Unwind a bit

Feels great to spend some time unwinding. Just finished my maths paper today and.... HOOORAAY!!! NO MORE MATHS PAPERS IN SP!!! WWEE!!! Yes, that was the last math paper in my course. Finally! I am FREE!! Temporarily.... Until I need to go Uni or some prep course. Dang.

The paper wasn't too tough. I realised I lost a few marks here n there. But no worries, I should pass it without too much of a hitch. No more statistics, graph theory, Gauss Elimination or Vectors. Won't be seeing them for a long time!

The paper ended at 8pm, and I was damn hungry. Nessa was having some steamboat at her place and invited me, but unfortunately.. thanks to my stupid exam schedule, I had to miss out on her mom's culinary expertise. It turned out to be a "good" thing after all, cos her steamboat dinner turned out to be an all girls event. Now, I'd think I'd have some difficulties trying to match conversations about make up, and other girly topics.

So, I was cold, hungry, and annoyed at the crazy old man who shoos people away from sitting near him cos he claims to have a fever. He looks like a pyscho to me. Picked up the phone and managed to get Sue out for dinner at AMK Central. Good to see that she's still optimistic about life in general, and that she's settled into a more permanent position in her company.

Chatted til 11.30 or so before heading home. Got home, showered and spent most of my time glued to Discovery channel, NatGeo and anime. Really love spending late nights watching documentaries. They've really got some informative stuff lined up at these ridiculous hours. There's 2 that caught my attention particular.

1st one was about Robo-Human. Its on how humans will one day become technologically enhanced by all sorts of biotechnology, making us stronger, smarter, and more connected. Theres really all sorts of interesting development into this field of biotechnology enhancements. Like the nanobot assisted red blood cell. According to them, we just need 10% of these enhanced red blood cells to benefit from the increase of physical prowess. Perhaps it was an exaggerated statement, but I quote, "With 10% of these red blood cells, we'd be able to run an olympic marathon before taking a single breath." Amazing!

Unfortunately, the major concern was that the nanobots for such an enhancement could wipe out the human race, if not all life on earth in 25 years, if is self-reproduction capability wasn't restrained or shut off.

There lots of other bio-enhancements planned for humans as well. And it really seems that we are living in an exciting era. Never has humanity had so much control of the future human evolution.

Another nice program on Discovery channel was Miami Ink. Its about tattoos. And boy they really featured some really nice ink jobs. They weren't just the crappy, ordinary ah beng ink job u find on the streets of thugs everywhere. They were really really pieces of art. I mean, some of them were soooo beautiful that I seriously considered getting inked. Of course, my parents would kill me first.

Aights. Bed time... Good nigh...- listening to the rain... 4:02 AM 0 comments

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No day, no night.

The past 3 days has been quite tiring. I've covered this terms worth of stats in 3 days. Yes, yes... I should have went for the lectures and tutorials so I don't have to kill myself with this emergency mugging.

Can't help it lar... the damn maths tutorials start at 8 in the bloody morning. Even if I could wake up to attend it, I won't get there on time thanks to crappy ol 74. Stupid bus always comes packed full of ppl and I cant get on. ARRRR!!

That aside. My maths paper is at 6pm later... Pray for me, that I'd do well despite my lack of preparation and undisciplined studying lifestyle. As I suspected, this year has been a snoozing year. Hardly studied this year, except for exams and stuff. I bet i'm gonna forget whatever I learnt clean once these exams are over.


Anyways, been doing some thinking again. Yes, thats my hobby... thinking.

Have I been too nice to people? That firstly, they take me for granted, always expecting that I'd say things in the nicest ways, that I wouldn't react too badly? Is it right, to shield them from the temper or criticism that they really deserve? Sometimes, being candid and harsh can awaken some of these dreamy fools to gravity and reality of their situation and their erred ways.

No, being polite and nice isn't always right.

Then again, being impolite, curt, and harsh doesn't always work either. People like that Charlie Kilo from the club doesn't seem to get it into their thick skull that they've gotten themselves in my bad books. Somehow, his skin is so thick that even after showing my obvious displeasure towards his presence around me, he'd still "hover" behind me when I'm doing my work or playing games. It further aggravates the annoyance when he opens his yapper to make remarks of little thought.

Oh man... people like him won't get it whether I'm nice or not. What a test of patience.

*PS* I use the word "hover" cos thats what he's like, a ghost. He'd just hover behind people to look over their shoulders. listening to the rain... 2:22 AM 0 comments

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Distress Call

Mayday Mayday Mayday!
This is Anthony,
On the brink of destruction.
Statistics are Killing me.
Require immediate evacuation.
I have 2 other module's papers to take
Headaches getting more n more frequent, and in intensity.
Over. listening to the rain... 12:21 AM 0 comments

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Its hurting again... Time's almost up ain't it? listening to the rain... 1:57 AM 0 comments

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PrrraaaTaaa!

Sunday was fabulous! Went out with Nessa and Amanda after service for dinner. Went to the prata place @ gardens and ordered like almost $16 of prata between the 3 of us. Shiok sia!

I've tried their usual pratas before, but their special pratas was a mouth watering experience. I had a plaster, mushroom & cheese, and banana prata. IMO, they were all good, just a lil oily. But hey... Prata is all about oil wad.

After a round of prata, we ordered a black pepper crab to try out. The store is run by one of my ex-campmate's dad. Not too bad. Maybe alright to try the bigger crabs next time round.

After the prata and crab, we went over to IceCube to get some deserts. Shared like 2 mudpies. The desserts at ICEcube are actually not too shabby! Especially their alcoholic mudpie thing. Its basically rum & raisin mudpie lar... hahah. The magic is in the raisin. While digging around in the mudpie, i discovered that much of the rum taste was actually from the soft bloated raisins embedded inside. Pop one in the mouth, squish it, and the flavor of rum would just burst out. YUMM!!


Its been quite panicky the last few days. I nearly missed the internal competition cos i couldnt' wake up. Then I nearly missed this morning's MMDT quiz. It was like WTF!! Take Cab and rush to school.... now my pocket's smelling a lil toasted.

Ahhhh.... I can feel a reprieve coming soon. listening to the rain... 12:32 AM 0 comments

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The light at the end of the tunnel.

Yes... I can see it. Its almost within reach!!! I completed my bluetooth project by nothing short of a miracle. Managed to talk to the right people and got the right inspiration to come up with something. Thank God!!

Now all I have to do is prepare the dreamweaver exercise, show Mr Seah, Study for Math quiz and exam, study for dreamweaver quiz, mug for Boating Theory exam, and I'll get through this coming week in one piece. Geee... that almost sounds easy.

Had a good shoot at training today. I was late for the internal competition and missed 2 ends of it by the time I arrived. Naturally my score was horrible lar. Strangely, I had to shoot against Clement for the first round of elimination. I never had any hope of winning this competition, so I wasn't particularly stressed in my shoot with him.

Didn't manage to do the "improbable", that is knocking him out. Was only disappointed that I didn't even come close. I've still got a long way to go.

As usual, with some warm up, I was shooting better at training time. Got my nice central groupings in High reds and yellows of the board. My chief concern now is my lack of concentration in shots. I've got this tendency to think too much and fumble up my shots. Not something easy to work on, but I might have an idea how.

Instead of focusing on not thinking too much and concentrate on the shooting, I'd exercise a LOT Of thinking while at targeting phase. The idea is to get used to stray thoughts, thoughts on form problems etc, and learn to negate their effect on my shooting. In other words, in training, I'll learn to embrace and tackle the problem of "thought" discipline, overcome it, instead of running away from it!

Sounds damn idealistic right? Well, if it works, I think its gonna raise me up one notch in terms of mental discipline. Next week, we shall see. =D listening to the rain... 11:43 PM 0 comments

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Feeling of impending doom

I've slogged and slogged and slogged for my J2ME project... and so far, nothing works. Really feel like crying liao...

I'm gonna try to make another desperate attempt to re-do some parts. Hopefully it'll work this time... Hopefully.

Thinking of which riser I should buy for my bow upgrade. Hoyt Nexus does really sound good, but dunno how it feels. Arghh... decisions decisions, and all about spending money. listening to the rain... 1:01 AM 0 comments

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Good competition.

Our Standard class girls did it again. The girls managed to snag the 2nd and 3rd position for the Team event, and Shimin and Kailing came in 1st and 3rd for individual score respectively. What can I say, the girls are deadeyes! =D

C-class guys did excellent too. First for team event and Guolong coming in 6th position.

The team i was in somehow actually got into the Team Event today, but got knocked out at the first round. I wasn't too disappointed, but I am very frustrated with a particular bugger's attitude. Lets just call him "Dexter" for now.

After today's shoot, I got the 3 of us together to review on what we did right and wrong for this competition. I was already very annoyed at Dexter's unprepared equipment for the competition and I took the opportunity to address this. And I made sure i did it directly but nicely, meaning I was objective with the criticism.

The point I put across was this. To me, Performance is made up of Results and Attitude. The 2 factors constitute performance in my opinion. Being unprepared for the competition, like not preparing the string, fletching and marking the arrows, etc are very negative reflections of a person's attitude towards the competition. And that constitutes poor performance. And that was basically what I put across, except I was a bit nicer, and said that those are things we can do better and improve on the next time round.

Unfortunately, Dexter demonstrates a stuck up and arrogant attitude towards this review. After the chat, he went and bitch about it to Timothy. He says, "He (meaning me) doesnt have the right to criticise me like this. " Oh how I wish he said that in front of my face. I'd have gone ahead and really give him a verbal whooping he deserves.

Who does he think he is that he should only be criticised by people senior to him? Is he a Prince, a Royalty, a King, a Diplomat's son, Minister's Son? Nope nope nope and nope. The only people who thinks that no one can criticise them except people senior to them are called... "LOSERS."

Fact: Anyone can get criticised by anyone and everyone. Like it or not, even a beggar can criticise a CEO. However, not being able to analyse the criticism, to seek if it is indeed valid, is foolish. And to choose not to learn from such valid criticsm, is what we call Losers. People who will not go anywhere because they choose not to learn.

So yes, In my honest opinion, Dexter is shown loser characteristics.

I wish I'd never have to shoot with him in any competition until he's changed his loser mindset and attitude. He's shitlisted big time and even the juniors can't find any respect for him. Sad situation to be.

**Disclaimer**
You don't have to learn everything from everybody. Eg, I have no interest to evaluate or take advice from ANYBODY on how to play the piano, since I have no interest in playing the piano in the first place. listening to the rain... 11:35 PM 0 comments

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Sembawang Archery Competition Day 1

The morning started out a drag... Hafiz had to give me a morning call to make sure I was up... and his morning call nearly failed to awaken me. Fortunately... I was annoy to consciousness by the Death Note ring tone on my mobile phone and got up.

Headed out to Sembawang at 0615 in the morning. Ran into BK on the bus... At that point of time, I kept asking myself, "Why am I up so early in the morning when my event is at 12pm."

By 7pm, I was asking, "Why did i reach by 7am to wait until 7pm for my event?" Yes babes... I spent a whole 12 hour waiting and my event was a whole 7 hours late. Precisely what kinda funny worm crawled through the organizer's head, that caused them to shoot TWO details before scoring... I don't know. But IMO, thats what caused the delays.

Waiting for 12 hours is nothing big complain about.... but unfortunately, a bad choice of breakfast saw me hitting the toilet throughout the whole 12 hours. And unfortunately, i didn't carry any medication for the shits with me. Argh!

As if that wasn't frustrating enough, our "dear" teammate frustrated the hell out of me. I really don't want to say anything nasty to him today, and had to hold myself back countless of times. Tomorrow.. after the last arrow, I really feel like bombing him liao. I don't even want to talk to him, but unfortunately he's in my team. listening to the rain... 11:10 PM 0 comments

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Awful

Things aren't good.

I haven't managed to make any progress on the bluetooth remote control program for J2ME. In English, it means i'd most likely fail my module if I can't miraculously get it to work.

Yes, my quarter century birthday has passed. A rather quiet birthday, if not for a little surprise... My family actually remembered. Every year, it'll just pass by quietly, only to be realized a week later. This year, there was actually a lil cake and a small get together.

A bit edgy and easily irritable lately. Stupid FYP arrangements pretty much removed my participation from the project I already confirmed to be in. Now I gotta explain to that supervising lecturer what just happened, AND Look for a new FYP group, AND a new project.

Thanks for messing this one up, SP. You really made my day............worse.

I'm frustrated and a bit lost. ARGH! listening to the rain... 10:49 PM 0 comments

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Goodbye 2006, Hello... 2007.

My my, what a year it has been. It feels as though the entire world changed within the span of 365 days.

January 2006:

• Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon suffers from stroke.
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February 2006:

• More terrorism. This time, target was a Shiite Mosque in Iraq. Yes, I know what you're thinking... "WTF" right?


• Alleged coup in Philippines, state of emergency declared.

March 2006:

More terrorism. 3 explosions, India. 15 killed.

Former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic dies in an apparent heart attack in his detention cell in the Hague.

US Navy strikes off the world's last 2 remaining Battleships from their naval register. Thus ends the age of Battleships

April 2006:

• More terrorism. 9 killed in a blast in Tel Aviv


• Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months of coma


• Iran announces it would not move Uranium enrichment activities to Russia

May 2006:

• 6.3 Earthquake in Java, Indonesia. Kills 6000, injures 36,000, and 1.5 million homeless


• FC Barcelona wins UEFA Champions League over Arsenal

June 2006:

• 17 terrorist arrested in Canada, over plot to conduct bombings in various targets in Greater Toronto Area


• Israel begins large scale military action, Operation Summer Rain in Gaza

July 2006:

• North Korea test fires 7 missiles capable of delivering nuclear payload. World holds its breath as most appear to be launch failures.


• Israel invades Lebanon after 2 of its soldiers were kidnapped by the Hezbollah.


• Italy wins World Cup

August 2006:

• UN resolution and ceasefire takes effect in the recent Israel-Lebanon(or rather, Hezbollah) conflict

September 2006:

• Michael Schumacher announces retirement at end of 2006


• Pope Benedict XVI accidentally criticises Islam, sparking off protests and churches being burnt down.


• Thai Army stages coup, Thaksin over thrown while away. Lucky.

October 2006:

• North Korea conducts its first nuclear test. Mini-nuke, cos hardly anyone really felt it.

November 2006:

• Saddam and friends sentenced to death by Iraqi courts (not the superstore)


• Ex KGB Spy is assassinated in London, by means of radioactive material./li>
  
• Windows VISTA released

December 2006:

• The Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Claims that the Holocaust never happened.


• Saddam Hussein executed.

What a screwed up year it has been, and these are only the ones that made the headlines. Heh.

I wonder how bad will 2007 be? listening to the rain... 12:48 AM 0 comments

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody! Wish u guys a fruitful and successful year ahead! Don't forget to have fun and enjoy the year ahead.

Just got back from BREAKOUT 2007 countdown party at Expo. It was a retro themed party, so almost everybody was dressed up in Retro style clothes. Really funny lar, the whole bunch of us were doing those silly 70s and 80s disco moves with the music. (BUT NO CHICKEN DANCE!)

Alright, time for me to go wash up and enjoy a good nights rest for the first night of the new year. May it represent a year of adequate rest. =D listening to the rain... 2:16 AM 0 comments

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