Hall V Orientation rituals!

Sorry pEEP! I was away for like a week! It was orientation camp! Hell! And a very tiring one. I never felt any sleepier in my life before.... I didn't regret joining this great camp... It was organised by members of Hall 5 commitee called HAVOC... They are high energy, enthusiatic undergrads that are willing to put a smile on your face...

We had ice breakers, yea Singaporean style. Games like name remembering, etc, were played... Followed after was getting down and dirty... Everyone was paired with a partner and go through some obstacles...





Dinner outing we had near city HARVEST church!! Yes, I purposely cap the harvest!! I think people that follows the church deeply are harvesters... They will do anything to get you into their clan!!! I am sorry to those who are neutral but are going to that church because of religious purposes. But these people had overshadowed the name of the church.





Ever tried drinking vinegar + soya sauce + flour + water.
Yes I did! The game here is to use all these ingredients in a given quantity to weigh an amount of 250 gm. The first try will be +- 10 gm, second +-20gm... So and so on... Our team were real lucky to get through the 2nd round... drank abit, body suffered but still survived!! yay!!





Hey!! This game we played is MONOPOLY!... And it's played in the heart of Singapore, Orchard Road... The tough part was the running about... The loop of the game encompasses Lido-Borders to New OG at cuppage... A great deal to run about... And the sad thing that day was that we, the leaders in the beginning went to jail twice consecutively!!! We lost the lead and the prize of the day!! A chalet at changi... =[ In the end we had to sleep in a tent





2nd day of challenge, everyone was exhausted!! Teams were all walking!! dragging their sore feets with them!! AWEEE... We were dragging too!!! It boiled down to luck and we got 2nd place, got our chalet at coasta sands!!!.... WEEEEEEEEE





Last day ended with games at sentosa... I thought it was great, but I wasn't feeling too well.... Felt exhausted and sick... Being such that I can put my thoughts through easily and accurately. It was enjoyable =]

Thanks to the whole Ophiel OG, OGLs Mathew & Yi Ling, Seniors attached! All were great!!
Hall life is getting exciting!!

Even Motels WINS!

After gotten keys on friday with the nice warm help of hall 5 people. Expectations were high, I am expecting to see, nice new beds, clean fans, those you will see when you got into a hotel room.Twist of the key to the right... CREAK! Doesn't sound good. It seems that the last person stayed here could be quite awhile ago! A pull the the door reveals everythings... My heart sank. Expectations shattered. The place has the WORSE HYGIENE IN THE WORLD. I saw a few ants nests.. Not only that, small spideys running all over the floor. Grills were rusty. Aluminium plates corrode and floor filled with filth and dust.I screamed and made noise... This cannot happen to an UNDERGRAD!!... IT'S SICK!! What is this, 3rd world university?

Well, I don't have the pictures to show for the filthy place. But i am glad what me and my room mate did today. We spent time cleaning and 'painting' the walls. Yes, the walls were kicked dirty and filled with some kind of yellow ZHAP!... GOOOOEY... Disgusting... looks like some kinda muCUS!. Well, we took the initiative to get some paint and revamped the whole room.

PLEASE DO NOT PAINT A MERRY PICTURE ABOUT HOSTELS IN NTU! THEY ARE DISGUSTING!! IMO! KEEP EXPECTATIONS LOWWW!

A room with unimaginable filth has been transformed... I got the pictures... But at the end of the day.. I was not feeling well, probably due to dust breathe in! as well as the hard labour we have spent on doing today...

Orientation camp starts tomorrow.Leave you pictures of my room n BED!











My mom loves gardening, and these are her fruits!! Yea Don't LAUGH!!.. Ill slice your tongue and make pork congee.
A year ago, she planted a banana tree thought to come for a fertile source! and now it beared fruits!! wow fast!! =D A BUNCH of bananas it's on it's way

One comb on banana!









Odd shaped purple NEEDLE sticking out!!









Individual banana have flowers too!! Cool!!








All taken by K750i! Enjoy =]

11~12km Run

It was clear skies, and I was expecting the day to be hot. 7.15 a.m. I woke up feeling like a snail, sliding on the bed, not wanting to wake up so early but I have to. 7.30 a.m. I am dressed in running gear and wore my polar HRM and get ready to warm up... Drinking some 100 plus to ease later cramps...
I started running down from my house at 7.45 a.m. . It's a sight of the morning rush hour. When you see people, run for buses, waiting cross handed and chasing after the earliest arriving MRT. On the other hand, I am in running attire, making my way down to east coast...

I have no water bottle with me, so I expect myself to slow down around the 25 min mark... which will take me abit pass 6 km. Along the way, there were army personnel manning water stations, and Victoria school boys either taking their IPPT or was training... round the big lagoon. There isn't a big crowd, most of these morning people were aunties and uncles in their 40-50's and some walk their dogs to the park... Some went back with their prized fish through an overnight stay at the bedok jetty.

It was a great run, I was able to hold up despite my last 10km run was last week.
Anyway don't expect to find hot roller blading chicks on a week day morning. The red line above explains my route. Nothing special for the day... And I had been thinking of the interview I will attend tomorrow. Hope they will bring good news to me =]

Unloyal to Nokiaaaa!!

I have been a long time supporter of nokia symbian OS phones, I thought it has great flexible applications that can work wonderss... I was so stuck with my 7610... And certain pictures here was the delicate creation of that cell phone.


When I first got the 7610 a year ago, excited like anyone else, I kept digging online forums for applications and games that came top in thread views. Though it's seems ridiculous to play games on a small screen, type words documents with stumby buttons, and view videos clip on a 1.5" x 2.5" screen. I find it rather interesting then... The novelty weared off... It's not enjoyable doing the above, it's more like a torture for complexity to arise... In dialect, it's just liao xi gang.. waste time.. Why would you wanna do these on a phone, while a computer can put you at ease, doing better. Thats why I don't like PDA phones... They look nice, but useless... Tell me how many times you will use the pocket word, excel or any other stuff in the PDA.

Singtel was having a desire 0705 road show at ngee ann city today... Hardwarezoners are great informers, they simply got the latest technology to place a post on the website in record time... I learnt from the forum that there was a great deal for the Sony Ericsson K750i. At 538 SGD, they give you the set, bluetooth headset, flash and 60 dollar taka voucher... Not taka jewelery!! Lol!! Yes, I was pretty sad when I traded in my N7610 for a record low price.. lol... I am impressed by the camera and radio features of this phone... N7610 wasn't so "multimedia", and the camera was just 1.3 MP w/o auto focus technology. Using the K750i feels difference. When ya taking pictures you can feel the lens moving inside the phone.. Like some mechanical feel to it... Still grasping the SE interface... And there is more to explore... over n out!!



This is a sample picture taken by the K750i, and was my dinner.. hee!!

=DD

Dilution of police rigidity...

Police are here in the civil world to maintain and uphold justice in all manners. On the roads, we got our beloved traffic police that can be hail prince of the roads. The owns the place, they speed, they do illegal parkings just to catch us off our guard. Saying this, is our traffic police really that bad? I beg to differ. They are doing their job and always, the real TP catches real speedsters and hazard buggers. It is the cisco "TP" in their mini scooters hiding in one corner of the bushes ready to pounce on any minor and controversial mistake that we Singaporeans can be kept off guard. They are in abundance; no wonder cisco... Yet, they shed no mercy on ambiguous parking offence that comes to mind. I think even our own original TP will show compassion and impartial judgement to certain offences. Just as I heard, cisco hires quite abit of malaysians. You might not get what I mean. But for some, I think it's pretty clear cut.

Today, I got a parking ticket. Offence 22(H). Am I going to jail? Maybe... Not because of the offence. But because of my rebuttal against their misjudgement. I might just find myself infront of a magistrate and plead guilty to defaming offencings... Hell no! Singapore like any other country is a me sue you, you sue me country. Playing with words is all that civilization has to offer. No one dare to offend the great political party and suffer in silence. Which I will feel so unhappy about. Isn't this about a free world, or just a free world with political encapsulation.

Offence 22(H) states an offence parking within 3 metres of a fire hydrant. I see clear cut cases a car is parked where a passenger door just swings out to a fire hydrant. Or a boot just adjacent to the fire hydrant. In my situation, all these requirements are not satisfied and the distance from the hydrant to the boot is 5 metres. I will be quite impress if a cisco guard will take out his measuring tape and start rolling it to my car. Hell, was it just pure estimation of his that fails him a place in the polytechnic or high institution. It's unbelieveable that it seems, yet I mean it seems, they want to fault every single motorist on such controversy. It just feels like I am driving in the neighbour's country, no sense of security. Always have the feeling that your car will be ticketed or towed away by some weirdo. What is there to become of this security which I think might plague in future to come. Police compassion and sanity judgement has ended due to the pulsative lifestyle of the city. Yet still, we can put ourself back to perspective when we chill out after a long day's work. As for now, I will need Justice Bao to bring impartialiality to me. I will appeal as it was really 3 metres away from the hydrant, if so much they insist of my paying for the offence, I will be grately disappointed for our country. But still there are people who got hanged for the offences they didn't commit. It just boils down who is reading my appeal then. =0

Great game, great experience, great outing!!

I was on a mission today! The rant and raving on multiple forums had set me up to buy battlefield 2 real quick... =D Especially when I personally saw my friend purchase the game infront of me last week. This feeling of owning it is unbearable... It's more like personal pressure any peer or other sources...

12.05 PM, was at funan the IT mall... you got to believe me, I see alot of on-the-ball sales man today. It was unusual for such a scene in Singapore. Service in many sectors of retailing wasn't expectations to an average Singaporean anyway. More importantly, Singaporeans want a bargain... How can you find bargain with good service down here... It's like mixing a billionaire with a scooter; an oxymoron...

Yes, I will like to continue. Today, is the day where the olympic commitee selects the venue of the olympics for 2012. As you might have known, it's London which won the bid to host the mass sports meet. And what I saw in funan was these people with IOC passes, shopping!!! Some were carrying purchases, others were looking around for high tech gadgets which in their hometown will be rather expensive. Even a retail prices, our tech stuff are still so much cheaper for them... And this was the probably effect of the sales service "improving". May be just for today, you see sales man opened their eyes wide, just waiting to pounce on a potential customer. The next thing he/she might know might probably be David Beckham he is serving. Holy hell~ some people just die to see him in person... I got my fair share of good service at the 5th level of funan, I got to say I am those who must live with a bargained. I asked the teen, who was manning the store at the time... He oblidged to give me 2 bucks off immediately!! I say bargaining can't be this much easier!! He got the deal and I got my deal... It's more like a win win for both of us. =D I forgave him for the lack of experience with the nets machine, he was polite enough to say," sorry I am new to this machine, I might take some time". Yes, no worries you phrased it nicely and in a nice tone, I can't be angry at all!! Just as I get back my atm card, he say thanks and sorry again... wow, such humility from a teen. I was humbled. I thanked him back with a great satisfying smile.

It was a great experience and a great deal. I must thank the arrivals of visitors, this will really give our service line a big boost.=]

Just a small review on the game; the awesome part of this game is that you can be a pilot, a tankee, a battlefield commander, normal foot soldiers and 'sailors'. Almost all fields of air, land and sea are covered. It pretty much a great fighting masterpiece. The area is so large and realistic. You might want to look for the demo before really buying the game. Beware of the high computer requirements. It's a great game altogether. I will give it 8.5 bananas out of 10. The missing 1 is to it's confusion of many control buttons one have to master, and the high computer requirements. And the final .5 CANNOT BE GIVEN... No games are perfect, if they are, there won't be any new breakthrough... so 10 bananas won't be possible =P

I leave you with some picture of the game itself and the mousepad given...

this is a boring week!

We are 7th!
http://www.singaporetriathlon.com/en/2005/results/Age_Group_Results_CategoryORO.htm

Yea, though it's not a good result to boast; compare to those do it all warriors that came in with approximately the same timing as us. urhHH, we are nothing.. Nonetheless, it was great effort that those who joined the fun and excitement of the well organised event. =]

There are a few goals set for me this month,
1) Get battlefield 2... the game!!
2) Get lots of swimming practice...
3) Start a slow progressive training towards NB real run without wearing out...

Nothing much on my mind these days, life is simple, monotonous... Unless you have lots of money to spend, you can do lots you want... I've been dreaming of owning a car, parents disagree from the high cost incurred... I guess the next best thing I can request for my Bday is a new road bike... hiak hiak! =D

Just as the weeks past so slowing, I can even count the mili-seconds ticking away... Anticipation of school should be the cause.... tick tock tick tockk.....

freeee mee!!!
signing off on a slow tuesday evening...

Some Pictures from the Osim Triathlon 2005

<---- These are japanese inside the ITU race, freakin fast pace man!! they get out of the water and start to cycle within 20 mins. Lap 1st round(10km) bike leg in 30+ mins.. They are working well together, drafting each other to save energy...




Hey man!, Let me introduce team 3005! Nice number eh!! =D
Left is Samuel Liew, God Damn Good Schwimmer. Middle man is Good Good Runner Elvin Liang. To the Right is me, the God Like Cyclist. To our own rough estimate, Sam Arrived withing 30 mins.
My bike leg was 1 hr 5 mins, and Elvin's running was about 45 mins. + 5 mins of transition time, err. 2 hr 25 mins?? lOl! Thats our estimate of course, will post the timings here when it's officially out! Stay Tuned!



Here are our pals 3002 joining the race =]...