haha..less than a week into holiday and i m already into my 2nd entries..an indication of how 'exciting' this vacation is considering the vast amount of times i have to blog..so after the first two days..din do anything for yesterday n today..went with wt darren candice n krishna on mon nite for dinner at modesto at orchard after our solid state paper, and after that we went to coffee bean to chill out til almost 12 before rushing to catch the last bus/train home..tues din do really much..went to tbp to shop for sebas assessment books at popular but after spending almost an hour, only managed to get him one suitable book..i guess its the period of the year where they are doing the stocks and hence nt all the books are ready..perhaps i'll go big bookshop or some other popular branches next week..den after that went to mass spend for daily stuffs and snacks at NTUC..haha..i dunno y i just feel like splurging on sth..buy lots of food home too for tea break..its good to shop alone..no need to accomodate..

initially gg cycling yest but wt not free last min and we postpone it to today..den just as i was abt to leave hse today, the heavy rainpour foiled the plan again..so maybe we gotta go next week when darren and wt are free..
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was following the france-ireland WC debacle and find the whole issue a joke really..it all started when the french striker thierry henry handed the ball that lead to the decisive goal that send france through..den ireland came forward, obviously incensed by the decision and asked for a rematch..somehow misinterpreting the soccer pitch as the WWE ring..FIFA declined, claiming the ref decision was final..ireland refused to budge and demanded an additional slot for the WC..FIFA gives a consideration for that before they rejected, and now they are contemplating about banning Henry for unsporting behaviour for the handball..wat a joke really..i am not the biggest fan of theirry henry for he was nv a pool player..but to give an objective view,y should he be banned? i mean, we see handball incident happening in football matches everyday, tackles and fouls that went unnoticed by the refs, and yet nothing happened..if the ref missed it, then its very obviously who the fault lies with..u cant blame a player for continuing play when the ref himself misses the incident, especially for a match of such high importance..i guess by banning Henry, FIFA is trying to show tt they are against unsporting behaviour (cos they always claim to promote fair play) and trying to bluff the world they are doing sth to the situation, forgetting that 99.9% of ppl who watched soccer are 3 years old or older..what they could haf done is simply punish the ref and make sure such things do nt repeat itself agn (using tech).
to give an analogy, its like an examination paper whr the principal realise that the one of the answer has somehow been included by the teacher in one of the students script..i dont think its the student's fault if he failed to admit cos his concern at hand is the score..and it would be wrong to punish the student if the mistakes was realised later..i wonder if anyone agrees..
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was talking to wt in the afternoon and she ask 'gals really complex right?'. i replied ' yup, now i guess schrondinger equation is much simpler'..on hindsight, i think not only gals, life is really really complex..fortunately i haf no need to understand everything..:)

holiday just arrived yesterday..a number of things to blog..so i'd just list them down one by one..

1. Sem has ended..this sem is really fast..think its a cliche to say that at the end of each sem but this sem really just fly by..and somehow its quite a special sem..in term of the effort i put in..i guess i see them in a more light-hearted manner..not that i no longer value result, but just that i think its good at times to be not as competitive..in the past i maximise the time spent on hw..now its more of optimising and setting aside times for other things..perhaps that is why too i dont feel as great excitement when i finish that horrendous solid state paper yesterday..granted results are impt..but how much is 1 or 2 grade gg to affect the future..10 20 years down the road, will someone come up to me on the street and ask me ' what grade do u score for NUS 2008/09 Sem1 organic paper? haha..

2. Uni life is really scary to say the least..in terms of what? Human pragmaticality..and this always shows up best when theres an online mcq assignment, made worse by the lack of time limit. When marriot presented this opportunity 3 weeks ago, i got 3 to 4 coursemates, whom cumulatively spoke less than 10 words to me this sem, chatting me up on msn just for solutions..i m nt referring to frens who on normal occasion do chit chat and help one another out, but rather just plain coursemates..

3. But exam period do tend to bring out something i appreciate a great deal..friendship that is..i rmb when i was younger in sec sch days that i got so bored that i rank my friends in my personal diary at the end of each year..perhaps an overdose of star awards..but i guess wy and zx have been really great during this period..frens who support, listen, share n nt judge..i really appreciate any form of good luck msg before a paper or 'how's the paper' at the end of it..small actions like this matter cos it really reflects a fren's thoughtfulness..and i guess i will hardly made any more better frens in my life..

4. And the end of it all i guess..for if anyone noes what i m saying..no moaning no whining this time round..just that i tink its time to finally let go COMPLETELY..if i say i am really sad, then i think i shld enrol in the theatre n drama class cos i cant be that sad, especially when nothing has developed btw us..just a few gg out tgt since last year, but to say i am not the least disappointed, then i would be lying as well..i guess communication really gets tired when one need to think of one thing to say just to get that one response..when i need to initiate every msn chat or msg just to get tt one reply..and its not working out at all..the main reason for me sporadically giving up for the past 1.5 years..this time round, i tink i have made up my mind..thinking through, it is nt really nice to keep on irritating ppl who are not the least bit interested abt what's gg on in my life, as well as not keen w sharing w me what's in her personal life..i tried to blame her, but it would be a damn big excuse for me nt getting things right..i tried to blame myself, but i really attempt to interact or hang out more, but somehow always left disappointed at the outcome..and my character just does not belong to the category which can sweet talk and such..perhaps tts y is so difficult, despite the common interests we share..really hope if someone can tell me if i am to blame..but as i said, its time to move on and put this thing behind once and for all..

just taken my stats paper today..my 2nd last paper..it was quite a comfortable one..compared to the anat paper where i dont even have time for a sip of water, this is completed at quite an ok pace..:) come back home, take a nap, den just return from zi cha session with the bfff ppl at hol v to celebrate ws, sf and a super belated cy bdae..as i say many times before, i really enjoy such small grp gathering at places as simple as a coffee shop..talk cock session always so fun with a group of frens who know each other for so long and so well..

dec's coming soon..and i guess it may well be a defining month..i dunno..if i could really do what i set out to do..i dunno if i still feel the same way..but i dont wanna give up yet and den ask myself 'wat if', wat if' agn..i have been guilty of tt too much in the past and i quite hate myself for moaning and whining when i did not put in enough effort and ended up not having what i want..but no slightest motivation encouragement yet at the moment..i tried to be rational and think through every possible small details but i see no reason i'd succeed..i'd just wait and see how..i really dunno..at first i still see glimpses of hope, but as i always said, i tink i suffer from this 'illness' of thinking i m very important..its always the case for me..as if the sun will nv rise without me, as if the earth stop evolving without me..and it has done me more harm den good..y do i always feel i am so important? i am nt gg to feel this way agn..hopefully, some indication that will spur me to take the next step cos things have been so stagnant, its like any likelihood of progress is 0..and i tink tt is how she feel..cos i dont think she can be tt numb to everything..nobody will(or am i feeling my presence is somehow felt agn?)

I dunno what will happen post exam..tentatively cycling with wt is on next wed and an italian dinner has been fixed on mon with darren and co..i want to bring my mum and dad out next tues, since it has been quite a long time i go out with them..and i am always quite guilty of that..perhaps a k session with sp, ma jun, rena and co , i also wish to plan a marina barrage picnic with the bfff ppl but i need to find a date whr most are free since for the past few outings, it has been more of the soccer grp plus one or two gals..maybe it will be gd if more gals can come along since it has been a long time a proper gathering have taken place, and the annual chalet has been cancelled..and maybe a trekking outing too if wt is free..

for now, i shall rest for the night..it has been a good fun day..i love seeing my frens, esp the bfff ppl..all true genuine ppl..its an official No Touch the Notes and Book day (NTNBD)..den i shall push on tml and sat before enjoying my sunday soccer..before my solid state paper on mon..

just a nice song..this time from yoga..

Taking a hiatus from the notes which has been 'chemisorb' on my bed since the morning..and suddenly feel a great urge to blog..sometimes it just come to me naturally that i shld write sth..and i guess this topic has been bothering me for quite some time now, especially for the past month or so..

guess all of us are constantly seeking for that balance in life..just like a chemical reaction is soughting for dynamic equilibrium..the different is, a reaction can find that equilibrium much more easily, within a much shorter period of time..whereas a person can live all his life without finding the balance he wants..

what balance am i talking about..

balance btw work(or studies)and personal time
balance btw friends and families
balance btw being assertive and being accomodative
balance btw being nice yet not a pushover
balance btw emotional and rational
balance btw trusting and not too trusting
balance btw giving those u care for privacy yet showing u care
balance btw disclosing ur problems and not burdening ur close one too much
balance btw doing what u like and what others(esp ur love one) expect of
balance btw being generous and being a bit more selfish at times

the list goes on..and i guess one can think of many more i have miss out here..

we are all trying to be the best we can be..trying to do things that will make ourself happy and please the ppl around us..but we cant possibly achieve everything..at the end of the day, we reflect and ponder if we really haf reach attain this balance..i know i am not anywhere near it..

you gotta love this if u love music...

wat nice song..

get to hear this song from the show i watching now: moonlight resonace..so went to search for it and find that the song name is 《分分钟需要你》。。would like to share since its a really very nice song..and scene of the show where they sing it as well..

I guess I will be better off studying my phase diagrams notes right infront of me, if not then listening to some dull but supposedly enriching webcasts for my physics. But there is no mood for such ‘high octane’ activities right now, they will drive me to sleep before I can even make my way to bed. So to prolong my staying up, I shall write about two most interesting things in my life; friends and soccer. Their intersection is quite easily sunday soccer, a necessity for living now beside food, air and water.

 

I guess in 1999, I would never have predicted that 11 years down the road, I will still be playing my favourite game with my favourite bunch of friends week in week out. We started off being really creative, using the water bottle as the ball, the monkey bar as the goalpost, the fitness corner as the field. Soon after, we kicked our first ball, got to a more decent court and start playing in a more conventional manner.

 

We have settled on an ideal court near tanglin secondary school now and make it our ‘home ground’. This, after many years of foraging for an ideal location, from Bukit Purmei to Ginza (actually, that is about all..haha). Even after a decade of kicking, I never get tired of it, and still looks forward to it like a small kid would look forward to having his ice cream or soft drink. The journey on bus 51 every Sunday morning is always a happy one, for I know I will be doing something I really enjoy, meeting people I really like for the next few hours or so.

 

The group has expanded in size over the past years. We have new players like the terry brothers, Sharil, and our sec sch friends like junhui and William joining us permanently since the end of last year. This adding to the core of players like zx, cy, ws, kl and yq. I will never swoop playing soccer here with any other groups.

 

For as much as I may be silent about the contribution of each individual, I really prefer playing with cy, kl, ws and zx in my team primarily due to 2 factors: 1. We are close friends, 2.We play as a team and we have different strengths.

 

As I reiterated a few times, we can play with our eyes close and still locate each other with ease. If we haven’t had some magnetosomes within our cell, then perhaps telephatic understanding could be a sound enough explanation. And just like Rome wasn’t built over 24 hours, this understanding would not come without being close friends for such a long time. We may have lose some stamina (or rather me) and hence not execute the intended moves, but the understanding still undeniably present.

 

Teamwork is a necessity in any team sports. Brilliant individuals win matches with moments of magic, but these moments cannot be produced as easily as getting relieved upon diarrhoea. And it is with the unique abilities of each of us that make this game element even much more vital. Cy is a rock in defence, a David Seaman replicate on top of his day. The courage he shows in stopping those thunderbolts and the selflessness in taking on a less glamorous role are most admirable. As for kl, with him in the team, u just feel that the chance of winning increases. He might not have the drive of stevie G, but the leadership qualities he had very much draw parallel to the pool talisman. Although I have told him that he lacks distinct trademark, his passing seldom falls short and his passion never ever doubted the moment he gets onto the court. Ws is a player whom I really admire. The reason is his abilities to do almost everything on the pitch, from defending to attacking. And perhaps one of the smartest player I have played with in terms of passes, ideas and movements. Not to mention his valued workrate. Zx may miss as many shots with his leg as a bobo shooter would miss a 100m target with a M16, but he poses a great attacking threat with his headers, his abilities to bring others into play and to create space. And with all the wayward sissoko-like passings, he can come out with the most vital of passes that unlock defence when you less expect it. We may not have the skills of those epl stars we watch on cable week in week out, but I do feel that we possess the game intelligence that they have. And unlike stamina and pace that we can lose as we become older, this aspect, analogous to wine, gets better with ages. So how to choose to play in a better team than the one I just mention? Hmmmm..

 

Something just seems to be missing these days without a Sunday morning sweating out at the court. The week just seems incomplete. I don’t know how long this weekly gathering will continue, I hate to even think about it, hopefully it will last till the day our legs (and possibly back) send us a strong signal, but for now,  I cherish every single moments out there enjoying my favourite sport with my favourite friends. And sometimes, I just can’t help but imagine myself possessing the leadership of kl, the headers of zx, the intelligence of ws, the defending of cy, the power of yq’s shot, the composure of jh, the workrate of terry, the finishing of jd, the drive of rs, the pace of kh, the technique of william What a complete player that will make me. :)

waiting for pool match at 10..currently not in the mood to discover more about crystal structures and the whatever tetrahedral or octahedral holes associated with it, nor predict the probability that the stats test on mon will be easy, nor determine how many plates a capillary gc column can produce superior to hplc..just in the mood to rot time away..

mon onward will be busy busy..after the stats test, i will haf a lab report sandwiched between a solid chem test on thurs and Instrumental Analysis test on subsequent mon..so most prob wont even have time for sun soccer next week :( hopefully after the 5th October i will have less work, but as experience tells me for the past 4 sems, there is this thing call 'lecturers' who are there to make sure  it wont happen..

Kai return to UK on mon..haven really meet up with him on many occasions this time round..went for 2 xbox sessions in jun, den one more k session in aug with lam and ch, den last wed for a simple lunch at clementi..guess he has been real busy esp now that he has a gf agn..haha..so even less time to meet up but perfectly understandable..

yest was tham bdae and it has been a long while since i have a good chit chat with her on the phone..a friend i really treasured besides the usual suspect, zx and cy in BFFF...so we were on the phone and she was telling me about things that happen in sch..i really enjoy it when close friends share with me their trouble and confide in me..equally when they share with me their joy..this time round, she was telling me abt how she had to relieve a sec 4 normal acad class when the sch arranged for a relief teacher to handle her sec 2 class..she was quite pissed with it cos the sch could haf easily make a more convenient arrangement..i was thinking it wasn't such a big deal after all, but small matters like tt tend to make ppl irritated at that particular moment..such feelings couldn't be experienced anywhere better than when u are in the army..for the officials all share a common hobby : gai zho.. most prob they cultivate this past time during their training..so i understand how she must have felt..so i too criticise the school arrg and i guess that's wat ppl like to hear when someone else help u criticise a system or a person whom u disagree with..:) then she went on to the surprise bdae party her colleges haf and the run she had to go to today...
i guess sometimes, we tend to get disappointed or angry with close friends for we expect too much of them perhaps, but this disappointment dissipate as soon as they arrive..but that is because we care that such feelings arise..wasn't very happy when she miss a couple of our outings, and instead attended so many 4/1 outings but in the end, a conversation just solve the problem..the important thing is to not haf that 一根刺within..

i guess i am quite an extreme when it comes to friendship..when it comes to close friends, i care a great deal..if i do sth that i feel is bad, i will be the first to apologise..when i think is the he/her who did sth wrong, i give myself time to cool down and start talking as if nothing has happen..must not haf the 心结 cos usually things are so trivial when you look back in the future..but for so-so friends, i am quite indifferent..i dun think this is too good but its usually not involuntary but rather me reminding myself to interact and talk more..i really admire those ppl who can chat with someone they know on the first day as if they have been soulmates for more than a decade..

i was talking to my sis yesterday when she did not go for her hair cut because there were no one to accompany her and she dun wanna be alone..i told her that if it was me, i would either have my good friends accompanying me when i go out, if not, i rather go alone than to go with some other friends..she beg to differe for her case.i cfm i am really antisocial..:p

i guess a lot of times in life, we are constantly looking if someone can judge us in the most objective of ways and tell us if we are doing the right thing..if the things we do or din do is right or not..we seek our own opinions but it sometimes prove to be the most inaccurate..frens opinions may sometimes be a little biased, or they may not know everything to pass the best judgment..how good will it be if we can just open the post-box, and get the most honest and frank response to questions we have no answers to..

As we get older. we possess more knowledge, yet we have more questions..irony isn't it..

Just a nice quote i will like to share..

Quite busy lately and hence haven been updating as regularly as i wanted..aside from the endless piles of school work, there's tuitions for dw and sebas, driving lesson and also, pool matches to keep up with and the latest distraction of all, 溏心风暴. Since schoolwork is eternal and will never be completed unless i tell myself to stop doing, tuition and driving are weekly stuffs that i need to accomplish, pool matches are there to talk abt every august til may, i shall elaborate on the my latest addiction, more addictive than a psp or an iphone, and tt is 溏心风暴.

A numbers of factors pulled me into watching the show..the fact that it had received very rare reviews and won numerous accolades after it was shown in hk 2 years back attracted me at the beginning..is like u will naturally start talking to a person who appears friendly or attractive (maybe not that good an anology)..haha..den after that u start to discover and unearth more abt this person..people are pragmatic species..so i heard abt the good things abt this show way before it was shown in singapore and its premieres couldn't have come earlier..

den after the initial attraction comes the part where u decide whether to persist with it..and the show really glued me to the tv screen for 1 hr every weeknite from then since..3 factors that bonded me to the show..

firstly, i love its cast..many veterans in the story that makes it so intriguing..the papa and mama of the show are both very experienced hk artistes..this is actually the first time i've seen the papa (xia yu) acted but the way he delivers his role so naturally makes him my favourite actor of the show..i've watched the mama (li si qi) act on numerous occasions, the very first time being in the very long hk drama kindred spirit, and since then onward, she has been one artiste i really admire..this show cemented that admiration cos she acted so well and she was so quick witted and smart. every quote that came out from her mouth make so much sense..a regret she died early in the show..tgt with the papa, they make so loving couple, just like dad and mum..:)
xiao bao acted by cheng hao is another artiste i like in this show..at the beginning of the show, i din really haf a good impression of him cos the way he and the papa laughed tgt looked quite annoying, but the more they did it, somehow, the more likeable it turned out to be..so much so that sometime, me and my mum practise it..haha..
and lastly, the gorgeous zheng zai xin, acted by linda chung..well, i cant really comment much on her acting cos her role did not stand out as much, but she's just eye candy stuff..:)

secondly, the very intriguing storyline..warmth, greed, joy, sorrow, despair, rage all depicted so well in the show..the warmth of the family whenever they organised family activities tgt on weekend, how they showed concern for one another's matter..how they solved each other's problem..the scene that left the deepest impression on me was the scene where gilbert got married and the entire family gave him a surprise performance at the wedding..the papa and xiao bao playing guitar n saxophone and the ladies all singing to congratulate the couple..another few scene where the mama stamped her authority and got the xiao ma out of the house..twice in the show..the way she dished out all her 'offences' and humiliated her right infront of everyone in the family, leaving her dumbfounded was a sight to behold..besides these joy, the nostalgic storyline also moved me on numerous occasions..esp the past few episodes just before the mama died..there was this scene after her death where the family listened to her  pre-recorded appreciation for everyone..tt was ultimate touching..and various meaningful quote i've collected from watching the show " 甜的吃,苦的也吃', "哭有时，笑有时，欢乐有时，悲伤有时'......

lastly, the theme song for the song is just so catchy..though it is a cantonese song and i dun understand the words, it is really pleasing to the ear..i quite like some canto songs really, from sammy cheung to ekin cheng, some of them are really nice...so i'll just add this one, < 讲不出声> to my collection. it is sang by one of the actress in the show, the heel of the show, ah qin (mistress). Enjoy the song and some of the footage from the show..

cant think of an appropriate title for my post..this always happen when sch starts where my brain is drained of the slightest of creavitity as a result of lab work, solving equations after equations, rushing webcasts after more webcasts..week 3 now and i am slowly feeling the heat, with viva, tests, term papers all coming up one after another..:(

sch is dreadful to say the least..even with a timetable that ends no later than 4..guess ppl just cant complain enough..physics in life sci is starting to remind me why i hated physics so much in the past after the hatred sort of diminish the last 2 years..the rest of the mods are ok so far, but analytical does seem to have the potential to turn into a nightmare just like it was last sem..hopefully it will nv realise its potential just like ryan babel nv did in liverpool..

haven been doing anything fun since sch started really..and i pick up another tuition assigment last week..the whole holiday i was waiting for a suitable assignment and not a single soul from the tuition agency called.. sch starts and soon after i picked up this sec 2 emath student, i receive another 2 msg for chemistry tuition this week..murphy law at its best really..so despite the huge temptation to pick up the chem assignments, i know i will regret in 2 months time if i do so..:( so now i am busy preparing all the lesson plans for my new tutee while i can still afford that bit of time..hopefully everything works out well...

2 more days to sunday soccer!! i cant wait for sunday morning every week..:)

i dun tink i have ever forgotten about a promise i made to a fren's request...regardless of how busy i am i'd always keep it at the back of my mind and most of the times even noting them down in my phone..

def disappointed to a certain extent with some things that has happened recently..i m not whining neither am i emo at the moment, i just feel that sometimes, i shouldn't just bother as much as i have..

anw, luckily, on the brighter side of things, pool havent disappoint me..after the loss to spur last sat, they bounce back in style and thrash stoke 4 nil..no wonder my manu mates are all so quiet today after the teasing a few days back..

fri nite, and i am here in my room blogging, taking fb quizzes and watching albirex toying with a hapless 10 men sengkang on tv(currently score stands at 2nil)

anw, this is one quiz i take, which is quite interesting and amazingly accurate:
my personality:
openness:38%, Conscientiousness 81%, Extraversion 44%, Agreeableness 63%, Neuroticism 56%

Here it goes with the description:

Openness: This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer novelty versus convention
you seem to describe yourself as someone who is down-to-earth and prefers things to be simple and straightforwards. You might say that it just makes life easier if things don't change unnecessarily, that the arts are of no practical use to you, and that you think tradition is more important than others do.

Conscientiousness:This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer an organised, or a flexible, approach in life
you seem to describe yourself as someone who is a perfectionist. From your responses it appears that you prefer to plan everything to the last detail, which has consequently led to you being very successful and extremely reliable. From your responses it appears that more than most you enjoy seeing your long-term plans come to fruition.

Extraversion:This trait refers to the extent to which you enjoy company, and seek excitement and stimulation
you seem to describe yourself as someone who is quiet and somewhat withdrawn. Your answers describe you as someone who doesn't need lots of other people around to have fun, and can sometimes find that people are tiring.

Agreeableness:This trait refers to the way you express your opinions and manage relationships
you seem to describe yourself as someone who gets along with people well, especially once they have proved themselves trustworthy to you. Your responses suggest that you do have a healthy scepticism about others' motives, but that doesn't stop you from considering others to be basically honest and decent.

Neuroticism (Emotional stability):This trait refers to the way you cope with, and respond to, life's demands
you seem to describe yourself as someone who is generally calm. Based on your responses, you come across as someone who can feel emotional or stressed out by some experiences, however your feelings tend to be warranted by the situation.
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anyway, i designed this photo when i was terribly bored on tues..take a look



so until we take a team photo someday soon, this will be the pic..haha..missing jia zheng and liang though..

a good welcome to terry and Jiading who joined us since the end of last year..and maybe jeffrey soon as well..
Hoping that the team will remain forever.. there is nowhere else i'd enjoy playing soccer as much as being here..
i just love playing in this team, esp with zhixiang, wensheng, kok leong..ceyao at the back just makes me feel safe going forward..

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epl is starting tml..pool is playing on sun so tml i'd just watch for the sake of killing time and observing my fantasy league players to see how they do..hoping aquilani wont turn out to be a kewell (who has such huge potential only to be plagued by injuries) nor a degen (work as many days as santa claus per year) nor dossena (fellow italian who promised so much but delivered only on 2 occasions).

So this holiday turn out to be the most....unproductive one i've ever had..since informed that i weren't gg to be deferred for teaching attachment, i had given up looking for job as well since ict slots in in the middle of nowhere..and i just wanna haf one last good break before fyp next year and den after tt working life..nonetheless, the only achievement i get out of this holiday is perhaps the ftt that i have taken, as well as getting started with my driving lesson..

it is a really fun holiday apart from all the slacking done at home..let me try to recall the fun outings i've been, which includes 2 K sessions with sp and co as well with kl and co, mj bdae celebration at holland village crystal jade, yq bdae celebration at minds cafe, zx bdae celebration at hol v, just education's bbq at bukit batok, yong chiang's wedding, 2 xbox sessions with kai, 'library sessions' with xpp..haha..numerous movies outing with mainly the bfff frens, shows include ' drag me to hell', 'transformers', 'the uninvited', 'ice age 3'  as well as only yesterday 'where gt ghost', pool outings twice at safra mount faber..the flyer outing with darren,qinyi, shaun and cliffton the 'cheesy' dinner with weitian, darren and candice, the 'liverpool in sg' weekend at the river and at the stadium, the annual 'cage affair' and most important of all, sunday soccer, my favourite past time of all and enjoying it without lab report at the back of my mind is really a fantastic feeling..:) hopefully i meet up with everyone i m suppose to meet up, and really appreciate the frens who spend their time with me..haha

so the fun's over and its time to get back to serious stuffs..time to get the engine started..i guess if compared to the epl, the first week of sch is akin to preseason where u get ur 'fitness' back (waking up early, no more afternoon nap..), start working on basics (recalling the periodic table, the phase diagram, the 183506776454 equations, formulas and laws gradually), 2nd week onward den season starts where results start to matter (with lab reports, quizzes and tests..)  and the last few weeks are akin to the title run in (lab test, term paper, exams..) plan the lab in the hope i can finish my reports by fri latest sat so tt i can continue attending my sun soccer, and once in a while catch some movies with frens and stuffs..hoping and will be working hard for a good sem ahead..:)

Currently reading this book by richard robinson 'why the toast always lands butter side down-the science of murphy' law'..for anyone who just come across this term, it simply means 'whatever can go wrong goes wrong..for example, the bus we are waiting for always come last, etc..its a very nice book and many of the things mention, we definitely experience it in our lives in more than just one occasion..just like 'you think of 10 important things to rmb just as u r falling asleep', 'once you take a wrong turning, you keep on taking it', the 'blue Volkswagen effect ', 'your queue always go the slowest', 'the Ringo law', etc...other interesting things mention includes optical illusions n pelmanism..i am more than halfway to completing the book, hopefully by the weekend i'd do so..the language's particularly funny, and the following extract is my favourite so far, from ' lifts never stop on your floor'

'... Your difficulties with measuring time mean that a 30-second wait with nothing to do feels like an hour. During that age, you seethe, psychoanaylse the lift, think incresaingly vicious thoughts about the parentage and invent a plot between it, the architect and everyone else in the building to keep it from you'.

Interesting :) so go read it..there's just too many interesting small topics that will definitely make u go 'ya ya..it is really the case'..coupled with the writer's sarcastic sense of humour and it is bound to help u finish the book in no time..

and some random stuff..tues evening half of bfff celebrated our good fren zx bdae at holland village zi char..including cy, ws, yy, yq, mj, sf..though it was a simple dinner, i tink he appreciates it since we celebrated on his actual bdae..quite envy as well since it has been many years since i last celebrated with my close frens on the actual day..a small yet meaningful gathering..:) i really like such small gathering more..sometime i just feel there's no need for big group of ppl to go everywhere like there's an impending demonstration waiting to occur..other than yearly chalet since small gathering facilitate easier interaction..

and yest went for only my third driving lesson..due to reservist disruption and falling sick last week, it means it has been more than 3 weeks since i last attended a lesson..the day ago i just msged my instructor and he told me we will be starting at queenstown and ending at gombak..i tot he saw my name wrongly since he cant rmb names well, more so after i haven seen him in almost a month, but didn't question him further since he is quite impatient when it comes to msging..
we started as usual, gg round in circuit around my neighbourhood, and i had forgotten quite a lot of things..as we turned out of the church, i tot we would be attempting a new route since yiquan, who had gone for his third lesson a week ago, did likewise..however, as we approached the cross junction near commonwealth and he did not mention about turning in, i knew i had to drive to gombak den..it was quite a nervy but enriching experience, driving on the main road for the first time..i was gg at 40km/h in third gear, sometime 4th, but met with a lot of traffic lights along the way..stepping on the clutch for changing gear is simple, but getting started after stopping is really troublesome cos i always manage to make the engine stall..luckily the frequency decreased as i continued..his instructions wasn't very clear and so from now on, i always double confirm with him whenver he say sth..otherwise he will go 'horrible'..'you really horrible'...but i am ok with the criticism..some of them are actually quite funny..so i tend to just get on and not bother too much abt it..haha..so getting me drive to gombak was to actually update my instructor's particulars at bbdc..hmm..after we reached there, we tried the circuit there before times up and he went off without me..

Contemplating..ermmm..

hopefully this will be my timetable for the new semester..packing up the earlier days of the weeks as usual, they are meant to be blue anw...provided i get my tues lab slots, and a very short wed n fri..it will be the 3rd sem in a row my fri ends at 10 am..now other than the tutorials which i haf not bidded, the lab and lect are done..:)

my fav song last nite

My Liverpool
My Liverpool, the Kop will always rule
We'll show the world how football's played
My Liverpool, the Kop will always rule
Come and join us
We're gonna take the cup away

Here the ground resounding when
we walk out on the field
Ding dong the Reds and back in town
All around the hope's abounding
and we know the future's sealed
For Liverpool the sun is shining down

Flags are waving brightly
and we've got them on the run
We know a goal is coming soon
They could try to mark us tightly
but we know the game is won
The lads of Anfield Road don't need much room
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So the weekend's over..and pool is prob back in uk now..but the experience that they give me will prob stay with me forever..i haven gt the chance to ask for autograph from them..neither do i have the luck to win the lucky draw to see them in training, but the two days spent seeing the stars so close up provided me with unforgettable memories..went down on sat with kaiyan to the sg river to watch the river cruise..it was supposed to start at 130 but we waited for almost half an hour before they start appearing in their boat..it was worth the wait though..everything til then remain rather calm and serene, but the moment the first boat emerged, pandemonium took over..hysterical as everyone was, we ran the length of the river just to capture as many shots of the superstars as we could..kudos to kuyt, torres and rafa, who maintain the smiles throughout the cruise..










yesterday was the day of the match..meet yk at ard 4 where we decided to enter the stadium earlier to book a good seat, esp since we only had the south end tickets..kwok siong, who was supposed to b w us, couldn't make it in the last min due to church commitment..and he has alrdy bought the tickets..if it were me, i would haf be really saddened..so it was left with just two of us and we gt the seat as close to the kop end as possible..the scorching sun show no mercy, but everyone's just contented to sit in there and enjoy the carnival atmsophere as much as we can..i bought a horn to blow since hardly anyone sitted near us sings, it would be weird if i were to sing alone..but the nite gets better and by 645, most of the seats were alrdy filled..finally, as the players make their way out, the pool anthem, ynwa was played and everyone sang their hearts out..i did take a video but it wasn't as good as the one i found (above).. the atmpshere nostalgic to say the least..if only the stadium had done away with the track, we could haf hear a louder rendition than that..as for the match, a 2nd gear liverpool doesn't need to break much sweat to score 5 against our lions.. as much as i was disappointed with the lions performance, i was actually glad that they put in a poor display as we could therefore witness more goals..the fanfare wasn't over after the match, as the players walk the perimeter to sound their appreciation, and we gave them a thoroughly deserved standing ovation, while singing ynwa for the last time..this time even more touching..  hopefully, they can deliver the 19th title this season, and come back agn soon..for me, as well as the rest of the pool faithful, will be waiting for them..









http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N165202090727-1258.htm

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N165192090727-1107.htm

niceest song in Jam's album..and the best new song i have heard in a long time..i listen thrice before realising it is a good song ;p, but after tt i just cant stop listening to it..enjoy it!!