Monthly Archive for November, 2007

33% Done!

33 is a nice number, since I’m 33% done with my exam papers! Had my EE2007 paper today, which I found to be rather easy. Hopefully, I’ll get an A for this module, since my other modules seem to be doomed for failure. The last minute studying probably did pay off afterall. To all those who don’t believe last minute studying is any good, believe it now! Heh, which reminds me about an “argument” with my dear boss some time back, something about last minute studying. I maintained that last minute studying was useful, and I always only study at the eleventh hour, but she maintained that if she were to only study last minute, then she might as well not study since shes doomed to fail the paper anyway. Well, not sure who’s right, but to me, a last minute studying does provide a false sense of security, whereas not studying will provide you with no sense of security whatsoever! She maintains that no sense of security would be better than a false sense of security, but who am I to argue with her, she IS my boss afterall :P As they say, the boss is always right (yea right :P)

So, why am I awake at such an unearthly hour? Well, I can only blame Starhub and TODAY, for not getting the time of the soccer match between Liverpool and Porto right. A check with various sources showed different timings from each of them. Therefore, being the great Liverpool fan that I am, and not wanting to miss the match, I set my alarm clock for the earliest time that the match was supposed to start, and found out it only starts at 0345am! Therefore, here I am rambling about some nonsense, rather than lying in my bed sleeping after spending the day studying! Theoretically, I can start studying for my next paper, but to stick by my principals and only study at the 11th hour, I can only start studying next monday, since the paper on tuesday. Ya right, I will start studying earlier than that… I hope :P

Anyway, it’s still 1 hour to the match, so I have more time to rant about some stuff. Anyone likes it when it rains? Don’t get me wrong, I like the rain too, when I am at home wanting to sleep at least. Times I hate when it rains is when I’m on my bike, on the way to someplace, and it starts to rain like there’s no tomorrow. And these times have been occuring more frequently as of late, probably due to the rainy season. And I hate it even more, when I’m drenched from the rain, and my exam paper is in a freezing cold multipurpose sports hall. Oh well, at least the paper was easy.

And the next topic of my boredness would be - changing gas for cooking! Well, not really on the gas or for cooking, but rather on how they give calendars whenever you change gas for your gas stove. I’m not sure how cooking works in newer houses now, but at my place we still use those blue gas cylinders to fuel our cooking stove! So, today ours ran out and we changed it, and tada we get a new calendar! Not sure why they give calendars whenever you change your gas cylinders, but they do, and you can always expect it from them. Anyway, the calendar this time caught my eye, since on the cover was 2 rats. That could only mean that next year is the year of the rat, and would also mean I would be 24 years old! Gosh, how time flies! Anyway, here’s a photo I snapped of the 2 rats. I think we should call them mouses, since mouses sound cuter than rats, and those mouses definitely look cute.

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Ratatouille!

Another thing that caught my eye, was some bread that my mother bought. It caught my eye, because it was shaped like a turtle, and this conversation followed…

me picks up the bread
me: what bread is this?
mom: tuna
me: it’s not tuna it’s a turtle!
mom: it’s tuna!
me: but it’s a turtle
mom walks off, not bothering about me

Well, I’m not sure why they decide to shape the bread like this, maybe the turtle got hungry and ate some tuna? As for whether it’s a turtle or tuna, I’ll leave that for you to decide!

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Turtle Power!

Happy (Belated) Birthday Huijing!

Well, as the title says, Happy Birthday Huijing! Her birthday was really yesterday, but since we only celebrated with her today so I can only post this today! Well not really, but since it’s my blog so what I say goes. We celebrated her birthday at Sushi Tei @ Serangoon Gardens, having our weekly japanese food review once again. No, we don’t really have a weekly japanese food review. It’s just coincidental that Sushi Tei was picked. Anyway, it must have been a long time since I’ve been to Serangoon Gardens. Anyone else sees the irony when people from all over Singapore come to Serangoon Gardens to dine at the various famous eateries and here I am, staying just a 5 mins walk away, and I hardly step foot there. I didn’t even know that a cold storage, and various new eateries have popped up there!

Anyway, back on topic to our Belated Birthday Girl. She has gotta be the funniest girl on earth. Not that she’s good at cracking jokes or anything, but the stuff she does and says… All I can say is I don’t know if I should laugh or cry sometimes. Well, rather that believing what I say, I shall give you some examples!

One fine day on IRC…
[12:34:21] <ching> i went for a wedding dinner
[12:34:23] <ching> one day in advance man

Last week at Hanabi…
nick to her: How’s the Kimchi Ramen?
nick sees her facial expression, then says: Not nice?
her to nick: It’s not not nice, just not nice.

Another fine day on IRC…
[19:55:52] <ching> LOL
[19:55:55] <ching> ooops
[19:56:03] <ching> it was suppose to be a lol

And the list goes on… See what I mean when I say I don’t know if I should laugh or cry? At the end of the day, she’ll still be our “funniest” friend :)

Well, some photos of the birthday cake…

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The birthday girl with the birthday cake and flying candles!

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Plates are useful for raising things up…

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Too many cameras, which one to look at?

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My handphone camera has a countdown function! Too bad the angle is too low…

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Wait a minute, we can use stack plates to raise the camera up! Have I told you how useful plates are?

Great Jap Buffet @ A Nice Price!

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Hanabi Menu 1

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Hanabi Menu 2

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Sashimi! My Favourite :)

Went to Hanabi @ King’s Arcade with Huijing and Nick for a Japanese Buffet Lunch yesterday. Well, the food was great and the price was okay, considering the 3 of us have also tried more expensive places like Ikoi and Himawari. Well, the spread you can see from the menu photos that I’ve uploaded, so I won’t go into too much detail on those. My favourite was definitely, the salmon sashimi. I mean, I could never get tired of eating sashimi over and over again, and the sashimi here was sweet and fresh. I know, I’m not exactly the food critic but yes I enjoyed the sashimi here. The price, was at $26++ per pax, which works out to be around $30 with GST and Service Charge included. Of course, if you decide to add some green tea ice cream or some other desserts, that would add more to your bill. Overall, I feel the food here had quite a nice variety, and the price was definitely worth it.

And so now here I am, back down to earth after the Jap Buffet. I just finished a project presentation yesterday, well yesterday only because it’s 1.20am now. That presentation marks the end of a module, and therefore that’s 4MCs off my workload now! Also, I finished another module which was a 100% project about 1.5 weeks ago, and that one was 6MCs. That means, I’ve already got 10MCs completed! Therefore, I only have 3 papers to worry about, and these too seem to be easy enough. 1 paper has a weightage of 50%, and the other 50% consisted of projects which have already been done. Another paper has a weightage of 80%, with 20% of labs also done. The last module, seems to be my most worrying. The paper is a mere 30%, and consists of 40 MCQs. So what’s the worry you might ask? Well, the other 70% is a project, and while other people started their projects as early as week 4, I procrastinated and delayed the start of this project until like, let’s see…, last week! Therefore, I don’t know if I should be happy that I only have 3 papers, or that I should be sad that I still have the project to be done. Oh well, I guess I should look on the bright side and think that the exam workload for this year is significantly lighter than the rest :)

E-mail and subdomain hosting up for grabs!

Ok I’m not sure who even reads this blog, but yea, I’m offering free @moomookau.org emails! As for subdomain hosting, if you’re my friend and I like you, I’m sure we can arrange something :P Anyways, the @moomookau.org emails are hosted by Google Apps which I find to be super fantastic. That means, the @moomookau.org emails will use the same interface as gmail and also the same space given by gmail. Also, you will be able to use other gmail features like calendar. So yea, if you need an account, just leave a comment here, or contact me on MSN or something, since most of you would probably have found your way here through MSN.

The solution to road problems of Singapore

Came back to school around 6 something. I was riding along CTE when I saw the sign that ERP was from 5.30pm to 10.30pm. Also, last week I noticed that the morning ERP for CTE was extended to 7.00am to 11.00am. Also, if you were to drive a car through the CTE gantries from 8.30am to 9.00am, you would have to pay a whopping $7 when you go past the 2 gantries. To solve the road congestions problems they say it’s for. Alas, I see how it works now! Soon, gantries will be erected just outside your house. That way, no more road congestion problems!