Thursday, March 31, 2005

JASON MRAZ...

...does amazing things with his vocals and his live perf sounds awesome! very impressed with this very talented guy....


anyone kind enuff to get it for mi? *pls pls darlings??* muahaha juz kidding laaaarrrr.. I just need the time to drag my big fat ass to pop by town.

Yours Truly,
Diabetic Sweetie Honey Flavored Strawberry Pie
also known fondly as Siew Mai





*pssst... it helps when u put ur a 'Wish List' coz it's the in-thing nowadays and most of those in Mr Yew's got materialized (even his $XXXX flute!) so here I'm trying my luck!

Saturday, March 26, 2005

While Thesis-ing......

Was on Yahoo Launch & heard Elton John's croaning 'Your Song', and tot it's actually a very very nice song (oppss, was it for another guy?)... Sweet lyrics, soothing tune & simple arrangement does the job! Would love to play it on my wedding(even tho god knows when)... But a lil' fantasizing and planning ahead won't kill rite?

Gosh... look what the stress from FYP has done to me.
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Elton John - Your Song
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It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen
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Darn.... my husband's better got a good voice (plus ability to sing in tune)!
Back to thesis-ing...

Friday, March 25, 2005

My babr bro - Wickedly Contrived Nonsense Based on Real-Life(TM)

Baby bro has one of the biggest ego i've even met...
When i told him one of my fren reads his blog & commented abt his english.....

Bro : wah
Bro : he must be real disappointed now
Bro : cos i stopped writing for so long
P.I.G. : fyi i read it too
P.I.G. : and since ur alwiz using the comp
P.I.G. : BETTER CHURN OUT STH@!!!!!
Bro : you want quality or quantity?
Bro : if there's no inspiration that i can write about, why bother?
Bro : i'd rather wait than waste my time writing something second rated

Piece of crap....

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Yumyum


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Monday, March 21, 2005

Feeling (very) SOUR


UK (+ Scotland), Ireland, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Italy, Czeh Rep, Spain, Norway, Holland, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Monaco, Slovakia, Belgium

*SUPER POUTY*








finally laid my hands on a usb hub, no more plugging in and out of the cables and dc-ing my pathetic hdd... all thanx to baby bro & cousins... nice boys!

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Law

I went for Law lesson today! Both tutorial & lecture! To Hahaha: I made u lose the bet to urself but I'm not at all sorry abt it! MUAHAHAHA.... Anyway, good things like this should go on....

CCN Proj meeting turned out to be grad tour research party haha... all 4 of us form half the group who's going, and so... hee... But we managed to settle the departure and return dates (and gotten our tix) plus most of the itinerary! Yippie! Looking forward to it!

Something to take away from Law:
"The state of a man's mind is as much a fact of the state of his digestion... A misrepresentation as to the state of a man's mind is, therefore, a misstatement of fact"

In layman's term: If you say you will do this & this but eventually not accomplish them and waves it off as one of INTENTION not FACT, u can get SUED.
E.g. A nominee for a leadership position standing in front of a crowd of audience, enticing them with nice plans. If it doesn't actualise in the end, be ready to get parang-ed. ;p

Saturday, March 19, 2005

An unpleasant entry

Went for IBM's recruitment talk just now. They made it seem so desirable (which I think is true) and easy (definitely false) to be 'an IBMer'.... It sure would be nice to be able to work there (despite the disgustingly far far away office at Changi), but wanting and being able to are 2 different issues altogether.

I should really piah like some whacko fr Woodbridge soon... It's 'scaringly scary' when I look at all the deadlines (roaming ard the corner) to keep up with *faintz*... If I can do a decent job out of all these during the 1.5mth period, I'm sure I can survive all kinds of craps afterdat....

- 24th Thur : Hand up draft of thesis for Prof's review + Demo of working model (super scaringly scary)
- 31st Mar : Draft thesis + Technical paper to be submitted
- 4th Apr : EE4218 Proj Presentation
- 8th Apr : CS3221 Assignment Demo
- 8th - 14th Apr : FYP CA4
- 12th Apr : EE4210 Proj Presentation
- 23rd Apr - 5th May : Exams

They don't look dat near, but neither are they near... I'd better stock up on my instant coffee, Brands, snacks & of cos, bring out the late nite cab fare fund... Cabby uncles all watch out!

I'm not about to give up yet hee.... as for everyone else who's slogging their lives away, Ganbatte too! q(~,~)p

Friday, March 18, 2005

Yan Can Cook

My EE4218 lecturer looks like Yan in 'Yan Can Cook'.
Especially the way he smiles at the class like he's telling us "If Le Can do it, so can U!".... Damn quirky guy who hops around in class, and rarely do we see dat happening in Engin... He's further proven my belief that 'short guys are funnier'...

My lecturer Prof Le Minh Thin (Viet i think)
*Pssst... U'll need login to NUS

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

A picture says a thousand words

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.... and many pictures say many thousand words.
Hee... ok im plain lazy to write abt intempo....

HAPPINESS

Hee.... hee...... hmmm.... heee.... alritez... im super tired but super happy too... and in order to further sustain my high, it's coffee for me at 2am... heck.... my mind's in a mess now!!

1) I've watched Howl's Moving Castle! It's a pretty good show but I still prefer Spirited Away... as for Mononoke, i'm only 2/3 thru it so no comments..... Watched it in one of the most ulu's cinema in singapore! but it's onli 5 bux! The aircon felt like it din exist tho
2) Howl is cool! Markl too! I want a magician for a boyfriend! Den he can *powf* 1 flower, *powf* 2 flowers, *powf* 4 flowers... and eventually I'll have a land full of flowers and strike it rich selling dem. Would be better if he can *powf* money.... And the fact that Howl had a great voice added to it... everything starts from a good vocal *winkz* of coz, brains included!
3) For a detailed & super-ultra-layman's way of going thru the details of the show, follow this link to Lang's Super Review. But don't take his words abt Howl being a sissy, it's NOT TRUE!!!! *flashes claws*
4) I've found treasure! After much rummaging thru all corners of my home, I've finally recovered my precious MDs of those good old days. In short, I will be having mp3s of recordings of a very very good high school band. And with it, found those recordings from SAJC days too.... will be burning for many ppl! *EXCITED*
5) I'm heading for Australia in May!!! Hee yeppie! Dats grad tour for us (which happens to be a pretty humongous grp) and I'm realli looking forward to it sooo much dat i dun even mind breaking my piggy bank juz for dat.... actualli it's juz the kick being able to travel. Given a choice, i would go europe, but wif a limited budget, down under seems like the next best thg!
6) I have a lot of work to do and it doesn't help that I don't have enuff sleep and my fyp is screwed.
7) My fish is still alive fyi... but seems like lately ive been testing its limit of how long it can last w/o food *oohhhhooohhh*
8) Intempo is over and I'm happy!
9) Convo is coming
10) I'm going jobless REAL soon
11) Life is still great despite all the shit =)

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Of cousins (mainly)

Loser! Alrite i missed Law tutorial plus lecture today... but wats new....

It's grandma's bdae today and the whole (yeah, i mean the entire, well almost) family went to a nice restaurant for dinner... i love it when i get to meet up with my cousins and we crap abt things... these are the people i grew up with, and they are pretty fun to be with... Sat wif my same-age-but-older-by-few-months cousin, Kok, and he was the fun big bro for the nite! Hee.... basically he bacame my nanny, picked food for mi and being the joker, entertained me for the rest of the dinner... somehow i wish my family would be less critical and more supportive of him =( oh well... the rest of the cousins plus my own baby bro (alrite, they are at least 17 but alwiz babies to me) are aso fun creatures... massaged the 3 of dem for free but someday, i ll start charging yeah....

On my paternal side of the family, I have very few ger cousins of around the same age... to be precise, only 2.... As for my maternal side, the only cousin im close to wld b Shan, but dats coz we were both in the same band in jc and uni.... the rest of my playmates were boys, and i guess having more boys made my childhood more fun coz boys are generally, cheekier hee... we would play the rough kind of hide and seek (i remember climbing up a vase inside a cupboard and smashing it when the door open and both me and the poor vase fell out), 'gang fighting', pulling off pants, sketching our parents' cars wif my bro, and very few dolls... i hadly remember any bdaes spent without the whole troop of dem...

it's quite interesting when u grew up with these people and by 22, the way you feel abt dem hasnt changed much since young... u still joke abt those days as tho they happened recently... and i alwiz haf the feeling we would stay as such for the rest of our lives... hopefully it's true *winkz*

anyway i practically stuffed myself until i had a tummyache by the time i reached home...

ok... i shd write sth abt intempo b4 i wipe everythg off my mind.... i promise to do it after im done wif my assignment!

Friday, March 11, 2005

This awful feeling

Mabbe it's due to the lack of sleep or food, mabbe it's stress building up... I couldn't bring myself to go on... Was early for lab today, reason being that I din sleep, juz so that I wun be late for presentation.

went viet cafe to do work and met Lang for lunch, then came along Zhong Wang and Kim Cheong, who were plain lame but entertaining, mabbe i was in a lame mood too.... din manage to finish the (disgustingly overdue) adv OS assignmt b4 tut time coz was v v v distracted and din do much despite downing 2 cups of coffee...

Dozed off for the next tutorial... It's so difficult for me to concentrate on the lecturer's words, kept slipping off to dreamland... felt sick... yeah i deserve it for alwiz staying up like a freak who doesn't need sleep... decided not to go for adv os since my prog is not done yet... i made my way back... mabbe I should haf taken a cab, but i din...

by the time i reached the stop at home, it was raining. I tot to myself, even if i ring back for help, my mum wun drive out for my sake, and i hated it. Suddenly, my dislike for every little single thing came rushing in... i most of all hated myself for being such a slacker when i'm supposed to work hard, dats y my prog is still dead, for being a smart alec and not sleeping, eventually skipping tut... fyp is still dying out dere coz i haven been doing it at all.... the kids on the bus were nuts, shouting at each other... some poly gers were bimbo-tokking abt makeup and whether dey are fair enuff... got so frustrated wif myself and the whole world and so started walking out in the rain back home. it seems like the only logical choice unless i can bear being stuck in a bus stop filled with noisy sch kids in the irritating humid air... the world sucked totally in that moment.

Home does wonder to me. I reached home about to explode (pretty drenched), walked towards my mum and lala, grumbled grumbled... my mum (prob wasnt really bothered wif mi & grumblings) asked mi to go shower... she said "u muz b turning sick, if not u wun b back so earli".... so true... lala was the crazy ger as usual, perked mi up... and those negative feelings got sucked out of me and i felt no anger anymore... in fact, i felt so glad to be home... like now! =)

Hi! I'm Prague!


Hi... My name is Prague! I love my name coz it's a foreign, not chinese, not english... I'm a foreign pig... My mistress is, a pig, like me... Mabbe I shd start telling my life story yeah? I'm actualli, realli, a foreign pig. My name isnt such that I can sound cool when I intro myself lah! I was born somewhere in Prague, but not sure exactly where coz pigs dun study geography back in school... So anyway, one day, my mama brought mi to the market to be sold, not to the butcher mind you, but to this souvenior stall... I wasn't really upset abt it coz u see, most pigs end up on the dinner table but hey, I'm a high class pig, I'm a souvenior siah! Damn steady rite... Dun pray pray...


Anyway back to the story again, another fine day, this GIRL who doesn't look angmoh at all came along to my stall and set her eyes on me! She exclaimed "Wah seh! Dis pig looks like the pig on the Pig's badge back in Singapore! I should get this for her!!!" And so, she took out her wallet and paid for me w/o hesitation. I was then wrapped in an ugly pink paper and brought back to a place called Folgate Street... I know how English sound, with their accent.... and I knew I was then, in UK (even tho i stress again, my geography sux... A smart pig doesn't need it)... This ger huh, she doesn't look angmoh, but live in a land full of angmohs... worse still, she speaks wif a horrible accent full of 'lahs' and 'lehs', so much so that I started to pick them up lor.... She's a damn mugger aso lah.... Everyday, she'll go to school in the morning and then come back to do alot of readings and essays.... Nerd leh.... Heng for mi, another fine day came and she decided that she wanna send me away, to a place called Singapore. Wah seh, I was so excited, I jumped up and down coz I heard that I would be taking a plane! How many pigs in their entire life get to fly? Airpork not counted coz those pigs are dead by then and are called pork. So, this girl packed me into a bubble pack and I was on my way to Singapore. Oh yeah, there's another companion whom I wasn't realli fond of (coz abit freaky ah), but since I didn't haf much choice, we became friends. My friend's name is Lizzy... *cough* cliche! *cough* Oh, we posed for a pic together. Here's it!



Duh duhz duhz... I'm getting bored... Finally, I reached that somewhere called Singapore. This place is so freaking hot! I swear I slimmed down quite abit due to the heat lor! Grrr..... Oh and, this place is so full of people who look like the girl back in Folgate Street... So basically I heard 'lahs', 'lors', 'lehs', etc every few seconds until i got the hang of it... it's pretty cool once ur stuck wif using it u noe! Bleargh back to story! I reached the house of the 'Pig' that I'm destinated to, and it wasn't what i tot would be... I tot pigs stay in sty... but this one no... she actually looks quite human to me... except for the fact that her eating and sleeping habits coincide wif mine perfectly... A pig in disguise?


On the first day Pig saw me, she/it was so excited she/it simply couldnt put me down and simply kept smiling idiotically at me! She/It brought me to the dinner table (but no food for me!), to the TV, and to her/it's desk (which eventually became my resting ground).... HOWEVER, from the next day onward, it/she simply had to time to even take a glance at me. It/She was out every morning until late at nite, and it/she spent her only time awake pressing keys on a thing called computer. Man it's a worse geek than the one back at Folgate Street!


But heng heng, I found alot of fellow pigs who live with Pig. There's Pig the (transparent) Wrist Rest, Pig the (pink) Wrist Rest, the infamous Pig the Badge, Pigs those Paper Clips, and Pig the (pink) Pig-Spirit-of-Mononoke... Oh and of cos, there's Julie the Pig. She's special, coz I like her so much, I think I'm going to marry her when I grow up. I cant do it now, I'm too young for such things, and as you can see, Julie is so much bigger, I should wait until I build up more. There's actually many more other friends I made on 'The Desk' (cool rite, it's our home!).... I think there's more bears (of all colors, not juz boring pink) than pigs, but it's ok coz they've been pretty friendly so far and i think we're outnumbering soon... There's aso a pink person whom Pig calls 'Yao Yao'... and basically what it does is to just swing its head from left to right... I don't see why Pig bothers to rear something that only disagree with it all day. But then again, i doubt it's living.



It's cooler being a fish. And I mean, a fish like SPeng. It too, can move like Yao Yao, but more freely and gracefully. I've tried tokking to SPeng but due to language barrier, all it managed to get thru to me is that its name is SPeng and that it's gay. SPeng looks hungry most of the time, like Pig. It's so scary when you see a fish eat and eat and eat non stop, I started to get worried it might juz sink to the bottom of its (exclusive) home and never be able to raise again for food.... So anyway, in case SPeng gets bloated to death *touch wod*, I made it a point to take a pic of it for memory sake using my *steady bom pi pi* camera phone ....



It's oredi 5am but as you can see, my place is still happening! Yao Yao is still shaking its head, SPeng floating up and down, the bears having a camp fire while my fellow pigs were having a great time posing for my camera.... and of coz Pig is still pressing the keys of that black thing furiously... Goonz! As far as I can see, the world out there is huge, and by looking out, I can see there's much more creatures out there for me to know. I hope I can move as freely as SPeng one day so I can go out and take a look.... I aso hope to marry Julie one day.... or mabbe not, mabbe I'll get to know more creatures should I be bestowed the fortune to move to another place and find someone better than her.... As for now, I should eat more, grow tall!


Ok, mad Pig doesn't seem like she's going to switch off the light be the sun comes out.... and I should juz stop crapping and try to get some sleep with the glaring 'spot lights'.. darn.... Nitez everyone!


 

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

TIRED!

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Behind every cloud lies a silver lining

i came home feeling extremely tired and demoralised today.... but i saw something on my desk that lifted my spirit up, and i juz couldn't stop smiling at it (damn idiotic i noe)....

hee wanna tok abt it so much but no.... tired... sleepy.... pimpy... shd go sleep... shall blog abt it tml, ppl who read dis today shall b kept in suspense hee... but if ur the one who managed to brighten my day (or rather nite) up, i hate to admit it but dats so damn sweet...

bedtime!

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Adding years of healthy life - NHG

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This is the time of the sem/year when you start to realise your reach home time starts hitting the ten-ish everyday but can't do anything about it beside making sure you catch the last bus home...

This is the time when you start dreaming about not being able to comment properly, programs not looking like what you remember, you having a big bald patch in the middle of ur head... Dreams only morph into weirder and weirder forms, until you really yearn to stay awake...

This is the time of the year when you start skipping meals coz you feel the time taken to get a table, queue for food and finish it can be utilised more efficiently by even writing 1 more line of code...