movie, as jim mentions in interviews. jim's a devout catholic, but he wishes to be noted in the movie as an actor, and not because of his personal faith.
anyway, i continued my search for catholic bands, and soon i came upon this site lifeteen.com .
it's about being a catholic. it's about being a teenager.
and yes, it made me pull out my dusty long-unused bible from the shelf.
there is an interesting section that's about the faith, and it proved to be an interesting read.
this is just me in reflective mode. i am not imposing anything or trying to persuade anyone. i've just been spiritually blessed by reading something from the net. this doesn't mean though, that i TOTALLY agree with everything that the catholic church says, especially with its stance on certain issues, but i guess it's safe to say that i TRY to be a good boy.
it's actually feels great that for once, i found something really worthwhile in the crazy clutter that is the internet.
p.s.
if it's significant in any way, here's some random info.
my dad is an ex-seminarian, meaning he ALMOST became a priest.
a group of them felt "they weren't ready" for ordination, so a bunch of them backed out. then he met my mom.
my mom is a guidance counselor, who takes up masteral units on theology and the like.
but mind you, our home is not exactly what you'd call pure and perfect and heavenly.
just the typical, thank you very much.
so much for the backgrounder.
____________
*wayne, who i sincerely believe is a CSI agent in the making (that's his favorite show too), told me that, based on his research, jars of clay aren't catholic christian. some are lutheran, augustinian, and others, but none roman catholic. shouldn't matter really, right?
but thanks for the info wayne. and for reading my posts almost as soon as they're published. ;)
i read somewhere that when conversing with people, especially those you meet for the first time, don't talk about 1) politics, 2) something i forgot, and 3) religion.
apparently, these are stuff that are "sensitive", so to speak, and thus i have been careful to talk about those things only in the company of GOOD friends, or i just talk with people in general about political slash religious stuff with utmost caution, free from blatant opinions and firm biases. i found it's best to keep an open mind, and even better, if the person you're conversing with similarly keeps his mind un-closed.
anyway, as the internet seems to bolster the interconnectedness of assorted um, stuff, i was surfing again this afternoon when links led to this and that and that and finally this. anyway, i'll expound.
i was downloading music files again, and then i realized, i didn't already have 5 candles by jars of clay yet, when i thought i had it in my musicbulk folder.
a search for jars of clay led to a string of christian songs which included collaborations with caedmon's call and sixpence none the richer, which i downloaded.
[oh, i should tell you now. this blog's about religion and faith. proceed if you want.]
anyway, i thought, are caedmon's call and jars of clay catholic bands?
(maybe i was blessed by the christian (not catholic though) music in the church concert of wayne, kor, ivy, and jeunesse which i attended yesterday.)
i mean, i know it's not much of a deal whether they're catholic or not, but it sure any fact about them would add some texture to the beautiful songs they sing.
i searched and searched, and although it wasn't EXPLICITLY stated, i think jars of clay and caedmon's call, are catholic*. or maybe not. maybe it doesn't even matter. but i know that catholic sites mention them i.e. joint tour to catholic universites and colleges, mentions of them in catholic groups' homepages, favorite music of religious guys etc..
i learned too, from my searching, that mel gibson, the director and producer of the passion of the christ, is catholic, and so is jim caviezel, the guy who plays Jesus.
i must mention though, that they do not go around and proclaim themselves as catholic to promote their movie, as jim mentions in interviews. jim's a devout catholic, but he wishes to be noted in the movie as an actor, and not because of his personal faith.
anyway, i continued my search for catholic bands, and soon i came upon this site lifeteen.com .
it's about being a catholic. it's about being a teenager.
and yes, it made me pull out my dusty long-unused bible from the shelf.
there is an interesting section that's about the faith, and it proved to be an interesting read.
this is just me in reflective mode. i am not imposing anything or trying to persuade anyone. i've just been spiritually blessed by reading something from the net. this doesn't mean though, that i TOTALLY agree with everything that the catholic church says, especially with its stance on certain issues, but i guess it's safe to say that i TRY to be a good boy.
it's actually feels great that for once, i found something really worthwhile in the crazy clutter that is the internet.
p.s.
if it's significant in any way, here's some random info.
my dad is an ex-seminarian, meaning he ALMOST became a priest.
a group of them felt "they weren't ready" for ordination, so a bunch of them backed out. then he met my mom.
my mom is a guidance counselor, who takes up masteral units on theology and the like.
but mind you, our home is not exactly what you'd call pure and perfect and heavenly.
just the typical, thank you very much.
so much for the backgrounder.
____________
*wayne, who i sincerely believe is a CSI agent in the making (that's his favorite show too), told me that, based on his research, jars of clay aren't catholic christian. some are lutheran, augustinian, and others, but none roman catholic. shouldn't matter really, right?
but thanks for the info wayne. and for reading my posts almost as soon as they're published. ;)
THOU SHALT NOT BLOG
thou shalt study.
thou shalt sleep early.
thou shalt master thy physics, thy statistics, thy mathematics.
bloggest not.
thou shalt not blog.
the foolish studyeth little, and they weepeth in the end.
thou dost differently, thou study until the book consummeth.
thou wilt excel.
but remember,
thou shalt not blog.
____
okay. i change it. you know i couldn't stand that!
i shall not blog TOO MUCH.
i shall be skimpy on details.
background:
slept accidentally last night, after hours of surfing and just when i was about to study
today:
-woke up at 8:20am, ate macaroni by my lonesome in the dining hall
[nah, no big deal. i'm comfy eating alone. the macaroni was so-so, but i was tired of eating fried egg.]
-went to church 10:30, met karen and her sister pau, who just arrived from pinas, in the bus
[pau, one of my sister's best friends, is the sister of my good buddy and (fellow) pervert karen, arrived last night. i was thinking whether my sister was thoughtful enough to send me a package through her, but seems like... well, pau didn't bring a package.:) ]
-went with ferron, karen, pau to orchard for lunch with ate valerie, since we were to attend the church concert of jeunesse, wayne, ivy, kor
[those guys were gonna perform a dance of sorts. the rest of the catholic pinoys to eat in the hawker center in clementi.]
-ate at this small but stylish turkish restaurant anatolia, which had genuine european chefs and a european ambience
-ate a good meal consisting of chicken, fries, tasty fried rice, while taking a few servings of the delicious dish of chicken and tomato sauce with yogurt that karen and pau couldn't finish
STOP.
hmmm... too long. can't finish now. have to study. sorry! hahaha.
i really should give myself a blog length limit. oh well. aral muna for LAST STATISTICS TUTORIAL TOMORROW!! sagot na nga ako. gudnyt!
thou shalt study.
thou shalt sleep early.
thou shalt master thy physics, thy statistics, thy mathematics.
bloggest not.
thou shalt not blog.
the foolish studyeth little, and they weepeth in the end.
thou dost differently, thou study until the book consummeth.
thou wilt excel.
but remember,
thou shalt not blog.
____
okay. i change it. you know i couldn't stand that!
i shall not blog TOO MUCH.
i shall be skimpy on details.
background:
slept accidentally last night, after hours of surfing and just when i was about to study
today:
-woke up at 8:20am, ate macaroni by my lonesome in the dining hall
[nah, no big deal. i'm comfy eating alone. the macaroni was so-so, but i was tired of eating fried egg.]
-went to church 10:30, met karen and her sister pau, who just arrived from pinas, in the bus
[pau, one of my sister's best friends, is the sister of my good buddy and (fellow) pervert karen, arrived last night. i was thinking whether my sister was thoughtful enough to send me a package through her, but seems like... well, pau didn't bring a package.:) ]
-went with ferron, karen, pau to orchard for lunch with ate valerie, since we were to attend the church concert of jeunesse, wayne, ivy, kor
[those guys were gonna perform a dance of sorts. the rest of the catholic pinoys to eat in the hawker center in clementi.]
-ate at this small but stylish turkish restaurant anatolia, which had genuine european chefs and a european ambience
-ate a good meal consisting of chicken, fries, tasty fried rice, while taking a few servings of the delicious dish of chicken and tomato sauce with yogurt that karen and pau couldn't finish
STOP.
hmmm... too long. can't finish now. have to study. sorry! hahaha.
i really should give myself a blog length limit. oh well. aral muna for LAST STATISTICS TUTORIAL TOMORROW!! sagot na nga ako. gudnyt!
NO INTERNET, BUT IT'S SURPRISINGLY GOOD
yey!
guess what happened the other day.
i couldn't connect to the internet again!
but it's all good.
i was able to, ahem, STUDY. for real this time.
and oh yes! science library is the place to be. (i quote that from arthur my pinoy senior).
the other night i went to study in the library with arthur. when i came back, there was some network sharing problem, and so, pesky little me, the type who is "nagmamarunong", tinkered with this and this in the computer settings. ayun, di tuloy nakaconnect sa net.
yesterday i went to the comcen to have it repaired again, and they fixed the network connections, or so it seemed. however, when i came back to my room, the blasted thing won't connect still! the message, "a network cable is unplugged" would flash.
i checked with afzaal's network point and it still wouldn't work. i brought my laptop down 4 floors and to the next block to wayne's room and thank goodness i could connect there.
i realized the problem was with the network point, and not my PC.
great! now i didn't have to reformat again.
i emailed user support at the comcen, and today they responded. after an exchange of emails regarding boring specs you wouldn't find interesting, tada! my pc's up and running again.
hmmm... based on what i did today, as soon as i knew my pc was okay, i think having no internet is better.
last night, for example, i went to the library again, until 9:45 pm, so we could catch survivor at 10pm on tv. after survivor, i studied in my room, and lo and behold, i finished reading topics about 3 out of 5 sets of my physics lecture notes. i read several chapters of giancoli, and i was surprised i finished so much.
i slept at almost 4am, but with my nescafe frothe, a chocolate drink, and my pc to provide me some music to "bounce" to (basically my pc was just for printing notes, listening to mp3s, and playing 3d pinball and spider solitaire only), i survived the night AND was able to catch breakfast at 8am.
today, i went to the library again, from late morning to around 3pm.
i walked back to the hall because i was kinda sleepy, and so that i could check if my pc was working.
and that was the end of my studying for the day. hahahahahahaha.
i surfed again, checked mail, read the news on inq7.net, did some friendster, and of course, i touched up some stuff on the blog again!
but it's okay. i'm gonna study NOW NOW.
imagine, i was invited by my pinoy seniors to go out tonight. they were to have dinner at orchard, and go to CHIJMES, some sort of pub, where people go "clubbin'".
hmph. i really really wanted to go. but i said, i have to study.
haha. talk about determination!
but really, i'm not feeling too super.
i think i have a minor headache that's gradually chewing off the back part of my brain.
anyway, gotta study na!
p.s.
guess what's new with the layout of the blog! haha.
i know it's quite simple-LOOKING, but for non-techies like me, it took hours.
hmmm... did you notice?
well if you didn't, they say the best type of change is the one that goes unnoticed. ;)
yey!
guess what happened the other day.
i couldn't connect to the internet again!
but it's all good.
i was able to, ahem, STUDY. for real this time.
and oh yes! science library is the place to be. (i quote that from arthur my pinoy senior).
the other night i went to study in the library with arthur. when i came back, there was some network sharing problem, and so, pesky little me, the type who is "nagmamarunong", tinkered with this and this in the computer settings. ayun, di tuloy nakaconnect sa net.
yesterday i went to the comcen to have it repaired again, and they fixed the network connections, or so it seemed. however, when i came back to my room, the blasted thing won't connect still! the message, "a network cable is unplugged" would flash.
i checked with afzaal's network point and it still wouldn't work. i brought my laptop down 4 floors and to the next block to wayne's room and thank goodness i could connect there.
i realized the problem was with the network point, and not my PC.
great! now i didn't have to reformat again.
i emailed user support at the comcen, and today they responded. after an exchange of emails regarding boring specs you wouldn't find interesting, tada! my pc's up and running again.
hmmm... based on what i did today, as soon as i knew my pc was okay, i think having no internet is better.
last night, for example, i went to the library again, until 9:45 pm, so we could catch survivor at 10pm on tv. after survivor, i studied in my room, and lo and behold, i finished reading topics about 3 out of 5 sets of my physics lecture notes. i read several chapters of giancoli, and i was surprised i finished so much.
i slept at almost 4am, but with my nescafe frothe, a chocolate drink, and my pc to provide me some music to "bounce" to (basically my pc was just for printing notes, listening to mp3s, and playing 3d pinball and spider solitaire only), i survived the night AND was able to catch breakfast at 8am.
today, i went to the library again, from late morning to around 3pm.
i walked back to the hall because i was kinda sleepy, and so that i could check if my pc was working.
and that was the end of my studying for the day. hahahahahahaha.
i surfed again, checked mail, read the news on inq7.net, did some friendster, and of course, i touched up some stuff on the blog again!
but it's okay. i'm gonna study NOW NOW.
imagine, i was invited by my pinoy seniors to go out tonight. they were to have dinner at orchard, and go to CHIJMES, some sort of pub, where people go "clubbin'".
hmph. i really really wanted to go. but i said, i have to study.
haha. talk about determination!
but really, i'm not feeling too super.
i think i have a minor headache that's gradually chewing off the back part of my brain.
anyway, gotta study na!
p.s.
guess what's new with the layout of the blog! haha.
i know it's quite simple-LOOKING, but for non-techies like me, it took hours.
hmmm... did you notice?
well if you didn't, they say the best type of change is the one that goes unnoticed. ;)
DAMN GOOD SLEEP
yey. a good nap before dinner never fails to make me feel better. now off to science library. just waiting for arthur. =)
yey. a good nap before dinner never fails to make me feel better. now off to science library. just waiting for arthur. =)
I SHOULD STOP COMPLAINING
i ALMOST posted something just moments ago, but i realize it's all about the same old thing.
i saved the last part though:
it's official. i'm a wreck.
i try my best to keep myself afloat, but for some reason, which i sincerely do not fully comprehend, it just doesn't work.
i feel as if i've so much invisible stuff inside, they should charge me for excess (dare i say it) "emotional" baggage.
it's odd, really. it's heavy, yet it feels empty.
must be the weather again. drizzled awhile ago, and now it's eternal sunshine for the spotless mind. (
here's part of the song i'm into right now (i swear, my head is a self-playing jukebox on shuffle):
sun has fallen from the sky
stars no longer shinin'
purple sky has turned gray
and it makes me want to scream
moon no longer givin' light
us no longer talkin'
rain would not shower love
and it makes me want to scream
i realize now why some university students in taiwan commit suicide after getting poor marks (learned from my english class last sem).
i realize now why people do crazy things at the height of a strong emotion, whatever it is.
i realize why drunkards drink vodka and seek the company of their drunkard fellas well into the night.
oh well. i'm drinking my lime juice from its 1-liter bottle. that should do the trick.
although i still miss my favorite kalamansi.
gotta study math now. and physics. and econs. FOR REAL this time.
sigh. my best laid plans. i'm crossing my finers i won't screw up my study masterplan yet again.
p.s.
i'm sorry if i seem to be complaining day in and day out (based on this blog at least).
can't help it. i hope to make this blog more readable after my blasted exams.
sorry for the inconvenience. =)
i ALMOST posted something just moments ago, but i realize it's all about the same old thing.
i saved the last part though:
it's official. i'm a wreck.
i try my best to keep myself afloat, but for some reason, which i sincerely do not fully comprehend, it just doesn't work.
i feel as if i've so much invisible stuff inside, they should charge me for excess (dare i say it) "emotional" baggage.
it's odd, really. it's heavy, yet it feels empty.
must be the weather again. drizzled awhile ago, and now it's eternal sunshine for the spotless mind. (
here's part of the song i'm into right now (i swear, my head is a self-playing jukebox on shuffle):
stars no longer shinin'
purple sky has turned gray
and it makes me want to scream
moon no longer givin' light
us no longer talkin'
rain would not shower love
and it makes me want to scream
i realize now why some university students in taiwan commit suicide after getting poor marks (learned from my english class last sem).
i realize now why people do crazy things at the height of a strong emotion, whatever it is.
i realize why drunkards drink vodka and seek the company of their drunkard fellas well into the night.
oh well. i'm drinking my lime juice from its 1-liter bottle. that should do the trick.
although i still miss my favorite kalamansi.
gotta study math now. and physics. and econs. FOR REAL this time.
sigh. my best laid plans. i'm crossing my finers i won't screw up my study masterplan yet again.
p.s.
i'm sorry if i seem to be complaining day in and day out (based on this blog at least).
can't help it. i hope to make this blog more readable after my blasted exams.
sorry for the inconvenience. =)
SHEESH. GRADUATION IN RETROSPECT.
[Warning: Cheese.]
i just realized. graduation ng pisay today.
i mentioned it in the last entry, but it just sank in just now.
i remember the last graduation. my graduation.
i remember a crazy whirlwind of emotions.
no, this isn't all mushy. i remember panicking, getting irked and devastated and even angry, feeling sympathy for someone who was feeling annoyed too for a totally different reason, and yeah, the usual pride and melodrama you saw on dawson's creek and tabing-ilog and boston public even.
my parents didn't walk with me during the opening march. they were in the canteen having snacks with my sister and both my lolas. i know it shouldn't be a big deal since the VIPs and my batchmates and their parents were not in the gym yet (they were in a looooooong queue behind me), but it just felt awful.
we were off to take group photos in the quadrangle when i realized i lost my speech (people who know me shouldn't be surprised). needless to say, i panicked. i was wondering if i left it in the car, or in the seats at the gym when we had the baccalaureate mass just moments earlier. i ran to the car, then back to the gym, where i thankfully found the speech in a folder on my seat.
and then my adviser told me, to my horror, that it was time to start the march.
my parents were still in the canteen, and i was frantically calling my dad through his handphone. (i borrowed kirth's handphone since i left mine in the car). my good ol' dad just didn't seem to hear the phone ringing, or feel it vibrating, even if i called him over and over and over again.
i blurted mild curses in exasperation, and felt a shiver as i realized that the other parents wer right in front of me. at that instant, i wanted to vanish and teleport to the canteen and drag my parents.
time to start, my adviser repeated.
march ka nang walang parents, sir angel said.
i couldn't blame him, the VIPs were waiting at the end of the long line, and it would take too long for my parents to squeeze through the thick bunch of batchmates and parents.
that is, if my parents even KNEW that it was time to march.
the music played, and good ol' me marched by my lonesome.
the relatives of the soon-to-be graduates were waiting in the gym in eager anticipation, and there i was, walking across the gym to my seat. my eyes stung like hell.
STOP NA.
too mushy.
i was glad steph was beside me. she had issues of her own too, what with an unpleasant surprise that caught her totally off-guard, and i was glad that she was there to share my short-term woes. thank God she brought kleenex.
it's amazing that i finally composed myself enough to smile as i went up the stage, and with a genuine smile at that. i QUITE forgave my parents sometime during the program, as i was genuinely ecstatic as i went up the beautifully-decorated stage with em.
i think i delivered my speech quite well, surprised that i didn't speak at lightning speed, like i always do, in speeches or just simple conversations.
anyway, all said, that was a happy day.
it's silly for me to hold a grudge against my parents for such trivial matters, so all was well (except that i refused to have an extravagant graduation celebration because of the incident).
sigh. i miss my batchmates, the titans.
never did i have so many hugs, big and warm too, in a single occasion in my entire life.
hmmmm... now this reminds me of ajss graduation na rin.
again, sigh.
now this makes me miss my family and friends na rin. all of em!
double sigh.
STOP.
time to study na! this is not good for my study habits na!!
but it felt good to let that out. whew.
[Warning: Cheese.]
i just realized. graduation ng pisay today.
i mentioned it in the last entry, but it just sank in just now.
i remember the last graduation. my graduation.
i remember a crazy whirlwind of emotions.
no, this isn't all mushy. i remember panicking, getting irked and devastated and even angry, feeling sympathy for someone who was feeling annoyed too for a totally different reason, and yeah, the usual pride and melodrama you saw on dawson's creek and tabing-ilog and boston public even.
my parents didn't walk with me during the opening march. they were in the canteen having snacks with my sister and both my lolas. i know it shouldn't be a big deal since the VIPs and my batchmates and their parents were not in the gym yet (they were in a looooooong queue behind me), but it just felt awful.
we were off to take group photos in the quadrangle when i realized i lost my speech (people who know me shouldn't be surprised). needless to say, i panicked. i was wondering if i left it in the car, or in the seats at the gym when we had the baccalaureate mass just moments earlier. i ran to the car, then back to the gym, where i thankfully found the speech in a folder on my seat.
and then my adviser told me, to my horror, that it was time to start the march.
my parents were still in the canteen, and i was frantically calling my dad through his handphone. (i borrowed kirth's handphone since i left mine in the car). my good ol' dad just didn't seem to hear the phone ringing, or feel it vibrating, even if i called him over and over and over again.
i blurted mild curses in exasperation, and felt a shiver as i realized that the other parents wer right in front of me. at that instant, i wanted to vanish and teleport to the canteen and drag my parents.
time to start, my adviser repeated.
march ka nang walang parents, sir angel said.
i couldn't blame him, the VIPs were waiting at the end of the long line, and it would take too long for my parents to squeeze through the thick bunch of batchmates and parents.
that is, if my parents even KNEW that it was time to march.
the music played, and good ol' me marched by my lonesome.
the relatives of the soon-to-be graduates were waiting in the gym in eager anticipation, and there i was, walking across the gym to my seat. my eyes stung like hell.
STOP NA.
too mushy.
i was glad steph was beside me. she had issues of her own too, what with an unpleasant surprise that caught her totally off-guard, and i was glad that she was there to share my short-term woes. thank God she brought kleenex.
it's amazing that i finally composed myself enough to smile as i went up the stage, and with a genuine smile at that. i QUITE forgave my parents sometime during the program, as i was genuinely ecstatic as i went up the beautifully-decorated stage with em.
i think i delivered my speech quite well, surprised that i didn't speak at lightning speed, like i always do, in speeches or just simple conversations.
anyway, all said, that was a happy day.
it's silly for me to hold a grudge against my parents for such trivial matters, so all was well (except that i refused to have an extravagant graduation celebration because of the incident).
sigh. i miss my batchmates, the titans.
never did i have so many hugs, big and warm too, in a single occasion in my entire life.
hmmmm... now this reminds me of ajss graduation na rin.
again, sigh.
now this makes me miss my family and friends na rin. all of em!
double sigh.
STOP.
time to study na! this is not good for my study habits na!!
but it felt good to let that out. whew.
CRUNCH TIME
yey. second to the last lecture today.
no more lectures for math, this morning was for physics, and one more lecture for statistics.
wheeeeee!
no more tutorials too, except for one last for econs next week.
it's officially study time. crunch time if i may add.
but then again, the real crunch happens on my test and exam dates.
(btw, here people differentiate tests and exams are different. labo nga eh. tests = midterms, exams = finals, and no, exams are not "tests". ;p )
anyway, i've been struggling like crazy to study the past few days, but to no avail.
there's progress actually, but it's not amazing and astounding and even remotely "normal".
something's quite wrong in my study cycle.
(or maybe everything's simply conspiring against me...now that's a thought.)
last night for example, i was supposed to study at 8:30, but 9pm came and 10pm came, and i was still doing my usual surfing again.
diana messaged me to go to dustin's room, as we were gonna give our burmese fellow scholar noe noe a surprise birthday party. it was a fun party, and all of us bridging kids had to dance by country. haha.
it all started with nirorn's amusing cambodian dance, which he started doing during a party for my laotian friend tuk during her birthday last month. it's worth seeing, i tell you, and from that time on, we always ask nirorn to dance for every birthday celebrator.
the pinoys did the otso otso, the cambodians (all three of them) did their "hand" dance with nirorn in the lead, the laotians tuk and xaypanya did a dance too, and boat from thailand did a modern techno dance to the tune of a beat-y ABCD song, on brice suggestion. and of course, the bday boy noe noe was surprisingly in the mood to dance, as he did a cool dance from myanmar, complete with raising the arms and legs (i dunno how to describe eh haha).
diana couldn't do the otso otso, so she was asked to perform solo, and boat, with his smooth moves, had to teach her pa. boat is from thailand pa ah. hahaha.
anyway, brice offered some drinks, so everyone had some vodka. he mixed some tabasco sauce in it, to make what he called an abortion shot, and gave everyone a shot.
it was okay, i just realized that i'm quite a tough cookie after all.
and with all i owe brice (i don't really OWE him, but i just refuse his offers a lot haha), i didn't have it in me to refuse him one more time. haha.
_____
anyway, where was i? right.
went back up to my room past 12.
slept at 4am doing physics tutorial. actually there was some surfing and mail-checking in between too.
i sleep around 3-4am the past few days. tsk tsk.
so much for my study AND sleep cycles.
hmmm... i told you i'd cut my internet time right?
well time's up. for now. :)
p.s.
pisay graduation today!
valedictorian-dominic, salutatorian-renren, 1st honorable mention-schubert, 2nd-cocoy, 3rd-clint.
hope those guys get the singapore scholarship!
the more the merrier!
bakasyon na sa pinas! kainggit! :)
yey. second to the last lecture today.
no more lectures for math, this morning was for physics, and one more lecture for statistics.
wheeeeee!
no more tutorials too, except for one last for econs next week.
it's officially study time. crunch time if i may add.
but then again, the real crunch happens on my test and exam dates.
(btw, here people differentiate tests and exams are different. labo nga eh. tests = midterms, exams = finals, and no, exams are not "tests". ;p )
anyway, i've been struggling like crazy to study the past few days, but to no avail.
there's progress actually, but it's not amazing and astounding and even remotely "normal".
something's quite wrong in my study cycle.
(or maybe everything's simply conspiring against me...now that's a thought.)
last night for example, i was supposed to study at 8:30, but 9pm came and 10pm came, and i was still doing my usual surfing again.
diana messaged me to go to dustin's room, as we were gonna give our burmese fellow scholar noe noe a surprise birthday party. it was a fun party, and all of us bridging kids had to dance by country. haha.
it all started with nirorn's amusing cambodian dance, which he started doing during a party for my laotian friend tuk during her birthday last month. it's worth seeing, i tell you, and from that time on, we always ask nirorn to dance for every birthday celebrator.
the pinoys did the otso otso, the cambodians (all three of them) did their "hand" dance with nirorn in the lead, the laotians tuk and xaypanya did a dance too, and boat from thailand did a modern techno dance to the tune of a beat-y ABCD song, on brice suggestion. and of course, the bday boy noe noe was surprisingly in the mood to dance, as he did a cool dance from myanmar, complete with raising the arms and legs (i dunno how to describe eh haha).
diana couldn't do the otso otso, so she was asked to perform solo, and boat, with his smooth moves, had to teach her pa. boat is from thailand pa ah. hahaha.
anyway, brice offered some drinks, so everyone had some vodka. he mixed some tabasco sauce in it, to make what he called an abortion shot, and gave everyone a shot.
it was okay, i just realized that i'm quite a tough cookie after all.
and with all i owe brice (i don't really OWE him, but i just refuse his offers a lot haha), i didn't have it in me to refuse him one more time. haha.
_____
anyway, where was i? right.
went back up to my room past 12.
slept at 4am doing physics tutorial. actually there was some surfing and mail-checking in between too.
i sleep around 3-4am the past few days. tsk tsk.
so much for my study AND sleep cycles.
hmmm... i told you i'd cut my internet time right?
well time's up. for now. :)
p.s.
pisay graduation today!
valedictorian-dominic, salutatorian-renren, 1st honorable mention-schubert, 2nd-cocoy, 3rd-clint.
hope those guys get the singapore scholarship!
the more the merrier!
bakasyon na sa pinas! kainggit! :)
THE SCHOLAR'S PLEDGE
On my honor, I pledge allegiance to the academe of the National University of Singapore.
I hereby solemnly swear to study for my second Physics midterm test on March 31st, my Statistics exam on the 12th of April, my Mathematics exam on the 15th, and my Physics exam on the 17th, and to perform all necessary obligations to achieve excellent marks.
I shall dutifully answer and revise my tutorial problem sets, rummage through my piles of papers and lecture notes, read and re-read the necessary books, attempt to answer the past year exam papers, all in the hope of enriching my knowledge so as to be sufficiently armed for the coming examinations.
I shall stay away from the Internet unless necessary, and I shall cut my worthless surfing time by half. By three quarters even.
And yes, henceforth, the study room shall be "the place to be".
I commit myself to these pursuits in the name of glorious academics, in the service of the Singapore government, to which I owe this generous scholarship, and in the service of the Philippines, of which I am proud to be a citizen.
So help me God.
Again, for emphasis, so help me God.
On my honor, I pledge allegiance to the academe of the National University of Singapore.
I hereby solemnly swear to study for my second Physics midterm test on March 31st, my Statistics exam on the 12th of April, my Mathematics exam on the 15th, and my Physics exam on the 17th, and to perform all necessary obligations to achieve excellent marks.
I shall dutifully answer and revise my tutorial problem sets, rummage through my piles of papers and lecture notes, read and re-read the necessary books, attempt to answer the past year exam papers, all in the hope of enriching my knowledge so as to be sufficiently armed for the coming examinations.
I shall stay away from the Internet unless necessary, and I shall cut my worthless surfing time by half. By three quarters even.
And yes, henceforth, the study room shall be "the place to be".
I commit myself to these pursuits in the name of glorious academics, in the service of the Singapore government, to which I owe this generous scholarship, and in the service of the Philippines, of which I am proud to be a citizen.
So help me God.
Again, for emphasis, so help me God.
I NEED INSPIRATION
i feel bad that i can't seem to study. what planned study schedule i had in my bloody red red cross organizer (giveaway for blood donors) was just plain junk.
that's always the thing with the internet. one site leads (or links) to another, and another, and another. and ako pa? curious little me falls into the trap every single time. i should get an award for my amazing study-resistance. (weird word, i know.)
i finally wanted to print out lecture notes newly-posted on the net, but i realized, with my pc just reformatted, and my printer CD stupidly left in the philippines, i could not possibly print lecture slides for my statistics lecture tomorrow. GREAT.
i need inspiration! so i took this note from the drawer. it's something short that my mom scribbled and cleverly inserted into one of my packages before i left for singapore last january.
the note was hidden in an envelope where i keep money (which i amazingly didn't spend yet). i just even got to read the months-old note a few weeks ago.
here here.
1.6.04.
Leib(my odd nickname, pronounced lyp or lyb, from philosopher/mathematician leibniz),
remember, even the most
tedious chore will become endurable
as we go through each day convinced
that every task, no matter how menial
or boring, brings us closer to our
DREAMS.
Ma
there. that note gives me the creeps sometimes. haha.
now i should get on with my math tutorial.
good night guys. and/or good morning!
i feel bad that i can't seem to study. what planned study schedule i had in my bloody red red cross organizer (giveaway for blood donors) was just plain junk.
that's always the thing with the internet. one site leads (or links) to another, and another, and another. and ako pa? curious little me falls into the trap every single time. i should get an award for my amazing study-resistance. (weird word, i know.)
i finally wanted to print out lecture notes newly-posted on the net, but i realized, with my pc just reformatted, and my printer CD stupidly left in the philippines, i could not possibly print lecture slides for my statistics lecture tomorrow. GREAT.
i need inspiration! so i took this note from the drawer. it's something short that my mom scribbled and cleverly inserted into one of my packages before i left for singapore last january.
the note was hidden in an envelope where i keep money (which i amazingly didn't spend yet). i just even got to read the months-old note a few weeks ago.
here here.
1.6.04.
Leib(my odd nickname, pronounced lyp or lyb, from philosopher/mathematician leibniz),
remember, even the most
tedious chore will become endurable
as we go through each day convinced
that every task, no matter how menial
or boring, brings us closer to our
DREAMS.
Ma
there. that note gives me the creeps sometimes. haha.
now i should get on with my math tutorial.
good night guys. and/or good morning!
THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU
you know what, blogster... YOU OWE ME.
A LOT.
i just spent the whole day today, just fixing you up.
and did i tell you i slept past three am?
well, yes i was transferring files into my pc, which was taking a darn long time,
but i also worked on you. now i'm lunchless at 2pm, and with a number of new zits.
sigh. after this, I SWEAR i'm gonna study.
but really, i liked fixing you up.
makes me happy too. haha. the way mcflurry and lasagna make me happy.
to everyone, hope you like it.
i think the other one is still classier and more stylish, since i spent loads of time on it too,
but this one here is the informal, more relaxed type.
i saved the other template, don't worry. it'll be back as soon as i feel less informal, and more stylish.
or maybe just when i get bored with this.
oh. i worked my darndest hardest to make this new template look good both when you're using your favorites sidebar, and when you're viewing the page full screen. try it. hope it works.
lots to learn about html. suddenly my 2nd year high school comsci class seems like ages ago.
yeah, tell me what you think ok? there's still stuff i wanna add to this template, but right now,
i'm just hungry. =P
you know what, blogster... YOU OWE ME.
A LOT.
i just spent the whole day today, just fixing you up.
and did i tell you i slept past three am?
well, yes i was transferring files into my pc, which was taking a darn long time,
but i also worked on you. now i'm lunchless at 2pm, and with a number of new zits.
sigh. after this, I SWEAR i'm gonna study.
but really, i liked fixing you up.
makes me happy too. haha. the way mcflurry and lasagna make me happy.
to everyone, hope you like it.
i think the other one is still classier and more stylish, since i spent loads of time on it too,
but this one here is the informal, more relaxed type.
i saved the other template, don't worry. it'll be back as soon as i feel less informal, and more stylish.
or maybe just when i get bored with this.
oh. i worked my darndest hardest to make this new template look good both when you're using your favorites sidebar, and when you're viewing the page full screen. try it. hope it works.
lots to learn about html. suddenly my 2nd year high school comsci class seems like ages ago.
yeah, tell me what you think ok? there's still stuff i wanna add to this template, but right now,
i'm just hungry. =P
BAD ZIP FILE, BAD
i hate corrupted zip files.
now i know not to zip too many files into a large zip file.
dammit. kainis, kasi that was the only way that i could transfer stuff from my un-reformatted pc (with a non-high-speed USB port) to boat's high-speed external hard drive. ayaw ng multiple big files, so i painstakingly zipped them into packets, then transferred then one by one (ayaw rin ng dalawa, lest it "can't find the specified file").
anyway, for the record, i have 3 corrupted zip files.
2 files that contain loads of mp3s, which total about 1.2 GB.
1 file that contains 150MB of *sob* photos taken by my new digicam.
sigh. this is not good.
then again, it may be just the perfect thing to cap my long streak of bad luck.
it's horrible really. 1.2GB of mp3 files!! and you know i'm a music buff right?!!
and my photos, my photos. people think too that i'm "photo-philic".
which is true, by the way.
maybe i should watch some smallville or will and grace from a shared folder in the NUS network to make me feel better.
i hate corrupted zip files.
now i know not to zip too many files into a large zip file.
dammit. kainis, kasi that was the only way that i could transfer stuff from my un-reformatted pc (with a non-high-speed USB port) to boat's high-speed external hard drive. ayaw ng multiple big files, so i painstakingly zipped them into packets, then transferred then one by one (ayaw rin ng dalawa, lest it "can't find the specified file").
anyway, for the record, i have 3 corrupted zip files.
2 files that contain loads of mp3s, which total about 1.2 GB.
1 file that contains 150MB of *sob* photos taken by my new digicam.
sigh. this is not good.
then again, it may be just the perfect thing to cap my long streak of bad luck.
it's horrible really. 1.2GB of mp3 files!! and you know i'm a music buff right?!!
and my photos, my photos. people think too that i'm "photo-philic".
which is true, by the way.
maybe i should watch some smallville or will and grace from a shared folder in the NUS network to make me feel better.
YEP, IT'S WORKING NOW
yey yey yey!
laptop's up and running now.
ahhhh... feels great to start afresh.
now all i have to do is wait for eons to transfer piles of files back to the pc, surf the net and reinstall all my lost programs, and borrow the windows essentials a.k.a. microsoft office and adobe photoshop and acrobat from my fellas here. and yeah, reorganize my 1600+ mp3s!
i'm not complaining, mind you.
just glad that things are back to normal now.
____
oh yeah, i joined a vocal workshop this afternoon.
trick is to find the "mix" between chest voice and head voice.
forget diaphragm stuff, the instructor said. it's all bout speech-level singing.
oookay!
this guy's connected to some guy who's connected with a guy who does vocal training for no less than michael jackson and madonna and ricky martin and stevie wonder and grammy winners, so this might just be good.
(but no, i'm not gonna sign up for the S$100+ training in may, thank you.) =)
yey yey yey!
laptop's up and running now.
ahhhh... feels great to start afresh.
now all i have to do is wait for eons to transfer piles of files back to the pc, surf the net and reinstall all my lost programs, and borrow the windows essentials a.k.a. microsoft office and adobe photoshop and acrobat from my fellas here. and yeah, reorganize my 1600+ mp3s!
i'm not complaining, mind you.
just glad that things are back to normal now.
____
oh yeah, i joined a vocal workshop this afternoon.
trick is to find the "mix" between chest voice and head voice.
forget diaphragm stuff, the instructor said. it's all bout speech-level singing.
oookay!
this guy's connected to some guy who's connected with a guy who does vocal training for no less than michael jackson and madonna and ricky martin and stevie wonder and grammy winners, so this might just be good.
(but no, i'm not gonna sign up for the S$100+ training in may, thank you.) =)
NO, MY LAPTOP'S STILL NOT WORKING..
10:55am, computer centre (it's centRE not centER over here), and i'm wasting my time again.
but no, in this blog i won't try to complain too much. it gets tiring, you see. =)
how long has it been? wayne tells me it's been WAY TOO LOOONG since my last entry.
oh well (do i say this a little too much, oil guy? ;) ).
si wayne pa, who checks recently-published blogs almost in real-time, what with his netscape alerter of sorts.
how long has it been, really? hmmm.. my last blog was monday morning, my pc broke down i forgot when, um, tuesday night yata.
oh, i remember now.
broke down monday evening when i was reinstalling, surprise of surprises, NORTON ANTIVIRUS. went to user support tuesday noon to find out that the NUS-VPN client (which i use to connect to the net) was never down, went back wednesday morning to have my pc checked only to find out that i should have it reformatted.
i borrowed my thai friend boat's 40GB high-speed external hard disk (which had only 6GB free) yesterday, plugged it into my NON-high-peed USB port, struggled with file transfer problems, and now my computer's being reformatted upstairs (i told you, i'm in the comcen).
anyway, sabado na pala. no class yesterday and the other day. seriously, i have been wasting time.
guess what i did yesterday? backed up my pc by squeezing my essential laptop data into 6GB of boat's ext'l hard drive. and you know what that meant?
that, my friends, meant that i had to watch all my videos in my PC, so i could finally delete them.
i had episodes of will and grace, smallville, CSI, sex and the city, the survivor (pearl islands pa!) pilot episode which i missed.
it was fun, actually, but the nagging thought that i didn't do something productive PRODUCTIVE, made me feel quite bad at the end of the day.
maybe i need to watch another crazy episode of will and grace to make me feel better. hahahaha.
hilarious really.
sigh. i really should get myself to study.
God knows i tried my darndest to study math the other night.
++++
SOBER
oh yeah, after watching american idol (results show) in korinna's room with ivy and kor (i have no net pa kasi), i went back up to the study room to um, study.
i was feeling quite sleepy and told myself i'd go get me a can of coffee from the vendo from E-block.
boat, the guy who lent me the hard disk, called me from E2, and invited me to my laotian friend xay's room for some drinks.
what drinks exactly? the most expensive drinks i've ever drunk.
guinness beer, tequila, red wine, vodka (?), some orange juice and syrup.
diana, brice, dustin, xay, and boat wanted to celebrate for no specific reason.
having turned down brice many times before, for refusing to play diablo (excuse: i have to study! can't get addicted!), and not going to the gym (excuse: pr comm! fencing open! hafta study! after the midterms, promise!), i gave in to brice a.k.a. mr. bartender this time.
i realized how dumb i was in the wine-and-booze world.
brice was just handing over glass after glass to me. explaining that "don't-mix-this" and "this-is-bloody-tequila" etc..
it was fun actually. my very first time to drink DRINK.
maybe i needed a drink too, since i was feeling a little upset about my blasted PC which had to be reformatted, about my losing battle against zits and the temptation to NOT study, about the crazy misfortunes that seem to bombard me for no apparent reason.
boat told me i was quite tough, having been able to remain sober after a number of assorted drinks brice was handing over, and maybe i was, since i probably am quite alcohol-resistant like my good ol' dad.
or, maybe it was just the ruffles chips that we were munching. dustin told us eating chips helps in resisting the alcohol.
we were singing the milk-and-cereal song too, the video of which is quite popular on the net.
catchy song too. i didn't realize that we were getting too noisy already, such that the guys from the next block could hear.
the guard came up, actually, and simply smiled at us. dunno what that meant. friendly guard, even before.
diana says she's allergic to beer, but she seems to be always game. kinda like me.
diana, though, was getting quite drunk, and she had to throw up in the kitchenette.
brice and boat escorted her to her room, and later escorted ME to my room.
they didn't need to escort me tough. i was sober enough to realize i left my keys in the study room, went down four floors, walked to the foyer, climbed a floor to the study room, went down, then up four floors again to my room.
i was a little tipsy, but i managed to wash myself up and brush my teeth before finally sinking into my bed.
that was a good night, really. and quite expensive too, those drinks.
my initiation to the booze world. (i know i won't be hooked though, so don't worry.) =)
10:55am, computer centre (it's centRE not centER over here), and i'm wasting my time again.
but no, in this blog i won't try to complain too much. it gets tiring, you see. =)
how long has it been? wayne tells me it's been WAY TOO LOOONG since my last entry.
oh well (do i say this a little too much, oil guy? ;) ).
si wayne pa, who checks recently-published blogs almost in real-time, what with his netscape alerter of sorts.
how long has it been, really? hmmm.. my last blog was monday morning, my pc broke down i forgot when, um, tuesday night yata.
oh, i remember now.
broke down monday evening when i was reinstalling, surprise of surprises, NORTON ANTIVIRUS. went to user support tuesday noon to find out that the NUS-VPN client (which i use to connect to the net) was never down, went back wednesday morning to have my pc checked only to find out that i should have it reformatted.
i borrowed my thai friend boat's 40GB high-speed external hard disk (which had only 6GB free) yesterday, plugged it into my NON-high-peed USB port, struggled with file transfer problems, and now my computer's being reformatted upstairs (i told you, i'm in the comcen).
anyway, sabado na pala. no class yesterday and the other day. seriously, i have been wasting time.
guess what i did yesterday? backed up my pc by squeezing my essential laptop data into 6GB of boat's ext'l hard drive. and you know what that meant?
that, my friends, meant that i had to watch all my videos in my PC, so i could finally delete them.
i had episodes of will and grace, smallville, CSI, sex and the city, the survivor (pearl islands pa!) pilot episode which i missed.
it was fun, actually, but the nagging thought that i didn't do something productive PRODUCTIVE, made me feel quite bad at the end of the day.
maybe i need to watch another crazy episode of will and grace to make me feel better. hahahaha.
hilarious really.
sigh. i really should get myself to study.
God knows i tried my darndest to study math the other night.
++++
SOBER
oh yeah, after watching american idol (results show) in korinna's room with ivy and kor (i have no net pa kasi), i went back up to the study room to um, study.
i was feeling quite sleepy and told myself i'd go get me a can of coffee from the vendo from E-block.
boat, the guy who lent me the hard disk, called me from E2, and invited me to my laotian friend xay's room for some drinks.
what drinks exactly? the most expensive drinks i've ever drunk.
guinness beer, tequila, red wine, vodka (?), some orange juice and syrup.
diana, brice, dustin, xay, and boat wanted to celebrate for no specific reason.
having turned down brice many times before, for refusing to play diablo (excuse: i have to study! can't get addicted!), and not going to the gym (excuse: pr comm! fencing open! hafta study! after the midterms, promise!), i gave in to brice a.k.a. mr. bartender this time.
i realized how dumb i was in the wine-and-booze world.
brice was just handing over glass after glass to me. explaining that "don't-mix-this" and "this-is-bloody-tequila" etc..
it was fun actually. my very first time to drink DRINK.
maybe i needed a drink too, since i was feeling a little upset about my blasted PC which had to be reformatted, about my losing battle against zits and the temptation to NOT study, about the crazy misfortunes that seem to bombard me for no apparent reason.
boat told me i was quite tough, having been able to remain sober after a number of assorted drinks brice was handing over, and maybe i was, since i probably am quite alcohol-resistant like my good ol' dad.
or, maybe it was just the ruffles chips that we were munching. dustin told us eating chips helps in resisting the alcohol.
we were singing the milk-and-cereal song too, the video of which is quite popular on the net.
catchy song too. i didn't realize that we were getting too noisy already, such that the guys from the next block could hear.
the guard came up, actually, and simply smiled at us. dunno what that meant. friendly guard, even before.
diana says she's allergic to beer, but she seems to be always game. kinda like me.
diana, though, was getting quite drunk, and she had to throw up in the kitchenette.
brice and boat escorted her to her room, and later escorted ME to my room.
they didn't need to escort me tough. i was sober enough to realize i left my keys in the study room, went down four floors, walked to the foyer, climbed a floor to the study room, went down, then up four floors again to my room.
i was a little tipsy, but i managed to wash myself up and brush my teeth before finally sinking into my bed.
that was a good night, really. and quite expensive too, those drinks.
my initiation to the booze world. (i know i won't be hooked though, so don't worry.) =)
MORNING SICKNESS
i woke up today with a headache. i swear, it's even throbbing.
maybe it's because of my lack of sleep, since i (unintentionally) slept at around 1am, and woke up 5:17am, which is extremely early for singapore standards (sunrise is at 7am).
or maybe, it's because of my roommate's BLASTED alarm clock!
it's always the same thing: alarm goes off, tut-tut-tut-tut--tut-tut-tut-tut--...(now i'm thinking it's the same alarm sound all over the world), and my roommate never wakes up!
or if he does (which is about 5% of the time), he just turns it off, and sleeps again. and my ears, those good ol' ears, which are actively listening to it all the time, have to suffer such torment. ARGHHH. oh well. at least the alarm's off now.
oh yeah, i failed to tell you how busy my last few days were.
it was the crazy NUS Open House last saturday, which clashed with the KE7 Fencing Open on saturday and sunday.
i skipped the open house, but the real body-numbing stuff was the preparation and setting up during the previous days.
my PR Comm head weikai has been receiving quite some flak lately, for overloading us with tremendous stuff.
imagine, we have 2000 goodie bags to give away to the junior college (JC) students coming to visit. and, each of those must weigh about a kilogram each. we were practically hauling stuff from the room downstairs, to the foyer, into the lorry, out of the lorry, and into the multi-purpose hall. we had more goodie bags than ALL the other NUS groups COMBINED. and to think weikai wanted us to bring 500 more, for a grand total of 2500 blasted "goodie" bags.
thank God there are saner people in pr comm like vice-heads karen and mingchang. =)
anyway, it's all over now. so it's all good.
and oh, we got clobbered by these 10-year-old-looking 14-year-old little boys during the fencing open. hahaha. no fair! i played in the group competition, see, and we were tall guys (my two teammates were from china), so those little rascals had the "height advantage". it was easier to poke us with their foils because of their height.
and we were too slow to realize that we should practically SIT IN THE AIR when we were to fence with them. oh well.
but really, those little boys were adorable. extremely talented guys who even worried the SHIT out of the other bigger fencers. (the little boys ranked 4th in the end, after giving one helluva fight...if you only saw how they were fighting tears after they lost a match where they originally had a ten-point lead.)
anyway, i also had a good chat (through SMS) with my junior ren-ren in the pisay davao.
today's a big day, you see, as our beloved high school director, will announce the top 5 soon-to-be graduates today.
i'm rooting for ren-ren since i think he deserves it, but i didn't tell him THAT (at least too explicitly), and maybe because he's just one real good friend, even when i was a sophomore and he was a freshman.
the top 5 will be announced after the flag ceremony at 7am, which is probably on-going right now.
i wish them all luck. sigh. reminds me of that wonderful wonderful day last year. the sky was even distinctly more blue than usual. never mind if my eyes were swollen and my face infested with zits as i had just arrived from a grueling press conference in cebu, where, if i may add, i took my final exams. sigh. one of my happiest days. =)
p.s.
oh, i greeted my good friend thirdie this morning, too. for such a talented guy (singer/dancer/actor/leader/comedian) with a big heart, he sure deserves all the best. ;)
i woke up today with a headache. i swear, it's even throbbing.
maybe it's because of my lack of sleep, since i (unintentionally) slept at around 1am, and woke up 5:17am, which is extremely early for singapore standards (sunrise is at 7am).
or maybe, it's because of my roommate's BLASTED alarm clock!
it's always the same thing: alarm goes off, tut-tut-tut-tut--tut-tut-tut-tut--...(now i'm thinking it's the same alarm sound all over the world), and my roommate never wakes up!
or if he does (which is about 5% of the time), he just turns it off, and sleeps again. and my ears, those good ol' ears, which are actively listening to it all the time, have to suffer such torment. ARGHHH. oh well. at least the alarm's off now.
oh yeah, i failed to tell you how busy my last few days were.
it was the crazy NUS Open House last saturday, which clashed with the KE7 Fencing Open on saturday and sunday.
i skipped the open house, but the real body-numbing stuff was the preparation and setting up during the previous days.
my PR Comm head weikai has been receiving quite some flak lately, for overloading us with tremendous stuff.
imagine, we have 2000 goodie bags to give away to the junior college (JC) students coming to visit. and, each of those must weigh about a kilogram each. we were practically hauling stuff from the room downstairs, to the foyer, into the lorry, out of the lorry, and into the multi-purpose hall. we had more goodie bags than ALL the other NUS groups COMBINED. and to think weikai wanted us to bring 500 more, for a grand total of 2500 blasted "goodie" bags.
thank God there are saner people in pr comm like vice-heads karen and mingchang. =)
anyway, it's all over now. so it's all good.
and oh, we got clobbered by these 10-year-old-looking 14-year-old little boys during the fencing open. hahaha. no fair! i played in the group competition, see, and we were tall guys (my two teammates were from china), so those little rascals had the "height advantage". it was easier to poke us with their foils because of their height.
and we were too slow to realize that we should practically SIT IN THE AIR when we were to fence with them. oh well.
but really, those little boys were adorable. extremely talented guys who even worried the SHIT out of the other bigger fencers. (the little boys ranked 4th in the end, after giving one helluva fight...if you only saw how they were fighting tears after they lost a match where they originally had a ten-point lead.)
anyway, i also had a good chat (through SMS) with my junior ren-ren in the pisay davao.
today's a big day, you see, as our beloved high school director, will announce the top 5 soon-to-be graduates today.
i'm rooting for ren-ren since i think he deserves it, but i didn't tell him THAT (at least too explicitly), and maybe because he's just one real good friend, even when i was a sophomore and he was a freshman.
the top 5 will be announced after the flag ceremony at 7am, which is probably on-going right now.
i wish them all luck. sigh. reminds me of that wonderful wonderful day last year. the sky was even distinctly more blue than usual. never mind if my eyes were swollen and my face infested with zits as i had just arrived from a grueling press conference in cebu, where, if i may add, i took my final exams. sigh. one of my happiest days. =)
p.s.
oh, i greeted my good friend thirdie this morning, too. for such a talented guy (singer/dancer/actor/leader/comedian) with a big heart, he sure deserves all the best. ;)
HEY
i'm feeling tired today, and yes, even tired enough to think of a good title too.
yesterday was perhaps on of my loooooooooooongest days ever EVER.
i was exhausted as hell.
today we had no class. but i'm tired.
i skipped lunch too, when i had overslept and skipped breakfast. bad bad bad.
why the fart am i exhausted then?!
because of this.
lotsa stuff to improve on still. have to ask wayne about html stuff which i'm currently struggling with.
i was thinking of using something new. something less formal and dramatic. something cute.
hahaha.
of course that's not final yet. maybe something to use when i'm temporarily bored.
tell me what you think (leave a tag!) if you feel like it. thanks. =)
now hafta get me some grub.
i'm feeling tired today, and yes, even tired enough to think of a good title too.
yesterday was perhaps on of my loooooooooooongest days ever EVER.
i was exhausted as hell.
today we had no class. but i'm tired.
i skipped lunch too, when i had overslept and skipped breakfast. bad bad bad.
why the fart am i exhausted then?!
because of this.
lotsa stuff to improve on still. have to ask wayne about html stuff which i'm currently struggling with.
i was thinking of using something new. something less formal and dramatic. something cute.
hahaha.
of course that's not final yet. maybe something to use when i'm temporarily bored.
tell me what you think (leave a tag!) if you feel like it. thanks. =)
now hafta get me some grub.
I SHOULDN'T BE BLOGGING BUT..
..something that i've been reading got me grinning. for some reason. XD <-one of my new favorite smileys i got from falqi. =P
i wouldn't blog BLOG since i have an overdue physics lab due tomorrow morning, and a math assignment due in the afternoon. but in a nutshell, i'm amazed at this online verbal sparring that wayne and i recently engaged ourselves in. no, we don't chat in msn lately, we spar in a way more characteristic to both of us. through, what else? our blogs and tagboards.
i think it should be hilarious by the way.
but i think only those who've read my latest blogs and his latest blogs, and those who've been curious enough to scroll through my tagboard and his chatterbox would find the humor in it.
he gave a good jab this time, even devoting two blog entries (in one day) to rebutt my statements,
and i shall rebutt his rebuttals (too much posterior in that phrase too..lol) when i'm less busy.
i heard from korinna that ferron noticed that we've been discreetly firing at each other for the past days, and that he(ferron) is wondering why wayne and i act "normal" when in person.
oh well. for details of this crazy exchange of whatnots, go to wayne's blog, read his "rebuttals" entry and the few before that, read his chatterbox, and of course, read my subtle references in my most recently-published blogs (although there are some too in even earlier entries) and check out my tagboard as well.
but really, it's all good. no big boxing match, i tell you. peace naman.
oh, with utmost sincerity, i must tell wayne, HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow! XD
bow.
..something that i've been reading got me grinning. for some reason. XD <-one of my new favorite smileys i got from falqi. =P
i wouldn't blog BLOG since i have an overdue physics lab due tomorrow morning, and a math assignment due in the afternoon. but in a nutshell, i'm amazed at this online verbal sparring that wayne and i recently engaged ourselves in. no, we don't chat in msn lately, we spar in a way more characteristic to both of us. through, what else? our blogs and tagboards.
i think it should be hilarious by the way.
but i think only those who've read my latest blogs and his latest blogs, and those who've been curious enough to scroll through my tagboard and his chatterbox would find the humor in it.
he gave a good jab this time, even devoting two blog entries (in one day) to rebutt my statements,
and i shall rebutt his rebuttals (too much posterior in that phrase too..lol) when i'm less busy.
i heard from korinna that ferron noticed that we've been discreetly firing at each other for the past days, and that he(ferron) is wondering why wayne and i act "normal" when in person.
oh well. for details of this crazy exchange of whatnots, go to wayne's blog, read his "rebuttals" entry and the few before that, read his chatterbox, and of course, read my subtle references in my most recently-published blogs (although there are some too in even earlier entries) and check out my tagboard as well.
but really, it's all good. no big boxing match, i tell you. peace naman.
oh, with utmost sincerity, i must tell wayne, HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow! XD
bow.
SPEAK NO EVIL
hey blogster. i shouldn't be blogging right now, pero it turns out i need to find some form of release. i'm afraid my roommate afzaal and i, however long we've been staying in E408, haven't reached a buddy-buddy-warm-and-fuzzy emotional status just yet, so i'm confiding it all to my new best friend, you! hahaha.
no really, i just need to let go of this great tension inside. i'm tired and sleepy and a little annoyed. sigh. it really must be the weather. no more rain though, but it sure is cool (literally).
xaypanya, my laotian fellow bridging scholar whose english assignments i dutifully check, told me last night that he decided not to study in the study room despite his supposed firm resolve to study like crazy. it was raining, he said, and it makes him lonely! i couldn't agree more. (besides, it was a much longer path to the study room, since we couldn't use the shortcut, lest we get drenched.)
anyway, my good friend dea told me once that when your feeling down or low-energy or just depressed, you should, get this: GO TO A TREE AND HOLD ITS TRUNK.
thought it was some funny joke, but she added, "i'm serious!" it was supposedly an experiment proven by scientists or something. oookay. =)
but then again, it's not really an out-of-this-world idea, if you think about it. it's all about good energy when you think about it, and what better creatures than trees, ripe with age and experience but seemingly blossoming afresh.
i might just go out to the jungle outside my room and go hold a tree trunk tonight, when nobody's watching and i'm far away from the security camera.
but really, maybe i just miss my friends in the philippines. kerwin and jacques and michael and jasper, and kaye and kristia and lyn and kaye aranetats and kirth and mena and thirdie and sondra and gino and aura and raissa and the rest of the titans, shempre my aj friends din who i haven't seen for the longest time. and, needless to say, my family. dad, ma, kai, lolas and cousins and aunts and uncles and DBP housemates. i swear, if i'm not only broke and if i didn't have any need to save, i'd go buy myself a $20 phonecard (with additional $3 bonus!) and call home.
maybe i just miss them all the more now that i'm so exhausted and sleepy and a little annoyed at something that i read. but no, i'm not gonna mutter and complain TOO MUCH anymore.. in fact, i'm gonna bite my tongue and speak no evil. you, my dear bloggie, are my outlet.
or maybe it's more like that beyonce song, "me, myself, and i".
it says something like, "from now on i'm gonna be my own best friend".
HALT!
blog getting cheesy alert!
gotta go mug na nga. (mug is a term they like to use here in singapore to mean to work hard or sumthing.) lotsa things to do, so little time.
now if only i could find the perfect tree.
p.s.
got 39/40 in my math midterm. not bad! that's very good in fact.
but it's just a little sucky that i could've gotten perfect if only i added fractions correctly!!
darn. i lose a point not because of calculus, but because of fractions.
but it's okay, really. one point's not much. =)
got 21/30 in statistics midterm. dr lee jin, even was kind enough to tell his 200+ students (that's my estimate) interesting facts about the midterm.
mean score = 19.63, with a standard deviation = 5.46.
and, he added with emphasis, that mean is not 20!
19.63 is statistically different from 20. he even suggested we do the t-test if we're interested.
hahaha.
now that's a genuine statistics teacher!
my score's quite low actually, and it's annoying (won't complain much won't complain much) that i got mistakes because i was confused only in reading the chi-squared table!!
i mean, the computation for test statistic was okay, but i simply managed to screw up just the reading of the table for interpretation of the test stat. oh well. the other mistake was that i used z-test instead of t-test (analyze more carefully next time!=P).
but get this, i was really happy that i got 5 points (still not the full marks) for the last question. it was the toughest question, mind you, and some my fellow scholars found it quite confusing. they end up having higher marks than me still, but i'm glad i got higher marks in that question. ;) especially that when we were buzzing around right after the midterm last week, they concurred that they got the same answer and i had a different one. wala lang. my redeeming grace, kahit mas mababa pa rin final score ko. hihihi. =)
hey blogster. i shouldn't be blogging right now, pero it turns out i need to find some form of release. i'm afraid my roommate afzaal and i, however long we've been staying in E408, haven't reached a buddy-buddy-warm-and-fuzzy emotional status just yet, so i'm confiding it all to my new best friend, you! hahaha.
no really, i just need to let go of this great tension inside. i'm tired and sleepy and a little annoyed. sigh. it really must be the weather. no more rain though, but it sure is cool (literally).
xaypanya, my laotian fellow bridging scholar whose english assignments i dutifully check, told me last night that he decided not to study in the study room despite his supposed firm resolve to study like crazy. it was raining, he said, and it makes him lonely! i couldn't agree more. (besides, it was a much longer path to the study room, since we couldn't use the shortcut, lest we get drenched.)
anyway, my good friend dea told me once that when your feeling down or low-energy or just depressed, you should, get this: GO TO A TREE AND HOLD ITS TRUNK.
thought it was some funny joke, but she added, "i'm serious!" it was supposedly an experiment proven by scientists or something. oookay. =)
but then again, it's not really an out-of-this-world idea, if you think about it. it's all about good energy when you think about it, and what better creatures than trees, ripe with age and experience but seemingly blossoming afresh.
i might just go out to the jungle outside my room and go hold a tree trunk tonight, when nobody's watching and i'm far away from the security camera.
but really, maybe i just miss my friends in the philippines. kerwin and jacques and michael and jasper, and kaye and kristia and lyn and kaye aranetats and kirth and mena and thirdie and sondra and gino and aura and raissa and the rest of the titans, shempre my aj friends din who i haven't seen for the longest time. and, needless to say, my family. dad, ma, kai, lolas and cousins and aunts and uncles and DBP housemates. i swear, if i'm not only broke and if i didn't have any need to save, i'd go buy myself a $20 phonecard (with additional $3 bonus!) and call home.
maybe i just miss them all the more now that i'm so exhausted and sleepy and a little annoyed at something that i read. but no, i'm not gonna mutter and complain TOO MUCH anymore.. in fact, i'm gonna bite my tongue and speak no evil. you, my dear bloggie, are my outlet.
or maybe it's more like that beyonce song, "me, myself, and i".
it says something like, "from now on i'm gonna be my own best friend".
HALT!
blog getting cheesy alert!
gotta go mug na nga. (mug is a term they like to use here in singapore to mean to work hard or sumthing.) lotsa things to do, so little time.
now if only i could find the perfect tree.
p.s.
got 39/40 in my math midterm. not bad! that's very good in fact.
but it's just a little sucky that i could've gotten perfect if only i added fractions correctly!!
darn. i lose a point not because of calculus, but because of fractions.
but it's okay, really. one point's not much. =)
got 21/30 in statistics midterm. dr lee jin, even was kind enough to tell his 200+ students (that's my estimate) interesting facts about the midterm.
mean score = 19.63, with a standard deviation = 5.46.
and, he added with emphasis, that mean is not 20!
19.63 is statistically different from 20. he even suggested we do the t-test if we're interested.
hahaha.
now that's a genuine statistics teacher!
my score's quite low actually, and it's annoying (won't complain much won't complain much) that i got mistakes because i was confused only in reading the chi-squared table!!
i mean, the computation for test statistic was okay, but i simply managed to screw up just the reading of the table for interpretation of the test stat. oh well. the other mistake was that i used z-test instead of t-test (analyze more carefully next time!=P).
but get this, i was really happy that i got 5 points (still not the full marks) for the last question. it was the toughest question, mind you, and some my fellow scholars found it quite confusing. they end up having higher marks than me still, but i'm glad i got higher marks in that question. ;) especially that when we were buzzing around right after the midterm last week, they concurred that they got the same answer and i had a different one. wala lang. my redeeming grace, kahit mas mababa pa rin final score ko. hihihi. =)
RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS
it's raining again right now. and you know how the rain is in singapore.
it's as if the sky showerhead's broken. it only goes two ways: OFF, or FULL BLAST.
but that's okay, a wet wet wet day, however drenched we all get, is a welcome break from scorching hot hot days.
just came from math class 2-4pm, and statistics tutorial 12-1pm.
for the first time in quite a while, i wasn't late for my tutorial, AND, get this, i actually SOLVED ALL the problems. makes me feel good about myself even if i had to sleep at around 3:30am this morning.
oh yeah! i forgot to tell you how much TIME i wasted yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. hmph. 'twas a loooong weekend, but i really only started working on my academics at midnight last night! talk about slacking off.
in fact, last night was horrible. i hated it. i rested all day, watched some SATC and smallville from the NUS network in the afternoon, slept, woke up, had dinner, wasted my time surfing, chatting with karen (who was interestingly complaining too about not being able to study), checking my mail, and of course, downloading loads of mp3s.
that's my new occupation btw, a music buff. at first i thought about answering my tutorial, but couldn't quite focus, so i figured that some new music files (on top of my 1300++ mp3s in my hard drive) would do the trick.
didn't do much, really, as i enjoyed downloading too much i forgot to study. i wasted 3 hours last night, doing basically nothing. at midnight finally, i got to work. statistics sure is crazy anyway you look at it, but somehow i managed to get away from the ordeal, at around 3:30am, with no more than a swollen pair of eyes and a few zits.
it was drizzling last night. which was cool actually, since that was on of the few times my dorm room gets soothing COLD air. usually it's just a small oscillating wall fan for me and my pakistani roommate.
funny how the cold weather never fails to "dampen" my mood as well. last night i was feeling a little sleepy and sad and a little angry with myself. my senior nestor told me he was depressed too last night, so i'm also not discounting that i may have caught the "bug". thank God there's no snow in singapore. i mean, not just now. i probably would have to struggle to keep me from banging my head on the wall from inexplicable insanity and depression.
but really, in other circumstances, i'd love to even SEE real snow! and make snow angels and snowmen and have snowball fights! hahaha. but i'll probably wait a longer time for that, since it's just the philippines and singapore for now. =)
got loads to do tonight again! math tutorial tomorrow, a quiz during our stats extra class on wednesday, a physics pre-lecture quiz and a lab experiment too, and finally a math assignment due thursday. and yeah, fencing tonight and thursday, some PR comm preparations for the NUS open house on saturday.
good thing there's no nice show on tv tonight. or tomorrow night. (actually it's smallville tomorrow, but i can easily get the file from the NUS network. XD) but i sure won't miss american idol and survivor on wednesday, thursday, friday.
start workin now joseph! go!
it's raining again right now. and you know how the rain is in singapore.
it's as if the sky showerhead's broken. it only goes two ways: OFF, or FULL BLAST.
but that's okay, a wet wet wet day, however drenched we all get, is a welcome break from scorching hot hot days.
just came from math class 2-4pm, and statistics tutorial 12-1pm.
for the first time in quite a while, i wasn't late for my tutorial, AND, get this, i actually SOLVED ALL the problems. makes me feel good about myself even if i had to sleep at around 3:30am this morning.
oh yeah! i forgot to tell you how much TIME i wasted yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. hmph. 'twas a loooong weekend, but i really only started working on my academics at midnight last night! talk about slacking off.
in fact, last night was horrible. i hated it. i rested all day, watched some SATC and smallville from the NUS network in the afternoon, slept, woke up, had dinner, wasted my time surfing, chatting with karen (who was interestingly complaining too about not being able to study), checking my mail, and of course, downloading loads of mp3s.
that's my new occupation btw, a music buff. at first i thought about answering my tutorial, but couldn't quite focus, so i figured that some new music files (on top of my 1300++ mp3s in my hard drive) would do the trick.
didn't do much, really, as i enjoyed downloading too much i forgot to study. i wasted 3 hours last night, doing basically nothing. at midnight finally, i got to work. statistics sure is crazy anyway you look at it, but somehow i managed to get away from the ordeal, at around 3:30am, with no more than a swollen pair of eyes and a few zits.
it was drizzling last night. which was cool actually, since that was on of the few times my dorm room gets soothing COLD air. usually it's just a small oscillating wall fan for me and my pakistani roommate.
funny how the cold weather never fails to "dampen" my mood as well. last night i was feeling a little sleepy and sad and a little angry with myself. my senior nestor told me he was depressed too last night, so i'm also not discounting that i may have caught the "bug". thank God there's no snow in singapore. i mean, not just now. i probably would have to struggle to keep me from banging my head on the wall from inexplicable insanity and depression.
but really, in other circumstances, i'd love to even SEE real snow! and make snow angels and snowmen and have snowball fights! hahaha. but i'll probably wait a longer time for that, since it's just the philippines and singapore for now. =)
got loads to do tonight again! math tutorial tomorrow, a quiz during our stats extra class on wednesday, a physics pre-lecture quiz and a lab experiment too, and finally a math assignment due thursday. and yeah, fencing tonight and thursday, some PR comm preparations for the NUS open house on saturday.
good thing there's no nice show on tv tonight. or tomorrow night. (actually it's smallville tomorrow, but i can easily get the file from the NUS network. XD) but i sure won't miss american idol and survivor on wednesday, thursday, friday.
start workin now joseph! go!
ANOTHER TECHIE ENTRY?
wow. that's almost two "techie" entries back to back. what the fart?!
where is my SELF here?
oh well, when you have free internet in your room 24/7, and the cool places outside are too expensive they're almost luxuries (it's singapore eh), anyone's bound to get a little net-addicted.
oh well. tell you more about me soon. =)
tama, it's sunday today and i'm gonna do all my schoolwork all day. i think it's a wise idea to attend the sunset mass on saturdays. makes me free all day today.
hmmm... i skipped two tutorials already, gotta start working! but first i gotta get me some lunch! =P
wow. that's almost two "techie" entries back to back. what the fart?!
where is my SELF here?
oh well, when you have free internet in your room 24/7, and the cool places outside are too expensive they're almost luxuries (it's singapore eh), anyone's bound to get a little net-addicted.
oh well. tell you more about me soon. =)
tama, it's sunday today and i'm gonna do all my schoolwork all day. i think it's a wise idea to attend the sunset mass on saturdays. makes me free all day today.
hmmm... i skipped two tutorials already, gotta start working! but first i gotta get me some lunch! =P
OUT OF THE CRIMSON ROOM AND SOLVING THE M.O.T.A.S.
okay, since the flash games
takagism crimson room
and
mystery of time and space a.k.a. motas
seem to be driving people crazy, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, leading perplexed players into my blog since i mentioned those two games in a previous blog (see "swallowing my words" blog in archives 2/15), i have decided to give the site with the cheats.
actually, i knew it was becoming a worldwide phenomenon when people from japan, US, UK, dominican republic, sweden, israel, malaysia, hongkong, singapore, philippines, australia, spain, slovakia AMONG OTHERS were visiting my site for cheats and tips and solutions, and methinks they probably were disappointed. the last straw was when someone messaged me on yahoo messenger (she found my yahoo id here). that was when i realized it was time i ahem, save the world from going nuts.
as much as i hate spoilers, here here, to satisfy the needs of a flash-game-playing-world that's just about to lose it.
+ takagism crimson room cheats
(this is basically just a confusing forum, but at least it's not too much of a giveaway)
+ mystery of time and space cheats
THERE. let me get stuff straight first ah. DON'T USE THOSE CHEATS UNLESS YOU'RE GOING BONKERS ALREADY.i still maintain i hate spoilers, but the hits from all over, the yahoo message were too much. hehehe. wala lang.
again, PLAY FIRST! AND DON'T GIVE UP.
when you feel like giving up, DON'T.
when your temperature's rising and your ego's bruised, grit your teeth and bare it all and DON'T GIVE UP. try a smarter approach if i may say so.
but when you feel like you're gradually losing sanity, totally losing all self-esteem and sinking into a depression, GO GET THE CHEATS. don't read all of them, just scroll down one line at a time to get u going. it's no fun to read the cheats all throughout.
they're just for extreme, desperate measures.
trust me, i know. hahahahahhaha. =)
AND, ONE MORE THING, IF YOU FIND THE LINKS USEFUL IN SAVING YOUR SANITY,
leave a message in my tagboard so i know! bwahahaha. *evil grin*
p.s.
disclaimer:
i used the crimson room cheats only after about an hour of getting stuck! trust me, i try my darndest hardest NOT to search for and use the cheats.
i never used the motas cheats yet ah!
i searched for them AFTER I GOT STUCK IN LEVEL 12. i was checking how prominent my little bloggie is in google, after realizing the number of hits i got.
hmmm.. now that midterms are over, i might FINALLY get to finish motas. hahaha.
okay, since the flash games
and
mystery of time and space a.k.a. motas
seem to be driving people crazy, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, leading perplexed players into my blog since i mentioned those two games in a previous blog (see "swallowing my words" blog in archives 2/15), i have decided to give the site with the cheats.
actually, i knew it was becoming a worldwide phenomenon when people from japan, US, UK, dominican republic, sweden, israel, malaysia, hongkong, singapore, philippines, australia, spain, slovakia AMONG OTHERS were visiting my site for cheats and tips and solutions, and methinks they probably were disappointed. the last straw was when someone messaged me on yahoo messenger (she found my yahoo id here). that was when i realized it was time i ahem, save the world from going nuts.
as much as i hate spoilers, here here, to satisfy the needs of a flash-game-playing-world that's just about to lose it.
+ takagism crimson room cheats
(this is basically just a confusing forum, but at least it's not too much of a giveaway)
+ mystery of time and space cheats
THERE. let me get stuff straight first ah. DON'T USE THOSE CHEATS UNLESS YOU'RE GOING BONKERS ALREADY.i still maintain i hate spoilers, but the hits from all over, the yahoo message were too much. hehehe. wala lang.
again, PLAY FIRST! AND DON'T GIVE UP.
when you feel like giving up, DON'T.
when your temperature's rising and your ego's bruised, grit your teeth and bare it all and DON'T GIVE UP. try a smarter approach if i may say so.
but when you feel like you're gradually losing sanity, totally losing all self-esteem and sinking into a depression, GO GET THE CHEATS. don't read all of them, just scroll down one line at a time to get u going. it's no fun to read the cheats all throughout.
they're just for extreme, desperate measures.
trust me, i know. hahahahahhaha. =)
AND, ONE MORE THING, IF YOU FIND THE LINKS USEFUL IN SAVING YOUR SANITY,
leave a message in my tagboard so i know! bwahahaha. *evil grin*
p.s.
disclaimer:
i used the crimson room cheats only after about an hour of getting stuck! trust me, i try my darndest hardest NOT to search for and use the cheats.
i never used the motas cheats yet ah!
i searched for them AFTER I GOT STUCK IN LEVEL 12. i was checking how prominent my little bloggie is in google, after realizing the number of hits i got.
hmmm.. now that midterms are over, i might FINALLY get to finish motas. hahaha.
I'LL EXPLAIN
hey! interesting. i didn't blog for the longest time, which is what, 2 days? but i feel like i'm becoming a bad blogger, abandoning my poor little bloggie all alone in cyberspace.
oh well. maybe, just maybe, i'm beginning to finally GET A LIFE. hahaha. that's what most of my fellow bloggers say: blogs are for those who are life-less. haha. i disagree!
am i confusing you? oh well. that makes the two of us.
anyway, i'll explain..
..why i didn't blog on two days when i didn't have class (friday and saturday).
the simple answer is because of a blasted WORM in my laptop! i never knew how much i was norton-antivirus-dependent until this blasted w32/protoride.worm got into my system.
you see, the antivirus subscription finally expired, and since i only have imaginary money to pay norton through my fictitious visa card, i was simply clicking the "register later" button whenever the annoying thing nagged me.
and so it was. the viruses and worms were coming and here i was, watching american idol through my pc, chatting, downloading music files like a genuine music buff, until finally the inevitable happened: my computer crashed.
i couldn't access the files on my desktop, on my quick launch taskbar. it even went so bad that i couldn't open any .exe file, which basically means, most ANY program.
so there, panic i went. for some reason i got to connect for a while, so i searched symantec, got an antivirus pack from my one and only favorite roommate afzaal, installed this and that, found out this dint work, installed this again, reinstalled, finally gave up on norton antivirus and decided to use mcafee, until all seemed quite okay. i didn't know how much trojans and worms were in my pc, until mcafee seemed to do the trick.
that was last night, and i heaved a sigh of relief.
this morning the blasted worm was surprisingly still there. can't delete it since it's always a file in use. so that's what i do until now, CHANGE THE REGISTRY EVERY TIME I BOOT. it's quite risky actually, considering i was brave enough not to make a backup (because it was quite complicated and the instructions crazy). but never mind. all's well now.
but it didn't stop there.
today, after the craziness in the morning, i decided i wanted to protect my precious pc.
so i searched download.com for cool downloads. of course most of the products were only "free to try", and a hefty sum would have to be paid for full usage.. and of course, there were the free products.
of course i chose the UN-free products! para naman better quality right? kahit na they cost up to $40. do i pay? haha. i just look for the cracks and get them absolutely free. hahahahaha. bad joseph. bad. ;)
but really, i realized picky pala ako. i choose those products na may pleasant interface. hehehe. wala lang. now i have this cool tuneup utilities kit, a bunch of history cleaners and registry cleaners and stuff. kainis ung iba walang crack. oh well.
OMG. gotta stop na.
do i sound too techie already? am i boring you yet? sorry!
lemme get on with my explaining nnga.
...why i still work my ass off in PR Comm.
dunno. that's the question many people ask. or at least, they ask me "bakit luv ko tlga PR comm" and why i'd sacrifice my study time, my grades, my FACE for crying out loud, my previously un-swollen eyes.
siguro masunurin lang akong bata. yiheeee.
i told u about this crazy open house on the 13th right?
so ayun, we painted the banner last night and tonight.
last night it dragged on till past 1am. tonight from 9-past 10:30pm.
hmmm... maybe aside from being diligent and gullible and an open prey to friday workload (since i'm one of the few totally free on fridays), i think i've come to enjoy working with the people.
i'm not sure about our high-aiming, perfectionist, at-times-unrealistic head weikai though. i mean, he's very nice and friendly and accommodating when he's in the mood, but the workload, MY GOD. impromptu pa tong isa.
but anyway, i think i've forged some solid friendships with some of the guys. especially the publicity people xiaolong, balaji, prashant, shijie. mostly because we work together almost all the time! shempre victor is my new buddy. really good guy who's always smiley and friendly. mingchang, i'm told, is also a very good leader, and as brice says, "sa sobrang bait nya, pwede na syang babae". pero mind you, he's the vice-head of gym comm.
of course i was with koki and pengyuan for most of the day when we went to national junior college. shempre i also cant deny that i like the other head, karen, and the advisor, KC, more than the head. hehehe. un lng!
cge, tama na, kachat ko pa si mike sa yahoo messenger. ayan mike! haha.
hey! interesting. i didn't blog for the longest time, which is what, 2 days? but i feel like i'm becoming a bad blogger, abandoning my poor little bloggie all alone in cyberspace.
oh well. maybe, just maybe, i'm beginning to finally GET A LIFE. hahaha. that's what most of my fellow bloggers say: blogs are for those who are life-less. haha. i disagree!
am i confusing you? oh well. that makes the two of us.
anyway, i'll explain..
..why i didn't blog on two days when i didn't have class (friday and saturday).
the simple answer is because of a blasted WORM in my laptop! i never knew how much i was norton-antivirus-dependent until this blasted w32/protoride.worm got into my system.
you see, the antivirus subscription finally expired, and since i only have imaginary money to pay norton through my fictitious visa card, i was simply clicking the "register later" button whenever the annoying thing nagged me.
and so it was. the viruses and worms were coming and here i was, watching american idol through my pc, chatting, downloading music files like a genuine music buff, until finally the inevitable happened: my computer crashed.
i couldn't access the files on my desktop, on my quick launch taskbar. it even went so bad that i couldn't open any .exe file, which basically means, most ANY program.
so there, panic i went. for some reason i got to connect for a while, so i searched symantec, got an antivirus pack from my one and only favorite roommate afzaal, installed this and that, found out this dint work, installed this again, reinstalled, finally gave up on norton antivirus and decided to use mcafee, until all seemed quite okay. i didn't know how much trojans and worms were in my pc, until mcafee seemed to do the trick.
that was last night, and i heaved a sigh of relief.
this morning the blasted worm was surprisingly still there. can't delete it since it's always a file in use. so that's what i do until now, CHANGE THE REGISTRY EVERY TIME I BOOT. it's quite risky actually, considering i was brave enough not to make a backup (because it was quite complicated and the instructions crazy). but never mind. all's well now.
but it didn't stop there.
today, after the craziness in the morning, i decided i wanted to protect my precious pc.
so i searched download.com for cool downloads. of course most of the products were only "free to try", and a hefty sum would have to be paid for full usage.. and of course, there were the free products.
of course i chose the UN-free products! para naman better quality right? kahit na they cost up to $40. do i pay? haha. i just look for the cracks and get them absolutely free. hahahahaha. bad joseph. bad. ;)
but really, i realized picky pala ako. i choose those products na may pleasant interface. hehehe. wala lang. now i have this cool tuneup utilities kit, a bunch of history cleaners and registry cleaners and stuff. kainis ung iba walang crack. oh well.
OMG. gotta stop na.
do i sound too techie already? am i boring you yet? sorry!
lemme get on with my explaining nnga.
...why i still work my ass off in PR Comm.
dunno. that's the question many people ask. or at least, they ask me "bakit luv ko tlga PR comm" and why i'd sacrifice my study time, my grades, my FACE for crying out loud, my previously un-swollen eyes.
siguro masunurin lang akong bata. yiheeee.
i told u about this crazy open house on the 13th right?
so ayun, we painted the banner last night and tonight.
last night it dragged on till past 1am. tonight from 9-past 10:30pm.
hmmm... maybe aside from being diligent and gullible and an open prey to friday workload (since i'm one of the few totally free on fridays), i think i've come to enjoy working with the people.
i'm not sure about our high-aiming, perfectionist, at-times-unrealistic head weikai though. i mean, he's very nice and friendly and accommodating when he's in the mood, but the workload, MY GOD. impromptu pa tong isa.
but anyway, i think i've forged some solid friendships with some of the guys. especially the publicity people xiaolong, balaji, prashant, shijie. mostly because we work together almost all the time! shempre victor is my new buddy. really good guy who's always smiley and friendly. mingchang, i'm told, is also a very good leader, and as brice says, "sa sobrang bait nya, pwede na syang babae". pero mind you, he's the vice-head of gym comm.
of course i was with koki and pengyuan for most of the day when we went to national junior college. shempre i also cant deny that i like the other head, karen, and the advisor, KC, more than the head. hehehe. un lng!
cge, tama na, kachat ko pa si mike sa yahoo messenger. ayan mike! haha.
QWERTYUIOPASDFG
i'd love to post, but i'm just so tired and sleepy.
you see, i had my math test at 2 pm today, braved the rain and went to clementi to have my 7210 handphone capable of double sim, tried to sleep when i came back to my room but decided not to since it was almost dinner, and did some fencing 8-10.
the most exhausting part was fencing.
it was becoming more and more like ACUPUNCTURE, for crying out loud!
now i have about a hundred "poke marks" all over my chest, and some sore knuckles.
but it was all good. tell you more when i've recovered my strength. =)
yey! no more midterms! at least, until march31. ;)
no class tomorrow, time to blog!
i'd love to post, but i'm just so tired and sleepy.
you see, i had my math test at 2 pm today, braved the rain and went to clementi to have my 7210 handphone capable of double sim, tried to sleep when i came back to my room but decided not to since it was almost dinner, and did some fencing 8-10.
the most exhausting part was fencing.
it was becoming more and more like ACUPUNCTURE, for crying out loud!
now i have about a hundred "poke marks" all over my chest, and some sore knuckles.
but it was all good. tell you more when i've recovered my strength. =)
yey! no more midterms! at least, until march31. ;)
no class tomorrow, time to blog!
HUMOR ME.. AGAIN
okay. so i promised, among other things, that i wouldn't blog.
but this i have to do to save my precious efforts from getting wasted.
as promised (see previous blog), i set my status in msn to "busy".
the publicity head of PR comm messaged me still, despite the i'm-BUSY-can't-you-see warning.
turns out that due to the crazy time constraints for our NUS open house preparations, we had to submit an ad on A5-size paper for our hall (to be published in the open house booklet) ASAP.
in this case, ASAP meant learning what to do at 4:30pm, and submitting the design at 9:30pm.
great. as if i had eons to spare. i didn't even study yet.
i could understand shijie, since he's working under pressure only from the big boss weikai.
oh well. they should've told us long ago, so all of our schedules won't be as screwed up as they are, but never mind. nuff of da blamin' and get on wit da workin'! (sorry, i'm in rap mode right now. =P)
anyway, here my friends, is the fruit of my labor.
if you're wondering, the large bug-like objects at the bottom comprise the KE7 float.
cool stuff, i tell you. made from virtual scrap like papers and boxes and can labels (unused ones from manufacturers), the floats are also engineered to have some good range of motion and animation(tama ba term?). they are showcased during float day, where the floaters from all NUS halls and faculties present colorful dances to accompany those gigantic stuff.
oh, in the middle of my work, the blue screen of death came (any computer user out there would know what that means) while my photoshop file was unsaved. ayun, back to square one. and also, since we lacked photos (my only source was the KE7 website), i hade to add a photo i took on my own. it's the photo of the hall when i stick out my head, camera in hand, out of my fourth floor window.
wayne told me the photo was "maganda.. yun lang."
wayne is matipid in giving compliments, so i was quite grateful already with that.
shijie told me that it was good enough to be an advertisement.
i just hope perfectionist and high-aiming big boss weikai liked it.
hey, just heard a beep from my pop peeper (my email checker).
shijie has just uploaded the pdf version of my file to the PR Comm yahoogroup.
hope everyone doesn't hate it. haha.
anyway, time's a wastin'! gotta go to study room now! wish me luck for physics and math!
okay. so i promised, among other things, that i wouldn't blog.
but this i have to do to save my precious efforts from getting wasted.
as promised (see previous blog), i set my status in msn to "busy".
the publicity head of PR comm messaged me still, despite the i'm-BUSY-can't-you-see warning.
turns out that due to the crazy time constraints for our NUS open house preparations, we had to submit an ad on A5-size paper for our hall (to be published in the open house booklet) ASAP.
in this case, ASAP meant learning what to do at 4:30pm, and submitting the design at 9:30pm.
great. as if i had eons to spare. i didn't even study yet.
i could understand shijie, since he's working under pressure only from the big boss weikai.
oh well. they should've told us long ago, so all of our schedules won't be as screwed up as they are, but never mind. nuff of da blamin' and get on wit da workin'! (sorry, i'm in rap mode right now. =P)
anyway, here my friends, is the fruit of my labor.
if you're wondering, the large bug-like objects at the bottom comprise the KE7 float.
cool stuff, i tell you. made from virtual scrap like papers and boxes and can labels (unused ones from manufacturers), the floats are also engineered to have some good range of motion and animation(tama ba term?). they are showcased during float day, where the floaters from all NUS halls and faculties present colorful dances to accompany those gigantic stuff.
oh, in the middle of my work, the blue screen of death came (any computer user out there would know what that means) while my photoshop file was unsaved. ayun, back to square one. and also, since we lacked photos (my only source was the KE7 website), i hade to add a photo i took on my own. it's the photo of the hall when i stick out my head, camera in hand, out of my fourth floor window.
wayne told me the photo was "maganda.. yun lang."
wayne is matipid in giving compliments, so i was quite grateful already with that.
shijie told me that it was good enough to be an advertisement.
i just hope perfectionist and high-aiming big boss weikai liked it.
hey, just heard a beep from my pop peeper (my email checker).
shijie has just uploaded the pdf version of my file to the PR Comm yahoogroup.
hope everyone doesn't hate it. haha.
anyway, time's a wastin'! gotta go to study room now! wish me luck for physics and math!
HUMOR ME
i told myself i won't complain right? about my low marks in midterms, or anything academic-related right? well humor me.
facts:
+ big event: maths midterm on thursday (two days from now)
+ study level : 2.75 in a scale of 5
+ current activities:
blogging, staring into nothingness or at least the beautiful view from my fourth floor window,thinking random thoughts, surfing the net, downloading cool music files, sleeping
+ why the fart can't you study? beats me.
+ what did you do last night when you shoulda been studying? fencing, blasted pr comm meeting which lasted till almost 1am.
+ any other distractions? yeah, watched oscars live yesterday morning, which, made me happy since LOTR made a clean suuuu-weeeeeeeeeep of all awards they were nominated for, and since renee zellwegger finally won after striking out twice consecutively before. but mind you! i did my formula sheet! which is almost done!
+ any other disturbing stuff? darn. PR comm's gonna joiin NUS open house on march13. dammit, and we were informed only of STUFF yesterday! sigh. now we the publicity team has to make yet another banner to paint and do this and that.. basically the tiresome work. oh well. i'm just glad this is the last event for the sem.
+ resolution: MUST. GET. OUT. OF. MY. ROOM. AND. GO. TO. THE. PLACE TO BE - LIBRARY! YEHEEEEY!
+ nooo, dummy.. i want GREATER resolutions:
okay.
i'm not gonna be online in yahoo messenger until after march 4.
i'm not gonna be online in msn messenger except STRICTLY FOR IMMEDIATE AND URGENT PURPOSES. and if and only if i go online, i promise to put my status to "busy".
no little chatter too with my friends.
i'm not gonna blog until after march 4.
i'm not gonna surf any "leisure" sites.
internet from today till march 4 will be used only for checking mail and my maths website and the workbin in our IVLE.
satisfied? :)
+okay. final words before YOU START ANSWERING YOUR TUTORIAL DUE 12 NOON:
so help me God! woohooo! i'm sending it all up to Him. :)
i told myself i won't complain right? about my low marks in midterms, or anything academic-related right? well humor me.
facts:
+ big event: maths midterm on thursday (two days from now)
+ study level : 2.75 in a scale of 5
+ current activities:
blogging, staring into nothingness or at least the beautiful view from my fourth floor window,thinking random thoughts, surfing the net, downloading cool music files, sleeping
+ why the fart can't you study? beats me.
+ what did you do last night when you shoulda been studying? fencing, blasted pr comm meeting which lasted till almost 1am.
+ any other distractions? yeah, watched oscars live yesterday morning, which, made me happy since LOTR made a clean suuuu-weeeeeeeeeep of all awards they were nominated for, and since renee zellwegger finally won after striking out twice consecutively before. but mind you! i did my formula sheet! which is almost done!
+ any other disturbing stuff? darn. PR comm's gonna joiin NUS open house on march13. dammit, and we were informed only of STUFF yesterday! sigh. now we the publicity team has to make yet another banner to paint and do this and that.. basically the tiresome work. oh well. i'm just glad this is the last event for the sem.
+ resolution: MUST. GET. OUT. OF. MY. ROOM. AND. GO. TO. THE. PLACE TO BE - LIBRARY! YEHEEEEY!
+ nooo, dummy.. i want GREATER resolutions:
okay.
i'm not gonna be online in yahoo messenger until after march 4.
i'm not gonna be online in msn messenger except STRICTLY FOR IMMEDIATE AND URGENT PURPOSES. and if and only if i go online, i promise to put my status to "busy".
no little chatter too with my friends.
i'm not gonna blog until after march 4.
i'm not gonna surf any "leisure" sites.
internet from today till march 4 will be used only for checking mail and my maths website and the workbin in our IVLE.
satisfied? :)
+okay. final words before YOU START ANSWERING YOUR TUTORIAL DUE 12 NOON:
so help me God! woohooo! i'm sending it all up to Him. :)
