edit edit edit. kinda puttin stuff in n out. the source codes were quite messy so i had to readjust them for simplicity's sake. quite ok for now. nice presentation, etc.
kay... shearer signed a new contract tt'll keep him at newcastle till end of 04-05 campaign. he might retire after tt, bringin an end to his illustrious career. he'll b a goal scorer not to b forgotten. a whole new spotlight is being highlighted upon the successor to england's 9, wayne rooney for now, but let shearer hav his time for now. in the next 2 yrs tt he has, he surely wants to bring at least a cup to his home town club. tt'll b a great endin to his career. i mean, tt's the dream of any boy who grows up supportin a club. mayb he might succeed sir bobby robson as manager, most probably. i think he's the long term guy for the gaffer's job. i'm lookin forward to the future. for now, any sort of fantasy glory can b achieved only by playin CM4. i've brought them glory, tt i remember. a championship after... 80 odd years..! tt'll b sweet when it becomes reality.
talkin bt wayne rooney, his club, everton will b playin newcastle this saturday at goodison park. clashe of titans tt is. the new england no 9 vs the retired england no 9. plus, there r quite a number of ex newcastle players currently playin in everton too. pistone, ferguson and watson used to play superbly for newcastle. newcastle hav started out miserably so far this season n this is the first match tt i wont get to watch this season. hope they kick start with a bang, but everton r quite gd. fingers crossed for another victory march for the Toon Army.
did physics n maths today. had maths tuition, clarified whatever i could from the prelims booklet. i can sit for maths C p2 more or less now, but i wont do well. juz tt i can do more or less. SA papers r damn tough as we all know by now. so yea. did ACJC phy prelim 02, damn, i pity those guys. it was so confusin! even the simplest of them were so tough n all. or is it my lack of preparation. i've gotta do them tomorrow again to consolidate. if not, there wont even b a gd result for prelims. phy is the one i'm counting on.
theres the mid autumn festival thing at HCJC tomorrow, junli told me last nite. i was quite impressed wif it last yr n am goin this time too. i only hoped tt this exam thing was off my back, so tt i wont hav any lingerin thoughts at the back of my head tt'll keep botherin me. i'm not sure who else will b there, gonna ask couple more ppl tomorrow. most prob everyone's muggin so they might choose not to go. i'd say, take a break. we're all killin our brains out.
at the end of tuition, my tutor showed me wat she (she does elec engin in NUS) was doin in her lab. she showed this electrical circuit tt was part of a remote in makin remote controlled car. i remember long time ago i used to assemble those stuff n make cars or models. cool! i can do them again n this time learn about it! now there's somethin cool to look forward to if i decide to do elec engin. she said last yr was stopwatch, this yr, at the expense of 150 or somethin, remote controlled car. i havent done electrical assemblin since my days in UWC when we made a electrical dice, n tt was quite cool too.
wat else... nothin much else i guess. o johnny cash died. he's a country supremo, havent heard his song, but mayb i might now. at least try them out. never bothered to listen to country seriously, but i'll giv it a shot. tried ZZ Top yesterday. everyone will recognise their 'La Grange' tt was absolute classic of wat u call 70s rock. u can listen to tt one over n over again. it jus sounds too gd.
been readin Alex Ferguson's autobiography when i go to sleep n hav some free time. i'm at a part where he finally retires from professional playin. he's about to go to management. his playin carrer, most ppl dunno bt this, is quite interestin. most think he never had a gd playin carrer, but he was top scorer wif rangers n other clubs in some seasons. he never actually won any competition by playin, gettin v close to it, but we all know wat happened after he went into management. its providin me gd company coz i got difficulty goin to sleep. but its a gd read. i'll definately go buy n read wat shearer or sir bobby has to say about their careers.. it kinda tempted me to go try the scottish league in CM4 which is predominantly conquered by rangers or celtic. but its amazin how those two can continue competin wif eachother.
talkin bt clubs, i'm happy tt fiorentina finally got off to their serie B campaign. on their way back to serie A where they used ot belong. but its gonna b tough. v tough. skippin a division is no mean feat. but i think they can do it. they must b the most loyally supported n high profile club outside of italy's top divison. of cuz the only guy remainin after the disaster is di livio, but he's gonna b instrumental in bring the club forward. they drew against triestina 1-1 for their first official match.
now i've got two clubs i'm keepin my eyes on except newcaslte. fiorentina and west ham. west ham's another nightmare, wif em in div 1 now in england, but i think they'll do enough to get a play off berth. they're doin ok at the moment, so we'll see how the season progresses.
a v football oriented blog today, but tts the only thing tt keeps me alive while i bury myself in the sadness of revision.
Friday, September 12, 2003
Thursday, September 11, 2003
a new look! yes yes. been dreadin tt bright orange colour trynna figure out how i could change. but gone r the days when i used to play around wif HTML codes from scratch n make my own website. now ppl juz seem to copy n paste HTML codes n put all sort of rubbish into em. n there! u hav a very good lookin website or in this case, blog. i used to b able to see wat some parts meant n how it influences, those things r very rusty skill to me now. juz trynna shift this here n there seemed awful lot of job to me. ah well. if i decide to do computer science or computer engineerin, i gotta learn some more codes like C++ n Java again! my god, the days of memorisin is still there to haunt me.
k.. wat did i do.. except changin this look tt has not yet been completed... o, yes, burnt all those data into CDs today. All the Punk'D, BMW Films as well as the remainin Friends episodes. So technically i've got the whole Friends Season 9 burnt off, as well as Season 1 of MTV Punk'D and all BMW Films. Since i've burnt them, no point keepin the files in my hard disk rite? so i decided to delete em. i took a look how much data i burnt. 3.25GB!! My god. i deleted couple of other files i dont use anymore n it amounted to 3.75GB. man, tt's almost the full capacity of my old PC. Goodness how times hav changed eh. so much stuff.
well, as usual, not much stuff happenin except for studyin n all these miscellaneous stuff tt i do durin the breaks. someone give me life...
k.. wat did i do.. except changin this look tt has not yet been completed... o, yes, burnt all those data into CDs today. All the Punk'D, BMW Films as well as the remainin Friends episodes. So technically i've got the whole Friends Season 9 burnt off, as well as Season 1 of MTV Punk'D and all BMW Films. Since i've burnt them, no point keepin the files in my hard disk rite? so i decided to delete em. i took a look how much data i burnt. 3.25GB!! My god. i deleted couple of other files i dont use anymore n it amounted to 3.75GB. man, tt's almost the full capacity of my old PC. Goodness how times hav changed eh. so much stuff.
well, as usual, not much stuff happenin except for studyin n all these miscellaneous stuff tt i do durin the breaks. someone give me life...
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
'Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.'
compared to yesterday, today was quite, n i might emphasize on the 'quite' tt it was more or less a boring day. woke up to realise pain on my chest, i knew it was coz of the work out yesterday coz i didnt intend to train my upper body, hence, i didnt stretch it. i only stretched my calves n my thighs, so.. yea... so took another hour to sleep before i finally woke up for good. my usual thang, breakfast, readin paper, etc. i did maths for a while. i hate it when u do the question n u dont get the answer n u cant find out how to get it. they only show the final answer n no workin so i'm left to figure out for
myself. yea, i'm talkin bt the jc prelims questions now. A level ones r easier. i'm quite behind schedule. i should hav started my physics today, but was still unsure bt my maths, so continued doin tt. i gotta start phy tomorrow. phy revision should b quite straightforward but im quite scared of the prelim paper next wk. from how it sounds like, its really gonna b tough. i should make it through.
tt was pretty much for the day. didnt play soccer coz of the chest. i've finally finished downloadin all of MTV Punk'd episodes. I think the best punk'd ones were Justin Timberlake, Wilmar Valderrama, Jessica Biel, Pink and Seth Green. Gonna burn em into CD as data n store it. I've also gotta burn the BMW Films which r excellent stuff.
talkin bt storin stuff on the CD, i used to download whole set of songs of artists. i used to download every single song i can find from tt particular artist coz i would listen to them over n over again. i think the list of em include 112, Brian McKnight, Maxwell, Goo Goo Dolls, Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira n some more. n most recently Sean Paul. I'll listen to all their songs over n over n then finally filter out the good ones n delete the rest. Most of these artists remain some of my favourite ones yet.
yea tts pretty much it for today. crappy eh. wat can i do...
compared to yesterday, today was quite, n i might emphasize on the 'quite' tt it was more or less a boring day. woke up to realise pain on my chest, i knew it was coz of the work out yesterday coz i didnt intend to train my upper body, hence, i didnt stretch it. i only stretched my calves n my thighs, so.. yea... so took another hour to sleep before i finally woke up for good. my usual thang, breakfast, readin paper, etc. i did maths for a while. i hate it when u do the question n u dont get the answer n u cant find out how to get it. they only show the final answer n no workin so i'm left to figure out for
myself. yea, i'm talkin bt the jc prelims questions now. A level ones r easier. i'm quite behind schedule. i should hav started my physics today, but was still unsure bt my maths, so continued doin tt. i gotta start phy tomorrow. phy revision should b quite straightforward but im quite scared of the prelim paper next wk. from how it sounds like, its really gonna b tough. i should make it through.
tt was pretty much for the day. didnt play soccer coz of the chest. i've finally finished downloadin all of MTV Punk'd episodes. I think the best punk'd ones were Justin Timberlake, Wilmar Valderrama, Jessica Biel, Pink and Seth Green. Gonna burn em into CD as data n store it. I've also gotta burn the BMW Films which r excellent stuff.
talkin bt storin stuff on the CD, i used to download whole set of songs of artists. i used to download every single song i can find from tt particular artist coz i would listen to them over n over again. i think the list of em include 112, Brian McKnight, Maxwell, Goo Goo Dolls, Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira n some more. n most recently Sean Paul. I'll listen to all their songs over n over n then finally filter out the good ones n delete the rest. Most of these artists remain some of my favourite ones yet.
yea tts pretty much it for today. crappy eh. wat can i do...
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
'in the absence of security
i made my way into the night
stupid cupid keeps on calling me
but i see nothing in his eyes
i miss my baby
i miss my baby, oh yeah'
alrite... quite interestin day today compared to the past few days. as usual, woke up at 0930, started a little stats revision once again. i was goin to junwen's place at 1 before he left for tokyo tonight. so after havin my lunch n let my computer download MTV Punk'd episodes while i was gone, i made my way to his place. wat i didnt hav in mind was tt junwen n mike, who joined us little later on, were goin to gym at his estate n work out. since i didnt hav much of a choice n didnt hav anythin else to do, i decided i join em for some work out myself. i only got one thing on my mind when it comes to work out, my lower half of body. unlike my upper body, which is not developed, my lower half rather is bulky for my small body. prob coz of a lot of quick movements wif soccer. so i was juz thinkin of trainin my thigh, calf n quadraceps. n a little runnin, which i havent done in a long while. a good workout it was today. started wit thigh excercise, then to quadraceps. junwen taught me some basic stuff for upper body coz he told me the body grows together so i cant juz build on my lower half. then i ran the cycle for 5km, even though i originally intended for 10km, seein tt the place was quite borin, i couldnt go on without good music n scenary. 10km would hav been a mental test as well. then i rather warmed down by running 1 km. i've more or less lost my stamina ever since the SARS break when 2.4km was a east 10-11 mins thing. now its 12-13, which isnt good. once i go to uni, i'm gonna make fitness my own hobby. i could feel it while i was workin out today. of cuz, one off things like these doesnt do any good nor harm, so i gotta do quite often once i'm there. coz in US, if u dont do anythin, u juz gain weight so easily. its so easy i tell u. its the food. even my uncle told me tt. i'm gonna make 2.4 a regular, n then move up to 5km, or even 20-30 min run. it'll keep me fit n i'll b havin somethin to do. being in leadership position since forever, i've realised it takes a lot of time off my own time. so i wont b joinin student government or council at all in the US. besides, i dont wanna b occupied with anythin at all tt'll keep me away from consolidatin my GPA which will b very crucial. mayb the most i might do is joinin intramural or varsity soccer. but i dont feel good bt the obligation to go trainin. i wanna do at my own pace, at my own time.
yea, then was at junwen's place for while, talkin crap, n then made short trip to orchard while junwen got some CDs to burn. went home, played soccer, stopped playin much after realisin i was pushin my body a little too much for the day.
my cousin came over for the night, he's here from bangladesh on business. he's one of the oldest one tt i can talk to. there r lotsa older ones but i'm not really on talkin terms, more like i dont know them that well. he's real funny n all. he'll b stayin here till sunday, so he'll b comin over to my place almost every night, i hope.
yea, tt's pretty much it... i'm rather exhausted by all the workouts so takin a little earlier sleep today. chill out fellas..
i made my way into the night
stupid cupid keeps on calling me
but i see nothing in his eyes
i miss my baby
i miss my baby, oh yeah'
alrite... quite interestin day today compared to the past few days. as usual, woke up at 0930, started a little stats revision once again. i was goin to junwen's place at 1 before he left for tokyo tonight. so after havin my lunch n let my computer download MTV Punk'd episodes while i was gone, i made my way to his place. wat i didnt hav in mind was tt junwen n mike, who joined us little later on, were goin to gym at his estate n work out. since i didnt hav much of a choice n didnt hav anythin else to do, i decided i join em for some work out myself. i only got one thing on my mind when it comes to work out, my lower half of body. unlike my upper body, which is not developed, my lower half rather is bulky for my small body. prob coz of a lot of quick movements wif soccer. so i was juz thinkin of trainin my thigh, calf n quadraceps. n a little runnin, which i havent done in a long while. a good workout it was today. started wit thigh excercise, then to quadraceps. junwen taught me some basic stuff for upper body coz he told me the body grows together so i cant juz build on my lower half. then i ran the cycle for 5km, even though i originally intended for 10km, seein tt the place was quite borin, i couldnt go on without good music n scenary. 10km would hav been a mental test as well. then i rather warmed down by running 1 km. i've more or less lost my stamina ever since the SARS break when 2.4km was a east 10-11 mins thing. now its 12-13, which isnt good. once i go to uni, i'm gonna make fitness my own hobby. i could feel it while i was workin out today. of cuz, one off things like these doesnt do any good nor harm, so i gotta do quite often once i'm there. coz in US, if u dont do anythin, u juz gain weight so easily. its so easy i tell u. its the food. even my uncle told me tt. i'm gonna make 2.4 a regular, n then move up to 5km, or even 20-30 min run. it'll keep me fit n i'll b havin somethin to do. being in leadership position since forever, i've realised it takes a lot of time off my own time. so i wont b joinin student government or council at all in the US. besides, i dont wanna b occupied with anythin at all tt'll keep me away from consolidatin my GPA which will b very crucial. mayb the most i might do is joinin intramural or varsity soccer. but i dont feel good bt the obligation to go trainin. i wanna do at my own pace, at my own time.
yea, then was at junwen's place for while, talkin crap, n then made short trip to orchard while junwen got some CDs to burn. went home, played soccer, stopped playin much after realisin i was pushin my body a little too much for the day.
my cousin came over for the night, he's here from bangladesh on business. he's one of the oldest one tt i can talk to. there r lotsa older ones but i'm not really on talkin terms, more like i dont know them that well. he's real funny n all. he'll b stayin here till sunday, so he'll b comin over to my place almost every night, i hope.
yea, tt's pretty much it... i'm rather exhausted by all the workouts so takin a little earlier sleep today. chill out fellas..
Monday, September 08, 2003
here we go for today...
woke up at right time, had quick breakfast n off i went to do my maths for the day. similar to my preparation for the P1 that ended last wk, i start wif the actual A Level papers tt my maths tutor Mrs Wong gave me. She said I hav poor foundation, so better start doin the A Level questions which r rather straightforward. I agree, i do hav poor foundation n i'm thankful that Mrs Wong took concern in me to give me help tt i desperately need at this time. I was rather surprised at the actual standard of the A Levels is not tt high. coz, me, being quite bad at Maths C, can do more or less all the questions in the A Level papers that I was given (from Nov 96 paper to Nov 2000) So i was like, damn, did my studyin durin the past few weeks really come into effect or wat? so i finished more or less wat i was given, only for paper 1 at that time, n decided to move on to the conpiled JC Prelim papers that was given to us by the school. How wrong I was to assume i had improved. the JC papers r so much fuckin tougher than the A Level ones! I mean, think, i can answer most of A Level questions, but i get stuck n cant do anythin for the JC Papers! That's how hard JC Prelims are set! But yea, i tried my best for tt not to hold me back, so i did those that i was gd at, then moved on bit by bit to those tougher ones. proud to say, i've improved quite a lot by the time i was done doin various questions randomly. I know understand that because of such high standard, everyone does well in the end, coz throughout the 2 yrs, or one n a half to b exact, we get screwed up side down, not forgettin left n right as well! by the time i was done wif my MC Paper 1, the tryin outs paid off coz i did better than i expected to.. so.. yea, i decided to repeat the procedure for my prep for Paper 2. Now, paper 2 is mostly consistin of stats. stats meaning Statistics. the questions r more interestin compared to pure maths syllabus (o, juz for those who dont know, stats is an option, the other options being Mechanics n applied maths, i wish i could at least learn mechanics n see wat it was about) coz its mostly things like probability n all which apply to real life. so the questions r interestin n its methods r pretty much standard, only tt there r quite a few ways. so revision was fun in a way u werent juz tryin to solve questions n all.
while doin tt, i was downloadin MTV Punk'd episodes from KaZaa. Its just so damn funny. Punkin Justin Timberlake was the best coz he was so buyin the shit tt Ashton Kutcher had set up. I saw couple of other ones includin Mandy Moore, Wilmer Valderrama, Jessica Alba, etc. So in between the breaks tt i take while i studied, i watched those clips. good stuff, i must say.
yea, tt's pretty much it. days dont get any interestin when u're revisin, but those days r only couple of months to last. good days r comin soon.
woke up at right time, had quick breakfast n off i went to do my maths for the day. similar to my preparation for the P1 that ended last wk, i start wif the actual A Level papers tt my maths tutor Mrs Wong gave me. She said I hav poor foundation, so better start doin the A Level questions which r rather straightforward. I agree, i do hav poor foundation n i'm thankful that Mrs Wong took concern in me to give me help tt i desperately need at this time. I was rather surprised at the actual standard of the A Levels is not tt high. coz, me, being quite bad at Maths C, can do more or less all the questions in the A Level papers that I was given (from Nov 96 paper to Nov 2000) So i was like, damn, did my studyin durin the past few weeks really come into effect or wat? so i finished more or less wat i was given, only for paper 1 at that time, n decided to move on to the conpiled JC Prelim papers that was given to us by the school. How wrong I was to assume i had improved. the JC papers r so much fuckin tougher than the A Level ones! I mean, think, i can answer most of A Level questions, but i get stuck n cant do anythin for the JC Papers! That's how hard JC Prelims are set! But yea, i tried my best for tt not to hold me back, so i did those that i was gd at, then moved on bit by bit to those tougher ones. proud to say, i've improved quite a lot by the time i was done doin various questions randomly. I know understand that because of such high standard, everyone does well in the end, coz throughout the 2 yrs, or one n a half to b exact, we get screwed up side down, not forgettin left n right as well! by the time i was done wif my MC Paper 1, the tryin outs paid off coz i did better than i expected to.. so.. yea, i decided to repeat the procedure for my prep for Paper 2. Now, paper 2 is mostly consistin of stats. stats meaning Statistics. the questions r more interestin compared to pure maths syllabus (o, juz for those who dont know, stats is an option, the other options being Mechanics n applied maths, i wish i could at least learn mechanics n see wat it was about) coz its mostly things like probability n all which apply to real life. so the questions r interestin n its methods r pretty much standard, only tt there r quite a few ways. so revision was fun in a way u werent juz tryin to solve questions n all.
while doin tt, i was downloadin MTV Punk'd episodes from KaZaa. Its just so damn funny. Punkin Justin Timberlake was the best coz he was so buyin the shit tt Ashton Kutcher had set up. I saw couple of other ones includin Mandy Moore, Wilmer Valderrama, Jessica Alba, etc. So in between the breaks tt i take while i studied, i watched those clips. good stuff, i must say.
yea, tt's pretty much it. days dont get any interestin when u're revisin, but those days r only couple of months to last. good days r comin soon.
Sunday, September 07, 2003
kay... spent pretty much the whole day downloadin n sortin out the music library in my computer. i dont keep music forever. there'll b time where i listen quite frequently, n once tt stops, where i hardly play the song, i delete it. i dont see any point in keepin it. unless its like a smash smash hit. n if at any case, if i suddenly start thinkin bt the song, i'll juz download it again. but i might need to download every single song i know after my A levels. y? coz once i go to uni, n in american uni, students r forbidden to use any file sharin software, as far as i know. students who apply for in dorm connection in Yale has to go for a lecture tt briefs students about downloadin coz quite a lot of unis make up majority of the percentage of law cases regardin music piracy. this takin into consideration the amount of power students hav wif college cable, tt's so much faster than even home cable lines. so wat i'm proposin to myself, is tt i download every single song i ever heard of, n burn them as data CD n build a massive library of music, so tt if i ever hav to come across any feelin tt says 'i feel like listenin to tt song now,' all i gotta do is access the library, n voila! i've got em. i wont b able to download music from dorm so i gotta make do wif tt.
yea, so i'll b doin tt after my A's. but for today, downloaded a lot of reggae. I juz love Sean Paul's voice, so i downloaded whatever i could find that had his name. the new single out in the music market now is his collboration wif beyonce knowles in 'baby boy' sounds v nice when he sings coz he raps so fast n so rhythmically.
after tt, i finally got to watch 'The Professional' which i had been wantin to for days. just couldnt find the right time to. i own the VCD, n its one of my all time favourite movie. it stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and then the unknown young Natalie Portman, she was only about 11 or 12 then. so i wasnt surprised when she suddenly became a well know star with Mars Attack and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Manace. I more or less followed her since The Professional since i was impressed wif her acting. So yea, basically the show is bt Jean Reno, a hitman, befriendin Natalie Portman whose family is wiped out by corrupted DEAs headed by Gary Oldman. So Natalie Portman wants to take revenge by learnin how to kill from Jean Reno, n on the course of doin so, the two becomes very close n some sorta like eachother. But things kinda turn ugly in the end when Portman decides to take things into her own hands n screws up. Gary Oldman tracks their location n gets the whole police department to kill Jean Reno. Jean Reno, tryint to save Natalie Portman, lets her escape while he took care of the problem by himself. He almost manages to escape disguises as an injured SWAT guy, but Gary Oldman sneaks past his theatrics n guns him down, only to realise Jean Reno read the possibilities n pulled the ring from the grenades on his body. its a low budget but very abstract movie. its one of those very few tt makes me wanna cry at the end when Natalie Portman has to live by herself havin lost the very man who rescued her.
at this pt, i think i wanna recollect some of my favourite movies of all time; (in no order of merit coz its too hard)
The Matrix (i refuse to believe there was a sequel. but i'm givin the third installment another chance)
The Professional
The Patriot
Gladiator
Snatch
there definately r some i missed out, but for now tt's wat i can come up with.
yea.. played some soccer again after the movie, but wasnt as enjoyable as yesterday.
hmm.. tt's it... quite plain sunday. gonna start muggin for prelims again tomorrow. n my cousin from bangladesh is comin over to singapore for business i heard. most probably he'll come to my place for dinner, so lookin forward to seein him. he's real funny.
yea, so i'll b doin tt after my A's. but for today, downloaded a lot of reggae. I juz love Sean Paul's voice, so i downloaded whatever i could find that had his name. the new single out in the music market now is his collboration wif beyonce knowles in 'baby boy' sounds v nice when he sings coz he raps so fast n so rhythmically.
after tt, i finally got to watch 'The Professional' which i had been wantin to for days. just couldnt find the right time to. i own the VCD, n its one of my all time favourite movie. it stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and then the unknown young Natalie Portman, she was only about 11 or 12 then. so i wasnt surprised when she suddenly became a well know star with Mars Attack and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Manace. I more or less followed her since The Professional since i was impressed wif her acting. So yea, basically the show is bt Jean Reno, a hitman, befriendin Natalie Portman whose family is wiped out by corrupted DEAs headed by Gary Oldman. So Natalie Portman wants to take revenge by learnin how to kill from Jean Reno, n on the course of doin so, the two becomes very close n some sorta like eachother. But things kinda turn ugly in the end when Portman decides to take things into her own hands n screws up. Gary Oldman tracks their location n gets the whole police department to kill Jean Reno. Jean Reno, tryint to save Natalie Portman, lets her escape while he took care of the problem by himself. He almost manages to escape disguises as an injured SWAT guy, but Gary Oldman sneaks past his theatrics n guns him down, only to realise Jean Reno read the possibilities n pulled the ring from the grenades on his body. its a low budget but very abstract movie. its one of those very few tt makes me wanna cry at the end when Natalie Portman has to live by herself havin lost the very man who rescued her.
at this pt, i think i wanna recollect some of my favourite movies of all time; (in no order of merit coz its too hard)
The Matrix (i refuse to believe there was a sequel. but i'm givin the third installment another chance)
The Professional
The Patriot
Gladiator
Snatch
there definately r some i missed out, but for now tt's wat i can come up with.
yea.. played some soccer again after the movie, but wasnt as enjoyable as yesterday.
hmm.. tt's it... quite plain sunday. gonna start muggin for prelims again tomorrow. n my cousin from bangladesh is comin over to singapore for business i heard. most probably he'll come to my place for dinner, so lookin forward to seein him. he's real funny.
damn, couldnt log in yesterday. was frustratin considerin i had nothin to do since it was internationals week. which means no premiership footie on telly. woke up quite late, as usual. gotta start buckin up from monday. o, i'm talkin bt saturday btw, since i couldnt blog for yesterday. woke up to a weird weird dream. i had powers of neo n i could stop bullets. we were on top of a building when some ppl clad in black suit suddenly popped out n started shootin at us. i calmly put my hand in front as tho i'm jesus n stopped bullets as well as time. i asked friends who were wit me to go as far n as safe as they can, while i took morpheus on a motorbike rampage in the city. damn, i jumped off a buildin on tt machine! considerin i got fear of height, i'll never do tt shit IRL. (o, its a term in messageboard of Sports Interactive Community for In Real Life, i got so used to usin it) yea, anyway, after couple of minutes of swayin n gettin past traffic, i came to a place similar to the now defunct fantasy island, where ppl were queuein up for somethin. i juz cut the queue n the guy in charge asked me a question, then i said somethin i cant remember, his face changed, n he let me in like it was a passcord or somethin. tts when i woke up. haha, i guess too much matrix. there was some romancin on the way as well. i kissed a friend of mine promisin her tt i'll meet her back at the usual place. i'm like, usual place? where? n the big thing, damn, i kissed the girl man. i wouldnt do tt kinda stuff at this point in time. but the scene was rather sweet.
watched pirates of the caribbean for the second time in three days. tt's how impressed i was wif the movie. johnny depp didnt fail to amuse me once again. words from his mouth like mate, savvvy sounds so cool out of him.
my brother bought couple of clothes at a store near the theatre. almost everythin related to man utd. he supports the club, so i let him b. i'm at no position to tell him which club to support. i juz care bt my own shit. talkin bt clothes, i dun really care wat i wear so long as its comfortable. im surprised a lot of ppl dress to make themselves look good or to impress others. i dun really care bt tt shit. wats the pt trynna make yaself look gd or tryin to impress some girl or guy? in the end, its down to ur own character n personality to do all the talkin isnt it. besides, if u need to impress by looks, tt says enough bt the person ure tryin to impress n all. true friends n whatnots should b interested in u by how u r n ur personality. stop bein so fake.
i realised in the past couple of days talkin wif my best of friends tt i do hav a lot of my own principles n believes, but hardly voice them out. i usually keep it within myself n debate bt such issues durin shower, or when i cant sleep. a lot of things, be it how ppl we know function, how views of certain ppl make a difference, relationships, n the list can go on. most of the time its bt friends n relationships. i was surprised when two of my best friends were actually impressed or interested by wat i was proposin to them. not many ppl understand or know of my somewhat hard headed principles coz i hardly voice em out. but when these guys got to know, they were like, when were u ever like tt? i didnt know. the answer; always. i keep things to myself coz its a burden if u voice everythin tt goes in ur mind out. u'll end up havin conflicts n endless arguments wit those who dont share ur opinion. tts wat i refrain from. coz i know by myself tt its hard for me to change tt opinion once i got it. i'm not talkin bt prejudice, i'm v fair, if u dun mind my flauntin, but i really am. i only come to conclusion bt certain things only n only after ive had considerable amount of time observin n thinkin bt it. i dun come to a rash decision n let tt b it. of cuz tt wouldnt b smart move. but sadly, i came to realise, i might hav lot of gd thoughts n all but it somehow doesnt come to influence my life. things for example in relationships. i guide my best friends a lot when it comes to tt, but takin a look at my own life, it seems i hardly hav had any success, if at all, not tt i'm lookin for any. but its rather ironic how ive got most of moral issues settled all up in my head, but its not bein applied at all to my own life.
o well mayb i dun wanna apply it now. ive got too much things to deal wif tt all these subdividients r not necessary right now. besides, i'm pretty much content wit wat ive got right now. gd friends, gd time, n gd lifestyle. i cant ask for anythin more than tt.
yea, so after the movie, i went back, to realise we were supposed to hav a kids vs adults cricket match at my estate. but upon reachin, i found out it was cancelled so i juz joined em to play regular soccer. only way i move my ass in weeks of studyin n takin exams. i realise i've lost a lot of fitness. few mins of runnin n i'm pantin. stark contrast to those days only few months back when i used to finish 2.4 km in near 10 mins. tt's considered quite gd apparantly. well, ever since the SARS incident, my fitness has gone down sharply. all i get is regular doze of soccer n tts all.
after a gd workout for the day, n some gd ball control after a long time, i took second shower of the day and a very much wanted dinner. the estate was havin some mooncake festival thing so i went down there for a while wif my mom.
well tt was prob it for yesterday, after havin a long chat wif a friend n was off to sleep at bout 1. woke up at 10 again today. damn, i gotta stop this soon! i gotta wake up early n not waste time..!
watched pirates of the caribbean for the second time in three days. tt's how impressed i was wif the movie. johnny depp didnt fail to amuse me once again. words from his mouth like mate, savvvy sounds so cool out of him.
my brother bought couple of clothes at a store near the theatre. almost everythin related to man utd. he supports the club, so i let him b. i'm at no position to tell him which club to support. i juz care bt my own shit. talkin bt clothes, i dun really care wat i wear so long as its comfortable. im surprised a lot of ppl dress to make themselves look good or to impress others. i dun really care bt tt shit. wats the pt trynna make yaself look gd or tryin to impress some girl or guy? in the end, its down to ur own character n personality to do all the talkin isnt it. besides, if u need to impress by looks, tt says enough bt the person ure tryin to impress n all. true friends n whatnots should b interested in u by how u r n ur personality. stop bein so fake.
i realised in the past couple of days talkin wif my best of friends tt i do hav a lot of my own principles n believes, but hardly voice them out. i usually keep it within myself n debate bt such issues durin shower, or when i cant sleep. a lot of things, be it how ppl we know function, how views of certain ppl make a difference, relationships, n the list can go on. most of the time its bt friends n relationships. i was surprised when two of my best friends were actually impressed or interested by wat i was proposin to them. not many ppl understand or know of my somewhat hard headed principles coz i hardly voice em out. but when these guys got to know, they were like, when were u ever like tt? i didnt know. the answer; always. i keep things to myself coz its a burden if u voice everythin tt goes in ur mind out. u'll end up havin conflicts n endless arguments wit those who dont share ur opinion. tts wat i refrain from. coz i know by myself tt its hard for me to change tt opinion once i got it. i'm not talkin bt prejudice, i'm v fair, if u dun mind my flauntin, but i really am. i only come to conclusion bt certain things only n only after ive had considerable amount of time observin n thinkin bt it. i dun come to a rash decision n let tt b it. of cuz tt wouldnt b smart move. but sadly, i came to realise, i might hav lot of gd thoughts n all but it somehow doesnt come to influence my life. things for example in relationships. i guide my best friends a lot when it comes to tt, but takin a look at my own life, it seems i hardly hav had any success, if at all, not tt i'm lookin for any. but its rather ironic how ive got most of moral issues settled all up in my head, but its not bein applied at all to my own life.
o well mayb i dun wanna apply it now. ive got too much things to deal wif tt all these subdividients r not necessary right now. besides, i'm pretty much content wit wat ive got right now. gd friends, gd time, n gd lifestyle. i cant ask for anythin more than tt.
yea, so after the movie, i went back, to realise we were supposed to hav a kids vs adults cricket match at my estate. but upon reachin, i found out it was cancelled so i juz joined em to play regular soccer. only way i move my ass in weeks of studyin n takin exams. i realise i've lost a lot of fitness. few mins of runnin n i'm pantin. stark contrast to those days only few months back when i used to finish 2.4 km in near 10 mins. tt's considered quite gd apparantly. well, ever since the SARS incident, my fitness has gone down sharply. all i get is regular doze of soccer n tts all.
after a gd workout for the day, n some gd ball control after a long time, i took second shower of the day and a very much wanted dinner. the estate was havin some mooncake festival thing so i went down there for a while wif my mom.
well tt was prob it for yesterday, after havin a long chat wif a friend n was off to sleep at bout 1. woke up at 10 again today. damn, i gotta stop this soon! i gotta wake up early n not waste time..!
Friday, September 05, 2003
a day off today.. but started out rather shockingly. in the mornin the last time i checked the time was 7, i got nothin today so no school, so i tot i might as well get more sleep. the next thing i know, its 11 n my mom's tellin me tt im sleepin for too long. i was like, 11? damn, i tot it was 9! so there went my morning. by the time i had done the usual routine of eatin breakfast n readin the papers, it was already 1130. i didnt hav much planned for today except tt i was gonna meet my best friends to talk. but when i woke up n after washin up, i was havin such a dried long messed up hair n was unshaven, i looked like some fucked up latino. haha, i think i'll fit in well when i go to university. so takin tt in consideration, i had to cut my hair n hav a clean shave. but then, today's friday. i gotta go to mosque for daily prayer. so about 1, i left the house, after playin GTA Vice City for a while to kill time.
i'll admit, i'm not religious. or rather, i wasnt taught the fundamentals when i was young, so religion was never instilled in me. however i'm tryin my best. i've learnt how to read arabic, even tho i still suck at it, n the basic prayers n all. but tts probably it. except for the weekly friday n the yearly fastin or the festives, i dont pray at all. not tt i'm bad, its juz not part of me. my friends know how i am. in singapore, it seems muslims r not supposed to eat chinese, or rather non muslim food at all. i dun really agree wif it. to me, as long as u dun consume chunk of pork, i'm ok. i dun care bt how its cooked. food is food. my parents do tt too. i think it more or less has to do wif how we lived in japan. we're such a minority, i guess we were minority among the minorities for the majority to care bt halal food. so its either u eat or u dont. so i guess we brought tt thinkin to singapore. some of my muslim friends dont like it. but hey, i've lived like tt for so long, i cant juz eat muslim food all the time. i go for variety n if not, i lose apetite. there r lot of stuff regardin my supposed religion. for example, readin arabic is essential to understand the quran. but, how many of us, except for those who 'speak' arabic, understand wat they're readin? i mean, u can read, but tt doesnt mean u understand. so wats the pt of readin when u dun understand? i find tt logic hard to understand. so i refuse to read. i rather read it if i understand the meanin. some rules r there without any reason. the prob, i think is tt because its religion, noone questions it. a lot of rules in islam r there n everyone follows. i naturally question, n i find it hard to come to terms quite frequently. sometimes i really think, when i pray, am i really prayin or am i doin it because i'm supposed to? to b frank, i only started knowin bt the religion when i was about 12, when my grandparents insisted i go under religious class while i was in bangladesh on holiday. i only remember goin to a place tt resembles a mosque in japan only twice durin the 8 yrs i stayed there. i remember i sometimes wore some weird non-japanese costume. i discovered a lot of things after goin to local school. i din even know there was a mandatory friday prayer till i was in sec 1 n i noticed my malay guy friends comin to sch later on friday assemblys. how weird is tt? still my understandin of the religion is rather shallow. i prefer to b a free thinker, sometimes lettin islam rule certain things. but i think when i grow older, i dun think islam will b much part of me. i dun see it bein so. unless somethin happens tt makes me believe, or i get more interested in it. but for now, dont think so.
yea, so after my prayers, i went to holland village to cut my hair. o before tt, i bumped into a friend who studies in RJC. he's a fellow bengali n he was there for the prayers. he had his bio prac prelims today n we talked for a while bt how prelims suck n all. yea, so after tt, cut my hair, its not the usual cut, a little extra length on the centre, tt helps spike my hair up easier n better, while my sides r more flat now. i was thinkin, wat if i kept it uncut? i messed it up last nite n it looked quite nice. i looked like some messed rock band guy. but nah, its not my style, so i cut it. then i went home quickly to shower n get rid of all those short bits tt were in my scalp n on the neck. n i shaved clean too. i never liked to keep my beard or watever. i think its v irritatin. so i enjoy shavin quite frequently coz i hate the bits tt grow after a day or two. i keep touchin it till Koustav always tells me to keep my hands off my face. i like the feelin of the razor movin against my skin n cuttin the hair away. i use Gillette Mach 3 Turbo, n i muz say, boy tt razor is gd stuff. i never leave any bits left uncut, so my shavin process takes some time. i spend quite a bit of time lookin about n feelin my jaws to see whether any bit is left or not coz its usually at the jawline. n also the most difficult to cut coz of the contour. u hav to go up n go sideways n can cut urself easily. but i did it alrite today.
when i was talkin to my friend at coffee bean in holland village, i noticed i was touchin my clean shaven skin over n over again. haha. had nice time talkin to Hazril today. we used to talk to each other quite frequently, almost on daily basis but coz we grew so busy over this yr, hardly talked to him. so now we try our best to take time off once every month or so to catch up on time n all. we talked bt all sort of stuff as usual. but these few times tt i see him, i feel bad, coz its like only us talkin n his gf juz sits n reads her stuff n all. only sometime she engages wit the conversation. so i really feel i'm wastin her time. hope i manage to talk bt things tt she can talk abt in the future. some contents of wat i n him talked bt is between us, cant write up here coz its rather personal stuff goin bt these few days. n so r the contents of wat i talked about wif Junwen at nite. All i can say, he's goin over to Tokyo n California for holiday next wk. i think its fittin tt he has it now, considerin his army starts next month. as i said, i cant wait for my own globetrottin after my A's.
talkin bt ppl goin over for holidays, one of my dear friend is also goin off sooner than expected. Paulina got selected to go for Exchange Program to Aussieland so tt means she'll b leaving singapore at end of oct. after which she'll go straight to her homeland, Indonesia for her end of yr holiday so tt means i wont see her till she gets back at start of January whereby I'll b off globetrottin till god knows when.
so basically two of my handful of closest friends will b away when i'm done wif my A's. i'm not sure when i'll b leavin, but i hope i stay long enough to see em b4 i leave for gd. i should, i hav to. these r my close friends afterall.
alrite its gettin late n i think i wrote enough, i'm off to sleep. i gotta try not to repeat wat i did this morning. if i wake up, i'll wake up n not ask for extra.
i'll admit, i'm not religious. or rather, i wasnt taught the fundamentals when i was young, so religion was never instilled in me. however i'm tryin my best. i've learnt how to read arabic, even tho i still suck at it, n the basic prayers n all. but tts probably it. except for the weekly friday n the yearly fastin or the festives, i dont pray at all. not tt i'm bad, its juz not part of me. my friends know how i am. in singapore, it seems muslims r not supposed to eat chinese, or rather non muslim food at all. i dun really agree wif it. to me, as long as u dun consume chunk of pork, i'm ok. i dun care bt how its cooked. food is food. my parents do tt too. i think it more or less has to do wif how we lived in japan. we're such a minority, i guess we were minority among the minorities for the majority to care bt halal food. so its either u eat or u dont. so i guess we brought tt thinkin to singapore. some of my muslim friends dont like it. but hey, i've lived like tt for so long, i cant juz eat muslim food all the time. i go for variety n if not, i lose apetite. there r lot of stuff regardin my supposed religion. for example, readin arabic is essential to understand the quran. but, how many of us, except for those who 'speak' arabic, understand wat they're readin? i mean, u can read, but tt doesnt mean u understand. so wats the pt of readin when u dun understand? i find tt logic hard to understand. so i refuse to read. i rather read it if i understand the meanin. some rules r there without any reason. the prob, i think is tt because its religion, noone questions it. a lot of rules in islam r there n everyone follows. i naturally question, n i find it hard to come to terms quite frequently. sometimes i really think, when i pray, am i really prayin or am i doin it because i'm supposed to? to b frank, i only started knowin bt the religion when i was about 12, when my grandparents insisted i go under religious class while i was in bangladesh on holiday. i only remember goin to a place tt resembles a mosque in japan only twice durin the 8 yrs i stayed there. i remember i sometimes wore some weird non-japanese costume. i discovered a lot of things after goin to local school. i din even know there was a mandatory friday prayer till i was in sec 1 n i noticed my malay guy friends comin to sch later on friday assemblys. how weird is tt? still my understandin of the religion is rather shallow. i prefer to b a free thinker, sometimes lettin islam rule certain things. but i think when i grow older, i dun think islam will b much part of me. i dun see it bein so. unless somethin happens tt makes me believe, or i get more interested in it. but for now, dont think so.
yea, so after my prayers, i went to holland village to cut my hair. o before tt, i bumped into a friend who studies in RJC. he's a fellow bengali n he was there for the prayers. he had his bio prac prelims today n we talked for a while bt how prelims suck n all. yea, so after tt, cut my hair, its not the usual cut, a little extra length on the centre, tt helps spike my hair up easier n better, while my sides r more flat now. i was thinkin, wat if i kept it uncut? i messed it up last nite n it looked quite nice. i looked like some messed rock band guy. but nah, its not my style, so i cut it. then i went home quickly to shower n get rid of all those short bits tt were in my scalp n on the neck. n i shaved clean too. i never liked to keep my beard or watever. i think its v irritatin. so i enjoy shavin quite frequently coz i hate the bits tt grow after a day or two. i keep touchin it till Koustav always tells me to keep my hands off my face. i like the feelin of the razor movin against my skin n cuttin the hair away. i use Gillette Mach 3 Turbo, n i muz say, boy tt razor is gd stuff. i never leave any bits left uncut, so my shavin process takes some time. i spend quite a bit of time lookin about n feelin my jaws to see whether any bit is left or not coz its usually at the jawline. n also the most difficult to cut coz of the contour. u hav to go up n go sideways n can cut urself easily. but i did it alrite today.
when i was talkin to my friend at coffee bean in holland village, i noticed i was touchin my clean shaven skin over n over again. haha. had nice time talkin to Hazril today. we used to talk to each other quite frequently, almost on daily basis but coz we grew so busy over this yr, hardly talked to him. so now we try our best to take time off once every month or so to catch up on time n all. we talked bt all sort of stuff as usual. but these few times tt i see him, i feel bad, coz its like only us talkin n his gf juz sits n reads her stuff n all. only sometime she engages wit the conversation. so i really feel i'm wastin her time. hope i manage to talk bt things tt she can talk abt in the future. some contents of wat i n him talked bt is between us, cant write up here coz its rather personal stuff goin bt these few days. n so r the contents of wat i talked about wif Junwen at nite. All i can say, he's goin over to Tokyo n California for holiday next wk. i think its fittin tt he has it now, considerin his army starts next month. as i said, i cant wait for my own globetrottin after my A's.
talkin bt ppl goin over for holidays, one of my dear friend is also goin off sooner than expected. Paulina got selected to go for Exchange Program to Aussieland so tt means she'll b leaving singapore at end of oct. after which she'll go straight to her homeland, Indonesia for her end of yr holiday so tt means i wont see her till she gets back at start of January whereby I'll b off globetrottin till god knows when.
so basically two of my handful of closest friends will b away when i'm done wif my A's. i'm not sure when i'll b leavin, but i hope i stay long enough to see em b4 i leave for gd. i should, i hav to. these r my close friends afterall.
alrite its gettin late n i think i wrote enough, i'm off to sleep. i gotta try not to repeat wat i did this morning. if i wake up, i'll wake up n not ask for extra.
Thursday, September 04, 2003
gd day today! phy prac was tougher than usual, but the nature of it was interestin. there were two questions, one of em being the usual oscillation, however, without the measurin of period, but the decreasin amplitude as oscillation continues. it was tryin to find out tt when a piece of paper is attached, coz of its surface area, it dampens the amplitude faster (for non-physics ppl, damping refers to the process whereby natural frequency is altered n its amplitude changed.) n how the change in surface area influences the amplitude. i tot it was kinda cool. second one is another usual connect circuit, find how a diode behaves n all. unusual graph. usually in phy prac, most graphs follow a straight line and a certain equation, but not this one. diode's resistance behaves rather oddly, so it was like, straight line, then suddenly jumps up vertically. all in all, it was gd. as i said b4, u cant get things wrong in phy prac.
so tt ends my sch wk till 1 wk later, while we waste another holiday to studyin. its the last one, but the next holiday tt comes to us, it'll b a long long one. it'll almost b a yr one for me since uni starts in september. i think we all deserve a long break esp considerin we didnt really hav any sort of holiday since last yr. since i joined council last yr, the first proper holiday was blown wif the leadership trainin camp, then study for common tests. there was a wk holiday exactly a yr back, but tt too was spent on some council project i think. then the end of yr was gone again on hostin the grad nite, orientation, etc. in jc2, orientation 2, etc etc or studyin for exams. so as u see, JC students havent had proper holiday for like almost 2 yrs. so gettin at least 6 mths off everythin is askin for the minimum. im gonna enjoy mine globetrottin in US, Japan and Bangladesh before i finally leave for America. cant wait for it.
and the highlight of the day must, must hav been Pirates of the Caribbean : curse of the black pearl. my goodness. i knew it was gonna b gd, but didnt expect it to b too gd. it was fantastic! at the end of the movie, i was left feelin, my goodness, i've not seen such a gd movie since The Matrix! n tt was like couple of yrs back. i liked Lord of The Rings, but this, this.. oh boy. Interestin storyline, good scenes, impressive cast (Keira Knightly is juz... *jaw drops*) and not forgettin, its god darn funny! u wont find a good combination of all these so easily nowadays i tell ya. blockbusters r always missin some piece, but this justifies wat i mean by a good movie. it lasted for 2 hrs 20 odd mins, but it was so good, i din even feel it was tt long! to b honest, i can watch it over n over again. n i wont get bored coz Johnny Depp was so good! when ure watchin it, it seems as though the story can continue forever. I always liked 17th, 18th century movies n those pirates ones r hard to find. they should really make a sequel of this movie. see where the pirates end up next n all. heard it was based on a book, n i juz hope its juz not it n there r more episodes. i give it 5 and a half stars out of 5, really, i was so impressed by it.
yea, not much to say today, coz the movie n phy prac was it. not much philosophical stuff today. or rather, i cant think of any right now. usually i'll always be thinkin of some issue, but not today. maybe some other time. tomorrow is another day of nothingness. prob meet my best friend n catch up on time.
so tt ends my sch wk till 1 wk later, while we waste another holiday to studyin. its the last one, but the next holiday tt comes to us, it'll b a long long one. it'll almost b a yr one for me since uni starts in september. i think we all deserve a long break esp considerin we didnt really hav any sort of holiday since last yr. since i joined council last yr, the first proper holiday was blown wif the leadership trainin camp, then study for common tests. there was a wk holiday exactly a yr back, but tt too was spent on some council project i think. then the end of yr was gone again on hostin the grad nite, orientation, etc. in jc2, orientation 2, etc etc or studyin for exams. so as u see, JC students havent had proper holiday for like almost 2 yrs. so gettin at least 6 mths off everythin is askin for the minimum. im gonna enjoy mine globetrottin in US, Japan and Bangladesh before i finally leave for America. cant wait for it.
and the highlight of the day must, must hav been Pirates of the Caribbean : curse of the black pearl. my goodness. i knew it was gonna b gd, but didnt expect it to b too gd. it was fantastic! at the end of the movie, i was left feelin, my goodness, i've not seen such a gd movie since The Matrix! n tt was like couple of yrs back. i liked Lord of The Rings, but this, this.. oh boy. Interestin storyline, good scenes, impressive cast (Keira Knightly is juz... *jaw drops*) and not forgettin, its god darn funny! u wont find a good combination of all these so easily nowadays i tell ya. blockbusters r always missin some piece, but this justifies wat i mean by a good movie. it lasted for 2 hrs 20 odd mins, but it was so good, i din even feel it was tt long! to b honest, i can watch it over n over again. n i wont get bored coz Johnny Depp was so good! when ure watchin it, it seems as though the story can continue forever. I always liked 17th, 18th century movies n those pirates ones r hard to find. they should really make a sequel of this movie. see where the pirates end up next n all. heard it was based on a book, n i juz hope its juz not it n there r more episodes. i give it 5 and a half stars out of 5, really, i was so impressed by it.
yea, not much to say today, coz the movie n phy prac was it. not much philosophical stuff today. or rather, i cant think of any right now. usually i'll always be thinkin of some issue, but not today. maybe some other time. tomorrow is another day of nothingness. prob meet my best friend n catch up on time.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
maths today... well, as i expected it, it was kinda bad, but i think i did better than how i expected myself to do. juz like any other time, i could've done better, only tt i figured out some of the questions after the paper ended. haha, too late. but thinkin bt it now, i dun understand how i could hav not thought of the solution. o well, exam conditions r not exactly the condusive environment for optimum performance, but wth. as i recall my maths tutor Mrs. Wong sayin to my class, 'juz try to pass paper 1.' so i pretty much knew it was gonna b tough. mayb a little easier than i would hav thought.
the prelims r much harder than the A's. everyone more or less knows tt. i wouldnt know bt japanese, (i'm not trynna show off but theres not easy or hard for me, juz look, do it. its more or less usin wat i know bout the language) but it seems its set two grades tougher. dunno wat i'm trynna say? My physics tutor, Mr. Mannan, a fantastic teacher, told us tt if we get a C for physics for prelims, then considerin u continue to study consistently after tt, an A is in the offing for the A's. So i'll assume it more or less works like tt for the other subjects as well. If tts the case, i'm lookin at a grim prelims result. So i guess i shouldnt send my prelim scores for university entry. I'll try my best to get a C for phy, coz its prob the only subject i feel gd bt, but it seems i always fall short of the A class. Except for the first JC exam i sat for, tt's the common tests, i've always got B for physics in exams. Mr. Mannan once told me, 'if you were a share, i wouldnt invest in you coz you neither improve or deprove.' Haha, its comfortin to know tt, but tt means i can do better. juz few marks away from tt coveted A. Hope the other subjects r at least C in the A's. I'll b happy wif tt coz tt's the minimum to get credits in America.
Talkin bt universities, i think i've more or less decided the candidates. Maybe i need to cut down one or two. here's the list in order of college rankin or reputation;
1. Cornell (would b a dream come true to go here)
2. U Penn (so would this)
3. Carnegie Mellon (top computer school)
4. U of Michigan - Ann Arbor (i'm targettin to get here for now)
5. U of Illinois - Urbana Champaigne (excellent programs, however not known widely)
6. U of Southern California (standard's gd, n my cousin's there)
7. U of Texas - Austin (cowboy time! haha, nah, its quite gd)
8. U of Massachusetts - Amherst (cousins r ex students, plus, its near Boston)
and maybe UC - Berkeley (hard to get in, so not sure whether to apply but its class!)
Yea.. i think most prob, i'll go to U of Texas or U of Mass, do freshman and sophomore, work damn hard to get good GPA, n then transfer to Ivy League schools. its a common practice i was told. its easiest way to sneak into Ivies tt way. But it'll b convenient if i can land myself in a top school from start.
tomorrow is phy prac. unlike chem prac, which can b tedious, i think phy prac r given to us to score full marks. i'm not kiddin. it virtually impossible to get anythin wrong, coz u basically do wat the question tells u, record anythin tt u see. the answer comes to u. serious. unless u screw up the method or somethin, theres no way u can get anythin wrong. at the most, 2 or 4 marks gone. out of 34 or somethin. unlike chem prac, which sums up to 50 mks, (its worth more than mcq...) phy prac is given 30 or so marks, but contribute v little, mayb tts y its easy, but nevertheless an important component. i think i did my paper 5, design prac more or less ok, so i'll keep the momentum goin to get tt C!
wat else... o, saw this music video by George Michael. "Spinning that wheel" Havent heard tt song in a long time, but sure it was nice. Brought me back to those days. Also came to my mind was Montell Jordan's "Careless whisper" another excellent one. gonna listen to em after i get back from prac tomorrah.
alrite then, i think tt sums up the day for me...
the prelims r much harder than the A's. everyone more or less knows tt. i wouldnt know bt japanese, (i'm not trynna show off but theres not easy or hard for me, juz look, do it. its more or less usin wat i know bout the language) but it seems its set two grades tougher. dunno wat i'm trynna say? My physics tutor, Mr. Mannan, a fantastic teacher, told us tt if we get a C for physics for prelims, then considerin u continue to study consistently after tt, an A is in the offing for the A's. So i'll assume it more or less works like tt for the other subjects as well. If tts the case, i'm lookin at a grim prelims result. So i guess i shouldnt send my prelim scores for university entry. I'll try my best to get a C for phy, coz its prob the only subject i feel gd bt, but it seems i always fall short of the A class. Except for the first JC exam i sat for, tt's the common tests, i've always got B for physics in exams. Mr. Mannan once told me, 'if you were a share, i wouldnt invest in you coz you neither improve or deprove.' Haha, its comfortin to know tt, but tt means i can do better. juz few marks away from tt coveted A. Hope the other subjects r at least C in the A's. I'll b happy wif tt coz tt's the minimum to get credits in America.
Talkin bt universities, i think i've more or less decided the candidates. Maybe i need to cut down one or two. here's the list in order of college rankin or reputation;
1. Cornell (would b a dream come true to go here)
2. U Penn (so would this)
3. Carnegie Mellon (top computer school)
4. U of Michigan - Ann Arbor (i'm targettin to get here for now)
5. U of Illinois - Urbana Champaigne (excellent programs, however not known widely)
6. U of Southern California (standard's gd, n my cousin's there)
7. U of Texas - Austin (cowboy time! haha, nah, its quite gd)
8. U of Massachusetts - Amherst (cousins r ex students, plus, its near Boston)
and maybe UC - Berkeley (hard to get in, so not sure whether to apply but its class!)
Yea.. i think most prob, i'll go to U of Texas or U of Mass, do freshman and sophomore, work damn hard to get good GPA, n then transfer to Ivy League schools. its a common practice i was told. its easiest way to sneak into Ivies tt way. But it'll b convenient if i can land myself in a top school from start.
tomorrow is phy prac. unlike chem prac, which can b tedious, i think phy prac r given to us to score full marks. i'm not kiddin. it virtually impossible to get anythin wrong, coz u basically do wat the question tells u, record anythin tt u see. the answer comes to u. serious. unless u screw up the method or somethin, theres no way u can get anythin wrong. at the most, 2 or 4 marks gone. out of 34 or somethin. unlike chem prac, which sums up to 50 mks, (its worth more than mcq...) phy prac is given 30 or so marks, but contribute v little, mayb tts y its easy, but nevertheless an important component. i think i did my paper 5, design prac more or less ok, so i'll keep the momentum goin to get tt C!
wat else... o, saw this music video by George Michael. "Spinning that wheel" Havent heard tt song in a long time, but sure it was nice. Brought me back to those days. Also came to my mind was Montell Jordan's "Careless whisper" another excellent one. gonna listen to em after i get back from prac tomorrah.
alrite then, i think tt sums up the day for me...
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