182 : one week left !

ONE WEEK LEFT TILL SUBMISSION. RED RANGER HELP US !

181 : Parteee

Fine, so i didn't really stay home and do archi all day, gave myself some break from all the stress by going to a ... sushi party ?

Here's some wacky food i ate then that taste absolutely fabulous.

Sweetened sushi rice, and goreng pisang without the banana, or like fried tempura without the prawn....

... or you can roll it up with nori and add cucumber and the some egg and some mayo and some sesame to get some really huge assed dekai sushi roll.

kurisumasu cards i made in 1 hour half. thats a personal record.

aren't they cute ? every card has a story =)

Amidst all the rushing and rushing of cadding, i went shopping cos i felt pathetic not going out shopping and what not. Realised i really got no time for such nonsense, in the end bought only the following item(s) in the super market for good deal. I switching over to these babies from coffee because its much cheaper. I shall have my TCC treat after submission.

6 litres tasty soy milk for 7.20 bucks, thats a steal !

开：光阴似箭， 明天的我还会找到昨天的你吗?

180 : kurisumasu for everybody.... again 2007

Here's what i did one year back.

Things have changed, met the same people year ago last night somehow, even though i was rushing work, but oh wells, thanks for the generous gifts guys ! I owe everyone something now.


The only shopping i did this festive season was buying materials for my project model and a little something extra...



3 years of rotting in poly had left my arms skinny and flabby. Can't even do any more pull ups now. Life is going to be so busy from here on.

So here i am, CAD-ing non-stop for the past 8 hrs or so, eyes swollen, bad stomach, and now hungry and crippled. But i must push ! Final lap of my diploma course already, its now or never !

179 : Longer way to go JC4

Words ? How boring. Lines ? I like lines, especially red, yellow, green, grey and cyan lines. Poly education rocks.

178 : Now hiring

I am a currently a final year architecture student in my last semester last term period of study. My final year project involves designing a music museum in the context of Singapore. I am now in the stage of preparation of my presentation boards which illustrates the detailing and the construction of my designed building. In addition, i am trying to make a 3D physical model using materials such as timber, white cardboard and some parts which involves smaller metal joints.

From the looks of things and the current project progress, i do not think i can make it in time due submission on the 7th of January 2008. I am trying my best to keep up with the progress of my work and my personal life. If you're interested to help me even one bit, maybe in modelling or doing 3D renders or even photoshop colouring, please leave me a message either thru mail of my cbox and the left side.

If not send, would appreciate some encouragements to keep me going during the late nights of sleeplessness.

PS. Failed my 2.4km and pullups, but managed to secure a bronze award somehow through my haphazard training these few months. sad

177 : A designer's job

For those who need to prepare a portfolio for university admission or job application, here's a good read to get yourself prepared, or maybe just some inspiration too.

http://www.lifeclever.com/you-are-more-than-your-portfolio

21 more days to D-day. Cham liao.

176 : Only when i sleep...

My dreams sometimes are prophetic, and now they're downright ridiculous. CTSS speech day in 2015 and i'm the GOH ? Haha, funny. And worst of all to have her inside too as a band instructor. Then some of my rovers were playing the percussion section, and we're doing some weird dance on stage with the rest of the uniform groups. Isn't it amazing?

I'm hearing strange squeaking voices in my room every morning when i wake up, i'll try to record it and maybe someone can help me ID what the heck is that. Or is this all architecture stress ?

the 2nd nrc swearing in as a member to serve the rovering community. i look silly with the long hair.

cool mosque located at sembawang while walking to the rover retreat. the building was in our year 1 lecture notes, can't remember the name.
the minaret is just so damn hip, the onions are gone !

开：您是否知道，每天下的一场场雨，如一面镜子，唱出了我的心声。

175 : Unsatisfied

Today i read a comrade's msn nick and it says : "The worst thing i did this year was that i joined the N** !" Well, not even myself has got the balls to write such things, no matter how unsatisfied one can get.

There are many things to be troubled and pissed about, if you continue to hold that grudge inside and not let it out, you're being a real kid. If there's something you can't be satisfied with, in most cases just deal with it. Trying too hard(note the too hard here) to make changes and go your way breeds conflict of interest and its just not worth the effort. That said, its good to remind everybody to be on your toes all the time, and be super wary as people can backstab, play taichi, or do funny stuff to you anytime.

I'm seriously screwed for this submission thanks to scouting and everyone involved in the incident one way or another. If i do not graduate with good grades to go university, i will haunt you know who to the depths of the sea and to wherever cave you think you can hide, i've got GPS.

PLANS FOR TMR :
-rehearsal for sp-ganda as school rep in morning and afternoon
-work on details, final day of school before hols.
-call up scout shop for roger and inform aru
-call up guitar shop to check for collection date
-napfa test in the evening
-collect guitar with jason
-family matters at night

174 : Competions !

Huh, what JC4 submission, huh ? Contest ends 12th DEC 2007 =X

173 : survivors

This is the final final one already, all the best and good luck ! I will work super hard too ! No more boards, no more modeling after this for awhile.

172 : Shiawase ni naru

Ask yourselves this question, what does it take to be happy ?

Is it achieving something, scoring top in a national exam?
Is it being extremely rich ?
Or maybe being popular and extremely famous ?
Is it falling in love with someone ?
Or being loved by someone ?

And all this...
Is it on the expense of others ?



What do you want to achieve ? What do you want to be ? Where do you want to be ?
Who can answer all these ?
Answer me.

171 : Last month of classes

Next week is going to be the last proper week of classes and lecture in my poly life and it just suddenly strikes me as a surprise when my lecturer mentioned it too. And zooom, its time for graduation and stuff, fast sia.
I think i am gonna miss my seat and class fast. You can eat, play, do CAD, cut model, play DOTA, play chess, sing and strum, play tennis in this place. The lab just rocks.

Of course, we get to fool around with the whiteboard too, and some guy just started giving everyone in class alternate names in chinese and wrote them on the board. Care to spot mine ? Just ignore the bad poem by RM on the top.

Lastly, all those nonsensical SP-ganda is coming to an end. Like this, sports day in the heavy rain, people doing long jumps, archery, 100m dash, cheering and mascoting. There wasn't much spirit in the spectators other than my class who's crazy. People were just whining about the rain, how they're here just for the CCA points. For me, i went for the goodie bag and free food (chips!).
Submission is an enemy of Christmas and the new year celebrations. This is like the 6th lap of your 2.4km, intensely tiring, but still need to go for it. *Long sigh*

开：人生本来就是一场梦。 梦醒了，我将会在哪里？ 我还会见到你吗？

170 : The long road ahead

I never would have imagined myself looking at the row which says NAPFA challenge for 19-20 year olds. I have trained hard for the past few months but to no avail, though i can run much better now. Shite !I'm bloody 19 already.

Enough with the adolescence crap. A few days back my class were talking about marriage, BGR and stuff cause our dearest kenneth is now again infatuated with yet again, another girl. However this time round, we got a much older classmates to share his life story. He mentioned, that many of his friends are already getting married, some shotgun, and some couples who just met for a few weeks only. All these stunts that were retold by him were just amazing, if not amazingly stupid. My friend at his age ( 24) was already attending wedding dinners and ROMs shit for his friends from army.

Now this friend of mine, he also had a girlfriend for many years already, who just happens to be the same age as him as they met in ITE. In a way from what he told me, since he's still studying in poly, his girlfriend sometimes stresses him to rush it. You know what, but as a student like him, how is he going to support her and his family ?

So we move on to the topic of when each gender should marry in their respective age. Girls around 24-26, guys most of us agreed its around 28-30. Imagine getting married at 30++ and going to work so hard till you're like 60, and then only your kids will be able to support you. My friend also mentioned from his experience, when girls reach their 27-28, they're just become GRAB and GO. Sad isn't it. All for the sake of being not left on the shelf.

At this point of time, i would like to remind myself of a joke my colleague once told me, "Women, they're like cars, pretty good for the first few years, but depreciates over time. On the other hand, men are like wine, the longer you keep them the better." While i'm not being a total sexist, its pretty funny that he cracks it when he doesn't speak good engrish while having a family of 3 kids.

And again at this point of time, i reflect upon my position of what i've seen and been through, i just dare not think of myself in 3-5 years time, i'm really scared.

Now for some whining and a few laps round the pool of self sympathy. Argh, why does shit always happen to me. At first i thought i had everything under control and things would be alright, but things just do not happen the way i had planned it. Now have to pay money, now have to waste my precious project time to call up people to ask for help, now have to be rejected by people whom i trust a lot last time, people do show their true colours in time of crisis. Some people did offer help and consolation but i'm not feeling it. How how ? The only way i thought of through the night is to only depend on yourself, cause in their wide sacred world we humans are trying so hard on the surface to protect and conserve, there's no one else to trust but yourself, it is difficult to lie to yourself, and with your own limbs only are you able to entrust the jobs given to you and fulfill them. Humans are ugly and worst off, singaporeans are uglier, my job at nokia proved that, my major event proved that, my crisis of 2007 proved that. Its a world that big fish eats up small fish, i rather be the super small fish that gets eaten up first than being the medium sized fish that only kenna later. I realised in times like this, money works wonders,but money is the root of all evil, thus we end up with a conundrum, so only by being evil can you solve problems. I train so hard, run till my leg aches, do work help people lookout for other people and in the end people step on me. The system is screwed, the society that we midgets thread upon was built upon corruption and dictatorship. I'm not happy with how the world ticks, but yet it is this very earth that gave me existence, and sometimes i dread it. Is there a way to create a system which detects lies and punishes all who deserves it ? Was justice ever fair ? People always say life ain't fair, but why don't people work hard to make it fairer ? They just want benefit for themselves, popularity, and luxury on the expense of others. I hate how powerless i am when it comes to things like this, i thought of many ways to get out of the system, but alas none worked. Am i stuck here on this corrupted path ? Or should i run for election ? Democracy isn't also really democracy already. So many things i know, so much more that i realise i do not know. I just want to live in a small village, with my farm and my dog, farming, enjoy the breeze, sleep soundly at night with no worries in the world, just the farm the dog and me.

CRFAP.

169 : collateral damage

One hell of a weekend. But i felt i accomplished many things, sometimes too much for my own comfort. Now for some reports of the damage done to my brain, spirit and body(or wallet) so far.

First up, JLPT was a huge..... SCREW UP !

Hopeful candidates lazing around the japanese school during break...

Next up, campfire ain't exactly a dai se ko but it'll pass i guess. Performance was pretty ok even though i got a bit of sore throat with me singing. Pretty tough playing the guitar and singing at the same time. Will the get video up when its ready........ For now, have a look of some of the photos taken during and before the campfire.

开：你最初的梦是什么？ 是不是人活下去就非得要长大？ 请你在我耳旁轻轻地告诉我。

168 : Rare

Ok, so i skipped class today. For the very first time i skipped class yes you got that right, but for a valid reason at least. Got interviewed as a graduate speaker, i think whoever nominated me must have thought highly of me for some reason.

So as soon as i got back to class from the interview, what happens ? FIRE DRILL. This must be the most slack and rubbish drill in my school life. Everyone was strolling, singing songs, joking and no once enforced the finger to your lips and queue up in 2 rows rule. Of course for such rare nonsensical events, we take photos.

"We love SP for the wonderful fire drill."

Here we have 2 guys pointing up and behind me. For what reasons they did so are beyond the spectrum of my imagination.

开: 星空下， 我们曾经许过多少的心愿,你有多少勇气去实现?

167 : Sentosa Matta...

So, the carrier has arrived, with my distinguished relatives from m'sia on a holiday is sunny hot and humid Singapore. First stop, SENTOSA ! And i am once again, for many many many times already, the not so salty tour guide. School project how ? Die lor.

unda-water world, been 10 years since i went in there ? Its still the same old conveyor belt i remembered muka mukashi...

Dolphin Lagoon; dolphins, trainers and half naked angmor playing in the shallow water, how sweet

The heat, the heat, the bloody heat, heng heng i brought my HWM magazine to read with a cup of cool lime juice, glad to be under an umbrella.

This is most probably the highlight of the day. I can't remember what's this called.3 cousins in the centre and one of their dad at the other end.

"Look mommy, one hand!"

"Look mommy, no legs !"

Sunset, we all love sunsets. Romantically corny.

Speaking of which the ride up was rocky and high. And i dared took out my phone to snap snap snap. Zai-ed.The annoying chop for the ride, cant wash it off. They're using us as free advertising, my beautiful hand, ruined !

All in all, it was mildly entertaining with my crazy cousins around, being the big brother i gotta be a role model and be real obedient, no dirty jokes, no sarcasm and no looking at birds. Worst off i forgot my sunglasses and so i could not stare at people which i usually would.

Tomorrow night is the Xin Yao concert. And i got japanese class till late. HOW ? Who can help me record channel U 7pm onwards ? Dare ka taskete kure~

166 : broken dreams of the boulevard

Its red, its espirt, its a .... pram ? Ok, but its damn cool. The baby on it will be like 10x cooler than it usually is. Grandma and friends are in the house, all 7 of them currently fit into a 4 room flat. Tonight i going to sleep on my desk cos my fluffy bed is well, booked out. Either that or i think i will be working through the night then sleep in the day.

On a second note, i've been reprimanded by the great one (granny) about my redness, no not my face or the rash on my neck. Its my obsession with the tones of red.

Pink DS, my mouse, mousepad, mobile phone, shoes, shirt, undies, more shirts, specs, bag, socks, my room wall, many more. Granny's argument is that red is for girls, especially things you wear. I am in no position to argue back or what, so i simply whine over here. My ears hurt after those nagging.

Oh, and i just want to say a big thank you to sze bim for lending me her bass guitar. My cool factor just tripled thanks to her. Campfire coming saturday december 1st, we're(the scouts, ventures) probably performing either boulevard of broken dreams by greenday or stars by switchfoot or my personal favourite, my love from westlife. ANG MOR SONGS. EWWWWW.(cept' westlife)

165 : empty post

I had this post up initially but i not sure why it got deleted. Hmm...

Today we take a look at my desk in school. Thats my bag and my errr kitty, and my rest of the rubbish. There's so much stuff i can't even find my keyboard. Notice that empty space beside my side there ? Its my good buddy jeremy's table, clean and neat.
Ah, here he is. Not that i want to talk bad about him, but he's a bit of a snob and those territorial sort of guy. The reason my table is so squeezed is mainly thanks to him "koping" both sides of the table and thus we often discuss which part of the table is whose erm... property. Very political, very stupid. The other side sits ben, we just anyhow pom our things between our tables and things do get messy.

164 : What matters ?

"memories of (me)nobody"

Cleaning up my room now, many things to do this weekend. And i stumbled upon all those neo prints which i thought i had threw away because of various reasons. The lighting sure is nice in those pictures. Purikura Banzai.... NOT. Just brings back bad memories.

My dearest ken-chan forgot to minimize my bloggie while reading it in school today, and my dearest lecturer took a peek. Haha, i wonder who else is gonna read all this crap in this god-forsaken place.

Ok, back to work. Oh here's something else.

Clementi Ave 2 Plaza

Just love taking those sunset shots. Notice the full moon at the back. If only i got a better camera.

Ok, really back to work.

163 : Connect 5 fever

A Wei Qi board.

Insane coursemates (thats our archi yr 3 lab by the way)

1 hour to kill on connect 5

and no one won.

The world is mad, but i don't really care. JLPT and campfire are just round the other corner. My school project is on a complete halt too, ah shit.

162 : Minutes, hours, seconds

Gosh i hate doing minutes. Oh god. My life is so busy i wanna puke, i wanna play !

shortest post ever.

161 : Haix, not again "T_T"

More gifts from japa... wait... i paid for them. More omamouri to keep me lucky and happy. Two for health, two more for erm... relationships ? I intend to give them all away in time to come. Broke again.

IMM really revamped itself with the "special" roof garden at the 3rd floor. Lucky i got my camera along and snapped some construction things. Note how they hide the services using the cheap cheap method of perforated mesh. I just like the protruding nipple-like air ducts in the ceiling along the whole stretch, adds flavour to a if not boring roof space. Oh, did i mention its a canvas roof, sure stain one.

You can get these babies at $1.50 at the rare vending machine on the 3rd floor near the roof garden area there, served hot. Good stuff. Hmmm why am i helping pokka da guang gao.

My bad assed acne problems are coming back, must be due to late sleep and stress, and i wash my face a lot. Its the stupid excess oil on my face and body, i'm like a walking grease machine. tasukete ! I realised my shift key is a bit cock up, haix. Not again.

160 : Am i making your heart race ?

The nice folks at NRC gave these to me, bought from their APR trip to tokyo, i am extremely envious as their trip was fully sponsored. Ah damn. The 3 items are, mickey mouse key chain from erm disney land, a　" Be prepared/ 備えよ常に" pencil (did i get it right ?) and a scout insignia collar pin. Oh and black paper does come in handy sometimes when taking photos. Campfire meeting tomorrow, going to make it a great for the scouts and i, and hopefully i can grab someone to go to HQ with me.

159 : Block 159

Yeap, thats where i used to live in taman jurong long ago back then when i was in primary school. This week is going to be interesting. Tomorrow scouts training again, thursday morning interim presentation, then night is rover meeting with the big shots (zomg.), friday is sports day and training day, saturday is scouts and project day again sunday is rest day. Next week is going to be the same bloody hectic week.

Campfire is less than 20 days away. I got skylights, partition wall, curtain walling, raised floor systems, facade design, interior design, and exhibition design left to detail during november and december. GG. There's too many things ! Too little time ! YK is damn stressed with all these nonsense.

158 : Xinyao

This is one of my favourite songs from the 新谣 era. Just read the lyrics, describes very well the writer's mood of that time. What causes a composer to write a particular line of lyric ? Is it something that he/she wants to change ? What is the pushing force to drive such beautiful and nostalgic feeling ? Songs should be simple like this one, it should convey one message to the listener and put them into the shoes of the writer. Brilliant. If you want to hear this song, just give me a PM on messenger, you probably can't find it anywhere else already.

157 : Website 1 DOWN

v.1.3

v.1.2

All that's left is approval, minor changes, coding it in, and i'm done. This is just a sneak preview. I am open to comments here.

EDIT : Changes with some stuff added, see v.1.3 Commen-to onegai !

156 : YUI WALLPAPER 3

Looks difficult to do but its actually quite easy. My third work. I personally the contrast is quite bad, and i am just too lazy to change.

155 : Sleeping late

Ideally according to many research and chinese medicinal history, sleeping late cause you to get extremely heaty. Thus the rise of pimples, mood swings, and yellow urine.

An average person needs around 7 hours of sleep a day, and less sleep as you get older. I never considered myself average and i need more than 7 hours a day, or else i will become groggy and evil (the next day). A friend of mine has insomnia and only sleeps up to 5 hours a day only, and wakes up before even his alarm rings in the morning, best of all weariness is non-existence.

The only reason i see why i need more sleep is because i got pretty low stamina and i need to replenish my energy back. Or maybe its my diet, i'm not sure. Hmm... or maybe more sleep = more chance of lucky lady to give me my lucky 4D during my slumber. I should sleep more and earlier too. Its 1.50am in the morning now and i'm currently engaged in another submission, despite having low weightage compared to my other submissions, and there's still website presentation tomorrow, and some silly word game i can't solve.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

154 : YUI WALLPAPER 2

This one is a tad more complicated than my previous one. Lots of vectors here. Maximalism at its best (ok my best).

153 : Laziness breeds pimples

Dinner last night was incredibly wtf. Do not wish to elaborate on it, just wanna remind myself here to simply keep to eating with people my own generation.

Today, Sunday is great day. Sunday is a Fun day. Its when people go out with their families, friends, koibito on dates and stuff. I am stuck home, doing nothing, nope, not work, not projects but simply stuck home to play my DS. Its been a long time since i sat down and had a go at it, been only using it for the japanese dictionary function.

A new game just came out, megaman zx advent, even though i didn't play the prequel, its still fun classic side scrolling action hack shoot slash. Played a bit of phoenix wright too. =(

Slept more in the afternoon after gaming, oh man this is life, escaping from your duties to just chill out. Skipped lunch too, yeah. Haix, but now my fore head is as red as hell, pimple are popping out like mad, as if they're on strike. Sucks living out life, sucks more growing up.

152 : one month left to campfire

7 man team, photo courtesy of melissa

"Rover rover, tired la." - typical response to asking them to do work
"Push ups will revitalize you." - my typical response to the above.

Today's scouts attendance was just bad. Left 7 people at the end of the day. Well done. *stressed* But hey we manage to make a half assed gateway with 3 sec ones, 2 sec twos and 2 sec threes.

Its all gonna be over in blink of an eye. Me, my life in scouting, this country, this world.

151 : last e-learning week yay

"Click to enlarge"

Sometimes, i am just amazed at the things i do. It makes absolutely no sense and people dig it. I wonder what my lecturers will say when they see this. Its saturday now, and i need to go for scouts. Gee Gee.

3rd year last semester already, and i'm loving it. You must tell yourselves, archi is fun.