just now i went for my friend epind's wedding.
quite an interesting affair it was. we were early birds really. epind is my colleague from my days as a bmtc instructor in pulau tekong, so i went there with my other army friends. it was great to see all of them after almost half a year. as always i'm being ridiculed for my 'slenger' ways but it's okay. haha. i think at least i don't mind their company, and they can be quite fun. sometimes i don't quite understand their lingo but generally it's okay. i enjoy my time being with them and actually i learn quite alot from them. the thing about me is, i didn't really know life outside of my studies and always mixing around like-minded people before ns. then in ns i'm exposed to people from all sorts of backgrounds. so in a way i learn to appreciate that different people have different thinking and backgrounds. as always we like reminisce, and we all laugh everytime we talk about funny incidents that happened during our time in camp. in any case that was the first wedding among my friends that i've attended, and i expect more to follow. now we all come to the age where we start to think long-term - of finances, careers, and of the life partner. sometimes i think i grow too fast. haha.
the other day i went to watch get smart with nana. okay admittedly, we watched it very late since the movie opened more than one month ago. in any case the movie is quite funny. steve carell is one heck of a funny guy. i like guys who can act funnily or crack jokes but still keep a straight face. it's not an easy skill, and carell can pull it off quite well. if you all remember, he was jim carrey's rival for the newscaster spot in bruce almighty, and remember the scene when carrey made fun of him on tv by controlling movements of his mouth. haha that was really funny. get smart overall is a good movie i thought. everyone's just about asking me if i've watched the dark knight - well i'm not really a fan of going to the movies, so i don't really bother about catching the latest blockbusters and stuffs so yup.
school's going to start in 2 weeks' time - and i want to it to start as soon as possible. i'm getting worn out with so many things to do everyday. the personal organiser is really brimming with stuffs to do, and i would rather it be full of school stuffs to do. okay i guess that's all for now.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
busy
okay i haven't updated for two weeks i know.
been bogged down by lots of stuffs really. it's crazy.
ever since the last entry, i've been doing a few silat performances, had a 4 day camp, trainings in between, going to jb, and shopping for stuffs. even at home i admit i've been playing game on my computer, but still there's alot of emails and forms to settle and handle. ergh. this sucks. this really has been the busiest of holidays. i think june wasn't this busy with work and traning and ivp in between.
just now we had a silat performance for scgs primary that lasted close to half an hour. i think we enjoyed ourselves, and i'm sure the girls did too. i think none of us had ever really performed in front of so many kids and all girls at that. it was fun at least. haha. even after this there's tons of stuffs to do - matriculation fair, freshman orientation camp reunion bbq, taking over of the reins for silat, night cycling committee gathering, lunch with the nus president, invitation to epind's wedding, cmad, cycling trip to ubin, meetings and more meetings..... and the list goes on. ergh. faa suggested getting some sort of a personal organiser, which i did just now, so i think it should help. suddenly i realise everyday of the week there is always something which i think i should really start jotting down in the organiser.
well last week was the freshman orientation camp and frankly speaking, i've yet to recover from the exertions. i was a facilitator, and well i didn't really come out of my skin i admit, but i think i achieved what i set out to do. at least i tried not to be half-asleep during the camp, and i tried to interact with the kids in one way or another. maybe i didn't interact much with them but i think overall i'm quite pleased with myself. haha. we didn't win the overall challenge but i'm happy i got that group of kids. i think it was fun being with them really. as expected it was tiring, and maybe not as happening as vault camp last year, but it was still great nevertheless.
july sucks and i really can't wait for school to start. even when school starts i think there's really not much things to look forward to anyway. now i understand why they say university students really have no life.
news in the footballing world are quite shocking nowadays. as always arsenal are always offloading their best players to barcelona. this time round it's hleb, who joins a list of good players like overmars, petit, sylvinho, van bronckhorst and henry. i think there are more but i can't remember who else. the only player to move in the opposite direction is fabregas only i think. oh well, it has been reported arsenal will have to resort to selling its best players to keep themselves afloat. for a club the size of arsenal it's really sad.
okay that's all. i'll think i'll go play game first then slowly think about what i've to do for the next few days.
been bogged down by lots of stuffs really. it's crazy.
ever since the last entry, i've been doing a few silat performances, had a 4 day camp, trainings in between, going to jb, and shopping for stuffs. even at home i admit i've been playing game on my computer, but still there's alot of emails and forms to settle and handle. ergh. this sucks. this really has been the busiest of holidays. i think june wasn't this busy with work and traning and ivp in between.
just now we had a silat performance for scgs primary that lasted close to half an hour. i think we enjoyed ourselves, and i'm sure the girls did too. i think none of us had ever really performed in front of so many kids and all girls at that. it was fun at least. haha. even after this there's tons of stuffs to do - matriculation fair, freshman orientation camp reunion bbq, taking over of the reins for silat, night cycling committee gathering, lunch with the nus president, invitation to epind's wedding, cmad, cycling trip to ubin, meetings and more meetings..... and the list goes on. ergh. faa suggested getting some sort of a personal organiser, which i did just now, so i think it should help. suddenly i realise everyday of the week there is always something which i think i should really start jotting down in the organiser.
well last week was the freshman orientation camp and frankly speaking, i've yet to recover from the exertions. i was a facilitator, and well i didn't really come out of my skin i admit, but i think i achieved what i set out to do. at least i tried not to be half-asleep during the camp, and i tried to interact with the kids in one way or another. maybe i didn't interact much with them but i think overall i'm quite pleased with myself. haha. we didn't win the overall challenge but i'm happy i got that group of kids. i think it was fun being with them really. as expected it was tiring, and maybe not as happening as vault camp last year, but it was still great nevertheless.
july sucks and i really can't wait for school to start. even when school starts i think there's really not much things to look forward to anyway. now i understand why they say university students really have no life.
news in the footballing world are quite shocking nowadays. as always arsenal are always offloading their best players to barcelona. this time round it's hleb, who joins a list of good players like overmars, petit, sylvinho, van bronckhorst and henry. i think there are more but i can't remember who else. the only player to move in the opposite direction is fabregas only i think. oh well, it has been reported arsenal will have to resort to selling its best players to keep themselves afloat. for a club the size of arsenal it's really sad.
okay that's all. i'll think i'll go play game first then slowly think about what i've to do for the next few days.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
ica
okay yes i haven't blogged for more than half a month.
i haven't really had anything much to blog about really, so finally today i do have something worth blogging about.
remember the posting about me having to update my thumbprint in my passport? well the thing is yesterday i went to jb and the same thing happened - i kinda got callled up again into their rooms and half an hour was wasted. tomorrow i'm going to jb again so just now i went to ica to have this matter sorted out.
when i asked the lady at the 2nd level she told me to go to the 3rd one. so i took my queue number and waited there, wondering why i was sent to the identification card department instead of the passports department. well when i went into the room i found out why. the thing is this - my passport of course derives my thumprint from my ic. so when the person re-scanned (or updated) my thumbprint and i saw it against the one on my ic, i understood why i always have problems clearing the automated gantries at checkpoints. both sets were so different! at first glance you would think it's two different sets of thumbprints. anyway the guy said my original thumbprint was poorly done, but still - they both look completely different on the screen. so the thumbprint in the ic was the source of the problem, meaning for the past 7 years i've been going around with a thumbprint on my ic that isn't exactly mine. haha. well at least i think tomorrow i should be able to clear that automated gantry without any problems.
after that i dropped by sim lim square to try get the screen protector and maybe laptop cases. the thing is my screen is 9", and my sister's is 17". it's really extreme - one is too small, one is too big. so i walked around and i hardly saw any that could fit both. most were between 12"-15". so i didn't get what i wanted, and if screen protectors of that size were rare, don't even think about finding laptop cases of that size. in any case my lappie is really small, it's pint sized. it really affects the eyes, so much so that after a while using my lappie when i read smses on my handphone suddenly the alphabets become bigger, or rather longer top-down. haha. i'm not kidding. i'm still trying to get used to typing on smaller buttons on the lappie, so i think it will take quite a while.
the past 2 weeks have been filled up with various stuffs. so-called training camps for facilitators for the upcoming freshman camp, silat, last few days of work and just going out. so next week is the camp, and then followed by silat performances, and matriculation fair, barbeques maybe, and maybe also a chalet. haha. even holidays are ultra-packed.
i'm now just abit disturbed by the fact that the online timetable builder is not yet updated when the modules are already out. so i'm really still thinking of what modules to bid for next semester, since the political science modules are mostly such a turn-off but the history ones are very interesting. which really makes me want to major in history but well, i think i should really stick to political science. for practical reasons i guess.
okay that's all for now.
i haven't really had anything much to blog about really, so finally today i do have something worth blogging about.
remember the posting about me having to update my thumbprint in my passport? well the thing is yesterday i went to jb and the same thing happened - i kinda got callled up again into their rooms and half an hour was wasted. tomorrow i'm going to jb again so just now i went to ica to have this matter sorted out.
when i asked the lady at the 2nd level she told me to go to the 3rd one. so i took my queue number and waited there, wondering why i was sent to the identification card department instead of the passports department. well when i went into the room i found out why. the thing is this - my passport of course derives my thumprint from my ic. so when the person re-scanned (or updated) my thumbprint and i saw it against the one on my ic, i understood why i always have problems clearing the automated gantries at checkpoints. both sets were so different! at first glance you would think it's two different sets of thumbprints. anyway the guy said my original thumbprint was poorly done, but still - they both look completely different on the screen. so the thumbprint in the ic was the source of the problem, meaning for the past 7 years i've been going around with a thumbprint on my ic that isn't exactly mine. haha. well at least i think tomorrow i should be able to clear that automated gantry without any problems.
after that i dropped by sim lim square to try get the screen protector and maybe laptop cases. the thing is my screen is 9", and my sister's is 17". it's really extreme - one is too small, one is too big. so i walked around and i hardly saw any that could fit both. most were between 12"-15". so i didn't get what i wanted, and if screen protectors of that size were rare, don't even think about finding laptop cases of that size. in any case my lappie is really small, it's pint sized. it really affects the eyes, so much so that after a while using my lappie when i read smses on my handphone suddenly the alphabets become bigger, or rather longer top-down. haha. i'm not kidding. i'm still trying to get used to typing on smaller buttons on the lappie, so i think it will take quite a while.
the past 2 weeks have been filled up with various stuffs. so-called training camps for facilitators for the upcoming freshman camp, silat, last few days of work and just going out. so next week is the camp, and then followed by silat performances, and matriculation fair, barbeques maybe, and maybe also a chalet. haha. even holidays are ultra-packed.
i'm now just abit disturbed by the fact that the online timetable builder is not yet updated when the modules are already out. so i'm really still thinking of what modules to bid for next semester, since the political science modules are mostly such a turn-off but the history ones are very interesting. which really makes me want to major in history but well, i think i should really stick to political science. for practical reasons i guess.
okay that's all for now.
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