just came back from IVP vball... super tired... shagged.... zZZzZZ.. lessons start at 8am tml!!!

wanted to go wash clothes but the stupid card reader spoilt... seems like someone spoilt it just before me... kaozZ...

it's been afew days since i blogged... really have been killing myself with my tutorials and assignments the past few days... but the good thing is... it's all done for now!! yeah!! now... time to start on next week's stuff... so i wun be like sunday nite den stress again..

finally handed in my critical thinking assignment... kaozZ... it's really hard to understand how to do it lor... and my english now is like shit!! really jialat... lucky got yanli to help me abit.. hehe...

yesterday had physics lab.. very long never stap into a lab liaozZ.. quite fun... my lab partner also quite funny... yah... not bad lar... starting know noe more ppl... life is starting to look less bleak... haha...

for now.. it's time to go play vball at SRC loh!!!

my weekend is over...

total food taken in = plenty
=>> potential energy = 100

total exercise/sports done = nil
=>> kinetic energy = 0

total assignments left to do = plenty..
=>> workdone = 0

morale level = low and dropping lower...

my 3rd week in nus is over in a flash... lectures and tutorials alike, over in a flash.. till now i'm slightly behind my schedule but i hope i will be able to gain some lost ground over the weekend... managed to know a few more pple this week... i'm quite happy with that.... yah...

i think this will not be too hectic a semester for me.... cos i'll be taking only 4 modules... my appeal failed to get me my elective.. so yah... ultra empty timetable for sem 1... hope this gets me into the tempo of uni studying...

today's a good day... had breakfast with yanli before coming to school.. took bus to harbourfront there to change bus to school.. quite fast considering it's peak hrs... at least it's under 1 hr to reach sheares... no bad lar... better than squeezing the dum mrt and 96...

attended my first physics lecture since the beginning of school... yeahs!! but the problems is... in 3 weeks the lecturer already reach lecture 7 liaozZ.. kaozZ!! u mean i missed so much?? die lohzZ.... suddenly like go so much work piling up...

got physics tut & online tut, maths tut, mechanics web & ib tuts, critical thinking homework and assignment... kaozZ... mountains are made of mole hills.. and it was a mole hill just yesterday... must clear the molehill!!

oh yah... since i said today's not a bad day... this is the main reason why... i got to know much more pple today... quite a few in my Critical thinking class... and i think most of us are bemused by the tutor... she's like in a world of her own... her type of reasoning just doesnt make sense... so yah.. common ground among the class...

went for IVP vball training... mostly yr 1s... only a few seniors came down... apparently there's still no coach... yah... gotta know quite a feww ppl there too.. and there was this swedish guy... real tall... and very skilful.. his name quite hard to pronounce though... it sounded something like "orp kern" yah.. but he is good...

1st day of my 3rd week in NUS... tutorials start loh... stayed up last nite to finish my maths tutorials... i'm not too out of touch lar.. still can do.. but quite slowly i guess... at least can finish lar... 2 lessons in school today only... maths tut... den mechanics lecture... my maths tutor is a china-man... cant stand him... if my class no non-chinese, i really wished he spoke in chinese instead... forgot to bring my notes for my mechanics lecture.. so i had to listen and remember everything... practically cramming and cramming info into my head.. den after lecture rush back to my room to translate everything into my notes... filling in the blanks... din really manage to remember much... i get the basic concept.. but dun really know how to go about doing it... die!! mechanics used to be only 2D in jc... now.. it's 3D and things just got SO much more complicated!! kaozZ!!

just imagine this... 2 forces act on the x & y plane respectively.. den how to find resultant moment by the 2 forces abt that point??

ans: the resultant moment is in the direction of the z-plane and the magnitude of it is the vector product of the 2 forced.. kaoZZ!! u understand?? i dun even know wat i'm talking abt....

quite an eventful day today... went to school for IBG vball... we din get into the finals... why?? cos we met block E in the group stage... and there was no semi finals... straight to finals... such a dum way to play the game... sianzZ... rained halfway thru the games... but it stopped after a while.. den we carried on... well.. we din get into finals lar... that's final... not a bad start for my first involvement in hall activity... well that may be the last too.. haha... i'm so SO so anti-social...

went bowling after vball with my airforce pple... not bad... played 4 games... even manage a high score of 160 on my last game... yah.. not bad lar... just that not many ppl went... only a few of us... but i still had fun... cos havent bowled for a long long time... really makes me wanna get my own bowling ball... now... save $$...

well.. i'm finally back in my hall... check out quite a bit of my stuff.... sort out my future lesson plan... and send in an appeal for my 5th module.. wonder if my england can make it or not.. haizZ.. seriously not confident... ahaha..

today marks the end of TJC Almuni's Open Cup Campaign in 2005... well.. it's a first attempt and i say it's a good one... we are newbies to the open game... and we have concluded there will be many more attempts in the future... best thing is not winning.. losing's not the worst either... there's only one thing that i'm interested in... that's to have a team... a team that plays together... a team comprises of a lot... and i have to say.. we still have leagues to go before really becoming a team...

just got back home from supper... went simpang bedok for supper with yanli... ate nasi goreng... nice nice.. maybe cos i was hungry.. we went to 7-11 to buy drinks.. den we had an encounter with the OTHER SIDE... as i was taking the drinks from the cooler... i felt a presense... i looked down the shelf... and saw a black hand... tapping it's fingers on the cans just below my hand... i stared at them for awhile and nudged yanli to see.. she jumped.. and we slammed the door in... while we burst out in laughter... hahaa... after a while the indian shop assistant came out and said," u 2 not bad ar.. not scared.. i scared 3 customers until they scream already" wah kaozZ.. that was like super irritating lar... next time we see anything liddat again... we will just take the cans and smash the hands!! we dun like black hands.. haha...

oh yah.. i'm home again... Y?? cos tml no classes!!! yeah.. tutorial and lab haven start... so tml free!!!!

not a bad day in school today... got to know 2 new people... just got names that's all... haha.. and i dun really remember them now.. jialat... realised that i dun only know my vice-block head... i know the block head too... k.. let me go down the list... my block head is junming's roommate in AFS.. so i know him... den vice block head is my OGA in tj... so i know him... my level head is my 12/00 classmate.. haha... small small world...

bought my textbook for physics... most expensive and thickest book i ever bought... looks just like a telephone book just that it has hard cover... it cost me $45 for that.. den bought another workbook... $15.. kaozZ... $60 gone liddat... went for Critical Thinking tutorial.. i find the tutor boring.. and seriously uninteresting... sianzZ... 2 hr tut... really wanna sleep... give so much homework somemore.. kaozZ!!

later going to play badminton at tampines... sport hall... hehee.. some competition among auditing firms... james say not enough ppl so ask me to play... for fun only lar.. haha..

lost the last vball match again... lost to singapore schools... i still think we din play well...we won the first set.. lost the next 3.. replica of the match against SHS.. in fact... singapore schools were mainly SHS.. sianzZ... i got to play for some of it as usual... yanli asked me something.. she asked why fung always puts me in at the final few points of every set.. i told her... well i was suppose to be the match saver... but it's always by the time i go it.. i dont even get to touch the ball and the set is over.. duhzZ.. my leg was feeling alrite for the game.. until i dived and landed in the wrong position again... jialat... think gotta brush up my diving technique... wrong landing... hahaa...

i'm now slacking on my bed in hostel... everything seems fine for now... coms working.. i got my laser jet in... roughly know wat lessons i'll be having today... have tml all planned out... yah.. feeling ok.. need some sleep den off i go...

my back to my desktop again... my laptop has given up on me again.. and i just gave up on it.. it's now being reformated... i hope everything will be fine after that.. that's so so so frustrating... yah... den my desktop is like so saturate with programs it's running so slowly.. but somehow it's still able to surf... haizZ... so unfair...

din go school today again... i hope i'll be able to find some webcast lectures for those that i missed.. yah... this marks the end of my first week in school...

no. of lectures attended - 3 of 7
no. of new frens - ZERO
no. of old frens met - a few
enthusaism rate - low
morale level - low
confidence level - low
amount of $$ wasted on cab - abt $100

this have been a very low period for me.. i somehow cannot get myself enthu in anything except vball.. but the injury on my leg made me have reserves when i'm the court.. i couldnt carry out wat i wanna do with any effect... well.. i dunno...

reflections... i chose to repeat my 2nd yr in tj.. till now i still think i made a wise decision, my grades made great improvement.. spend extra time in NS hoping i'll get the contract... that is the biggest defeat for me til now... lost a lot time.. confidence... i took a year off my enrolment into UNI... i think that was a bad decision too... now... where am i? i'm now at a point where i know almost no one in my cohort... my age pple are in 3 rd yr... my jc batach are in 2nd y... while i just entered... dunno who to turn to when i have queries... i despise myself....

feeling low low low low low low low.......

finally my com seems to be working again... yesterday it was again dead... had the same problem for very long... i'm just happy it's working now... dunno when it will be down again... aarrgghhh.. hope not..

2 hrs lecture in the morning yesterday.. den i bought my laser printer... very fast.. very shuang... yah.. gonna bring it into hall lar... seems like no one appreciating it at home...

played against volleysport today... they are good... while we suck... i duno lar.. with junlong and robin in the team... we still dun seem good at all... i was on the bench for most of the game... i was just shaking my head... shaking my head... cant understand how we could play so poorly... with this lost.. we are confirmed out of the competition liaozZ... just hope they will play better in our remaining matches...

i'm home again... and my laptop is working!! cheers!! got alot of anti-virus/spyware/worm devices on standby liaozZ... hahaa... conclusion... the culprit is a virus call trojan.lowzone... ppl.. beware... windows service pack 2 and a firewall is all u need to stop it from causing trouble... well.. alls well now...

went for vball training just now.. my leg still pain... put a lot of yoko yok... den went to spike... very xin ku... yah.. tml still got match... how?? robin and junlong's back for tml's match... tml vs a strong opponent.. i wonder... dun think i'll be playing tml... my leg really still pain... cannot exert force... sianzZ...

tml lessons at 8am in the morning!! wah kaozZ!! i still din get wat i wanted in my bidding... at this stage too competitive.. very hard to get... double sianzZ

guess where i am again.. i'm back in hall... i din attend lecture this morning... why cos i was sleeping.. too tired... i just came into hall not long ago.. just bid for my gem only... i seriously perk chek with my com now... apparently i din successfully install windows service pack 2 yesterday... den i spent the whole nite last nite talking to my new fren.. the pacnet tech guy... kaozZ... in the end... i just gave him a new problem that he has totally no way to solve... tried all the diagnostics methods to no avail... this is so pathetic.. so i'm here... d/ing service pack 2...hoping it will save my laptop from a 2nd format... aarrgghhh... this is so so frustrating....

i'm back in hall for a while... going home later.. cos my lessons start in the afternoon... so come back take some things and put some things... and check whether my laptop can work here... so nw u know.. it works here... but doesnt work at home... this is crap... and my PC and home can work.. this is crap... but at least it's working here.. i'm glad liaozZ... cos tml i must bid for my modules... and it must WORK!!!

oohh yah.. i'm here with yanli... den just now we went to carrefour... den got stuck on ECP... Benjamin Shears Bridge there... cos everyone stop on the expressway to see fireworks... so we see also lor.. hahaa...i haven been to a national day parade in YEARS!!! the last time like 3 or 4 years old lor... kaozZ... next yr go see with yanli.. haha...

sucky evening to a not so bad day... lost our match against SHS.. yah lost to the small kids of St Hilda's.. somehow we really played like shit today... lousy first ball... lousy setting.. lousy spiking... seriously KNS... desreved to lose... but gotta give SHS credit also... their defense really very fast.. yah.. lost but we live to fight another day... i got to play quite a bit today.. but sad to say.. i wasnt playing very well either... some more my leg hurts again... aarrgghhh... OUCH!!!!

i'm now typing this entry on my PC at home.. somehow my internet connection at home very weird.. my laptop like gone crazy.. cannot connect... super pek chek... dunno wat's wrong...

first day of lessons is over... PHewww.. lucky the lecture is a total JOKE... so manage to stay awake for the whole 2 hrs... still got some stuff haven buy... wednesday come back den buy... tml's national day liaozZ... so fast... seems as if i just ORD not long ago.. haha... i din manage to bid for anything today... i missed the bidding timing... so yah... wednesday again.. a lot of things left for wednesday... hahaa... but at least i found the modules to take liaozZ... is there is still available slots for me that is... very scared no more slots left... haizZ... so dum this bidding thing... aarrgghhh...

now... waiting for the rest of the sheares vball ppl to eat... eat liaozZ go hougang... today is match day 2 for us... shld be able to win... see how...

guess where i am?? i'm in NUS.. Sheares Hall.. Rm B412... whahaa.. this will be my first nite in hall.. tml only got 1 lesson!! OMG.. 1 pathetic lesson... well.. i'm not prepared for multiple lessons anyway... yah... the module i bidded for last week had been dropped by the system.. why?? cause the contents clash with a core module i'm taking next sem... haizZ.. never see properly...

think my room quite cosy... wonder if i'll wake up tml... hahaa... better do.. hahaa... dun wanna miss my frist day of lesson.. somemore one and only lesson...
tml vs SHS... 8 pm... sources have told us that they aint strong at all... so yah... hope to win them too...

went back to tj for training... wanted to go early for gals training.. but slept... until esther asked me to bring socks for her... den i went to school... at first i tot she never bring socks very blur.. i just realised the shoes she was wearing wasnt hers too.. duhzz... mei.. dun so blur okie...

alumni training was just sad case lar... all the sheares gang never come... which includes rubin, zai, junlong & weijie... reason? rag day.. kaozZ... next match is on monday lor.. dun wanna come training.. i really have the urge to put them on the bench on monday... that robin still missing.. dunno where he is... sianzZ.... worst still i injured my leg... not strain.. just pure impact... ouch!!! better get well before monday...

today... wat did i do today... went back to base to settle my deferment thingy.. so yah.. no more reservist for the next few yrs.. hahaa... but still gotta go for ippt.. sianzZ.. still got 1 more year... nvm.. hahaa..

this is the last friday for me to slack.. sunday nite i'll be going to sheares and spend my first nite in sheares and have breakfast there... and GO TO CLASS loh!!!!! yah.. school's finally starting... so scary... hahaa.. haven revise my maths... haven print notes... whahaa... tml den say... hahaa...

went back to school to get my student status letter and get my student card encoded for my room... yah... go all the way back to school to do these bo liaozZ stuff... hahaa... so waste time... went shopping around for some little stuff to put in my room... cos i realise my room is starting to stink.. haha... even whem i haven even spent a single nite there... imagine when i stay there how.. hahaa...

yup.. had a good sleep at home today... din go sell falg.. let me say it again... start at 4am??!! CRAZY!! hahaa.. so i slept at home in my nice nice bed till afternoon...

suppose to go back school to collect some stuff.. but i was SO lazy i was only in school around 5pm.. which means all the office close liaozZ... but actually not totally my fault... i took 51 from my house to NUS... wah kaozZ.. go hre go there... took almost 1.5h to reach lor... wanna vomit... haha.. so just went back to get my bag... den took cab home...

went home to get my vball stuff before going to hougang stadium for vball open... stupid traffic jam... bus so slow.. got pek chek.. so took cab again.. this few days spend a lot of money on cab liaozZ... heart pain... anyway.. i wasnt the latest to reach lor... played against Advancement Consulting Grp... some uncle team lar.. we won them... even without robin playing cos he still in indonesia... haha.. anyway we won... man of the match shld be qingwen, junlong is the strongest attacker, jincai looks a bit shack... zai looks damn shagged... guosheng really a lot to say, see wat NIE have done to him... nelson still blur blur... markus shld be given more time in the game... guoping played libero in no.5 position which meant he is new in that area... looked blur also... i played for awhile.. but to me.. quite pointless... the rest of the fixtures for the first round is below.. wanna go support us???

DATE Time TEAMS Venue
8 Aug Mon 8.00 pm SHS vs TJCA Hougang Sports Hall
11 Aug Thur 6.45 pm TJCA vs VS Hougang Sports Hall
14 Aug Sun 8.30 am SS vs TJCA Hougang Sports Hall
17 Aug Wed 6.45 pm TJCA vs VA Hougang Sports Hall

finally dragged myself to hall today... but... i'm back home again... wanted to go back... but for wat?? to wake up at 3 plus and go for a flag day from 4am to 7pm?? i dun think so.. crazy lar!! i'm too lazy for that..

walked around the blocks in NUS.. it's a maze there... walked through a few faculties and to my hostel... took quite a while... my laptop can connect thru the schools lan-points liaozZ.. but my com seemed to have some problem.. cant pin-point wats the problem too... but it's working fine now... maybe it's the place... duhzZ...

saw my TJ senior who put me into block B... he's now in NIE becoming a chinese teacher... went to meet yanli for dinner at harbour front... when i was leaving i took the lift down... but the lift was going up.. den there was someone else with me in the lift... whom i think looked familiar... den he ask me if i was going for dinner.. i said i was going out.. den i ask him was sch was he from previously... den he told me NJ, den continued saying he only played vball in yr 1... den i was like... do u know me?? so i asked him... he said.. u are kelun lor.. very popular mahzZ... den i was like.. har?? i din even know i was popular... maybe notorious for skipping all the orientation and stuff... haha... den someone came in when he left... den this guy was like.. eehh kelun u not going for dinner ar?? den i was like.. har?? u also know me?? but i know no one!! scary leh... hahaa...

finally bid for my non-core module for this sem.. i think i shld be able to get it... chose it together with yanli... we looked thru alot of modules... finally found one that doesnt clash exam or lectures... phew... really headache... gonna do some basic computer programming... think it shld be fun.. hehee...

NUS bidding system for modules gives us alot of choices and a lot of possibilities... but it'a really a headache... NTU one is so much simpler... even the online learning facility is easier to use... in NUS... u can enter ur username password like ten times... once for logging on... den VPN.. den intranet... den CORS... den NUS space... den email... and the list goes on... kaozZ.... waste time!!! so many windows... my com will hang!!

yesterday i was late for vball.. very late... cos i over slept... den went to tj for training... match for the singapore open will begin on tuesday nite... very fast... dunno if can advance to the next round or not...

today's the day which i held the UnAmazing Race for 06/99... i wouldnt really call it a success, but nothing much screwed up lor... so i consider it okay... except for some small gliches here and there... hahaa.. but overall it's fine..

bbq at my place at the end of everything... got a lot of food to cook.. still got a lot left over.. hahaa.. wat a waste...

tml going to NUS super early in the morning cos got some inauguration ceremony... supposingly it's a super boring event... but just go lor... miss a lot of activities in school liaozZ.. already lagging behind a lot liaozZ... sianzZ....