its great to have a weekend..

Its great to have a weekend i realize. And i foresee the long one will be even better.

Has been 2 weeks after i started my internship, which obviously requires me to wake up early in the morning and rush to work taking 40minutes bus and train. now that i have realized its hard in the working world in the previous post where there were really not much time on weekdays to do anything u like to. now i realize its great to have a weekend. The reason i said so is because i woke up at 3pm today. no reason. just too nice to sleep.

Altho i did wake up at 730 once. coz used to it.

Another time at 9+. went back to sleep coz the weather is just too nice.

another time at 11+. thought that i should wake up, so i did wake up turn on my laptop and went on facebook after 20 minutes figured that i should embrace the great weekend and end up waking at 3pm. Life is great !

Well ok....life is great (only when i can sleep as long as i want to and can choose to do nothing)

So it was nothing productive until dinner time (expected when u wake up at 3) and now i just got started off with my FYP...playing around with the software that im supposed to be expert by now. trying to figure out where to find info and how to input stuffs.

For some reason i tot that my blog have not been updated for a while so i decided to write some stuff here. :P

O yea, NLDS is over i heard. I only went for the global village part and gala dinner..and dropped by opening plenary of 1st day and skulling too. other than that i didnt know what happened throughout the thing. But u just cant miss the fact that a conference is over because u will see a flood of people adding each other and uploading pics and commenting and tagging.

i mean its obvious right..who will upload album named "NLDS-part 7" if the conference is still going on. or who will go and tag a picture of almost 50 people and keep commenting on pics if the conference is not over.

Aww...conferences....

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waddup !

So waddup with the coming few weeks.

Exams. Its been half past study week in NUS and exams are starting on 25th which is next wednesday. After the 3rd paper on 2nd december i will be free for about a month before stepping into the final semester. exciting but scary at the same time, having the thoughts of no more exams are great but job hunting, loan repayment and the reality will hit hard.

Anyways, after paper on 2nd december, its gonna be slacking for a few days with a trip to Genting on the night of 4th dec. After which i have to rush back to start my internship. O yea, thats the internship i went for interview on tuesday and got it. so my december gonna be spent on this internship besides working on my FYP, but the good thing is both of them are somewhat related. Am glad that many things are falling into place right now. Im lucky :D

And plans for CNY already made, will be back home from thursday til the next sunday nite. its gonna be the longest CNY break i have had. I guess after CNY will be very busy with final FYP preps, exams prep, job hunting and mentally preparing for life.

Though am still hoping to go somewhere after grad, but seems like financially its not gonna be something big...that is if there is gonna be something.

Life is great. :D

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This is the world we live in

I was looking at aljaeera and guess wats the 3 biggest headlines

Rape used as weapon in DR Congo war
Brigadier killed in Pakistan ambush
Goldstone dares US on Gaza report

are there too much negativity?
Check out any list of headlines, u see words like rape, hijack, attack, bomb, kills. Are those the only happenings around the world? If only we have a news website which only reports the good news.

Just this random thought i went to google goodnews and here i found there are really such websites. reports only good news. check out goodnewsnetwork and happynews. They might not be as popular as cnn, but i think people these days need a dose of them from time to time. Life cant be great when u are surrounded by those negative headlines.

Talked to some @ers recently and i realized something special about them. Some of these people really believe that they gotta do something. they have a role to play in the world. Probably too much brainwashing, but we do believe that we can change the world. Having a decent job is not enough. Life cant just stop there after u go through this weird XP thingy.

They feel like making a living with a day to day job is not enough. getting a stream of decent income is not enough. making the impact to themselves and their family is not enough. With the "we can change the world" kind of attitude, more and more people are looking at jobs that can make a difference not only to themselves and their family, but to the society and the world. I am inspired. Thats how the hardwork we have spent so much time in is changing the world. creating change agent. Change agents who are not satisfied with the impact they make to the world.

So many people have been job hunting recently while im still confused about what i gonna do after i graduate. Im pretty sure that i wan a job that can inspire me. something that i can be passionate about. something that helps me feel like im making a difference.

Im glad that some people are clear about their dreams, no matter how hard it is, they gonna keep moving to that direction. I feel sad that some people are stuck in where they are, hating their job but yet, cant move away from it.

I guess it really takes alot of courage to go for something that u really want. I congratulate those who have the courage to give up whatever they need to do something to their life. I hope that those who havent got the courage will have it soon enough. Life might be better, or it might be not, but its probably gonna keep us moving and waking up in the morning again.

I wonder if i will find the thing that will wake me up every morning in the future.

Well, This is the world we live in.



I dont understand what i have written. But does it matter?

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I got my air con. I am happy. Really?

I was sleeping. Wanted to sleep until tmr morning. But woke up.

Feeling a little hot.

I went to get some drinks.

Its so hot. And im so bored.

Wanted to do some work.

But its so hot. And im so bored.

Its friday night and im in my room.

What kind of life i have.

Sat down a while in my room.

Feeling bored. And hot.

I go to get drinks in the kitchen again.

Somehow this process repeats itself for a few times.

Cant stand it.

I packed my stuff. I get down to TV room.

A place with air con.

But its packed.

Packed with groups of people.

A group of them playing cards.

A group of them waiting to get out to party.

A group of them with laptops.

A group of them just chatting.

Im not in a group and there were no space.

I went to another TV room nearby.

There is another guy in there.

Alone too.

I joined him.

I got my aircon.

I am happy.

Really?

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I got my daily dose of rootbeer. I am happy.

Went to dinner at PGP canteen. Had my typical meal at the prata stall.

Finished meal.

Go to nanyang mart wanting to get my favorite bottle of root beer.

Picked up a bottle of soya milk on the way.

Realize the blue colored one i usually buy is not available.

Randomly picked the orange color one.

Reached cluster kitchen.

Opened the pack of cold soya milk.

Realized that its almond flavored just before i started drinking.

Drank soya milk.

Feeling disgusted.

ALMOND FLAVORED SOYA MILK IS HORRIBLE.

Opened up the bottle of root beer.

Took a sip.

I got my daily dose of rootbeer. I am Happy.

Repost an old picture in blog. Hoping to scare a few people off.....

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Some funny stupid awesome videos.

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A typical day of life in NUS

A typical day of life in NUS starts in the morning.

Tuesday.

The alarm clock started buzzing off at 8.15am, after a few snoozes, i got up at 8.30 shocked and try to get myself ready in lightning speed. Rushed to the bus stop at 845 got on the bus heading to engineering faculty.

I was gonna be late but i poped by the canteen anyways to grab a curry puff and a drink. To fill up my stomach at the same time keep me awake during the early morning class. I reached class around 9.15, and the lecturer hasnt really started teaching. I quickly find a seat and take out my notes put it on the table and then i start to enjoy my breakfast while listening or trying to listen to the lecturer.

After the class at about 11, i went to have an early lunch and come back to get a nap.

Woke up around 2+ to do some readings and then get ready for my class. Left around 3+, meet up with a friend and head for class together.

Class from 4-6 is a little boring so i had to get more food to keep me awake during class. After the class meet up with 2 friends for dinner and discussion for a project that we are working on.

The discussion went on until around 9ish and went back to my room. started working on it until 1am and went for supper and had a chat with a friend until around 2am. Went to sleep after that.

Wednesday.

Again, the alarm had to do the work of waking me up. Buzzed off at 8am and snoozed until 815. Rushed over to the class around 835. grabbed myself a standard puff and a drink. did a short presentation in the class which ended at 12. met up with the team mates for the meeting on the project and lunch.

The discussion went on until around 2pm and i went back to the room. Had a quick shower, changed and got ready to leave the room again. Went for a recruitment talk at 3pm.

Attending recruitment talk is like the trend for all final year students who are kiasu and concern about looking for a job. The one today was alright, some people of course tried to show off themselves and asked "unique" questions during the talk. But anyways, i didnt bother to ask any questions and left immediately at about 5. Took a nap and it went on until almost 9pm.

Wake up to switch on the laptop and watched a movie and worked on writing projects for a while. Chatted on msn along the way and its 11.30pm.

Thats like a typical 2 days part of the whole week of my life. Sometimes i wonder how much more interesting it could possibly get. If anyone has any solutions to making it more interesting i would really much want to know.

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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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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 ??

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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...

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first week

Have been back to the same timezone for a week now, havent been to the airport so many times in a weeks time before.

Day 1, Airport 1 : touch down at 9++ pm, waited for a while for some friends who shared the cab back to pgp.

Day 2, Airport 2 : went to have dinner and send cathy off.

Day 3, Airport 3 : took a flight to KL for family gathering

Day 6, Airport 4 : Came back from KL after family meet up.

Day 8, Airport 5 : sent laura off

I really liked the airport, the atmosphere and stuff like that but the only problem i had with it is that its too far away..it usually takes 1.5 hours to get there and anotehr 1.5 to get back.

Who in the world has so many 1.5 hours.

Just went for the @ welcome tea today and am happy with the turn out...it was sort of not so much expected but its a good thing. Am sure the next team can produce amazing results. :D

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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 !

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Lithuania

Just came back from a Road Trip to Lithuania.

Its actually the first time i joined such trip, its really fun. We had a huge car which is more like a van. 8 of us went, 6 of us came back.

Saulius and kestas, the 2 lithuanian guy i get to know here in Gyor had their Erasmus or student exchange program ended and they are going back to Lithuania. and some crazy people came out with the idea of driving to lithuania to drop them off, so thats how the whole trip came about.

The trip going there started at 12 am and after crossing Slovakia, Czech and Poland we finally reached Lithuania Vilnius at 6pm. so its a 18 hours drive..we had only 2 drivers, a Hungarian and a French guy. they took turn to drive while others took turn to keep talking to them to keep them awake.

Vilnius is a nice city, tho it was raining at some point of time, i think its a nice city and from the suburb its alot of grey buildings. Its kinda sad but thats how it is because it was build for the worker class during the soviet times according to these lithuanian guys. And i never imagined i would really go to Lithuania, definitely not by car, but looking at the europe map and where the country is located, its definitely not a main tourist attraction. but its really a different story to visit a city when u have some friends there. It gives u a different feeling about the city for some reason.

Anyways, I will be doing Lithuania again. Because its in the plan for my long trip.

Thanks to Ryanair again, im doing my eastern europe trip...or baltic countries trip.

Budapest on 23rd June

Slovakia on 24th June

Frankfurt and Karlsruhe on 25th June

Berlin on ~ 27th June

Stockholm on 30th June

Riga on 2nd July

Estonia on ~ 4th July

Lithuania on ~ 7th July

Warsaw,Krakow on ~ 9th July

Back in Gyor on ~ 13th July

lets hope everything goes well.

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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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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. 

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