sense of satisfaction..

got off to a good start for the week. completed about 70% of analogue coursework. by tonight, i should be done with it. left with power, asp and project management.

tomorrow, should be going for a swim. do more work. get inducted for college gym. and then watching death cab for cutie at astoria.

on wednesday, suzi will be in london! more soozi boozy hell coming up.

on friday, marvin will be acting 3 roles in an spl production. act zai only lor.

in between, more coursework should be done. haha. never felt such satisfaction from work. probably have, but only the present work brings the instant taste of gratification (what a load of nonsense.)

still, delighted with monday. delighted with united's league cup win. delighted with singapore's win over iraq. delighted with suzi's blog (ha!).

p.s. iraqi football isn't as war torn as the country. they're actually ranked alongside belgium and finished 4th in the olympics.
(clips here: http://www.football-iraq.net/libary/goals/Asia2006/Iraq_Sing_22_2_2006/)












out on friday..

amazed and admiration..

suzi stumbled onto someone's blog again. this time around, it's a former hall mate and a coursemate of mine. don't exactly know him, but most of the singapore ee people know him, esp. hamster girl. anyway, i'm damn impressed by his blog. not its layout or interesting content.but he has a timetable of his days ahead on it. more importantly, the timetable is so packed with self-improvement, hardwork and more work.

the 3 main things that encircle his life: gym/swim, coursework and language work. he starts his day at 6am and ends at 11pm. such discipline. as for me, if i remember, i usually state out a list of tasks for the day the night before. not exactly a list, since it usually contains only 2 main items. for example, on a saturday, i will write down two subjects or coursework that i would focus on and attempt to complete. a successful day would be one where i complete 1 out of 2 tasks. i'll feel very statisfied that the day didn't go to waste. a non-successful day usually means that i don't do any of the tasks. well, i've never completed all the tasks that i list out for a day. never complete every task. unless i state only 1.

so that's the life of yours truly. compared to the life of someone more hardworking and more successful. it's almost the end of feb. time to get down to work.. yeah right.

discussions about religion..

woah! what a topic to talk about. nah, not gonna dwell on it, but marvin, kai and i had a long discussion about religions last night/this morning. realised that i haven't forgotten a lot of stuff about christianity which used to be/is/was my faith. as most know, i'm a believer, but not really a follower. i believe in God, but i don't exactly follow God. ok, more on that some other time. anyway, had a good discussion with kai about christians, catholics, etc. we just kept talking and talking until we realised suzi (who was on skype) fell asleep and that it was almost 4am!

anyhow, brought back memories of the last summer i spent in singapore before i came to london for the first time. i remember vividly the stories of zimin, fernn and then yanjie. all pretty amazing. all remain good friends of mine, though i've not spoken to them for a long time. our faith was a common thing we shared. obviously, we've all taken quite different routes with regards to that. well.. told suzi that we'll go to htb when she comes to london the next time round. and when she comes to s'pore, i'll bring her to have a look at hopesingapore.

enough about religion, let's talk about something probably more important to many. champions league football. this week's football has been amazing. first you had henry and fabregas demolishing madrid on tues evening. then you had messi and ronaldinho strutting their stuff at chelsea. simply love it when chelsea gets beaten. more so when you see an 18 year old do stuff that you've rarely seen. after learning spanish, i've had a stronger interest in la liga teams in general. at least, i can pronounce their names more correctly than a certain david pleat on itv. but most importantly, i think there'll be great times ahead for football lovers as we can watch lionel messi develop into a player worthy of being called the next maradona. hopefully.















Barca's main men: Ronaldinho, Messi, Eto'o

hasta pronto!

sick

tell you what is sick.

long ge is sick. haha. long ge mixed very bad drinks last fri night. malibu with vodka in great amounts. it's sick that i had to drink it. but then again, i did put beer, wine, vodka and a tinge of baileys together. that created a sick biege-brown suspension, which kai and alfonso duly drank.

the drinks probably caused my present sickness. but maybe, it was lim who passed it to kai who then passed it to me that caused it.

analogue electronics is also sick. it is so monotonous and repetitive. es muy duro.















guess whose feet do they belong to..

a time to slack, a time to start working..

reading kai's blog always makes me want to blog. must be the effects of the music that's playing on hers. i must add that i usually skim through her blog, cos it's long. hahaha. no la, sometimes i do read it properly. like just.

anyway, had to skip all my spanish lessons, how ironic, to go to valencia for valentine's day. spanish teacher was quite nice about it. it was a fairly unromantic day i must say. haha. but i think we were both happy to be able to spend the day together, watching kang xi and i guess. quite lame. we did have a lot of food. croissants, pasta, noodles, orientalexpress food, minestrone, etc. food. as important and as enjoyable as anything else man.














with pictures of food, this is starting to look more and more like a cha bor's blog. but i insist on maximising my blog space and new camera. soo... on the far right of the picture, you can see an annoyingly pink thing. yeah, that was suzi's gift for valentine's day. she got what she wanted (a pink v3) and i got what i needed (a camera). how lucky. other than valentine's, the weekend was also fairly interesting. i went to hwa chong night because there was no such thing as aj night. the closest sounding thing to that would be ac night which i doubt i would fit in. instead, i chose to go to hc night since it's quite chinky like aj and i have many close friends performing or going for that event. turned out to be good. i have to say the best performances were the fighting by the imperial ee guys, duets by marvin and yang wen and the short play by spl.















oh yeah, it's time to start working. i spend too much time playing football manager. it's time to work. two months to exam. can't believe it's here again.. sian.

new camera = some pictures

first of all, i have to thank my lovely girlfriend suzi for buying this diary for me. it'll definitely change my life in 2006. secondly, i have to thank her again for giving me a new camera for valentine's day. so now, i can be a photo whore like xiaxue. but because of i don't know how to photoshop myself, i shall take pictures of random things like my diary, my notes..

and my unsuspecting housemate..
this way, suzi can see the fruits of her purchase. thanks for the present!

steven gerrard being "tua-ed"

even if you're not a football fan, you should check this funny clip of steven gerrard being caught out by a chelsea mascot.. hilarious and cute.

click on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm

and then there should be a picture of gerrard.

click on that then.

no tengo suerte!

no tengo suerte - i have no luck.

yeah been unlucky these days. first, suzi's laptop was damaged the night before she returned to valencia. so, i lent her mine and sent hers for repairs. when it got repaired, its cd-rom drive was damaged by the toshiba peeps. sent it back and went to spain to see her and return her the laptop. i got mine back only to find out my ethernet port stopped working. so, i didn't have stable internet. had to spend 15 quid on an ethernet card. on the way to pcworld, i was stopped by an italian in a car who thought i was italian. wtf. he asked if i wanted to purchase his 4 armani suits that he received from some harrods fashion show. as if. he thought i was stupid and easy to con. so, i told him he was crazy and asked him to sod off. and so he did.

still, i got conned eventually. not by the italian. but by an asian guy at the tube station. no, he wasn't hanging about, trying to sell his used travel card. instead, he was a tube worker. a dude at the ticket counter. i was trying to purchase 2 day travel cards for my friends from newcastle. being oyster-fied, i didn't know they stopped selling carnets (a set of 10 single tickets for a reduced price). so, i asked the asian if i could have 2 tickets for my mates. he gave me one. i returned my change to him and said i wanted 2. he took my money and failed to give me the right change.

being a trusting person (or somehow unaware and stupid), i didn't realise he gave me 10 pounds less than my actual change. not until i went past the ticket gantry. shit! i exclaimed before going back to the guy. by then, he was not at his counter, putting away his hardearned 10 quid. i waited for his return.

"excuse me, i think you gave me the wrong change earlier." (not implying he cheated my money)

"i always give the right change. i gave you the right change. i can't be wrong."

"but i'm sure i was short-changed. i gave you 20 pounds and you returned me only 20p for 2 day travel cards."

"i always give the right change! you don't come back and fucking tell me i gave you the wrong change! it was right when i gave it to you!"

"ok, calm down mate. but i think you're trying to cheat me." (pissed off that he was so damn rude, and now i'm quite sure he tried to cheat me, that piece of crap)

"you don't fucking tell me i cheated you. it's too late. if it was wrong, you should have said. i gave you the right change. even if it's wrong, it's too late. don't fucking tell me i cheated you."

i left before i got really pissed. that nbcb is a bastard really. i'm damn sure he took the money. i'm just sure. the look in his eyes. the way he replied me when i first suggested that he gave me the wrong change. so, great, i gave 10 pounds to the bastard.

on a better note, i had a lot of fun with suzi at valencia on chinese new year day, eating loads of chinky food. and yesterday, i had a great time with shangyuan and nicky. kai really helped me in entertaining and hosting those two from newcastle. and thanks to mary and zhewei, we all got to eat yusheng. also, i must say that i'm a lucky omen for man united. on the 3 occasions i watched them live at old trafford, they won. bolton 4-1, liverpool 1-0 and blackburn 2-1 (carling cup semi. and ronaldo, pique, park and solskjaer came within my licking distance on that occasion. they were all in the stands, not playing). in between those games, they drew a couple of times and lost to blackburn once.

yes yes. i must really put up some pictures especially the one of gary neville and his well-groomed moustache. haha. i will. in due time.