kiasuness

After spending 3+ years in singapore, today is the only day i experience kiasu-ness to the max !

I just came back from a test. It was a final exam, 35% for one of my module. The prof mentioned that its a open book, open notebook, open laptop, open watever test. So it sounded scary at first but later the prof sent an email about the test timing and venue and other stuff, he specifically mentioned laptop are not necessary for the test in the email, which i think he bold it.

So this morning i happily (stupidly) not bring my laptop going for the test. Reaching the classroom it was ok until everyone who came in the 1st thing they do is switch on their laptop. Until i saw the class of 30 people with 29 laptops(u and me know who didnt bring his laptop)

ARGH !!

Am i just lacking the kia part of kiasuness or am i just pure dumb.

Anyways, with the laptop maybe there wont be much difference. but the feeling of im dumb coz i didnt bring it keeps coming back...

perhaps i could have gotten 2 or 4 more marks for the test with my laptop. who knows.

Interesting me

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too hot only sweat, too cold can fall sick and die

The prof in one of my module said something interesting today. About the designing of systems for buildings, he said something must cater to the heating requirement. And somehow he explained that it is because if its hot, people can feel uncomfortable and at most sweat but if its too cold, people might fall sick and die.

Its interesting because it reminds me of one of the days in my primary school, one of my teacher also said something similar. I remember it was in the morning and some of my classmates were complaining that its too cold and ask the teacher to switch off the fan. The teacher asked the class and some others complaint that it will be too hot if the fan is off.

The teacher then asked who wants the fan off and a few put up their hands. Then she asked who wants the fans on and a few others put up their hands.

Then she said, we should turn off the fan because its ok if we feel abit hot. But for those who feel cold, they can fall sick if we keep the fan on. That explains why she asked us to switch off the fan.

I dont know why but for some reason this scene is actually stucked in my head for so many years and i still remember some details of it.

Interesting huh.

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人变了？或事变了？还是都变了。

Sometimes things happen that makes u wonder if its the people who have changed or the environment have changed.

Somehow things doesnt fit in anymore.

Perhaps everything have changed.

Maybe if its viewed from another perspective, everything is just temporary.

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Ipoh

Obviously this post is about going back to ipoh on 18th September - 28th September.

Its gonna be mid sem break and i cant really rmb when was the last time i went home for mid sem break. Anyways, i shall expect alot of relaxing and sleep and drama watching at home. :D

If anyone is interested in visiting ipoh i dun mind showing people around my lovely city :D

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Human? or just me?

不可能有--〉可能有-->有--〉挑--〉嫌三嫌四

is it common to all people or its just me ?

Interesting me.

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I am a student

Wake up at 830 ran for class at 9am. Picked up bfast on the way. Stayed awake the whole class.

Bfast : 0.90 curry puff + 1.40 Juice.

After class went for an early lunch and then head to the library. Was online most of the time but did manage to read a few papers for my FYP.

Went for another class at 3pm. Got a coffee and chicken pie for my class to wake me up. Stayed awake for almost 45 minutes and fell asleep at the last slide before the break. Went to get some food stuff and another drink to keep myself awake for the rest of the class and I did !!

Coffee + chicken pie = 2.30

Potato salad + spagheti + ice mocha = 4.10

I spent extra much today and i was eating all the way in all classes but the good thing is i actually did listen in class and understood stuff from my lecture. GREAT! whats even better is i didnt go back and take a nap(i usually do) between classes and went to the library instead. AWESOME !!

The point is not to highlight how much i spent for the day but to highlight i FELT like a student again after long time not having that feeling. And im exhausted. Its really tiring to stay focused in class and listen to lecture. But its good to feel like a student. :D

On another note. I was chatting with a friend online and he was telling me about this Management Trainee sort of program for this bank and i went to check it out. turn out to be they only want people with degree higher than 2nd upper. I was like the 1st criteria already failed. While my friend who has a 1st class in hand at the moment said : most of them want 2nd upper what.....

And i was like...only if i have studied hard since year 1..i wonder if i would be getting a 2nd upper.

the convo ended something like him saying : you want to go this bank do MT or go keppel repair ships..its up to u lah...

hmmm.....lets hope i dont end up repairing ships....

interesting me.

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productive hours

Its now 6.15pm

Looking back at the day. i woke up at 8.30, rushed for class and moved on with the day, how many hours have i spent productively?

On the assumption that :

Time in class are productive.

Time having lunch with friends are productive (u build connection)

2+1+2 = 5

out of almost 10 hours of the day less than half of them are actually productive. Other times are spent on :

facebooking

waiting for bus

msn

taking a nap

walking from one place to another

sitting down waiting for the computer to be switched on

toilet and do whatever you do in the toilet

Q-ing for something

How to be efficient like that ??

interesting me

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Life

remembered a conversation with a friend few days back.

ME : its boring, everyday is kinda repetitive. wake up, rush for class, come back to room and online till late and sleep and wake up to rush for class come back to room and online and sleep.....

Friend : Get a girlfriend lor, then life wont be so boring. it will be wake up, run for class, come back for dinner with girlfriend, then go to gf room to online, then sleep then wake up run for class come back for dinner w gf.....

swt...

Another friend said : i cant believe u said life is boring, its u who make it interesting....

Yea..do something dude..do something...

interesting me

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Frustration

I think it just frustrates you too much when you care about something.

The best way to not get frustrated is to not care about anything.

Bo chup.

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Back in Singaland

Havent been updating alot but i think i should at least update where i have been after Talinn, and put up stories later.

So, after Tallinn, it was

Vilnius,

Krakow,

Gyor,

Bucharest,

Istanbul,

Dubai,

and finally Singapore.

Interesting me

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Talinn quickie

Havent really got time to update the blog. am just taking the 15 minutes waiting for people to do this real quick.

so after the interesting berlin which is full of history, i went over to stockholm.

o, in berlin i tried out the free tour and it turned out to be really nice..i wouldnt have known about which building MJ put out the baby which caused a big news that time, i wont know which place did hitler die and was last seen and i wont have met 2 random malaysians in berlin as well.

and stockholm i think is a must go. its the top choice now because the city is really really pretty..made of 14 island and over 30 bridges.how can a city b not nice with that.

and then i went on to stay with a couchsurfer in riga for 2 days, random things happening, joined random CS painting party and did hitchhiking for the 1st time in my life. exciting fun random riga.

and here i am in talinn, just got here in the afternoon and so far have been around the old town. its really nice and beautiful, thats why they deserve the UNESCO thingy for the city i guess...

gonna go check out the free tour tmr...lets see...


next destinations : Vilnius, Lithuania and Krakow, Poland

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Berlin Quickie

Gotta make a quick update from Berlin.

its 11pm and im too tired to go out for a walk around. just wanna stay in front of the computer and do nothing.

I just got here by a 10 hour train. the direct train from stuttgart to berlin should take about 5 hours but i took 10 hours, 4 transits, 2 times 40 mins wait, to cut the cost from 120 euro to 8 euro. yes, 8 euro. its supposed to be some weekend special 5 to go promotion and someone got the tickets, and asked random people online to join, which we then shared the costs and its 8 euros, so i basically was in a train for 10 hours with
1. an old chinese guy doctor whose studying phd in germany, he grad from nanjing uni and became a dr for a while in china and somehow went to US for some research work and then now in germany for PhD.
2. a german architect girl who is moving to berlin,cameback after working 2 yrs in new york, got hit by the financial crisis and had to move to berlin.
3. a quiet indian guy who doesnt speak much, from somewhere north india and studyng in germany.
4. a 22yr old guy whose job is making videos. he is going for some festival thingy near berlin.

so its cool to travelwith random people and its 10 hour train ride which means i have too much time i dont know what to talk about to these people.

anyways, also some update from the past week.

i spent a day in vienna, its a nice place tho it was raining a little. didnt have enough time and wished i could have spent more time at the castle.
i spent 2 days in budapest, met up with csilli and stayed at her hostel. i met her 1st time in sg, 2nd time in japan and here i am 3rd time in hungary. :D
Budapest is very nice and i started liking sending postcards after i wrote 9 postcards in budapest in front of a church. basically i got 8 postcards, and i started writing,sitting on a nice bench in front of a nice church. and after writing 8 to other people, i realize i gotta write 1 for myself, so i bought another one and wrote to myself :D
i was in Karlsruhe and stuttgart, met up fengying and her bf. It was kinda rush, most of the time rushing around, but i really i enjoy meeting people i know in some other place. and i got to view a little of the life of aSEP student. I think its really nice....


now that i am in berlin, gonna go around for tmr and day after, then will move on to stockholm.

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Today is a good day.

It started off alittle boring. Its a Sunday and i have no plans. No where to go and stay at home for the day ? thats bad.

In the end it turned out to be not that bad. After lunch i went out with JianHua, or Jack. we went to pluck cherries. Its the 1st time as i remember that i actually climbed a tree. i real cherry tree. and it was fun. picking cherries and eating it on the tree. Its like something a kid would do. but we did it. end up picking lots of them and then i dropped by his place, he and his frens were playing mahjong. omg. so chinese...:P

Then its pool time with a few others, krajo, neha, manish, renaud.....its fun. havent played it since im here, turned out to be not that expensive coz we shared the cost among 5 of us....

then i got bored because i didnt want to have bread-y stuff for dinner. but those are the cheaper things around. Any non-bread, warm food will costs like 1000HuF(5USD) or so...

Then i decided to just go supermarket and get some random stuff and throw it into the pot and have a warm dinner. End up actually, a few packets of instant noodles, some cabbage, some frozen ham put into a pot of water cooked for 10 minutes can make a real good cheap tasty filling warm meal.

Not so good start, but GREAT DAY !

Interesting me.

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Sports day

Today is fun. and tiring.

The school had a sports day. Sports day for most msians or singaporeans i guess it would be imagined as people having competition, running, 100m, 200m, or soccer, badminton and such. So its kinda different here. They call it sports day, but its more like a whole school beach outing.

So it was at this mini man made beach behind a club called lapos (its famous and every young people know where it is in gyor), the beach is just next to the danube river. So they had all sorts of activities like volleyball, soccer and things like that.

But something really embarassing happened. I wanted to do kayaking. I still rmb i did it a few times before, like those out door camps i used to be in when i was in form 4 and form 6, i even kayaked in the sea for like a few kilometers from island to island that time. But this time, in this very danube river, i fell into the water like 4 times. Great, so i had to move to canoeing which is like 4 person in a much bigger boat kinda thing. Good that i didnt make the canoe overturn. By the way, the water is cold. damn cold ok.

And i tried another thing they call water football. Probably its only popular in europe. Basically they have a small field filled with water and the bottom is made of plastic/cushion like material, so u can slide and fall down without hurting urself...still u do feel it when u fall. So basically its so slipery that u will either fall down or do a slide tackle every 2 minutes. which is fun !! They continuously spray water onto the field to keep it slipery....so the game kinda waste alot of water. thats why i said it might only be popular in europe, guess they love this game during summer....

and basically thats it for the morning. Sports day.

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milan and bratislava

It turn out to be not rainy at all in both milan and bratislava....this proves that weather forecasts can be really really inaccurate. 

Basically its a short trip, left on thursday took a nite bus to bratislava,walked around and "slept" in the airport, went over to milan, walked around whole day, stayed in the hotel room and went around again, sleep in the airport again and flew to bratislava nad walked around whole day again. 

I think there is nothing much in Milan, its a decent city, but other than the cathedral really worth seeing, others are quite boring...

Bratislava is a really small city, and the square near the old town hall is nice, and the blue church is even better. The blue church is a must go if you are in bratislava, the whole church is basically painted blue and its really nice...especially after u see 100 other churches with similar colors and design..

Travelling is fun, its tiring  and its expensive...think i need to find some cheaper alternatives...

any suggestions?

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rainy Milan here i come

Its gonna be raining. Its only on weekends that i get to travel and its weird that europe only rains on the weekend... damn! 

pray hard. 

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Praha

It was a good trip. despite the rain in prague. 

I remember this Argentina guy in the hostel came over when i was using the internet. He asked me to check the weather forecast. So it was Friday, the day when i arrived at prague. and the internet says its gonna rain heavily in Prague for both Saturday and Sunday and even Monday. Oh shit, we took so much effort and time, and the tiring 6 hours bus ride to prague and u telling me its gonna rain for the next few days that im here? Die.. 

So we ended up checking out nearly cities...maybe he wanna make a short trip to somewhere else to run away from the rain. At the end we both gave up because its raining in most cities in Europe except the london chunk, portugal spain chunk and athens chunk which is too far away to travel to. 

But it ended up not too bad, like walking in the rain in Prague, having capucinno in the Old Town Square because of the rain, watching street performer sing and dance in the rain, and sipping the warm coffee in temperature like 15 or 20....its good...i had a chance to see the city this way which would not have happened if its a sunny day. 

anyway, journey to prague was not really smooth also. We thought that we could have gotten a ticket on the bus, so we waited at the bus stop on Thursday evening, end up being told that no more tickets, we have to buy in advance after waiting for like 1 hour with all our luggage. 

But something i learned during the trip. Check weather forecast before u make any travel plans. Change it if the weather is not as good as you think it will be. 

And i really prefer to travel alone. much more relaxed and way more freedom......

Interesting me. 

PS : playing with DSLR is really fun..i think i will get one some day..

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Prague here i come !!

Leaving in 8 hours time to Prague. Staying there for the long long weekend till Monday. 

From now till monday, its gonna be awesome. 

Life goes on from there. 

Interesting me.

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Life can be a bitch.

Life can really be a bitch. But im glad it has been treating me well. 

Things can screw up so badly and seeing other people's life got screwed is not fun at all. 

All the best to all those who need a more boring life. 

Interesting me

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Its called cultural experience, dude !

having been here for a little over a week, its interesting to be able to notice some differences in the culture. 

Hungarians are meat eater. They eat lots of lots of meat. We usually say we eat rice with meat, but some say the Hungarians eat meat with meat. but from my experience, they serve huge portion of meat with little of rice or potatoes. 

They are very open minded people, yet they are so closed up. We always know that, oh, asians are so conservative and westerners are so open minded and stuff, its kinda true. but its weird that they are so open minded yet at the same time so closed up. Closed up in the sense that they are not exactly the friendliest person on earth to get to know. I mean i am in a small city in hungary, people here dont usually see foreigners around, or maybe foreigners but not asians around. so its kinda normal they sometimes (ok,most of the time) give u some weird stare...i get this alot, not that i mind those staring. I think im used to being stared in a weird way here, but im ok with that, since its normal to stare at something u dont see often. but something interesting is, i usually see them staring at me and i try to be "friendly" and smile to them, but they would99% not smile back. Usual expression will be stone face looking at u, look at other places, turn their face around, look at the ground or something like that but NEVER smile back. Its weird that in Asia altho culturally we are conservative and such, but we are so used to smiling back at people. I mean if you are in asia, try go to the streets or trains, stare at some person for a while and when he noticed that u are staring at him, smile at him, im pretty sure 80% of the time at least that they would return u a smile. Not the same case here. 

Education wise, i guess its well known that asians have strict respect, no fooling around in school kinda thing and europeans have the opposite. But being there and seeing the whole thing really is another story. First obvious thing is that they dont wear any uniforms to school. Then the whole idea of classroom education is totally different here where students are expected to participate and they are so free to do whatever they want. some of them playing PSP,cards, or some random games in class, people just walk to behind of the class and start playing with their PSP during class, girls start putting on make up in class, and so on so on so on....

well, thats it for now, more thoughts need to be organized. 

Interesting me 

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