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。