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

Japan Trip: Day 1, part 1

First day... We went to Changi Airport, after miraculously managing to finish our packing up. Once we reached, we met up with the others and did our check-in. I had to check my our luggage, to see if my mom was trying to sneak in any liquids, gels or blah, blah blah.. Well, it wasn't long before i manages to spot peanut butter bottle and moisturisers. We had to check in those which could carry more than 100ml. Well, rather than this 'liquidy' restriction, which is now practiced in many international airports, i think it's better to check every single 'liquidy' stuff that is not checked in . It should cost around the same, since there'll be no need to distribute free zip-lock bags and hire staff to do that.

Then, after boarding, i was quite disappointed that our plane doesn't have that personal entertainment system that i got to enjoy on my New Zealand trip (On Singapore Airlines), back when i was in Secondary 4. Till this day, it has been the best 'flying' experience that I've ever had!! They even had ice cream on board, together with tasty cheese biscuits to go with the latest movies, albums, games, MATH questions to solve... Seriously, i can't ask for more... Although i really enjoyed my time New Zealand, i do agree with a lot of my travel mates who commented that the SIA Boeing aircraft offered the best staying experience in the entire journey.

Well, back to my japan trip: All i have to say is that i pretty much enjoyed their radio channels, which the airlines i traveled to India in didn't offer. Well, after about 2 hrs, we landed in Bangkok.

I remember studying about some airport in Thailand and the competition it poses to the Changi Airport, but this time, i got to see for myself how good it was. It was really big with wonderful architechture, a lot of shops and so on. Well, in the 2 hrs that we had in the transit, we spent about an hour just strolling to our depature place, taking photos along that way and so on... here are some: There were a lot of people taking photo at this spot...

Then, after a longer trip (about 6hrs) and some problems on the meals we ordered( cos our travels agency didn't do their job well) we arrived at the tokyo airport. As ususal, there was this long immigration queue to get through. Collecting our baggage was okay, the trolleys were not really available nearby, but the toilets were nice, though.

Next, we decided to take a train to our destination( we had a choice of limousine bus too), since we felt that it was a must to experience those speedy trains in japan.

---To be continued

I came back from Japan yesterday night, and slept till 3p.m today, since i didn't get much sleep there, and also since i had to rush to SGH after coming here yesterday night.My mom had a minor wrist fracture in Japan...But apart from that, it was a very nice trip, the four days there. I shall describe the trip in detail later. Now i have several things to attend to : My C-lang lesson tmr, Driving test n voluntary duties, unpacking, organising...

I'll be taking off this evening to Japan, but i still have quite a lot of packing to do:(

After cheking the relavant website, i found out that the aeroplanes that i'll be taking probably won't have the in-flight entertainment system. So, i'll have to entertain myself for the 10 x 2 hours:(

About 3 days ago, i saw a lot of smoke coming out from a house nearby, so, here::

Okay, i've quite a lot of pictures to post, and i'll have to post them later on, when i come back from Japan.

I can't believe it!! It has been one whole year since i stepped down from council!!! Really, it seems like i've stepped down a month or two ago...
I can still remember the feeling of that blazer and white shirt, on me...
Well, Let's just hope that the side gate will be open tomorrow:)

Today was a quite a nice day...
To start with, yesterday night, i got bored of my bed and decided to sleep on the floor. Yup, it was quite a different experiance and i had a very good sleep.The only thing was that i couldn't really turn around, since the space was only like a meter wide:( But still, i may try it again, maybe next week...
later on, i went to nyjc to collect my SGC and CCA Records(Thanks to my friend who reminded me:)) Then, came the shiok part: Initially, i was called by my friend to help him in math olympiad trining, but when i went there, there were like 3 of them!!Whoa.. luckily it was not really a question-asking session... It was more like i told them (nearly all) the stuff the stuff that i know,. that would be of help to them in SMO. Word hard guys!! Several more days ahead!!
Well, i was just thinking that it is rare to see people spending so much time for SMO training. Hope they bring back something, for this is their last chance to participate.(They'll be too old next year, i think).

i've a new external harddrive!!!
100GB, should be quite useful for the coming 4yrs at NUS...
So, here are the results of my experiments on it:

EXPT1(through the port near CD-drive):
time it took to trasfer 6.99GB worth of files: 10mins 2 secs
so,
Average time it takes to transfer 1 GB: 85.7 Secs
Average speed:11.6MB/sec
Time it took to delete this data:~5 Secs

Yup; it's certainly good that blogger automatically saves it's posts, just like in gmail, where the mail gets saves autometically once in a while:

This autosave feature means that you have a safety net for the cases when you're
working on a new post and the power goes out, or your browser crashes, or some
other calamity occurs.

Today was nyjc's college day, and i got my 4-distinction award! But i had to rush down to NUS for the ECE @ NUS orientation. So, i'll have to collect my sgc on monday.
And i finally met up with my classmates!!yay!haha.. Although only some. I guess i'll have to start the engineering journey in NUS alone, since the guys are like 3 or 4 yrs older than me, and no one's from nyjc:( But will have some ny ppl joining NUS this yr, and i'll have to really make a lot of friends during orientation, like i did in nyjc's Zion. Woah..that seems like so long ago o.0

i getting more and more stressed now leh, my C-lang getting more complicated. It's like although the computer recognises some of ur mistakes, there are some that it doesn't recognise
:( And i'm really having a hard trying trying to figure those out.

:)

{Conversation 1}

friend1 says :
so why elec engineering?

.:YOGA:.=>Yttrium(Ar=88.9058)+Oxygen(Ar=15.9994)+ Gallium(Ar=69.723) says :
i wanted to shock myself

friend1 says (11:20 PM):
u havent changed






{Conversation2}


friend2 says:


u neber change at all m ahha



.:YOGA:.=>Yttrium(Ar=88.9058)+Oxygen(Ar=15.9994)+ Gallium(Ar=69.723) says (5:13 PM): oh, my display pic?





friend2 says (5:14 PM):
ya haha






conclusion: d(yoga)/dt=0
Integrating both side to solve this differential equation,
yoga=constant

Wah...i think i need to buck up already.. I realise that i've been slacking more and more during these days. I realise that the more i slack, the more tired and sleepy i become. i really won't be ready for my uni studies with this kind of mindset. I've to start warming up already...

I went running today... the usual Bishan park route. 10Km long. Just about 4 mins after i started out, it started raining and so, i had to take shelter in below a flyover on the way. I was later joined by a few motorists. We waited for about 40mins for the rain to subside. And i continued my journey to the end of Bishan Park.
At the end, i decided to drop by a forest trail that i noticed when i went cycling a few days ago. It was very scenic and calming. Try it!! There is this part where the trail curves along the end of the lower pierce reservoir. It just felt like i was walking on water! But i think this only happens just after rain...
Overall, i had a good time despite the rain. But my timing was quite bad-1h06mins:( But i guess it's okay for someone who hasn't been running for the past 5 months.

okay... i shall blog later, i think there's something wrong with my comp. :(

Hi everyone...
I've just got myself a long-term social visit pass till 24th August. So, that's one big thing off my mind. The process of getting the student pass should be smooth in the first week of august:)

Heard that nyband & CO got Gold for SYF this yr Congrats!! :)

And i had to do another driving trial test today, so that i can take my basic theory test when i come back from Japan. The Japan trip is pretty much confirmed now: I'll be departing on 26th may and i'll be back at Singapore on 30th May. Yup. that's the plan for now.

And here's a song that i heard on the radio, it's quite soothing to hear:

My blogging frequency has decreased of late.... haha,
It's just that life now is quite normal la, boring. Well, what can i say here...
My mom promised to get me a laptop if i get into EE course in NUS. Now that i got in, it's time to redeem the offer:)
I can only apply for student's pass on august, so i'll have to keep on extending my social visit pass till then:(
I went down to get my NYAA bronze award today-I was thinking that it'ld be a mini-council reunion, but turned out to be a council=>mini-solico reunion...;) The certs will be sent to our college, but we've got the badges now. I'm thinking of doing the silver NYAA in NUS, but it'll look very weird if i'm the only one from a UNI getting silver, standing among those kids. I'll have to process the thought first....

I just got an offer from NUS for their electrical engineering UG course:) And i just accepted it:)

I shall just update on the main events-I went for USP interview on saturday, Harris'ld have had his turn today. Well, it was quite relaxed, i didn't experience any inconvinience even though i'd forgotten to bring my interview letter. I shall keep my fingers crossed(X) till the results arrive.

Next, i really really hope i can remember to attend the NYAA prize presentation ceremony this coming tuesday. I was just thinking of asking ms chiew or mr tonny lim, "What happened to our nyaa??", when i received the sms:)

Third, my mom and i are planning to visit Japan. Here's the rough plan: We'll be off on 23rd afternoon and arrive in Kansai international aitport, stay at Kobe for 24th and 25th, get ourselves to Tokyo, stay there for a few more days and come back.

Lastly, my retainer; Well, let's just say that i've been devoting myself to it more than i ever felt like: Every night, and of course i wake up with all of my poor teeth aching:( Hold on to your gums!! It's only going to be for about four months!!:(

NYJC's 30th anniversary celebrations were great. They've spent a lot of money, at the carnival, the food, the transport(shuttle busses), the decorations and souviniers... A lot of effort was put in too. The whole school, J1s and 2s were assigned duties, such as monitoring the carnival games, etc. So, the whole college has put in a lot of effort into it.

Hello... Today was an interesting day-Went to my dental appointment in the morning, but i shall talk about the driving test that i took in the evening first-
This is just my basic theory trial test, but since i didn't study much for it, i had trouble scoring at first(you need to score to pass<45/50>). On the first time, i got a miserable 44 out of 50. Fail. But i just need one more mark to pass!!! So, i went down to get myself booked for the next test-The money is entirely refundable, so i was planning to clear it today. Before going in, i took a few quick glances at my book and went it. But it wasn't too well-45 out of 50-just pass :~ On my journey there, i met a few nyjc juniors (ytss ppl), glad to know that they are doing well. One of them taking H3!! How exiting!!! So proud of them:)
Then on my way back, i met Shawn-ny 27th sc senior, and walked to bus stop with him, chit-chatting.
Now for my dental stuff: The dentist gave me my new retainer. And i should wear it for like 6 months more:~(((
The reason why don't like wearing it is that it feels really uncomfortable to have such a thing in your mouth, hindering proper speaking, eating, (the natural)saliva-swallowing,..etc.
It's basically the same reason why i don't like wearing jewelleries- It's just uncomfortable:(
Now i've to do my c-language homework-to create a program to calculate income tax.

Was just trying to get a snap of lightning through my window... But it seems too difficult:( Video should be easier: I just need to press the button, go to sleep and come back to earth after sometime. Then there's the time lapse between the moment when the button is pressed and the moment the photo is taken, which is necessary to get a good shot at night time.
Well, here's a (mathematical) joke about fermat's last theorem that has been on my mind for some time now:

"Do you know," the devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on the other planets-all far ahead of yours-have solved it? Why, there's a chap on saturn- he looks something like a mushroom on stilts-who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he has given up"

-Arthur Porges, "The Devil and Simon Flagg

Went to immigration today to get my student pass cancelled-I'm now on a visit pass:) I had to exchange those lovely green cards for a white card:(

Just came back from my secondary school-This thursday, i'm having a dental appoinment and the coming tuesday is a public holiday. So, i'll only have to go there next thursday. It'll just be nyjc till then! I'm going to (mini)lecture on gravitation!! So exiting!

Just went for a cycling. My mission was to get myself to east coast park, by following the water canal that runs along the MRT depot between Ang Mo Kio and Bishan. I found out from Google Earth that it'll lead me to the ECP. Well, i didn't really get there since i had to do a bit of exploring and figuring out directions (and considering possible shortcuts). But next time, i should be able to get there in an hour.Once i've made a trip in my bike, I'll be able to run! YaY!!

I just realised: I'm having an interview for usp programme on the coming 28th and nanyangjc's 30th anniversary is also on the 28th. Since my interview is in the morning, i might be able to come for the anniversary.

Today was a super-hectic day, a lot of things packed. This morning, i went for driving theory lessons one and two. Both teachers were trying to keep us awake by their jokes, but throughout the lessons, especially the first one, it became quite obvious that only the ladies were laughing-Really! Every single guy around me just kept a normal face. But the classes are not boring lah, i managed to stay quite awake throughout the two lessons. Since i'm allowed to take as many lessons as i want, and as many trial tests as i want, i'm going to pop in whenever i can. It's one way to make sure that i can pass my basic theory driving test.
Then, i went to my dentist. Since it has been soooo long(see previous post) she has changed place to near somerset MRT. But it's still the same sofa, paintings and all. As i expected, i need to get a new retainer for my upper teeth:( - the lower one still works. so, i needed to do that disgusting mould thing again- the previous time, i nearly vomited.This time i had better control over myself, somehow.
Then, i got myself enrolled for a C-language & C++ language course.about $600 in total, but it's not bad since it's going to be one-to-one and 64 hours in total (excluding practices). It's mostly in the morning, so that i can continue my voluntary works in the evening, which bring me to my next paragraph.
I'm soon going to start helping out at nyjc. But before starting on that, I've seriously got to brush up my chemistry, and if possible, my physics and maths. I've a feeling that I'm growing dumber, day by day.Well, I've some marking to do today, must go ytss tomorrow. I need to get my planner out.

Finally-I'm getting some life:)

Dental appoinment

I used to wear braces in secondary school, but i was done with it in Sec 4 that time.. So, i was given a retriver (to continue to hold back the teeth for some time), which i've only wore for like 3 months or so. I've been too busy lah... haha, nice excuse. And i've a dental appoinment in 2 hrs' time.. dunno what the dentist is going to say. I better brush and floss my teeth before i go in.:( More later, I'm busy right now.

HOMEWARE store Ikea will become the first retailer in Singapore to charge for
plastic bags in a bid to reduce waste.
From April 22, shoppers at the retail
giant's two outlets in Alexandra Road and Tampines will have to pay a nominal
five cents for standard-size bags and 10 cents for larger ones.

WoW. I thought this would take a loong time to catch up in Singapore , but it's good that a giant store like Ikea started on it. It'll be good if other stores start practice it too. And slowly, it'll spread to Malaysia (there are ikeas there, right?) and... I was just thinking about those developing countries where plastic bags may just have been introduced. But well, for these countries, it'll be good to start saving Earth from a young stage.

It's good that my mom has stocked up on those plastic bags. Now, I'll think twice about using those superstore plastics bags as rubbish bins (and not for something more useful, like shopping).

As for me, i've just been entertaining myself by doing maths. And i need to get my library books returned by 18th april. (why do i keep thinking that it's supposed to be 21st?)

YaY!! I've finished my marking! But it took a long while though, about 5 Hrs. I've just managed to get my mom to let me go to nyjc for 3 days per week. But on a condition that i'll continue my running at least 3 days per week and swim at least 2 days per week and relearn to play the keyboard(i learnt it in primary school, but i guess i didn't touch it from then on). Hmm... She seems to have forgotten about the C-language lesson that she was about to sign me up for. If i do sign up, i can't get a official cert since i'ld have to be studying under social visit pass.
Well, better start teaching at ny soon...
gotto mug my driving book now...

Today is my first day at ytss, helping out. My JC friends have mostly gone to NS now. 3 of them who had been helping out are going to step into NS tomorrow. So, that leaves me with quite a lot of work to do, quite a lot of marking, i guess. Yup, there's a lot of marking in secondary school than in JCs. Well, I'm just going to give it my best shot. It feels really great to be doing some real work. I'm going to finish (at least try to) all the marking i have by tonight. It feels really cool to be sitting alongside my teachers and talking with them.
By the way, i also signed up for driving course today, wah, it's going to get super expensive, but somehow, my mom doesn't seem to mind (so, i guess i won't mind too =) ).
Today, before getting to ytss from Sembawang Mrt, i dropped by at sun plaza to check out the library there. But instead, i ended up going into the popular bookstore. It had been really a long time since i last visited one and so, my popular card has been sleeping in my wallet. Well, at this time, I've nothing to buy, really. Maybe some more red pens to keep up with my marking??
Also, i dont' know if I've mentioned this, but a few days ago, I've got an offer from Australian National Uni for my BEng/Bcomm double degree. But i guess i'[ll have to wait to see what i get in NUS and NTU, before i make any decisions...

P.S Man, I'm super forgetful these days. Just super forgetful. My long term memory is working quite well, but my short term memory is really bad. Better get my 07 diary out and start using it.

Went to the national library with my secondary school friend. I was half an hour late and he was an hour late. So, i used the time to complete my Samurai Sudoku. I finally finished it!! In total i've spent about 6 hrs on it. Maybe i'll try another one, but right now i think i need a break from sudokus. Anyway, my friend seemed to be desprate to get his hands on those newspaper microfilm archives that they had, so we asked around for it and finally ended up at the 11th floor. It was quite high tech, after choosing our microfilm reels and filling up some form, we were led into this room where they had a lot of machines to read the film. As we were first timers, we were taught how to use the thing. It's a must-see for those in Singapore!!!
And here's my first exercise on c-language programming. It's a programme that adds up 3 integers. Initially, i found out that it closes too quickly without giving the person time to see the addition. So, i added in the closing thing. Oh, btw, you'll need a compiler to build the program.

#include
int main()
{
int a, b, c, d, e;
printf("Enter the first value:");
scanf("%d", &a);
printf("Enter the second value:");
scanf("%d", &b);
printf("Enter the third value:");
scanf("%d", &c);
d = a + b + c;
printf("%d + %d + %d= %d\n", a, b, c, d);
printf("okay, to close this thing just put in some integer and press enter");
scanf("%d", &e);
return 0;
}

Hey! I'm training to be a Samurai!!! Yesterday i spent 5 hrs doing a samurai sudoku!!here: after 2.5 hrs:


and after another 2.5 hrs:

I've been stuck at this for an hour la...it's sick.

try it! http://www.samurai-sudoku.com

Came back from council campfire yesterday.. so fun! I'll try to make it next yr. I'm also thinking of facilitating in LTC, but have to convince my mom first. I'm still very surprised that the 28th relay systems works well. Maybe there needs to be a new e-mail system or sth to last longer. Finally, i got in teaching at nyjc, which should occupy me throughout these holidays.
bye! off to figure out c-language programming. i shall put up some of my practices...

I'm really getting sick of my computer... The first time i started it just now, it failed to detect my sound system. So, i restarted it. Then, it did detect my sound system, but failed to detect the modem. So, i couldn't connect to the internet. Then, i had to restart again and everything went well till i opened the browser. It automatically restarted. Finally, now, it's seems to be sorking fine... hope it stays this way...
I'm going to learn c programming on my own, together with flash and Cinema 4-d. good luck to me.Tml going for council campfire:)

Wah.. my blogging frequency has decreased lately... I guess i've had a lot of things to do lah,
I started to prepare my room for university studies, had to pack up all my stuff and make more space to make it seem like a more spacious room.
Then, i went to play badminton with my friend at Yishun Stadium. We'd booked the stadium at 10-12 in the morning. Wah.. we shouldn't have bookes at all lah, waste of money. after 11 there was just no one in the sports hall apart from us. so we went on playing till about 1pm(and lost track of time). Then we went to visit our secondary school. Well, it was just supposed to be a visit, but we ended up doing much more. First of all, i came to know that the previous principal of my secondary school is now a principal in srjc. wow! He's really a great man. Then we met up with our junior(1 yr younger than us) who came back to be a relief teacher there. One of my friends was also there, having jsut started on relief teaching. I thought of doing teaching also, but since i'm under student pass, i can't work here. So, i've been thinking of doing some voluntary work at nyjc. My secondary school is very far, takes like 45 mins to travel there. Think about how much time and money i can save.
I also went down to enquire at the driving school. The whole thing will take 8 months, as i was told. And i wonder how my uncle did it in 3 months.Well, better do it now, since i may not have time when i enter university or when i get a job.
And today, i've had some back and leg pains due to the tiring badminton game. Maybe it's because i've not exercised for long. But next time, i'm not going to waste money booking...Must book on a weekday, at around 11am...I went doen to my Secondary school again, today for some moticational talk. The teachers are already making arrangements for me to do some CIP there, but dunno if my mom will let me go. Well, i'll just have to manage driving lessons, swimming, the teaching and still regularly visit the national library to do reading up.

Oh, man, google really has super good april fool jokes, The BEST i've ever ever seen so far!!! Very well developed-and since it's google (which is already far-fetched with its range of free services), the gmail paper one wasn't so farfetched, but i got it when i found the TiSP. Here:
First of all, google TiSP: click here Do click around and explore-it's really quite well developed(FAQs, press releases, testimonials...). Cool parts of it:

... #3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush™ system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes....

Professional Installation Service
You can also choose to request our professional installation service, which dispatches an army of factory-trained, sub-contracted nanobots from the TiSP Access Node. The nanobots travel with exhilarating nano-speed through the sewer system and into your home to perform the installation service, which should be complete within 15 minutes. Note: For your own physical safety and emotional well-being and in consideration of the nanobots' working conditions, please make absolutely certain that your toilet is unoccupied at the scheduled appointment time.

Then, there is the Google Gulp: click here
then, Gmail paper!!!

Haha.. Happy April Fools day, every one!!! This is one fine day for some fine pooling fooling!!! I'll do a proper blog post tmr morning.

I was reading the math book i borrowed., Mathematical Journeys. Very interesting and it starts everything from the beginning and gets each chapter up to Olympiad-like standard. There was this simple game mentioned, Nim. Fun game, isn't so mathematical, but if you want to win, you'll be need to express the numbers using binary representation (And I'm not going to tell you more).

Next i found some stuff that I've been looking for, mainly the paper in which i copied down some math stuff at nyjc library, the day before GP paper. I remember that i was just browsing through this mathematical gazette magazine while i came across this article talking about whether e^pi or pi^e was bigger. I had noted down the major parts of the proof at that time, but only managed to find that paper today as i was flipping through one of my memo pads. Here's the full version of the proof:

Also, i went cycling today, saw my teacher along the way. Today was quite adventurous, there were some parts where i got to drive at high speeds. It was better that the previous downhill since this one was longer. I also went to explore this park near potong pasir station and found many runners there, it's a good place to run. Only thing is that it's not sheltered (it's a park, remember?). Then there was this time when i got onto a raised platform at a high speed; my water bottle flew out of the basket infront (and due to faulty breaks, it took me about 40m to stop). I tried it again with some strategy and this time, my bottle did the jump but landed back in. Cool huh?

Updates...My refrigerator spoiled the day before yesterday. the freezer was alright, but the main compartment was at room temperature. After a few of my experiments, the technician was called in to fix it. He replaced some parts. Well, it has been loyally serving my family for about 6 years now, so it's expected.
Today, i went down to the national library. After searching for my mom's library card yesterday night(found it in my previous wallet), i did some cleaning up in my room. Oh yes, and i also finished reading the novel. Actually, there were 2 novels in that book, but i don't feel like continuing to the next one, so that's 45 cents worth of stuff(refer to previous post)...Like the previous time, i went to read some newspapers and then, since i had lots of time this time, i went to explore the other parts of the central lending library.Magazines, fiction and non-fiction... since there were not enough good math books available for borrowing, i got myself 2 of them, Mathematical journeys, and another book on Olympiad. I've read them before at nyjc library, but i just wanted to try some more problems. And besides that, i got myself a Macworld magazine!! And i spent some time looking at math stuff at the reference floor. finally, i discovered the tangent rule (you know, we have the since and cosine rule...). These rules, i think, just try to relate the length of the sides of a triangle (any triangle) to it's interior angles, using the respective trigonometric function.
One more thing: I went down to the immigration authority to check on the procedures on getting my student pass renewed for NUS( if i get in). Since the one for nyjc will be expiring on the end of next month, i'll have to cancel my student pass before that date(31st april) and they'll give my a month more to stay here . Hopefully, i'll get my posting results by then preferably by 20th May. Or else, i'll have to apply for social visit pass. Well, i'm glad that Lavender (where the immigratino building is) is just a bus ride away from home :)

I've been reading a novel, to entertain myself. Quite interesting. Seems like, i bought it ages ago. This is what i can remember: It was the opening day of the Big Bookshop at Toh Payoh and by luck, i happened to be there. i remember that i bought a whole lot of things there, an encyclopedia, dictionary, an atlas... And there was this novel, by Dick Francis. The book i bought has two of his novels, For Kicks and Flying Finish. According to the label on it, it was supposed to go at $12.90 (it's a hard cover book). Guess how much the price was: 90 cents!!! FOR A HARD COVER BOOK!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT????.Well, after coming back home, i started reading it a few days later, but went to sleep after the first 2 pages or so.
Also, i remember that they were selling this encyclopedia that came in several volumes (about 20 or so). I'm not sure if it was Britannica, i remember that it was being sold for about $40! I really thought of buying it, but I've already bought a lot and think: What a kid who just started working on his secondary school science textbooks supposed to do with all those volumes? They would just rot in a corner, like this novel did, till i picked it up a day ago.

Cycling!!!

I went cycling this evening- normally, during my runs, i'll run over to the end of the 2nd Bishan park and turn around. But now, since i've my cycle with me, i decided to explore a bit. I found out that beyond that park, there was the lower (or upper, i forgot) reservoir park. And i went into and around it, and did some more exploring. In the middle, since i've not been riding my bike for so long, some parts of it sort of rusted, but after some oil, it seamed to be doing fine.
At Bishan park, there was this dog show competition going on. I stood a while with my bike near me to watch the dogs run around compete. When i tried to set off, i had trouble turning my bike's handle. Even on the road, i had to use a lot of effort to turn it. I was thinking that i should have sent it for servicing before riding it. But after forcingly turning it a few times, it became okay. So i continued to explore. Throughout my ride, i noticed that the handle was only abnormal if i stopped for some time. I even stopped at a bus stop to examine it closely, but found nothing wrong. Maybe it's because that particular joint is getting rusty. I loosened (not by my hands of course, i did something else :)) the nut at the joint, and after that it was pretty fine.

Came across some monkeys along the way. Some of them are really bold; there was one that 'shouted' at me as i drove by( NO, i wasn't so near it, i was just being a good boy, by smiling at it as i went past). Also, i encountered some really steep slopes along the way, so fun! there's nobody to catch me speeding in my bike:)

shrinking photos

Okay.., I've not been blogging for a long while now, some updates:
I'm now able to appreciate the weather in Singapore a lot more.

I'm done with the NTU entrance application. Somehow, i finished writing the essay (it took me very long since i wasn't very much used to writing about narratives) and filling in my non-academic particulars (i had a lot of difficulty squeezing them all into 200 words. They have quite a good counting system that's different from the one that Microsoft word uses. for eg. "council05 to o6" is considered as 3 words while "council(05 to 06)" and "council (05 to 06)" are counted as 4 words; very smart...)
AND i also managed to get an appraiser to write about myself :)
I was offered some scholarship stuff at the end and was brought to another site at where there was another looong form. I nearly fainted when i saw it; I'm going to start working on it tomorrow morning. The scholarship form needs another appraiser. But the essay there is of the same topic, weird... i also had a lot of trouble getting my passport sized photo to their stringent specifications. My best is this: Below is the original



and below is the edited one:

Went down to nyjc this Monday, hoping to get my testimonial, but it wasn't ready yet. So, i ended up helping some J1s prepare for their math block test. It was fun. I enjoy teaching and in the process, i enjoy making things complicated. ;)
I'm going to start calling them up tomorrow for my testimonial.

I also need to do the essay for the university scholar's programme, and send in my supporting doccuments to NUS and NUS, and prepare things for my appraiser.

Yesterday. Since it's past 12, the day before yesterday, i went down to sch in the morning, expecting to get my testimonial and SGC, but ended up having to write my name down for them to print it. Now, i need to go back on Mon to get it. Can't wait to see it.. :)
Next, I filled up the NUS application at night. My printing system got screwed up when i tried to print the acknowledgement page. What actually happened was that i had clicked 'print' before the page finished loading. The trouble was that the page was longer than i expected it to be, since i didn't realise that my filled up form would be below the acknowledgement page. So, out of 9 pages, only 5 printed properly, with some parts of pg 6 missing. After this printing, i wanted to order a print of the last few pages, and i did it. For some reason (i forgot), i canceled this printing job and was trying to get it to print some other pages. The cancelation message somehow never got to the printer so it got sort of 'stuck'. And i couldn't print. So, after a long time of trying to troubleshoot all by myself, i gave up and tried to get my old printer to print. That worked, but the ink is low quality, i'll explain in the next post. But after struggling to get my new printer to continue to print, i figured out somthing: I couldn't save that acknowledgement page, getting a screenshot would be good, but it's quite long, i got it anyway. And since restarting my printer didn't seem to work, maybe restarting my comp would- but that page would disappear- so it won't. Finally, i saw this "send this page to gmail/ blogger thing" when i right click on the screen. Sending it to blogger didn't seem to work as well as i wanted it to, but sending it to gmail worked! it was excellent! that's all.

1:19 A.M

I thought of blogging now but it's such an ungodly hour. I'll get some sleep (or maybe do some maths) and come back in the morning. I really wonder how so many ppl can be online now...It's crazy...
Briefly, i went to sch and at night, applied to NUS. There, done.

oh man... i think i left one of my cables in India, the one that i'm supposed to use to connect my handphone to my computer...terrible, terrible....It's supposed to be in the cables bag, together with my camera's mini-tripod, but it's not there, though the other cables are. Let's just hope that it's stuffed somewhere elsein my baggages. I did a through check before i leave and the last time i saw the cable in india was like 1 month before i left. It's going to get more screwed up-they are moving to a new house right now. They did the house warming yesterday.

NUS, NTU, SNEC

Went to NTU open house on saturday and NUS open house on sunday. They were quite fine and one thing that i couldn't help noticing is that they gave away so much free stuff! And due to the paper quality of the prospectus and flyers, they should be quite expensive. I estimated that i got about $40 worth of stuff from both unis! Now i know where my money goes to if i get into an uni. I also got to get a much clearer picture of what uni will be like. NTU has a lot of accomodation facilities while NUS is short of them (as i heard from a few of the students there). Well, it's surprising that they let us stay in Prince George's Park residences during the Pre-U Seminar. I heard it's for the USP people, but not too sure. Should be expensive, though. Also, i heard that nus is a little short of students to participate in their overseas programmes, i heard from a few of the students there that it get really competitive once you are in. Well, i guess i've to get in and see for myself.
Also, i've sent in my application form for Australian National University. Should be getting a reply in 3 weeks' time.
Today, i went to National eye care centre to get my colour vision deficiency cert updated, i was still having the 2001 version. So i had to do some test alogside with it. My short sightedness seems to be stbilising. My left eye's power is 50 deg below my left spec lens, so it's now overpowered. and my right eye has gone worse by 50 deg. Since the last time i got myself a new pair of glasses was in september 06, i expected my eyes to be worse by about 100+ deg. Glad that it came out fine :)
I had to get the back of my eyes checked. They dropped some eye drops to dilate my pupils, sothat the doctor can look at the back of my eye. My left eye responded very well to the drops and only needed 3 drops. But my right eye was more stubborn and needed 6 drops (that's the max that they can give to a patient. I was getting quite worried cos my right eye became painful just after each drop while my left eye felt pretty normal). Because of those drop, Overall, i had to wait for about 2hrs. The report came out to be fine, my eyes are perfectly normal, apart from the red-green colour vision deficiency and the shortsightedness. (Nope, they didn't mention the stubbornness of my right eye) And there was also this test where a machine blew a puff of air onto my eyes to check the pressure. I had to do it several times as my eyes kept blinking.
Lastly, i've been reading my math olympiad notes till late in the night. I only slept at about 3 am yesterday night and ended up waking up at 10 in the morning. My sleeping pattern is all screwed up now. But it's so fun!

Forgot to blog about this: on tuesday morning, i felt my bed shaking slightly, due to the earthquake in Indonesia. I was quite doubtful at first, but after being unable to shake my bed in that same way by shaking myself on the bed, i was convinced that it's something unusual. It was just for about 4 seconds. I was thinking of running down, but no one was panicking. So, i didn't bother. Then later, i saw in the news about the quake in Indonesia.

I went down to the idp office today, that's where they help you to apply to Australian universities. I was told that i can be guaranteed a place in any of those unis. So, i was thinking of going for ANU. My first option has been NUS, so far. What i got today maybe one-sided view. So, i'm going to NUS tmr, or during the open house to know more about their programmes. Going back to India for IIT is nearly off my list for now :)

I've been reading up a lot on universities. Also considering some scholarship programmes.
My bicycle has rotting for the past 6 months. I just pumped the tyres with the pump, which was also rotting. The cycle chains are all rusted, i haven't tried it yet, but i really need to send it for servicing sooner or later.
I've been thinking of applying to the university scholar's programme at NUS. I know i'm not going to get it, but i'm just going to give it a try. It's going to be a very good experience, if i can get into it.

Well, it turned up slightly better than my optimistic expectations, AAAA (dunno if they sell this battery, maybe i'll have to fix 2 AA's together)But my GP is a C6, quite bad i think. Could have done better. S-papers, okay, expected, both merit. That's all. Now to run around applying for universities. So fun!

and here is the marathon certs that i received:

my first 42.195km!

Still super busy-i'll be quick here:
Pessimistic expectations:
Math-B
F-math-A
Physics-B
Chem-C
GP-D7
S-papers- U for both

Optimistic expectations;
math-A
F-math-A
Physics-A
Chem-B
GP-B4
S-papers-Physics-U
math-s-Merit

I've been super busy since i came back. It's really wonderfull to be back-no pollution, low traffic, nice people, Rain( haven't seen it for 3 months). Lots of things to do here-updating the computer,fixing back my room, unpacking, organising and so on. No time for patient blogging.

I just came back. I'm in Singapore now, just got a neat haircut. I'm still settling down, lots of things to do-no time to blog.

i went for a blood test this morning, since it would be a lot more expensive in Sngapore. All i paid was about S$3 .50(consultation is FOC) and they did the test- and the results were printed in about 5 mins time.My groud is AB +ve (Yes, i didn't know that till now), and my haemoglobin level is 14.4 g per dl. That's all. I'll be flying back tonight.

Just came back from a long journey. In the morning, i had some difficulty contacting my driver, since his phone ran out of battery. But eventually, we managed to contact him at about 930am. We left for the theme park at 1030.My mom couldn't come since she had some last minute shopping to do (things are cheap here). Her sister had to go to work, so i was left to go alone. It was 31 Km from home, quite far, but the roads were empty. My driver and I reached there at about 1130. The road that leads to it was still quite undeveloped, but there were a lot of people. according to my driver, there were about 15 (school excursion) busses that came in. I don't know if it's holiday period here, maybe it is :( The rides are much crazier than escape theme park, Here are the pictures:

View of the theme park from atop the ferris wheel tower

Then, there was this,

Which later looked like this, cool, right?

Then, there was this

Which later looked like this:

and this:

I liked this one,

made me feel like i'm flying. believe it or not, i had my camera, handphone and locker key in my pockets during this ride and they were very safe :)

While the 4 arms go around, the 3 smaller arms go around too and each chair rolls, name of the ride: Insanity The Mixer:

There were a lot more rides... That's all:)

YaY! my classes are over today:) And again, i got to walk back home. I took a picture of us, here:

That's my physics teacher,

I really need to trim my hair,

Today was the last chemistry lesson. Tomorrow will be the last math and physics lesson. I'm ging to officially start packing tonight. The last day should be spent checking if i'd left anything. maybe, i'll get to go to the theme park on monday. That's all for now:) 2 more lessons and 3 more lessons:)

Today morning, i went over to the office to clarify some doubts in physics. He taught me optics too. The problem with learning from textbooks here is that they has loads of formulas, when you only need one or two basic ones to derive others from. He introduced me to some concepts and solved some test paper questions. For some reason, he kept asking me if i understood the stuff. I did, but maybe i wasn't giving him the 'signs'. i occupied him from 11 in the morning till 230pm. Yes, you know me...After this, my driver was actually waiting for me in a busstop nearby, since i had the car key. Since he couldn't see me coming, we waited for each other for 15mins. Well, it was good for me since i got some private time to play with the gear system. So fun!!!
Then was math lesson. I barely had time to eat my lunch at home. 3 more lessons!!! and 4 more days!!!!

I was left alone at home today, while the thers went shopping. Well, i don't exactly have much to shop for and also, i have difficulty waiting for my mom to make her choice and stuff. i did a sudoku at home, but it was screwed up, there was a contradiction in the end. Did some chemistry. The current went off in the morning, at about 1030 and it only came back at about 230. And i had to rush for lesson. Chem today. I could solve some problems aince he was doing a revision. That's all for today: Here are some pictures (continuation):

I helped them take some photos .

And this is the park i was talking about

Yes, i was wearing my pre-u sem shirt:)

look at the background; nice, right?

some buildings on the way home

well, i'm really dying to get back to Singapore, i'm not getting mental peace here.

One last thing: This is my 100th post!!!

photos:

Me with my faternal grandpa

i'll continue tmr

Think i'll get the links started today. Be patient, i'll be adding the names slowly. Today was physics, we did modern physics. It was quite easy and i got to familiarise myself with those energy level equations. I managed to solve some problems by myself too. Finally, i received the full test 1 and 2 papers by post. I was hoping that they would come before i leave for singapore.
p.s: the possibility of me going to the theme park has increased to 70%, let's see what happens:)

Today was my last morning class, we finished the chem syllabus. My mom and grandpa came by to thank him at the end. He was very kind and very reluctantly accepted our small gifts. Overall, for teaching me the whole of chemistry here, he only accepted about things worth singapore 100 dollars... I was quite touched.
Next, we bought sugar cane juice just outside the school, it was real cheap. A cup was only 5 rupees, i.e about 20 cents. next, we stopped by at the park nearby to take some pictures. initially, it was supposed to be closed since they were doing some work inside, but they let us in just for a few snaps.
I'll post the pictures later.
next, we went down to my course office to get my test results, which we received later on. There was some heavy traffic jam on the way. And i snapped some more pictures. Finally we came back home .
After lunch i only had about 15 mins to get some rest, after which i needed to get down to my physics class. Let me see... wed, thu, fri, sat, sun(2 lessons) . That's 6 more lessons to go.I fixed an appoinment with the physics teacher this friday. I know nuts about optics.