Sunday, May 18, 2008
In addition, I was trying to finalise my FYP back then. Ugh, thinking back it was really depressing to hear others already confirming their projects and yourself still a lost sheep. Luckily it was the exams for him so we didn't have to squeeze out time for each other which would have been hard and tiring.
FYP
Went to Dr Gan's briefing on 11 Apr on his expectations etc for his projects. At that point in time, my choices were left with Dr Gan's and Dr Andrew's projects. The former specialises in microelectonics and the lather in organic synthesis, which are of totally different nature. And anyway, I went back to school on 18 Apr for a discussion with both of them. Dr Gan said to wait to 8 May before he would confirm his list of students.
Since my first choice is microelectronics, I had to wait till his list was out before I decide if I had to do with Dr Andrew cos I'm not so confident with organic chemistry now. Furthermore, the basics of organic chem needed for the synthesis experiments would definitely be a great challenge to me if I have to do self-study. Luckily, Dr Andrew is not as popular with my batch of students because he hasn't lectured us before so his list wouldn't be filling up as fast.
The 3 weeks waiting for was not wasted. Dr Gan confirmed me on 9 May. My project title is: Hydrothermal synthesis of rare earth hydroxide and oxide nanotubes. Nanotechnology. Microelectronics. Hmm... starting to do my literature review and background research already. Cos Dr Gan's asking for 5-page write-up with 20 references due when school starts next in August. And i'm planning on submitting before the new sem so I can concentrate on the experimental part and my other commitments.
Tuition
From last week till the June school holidays are over, tuition with Jess will be once a week since I really need a break from rushing to tuitions after work. And I cannot afford to let her slacken down now that she has shown some improvement in her work.
Last tuesday, she gave me a scorecard for her mid-years. I'm quite happy with her results... except we will need to do more on her english reading and understanding which will help in her literature ba. And it's quite expected to get such grades for her humanities. I'm guessing the history grade won't be any any better than her geog and lit.
Eng: 58.3/100 C5
MT: 70.5/100 A2
Maths: 80/100 A1
she would have gotten 85 marks if she hadn't wrote her workings in pencil which resulted in 5 marks being deducted.
Sci: 75/100 A1
Geog: 58/100 C5
Lit: 41.4/100 D7
Hist: duno yet
27 Apr
The first date in a month I think. Caught 'Forbidden Kingdom' with him. Hahaha..... it was a lame show leh cos it's really crappy watching chinese kungfu movies with english dialogues.
I was sad that Definitely, Maybe was left with only 1 or 2 screenings with bad timings. Even Sex is Zero 2 also not much better. As with The Other Boleyn Girl, I think I'm gonna watch them online. hehe...
8 May
A simple birthday celebration for Marcus, cos we had just celebrated mum's birthday. Surprised him with a blockcake with a green power ranger picture on it. And the next month we have dad's birthday as well... and that's after my IA, so should be able to go out for dinner or something.
14 May
I trim my hair for a new look. Okay, so maybe it's not entirely new look. but at least I feet different. Cos my parting went from left to right and it's not because I made it, but I woke up with it and it has stuck. It's layered now, so I can probably go highlight my hair soon. And I mean diy lah... cos there's still a half bottle left from cny.
Huixin's mother passed away in the morning on Wednesday due to a sudden heart attack. Even though she had no history. Life' so unpredictable and fragile isn't it. Heard from xin that 2 weeks earlier the whole family had just gone on a china trip and the day before they family had a mothers' day dinner with the other aunties and granny. So everything was fine until it crashed down on her. At least her mother was happy when she left and the only regrets she had were probably that she couldn't attend xin's convocation in July and see any of her daughters getting hitched and married.
I saw xin on Thursday and she looked better than she sounded. I know she can't possibly be better... so Xin, be strong at least till the wake is over this afternoon.
And gera, you aren't alone. I'm gonna eat with you till you ain't gonna be some beanpole. You two are dearest to me even though we haven't been seeing each other.
We can cry together another time, just us.
It was a love story @ 09:14
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Not much things to do at work this week, just did some calculations, manipulating of equations and plotting graphs. Engineering work is stable, interesting sometimes but may be boring over time, however it's not so financially promising. Venturing into business may have high returns, but it's so tiring and straining. For now, I can only rely on the hope that at least a degree in engineering provides the option of doing different fields of work in future.
After I graduate, I hope to spend 2 years(depending on the economy) in the engineering sector. Then, I will consider my next path. Hopefully 2 years is enough for me to finish paying my bank loan for university. Argh. Coz I had the intention of joining the travel industry or maritime industry, and still have now.
I think so far, only Fu knows that I had wanted to take up maritime engineering in polytechinc after O levels. But sadly, my parents didn't allow coz of the few incidents of lives lost at sea then. Would have otherwise taken tourism, but it was only available at TP and well, I supposed my parents affected my choice in going to a JC lah. But I'm not one to regret my actions, so let's just look forward :)
I don't know... I'm not young anymore, now that I'm pass 21 and just the thought of being 30 when Marcus turns 21 makes me both excited and worried. Dilemma right, haha... I'm always sitting on the fence of my own thoughts, amuses myself sometimes. Life's the unknown as long as you still hold on to life... Hee~
And it's the weekends!! Friday woohoo...
I'm gonna meet Fu tonight at JP to watch 27 dresses. Wanted to watch last friday, but last minute Avril informed me of a little gathering with CH and Yik. So I went to look for them. 1+ months since I last met them at SH's party in Dec. Avril missed me! Lol, I missed her too. Now no need miss coz we just met last week and all of us (uni friends) are gonna meet for dinner at Vivocity tomorrow.
Will be meeting my dear bp gang tomorrow as well. Having lunch with them at Vivocity, such a coincidence or are they making things easier for me? Hah. Really miss the gang + Sam... Can't wait to take more pictures when we meet, ya so I must remember to charge my camera battery tonight.
But I got a big problem la, my mum wants to go Bugis(or somewhere) to shop tomorrow. So I'm gonna 练习分身术 and hop from Vivo to Bugis and Bugis back to Vivo in between... It's ok, I have hybrid concession haha... that's why can travel without thinking now, how good.
Alright shall end here and go check what my friends are doing~
It was a love story @ 15:17
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Monday, May 28, 2007
We rented vcd and bought the ingredients and went to my home happily. He made chicken sausages mushroom sauce pasta... I liked the mushroom gravy which is very soupy but funny thing, the chicken sausages didn't go well with the mushroom taste so it's either you eat the sausages and don't touch the mushroom or the other way round. Haha...
After eating, we watched the Korean supposed blockbuster The Host. I thought it was about a mutated creature and couldn't figure out why the title. Well, the plot was about the ignorant Korean government who had assumed that the creature that had emerged killing(eating) the people was a host for a certain virus. So the government had this quarantine for those who came into contact with the creature... they were like thinking it's another SARS whatsoever.
Ok, so anyway the creature took away a little girl named Hyun Seo while hopping across the field near the river it resided in. Haha, I tell you the way it moved hopping around and jumping into the water was like so agile la. It was assumed that the girl was dead coz you know the creature supposedly swallow up people. But she didn't 'drown' and ended up in a big sewage drain where this disgusting creature actually kept its food. Yea, the people that were either swallowed or grabbed away with its long chameleon-like tail.
She found cellphones on the other bodies and called her father who was already being quarantined. Her whole family which consisted of her grandpa, her uncle and aunt were along those quarantined. Obviously the police and the doctors and nurses didn't believe the story of the whole family that the girl was alive la. So they said especially the father was being affected by the virus lor or he gone mad la.
But anyway this government was kinda lousy that the family managed to escape and went in search for the girl/creature. While trying to divert the creature's attention, the grandpa died because the rifle ran out of bullet just when he wanted to shoot it. Sadly, the creature grabbed him with the tail and bit him or something and it dived into the river. What the hell la... the creature was like can think one or what. The girl's father stupidly let himself be captured coz he couldn't leave his own father's body. The uncle and aunt then went separated ways into hiding.
The girl got company when a little boy who were orphans with his elder brother were taken back to the sewage by the creature. His brother died but he didn't. So the girl looked after the boy and told him that her grandpa who owned a provision shop would ensure that if they got out alive, the little boy wouldn't need to starve anymore. They had to fake dead whenever the creature came back. And there was a scene I remember so vividly I felt sick... They were hiding in a part of the drain where the creature didn't see them, and it just vomitted out I think its whole stomach of human bones la... walao! I don't understand the whole point of that scene lor. That scene onwards, the girl became determined to escape.
The uncle managed to find out the approximate location where the girl's last call was made. But he was hot on the heels by the police and he jumped down somewhere high and before he became unconscious, he smsed his sister(the aunt) to find the girl at a W. bridge which the river would flow to. The aunt, by the way was a national archer so she had along with her her equipment... Damn, she finally found the creature but was knocked into a opening in the wall big enough for her, too small for the creature and there she laid unconscious as well. zzz right?
On the other hand, it was dawn and the uncle was awake and he got the help of a wanderer who had with him many bottles of alcohol who followed him to the bridge. The girl's father managed to escape somehow and he too went to the bridge coz the aunt had awoken and called him... funny how this show progressed. But the twist was, Hyun Seo who managed to stay very alive for so much of the show got swallowed by the creature when it saw her and the little boy. The creature then decided to get on the river banks because there was a demonstration by the people who were against the government who wanted to spray 'Agent Yellow' on the river which was a very deadly chemical, said to be able to kill the creature.
Finally, the siblings(girl's father, uncle and aunt) were reunited at the bridge... and the creature came hopping onto the bridge lor. 'Agent Yellow' was released on the creature, don't know why so good aiming also... and it turned and tossed almost dead. The father saw the girl's hand protruding out of the creature's mouth so he went to pulled her out of the seemingly dying creature... out came Hyun Seo who was hugging the little boy. But it didn't die la! Stupid lor... The siblings were fuming with rage seeing the creature still alive. The uncle threw bottles of alcohol to which he lit with fire on the creature. The wanderer somehow went up to a higher region and poured a whole tub of alcohol which the creature happily drank. The uncle wasted the last bottle of burning alcohol when he fell down. Sian lor… haha but along came the aunt who stuck the burning cock with her arching equipment and it was a bullseye. The creature then tried to run towards the water… but the father pick up a metal pole and stuck it into the oncoming creature’s mouth. Black blood oozed out and finally it breathed its last…
But guess what? The father went over to the little boy and shaking him and asked if he knew her daughter and were they together… the little boy opened his eyes. The ending was just the little boy were taken in by the father lor… and they lived in the provision shophouse which had belonged to the grandpa along the river.
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Yesterday was fun… beating and measuring and the whole baking fun~ though not made to professional standard but still happy that at least still quite presentable ba. We made sponge cake, Swiss roll, modified chocolate cake(the cocoa powder replaced with milo powder haha) and cheesecake. Tiring because we had to refer to the recipes and we only had one measuring cup for everything… Hmm, too bad the camera was in dad’s car so I couldn’t take the pics. But, collin and xl took some pics… Hope to get from them soon.
~~ Hehe, I think I want to make cakes again sometime soon… and puffs and tarts ~~
It was a love story @ 10:48
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Monday, January 01, 2007
headache. cough worse. voice hoarse. gone.met oli to go orchard together last night. and she was really idiot to come up to yewtee from clementi just to accompany me to take the red line down. all because i was lazy and tired to keep changing lines if taking the green line. but i appreciated her actions. thanks via~
meant to meet Fu after i reach somerset which meant he was supposed to end his lan earlier than the others. but somehow the plan changed. and two idiots were walking around in cine while waiting for the others to join them. they saw pastamania and realised they were hungry. but they didn't immediately went in. because they were thinking of the others.
and then the others called to say they've reached and they were going to eat in basement or somewhere. at that point in time, the idiots saw a hong kong cafe 新旺（香港）茶餐厅, so they decided to enter. why? because they wanted to make someone feel bad for not joining them. lol. really idiots right?
idiot 7
idiot 6
congee. sticky rice in lotus leaf. pork chop burger.
unwrapped the surprise.
view of fireworks from the escalator to level 6 in cine.
oli: i took the serviette home leh...
but the decision was kinda a right one. because the others went up to level 6... not intending to countdown or what. or maybe there were people who wanted to countdown lah, but just didn't know how. or because they had each other's company to need any countdown. anyway, oli and i tried to initiate countdown over the phone. but that only showed us the great constrast between the atmosphere in HK cafe and the atmosphere imagined over the phone. bleh. we were kinda glad to spend the last seconds of 2006 with the right crowd. lol, not that the sc11ians up at level 6 were not right though. just... you get the idea.
but i would have wished it to be with Fu. i havne't have any private time with him in a long time le. haish. oh well... things just cannot go my way.
watched deathnote2. alright. a bit draggy though... for a while throughout the movie, i was wondering if there would be another sequel. i didn't exactly like the ending: both kira and L died. for what sia~ and i thought hey, there should be many other shinigamis(death gods).. so what kind of ending was that. haha. but it's afterall just a show.
movie ended at 0316. coz i checked my hp. wanted to hurry home but had a little bit miscommunication with Fu and the others. the others were gonna eat at the kopitiam behind cine mah and Fu was planning to take NR there too. but i checked the guide and found the best bus stop to board to be the one in front of hereens. because it would have came from cck and thus be quite empty for me to find a seat, rather than taking from behind of somerset station where it came from boat quey, clarke quay and mohd sultan rd... i wouldn't be able to board even.
i shall just skip the unlucky events that followed while waiting for bus. otherwise, how else could i have board the bus only at 0425 and reach home around 1 hour later. but i can tell you, the journey sucks. i was already kinda asthmatic and the bus was speeding like bullet-trains. i felt like vomiting all the time...
this is the worse time i've been sick in a long time. i'm never gonna do this again, no matter if the tickets were already booked or what. to all, understand me ok. you won't want to try it.
going back to sleep.
happy 2007!
It was a love story @ 14:28
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
We cannot control the clouds and winds, but the Sun will always be out.
Will be out later tonight... though not feeling all that well now. No fever. No sore throat. No headache. But still lethargic and giddy/dizzy easily. And the throat now becomes dry... and... nevermind the details.
Gonna catch a would-you-say latenight movie - Deathnote 2: The Last Name. Since it is on my to-do list for dec, i might as well join sc11 and get it over and done with. But i really want to watch Night in The Museum lor. I thought it will be amusing with comedians such as Ben Stiller and Robin Williams and with all the extraordinary things that come alive in the show. And after i heard from friends that it was a better-than-expected and worthwhile show... it just makes me wanna go catch it soon. Maybe i can/will try to go and watch it on my own for once? Since i've never done it before. Hmm...
Still trying to plan nice nice my timetable because i wanna make room for one more tutee. Nope, i have not gotten another tuition assignment. But i think i'm gonna need one more for money sake. Ya... well. So perhaps when a new semster begins, i won't have so much time to blog le. I don't know... we'll see.
Oh by the way, i followed links and links and found this: Full Saddam Execution Video. Don't say i never give warning hor. It is not for the faint-hearted. Actually nothing much la, only when the gallows dropped, i was a bit stunned. And he didn't even want to put the hood on lor. I think it is really taken at the scene coz i checked with a few other websites that show photos of his remains and they were consistent.
Okok, i'm being a bit ahem here... haha. Just thought that life is so fragile. One moment you could be so much alive, and the next anything could just happen... so may 2007 bring us all joy and good health to enjoy everything good.
Hee~ Happy New Year in advance.
Labels: Movies
It was a love story @ 10:46
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
finally.
the day he and i have been looking forward to for 1 year and 10 months. ORD - operational ready date! so to mark this day, before he starts work tml and i gotta mug for the exams, we spent the day out... of cos not without having to wait for him for his medical review to be over. AND to get back his darling pink I/C haha...
geez, i'm so thrilled that he got me a goong poster yesterday when he went JB with his ns frens. and from his descriptions of the other 2 goong posters selling, i knew he bought the right one. he knows me huh? ^-^ the one i got shows shin hugging chaegyung, so swweeet... i wouldn't want one with hyorin or yul cos i don't like them. ha, bias? it's ok, i admit.
i've got my wish come true when we made couple rings after saying for almost 2 years now.. previously i couldn't argue cos it's pointless since he couldn't wear it in camp, but now haha, he has got no excuse. *wink* ours are simple, afterall it's the unseen that binds. it's stainless steel which felt better than the conventional ones which were much lighter and ready to give way anytime. ha. but it's a let down they do not have 1/2 size bigger for my ring as 13 is a little loose and 12 is a litle tight. argh, when will i get used to it.
the covenant, not a bad show. i like the fact that power kills. nice idea of 'ascend' at 18 and we see that caleb was striked by lightning at 11:12pm haha... and he got his full power that equals his life - so better don't use up too fast. as he fights the evil one, his father 'will him his power' which made caleb extra powerful lol... the lightning hit him again! and he just send that chase collins flying somewhere, and gone. the end. nice though cos it has got some meaning there..
the day he and i have been looking forward to for 1 year and 10 months. ORD - operational ready date! so to mark this day, before he starts work tml and i gotta mug for the exams, we spent the day out... of cos not without having to wait for him for his medical review to be over. AND to get back his darling pink I/C haha...
geez, i'm so thrilled that he got me a goong poster yesterday when he went JB with his ns frens. and from his descriptions of the other 2 goong posters selling, i knew he bought the right one. he knows me huh? ^-^ the one i got shows shin hugging chaegyung, so swweeet... i wouldn't want one with hyorin or yul cos i don't like them. ha, bias? it's ok, i admit.
i've got my wish come true when we made couple rings after saying for almost 2 years now.. previously i couldn't argue cos it's pointless since he couldn't wear it in camp, but now haha, he has got no excuse. *wink* ours are simple, afterall it's the unseen that binds. it's stainless steel which felt better than the conventional ones which were much lighter and ready to give way anytime. ha. but it's a let down they do not have 1/2 size bigger for my ring as 13 is a little loose and 12 is a litle tight. argh, when will i get used to it.
the covenant, not a bad show. i like the fact that power kills. nice idea of 'ascend' at 18 and we see that caleb was striked by lightning at 11:12pm haha... and he got his full power that equals his life - so better don't use up too fast. as he fights the evil one, his father 'will him his power' which made caleb extra powerful lol... the lightning hit him again! and he just send that chase collins flying somewhere, and gone. the end. nice though cos it has got some meaning there..
It was a love story @ 22:38
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
