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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.

33% Done!

Published on November 29, 2007 in Ramblings and School. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

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!