i really amaze myself with how determined i am to study... :p Read this..

I spent most of today studying in the SIM library until they chased us out when the library closed at 5.30pm. I wandered around haplessly for a place in the main SIM building to try to continue studying (determined to finish the topic I was working on) but all the benches and stone tables were taken by other equally hardworking SIMlets. In the end, I decided to drive over to Ngee Ann Poly to try my luck. Finally found a relatively quiet and (in retrospect) spooky place near the Engineering block, thinking I will study till about 7 or so and then go home.. The place was really deserted, except for a bunch of students playing soccer in a nearby field...Little did I know that my studying pace would be so incredibly slow and by 8 plus or so, I was still at it (although i was almost done). By now, mosquitos had started to hover around me.. annoying me..

Suddenly, i heard loud banging noises on the floor immediately above me (I was on the ground floor) as if someone was opening and closing the wooden doors. This was followed by some voices and then nothing. I ignored it thinking it was some students still hanging around on a Saturday evening. About fifteen minutes or so later, this happened again. Then a little while later, again. While I was a little spooked, I decided that I really wanted to finish the topic before going home... besides, I knew I was protected against this sort of supernatural beings (if they were such) and continued studying until I was really done. Then I came home.

Thinking about it now, i realised it really was pretty spooky huh? :p

this is how tired i really am...



took a break from studying this evening and ate a nice Turkish meal at SOFRA Turkish Café & Restaurant at Shaw Towers. Great Turkish food (had Shish Kebap, Sultan Kebap and Eggplant salad) at affordable prices (mostly below $10) per main course. Service was pretty slow though... maybe because restaurant was so packed. Seems like a nice place to bring a bunch of people.. food is halal btw.

then went for film fest French movie Martha...Martha - an almost 2 hour long dark & disturbing movie which mostly felt like it wasn't going anywhere and had a fairly anticlimactic ending... heard someone as i was walking out of the theatre saying it is a bad show.. don't think it is so.. suspect that there is a deeper meaning behind all that imagery (not trying to sound too arty farty here but surely there was something in it that made it worthy of a Cannes award, eh?).. anyway, don't want to spend any more time thinking about it..

going back to my books.. very scary.. only 9 days left... which means 3 days per subject.. not enough not enough...

Lets make Hello Kitty a UK thing!!... errr... ok....

Oh, my gosh! They really killed Kenny (this time)!!!

This site allows you to "Build A Cow".. ya.. pretty straightforward...

This is apparently the "Most Annoying Page on the Web"

lovely flying piggies but i was asked today what they meant... ya, actually i put them up yesterday 'cos someone said something that i didn't fully agree with (and was in fact a little annoyed by) but (in my usual non-confrontational manner) did not go on arguing about it.. but then it started to grind on me after that.... and i started to feel even more peeved by it moment by moment.. .. and in my head, i kept repeating to myself what I would have wanted to say during our altercation, had i a chance - I really would have wanted to say something like.. "Ya.. as if pigs might fly..." in the sacarstic manner I used to..

but guess i am not so argumentative anymore ..... must be something to do with age...

An In-Depth Anaylsis of the Cultural Ramifications Evidenced in the Powerpuff Girls - wow... can't believe someone went to such a great length to analyse these characters.. i mean.. .isn't this just a cartoon???

...and about Buttercup:

She is the ultimate in action, saying as she pleases because in her mind, it has already gotten as bad as it must. Hair as black as her heart has become, Buttercup's wounds have grown too deep to heal, and the nerve's have been severed from all feeling. She is what we fear the female to become if we continue on our path.

:O... no! i don't believe Buttercup is evil!! i don't!!

i have 24 hours in a day.
i spend 8 hours sleeping.
i work 7 hours.

that leaves 9 hours!

what happened to those 9 hours??

"What doesn't destroy you makes you stronger."

- Nietzsche

feeling really tired and irritable now... started the day really early, waking up at an unearthly 6.30am (catching a stunning sunrise) to rush for an appointment at Tampines at 7.30am and then another appointment at Bedok to do a demo at 8.05am...all the way from Clementi..

then, came back to office to find that my boss refuses to approve my 17-day leave (1 week to study exam, 1 week for the actual exams, and another week for my trip to london).. says that no boss will approve such a long leave.. i started to stress out 'cos london tickets and (i think) accommodation have already been booked. In the end, I decided to cut short my study week (taking 2 days instead of 6 day leave), come back to work on 2 days in the week of my exam (i.e. in-between my exams) and managed to cut it down to 11 days leave instead....

was planning to work butt off this week so i can have whole of next week to study really hard for exams.. now have lost motivation to do so... feel like rushing off during lunch and straight after work to study cos now really panicking and not sure whether got enough time.. :( ... besides, no need to make sure work is completed since will be coming back most of next week anyway.. grrr... :(

i just wish life isn't so difficult now.......

this guy is really cool... he drove all the way from New York to San Francisco in 6 days, mounting an SLR camera to his side window (triggered automatically by his speedometer) and took one picture at every mile - for all 3304 miles of it! He stops at night and drives to the nearest motel and then comes back to the very same point the next day to carry on... wow...

i want to come up with a truely original travel-photography project too.. something no one else (or at least very very few others) has ever done before... walk the length of something.. (i've thought of the River Thames or Hadrian's Wall), motorbiking and cirum-navigating the world on one of the latitudes or the equator...travel North to South of one of the longitudes (like Michael Palin's "From Pole to Pole")....something... (alb says I sound like John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.. :p)

went to this really odd kopitiam-style French food stall yesterday.. The French Stall off Little India - very odd.. you get gourmet stuff like Escargot for $8, Duck A L'orange at $14.80 and I had this Steak something for only $12.80.. but the food turned out to be only so-so (in fact, a little on the overly rare side).. could be because the main Chef was apparently not around and his assistant was in charge for that day..

there are really a lot of strange and interesting food places in Singapore (and I'm sure around the world too.).. so i can't understand this guy's obsession with McDonald's... he went to 45 McDonald's outlets in a single day! :O

there i was in cubicle no. 104, mugging away, starting on yet another one of the really complicated capital bugeting questions from the really thick and very heavy finance management textbook.. it was my 50th or maybe 102nd.. or maybe..224th question.. i have been in the library since 10am.. and have been sustained thus far by only half a glass of milk in the morning and 2 miserable slices of toasted bread coated thinly with egg mayo at noon... suddenly... my brain juices started to leak out from the tiny cracks at my temple... i had begun to explode.. but i didn't notice.. cos i was still mugging away at my finance questions....

BOOM!!! there was a loud explosion suddenly coming from cubicle no. 104! pieces of me landed everywhere.. in cubicles as far away as no. 23 and 227.. with cubicles no. 103 and 105 worst hit... the other hardworking SIM-lets stirred.. suddenly interrupted in their studying.. the SIM-let in cubicle no. 79 muttered annoyingly at the noise and brushed away the loose pieces of flesh, bone and hair that had landed on him, and resumed studying.. as if nothing had happened... some of the others had already started showing signs of explosion themselves.. their escaped brain juices causing the floors beneath them to turn soggy...

: D

i'm going mad with studying.. blogging now at SIM library.. i think i'm done for the day...

funny how everything else seems to be insignificant and taking a backseat when you worry about exams... like I don't care that my favourite film fest is just about to happen... or about my london trip that is coming up... or that i seem totally unenthusiastic when you ask me if i am interested in this dive trip or that course or having dinner or whatever.. .. and worse of all, i start to be a bit impatient with everyone and everything that is slow and repetitive... even friends who are recovering from breakups and so on....

there's just something about the big E that tends to get me a little.. err... cranky......

hey.. gimme a break and be patient with me till i'm done, ya?.. promise i'll be back to life then...

:(

thanks for all the concern about my exams.. think i'll be fine but ya, surely i have to start dividing up my time properly... have just been told i am getting overly obsessive about it.. sorry lah.. nothing much else happening.. besides.. THIS IS MY BLOG! go write your own blog if you want other stuff to be discussed... hmph!.. sorry.. so rude.. :p

found a couple of great blogs.. they write a great deal better than me in terms of prose and style.. and content too! especially now when i can't seem to get away from the big "E"!! go entertain yourself with them till i finish my exams lah..

1. http://asecretsmile.blogspot.com/
2. http://textism.com/

btw, you may want to try placing the swirling clock and date cursor thingey over the animated Buttercup pic - it gives you a fresh new perspective of her.. quite cool.. :)

suddenly realised i may not be able to finish studying my exams.... i'm panicking.... :( ... maybe i should stop blogging... maybe i should stop checking my email.. maybe i should stop meeting people altogether! I should go straight home after work on the dot and lock myself in my room .... disconnect the phone and modem... study and study and study!!! :O

DANIEL LIBESKIND

Farrell Eaves' camera was a perfectly ordinary Nikon CoolPix 990 until he accidentally knocked it into a pond last summer. Now it's a magic camera.

just had yummy cze cha dinner at 29 Tyrwhitt Road (off jalan besar) - 2 1/2 pairs of Makansutra chopsticks - famous for their belachan pomfret and black pepper crayfish.

busy day but have almost no recollection of what happened throughout the day - gee.. i'm tired... :|

Cheese Moving On Their Own

Met up with a friend struggling with some changes in her life yesterday and started thinking about change. About this annoying cliché – “The only constant is change”. Started thinking through the day and while going home. Beginning to see how true it is. Change is happening around us all the time. Sometimes, we create the change, because we acknowledge something is going awry (e.g. getting fat for me: p) and set our minds to stemming it. These changes are (relatively) easy to handle. Just need a bit of self-discipline and so on. Then there are changes that happen to us. Like for my friend. Or suddenly getting sacked because of office politics and so on. These changes are usually accompanied by feelings of betrayal and injustice and can take a long time to get over and accept.

In the book “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Dr Spencer Johnson, Hem says “Why should we change? We’re special. This sort of things should not happen to us. Or if it does, we should at least get some benefits.” Haw asks “Why should we get benefits?”. Haw claims, “Because we’re entitled.” “Entitled to what?” Haw wanted to know. “We’re entitled to our Cheese.” “Why?” Haw asked. “Because we didn’t cause this problem. Somebody else did this and we should get something out of it.” Haw suggested,” Maybe we should stop analyzing the situation so much and just get going and find some New Cheese.”

“Oh no,” Hem argued. “I’m going to get to the bottom of this.”

Aren’t we all like that sometimes… Maybe they are right.. “The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Find New Cheese.” (pg 60)

For all animal lovers out there - especially all those pet lovers.. this is really worth reading.. "How Could You?"