A Prayer for Friends

On my knees I ask you Lord
To listen to this prayer
People asking for your help
Lord, they're out there everywhere.

The troubles that beset them
Are often times too much
Their burden is so heavy
Please Lord, they need your touch.

So I ask for you to send them
Courage for each day
Strength enough to see them through
For each of them I pray.

mid-semsters.

tuesday night here we go! first paper's tomorrow. think i've prepared quite well for it so i'm actually pretty relaxed. considering i did something similar in poly, this should be alright. am more worried about next week's math. once i'm done with tomorrow, math shall be my late night buddy. meanwhile, i still have to contend with assignments and essays galore...

• Human Control Interfaces and Usability Engineering:

1. assignment 1a - check
2. assignment 1b - check
3. assignment 2 - not done

• IT in eCommerce:

1. assignment 1 - two-thirds check (research paper undone)
   
2. assignment 2 - not done

• eBusiness:

1. mid-sem paper - wednesday 26th aug
2. main project - not worried... yet.
3. research paper - not done

• mathematical modelling:

1. mid-sem paper - tuesday 9th sept
2. assignment 1 - check (a long long time ago)
3. assignment 2 - no one did it i think...

things are getting very "fun" indeed...

"wow" doesn't quite do it.

monday morning back from a weekend trip to sydney (yes.. again..). was at a singapore party on friday, things shall remain vague from here about the party. ha! saturday was spent eating - literally. went to fish market and had two seafood platters. got them to sit outside for the "whole" experience. heh heh. not like we had a choice too. sunday was spent erm.. shopping. thank goodness for kaiwei. he helped me resist temptation.. -glances at hugo boss-

now it's back to reality. got one report due friday, one mid-sem paper on wednesday, math mid-sem in two weeks and another assignment due next week. it's all coming thick and fast now - just the way i love it. somehow i work better under pressure. weird huh?

so yeah, back to the reports. 'nuff of fun for the week..

stoned.

wednesday morning been sleeping very late the past 2 days. not good at all. it's 0340 now and i just finished up my report.. it's bloody 30 pages long and i'm going crazy just editing it. but at least it's done.

looking forward to floorball later tonight. i want to see if i can keep up the scoring spree. feels great to be scoring so many again after all this time. that said, it's always that much more sweeter when you win. so yeah. hope it continues.

school just got busier. i've to contend with a few assignments and projects all at the same time. add to that a 2000 word research paper. i'm really starting to get into the deep end of things now. mid-sem exams are but 5 weeks away followed by a 2 week spring break which i think i'll spend most of it mugging anyway. then comes finals before i'm back in singapore again. fast eh?

so. that's it for now. i really should sleep. before i go, a couple of messages/greetings:

HAPPY xxTH BIRTHDAY MUM! (censored. i did not forget..)

HAPPY xxST BIRTHDAY DAD! (censored too. but easy to guess eh?)

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY KIMBERLEY!

CONGRATULATIONS MICHELLE FOR GRADUATING FROM MELB UNI!

ALL THE BEST MR CHAN WITH VOLLEYBALL!

state teams.

sunday evening it's amazing. my best bud and i are in the state teams for our respective sports! if he accepts it, he'll be off to melbourne for a week, if i accept mine, i'll be off to sydney for 3 days. my goodness. the excitement! -beams!-

edit: okay. my bad. he made it to the anu team as a first year! (which doesn't happen very often...even in poly)

burnt.

sunday morning think the "surprise party" went pretty well just now. the dinner was an open secret of sorts but thanks all the same to everyone who helped to prepare the food, helped to stall time and helped to clean up the huge mess that zongyao and i created. ha!

in any case, i think i'll be taking a break from cooking on a large scale for a while. i've burnt myself for the second time in a month - the first being burnt by boiling oil and today, well, let's just say i almost cooked my finger.

one surprise down, two more to go.

freezing cold.

thursday morning played floorball just now. almost died in the cold. the court temperature was hovering around 2 degrees celsius. damn the place for not having heaters. anyway, scored 4 goals today. was pretty satisfied considering we came back from 4-3 down to win 15-5. amazing just doesn't quite describe it..

anyway, school's getting really hectic. juggling with 2 major assignments and 1 minor one. add to that the fact that i still suck in math, time management is really an issue now though not as big an issue as trying to get myself to study. self-discipline! thank God for army. ha!

okay, back to my arch-enemy... math!

snowboarding.

monday morning okay. it's been a really tiring weekend. had to be up on saturday at 4am to catch the bus to perisher blue for a ski trip with the malaysian students organization. knocked out in the bus the moment we boarded. so anyways, the journey took about 90 minutes. we got to the place, and collected the boots and skis. in my case, i decided to upgrade and try snowboarding with hianyang and sherwyn. A$10 for the upgrade. cheap. ha!

so yeah, for the first two times we attempted to snowboard, we went tumbling and falling all over. once we got the hang of it though, boy did we have a wild time. we went from conservatively trying to make our way down the slopes to eventually speeding down and even racing downhill. it was great. i must say, snowboarding's addictive. i'm absolutely in love with it now.

it snowed heavily in the midafternoon such that we had to cover our faces taking the ski lift up to the peak of the mountain. pictures on facebook would show that i'm not kidding. the snowfall was fantastic. haven't experienced it for a while now. think the last time was when the whole family was in switzerland and france.

we left the place at around 5pm before making our way back to school. again, the moment i boarded the bus, i knocked out. scratch that, hianyang and i concussed the moment we boarded the bus. ha! reached school around 7pm and instead of heading back to rest, we went to one of the lecture theatres to catch the screening of the NDP. went back to hall around 11-ish for a late national day dinner of sorts... jimmy kc and zongyao made hawker food so there was lots to eat. hokkien mee, fried carrot cake, char kway teow among others.

had a post-national day dinner of sorts as well today. managed to come up with mee goreng and mee rebus. forgot that i didn't have enough sauce for mee rebus and i had excess chicken meat so zongyao and i just friend the remaining chicken together with minced pork and xo sauce. came out pretty nicely too if i might add.

before i forget, spent the whole friday night watching the opening ceremony for the olympics. went to bed the moment singapore came out (which was pretty late). so anyways, that pretty much wraps up the weekend. i'm dead beat, my body aches a little and i seriously need some uninterrupted rest. guess i'll catch up with my rest on thursday when i have no real lessons to contend with.. till then..

relief...

thursday morning it's one thing to play well and lose, another to play crap and still win. alas, i scored a hat-trick but still lost the game 4-3.

anyhows. math has been kind to me the past few lectures. i'm surprised i actually understood the bulk of it on functions and what-not. but after looking at the tutorials, any inkling of them being doable simply vanished. it was insanely difficult that even some of my seniors couldn't do it, much less the math geniuses that i'm surrounded with..

so, last week ended on a pretty dull note. went to sydney with yuehan justin tammy and aiping for a day trip of sorts. we left on friday afternoon and back in canberra on saturday evening. it was a mad rush, one that was mostly my fault. but given the same time frame and schedule and workload, i would have done it again. it's not my fault the way the following weekends are panning out to be ones with loads of activities hence certain plans had to be rearranged.

went for the international ball that night. seated at our table were.. let's see..
myself kimberley tingho kenn yuehan tammy chenchao junyan amanda and nura. while the fod was alright, the performances negligable, it was the company that mattered the most.

skiiing trip this saturday (national day!) before i attempt to make mee rebus, mee siam and/or mee goreng on sunday. wish me luck. ha!

and.. i so need to sleep. it's almost 3am here..