I was looking at my past archives when i noticed the header titled February 1990.
Wait a minute. I was only 6 years old in 1990. There was no internet at that time. There was no computer in our house. Internet not invented then too. Curious, i clicked on it.
SO THATS WHERE THE MISSING POST WENT!
stupid blogspot.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Investment Markets
Shit happens. Too often in the past few days.This is probably the most painful piece of coursework i have ever done. More interestingly, it is also a group project which i managed to complete without meeting my group member. Interesting.
Yes it was hell for 4 days, no sleep, countless redoing due to initially misunderstanding and then later misinformation. What the heck. And when i handed it in yesterday i was so relieved thinking that this bitch of a coursework is finally over.
And when i woke up this morning, guess what i found? A page of the coursework that i left out. And its a saturday today so the office is closed and i cant take it in. Gotta wait till monday.
Oh yeah, did i mention that the deadline was yesterday?
Just when I thought it was clear to cross the road, a truck came right up and ran over me.
Sigh. Life, oh life.
Now to do that thing called stochastic modelling.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Tired
Dear God,
I'm tired
Tired of a life that I shouldn't be in
Tired of trying to do things that I can't
Tired of fighting in leagues I don't belong
Tired of failing to meet expectations
Tired of smiling when I don't feel happy
Tired of being bold
Tired of lagging behind
Tired of being frustrated all the time
Tired of fighting inferiority complexes,
When I truly am inferior
Tired of always not being good enough
Tired of dreaming big
Tired of trying to reach things beyond me
Tired of falling down,
And not having much strength left when each time I get up
Tired of trying
Tired of it all.
I need rest.
No, God. I need You.
I need to hear Your promise again.
I need to feel You near me.
I need to know that You are looking after me.
I need to know You're right beside me
I need to know that when I can't make it to the end
You will carry me there.
I need to see You.
I need You.
God I need You.
I'm tired
Tired of a life that I shouldn't be in
Tired of trying to do things that I can't
Tired of fighting in leagues I don't belong
Tired of failing to meet expectations
Tired of smiling when I don't feel happy
Tired of being bold
Tired of lagging behind
Tired of being frustrated all the time
Tired of fighting inferiority complexes,
When I truly am inferior
Tired of always not being good enough
Tired of dreaming big
Tired of trying to reach things beyond me
Tired of falling down,
And not having much strength left when each time I get up
Tired of trying
Tired of it all.
I need rest.
No, God. I need You.
I need to hear Your promise again.
I need to feel You near me.
I need to know that You are looking after me.
I need to know You're right beside me
I need to know that when I can't make it to the end
You will carry me there.
I need to see You.
I need You.
God I need You.
Monday, March 20, 2006
hahaha huh???
Its the time of the year again when the courseworks are piling up to no end, and the difficulty of this course is sticking its butt out real high. As of the "status update" post which i did a few weeks ago, the grand total of courseworks came up to 12 due in 5 weeks. This friday again there are 3 due. But at least after that it will be 6 out of 12 done.
Aiya, this is madness lah. Madness I tell you.
And i bet you exactly one year from now i'll be complaining about the same thing again.
Babi punya courseworks!
And really, the 2 guitars a proving to be the death of me. Electric by day and acoustic by night. Surf internet and chill out in between. Where got time to study? Wannabe rock star mah.....
Aiyah have to go face the courseworks.
*Cue scene from LOTR-The Two Towers where the King Theoden ...erm actually i can't remember what scence, but what the heck... anyways, all of the riders of rohan shout in a great voice*
TO DEATH AND GLORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
I think there'll only be death and no glory in the case the courseworks.
Newspaper headlines near you soon.
22 YEAR OLD STUDENT DIES DUE TO EXCESSIVE COURSEWORK
Hot Rock Star Prospect(note: wannabe) Found Dead in Room Holding on to Guitars.
Wakakaka.
Aiya, this is madness lah. Madness I tell you.
And i bet you exactly one year from now i'll be complaining about the same thing again.
Babi punya courseworks!
And really, the 2 guitars a proving to be the death of me. Electric by day and acoustic by night. Surf internet and chill out in between. Where got time to study? Wannabe rock star mah.....
Aiyah have to go face the courseworks.
*Cue scene from LOTR-The Two Towers where the King Theoden ...erm actually i can't remember what scence, but what the heck... anyways, all of the riders of rohan shout in a great voice*
TO DEATH AND GLORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
I think there'll only be death and no glory in the case the courseworks.
Newspaper headlines near you soon.
22 YEAR OLD STUDENT DIES DUE TO EXCESSIVE COURSEWORK
Hot Rock Star Prospect(note: wannabe) Found Dead in Room Holding on to Guitars.
Wakakaka.
Monday, March 13, 2006
The Malaysian Public Transport System
I should be studying, but what the heck. Anyways, i originally wanted to blog about arsenal's amazing week capped off with the win against liverpool today, but then reading the star online about malaysian public transport system made my mind turn to other things instead. Yes and turn away from studying mortality rates.
But anyways, i very very seldom put my country down, but our transport system, to put it very gently, needs some work. Some serious work. So much so that i even dare say that the government should consider nationalising the whole freaking system.
Basically, what should be done (in my opinion) is pretty expensive at the start, but in the long run should prove worthwhile IF THEY STICK WITH IT AND DO NOT LEPAK HALFWAY LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO!
Anyways if i was a rich guy with a few billion to spare (hint goverment with money from fuel increases) , this is what I'd do:
Firstly, unite the entire transport system under one company. These will prevent idiots from petty squabbling about profit margins on stupid issues like 5 or 10 sen profit from touch and go cards.
One company for the trains and LRT, and another one for buses.
Make (ie force, with the threat of RM5 million fines with failure to comply) the touch and go card be available to use on every public transport system in the capital (and of course PJ, subang, damansara or whatever parts of selangor. Heck just chuck the whole selangor in.). But then if everything was united under one company we wont need to force people right?
Make the KTM trains run more frequently. Especially during peak hours. There must be trains passing a station every 3 minutes during peak hours, not a 15 minute wait like it is at the moment.
The LRTs are working fine, as long as they sort out their touch and go card issue it'll be all cool.
And now the buses. The buses. Those damned buses.
Under the unified system, buses are made sure to run on schedule (ie not waiting at a crowded kota raya road for the bus to fill up first before moving). Every 5-8 minutes the bus should pass its designated bus stop. Inspectors must go round making sure bus drivers stick to the schedule (actually all they need is to periodically check the stop points). And fine the drivers if they stop and lepak for a limau ais at the nearby gerai.
Routes are to be set out clearly. And routes must not be too far and too long. Each bus stop must have a proper map of the buses stopping at the bus stop, and where they are going, how long are they expected to take.
Standardize the fares. It should be a flat rate for any bus trip. Point A to point B or point A to point C should be charged at the same rate. This helps streamline the fares and the use of the touch and go card. It should be the same for the LRTs and KTM too.
Divide up the capital into zones. Zone one should be the centre and most busy parts of KL, zone 2,3,4,...progressing outward from there. Flat rate within zones, and of course from zone 2 to zone one should cost more than within zone 1.
Have things like day travelcards, or monthly passes, for bus only, or for bus and train. This works in such a way in the case of a day bus pass, that the commuter pays a flat rate say, RM4, and can use as much of the bus as he wants on that day.
And what about funding? How does the government keep this up?
I suggest the use of congestion charging. Follow singapore or London's example. Charge people a rate of RM5(something like that lah) a day, when they enter into the capital. Then u can abolish the tolls within KL already. Use cameras, whatever needed to enforce it. But of course for this to work the public transport system needs to be working properly. Else there'll be riots. And of course, exempt commercial vehicles like lorrys and other goods transporting services from it. We don't want to completely hinder commerce now, don't we?
Another controversial move is to tax every 2nd/3rd car that a household has. Increase the road tax by another 100% or something on the extra car that the household has. Discourage people from buying so many cars (at this point i know if i ever run for PM i'll be shot dead at my campaining rounds). But then again this is a trade off in national interest as i believe we wanna promote proton and perodua. Heck then tax only if its not proton or perodua. Wahaha i'm a genius. Again not a popular move. But it'll work i'm sure.
Make sure ONLY BUSES USE BUS LANES. Fine the offenders to bits. Set up cameras everywhere and more importantly, make sure they are working (ie not only empty cameras with no film or whatever inside).
And of course, simple economics, peak and off peak pricing. Encourage the use of the LRT and KTM during off peak hours. Especially to school kids. Give them half price discounts, student rates or whatever for them to travel on the LRT. And make it cheaper to travel during off peak hours on the LRT and KTM.
And make full use of the current feeder buses. Not when the putra bus drivers stop at the Terminal Gombak and cram into their little cubicle and smoke while passengers wait frustratedly for the bus driver to finish his ciggie and teh tarik before he decides to drive the bus. If only the feeder buses worked then the LRT will be fully utilised.
Encourage companies to promote car pooling. Or a company bus or something. Give them incentives to do so. But of course insurance companies insuring that particular company will cry foul in the event of a tragedy when all the worker perish in an accident. Pokai straight the insurance firm. (That an actuarist thought for you).
OK la i got to read mortality rates liao. Its not a perfect solution above but i'm betting that its better than the one we have now. Why doesn't the goverment just send people over to study how successful public transport systems work and learn from them? And if any dungu fella opposes the move (worker's unions, ministers, politicians) make sure they don't get a car to themselves and ask them to take public transport to work. That'll teach them to complain.
Kesian all those people who have to take public transport in Malaysia. Heck if we had the power to do something about it. IF. But then those in charge supposed to do their job la. So its their responsibility. Not ours. We complain in our blogs in far far away lands like london. And when we come back we still drive our papa's car. wahaha.
Thoughts and suggestions welcomed (a implicit way of knowing how many people actually read this blog... *grin* . If u see 0 comments u know la....)
But anyways, i very very seldom put my country down, but our transport system, to put it very gently, needs some work. Some serious work. So much so that i even dare say that the government should consider nationalising the whole freaking system.
Basically, what should be done (in my opinion) is pretty expensive at the start, but in the long run should prove worthwhile IF THEY STICK WITH IT AND DO NOT LEPAK HALFWAY LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO!
Anyways if i was a rich guy with a few billion to spare (hint goverment with money from fuel increases) , this is what I'd do:
Firstly, unite the entire transport system under one company. These will prevent idiots from petty squabbling about profit margins on stupid issues like 5 or 10 sen profit from touch and go cards.
One company for the trains and LRT, and another one for buses.
Make (ie force, with the threat of RM5 million fines with failure to comply) the touch and go card be available to use on every public transport system in the capital (and of course PJ, subang, damansara or whatever parts of selangor. Heck just chuck the whole selangor in.). But then if everything was united under one company we wont need to force people right?
Make the KTM trains run more frequently. Especially during peak hours. There must be trains passing a station every 3 minutes during peak hours, not a 15 minute wait like it is at the moment.
The LRTs are working fine, as long as they sort out their touch and go card issue it'll be all cool.
And now the buses. The buses. Those damned buses.
Under the unified system, buses are made sure to run on schedule (ie not waiting at a crowded kota raya road for the bus to fill up first before moving). Every 5-8 minutes the bus should pass its designated bus stop. Inspectors must go round making sure bus drivers stick to the schedule (actually all they need is to periodically check the stop points). And fine the drivers if they stop and lepak for a limau ais at the nearby gerai.
Routes are to be set out clearly. And routes must not be too far and too long. Each bus stop must have a proper map of the buses stopping at the bus stop, and where they are going, how long are they expected to take.
Standardize the fares. It should be a flat rate for any bus trip. Point A to point B or point A to point C should be charged at the same rate. This helps streamline the fares and the use of the touch and go card. It should be the same for the LRTs and KTM too.
Divide up the capital into zones. Zone one should be the centre and most busy parts of KL, zone 2,3,4,...progressing outward from there. Flat rate within zones, and of course from zone 2 to zone one should cost more than within zone 1.
Have things like day travelcards, or monthly passes, for bus only, or for bus and train. This works in such a way in the case of a day bus pass, that the commuter pays a flat rate say, RM4, and can use as much of the bus as he wants on that day.
And what about funding? How does the government keep this up?
I suggest the use of congestion charging. Follow singapore or London's example. Charge people a rate of RM5(something like that lah) a day, when they enter into the capital. Then u can abolish the tolls within KL already. Use cameras, whatever needed to enforce it. But of course for this to work the public transport system needs to be working properly. Else there'll be riots. And of course, exempt commercial vehicles like lorrys and other goods transporting services from it. We don't want to completely hinder commerce now, don't we?
Another controversial move is to tax every 2nd/3rd car that a household has. Increase the road tax by another 100% or something on the extra car that the household has. Discourage people from buying so many cars (at this point i know if i ever run for PM i'll be shot dead at my campaining rounds). But then again this is a trade off in national interest as i believe we wanna promote proton and perodua. Heck then tax only if its not proton or perodua. Wahaha i'm a genius. Again not a popular move. But it'll work i'm sure.
Make sure ONLY BUSES USE BUS LANES. Fine the offenders to bits. Set up cameras everywhere and more importantly, make sure they are working (ie not only empty cameras with no film or whatever inside).
And of course, simple economics, peak and off peak pricing. Encourage the use of the LRT and KTM during off peak hours. Especially to school kids. Give them half price discounts, student rates or whatever for them to travel on the LRT. And make it cheaper to travel during off peak hours on the LRT and KTM.
And make full use of the current feeder buses. Not when the putra bus drivers stop at the Terminal Gombak and cram into their little cubicle and smoke while passengers wait frustratedly for the bus driver to finish his ciggie and teh tarik before he decides to drive the bus. If only the feeder buses worked then the LRT will be fully utilised.
Encourage companies to promote car pooling. Or a company bus or something. Give them incentives to do so. But of course insurance companies insuring that particular company will cry foul in the event of a tragedy when all the worker perish in an accident. Pokai straight the insurance firm. (That an actuarist thought for you).
OK la i got to read mortality rates liao. Its not a perfect solution above but i'm betting that its better than the one we have now. Why doesn't the goverment just send people over to study how successful public transport systems work and learn from them? And if any dungu fella opposes the move (worker's unions, ministers, politicians) make sure they don't get a car to themselves and ask them to take public transport to work. That'll teach them to complain.
Kesian all those people who have to take public transport in Malaysia. Heck if we had the power to do something about it. IF. But then those in charge supposed to do their job la. So its their responsibility. Not ours. We complain in our blogs in far far away lands like london. And when we come back we still drive our papa's car. wahaha.
Thoughts and suggestions welcomed (a implicit way of knowing how many people actually read this blog... *grin* . If u see 0 comments u know la....)
Monday, February 27, 2006
Status update
Death is in the air. I sense it. Near me.
Death not of physical form (although one can never be sure of that) , but death in the mind. Here's a reality check:
Assignments due in the near future:
Subject: Financial Economics
Type: Individual project
Due date: 7th March
Completion status: 75% (barring errors)
Difficulty level: OK
Subject: Prob and Stats
Type: Groupwork
Due date: 9th March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: can die
Subject: Stochastic Models
Type: Solo project
Due date: 10th March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: Sure die
Subject: Actuarial Planning and control
Type: Group work
Group meeting date: 3th March
Completion status: 10%
Difficulty level: Do-able
Subject: Finance and Financial Reporting
Type: Group work
Due date: 24th March
Completion status: Haven't even downloaded the coursework yet -25%
Difficulty level: Not assesed
Subject: Investment Markets
Type: Group work
Due date: 31st March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: OK
Current health status:
Severe sleep deficit
At the brink of illness
Chance of survival: low
DIE LA DIE! the courseworks i mean. Not me.
Death not of physical form (although one can never be sure of that) , but death in the mind. Here's a reality check:
Assignments due in the near future:
Subject: Financial Economics
Type: Individual project
Due date: 7th March
Completion status: 75% (barring errors)
Difficulty level: OK
Subject: Prob and Stats
Type: Groupwork
Due date: 9th March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: can die
Subject: Stochastic Models
Type: Solo project
Due date: 10th March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: Sure die
Subject: Actuarial Planning and control
Type: Group work
Group meeting date: 3th March
Completion status: 10%
Difficulty level: Do-able
Subject: Finance and Financial Reporting
Type: Group work
Due date: 24th March
Completion status: Haven't even downloaded the coursework yet -25%
Difficulty level: Not assesed
Subject: Investment Markets
Type: Group work
Due date: 31st March
Completion status: 0%
Difficulty level: OK
Current health status:
Severe sleep deficit
At the brink of illness
Chance of survival: low
DIE LA DIE! the courseworks i mean. Not me.
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Inexplicably we lost to blackburn. And they are above us in the league table now. BLACKBURN ABOVE ARSENAL??!!! Troubling times indeed. But anyways, through thick and thin man. Through thick and thin.Go gooners. GOOOOO!
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This CU job is as tough as i expected it. But its great fun. It'll be all worth in the end.
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And on friday night i ate on of the best meals ever since coming here - which of course does not really say much about my cooking skills - but anyways, we were at auntie Lilian's place, the kepala of Bank Negara in London. Wonderful lady. Inviting us over to her place. And we even got leftovers which we're goona cook with phall. Oh yeah baby yeah!
Time to eat. I hear the food calling.
And on friday night i ate on of the best meals ever since coming here - which of course does not really say much about my cooking skills - but anyways, we were at auntie Lilian's place, the kepala of Bank Negara in London. Wonderful lady. Inviting us over to her place. And we even got leftovers which we're goona cook with phall. Oh yeah baby yeah!
Time to eat. I hear the food calling.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Henry! Henry! Thierry Henry!!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
oh by the way just in case you don't know, arsenal beat real madrid 1-0 at the barnebeu tonight. And guess who scored.
Truth is, next week they could come to highbury and rape our arses by 4 goals or something... but for now i shall enjoy the moment.
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
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Blogspot is rubbish. Not too long a go i typed in a long entry with pictures and all about my new guitar, and then when i clicked the post button it all but dissappeared.
STUPID BLOGSPOT.
U administrators better do something about it before the world switches to xanga. then u die. u dieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
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Oh yeah i got my new guitar too!!
Ah my baby....
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And today I found out that i have 6 courseworks due in 3 weeks. The first one is due this fri (contingencies - what can be better by starting of a glorious tuesday morning with the probability of someone dying??) , and i have yet to complete it. Not to mention that 6 page report i have to do for prob and stats. or stochastic modelling. Or FFR. Or investment markets. Or Financial economics.
And just one last time, all together now....
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
oh by the way just in case you don't know, arsenal beat real madrid 1-0 at the barnebeu tonight. And guess who scored.
Truth is, next week they could come to highbury and rape our arses by 4 goals or something... but for now i shall enjoy the moment.
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
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Blogspot is rubbish. Not too long a go i typed in a long entry with pictures and all about my new guitar, and then when i clicked the post button it all but dissappeared.
STUPID BLOGSPOT.
U administrators better do something about it before the world switches to xanga. then u die. u dieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
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Oh yeah i got my new guitar too!!
Ah my baby....
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And today I found out that i have 6 courseworks due in 3 weeks. The first one is due this fri (contingencies - what can be better by starting of a glorious tuesday morning with the probability of someone dying??) , and i have yet to complete it. Not to mention that 6 page report i have to do for prob and stats. or stochastic modelling. Or FFR. Or investment markets. Or Financial economics.
And just one last time, all together now....
HENRY HENRY HENRY THIERRY HENRY!!!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
A matter of Choice.
George, my housemate, trying hard to inflate an inflatable mattress without a pump. I know he plays a clarinet but this is pushing it.Over the past few days i've been staring hard at the accumulating pile of work that sits on my table. Well, not that it all sits on my table -in fact not enough space - its just a figure of speech-lah! But anyway i continued staring hard at it for some time. Nothing happened. Dang. Was hoping it will magically go down.
Now to put some of the things i have to do into perspective:
- Prepare for this friday's prob and stats test.
- Prepare songs for tmr's CU meeting.
- Read and research actuarial planning and control presentation.
- Study contingencies.
- Do contingencies corpsework.
- Find out dateline of contingencies corpsework or be a corpse.
- Do prob and stats 2 lab sheet 7 & 8.
- Do prob and stats 2 corpsework
- Look through mistakes made in previous prob and stats assignment.
- Study financial reporting - corpsework come soon.
- Study FFR - there should be another corpsework coming too.
- Get some sleep.
- Get that new guitar.
- Get a life.
So i make a choice. I choose not to be busy. I'll make myself free to do the stuff I WANT TO do. Which of course in no way justifies that 6 hours spent in Apu's place playing PES5 and ending up missing church meeting at night.
But then hey. Back to work i guess.
busy people everywhere. haha....
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Not observant enough..........
This is a picture taken during the ACTS games back in August/September. Volleyball competition I think. I was going round taking pictures of people, and I saw little Jonathan sitting alone. Tried very hard to get him to smile to take a picture but he refused to which I found all so puzzling. Only after the picture did I notice what he was pointing at and why he wasn't smiling....LOL. Silly me.
I think it hurts a bit ;P Just a little.
I think it hurts a bit ;P Just a little.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
12pm
10am....
11am....
12pm....
I woke up from my 9 hour nap. Looked dark in the room. Lifted up my hand and pulled the curtain away a bit. Hmm, not too bright either. Stupid London weather. Sat up, checked the clock. 12:02pm. Laid back in my bed for a while. Thought through yesterdays events.
.......arsenal won 2-1 at cardiff.......my new cd came....eeeK! there was football yesterday??!! That meant yesterday was saturday. WHICH MEANS TODAY IS SUNDAY!!! WHICH ALSO MEANS THAT I OVERSLEPT AND MISSED CHURCH!!!!!!
And the world was dead silent for a moment.
Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupidstupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid
Sigh. The folly of me.
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Woke up yesterday morning and greeted the sight of an amazon.co.uk package at my door. Yay! My CD is finally here. And it was:
Paul Gilbert's Live in Tokyo Acoustic Samurai album. Cost me 10.50 pounds. Including delivery and VAT. Which after an subconcious mental conversion of the currencies leads to the grand amount of RM70+/-. So it better be good.
And it was good. I actually heard one song of this album, his acoustic version of Abba's Dancing Queen. And man it rocked. Which was the reason that possessed me to go and buy the entire album. Even though I've not heard much of Paul Gilbert's stuff before, save for a few clips of his guitar clinics (which btw, is absolutely amazing).
This album seriously rocks. In an acoustic kind of way. A must have for guitarist I guess. Man who needs to play electric guitars when you can play acoustics like this guy.
Oh wait he's holding an electric guitar. So yeah we still need electrics for that maddening solos. Which is already maddening in itself but more maddening when he does it on acoustic guitar.
Speaking of acoustic guitars. There's been one which I have been contemplating for a long time. OK maybe not that long, but its been a couple of months now more or less. Weighing up reasons and different alternatives:
1. Buy now:
Cons:
Pros:
Pros:
Sigh. Decisions decisions.
What to do?
Anyways it's time for lunch.
And I blame Civilization IV for me forgetting today is Sunday. BLEH!
11am....
12pm....
I woke up from my 9 hour nap. Looked dark in the room. Lifted up my hand and pulled the curtain away a bit. Hmm, not too bright either. Stupid London weather. Sat up, checked the clock. 12:02pm. Laid back in my bed for a while. Thought through yesterdays events.
.......arsenal won 2-1 at cardiff.......my new cd came....eeeK! there was football yesterday??!! That meant yesterday was saturday. WHICH MEANS TODAY IS SUNDAY!!! WHICH ALSO MEANS THAT I OVERSLEPT AND MISSED CHURCH!!!!!!
And the world was dead silent for a moment.
Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupidstupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid
Sigh. The folly of me.
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Paul Gilbert's Live in Tokyo Acoustic Samurai album. Cost me 10.50 pounds. Including delivery and VAT. Which after an subconcious mental conversion of the currencies leads to the grand amount of RM70+/-. So it better be good.
And it was good. I actually heard one song of this album, his acoustic version of Abba's Dancing Queen. And man it rocked. Which was the reason that possessed me to go and buy the entire album. Even though I've not heard much of Paul Gilbert's stuff before, save for a few clips of his guitar clinics (which btw, is absolutely amazing).
This album seriously rocks. In an acoustic kind of way. A must have for guitarist I guess. Man who needs to play electric guitars when you can play acoustics like this guy.
Oh wait he's holding an electric guitar. So yeah we still need electrics for that maddening solos. Which is already maddening in itself but more maddening when he does it on acoustic guitar.
Speaking of acoustic guitars. There's been one which I have been contemplating for a long time. OK maybe not that long, but its been a couple of months now more or less. Weighing up reasons and different alternatives:
1. Buy now:
Cons:
- Financially not secure enough yet. Even if I used the taxpayer's money which has been given to me I'd prolly be able to buy it but there's no certainty that I won't starve to that before end May. Now we don't want to uncover no skeletons hugging on to a guitar 5 months from now in my room.
- Buying now means have to carry back home. Which leave's me with the problem of having 2 hands for 2 guitars in cases and not forgetting my luggage. Siao. And there's no guarantee that the wood is suited for tropical climate. Not to mention then after that I have to carry back two guitars to London.
- No time to play. Already have have electric guitar is like having one girl. Takes up most of your time. And even that when the courseworks were pouring in like the Malaysian monsoon rain it was neglected. Another guitar? Lu mai siao.
- But then buying now means I get to hold it in my hands now. Feel it, play it, make some music/noise with it. Priceless. Something which makes the "buy now" alternative most appealing.
- I get to give Paul Gilbert's acoustic songs a go!! WHEE! (note I just said "give a go", not play like him :p )
Pros:
- Definately cheaper than buying here. Buy RM 400 at least. And they can throw in freebies too. Like a guitar case. With cables. And a couple of picks. Which you are unlikely to get if you buy in London. And I have a car which I can put it in and not have to lug it back all the way in the bus instead.
- I have the time to play. Cos i'll be free in the summer and have nothing to do for 4 months but play Paul Gilbert's Dancing Queen. And i'll probably be able to play it properly then.
- I would be able to buy it without having the fear of starving to death. Mama cooking at home. No worries.
- I might not have any money left to buy then. All spent eating ikan bakar at alai.
- Even if got money, probably can't get the model in Malaysia. Have to go to Singapore to find. Which in itself will sky rocket the cost to bits.
- My dad will think I'm too rich and not give me any pocket money.
Pros:
- No need to worry about money, time and all that stuff above.
- NO ACOUSTIC GUITAR!!!! booo hooo.
Sigh. Decisions decisions.What to do?
Anyways it's time for lunch.
And I blame Civilization IV for me forgetting today is Sunday. BLEH!
Saturday, January 07, 2006
It's alive!!!!
Happy New Year folks! Peace to all of you!
First and foremost, belated seasons greetings. Super belated merry christmas and belated happy new year to everyone. 2006 is here, and its a new year, time to make your resolutions if you're a resolution making person. Funny thing as i spent some time thinking of what happened to 2005, you know, the annual review kind of thing, i realised: dang i can't remember the resolutions i made at the beginning of 2005. Bummer. Out of the window went the annual review.
But anyways looking back again on 2005, it has been a pretty good and happy year for me (of course you gotta forget about the forgotten resolutions).
I spent yesterday reading this guy's blog: http://kennysia.com/ If you haven't read it yet, go read it, i bet you'll laugh your teeth out. But then again one man's meat is another man's poison. BUT WAIT! Don't go till you finish reading this. I'll make it worth your while. (I'll lie to get people to read my ramblings....muahahhaha)
I seem to have forgotten what I want to say.
Anyways, i went skiing in france just before Christmas, and it was one of the best holidays ever. Skiing's the thing. If any of you have the opportunity to try it out, go do it. And here's a great site to get you relatively cheap skiing. I recommend them. 2 thumbs up. The place is great, the food is great, the instructors are mad, and the cost is very affordable even for students (studying in UK on taxpayer's money, that is). It's a non profit organisation btw.
And anyway here is some of the pictures:
Posing for the camera on the last day of skiing. This place was La Flegere, 1894m above sea level, plenty lots of beautiful snow. And also killer cliffs. Awesome. From left to right: Kuok How, Rubin, Me, Alvin, Muz, Chia Wei
Sunset in the alps, while we were waiting for the cable car to bring us back down.
And this was up in La Flegere, while we were chilling out eating lunch in the snow.
The sun shining down on the town of Argentiere. A frozen river.
The sight which greeted us when we opened our room window. Pretty pretty.
So that was the ski trip in pictures for you. (say thanks to the malaysian taxpayers) Unfortunately I could not get any shots of us actually skiing cause none of us were good enough skiiers or cameramen to take pictures of other skiing at the same time without crashing into someone or something.
Funny how you meet people. When we were there, we bumped into a huge group of malaysians from cambridge. Like 20 of them. A lot. A freaking lot. Malaysians were taking over the place. It was mad. Haha. And by some freak accident, we met another BNM Scholar (short form for using-malaysian-taxpayer's-money-to-go-skiing-scholar). Rubin. Also known as Robin Hood to the ski instructors. Real funny guy. I got this theory that most BNM scholars are mad. Either mad scholars ( that is those who study real hard) or mad mental (ie bonkers). I think Rubin falls into the latter. And I think I'm in it too.
Funny how you meet people. When we were there, we bumped into a huge group of malaysians from cambridge. Like 20 of them. A lot. A freaking lot. Malaysians were taking over the place. It was mad. Haha. And by some freak accident, we met another BNM Scholar (short form for using-malaysian-taxpayer's-money-to-go-skiing-scholar). Rubin. Also known as Robin Hood to the ski instructors. Real funny guy. I got this theory that most BNM scholars are mad. Either mad scholars ( that is those who study real hard) or mad mental (ie bonkers). I think Rubin falls into the latter. And I think I'm in it too.
Anyways i think thats all for now. I wanted to blog a bit more but I can't get blogger's pictures to come out where I want them to when I upload them, and then it involves a lot of cutting and pasting which is too much trouble and not worth it. Anyone has a better way of uploading pics, let me know.
Have fun!
Have fun!
Friday, December 02, 2005
I is 21
Today, or yesterday rather, i celebrated my 21st birthday. A joyous and momentous occasion, which the first few hours was spent rushing to settle my probability and stats 2 coursework. Hard life aint it?
But anyways, coursework was duly and promptly settled, and after a long day of class till 6pm, i went home, took a bath and waited for alvin to blow dry his hair before we set off again to chia wei's place. Anyways we had a nice meal there, lots of tembaking of each other, especially chia wei(poor boy got shot to bits). But anyways the delightful surprise of the night for me was the birthday present which i got from the whole lot of them. Really nice of them.
And now here i am, 21 years of age, deciding wearing my new arsenal home kit, sitting in front of the computer blogging about stuff.
And they just rushed up saying its time for dota.
So i guess i'll stop here now, show san loo i can pawn him but i give chance, and more importantly just have some fun....lol.
But anyways, coursework was duly and promptly settled, and after a long day of class till 6pm, i went home, took a bath and waited for alvin to blow dry his hair before we set off again to chia wei's place. Anyways we had a nice meal there, lots of tembaking of each other, especially chia wei(poor boy got shot to bits). But anyways the delightful surprise of the night for me was the birthday present which i got from the whole lot of them. Really nice of them.
And now here i am, 21 years of age, deciding wearing my new arsenal home kit, sitting in front of the computer blogging about stuff.
And they just rushed up saying its time for dota.
So i guess i'll stop here now, show san loo i can pawn him but i give chance, and more importantly just have some fun....lol.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Before the throne of God above
My favourite hymnm. It's basically the Gospel and the love of God all rolled into it.
Before the throne of God above
I have a strong, a perfect plea
A great High Priest whose name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there,
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the Just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me
Before the throne of God, I come
Before the throne of God, I come
Behold Him there, the risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I AM,
The King of glory and of grace
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in Heaven, He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased with His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God
With Christ my Savior and my God
author unknown
Monday, November 07, 2005
Time for another update....
Its about time for another update, but i have no time. Not to mention that this post that i typed earlier was screwed up by some technicalities. So i guess i'll cut the crap and go straight to the point. Last weekend we had a day trip to Bath(the city that is, not bathe for one whole day). And here are some pics which i took:
1st stop was the stonehenge, which at the end of the day, is just a bunch of rocks.
The Stonehenge
The Stonehenge from far. With the many people invading it.
The Stonehenge. With the sun above it. Nice lens flare though.
Autumn leaves
The pathetic english version of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Quite disappointing really.
The big church in Bath. I forgot the name. AND WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING ON THE LOWER LEFT!! GAH!!! SPOILT THE PICTURE!!!! FOOL!!!!!!
One day if i ever apply to be photographer for National Geographic this is the pic i'll send in with my CV.
Chia Wei always wears the same pants as me. Don't know whats wrong with that boy. Anyways we're posing on a tree here, as u can see. And alvin looks gay as usual.
Another duck.
Group picture under the Trees of Echoes(I named it that)
An extraodinary moment. I dont know how we got Shin Fei to do this picture, but we did it. And man if you're reading this.....let me know.
And after a long day Alvin shares a philosophical moment while Ding looks on skeptically.
1st stop was the stonehenge, which at the end of the day, is just a bunch of rocks.
The Stonehenge
The Stonehenge from far. With the many people invading it.
The Stonehenge. With the sun above it. Nice lens flare though.
After that we headed of to Bath, and was loafing and trampling about the city for the rest of the day.
Autumn leaves
The pathetic english version of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Quite disappointing really.
The big church in Bath. I forgot the name. AND WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING ON THE LOWER LEFT!! GAH!!! SPOILT THE PICTURE!!!! FOOL!!!!!!
One day if i ever apply to be photographer for National Geographic this is the pic i'll send in with my CV.
Chia Wei always wears the same pants as me. Don't know whats wrong with that boy. Anyways we're posing on a tree here, as u can see. And alvin looks gay as usual.
Another duck.
Group picture under the Trees of Echoes(I named it that)
An extraodinary moment. I dont know how we got Shin Fei to do this picture, but we did it. And man if you're reading this.....let me know.
And after a long day Alvin shares a philosophical moment while Ding looks on skeptically.
Anyways that was the trip. Now back to reading so i can finish the coursework and go for more trips.
But I might just blog a bit more on second thought.
Was in the bus today and some talk came up among me and my friends which revolved around fuel prices, corruption, race favouritism(or more known as Affirmative Action elsewhere) and governments. And my conclusion of the whole thing was that, sometimes we are too easily critical of our leaders (and hence more often than not as a result of that being hypocritical - which i myself am extremely prone to at times) and the people that govern us. But as far as my country is concerned - sweet sweet Malaysia - despite what people say, it's the best place to be in. Not because we're better, not because we have warm sunny skies all year round, not because of anything else, but because it's where I belong. And I'm thankful and grateful for it. And for all the people who live in it and but yet diss it so much,
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But I might just blog a bit more on second thought.
Was in the bus today and some talk came up among me and my friends which revolved around fuel prices, corruption, race favouritism(or more known as Affirmative Action elsewhere) and governments. And my conclusion of the whole thing was that, sometimes we are too easily critical of our leaders (and hence more often than not as a result of that being hypocritical - which i myself am extremely prone to at times) and the people that govern us. But as far as my country is concerned - sweet sweet Malaysia - despite what people say, it's the best place to be in. Not because we're better, not because we have warm sunny skies all year round, not because of anything else, but because it's where I belong. And I'm thankful and grateful for it. And for all the people who live in it and but yet diss it so much,
don't bite the hands that feed you
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
While the chicken defrosts in the microwave...
So i'm here typing away while waiting for the chicken to be defrsted in the microwave after a long week...dammit its only tuesday. But anyways mondays and tuesdays are the worst days of the week as it has the heaviest subjects all crammed nice and tight together (and its compounded by the hangover of DOTA over the weekends), so it's pretty much a holiday again. Tmr's a day off, and so is friday, while thursdays is just a blip in the weekend.
But anyways i was playing this new virtual trading game called fxstudentchallenge where one assumes the role of a currency speculator armed 50 million pounds in cash. So there i was, not really bothering about it until this week's prize -the iPod Nano- was up for grabs. Suddenly that damned game mattered. And heck i was winning big on the 1st day ie Monday. However as the proverbial goes, "It isnt a sunday everyday" and today life came crashing down back to earth with record losses. What the heck. I need to fine new vices. I reckon that if i took a job for titicaca selling tickets for trips around UK in city uni i'd have a higher chance of getting enough money for a Nano. Not that i need it (Nano) anyways.
A few lessons can be drawn from this game:
Adios folks.
But anyways i was playing this new virtual trading game called fxstudentchallenge where one assumes the role of a currency speculator armed 50 million pounds in cash. So there i was, not really bothering about it until this week's prize -the iPod Nano- was up for grabs. Suddenly that damned game mattered. And heck i was winning big on the 1st day ie Monday. However as the proverbial goes, "It isnt a sunday everyday" and today life came crashing down back to earth with record losses. What the heck. I need to fine new vices. I reckon that if i took a job for titicaca selling tickets for trips around UK in city uni i'd have a higher chance of getting enough money for a Nano. Not that i need it (Nano) anyways.
A few lessons can be drawn from this game:
- It's never enough. Human nature is such that we are meant to want more. No matter how much we have. Like how when i had 170k on monday morning i decided to let it go higher but the only direction it went was down. And many more times today which led to my demise in the game. So dont be greedy.
- If you have 50 million, go do yourself a favour and invest it in something better than currencies. Feed africa or something. I'm serious. The risk is just not worth the returns. Coupled with inflationary effects and making losses half the time, you'd be better off doing a desk job and donating 50 million GBP to those starving people in Niger.
- Go do something more worthwhile with your time. Spending lots of time looking at the screen analysing (vain attempts) graphs and trying to predict where the currencies are heading next (only happens if you are a mad fella like me) with money that never existed and will never exist is a real pathetic way to spend your life. Go read a book or something. Or maybe play DOTA...no DONT PLAY DOTA! That's bad too. But you get my drift.
Adios folks.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
i blame this on leona
Three names you go by:
1. boi!
2. danny
3. dan
Three screen names you've had:
1. iamdaniel
2. mrdaniel
3. assasin (it was CS ok!)
Three physical things you like about yourself:
1. My mop of hair
2. The lack of facial hair (no need to waste time shaving)
3. My skinny ass...nah....
Three physical things you don't like about yourself:
1. Eat like cow but cannot fat
2. Lightweight built
3. European girls generally taller than me :(
Three things that scare you:
1. Getting assaulted again (it isn't fun getting whacked and not being able to whack back)
2. Losing my debit card
3. Leona (wakakaka...joking joking) ...ermm backsliding
Three of your everyday essentials:
1. My i tunes
2. Lunch and dinner
3. Lots of sleep (which i lack atm..again i blame leona cos its 2am and i should be sleeping now, but noooo..... i had to poke her blog hyperlink and read this thing...dammit)
Three things that you are wearing right now:
1. t shirt
2. short pants (soon to be changed to a track bottom once i sleep)
3. Hush puppies underwear....phunk me baby!
Three of your musical bands/artistes:
1. Guns n Roses
2. Jamiroquai
3. Foo Fighters (Dear God please don't anyone bid higher than me on EBay for those tickets...)
Three of your favourite songs:
1. Sweeter - Lakewood Church
2. Everlong - Foo Fighters
3. Breezin' - George Benson
Three things you want in a relationship:
1. A whole lotsa loving - and it isnt confined to romantic love only-
2. Tolerance and honesty
3. Someone i can gila with
2 truths 1 lie:
1. I never sleep in class
2. I'm a rock guitarist (wannabe)
3. I don't snore
(oh damn that's 2 lies....)
Three physical things of the preferred sex that appeal to you:
-lets clarify that the "preferred sex" refers to women-
1. Smile
2. Eyes
3. Body
Three of your favourite hobbies:
1. Play guitar
2. Read book
3. Stoning at home
Three things that you want to do really badly right now:
1. Talk to her
2. Eat ikan bakar in Malim....aiyo hungry lah wei!
3. UNDERSTAND HOW THE HECK DO YOU FIND THE COORDINATE VECTOR OF V WITH RESPECT TO {V1, V2,.....Vn}!!! damn youse linear algebra...damn youse!
Three careers you've considered/considering:
1. Rock star (considering)
2. Doctor
3. Teacher
Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. The Alps (french,swiss, austrian...i dont care...just take me to the alps baby)
2. Egypt
3. US
Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Eat ikan bakar in malim and nasi lemak at the food court in bukit beruang..gah this is driving me nuts...london sucks
2. Spend loads of time with all my wonderful friends in Subang
3. Play guitar like David Gary wants me to
Three ways that you are stereotypically a boy:
1. Wanna be tough and macho - yeah right the last time the opportunity came i just stood there and bengang
2. Act like a 13 year old boi?
3. DIE BOYBANDS DIE!!!!!!!
Three ways that you are stereotypically a girl:
1. My name is danielle *bats eyelids superfast*
2. I'm quite happy to follow along and let others decide (is that girlish?)
3. Touching movies make me tear...die lah sure kena target from now on when watching emo movies
Three female celeb crushes:
1. Liv Tyler in LOTR (man those elven ears rock!)
2. Cameron Diaz (it's that big big smile i tell you)
3. Jeniffer Gardner (dont ask me why, i'm not even sure whether i spelt her name right)
Three people that i would like to see take this quiz now:
Don't bother lah its too long. Unless you got nothing to do go post it on friendster or something. yeah that's right go ahead.
1. boi!
2. danny
3. dan
Three screen names you've had:
1. iamdaniel
2. mrdaniel
3. assasin (it was CS ok!)
Three physical things you like about yourself:
1. My mop of hair
2. The lack of facial hair (no need to waste time shaving)
3. My skinny ass...nah....
Three physical things you don't like about yourself:
1. Eat like cow but cannot fat
2. Lightweight built
3. European girls generally taller than me :(
Three things that scare you:
1. Getting assaulted again (it isn't fun getting whacked and not being able to whack back)
2. Losing my debit card
3. Leona (wakakaka...joking joking) ...ermm backsliding
Three of your everyday essentials:
1. My i tunes
2. Lunch and dinner
3. Lots of sleep (which i lack atm..again i blame leona cos its 2am and i should be sleeping now, but noooo..... i had to poke her blog hyperlink and read this thing...dammit)
Three things that you are wearing right now:
1. t shirt
2. short pants (soon to be changed to a track bottom once i sleep)
3. Hush puppies underwear....phunk me baby!
Three of your musical bands/artistes:
1. Guns n Roses
2. Jamiroquai
3. Foo Fighters (Dear God please don't anyone bid higher than me on EBay for those tickets...)
Three of your favourite songs:
1. Sweeter - Lakewood Church
2. Everlong - Foo Fighters
3. Breezin' - George Benson
Three things you want in a relationship:
1. A whole lotsa loving - and it isnt confined to romantic love only-
2. Tolerance and honesty
3. Someone i can gila with
2 truths 1 lie:
1. I never sleep in class
2. I'm a rock guitarist (wannabe)
3. I don't snore
(oh damn that's 2 lies....)
Three physical things of the preferred sex that appeal to you:
-lets clarify that the "preferred sex" refers to women-
1. Smile
2. Eyes
3. Body
Three of your favourite hobbies:
1. Play guitar
2. Read book
3. Stoning at home
Three things that you want to do really badly right now:
1. Talk to her
2. Eat ikan bakar in Malim....aiyo hungry lah wei!
3. UNDERSTAND HOW THE HECK DO YOU FIND THE COORDINATE VECTOR OF V WITH RESPECT TO {V1, V2,.....Vn}!!! damn youse linear algebra...damn youse!
Three careers you've considered/considering:
1. Rock star (considering)
2. Doctor
3. Teacher
Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. The Alps (french,swiss, austrian...i dont care...just take me to the alps baby)
2. Egypt
3. US
Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Eat ikan bakar in malim and nasi lemak at the food court in bukit beruang..gah this is driving me nuts...london sucks
2. Spend loads of time with all my wonderful friends in Subang
3. Play guitar like David Gary wants me to
Three ways that you are stereotypically a boy:
1. Wanna be tough and macho - yeah right the last time the opportunity came i just stood there and bengang
2. Act like a 13 year old boi?
3. DIE BOYBANDS DIE!!!!!!!
Three ways that you are stereotypically a girl:
1. My name is danielle *bats eyelids superfast*
2. I'm quite happy to follow along and let others decide (is that girlish?)
3. Touching movies make me tear...die lah sure kena target from now on when watching emo movies
Three female celeb crushes:
1. Liv Tyler in LOTR (man those elven ears rock!)
2. Cameron Diaz (it's that big big smile i tell you)
3. Jeniffer Gardner (dont ask me why, i'm not even sure whether i spelt her name right)
Three people that i would like to see take this quiz now:
Don't bother lah its too long. Unless you got nothing to do go post it on friendster or something. yeah that's right go ahead.
some thoughts
On friendship....
Its not whether you've got my back,
but rather I've got your back
On life...
I'm here to serve,
Not to be served
On the passing of Datin Seri Endon...
God bless you dear PM,
May you be strong in this dark hours,
We're blessed to have such a leader as you.
You have our support as you lead our country.
You are in our prayers.
On the Lake District...
Fantastic beauty,
But a trip which was marred by a series of unfortunate events
On people....
Humans differences are only skin deep
On Linear Algebra...
It hurts my brain,
But i think i'm beginning to see the light.
Or is it just an illusion?
On Chia Wei...
Still the god of crappers
On this post...
I should go back to studying linear algebra
Its not whether you've got my back,
but rather I've got your back
On life...
I'm here to serve,
Not to be served
On the passing of Datin Seri Endon...
God bless you dear PM,
May you be strong in this dark hours,
We're blessed to have such a leader as you.
You have our support as you lead our country.
You are in our prayers.
On the Lake District...
Fantastic beauty,
But a trip which was marred by a series of unfortunate events
On people....
Humans differences are only skin deep
On Linear Algebra...
It hurts my brain,
But i think i'm beginning to see the light.
Or is it just an illusion?
On Chia Wei...
Still the god of crappers
On this post...
I should go back to studying linear algebra
Monday, October 24, 2005
Manchester and The Lake District
Went away during the weekend to visit some friends in Manchester and also to enjoy the scenic beauty of the Lake District. A series of unfortunate and very forgettable events however, rather ruined the whole thing and left me feeling rather disappointed. But anyways here are a few pics which I managed to get.
The last one is the Manchester Eye. The rest are in the lake district. The pics really dont do any justice to the scenic beauty of the place, there were really many more pretty sceneries which were totally mind blowing, just that circumstances were such that I wasnt abole to take any pictures. Its quite depressing thinking of it.
But anyways, that was a weekend, a few lessons learnt and new friendships forged. Back to school tomorrow, I guess.
The last one is the Manchester Eye. The rest are in the lake district. The pics really dont do any justice to the scenic beauty of the place, there were really many more pretty sceneries which were totally mind blowing, just that circumstances were such that I wasnt abole to take any pictures. Its quite depressing thinking of it.
But anyways, that was a weekend, a few lessons learnt and new friendships forged. Back to school tomorrow, I guess.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
It's been a while..
Heck i should really be looking up on my stats so that I don't die so fast in class tommorow but, I guess what's life without a little disruption to routine....
Just got my 3MBps internet line a few days ago, and ever since then I've been going on a downloading frenzy. However, as my other housemates(i.e Alvin) is also busy downloading and eating up bandwidth, the connection aint exactly flying at the moment. I guess we'll just have to wait for the saturation point where everyone exhaust's their HDDs and CDRs. But no matter, cos that will take a while. I guess we might even run out of things to download at this rate.
My bank statement came today and it wasn't a pretty sight. Been overspending again. Haha...funny how even when I live in this cheap ass place in London which supposedly gives me more room to save money, I end up just spending more money than before and whatever benefits of staying in a cheaper place has been negated. Oh well, at least that means i can enjoy more material comforts in life...for now. Till the money runs out. Or I learn prudency. Whichever comes 1st, although most likely they'll come hand in hand.
But anyways I'll be off to Manchester this coming weekend, to see the city and also to go to the famed Lake District nearby(another money burning weekend). Will be meeting up with some of my secondary school mates. Interesting how things have developed as I would never have forseen this back then in my secondary school days, I mean, going for a trip together (!) in the UK (!!!!!).
Also I've been mulling over the possibility of me buying a new electric guitar. I've already saw the one I wanted, it's a Tanglewood. Not too sure of the model name, in fact i have no clue, but i remember the beautiful sweet acoustic sound that eminated(is there such a word??) from it... but it's freaking 300 pounds. GAH! Should i spend the money or not...I don't know. think think think think think...........
And I'e just finished watching a movie that I loved so much(and still do) as a kid...TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE. wahah....man it rocks. Felt like a 4 year old again watching autobots kick deceptercons ass...man i need help. But anyways it was nice to watch it again and be reminded of my childhood days. Like how I watched it so many times last time til the tape spoiled. Praise God for CDs nowadays. And my new housemate, George is a fan too and he said we could go to HMV and get all 3 seasons(!!!!!) for 15 pounds. Man sounds like a bargain to me. I guess there goes my budget...and my 2nd year.
2nd year has been cool so far, really been enjoying it. I've got really excellent housemates, nice and really really funny folks. Very entertaining to be in the same house. Thank God for them. Uni hasn't been that evil (yet), so i have time to loaf about and debate whether or not i wanna play guitar or go out or read a book or do something else. Speaking of guitars, i still need to nail that stupid solo for civil war. really can't comprehend how a simple wah pedal can make a riff sound so complicated till i can't pick out what exactly is being played. I need to get a Wah pedal too ( there goes the budget again...) POKAI LA!
Recently i've started to subscribe to The Economist magazine. It's really cheap over here, but more than that i take it as a desperate bid to improve my knowledge of economies and whatever the heck is happening out there in the world today. Somehow after sometime whatever my dad says makes some sense. So reading is the way to go, wish me all the best in my plans. And i can't believe i'm saying this but i'm kinda excited at the prospect that i'll be learning multiple intergration...woo hoo....man i need to be slapped. But i'm looking foward to it. I might even start ahead of the lecturer ( now that's plain loco...)
And on to more serious matters. Was talking to a friend of mine in Uni. The guy is from Zimbabwe, and the situation over there in their country is not good. Hyperinflation(which means that the country's currency is of no value) has wiped out the entire nation's economy, due to rulers who are incompetent and just plain greedy. And it makes me realise at times how ungrateful we are about our nations and rulers, we complain about so many things but forget to give thanks for the overall well being of our nations. I mean, what the heck is a late bus compared to people who has seen 20 years of savings dissappear overnight. And man, what he's going through now is no joke. I have a newfound respect for that guy. He's awesome, realising his responsibility and the weight of the burden that he carries, yet he shoulders it without complaining and takes it like a real man. Unlike some of us who claim to be "man" and measure it by stupid things.
But anyways, i guess that's enough for now....stil wondering whether i should start my stats or procrastinate even further. we'll see i guess...
Just got my 3MBps internet line a few days ago, and ever since then I've been going on a downloading frenzy. However, as my other housemates(i.e Alvin) is also busy downloading and eating up bandwidth, the connection aint exactly flying at the moment. I guess we'll just have to wait for the saturation point where everyone exhaust's their HDDs and CDRs. But no matter, cos that will take a while. I guess we might even run out of things to download at this rate.
My bank statement came today and it wasn't a pretty sight. Been overspending again. Haha...funny how even when I live in this cheap ass place in London which supposedly gives me more room to save money, I end up just spending more money than before and whatever benefits of staying in a cheaper place has been negated. Oh well, at least that means i can enjoy more material comforts in life...for now. Till the money runs out. Or I learn prudency. Whichever comes 1st, although most likely they'll come hand in hand.
But anyways I'll be off to Manchester this coming weekend, to see the city and also to go to the famed Lake District nearby(another money burning weekend). Will be meeting up with some of my secondary school mates. Interesting how things have developed as I would never have forseen this back then in my secondary school days, I mean, going for a trip together (!) in the UK (!!!!!).
Also I've been mulling over the possibility of me buying a new electric guitar. I've already saw the one I wanted, it's a Tanglewood. Not too sure of the model name, in fact i have no clue, but i remember the beautiful sweet acoustic sound that eminated(is there such a word??) from it... but it's freaking 300 pounds. GAH! Should i spend the money or not...I don't know. think think think think think...........
And I'e just finished watching a movie that I loved so much(and still do) as a kid...TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE. wahah....man it rocks. Felt like a 4 year old again watching autobots kick deceptercons ass...man i need help. But anyways it was nice to watch it again and be reminded of my childhood days. Like how I watched it so many times last time til the tape spoiled. Praise God for CDs nowadays. And my new housemate, George is a fan too and he said we could go to HMV and get all 3 seasons(!!!!!) for 15 pounds. Man sounds like a bargain to me. I guess there goes my budget...and my 2nd year.
2nd year has been cool so far, really been enjoying it. I've got really excellent housemates, nice and really really funny folks. Very entertaining to be in the same house. Thank God for them. Uni hasn't been that evil (yet), so i have time to loaf about and debate whether or not i wanna play guitar or go out or read a book or do something else. Speaking of guitars, i still need to nail that stupid solo for civil war. really can't comprehend how a simple wah pedal can make a riff sound so complicated till i can't pick out what exactly is being played. I need to get a Wah pedal too ( there goes the budget again...) POKAI LA!
Recently i've started to subscribe to The Economist magazine. It's really cheap over here, but more than that i take it as a desperate bid to improve my knowledge of economies and whatever the heck is happening out there in the world today. Somehow after sometime whatever my dad says makes some sense. So reading is the way to go, wish me all the best in my plans. And i can't believe i'm saying this but i'm kinda excited at the prospect that i'll be learning multiple intergration...woo hoo....man i need to be slapped. But i'm looking foward to it. I might even start ahead of the lecturer ( now that's plain loco...)
And on to more serious matters. Was talking to a friend of mine in Uni. The guy is from Zimbabwe, and the situation over there in their country is not good. Hyperinflation(which means that the country's currency is of no value) has wiped out the entire nation's economy, due to rulers who are incompetent and just plain greedy. And it makes me realise at times how ungrateful we are about our nations and rulers, we complain about so many things but forget to give thanks for the overall well being of our nations. I mean, what the heck is a late bus compared to people who has seen 20 years of savings dissappear overnight. And man, what he's going through now is no joke. I have a newfound respect for that guy. He's awesome, realising his responsibility and the weight of the burden that he carries, yet he shoulders it without complaining and takes it like a real man. Unlike some of us who claim to be "man" and measure it by stupid things.
But anyways, i guess that's enough for now....stil wondering whether i should start my stats or procrastinate even further. we'll see i guess...
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