owen in jenas out

Michael Owen. Our new No. 10!! Meanwhile Jenas moves to Tottenham. Not very happy (not him, me). Better times ahead?? Hopefully. Finally can boast of a calibre striker. Even if it is only for a year. But the team is still not big and not good enough. A few more hours to transfer deadline. Can we expect any more movements?? 19th out of 20 teams. The only way is up from here i guess. Go owen go....

Other news. Andy van der Meyde, one times good dutch winger, joins Everton. Edgar Davids joins Tottenham (going to be too crowded very soon). Why cannot come Newcastle?? We need players. Maybe more in need of defenders and strikers. If only.


***LATEST UPDATES:
Nolberto Solano completed his return to Newcastle less than an hour before the closure of the transfer window. Teenager James Milner will go the other way instead and spend the rest of the season on loan at Aston Villa. (Again... one in one out. Milner can be a good player for us. But he's gone also. Squad still too small. But then again we don't have european football this season so maybe still ok. Don't think they should sell Milner though. We need youth and talent. Look at what Tottenham is doing.)

Chairman Freddy Shepherd added: 'It's great to have Nobby back and I am sure all the fans are thrilled by the news.' (Owen also.)

Yeah.

and the run goes on

Yeah. My pathetic newcastle united lost again last night. To manchester united. Terrible state at the moment. No wins, no goals. WTF. Next to last in the league. No signs of improving any time soon. I thought we supposed to be the top five clubs in the land. Luque doesn't help things. Owen don't want to come. Best defender in the team makes two blunders to hand the other team the win. Congratulated on a job well done by all manchester fans. As bad as school and work at the moment. Sigh. So i am pathetic also.

Just finished my formal lab report. Given one week to finish. Since last tuesday. Just finished. Don't see the point in the report. Also don't know what i'm doing. Lad sessions really sucks life out of my body. Tuesday is probably the most tired day of the week for me. Every week got lab some more. Tomorrow again. SIANZZZ.....

Another bird flew back to the US yesterday. All the best dude. But i think i most probably need the luck and wishes more than that genius. Life is unfair. I am stupid. Stupid and pathetic like my team. Bad bad mood now.

Can i get a CAP above 4.0 this semester??

我给你四个字.

Im-pos-si-ble.

ending week 3 with inertia

Very tired. Very very tired. School is such a tiring activity. Sucking life away. Also don;t know what to blog also. Devoid of inspiration.

Coming to the end of week 3 of this academic semester. Do i hear some NTU students at the back there complaining they're week 5 already?? Go complain to the SMU students lah. Tutorials just started this week. And i have not done any till date. What is happening?? The inertia is so huge man. Humongous. Cannot seem to get my hands and brain to get to work this week. Gotta try harder from now. At least now i've spread out the tutorials to three per week. So still not too bad. But most probably also don't know how to do also. Still wondering if i should spend the money and buy some textbooks still. Very expensive leh university textbooks. School fees already so expensive. The books we need also so expensive. WTF. Still got other things i want to buy leh. Sigh....

Newcastle lost again last night. This time to Bolton. W0D1L2. Stupid record. Poor (very poor) start to the season as usual. Selling players like nobody's business. And not buying as well. No strikers. Top 5 club?? Pei... *Spit*. Bid for owen accepted. Club record fee. But i'll not be surprised if he don't want to come. Not playing well. Not in europe. Manager?? Well not very good also. Ok shall take this as a transitional phase for the club. Awaiting gus hiddink. Better start picking up some points soon. Not qualifying for europe is one thing. Getting sucked into a relegation dogfight is another. Nothing i can do anyway. (And i still don't like chelsea. It's just wrong.)



能成为伟人的人，都是能够站在现在，否定自己过去的人。

v-lah-j with goodbyes

Dinner at a certain Vi'lage (pronounced V-lah-J) last night. Sort of a sending-off dinner for our US graduate going back for further studies. Heard from some people it's opened by a former employee of Marche. Believe it. It is exactly a rip-off of Marche i feel. Food choices and variety almost the same. Price also i think. Long time never go Marche liao anyway. Don't ask me why but somehow i prefer Marche.

A few of us went to Settler's Cafe along Clarke Quay after that to chill. It's a cafe that provides board games for us to play along with our food and drinks. Yes, board games like monopoly etc. Don't want to dwell too much as it may make us look foolish.

Didn't sleep at all last night. Spent dusk till dawn at Bt Timah chilling out with a few friends. Literally as we went there dark but left in light. Talked cock. A lot of cock. Maybe will be a while for this kind of things to happen again now that school has started and the pace to intensify very soon. Came home and slept a lot. Hehe. "Work" starts tomorrow i guess.



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Took a quiz from a friend's blog. Get to know yourself better.

Your view on yourself: You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for: You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship: You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love: You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education: You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

The right job for you: You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success: You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of: You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Who is your true self: You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

How true?? Hmmmm......

bad karma

Not in a very pleasant mood these few days. Maybe because of my hand. But never mind that. Two things today.

ONE) CORS SUCKS!! For those who don't know, CORS stands for Centralised Online Registration System and it's through this online server that we poor students of NUS bid and obtain the modules that we are to study for the following semester. Yes, and this system sucks. In what way?? Yesterday was the date for our tutorials balloting and sadly it's also through CORS. Notwithstanding the fact that i did not get all my desired tutorials slots (definitely adds to the hatred of this system as another friend who bid for the same thing got all of them), the system and server just can't seem to cope with the amount of traffic when the going gets tough. But they should expect this amount of traffic during the peak period what right?! Think the system was down for half a day yesterday and the deadline for balloting was delayed for like three times. Makings of a top ten university in the world?? NOPE. And this is not the frst time this has happened. Not the first time in my short NUS career. And not the first time for this semester's bidding. Sigh. Not that this will help....

TWO) Try not to walk outside and take an open aired stairs and steps down when it's raining or drizzling. Try not to laugh at your friend walking in front who slipped down the wet steps of the stairs because of his slippers (think that's the reason). Not when you are also wearing slippers. Because now i believe in bad karma. Bao ying. Retribution. And aggrevated my wrist injury before it's even close to healing. Bad karma. S**ty s**t. Trying not to humilate myself here.


明天 (也许) 会更好。

still pain

Injury Update: Hand recovering. Very slowly. Not as swollen as saturday. But the injured area still quite reddish. Still a bit swollen. A bit more strength in the hand now. At least can start writing. Very slowly. Tomorrow got lad session. Shit.

Saturday night wrote my last blog and said i was grounded. And immediately got jioed for supper by a pasir ris kia there after. Irony. And you know me. I like to chill. Newton Circus still quite crowded at 3am. No one at orchard coffee club at 5am. Actually got lah. If not i see ghost meh. Quite touched by what he told me.



如果你的快乐是我的痛，那痛就再也不是痛了。

为了你而痛，对我而言是快乐的。

importance of my right hand

Primary for those right master handers. If you are a left hander then swap all the rights with lefts. Think this will be a very short blog as my right hand is in pain and can't type much.

For those who don't know. Fell down when playing basketball on friday and hurt my right hand. Right wrist to be specific. Quite bad actually. Can't really exert any force with my right hand at the moment. Reduced to using my left hand for everything. And for those who played soccer with me before my left hand is actually as useless as my left leg. Never knew the importance of my right hand until now. Can't write, can't eat, can't bathe. Can't even sleep in peace and can't even put on my clothes smoothly. Sigh. Now move my hand also pain. Never move also pain. Went to see a chinese tui-na earlier today. Feels a bit better. A bit. She says if still very swollen after a day or two then must go and take x-ray. Hopefully no need. But did you know that there are 4 chinese medicinal stores with tui-na around my house?? Amazing. Went to one that my mother asked me to go. Now do everything also difficult. Take care of your limbs my friends. Actually take care of everything.

No mood to do anything. No mood to think of anything. Just praying that the pain goes away.

Signing off.... painfully.

choo choo train

1st week of school almost out of the way. One more hour of lecture tomorrow. All lectures these two weeks with a three hour tutorial next friday. Oh yah... lab sessions start next week as well. Three more hours there. Will start to get busy real soon. Too late for regrets already. This is the life of an engin undergrad it seems. Since taking only six modules shall put in more effort and see what happens. Nothing exciting this week. Just a taste of getting back into the lecture theatre. And the lecture theatre sucks big time man. LT7. Lousiest LT i've been to in NUS. And it's the home of ME. What luck. Chairs are plastic and very hard. Tables and small and a bit too distant from the chair for our liking. The list just goes on and on. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Maybe will not sleep so much this semester in this LT. (Fingers crossed.) But yeah... i luv school!! Still wondering which textbooks i should buy. Or whether i should buy any in the first place. For the time being only one i'm quite sure i'll be buying. See first lah. These couple of weeks the co-op will most probably be swamped with anxious students. Common sight i guess. Will be clever and wait. Hehe.



缘分就像是在赶火车，迟了就会赶不上。

那就乘搭下一辆啊。

可是下一辆带你去的终点就不同了。

[Love/fate is like rushing for a train. You will miss the train if you are late. You can always take the next train then. But the destination it takes you to will then be different.]

happy birthday singapore!!

This blog wishes Singapore a very Happy Birthday.

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE !!!

School started yesterday. Yeah. Actually it's really been a long time since our last lesson. Think maybe need a bit of time to get used to school and lectures and everything again. Was thinking of taking 7 modules this semester. Got 6 on hand already and was looking through CORS for the 7th possible one to take. But failed to come up with anything. Nothing interesting. Either that or i'm interested but too little slots up for grabs or the bid already too high for a miserly engin account to take. Well guess just have to settle for 6 and start doing my best. Wish me good luck.

Had a bbq gathering last night over at a friend's house. Saw a couple of friends who i havn't seen in (many) years. Great. Great to see everyone doing so well now. And there is also the first of my classmate to get married. Congrats. Very hard to blog about this.

Two more lectures tomorrow morning. Very early in the morning. Two more weeks to tutorials. Wait... got one tutorial next week already. Woo....

Someone teach me how to be hardworking and efficient please....

wedding crashers almost crashes

Caught 'Wedding Crashers' at plaza sing in the afternoon as one of my friend took half day leave and we have the time. 8 Days gave it 3.5 stars out of 5. I think i can live with that. The movie on a whole is not exactly brillant. Quite funny actually. Certain parts were very funny but on the whole only ok i guess. Not a bad movie also. Also don't know how to say.

During the midst of the movie a song took my attention more than anything. It was when the male and female leads were creeping around outside their rooms in the middle of the night. And the song came on. It was 'Sparks' by Coldplay. Almost forgot how much i loved this song. It can be found in their first album and i really like this song. Comforting melody, simple lyrics... nice. Nowadays too many songs their arrangement taking too much away from the song itself. Just a guitar or piano by itself can also produce great songs. Listen in if you can then. Highly recommended.

On my way home after that and stopped by the coffeeshop near my house to buy dinner for my mum and sis. They wanted to eat the newly-opened western food there. Placed my order of 2 BLACK PEPPER CHICKEN CHOP WITH RICE and then proceeded away to buy another packet of cha-shao rice. Went back after that and waited. More people started placing their orders (no one was before me) and the auntie looked very busy. Then the other people started to claim their orders and i was still waiting. Sensing something was wrong i approached the auntie for some 'justice'. She then said she forgot my order and i have to wait for a while more.

That's not the main point. Normally i am quite a good-tempered and quite patient man. But the problem is my order is not the only one she forgot. There were 2 other. Then she even had the cheek to tell one uncle that she's new here and so cannot blame her. Moreover her shou-jiao also very slow. I mean that's not the way to run a business (even if the business might not be yours). No wonder there are so many complaints about the service sector in singapore. After today i can understand. So what if you're new?? So what if you're an auntie?? New then can forget orders and give attitude face and show attitude is it?? Blood boiled a bit while witnessing all these and waiting there. Cannot like that lah seriously. Think will not be buying from her again. Not worth my anger i guess. Just avoid better. Anyway another coffeeshop a stone's throw away also has a western food store.

I'm not a petty person. I gave up my seat to a pregnant lady on the train earlier some more ok!?

go-karted

Yeah. Went go-karting at Johor Bahru earlier in the afternoon. Permas Jaya i think. Something near. The track is the biggest go-kart track in malaysia i heard from my friend. Much cheaper than Singapore i think. 10 minutes for 30 ringgit (rather than S$45 in Singapore i think). Still quite expensive. As amateurs we buanged a bit towards the end of our race as well and my car's back axle was slightly damaged as well. Involved in a crash and was forced into the mud among a lot of things that happened. Have to pay a bit of money for damages in the end as well. (Thanks people for sharing the cost.) Can go and try i think. Some people felt it's still not fast enough. Pros leh. I think it's pretty fast. Safety driver. Hehe. Experience lah. Too many people at a time in the track also not very good by the way. The feeling was quite shiok really. Since i don't even have a driving license. Can finally drive legally. Hehe. But now very tired. Very tired.

Then remembered afterwards something that was said in the movie Initial D.


不要有跟人比的心。 (Takumi's dad told him that.)

Very true. Seconded by another friend somemore leh. Believe it.

kampung girls and boys

Spent the best parts of the weekend at Sentosa Costa Sand Resort. Not the chalet but the more economical kampung huts there. Since most people were only free on weekend so no choice and to book the huts during weekends we need to book two days. So off we (actually only 4 of us) went on friday afternoon to check-in. 2 more joined us later in the evening. What kind of gathering this was is still to date undefined. Let's just keep it as that. We know who we are.

First thoughts when we entered the hut:
+ Wah wah wah... a bit small and cramped hor (since we expected around 10 people somewhere along the course of the stay)
+ Wah wah wah... the floor a bit dirty and sandy hor
+ Wah wah wah... the beds also a bit dirty hor
+ Wah wah wah... is our air-con spoilt?? Why not cold one??
+ Wah wah wah... why so many mosquitoes one??
+ Should we go home and come back tomorrow since that's what some people are doing??

Haha. A bit whiny right?? But felt quite low there and then. But decided to stick to the task still. Toilets also very dirty. In the end for the next two days we used the toilet at siloso beach (new one...bery nice) more instead. Nothing to do since night already. Decided to explore. Started walking towards palawan beach. And there we found our favourite hangout for the next two days. Ladies and gentlement let me introduce to you... 7-11!! Yeah. Think we made countless trips there. Like i said we walked there the first time and on the way back found that there's a beach line bus service and we took it. Turned out the bus is cleaner and more comfortable than our hut. The thought of not going down and camping on the bus immediately came to our minds. Went to the "southernest point of asia continent" after that and for the second night also.

But got a girl keep complaining she's tired and sleepy and wants to go back hut to sleep. 1st night also no one so we go back sleep. But after bathing and when everyone got comfy in bed and lights off already she then say she not tired anymore and can't sleep. WTH. Two days running somemore. Think everyone getting old. Slept a total of 11-12 hours over the two nights and that could be a record high for a chalet stay.

Cycled on the 2nd morning with two more joining us. Rented for one hour but after half an hour like that started to rain cats and dogs. The grown-up kind. The process was kinda dramatic. Stuck at a pavillion for around an hour. When we went back to return the bikes the in-charge compensated us with half an hour foc. That i say is the right way to do business. Then off to sakae for lunch. Went back hut to slack. Then onto the exploration of the magical sen-TO-SA island. They say sand wet so don't want to go beach. So sad. The weather joking with us i tell you. Saturday rain and drizzled all day. Then today when we checked out already the weather good like f**k. Went one day too early. Timing all wrong. Wasted. Today then is beach day not yesterday. Walked around, had "Open" Subway for dinner and off to the musical fountain to rekindle some memories. A lot has changed since when we were small. Last time was only water, music and lights. Now the main attraction is laser show instead. Got fire somemore. Literally. Very hot although we were sitting quite far away from the stage. The show was ok lah. Technology. Too tired to remember or blog everything.

Quite a bo-liao 2 days there actually. Accompany a friend to SMU for their ECA fair after checking out. Their campus in the city. Very new leh i must admit. Very nice also. But their school fees more expensive. Got pool tables in school somemore leh. Saw another couple of friends there. But can see SMU quite different from NUS and NTU... at least from NUS. But it's no longer like a school. More like a office building if you ask me. The new central library also. Very new very nice but no longer feels like a library anymore. Things changes with time i guess. Maybe shouldn't change everything. Sometimes we are moving too fast for our own good i feel. Very unorganised blog this one. But i don't know what to write also. But a long time since my last chalet anymore. Maybe will be a long time from my next chalet also. Who knows??



A bear is chasing you and your friend. You do not need to run faster than the bear. Just run faster than your friend. The new-age way of thinking maybe. Just me myself and still myself. Is this right?? You ask yourself then.



A good friend will visit and bail you out of jail. But a great friend will be in there beside you telling you how f**ked up we are.