Feel relieved... At least..

Been a tough weekend for me, obviously cramming for thermo test today. Finally feel so relaxed, lying on my bed, facing my ever beautiful and loving carrie.. Oh ya. carrie just got a boost of RAM today. Now it runs on 3GB ram. So fast and beautiful. Oh and i am duper excited about my Darwin trip. Having just extended the trip by 1 day, i was planning the itinerary but failed because it was so damn hard i swear to god. Everything in Aussie is not rich, its not like planning a trip to Bangkok of Ho Chi Minh City where one feels like he owns the world and is a millionaire.

Renting a stupid sedan car for a day already costs about 200 bucks, and renting a campervan costs about an astonishing 700 bucks, that is excluding all the miscellaneous fees and stuffs. Renting a hostel itself is roughly about 24 bucks a night, compare that to Vietnam's 5USD a night. See the difference? But i guess its all worth it. Frankly speaking, i seriously cannot wait for 4th June to arrive and visit the Northern Territory with my naked eyes. LOL.

Caught in the Middle

Really disappointed with myself... Flunked yet another test. That sets me thinking : How come some people can do well even when they do the minimal and you don't seem to even get close to them even though you spent a countless amount of time on it.

I know this is reality but reality hurts at times. Time management and smart studying is the key i suppose. Cannot finish the test in 2 hrs? You gotta write a hell lot faster than what you did today. Know your stuff and do it well. Result was lousier than expected and it turns out that way. Below mean again. So, i might as well concede defeat in the rat race to the front of the bell curve.

My work hasn't really paid off as it was supposed to be. Constant tutorialing, constant questioning has not kept me above the surface. I am like partially submerged in a sea of complicated physics content which sometimes you think you know but sometimes you think you do not know. Of course, my grades are certainly not somewhere in the middle, just an analogy there.

It's quite sad how one can get poor grades for something that he really likes relative to other modules and get better grades for the less interesting modules. To be frank, i prefer QM than any other PC modules ever taken. It seems that when one likes the module more, the worse he/she performs for it. Maybe i should just start hating QM. But, i reckon it's a bit late. The damage has been done. 2 15% CAs certainly has put some people way ahead of me and it will take a miracle for me to climb all the way up. However, i am not 100% dejected because i believe i can do it in the final exams. Statistics and trend has shown that the worse i do for my CAs, the better i do for my finals. But, this time round, with a very pathetic cohort of 31 people, it seems that the stage has been set for nothing above a B-.

However bad i've done in my test, one must realise that it's not end of the world. Certainly. Exams are a very good avenue to redeem oneself and atone with the mistakes one has made. I am sure i am somewhere in the middle of the cohort but just that sometimes it takes more than just hard work and intellect to judge where you're standing.

Thanks to the 2 CAs i've realised the importance of the final exam and i will definitely strive for the best, not disappointing people who has expectations of me. Most of the stuff have already been revised and now the magical touch is how i am going to perform for the finals. Please, god, help me for this time. Please let me smell a cap of 4 this semester round. Please, please. Nothing beats the realisation of good results when you're away on a holiday. You know i studied and please reward me with fruits i deserve. Thanks!

Engulfing the HDB

sa








Was trying to study and then chanced upon this very nice "engulfing" clouds hanging over the next block.

Coming Soon : 6 days in Yogya

Amidst all the craziness rushing projects, studying for tests and doing the endless stream of undo-able tutorials, there is certainly one thing that is making all these tasks seem more worthy. That is my trip to Indonesia this coming trip. This is part of my plan to visit every single country in SEA before graduation, less laos and those really chaotic places. This time the place of interest would be Yogyakarta. This seems so damn exciting. Imagine me making use of whatever i have learned in NUS. I'm certainly very excited. Even though this time i am going with a group of friends less close compared to those visited Vietnam with me last January, i am quite sure it will be another very memorable holiday trip. Time for me to whip out my camera. Talking about camera, my friend Ruyin made a comment on my passion of photography. She said i'm not passionate about it and also in general, everything that i do. I kind of disagree on that statement and found it a bit unfair on my part. But it's okay. I shall learn to accept every statement people make, people generally don't know me very well. I love photography, and i am very sure many good photos will surface after my trip to Yogya.

I've also learned something very interesting about one of my close friends. It's funny how she is my close friend when i know only 0.2% of her. Can closeness be judged from how much one know the other? To me, yes. That means i do not know her very well. I think that is a pity. Oh ya, her birthday just passed and i was busy searching for a gift. As you would have already known, i am a very calculative person and damn stingy(still trying to change). But when she said she wanted an ipod(after me grilling her for a suggestion), i actually give it a thought! That is certainly very strange! What does it mean? I have been thinking very hard about that but always fail to conclude anything. Maybe if you could help me arrive at an answer, i would appreciate it a lot.

It's 1.11am now as i am typing this sentence. Such a coincidence. Listening to Second chance by Shinedown. What a great song.

Bebas sekali!

Waduh! Saya bebas sekali.. bisa pergi ke jogging dan shopping.. tapi.. ngak pilihan la! harus beli sesuatu dan berlatih untuk ippt. sekarang cape sekali. hee hee hee.

english: tuesdays are good to catch up on work! definitely!

Project report : Indonesian style!

Ini laporan proyek kami, semoga semua yang kunjungi siteku suka!

Live, Breathe and Eat Bahasa

Been ages since i last blogged and i must say i have suffered from Bahasa overdose! I will post more of my bahasa essays and work!

Good things come in pairs

Just when you thought a sprained ankle is bad enough, well, you get another sprained ankle. Yes! After 2 months of not playing, firstly, i re-sprained my right ankle last monday and then... sprained my left ankle today. How am i supposed to take my ippt when such things keep on occurring? Argh, this is disgusting.

About my batam trip with my fellow bi3 friends; it was great! Although i must say it's pretty draining, physically but i really had fun trying to mingle with the locals and also learning more about the culture and lifestyle of the indonesians. However, i must say Singapore has a lot of involvement in the development of Batam, some even say it's actually a Singapore filled with Indonesians. Well, whatever it is, im sure there is something to learn from there.

Well, the trip started off with a bang! A tell-off from the Indonesian immigration officer. I feel so bad for the girls in front while i was out taking a breather. I should be the one taking the scolding rather than them.

I was the chief photographer for the day and i am rather disappointed with the quality of photos taken that day. Maybe it has been some time since i last went on a phototaking spree. Took 300 over photos of which only 100 were presentable. I was so damn tired by the end of the day, guess from the constant handling of the super heavy camera of mine. Sometimes i feel that i should have just kept my Fuji f50 to make things easier for myself.

Saya merasa senang sebab saya pikir saya bisa berhasa BI lebih lancar daripada dulu. Aku berharap bisa ambil bi4 kalau saya kembali dari selandia baru. harus pergi sekarang. Daaag!

Masih Cape

Sudah jam sembilan kurang dua puluh menit, saya baru saja bangun. Tapi, saya masih merasa cape sekali, saya nggak tahu mengapa. Barangkali, cuaca hari baik sekali untuk tidur. Ngomong ngomong, hari ini, saya mengunjungi keluarga besarku di rumah mereka. Kami makan siang dan omong omong mengenai kerjaan dan kehidupan kami. Kami sudah setahun lebih tidak berkumpul. Sepupuku baru melahirkan. Bayimu lucu sekali! Nama dia Julis. Saya berharap bisa berkumpul lebih sering.

Salam,
deo

What story do they tell?

Hot and Cold

Finally went to collect my pay, i cannot say im rich now, but im richer now. But i think i gotta curb my spending a little. My bank's suffering the aftermath of my crazy splurging. The weather's very PMSish, so damn hot in the afternoon but it was way cooler when the sun set. Well, i would prefer the latter cos i easily get headaches in hor weather.

Well, i was watching the travel show on channel u this evening and i somehow feel very relaxed after the host introduced the serenity and peacefulness of these 2 towns in Thailand and India. Life can be so easy and void of the complications in our every day lives. How can one imagine life to be without their cell phones or even their computers? Well, such commodities are considered luxuries that are way out of their reach, their as in those who live in the places. I always have this dream that one day i would put aside all my luxuries and start life like that, how simple it would be.

My computer has been very cooperative ever since i got it back and i'm rather happy with it. Now, i'm able to do my work and carry on my life. Please, do not die on me again.

Signing off,
deo

你到底是谁？

Who exactly are you? I don't know. What are you thinking? I don't know. I don't know anything about you. Yes, it's sad.

Signing off,
deo

Thanks!

My computer has been revived! Thanks a lot! It's like falling in love again!

Physics tUndertaking - Newton's Laws

What causes the apple to fall? Failed internal chips. Yes, the fall of my baby. R.I.P. Life has just suddenly became very empty and i feel lost. I refuse to acknowledge any other computer as my "work station"until i get it revived or i get another apple. But, reviving seems very impossible at this point of time as it refuses to start up and has been giving out weird sounds like it has been swearing at me at how bad i have been treating it. Trust me, i have been very faithful to you, less the times that i've used a windows laptop and also when i accidentally performed newton's experiments with you at the toilet in arts.

I've tried to make up to you by polishing the delicate keyboard of yours every single week, making sure it shines amongst the rest of the species in NUS. Please, bless me with another mac, so that i can resume life like how it was when i first got you. It was so smooth sailing, and hassle free. I just love you. Nothing has been as good as a servant. Rest assure i will never ever forget you, for your elegance and beauty.

Love you,
Andy

Post Vietnam Review

A very big thanks to all who made this trip very successful. Even though we did not plan much prior to the trip, i must say everything well quite smoothly. Thanks to Lijuan and Jelvin, who really planned their asses off at the travel agencies. To be frank, i would never have expected a trip like that with my NUS friends, mainly because i thought i would never get so close to my NUS friends as compared to my other friends. Thank goodness i met great people like those who spent my 6 days in vietnam. Through the hot and the cold, we had tremendously loads of fun and i also managed to really know my friends better. Thanks to the trip also, i can say that i made a bit of improvements in my photog, testing out panning shots and also with remote flash. Ok, shall not talk so much about photog.

Next holidays would be even more exciting! Most likely should be visiting Amanda in KL and then (also likely) to Indonesia for CIP. Finally, if nothing gets in the way, my exchange to New Zealand! Yeeeeha! Ok, enough enough, to pay tribute to our trip, here are some photos!

First Wedding Attempt

Art

In the back lanes of...

After so damn long, finally out in the street snapping away......wasn't an intentional shoot, just that i wanted to check if my sensor had dust, so i 顺便 took a few pictures!

Singapore Cancer Society Shoot Continuation