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I Love NUS!

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.

Some random visuals

Well, nothing much to blog about. Exams ended, work started, games most of the time. Story of my life. However, I can’t possibly pay $72 per year for webhosting and not blog about anything right? I mean, I know that no one ever reads my blog but I can still be hopeful and blog! Besides, I didn’t start this blog to link about 389024 other blogs and make everyone read it :)

So, since I have nothing to blog about, I’ll just post some random pictures I took.

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The first is of the skyscrapers in Raffle Place. I was walking to work @ Singapore Academy of Law and saw this scene. It reminded me of Genting Highlands, so I took out my handphone to snap it.

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The second is of a Mini Moo candy that my boss bought for me. She said she saw it at 7-11 and it reminded her of me. Hmm, I wonder why…

Anyway, anyone wants to buy me a digital camera for Christmas? :)

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!

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!