Whoo~~

It was only just today that I knew Miss Heng does the Terry Fox Run regularly! Wow! She even did half-marathon last year! How does she do it w her heavy workload?? She says running helps her relax. Well for me, 2.4klick run was e bane of my NAPFA and I really wanted to kill my PTIs in VnR cos we did running every PT session. Rather do circuits. But Miss Heng finds time in between work, and writing. Oh yes by the way, Miss Heng's gonna have a reading at NUS UCC on 12th Aug Fri, so those who can make it please do~ (anyway there are only 6 of us frm our class :P)

Musings

I like to watch cop shows like CSI, CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Law&Order (SVU). Wonder why? Caught the season finale of CSI Wed night. It was directed by Quentin Tarantino and it seems that his shows all have this dark edge (no?) tho I haven't watched Kill Bill or his other films.
Tim Burton's recent films like Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are surrealistic and the trailers alone creep me out. If I'm not mistaken, Sleepy Hollow was done by him too? I don't think I'm gonna watch that. I prefer Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow =P
Today was quite a mad rush in the sweltering heat. Went to HC to ask Miss Heng for a letter of referrence, and she told me that I should get my CCA teacher Mr Teh to write it for me cos he knows me better on a community basis (CCA 3 years back) and that it wouldn't be right for her to write one. So in the end, got Mr Teh, nice guy that he is, to help me, and he just outright agreed tho he wasn't obliged. Guess he thinks that since he could help me in this chance to go study elsewhere, why not? (He graduated from the FASS history dept; his wife is an EU grad) Thanks lots, Mr Teh!
Rushed out the long way to catch the bus to town for 1.15pm interview, made it just in time. Then back again to the same area for tuition; had to walk all the way from the bus stop opp NJ and to the far side of NY, and further in. Melting..
On the way out, the tuition kid's grandad was jus coming in, and he called out to the person in the car (his daughter, who had sent him there) to send me out since she was going tt way anyway. I was quite thankful for the ride out, and it was a really nice gesture on their part. I think the sun was too blazing and they sympathised w me.
Dashing around in the hot sun in jeans and track shoes is a no no, but no choice either. Ah well, i shall flipflop to town tmr and go try nice nice Birkenstocks~~ before meeting the others at Starbucks after. *I hope I get paid soon*

5 of us as we were ostracizing e Ah-Lian lookalike in green 

Me, Peanut, Kaiqi, Kel, Chunlei, Huipei 

Me n Huipei.. She's leaving for Sweden on exchange on 1st Aug to enjoy e cool summer and high indices hahz 

Temptation

L-R: Persia, Asia Cream, Powerflower, Cheope Champagne, Reggy Brown, Thai Brown. Check out these colours, design Florida, in detail at German Shoes Online (GSO). The first 4 are top choices.. if only I had the buying capability.

Grr

Have been rudely awakened by e incessant drilling of e staircases and also outside at e playgrd. Everyday 10am to ard 5pm. SO irritating! This is e flight right outside my house door. Arghs. Drilling and upgrading has been in process during e past few weeks.. and they're gonna continue for some time. 

Congrats! Steady sia!

To Glen for passing on the first time, today, with 6 points, den coming over to drive us to his camp in e Lexus =P He'll drive much better than me in a v short period of time. He'll be able to use e car w/o parents, and plus his mum subscribes to "must practice more to build confidence so drive more around town k?"

PO'ed

In this Academic Year of 2005/2006, I would like to commend the consistency of the administrative system in planning and organising the timetable composed of a mindboggling number of myriad modules.

This year, it seems that the university has decided to update its timetable and have included tutorial timings, to facilitate the planning of modules. This is especially important for those who hail from FASS, who know that the arrangement and successful bidding for of an ideal timetable i.e. with the modules that one (a) has to fulfill according to major requirements, (b) has to fulfill according to university requirements, (c) has interest in taking, (d) must be able to score a fair grade for. The furious brain-storming and intricate planning behind the resultant timeslots of modules made available to students usually results in loud rumblings when students fail to obtain the desired modules. This unrest increases when tutorial balloting comes around and students get allotted slots that require rushing from one end of the campus to the other in the space of 10mins, or slots that require them to come to school for just one class (said tutorial) for the day, every week until the exams.

As Murphy's Laws prove, the sheer perversity of the system in place, constrained by physical space, the indivisibility of the human body, and the conspicuous absence of a Time-Turner or other whatchamacallem time-manipulation devices conspire to produce a really screwy timetable.

Take for example, my projected timetable for AY05/06, Sem2. Monday may end at 2100. Tues I could start at 0800 and end at 1800. Wed may be free, Thurs I spend an hour less in sch than on Tues. And Fri, my preferred free day, will definitely not end before 1600. This is just projection, the actual bidding hasn't started and the timetable is subject to further destabilization. Out of the 6 modules I intend to take, I cannot declare pass/fail for any. I have taken 3 of the 7 EU modules available this sem, don't wish to take one of them, am not certain that I'm eligible to take another, and have to choose between the remaining 2 modules, whose timings clash. I had hopes that it being Sem1, there would have been more of my major modules. The ones that fulfill criteria (a) and (c) above. And yes, I am not surprised that the system has managed to manoeuver things such that I cannot fulfill (a) without violating (c) and (d). But, this is not yet the core of my point.

I'd fancied that the system, being true to form, would put out a load of modules that are either uninteresting, or that I've already taken, during the second semester of 05/06. Being the utter fool, asking for punishment, I checked the exam timetable for that sem. It turns out that there are FIVE modules that I'm dying to take. Namely (1) EU2221, Empires, Colonies and Imperialism;
(2) EU3228 The EU and ASEAN in the World; (3) Cold War in Europe, 1945-1991; (4) EU4216 Europe; (5) EU4224 War and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. Of course, the timings for a couple of the modules may clash, but hey, there're good choices. The irony is that I'll prob be in France on student exchange during this particular semester. Granted, I could take modules at the heart of Europe, and it IS Europe after all. But, there's about, oh, 80% chance that the 5 modules stated above will never appear again in the remainder of my university life.

The crux of this entire rant is that I have been an EU major for 2 years, and in that period of time, I have not done many major modules which genuinely interest me and may stimulate studying. And the only time that there is any hope that I may do these, I can't. The next possible time period such tantalising modules may appear is in my final sem, and how can an average-grade student like me get good grades in all the major modules that roll like a snowball down a slope and avalanche in the crucial sem? It really irks me that the certain stupendous perversity of the cosmos has manifested itself in the system, and that the inevitable turning of the modules Wheel is wearing off the cogs of Hope. This entry cannot possibly reflect the degree of frustration, disgruntlement and downright rage that I feel. Simply put, I am bloody pissed off.

Words fail me.

Initial D

It's a not bad debut for Jay as one of the leads. Even better is that there's a cool soundtrack tt goes with it, like the Eng one titled "God's Hands On the Wheels", the one that starts '4am, I'm doing my rounds'. And thru my participation in the Jay Chou net forums I understand that there's a sequel to this movie, namely Initial D II. I've also managed to get my hands on some behind the scenes short clips such as the kissing scene (Jay looks sooo cute there! Astonished, pleased, totally enjoying the moment). And also viewed very short segments of the MVs for both the songs. Also, some 'Making-of' clips are available at here, as well as more info on the movie cast characters, in Cantonese. Will prob get the vcd to watch in Canto.

The urge to try and drive like that is overwhelming but of course, I can't even use the car. Imagine if it were possible to play on open roads or at least deserted roads like Mt Akina hiakz. Of course, this is the movies, the manga, the anime - fiction. Reality should remind you tt all this.. is near impossible. Like the crazily-jittering car chase scenes in Bourne Supremacy seems like fantastic driving, they are all precisely engineered stunt sequences. It'll be kinda cool to own a Toyota Trueno, tho it's prob in e excitement over watching an old (refitted) car like that out-race the flashier, apparently more up-to-date and fine-tuned cars that the others used.

And I can't decide who to put as wallpaper on my desktop - Jay or Edison. It's that difficult a choice. Arghs. Shallow, shallow me. Do I care? *grins*

Personality Test

You're like a Unicorn!

?? Which Mythical Creature Are You ??
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Tink it's too benign to be me, prob since I was clicking the choices on myself.. How bout u take it for me based on how u perceive me? I think mine's 90%inaccurate hiakz.. :P Just for laughs ya ppl.. Dun take it too seriously

倒带

作詞：方文山 作曲：周傑倫

我受够了等待 你所谓的安排 说的未来到底多久才来
总是要来不及 才知道我可爱 我想依赖而你却都不在
应该开心的地带 你给的全是空白
一个人假日发呆找不到人陪我看海

我在幸福的门外却一直都进不来你累积给的伤害我是真的很难释怀
终於看开爱回不来 而你总是太晚明白
最後才把话说开哭著求我留下来
终於看开爱回不来 我们面前太多阻碍
你的手却放不开宁愿没出息求我别离开

你总是要我乖慢慢计划将来 我的眼泪却一直掉下来
过去怎黱交代 你该给的信赖 被你亲手缓缓推入悬崖
从我脸上的苍白 看到记忆慢下来 过去甜蜜在倒带
只是感觉已经不在 而我对你的期待 被你一次次摔坏
已经碎成太多块 要怎黱拼凑跟重来
终於看开爱回不来 而你总是太晚明白
最後才把话说开 哭著求我留下来
终於看开爱回不来 我们面前太多阻碍
你的手却放不开宁愿没出息求我别离开 -蔡依琳

一路向北

後視鏡裏的世界 越來越遠的道別
你轉身向北 側臉還是很美
我用眼光去追 竟聽見你的淚

在車窗外面徘徊 使我錯失的機會
你站的方位 跟我中間隔著淚
街景一直在後退 你的崩潰在窗外零碎

我一路向北 離開有你的季節
你說你好累 已無法再愛上誰
風在山路吹 過往的畫面全都是我不對
細數慚愧 我傷你幾回

後視鏡裏的世界 越來越遠的道別
你轉身向北 側臉還是很美
我用眼光去追 竟聽見你的淚

在車窗外面徘徊 使我錯失的機會
你站的方位 跟我中間隔著淚
街景一直在後退 你的崩潰在窗外零碎

我一路向北 離開有你的季節
你說你好累 已無法再愛上誰
風在山路吹 過往的畫面全都是我不對
細數慚愧 我傷你幾回

我一路向北 離開有你的季節
方向盤周圍 回轉著我的後悔
我加速超越 卻甩不掉緊緊跟隨的傷悲
細數慚愧 我傷你幾回
停止狼狽 就讓錯纯粹 -周傑倫