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Foxkeh!

Published on January 24, 2008 in General. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , .

I know this is a blog of a moo moo kau, but today is the fox day. I mean, how could you not love foxes when they’re so cute, especially if they’re named Foxkeh! Foxkeh is the official firefox mascot for Japan, and it’s the cutest thing you’ll ever set your eyes on! Just check it out!

You can check out Foxkeh’s Blog. I’m so in love with Foxkeh, that I’m using the Foxkeh Firefox theme at home, at work, and even on my portableapps browser! Even my wallpaper at home and at work is of Foxkeh! Check out the wallpapers here!

On another note, please do check out Singapore Law Watch for your latest legal news! Just plugging it cause it’s a free portal launched by my work place and it does provide some interesting reads, especially the Headline News part and certain cases in the Latest Cases section. It even provides RSS feeds, so it’s convenient if you don’t want to keep checking back. I personally use Google Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds, but use whatever you want!

Nothing much…

Published on January 23, 2008 in Ramblings and School. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

School has started, but not in full swing yet. However, being the hardworking person that I am, I have been spending quite some time on my GEM1501 assignments, though Lab has not started. There’s a total of 28 assignments, and I have already finished 19 of them. However, I’m pretty much stuck on the 20th one, so there goes my chance of finishing them all :( I wanted to finish them all to lighten my load on Thursdays, which are the days I have lessons pretty much from 9 to 6, except for an hours’ break at 4pm. So, if any kind soul wants to help me with the assignment, you can check it out here. It’s done in javascript, so it should be quite easy, but the problem is not with the javascript programming, but rather with the logic or the thinking through of the problem :P

Didn’t go to work yesterday, because my boss fired me for one day! She was on MC on Monday and didn’t have time to prepare work for me. How ironic is that? I mean, I thought by my going to work I should lessen the workload for them, but since they need to prepare work for me, I guess I’m causing them more work?! Maybe I should work slower in the future, and prevent these situations from surfacing again! Yea, I’m considerate this way, so don’t think I’m making excuses when I work slowly okay?!

And, last but not least, someone tried to kill me today! I was on my way to school, and was going a road when this car wanted to turn right out of NUH carpark. So he inched out, and stopped. It’s important to emphasize that he stopped, since if he carried on I would have been forewarned that an idiot was going to turn out without caring about oncoming traffic and I would slow down. However, he stopped, so I mistook that for him being not an idiot and that he stopped cause he saw the oncoming traffic. Apparently, he was only checking the left side for traffic, and didn’t care to look to the right. I mean, who the f*** turns right and not check for traffic from the right. So there I was, thinking that he was not the idiot I thought he would be, and almost knocked into his car and flew. Thankfully, SSDC did teach me well, and I applied an emergency brake and slowed down, and managed to avoid him. And I didn’t even horn that guy too. I think I underuse my horn too much, as I hardly horn other road users when it is blatantly clear they are in the wrong. Oh well, at least if I did fly I would have been just outside NUH?

One more random thing to add: Raw broccoli is not nice. Somethings are nice when eaten raw, whereas for broccoli, let’s just say they taste better when cooked. Raw broccolis just taste too… green.

I Love NUS!

Published on January 17, 2008 in General, Ramblings and School. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Gotta love NUS, for screwing me up over and over again. First it was CORS, but that was nothing. Now it’s the school administration, or the school of computing, or whoever makes decisions that tutorial slots can be changed at their whim or fancy. Yes, they decided to change the tutorial slots available for bidding of one of the modules to some other days. The worse thing was that I didn’t know about it until I decided to browse through the module info page to see my planned slot GONE. And the worser thing was that the only 2 days they had tutorials on were my working days. And the worsest thing was that I had to bid for another module at Round 3B (2nd last round of bidding). And the worserest thing was that I used up ALL my points for a module I could have probably gotten for less than 100 points in earlier rounds. Yes, all 4388 of my points, which leaves me with exactly… 0 points left in my programme account. Oh well, at least I take comfort in the fact that going to school for my Statistics lecture is a good cure for insomnia…

Anyway, I had my wisdom tooth extracted yesterday. All the horror stories I have heard, about the pain and the amount of money you need to spend. Well, I can say that my experience wasn’t that bad. Only paid $77, and the extraction took all of 10 minutes. So, I went to the dentist at around 4:20pm. Sat on the dental chair, and let the dentist do some routine checking. After she checked, she injected me with 2 injections of anaesthetic, and waited for around 5 minutes. After that, she said she would test first, and before I knew it my wisdom tooth was out. I guess I’m one of the luckier ones who don’t have wisdom teeth that grow at odd angles and where you need to cut your gem to get the tooth out.

Also, had my 9 to 6 marathon in school today. Would have had only 1 hour of break at 4pm, but my lab sessions have not started so I had 3 hours of break. Therefore, I went to the computer lab to do some surfing and chatting, and customizing my PortableApps FireFox. PortableApps is a cool idea which lets you install applications on your usb drive which you can bring to different computers to use. But I digress. I was spending most of my time reading http://419eater.com/, which is a site which does scambaiting. Basically it is about how they scam people, mostly those Princes from Nigeria, who send you emails that they want to give you 1 million. So it’s like giving them a taste of their own medicine. Anyway, on my way home, I saw something funny. Something was walking on the expressway pushing his bike in the opposite direction. He was probably pushing it to the exit before, possibly because no one told him that ERP changed and there was a gantry before the Upper Serangoon exit on CTE.

School’s back!

Published on January 14, 2008 in School. 0 Comments Tags: , .

So, school’s back, together with all the boring lectures and stuff. Nothing much to mention today, except maybe about the stats GEM lecture I’m taking. GEM stands for General Elective Module, or something along that lines. When I first entered the lecture hall, I thought it was rather small for a class of 350. True enough, as more people started to flood into the lecture hall, some ended up seating on the steps and stuff. However, there’s something the university administration probably knew that I didn’t, which was that the lecturer was boring as hell, and that the number of people attending subsequent lectures will lessen. Kudos to the uni team for having this foresight, and also kudos to the lecturer for being the first to put me to sleep in 2008!

After my 6 hours marathon of lectures, I met Jing Xian to get Econs notes and textbook from her, and headed home in the rain. On my way home, I gotta say that the rain I experienced was the heaviest I ever saw! The visibility was about 5-10 meters and as for the lightning, all I can say is that you wouldn’t be surprised if you got struck by it… And no, I didn’t do any big wrongs the past few days… not that I know of anyway! However, when I was reaching AMK Ave 1 along the CTE, there was no rain. I wished it didn’t rain near to school and rained around my house, rather than the other way round. I know you might think the amount of rain would be the same, but you can’t be more wrong. If it rained nearer to my house, I would just get wet and reach home. For the other scenario, which I experienced today I might add, you would get wet at the start, then have no rain for the rest of the journey. What you might forget would be that you would still be wet from the rain, and riding on a bike at 90kmph (around there at least) all wet is no fun at all!

Yet Another Jap Buffet

Published on January 12, 2008 in Food. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Well, jap buffets are a common thing among us nowadays, so we went to yet another one today! Don’t misunderstand my title, it does not mean that this buffet was not nice or anything. It simply means that we’re trying more and more buffets. To the list of Ikoi, Hanabi, Himawari, Kuishinbo, we welcome our new addition of Minori! It’s located at UE Square at Clemenceau Avenue, and is rather near Clarke Quay MRT. I say rather because, distance can be quite subjective to each person, so yea it is rather near. Went there with the usual of Huijing and Nick, together with Melinda+Charles. Met Huijing, Mel & Charles at Clarke Quay and took a cab to UE square from there. The fare was only $3.00, and Huijing did say that she heard the uncle snigger when we told him the place. Oh well, he earns $3, while we save walking time and energy, so I guess it’s a win-win situation. I know I took photos of the menu of Hanabi the last time round, but this time, when you have a link straight to the menu off their official webpage, why should I bother. Jump over here to check out the menu.

As for photos of the food, let’s just put it in perspective. It was Grabbing my handphone to snap photos when the food arrived VS Grabbing my chopsticks to dig into the food when it arrived. No prizes for guessing who won. Okay okay, I promise I’ll try and take photos the next time we go! Anyway, we ate the usual of lotsa sashimi, and then the rest. I don’t know about you, but Jap Buffets to me are more or less about lotsa sashimi, and then the rest. Okay, the rest included stuff like soba, tempura, handrolls, maki sushis, and some other special stuff like Pumpkin with Special Sweet Sauce, Salmon with Special Sauce, Peach Fresh Green Salad etc… Overall, I would say that the buffet was reasonably priced, with a great variety of food too. The restaurant was not very crowded while we were there, but who are we to complain when we get prompter service.

After that, we took a bus to China Town and had a foot reflexology and shoulder massage for 45 mins package. It did hurt, but I guess the reflexologists might get kicks out of hearing people wince in pain. I didn’t really wince in pain, but just chose to close my eyes so I didn’t have to do idle chatter with the reflexologist, unlike Mel who had a reflexologist who was rather chatty, to say the least. Anyway, after the reflexology session, they went to town while I took the MRT home. The worse thing was that i was greeted by a heavy downpour when I walked out of the MRT station. The walkway was slippery and there was water running down the inclined walkway. So in the end, I decided to take a cab home, since even taking the bus I would have to walk in the rain for quite some distance from the bus stop to my house. The cab fare was $5.15. Compared to the $3 we paid when the 4 of us shared the cab, I would say that this was rather high for a slightly longer distance. Oh well, at least I got home not-that-wet.