Just in case, if you have not realised by now, i've changed my blog address to
http://y-o-g-a.blogspot.com See you there!

YaY!! I"m HAPPY :) Okay already!! No more emo-ing:)

BACK TO SCHOOL:)

and yes, that means back to running.
I'll just copy and paste my msn riddle here, need to post something else...
solve this riddle: You cannOt see my hair, thouGh i'm not bAld. YOu Guess who. Achooooo!!!YOu Get what i Am saying??

change of blog address

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

FROM MONDAY,13TH AUGUST 2007AD ONWARDS, I SHALL START BLOGGING AT http://y-o-g-a.blogspot.com .

USP rocks!!

yoz... hahah:) I'm back!! :) Yep.. cheerful again. well, for those who are curious,what actually happened was that a post that should not have been published (it was meant to remain as a 'draft' forever) got published accidentally (okay yup.. there are lots of other things as well, but this one was sort of like the final one which pushed me beyond my emo-limits.). Well, it has happened before,but not for such a long duration. This one was on for like 1.5 days. I had a really bad shock when i saw that it was published...Well, for those who saw it, refer to the july 19th post(and think...).

I'll update soon on happenings around me. I need to prepare for for lessons and stuff...

P.S okay... yah..i know that the title doesn't have anything to do with this but still, USP rocks!!:)

i feel a lot better now; but it'll take some time b4 i start to really blog again...

i dun feel like blogging any more.. think i need to some time to recover from the shock....

whoa.. just found out tt sth went wrong b4 i was away. super-busy n stressednow..

laptop!

My 200th post:

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but this is the first post from my new laptop:) I've been really busy for the past few days. Well, to start with, the second of august was my matriculation day. So,i had to go down to NUS to get my student card:) and my EZ link card. Somehow, i expected something to screw up itself. Well,by now, in life, i'm very much used to these things. Even if the ceiling collapses on me now, it won't be much of a surprise to me...
Well, surprisingly, nothing much was screwed that day:) Well, i did manage to collect my matric card even though it decided to hide itself for about 10 mins, when the person in charge was searching for it. Then, on that same day, i decided on a model for my laptop and bought it. Again,on that same day itself,i had to do the formalities for student pass application. Although having all these on the same day is pretty stressful, it gives me peace at the end to the day, when it's all over.
Well, i had to go through a bit of a stuggle to get home,but yep, everything was under control in the end.
But i didn;t even have time to interact much with my laptop,as i still had to do bidding for my modules. And poor me had not decided on which ones i was gonna bid for! Well,i had to devote some time to that. Well, i did. And, i was going to have a stayover USP o-week programme the next afternoon. So, there- you get the rough idea. I didn't have much time for my much(many) things.

199th post, here goes: wah.. i'm super busy now.. But i was super-glad to note that after considerable effort to try to get to the QET results page, which happened to be in the nus intranet, I passed it! Yay! no need to take extra modules:)

2 big things now :

MATRICULATION FAIR
MODULE BIDDING

goodnight to myself...

new phone

Yay! i;m getting a new phone: nokia 5300. It'ld be better if i manage to finish tranferring all the stuff before my lessons start.

I've registered for Singapore Marathon!! 42.195km coming up on 2nd December. Trust me. It's the best way to spend your sunday. Cos just one run can change the way you think about life forever. For those who wonder why some ppl r crazy abt running, try doing a 21km(walk/run) alone without stopping.It'll just be less than 3hrs.But it'll be worth every second you spend in it:)
And it's not just about that sense of achievement.



whoa.. I'm super confused Now la... but i still...

not alone

I was just browsing through the friendster help page to see if anyone was facing the same error 201 as me. Well, none of such messages appeared in the faq page, so i sent in my query. But after i sent it in, i looked over at "my stuff" column and saw that most of the recent queries that friendster has received were all on this error. Well, it's good to know that i'm not alone :)
somebody help me... i can't log in for like 1 week now:(

xminus6

I'll do the normal post first; Well, yesterday i was super-early for the lecture since i had nothing to do in the morning. So, i met and joined this group of people who were practicing some dance for rag. Well, after learning several dances, i still think that the ny mass dance was cool:)
I now realise what Ms chiew meant by advicing me to keep my driving lessons going. It's really tough to do so, especially at this uncertain time, when i really don't know what pops up next week. And i'm like supposed to beek 1.5 weeks in advance or so? I've already cancelled about 6 lessons(fortunately with refund) so far. Well, guess i'll have to wait till it's all over.

lectures...

i shall now blog on yesterday as well: Yesterday, i went for the hp screening at plaza Singapura. It was very fun to meet up with the rest of the Union Camp King Kong gang. Shawn turned out to be a totally cool guy. UC would have been quite different if he had been around...haha...all the more we must find the mosquito that infected him and admit it into a hospital too ...lol...before the hp screening, i went around a few shops, looking for a good shoe for the upcoming long distance runs.

Today, i got myself a new shoe Asics gel cumulus. Better start training. But can't seem to find the time leh:( Think i need to go back to the running system that i used in my JC- To run super early in the morning. I'll need a locker in NUS to keep my stuff then. Oh ya.. my first unofficial lecture today. Quite okay, but i think i should pay more attention, even though i know most of it. Yes. i'm going to be going back tommorrow:)
I dropped by @ NYJC too!

hptmr

I'll be going for Harry Potter movie screening tmr @ GV Marina. Union campers only:P I really think $2 is a good price (even though it doesn't include popcorn & drinks) yay! GV rocks!
As for the new book; well, i guess i'll just wait for the price to go down with the paperback edition or just wait for the movie to be released.

Here's the youtube videos on Union camp:



This one starts with fright night:

Engine!

This is for those engineering ppl who are too lazy to check their e-mail; who need more info on the math prep lectures and the welcome tea session.
http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/ugrad/welcome/mathsprep.html

http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/ugrad/welcome/sessions.html


one more thing:
To my friends:
Please do note that i can't seem to log in into my frienster account:( There's some error. I'll have to wait till i get my laptop. So, forgive me if i forget any of your B'days :(

bad run:(

Wahh.. i just looked up the google earth to find the distance i ran on one of the nghts of the Union camp. dissappointed;2.12Km X 2. My timing?? 24:24mins. Well, i thought i ran fast la, but no it's not so fast. If i had known the distance, i'ld have gone for below 20 mins. well, i shall excuse myself since there were extreme uphills and downhills. Well, quite tired today- went to temple in the morning, driving lesson in the afternoon and QiuHan's B'day party at night... I'll blog tmr.I'll have nothing much to do.

emo-the IN thing

"emo is the IN thing now."

I've been wanting to blog about this for quite sometime.

just some surprising things about me::

Intro::Everytime someone fails to reply me or everytime someone ignores me, be it a stranger or somone i know, or even my close friend, i'll get super-emo. 'Emo' here doesn't mean angry. It just means that i'll feel extremely hurt:(:( Yes. i know it's difficult to survive in today's world with this kinda thing, but i've been living (mostly) happily for the past 2 years in my JC :) Thanks a lot to my friends and tutors who took great care of me :) Ya...Although it may not be very obvious to some of you all, I'm a super-sensitive to the people around me. However, there's one thing that has enabled me to cope with this: Whenever i emo, i'll ask myself to sort things out logically and to resolve the situation as soon as possible.

Cos, over the years i've come to realise that emo-ing is of no use. There's also no use to feeling sad or dissapointed.Really. Think: Is feeling this way going to solve anything? NO. So, why waste your time?? ya.. that's why i feel that it's more efficient to think about things and solve them immediately. It really makes me feel better since it's a way of tranferring worries from the heart to the mind.

1. Till now, i've been thinking about the kind of songs that i like to listen to. I've normally considered myself to be listening to a wide variety of songs; from Linkin Park to Daniel Powter. But recently, i've just noticed something: about 97% of the songs that I enjoy listening to, are emotional songs. C'mon, just look: Love you lately, Bad day- Daniel powter. This i promise you- N'sync. I can't hate you anymore- Nick Lachey. In the end, Crawling- Linkin Park... and the list goes on.

2.I save each and every msn chats. Yes. Even those where I msg and get no reply.

3. I started running long distances frequently to make myself fell better, whenever i emo.
Well, it's really not that i run to stop emo-ing,but yah.. that's sort of how it started.

There's more, but i think i'll just stop here.

first lectures

YaYYY !! my first lectures are going to be next week! well, they are actually some bridging lectures for poly students but they'll be going through stuff such as partial differentiation, which would be usefull to me. Some revision wouldn't hurt too, and i can't wait for my first lecture,,, so, why not?

I went for driving today. I met siti near the YCK station! I've really not been keeping in touch with my secondary school people. I'm much better now, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.ya.. then i dropped by nyjc. Now, i've to study for my QET and figure out the module bidding thing, so i can't stay too long at ny these days:( Sorry guys... hey, i'll try to stay back next week okay? i'll try to be there all the way till you all go off.. I talked to Ms Chiew today. I had to run to 'catch' her as she was going to the carpark. We had a really long talk.

It feels much better have people who care about me around :) yes. I'm going to sleep in peace tonight:)
ohh.. what a emo guy... haha...

USP

YAY!!! I got into USP!!! wah.. dunno why i got the e-mail so late lor.. my fren got it like 3 wks after the interview... Well i guess they took more time for foreign students or something, which doesn't really matter now.. what does is,

I GOT INTO USP!!!!

wahhhhhh...dun emo leh...

UC1

UC blog post::
Familiar faces...






This is my og mate-Kian . He really looks like my junior...




And below is one of my ogls, Li Xiang. He doesn't really look like Cun Zheng, but ya, it's kinda
close to that look...




This is the picture of nyjcians whos came for the union camp. wah.. took a lot of effort to bring them together lor.. The guy on the extreme left is Desmond, from Nanyang JC's 26th Student council. The girls are from my batch.

UC1

I'll do a quick post here, as i'm supposed to be mugging for my QET this thursday. Union camp was fun! but i'll pic-blog on friday. there's a lot to blog abt. Desmond(NY26thSC) was there!

UC

i'll be off for union camp from tmr till fri night( or maybe sat morning). Lets just hope that i'll get some time to run, yeah?

SBR

I'm still having leg muscle pains from the training. haha.. that shows that i seriously lacked some speed.
Shears Bridge run coming up on 26th August!! Must start training already, if i want to break my previous timing. But i won't be able to train till 19th july leh.. and after NUS starts..???
well, maybe i'll have to be more disciplined and run like i did when i came into nyjc:)

i'mstillthinkingabtu, not emo-ing, but jus thinking onwhattodonext.i'lltrytotalktoub4igooffforcampk?

5th July 07

Today was a busy day: This morning i went to NUS wif pradeep to collect my medical report. then had lunch at the science canteen. I met a lot of ppl that i knew!! haha.. i'll get exited at this kinda thing. I saw the 2 friends, whom i met during the medical check-up, at the central library bus stop. And i saw one of my NY friends too...I was actually planning to go to my driving centre straight away, but it was too early:( So, i popped into AMK library, to get and read some books. Ya.. i've to brush up my english too. It should be getting worse without those GP tutors:(
My driving lesson today: I got to brush up on the common mistakes I make. It's better to correct them at this early stage.I'll be having another lesson tommorrow.~ 15 Km of driving.
After my driving lesson, i went to run @ ny. haha.. I met Mr. Tonny Lim and was talking to him for a while. I wanted to run at high-speed, so that i get more used to it.After warming up for a round, , i ran 3 rounds(5min 3 secs), and another 3 rounds(5min 8 secs). And another round to cool down... Quite tiring, my legs feel very light now. I'll wait for them to recover, i think i need more of this kind of training before i return back to the 10km one.

OUT!!

Driving lesson taday was super fun, but tiring as well. When i used to be a passenger, i thought that driving was fun stuff. haha.. But I now realise how tough it can be. Well, maybe it'll be fun once i manage to get my concepts right. This was my 3rd lesson and we went out of the driving circuits-into the streets. can you believe that?? I was thinking that i'll only be able to get out after atleast 10 lessons or so, since i stll felt that i'ld be a dangerous person on the road. but nope- i didn't have any accidents today- thanks to my instructor, who saved me several times. The worst part was when a bus drivir horned at me from behind- cos i took too long to move:(
I think i've to put in some effort to correct my mistakes. So, i shall acknowledge some( the more common ones) of them here:

When moving off from rest:
1. fails to ensure that the gear is at the 1st gear
2. Takes a long time to get biting point
3. while trying to get my biting point, i tend to accelerate too harshly(cannot hold my acceleraton pedal at the right position)
4. After getting the biting point, i tend to release the clutch too fast; this makes the car jerk forwards.
5. as a result of 4., my engine stalls.:(

Things to remember:
when moving off:
hold pedal A after holding pedal C just B4 biting point, and slowly release pedal C
when changing gear:Reduce the effect of engine brake by pressing A up & C down @ the same time.

Last few notes to self:
do look at the traffic light & be patient with the car-it has been very patient with you.

i drove a total of ~24km today:)

I had my second driving lesson today. Very fun, cos the instructor was quite patient with me. I'm thinking that i need to ride my bicycle more to practice, how odd...
anyway, i forgot to post this pic of gary pulling ben(along with his table).
The table (along with ben) was pulled for several meters b4 this pic was taken...

Pre-camp meeting!!!

Cheer:: """....We WILL Win The WAR THIS TIME...."""
me:"then, next time leh??"

A group Photo, i'm @ RHS we were all given nos to diplay, i'm no 10. Yay! i took the lateral inversion into consideration!

During the games... we stayed till abt 11, i think. It was a long way from lakeside mrt to my home, but i'll have to get used to long journeys

the final game: we were supposed to close our eyes...

This is the first time i didn't have to to forfeit during ice-breaking games.. haha. . So lucky, right? Everyone else was asked to say out other ppl's names at least once lor.. but i wasn't asked even once!! can you believe my luck?? it's true!!

I look forward to the union camp, next week, i think...

And yes, i've completely stopped emo-ing! maybe i've emo-ed

emo-not

Yay! I've stopped emo-ing now. I'll be going for my pre-union camp gathering this evening.
Well, i'm not exactly going to declare that i shall stop trying to make it fine, but i'm just going to say that i'll eventually make it fine.Yah... I know that it just needs some time...

better

I'm feeling much better now:) As expected, being around with ppl kinda gives me a lot more energy.:)
anyway, i'm beginning to think that i'm just being oversensitive about the whole thing. but i'm yet to declare that i shall stop trying to make it fine.
i shall wait for you to contact me:)
sometimes, things aren't so wrong, as they may seem to be...

PASSED

yay. i passed my final theory driving test... First try leh. I'm so impressed with myself:)

And yes... i'm still emo-ing... what a weird combination.

EP1

read it if you can figure out some way to do so.
hey n, I should have blogged this down quite some time ago, but either I was too lazy to, or maybe I thought that it would all just turn out fine. but No, it didn't. i've been emo-ing for like 3 days now. Eeeemmmooooo... it has gotten kinda worse today; think i'm having a fever now. yet, i know that it'll all turn out just fine, when the time comes...to maintain confidentiality, i'm not going to publish the post; just gonna save it as a draft..Zipping it forever.
there's only one I. me. go figure.

I would like to thank Amal for reminding me of this song: (I used to listen to it a long time ago, but it appeals to me...):


When the visions around you
Bring tears to your eyes
And all that surround you
Are secrets and lies
I'll be your strength
I'll give you hope
Keeping your faith when it's gone
The one you should call
Was standing here all along

And I will take
You in my arms
And hold you right where you belong
'Til the day my life is through
This I promise you
This I promise you

I've loved you forever
In lifetimes before
And I promise you never
Will you hurt anymore
I give you my word
I give you my heart (Give you my heart)
This is a battle we've won
And with this vow
Forever has now begun

Just close your eyes (Close your eyes)
Each loving day (Each loving day)
I know this feeling won't go away (No)
'Til the day my life is through
This I promise you
This I promise you

Over and over I fall (Over and over I fall)
When I hear you call
Without you in my life baby
I just wouldn't be living at all

And I will take (I will take you in my arms)
You in my arms
And hold you right where you belong (Right where you belong)
'Til the day my life is through
This I promise you baby

Just close your eyes
Each loving day (Each loving day)
I know this feeling won't go away (No)
Every word I say is true
This I promise you

Every word I say is true
This I promise you
Ooh, I promise you

Today, i had my NUS medical check-up. I met some engineering ppl there and made friend, since i won't have that much time once lessons start. I tried to come back to ny by 2, so that i can help some of my juniors in their physics, but i couldn't:( The queues were quite long. There were queues to get registered, for height & weight thing, x-ray, consultation with the doctor, to check blood pressure, and so on. k la... i should have gone there earlier, like i advised my firiend, who'll be going tmr (fri). Here are some of the numbers that i remember: My height: 178 cm (it's 180, if i have my shoe on:P ) My weight: 63.5kg( Well, not too heavy, for a guy). My heart beat: 61 per minute (haha... i tried to control it as much as i can by relaxing, but ya.. it's a very healthy number. My target is for it to go below 60).

i want to blog, but i dun have time:( i need to slp soon; got medical check up tmr:(

error

listen to this...
i just compiled a c++ code that i wrote on exception handling. It only has 25 lines and guess how many errors came up: 26.


guess the last error that came up:
"... Too many error or warning messages". super legend... really looks like one of friends' type of jokes... haha...

the end

My c-language course is going to end;there's only one more lesson left. I'm so glad:)
My ogl called me up yesterday and we had a pretty interesting conversation. We are going to have a pre-camp og meeting on 1st july!! so exiting, right? and to add to that, we can stay overnight too...
now for other stuff:

Running updates: I'm going to stop doing 10km, for the time being. I'm going to work on my 2.4, to make myself more used to higher speeds. I'll do a 2.4km below 10min before going on to continue on my 10km runs.

Just went for a 10km run... The ny ppl will be having their mid yrs tommorrow. Good Luck to you all!:) I'll see if i have time to come in to help you all for your prelims and A-levels :) :D

I'll be going for the NUS Union Camp.think it's on the 2nd week of july. Wah, time flies so fast...

I ran a 10km today. I had to stop and walk the last ~1km, since i was quite dehydrated-my mouth was quite dry and i started having headaches... But i'm okay now:)

just a randow thought: It'ld be really useful and neat if frienster starts to enable its users to organise thier friends into groups...

wah.. today's evening nyjc session was super packed... still working on some questions... have to do my c-language homework as well:(

I went down to ny on tue, wed & fri... My leg, surprisingly, still has not recovered from the run on sunday(ithink)... I planned to run a 2.4km in school today, but didn't have the time:( Guess i'll have to try run tmr, since i'll not be going for my c-lang lesson. omg, i've been going for my c-lang lesson everyday of this week so far...super exhausting, esp when i'm asked to come up with programs on the spot. I've also been trying to meet up with my old secondary school friend, but that'll be on next week, i think.
i just want to see if i can still do a 2.4 within 10min... And also, my pull-up standard has seriously gone down: i now can only do 3 at a go, have to improve.Also, i managed to differentiate(calculus) expression that i've been trying to differentiate for quite a long time. i'll post the picture later. yup, i guess that's all for now.

i was there to solve problems,
not create them;
maybe i've misunderstood.

it's too late to blog... i'm going to sleep... ZZZZZZZzzZzZzZ

17th june:)

Superb 10km run. There were not anyone on the pavements along my path for me to pace with this time, but my timing was better and i felt that i was running faster too. haha... but i didn't make it below 1h-though i tried to. My timing was 1h and 03 mins, for the 10km. Well, if you just minus off the time wasted away in those traffic lights, it would be 1 hour;but those were really valuable breaks, where i got to catch my breath and stretch. One of the things that surprised me was that there was practically no one at bishan park! Usually it would be filled with people playing soccer, running, cycling, picnicking, exercising, watching the dogs' race and so on... but this time, i only came across abt 7 people, scattered around the 2 bishan parks. Maybe it's because there were those dark clouds, but i somehow knew that it would not rain, and it didn't :). No rain, No sun, But got wind: perfect for running=)

Today's weather is very fine for running - i'm going to try to do a 10km below 1h... Have to hydrate myself first:)

sdfsdflsdkg

wah... still super busy... a lot of house work n stuff... but here are the good news:
1. MY c-lang course is going to over in abt 3 weeks!!! =)
2.I'll be starting my driving practical lessons soon:) can't wait to get my hands on that steering wheel;)
3. My student pass stuff are going to be pretty much settled after today, NUS'll take care of it, after i submit the form:)
that's abt all for now...

Yesterday was another super-tiring day. I had programming lesson in the morning. Then, i came back home to help my mom do some cooking, after which i went to nyjc. There were a lot of 29th there!!! They really filled one whole classroom, i was quite surprised at the turnout. Well, this time, i didn't face any difficult chem questions... haha...I can handle most of the maths and physics one, but only abt 60% of the chem questions. But my summary notes(which i dug up) seem to help me a lot.
Also, this morning, i realised that i've fully recovered from the 10km run last saturday. So, that's about 3.5 days... I should have another run, when i'm free. Tmr, i'll be going to NUS, to enquire about my student pass procedures, after which i'll need to do some driving lesson stuffs. After which (hopefully i've time...) i'll visit nyjc.
YaY!! For the first time in a few months i'll be going to NUS on a weekday!!! Which means that the canteens will be OPEN!!!:):):D

11th june-Tiring day...

What a tiring day.... Today i woke up at 7am, and till now, i've been packed with stuff to do. Laundry, room-cleaning, sweeping and mopping, cooking, doing the dishes... And i had to bring my mom for her sgh appt in the afternoon.Although it was super cheap, the waiting times were quite long.I've pushed today's comp lesson to tmr and i'll be going to nyjc after that=)

good run

I had quite a good run yesterday-I went down, and saw a group of dark clouds over me. So, i had to get it done quick. There was this army person just passing me and i decided to keep to his pace. Well, his pace was a bit too fast and as i was approaching the u-turn mark near upp. thomson road, i noticed that my throat-the part of it that is just above the bottom of my neck was feeling super hot inside. Well, i had this before, when i was trying a 2.4 km at ny. I didn't care too much about it and went on to finish my run. After some thinking, i'm now thinking that it may be becouse of eating too much spicy stuff at my lunch, 3hrs before that run. My timing was 1h13mins56secs. Very bad. I've now realised that my leg's stamina gets worse if i don't keep on running...

I've been quite busy this week- Have been having consultation with my NY Juniors:) wah... 230pm to abt 7 on wednesday and 215 to 10pm on friday.. But it's very fun helping them:)
My C-lang course just started on c++; which means that i'm half way through! I'm going off for a 10km run now.

okay, today, i passed my basic thoery test(driving) and my advanced final theory trial test. So, i booked for my final theory test:) Just finished my c-language homework: fibonacci series in a recursive loop:

#include
main()
{int fibo(int n);
int fib, n;
clrscr();
printf("\n\nFibonacci Series:");
printf("\nEnter the number of term to show");
scanf("%d", &n);
fib=fibo(n);
printf("The number is %d", fib);
getch();
return(0);}
int fibo(int n)
{if(n==1n==2)
{return(1);}
else{return fibo(n-1)+fibo(n-2);}}

It's such a weird hour to blog... i slept in the evening...

Day 1 part 2

There was this Narita express which brought us from the airport to a place called Shinjuku. The train was quite fast at times, making its way through both farms and commertial areas. Then, we had to get another ticket and transfer to a local train. We looked quite lost at the train stations and we had to approach the counter staff everytime we wanted to buy tickets.
At last, we managed to reach our own train station, together with all our luggages(which were miraculously squeezed in to the packed trains).After reaching, we had to make our way to the hotel.

Well, we asked the station staff, who kindly pointed in a particular direction (language barrier;so that's like the best he could do for us). After walking for some time, we got lost and my mom asked this lady who was walking in a hurry to the station. What impressed ma was that although she was in such a hurry, she willingly stopped and gave us directions! So, we got to the hotel, eventually. Most of us were quite tired from all the travelling.
Then, we spent about 5 minutes trying to draw diagrams of rooms(and stick men) in order to enquire more, although we'd already booked our rooms. Well, the rest of the day was simply spent in the room, bathing, brushing our teeth, having our meal and resting. Finally, at about 7, we went out to look around the neighbourhood of the hotel.
It is then i came to realise that it's really hard to live in that area, if you don't know japanese.
Now for pictures!

Me standing along our room's corridor.


Me on my cosy bed. I wish i can sleep on it everyday:)
Cold air comes in from the window and warm air from the aircon(at night).


View of a street from the hotel room. note that they have these zebra linings when there's traffic light.Oh ya... and a lot of them travel around in bicycles. It's really a lot of them.

Radio and switch controls near the bed.

Thank God; The numbers are not in Japanese:)

The high tech toilet bowl