An_Everyday_Life_Of_A_Dude

The third month

2006-03-01T23:36:00.000+08:00

What a fast year 2006 has been, all of a sudden it has hit the 1st of march. I still feel as if it's still in the late January/early february. Today's a day that Fort Minor will be here in Singapore to have their 1st live concert ever.

I actually had planned to watch Mike shinoda perform as the ticket's going for quite low prices below 100 bucks as $58, but i cancelled the plan as i had no one to go watch it with.

Finally, my final year project is over, after over 6 months of doing it. And it'll be around 4 more weeks till i have my exams, then graduation. And maybe somewhere in april, i'll be going for another backpacking trip to malaysia, once again.

Brothers four...

2005-10-10T01:12:00.000+08:00

Caught four brothers recently, with a few of my ODACT mates. Paid nine fifty for it, the movie's full of action, about four brothers wanting revenge and payback for their mom.

Anyway it's been quite a long time since i last caught a movie and the last movie i caught was "meet the fockers", which was last year.

June two zero zero five.. what it's like

2005-06-22T12:15:00.000+08:00

School started for me on the 20th, and there sure is a lot of change. I'm already in year 2, how time flies... To start things off i'm in a class with only a few of my Ece 1b mates, mixed up with a bunch of strangers from the other ece classes. It sure is so fucked up as i'm seperated from my Ece 1b mates as Ece 1b is sure one hell of a great class, to be seperated from them bores me. Who likes to be seperated?

And seperating from my closest buddy, adnan, who'd been helping me a lot for 3 straight years, is another thing. But i don't mind as we still get to see each other during camps and our cca time.

Also not forgetting the new year 1 students, me and my mates, the bridge leaders[dzaffir, faizal, wei, mei shan, adnan] had to take care of the new ece 1b. To me they're all just a quiet and obedient bunch of people who don't really like to make too much noise. So we brought them around the school, taking them for never-ending talks, games like the one i used to play during my ODACT camps. Nothing but games, games, games! The aim - is to bond them all as a class. But i just loved the feeling when it comes to handling the class, being able to interact with them.

Untitled piece

2005-05-21T23:53:00.000+08:00

Met dil, the national serviceman today. He's grown his hair back, also looking slightly slimmer.

We munched away some chicken wings at kfc, while sharing stories of what's been happening in life, also blabbered some crap. After our meal we strolled around God green tampines. Staying there for 20 years not much has changed except for some new shops.

There's also this t-shirt design competition going on at tampines mall. Heard that contestants had to come up with different designs for national day, and only 10 will be selected. I took a peek at some attractive, eye-catching striped round neck tees going at 20 bucks per piece, at 77th street. Felt like getting one but now's not the right time. We called it a day after that.

Back..

2005-04-23T23:38:00.000+08:00

It's been a month since i last blogged, it's all due to some "screw ups" and "fucked ups", and a lot has happened. I went back to my old campus, today, ite ang mo kio for a rock climbing session.

When i first stepped into the campus it hasn't changed one bit, it's still the same as it used to be. After the sesson i've realised that you'll get exhausted quick, and your palm seems too get weak real quick. That's the fucked part of it. But after all i enjoyed it.

Back..

2005-04-23T23:06:00.000+08:00

It's been a month since i last blogged, and a lot has happened. I went back to my old campus, ite ang mo kio, for a rockclimbing session, with some of my odact mates.

When i first stepped into the campus it seems that it hasn't changed one bit, it still looks the same as it used to be. After the session i've also realised that after climbing for a few minutes you'll get exhausted, and also your palm sure gets weak real quick. That's the fucked up part of it, but i must say i enjoyed it.

Barbeque

2005-03-24T22:02:00.000+08:00

I had my class chalet over at aloha, at pasir ris. Got off at the downtown east bus stop. While following the path to the chalet i was stopped by Wei, who sounded the horn. I got into his hyundai tucson, so i don't have to walk all the way in by myself.

I arrived at around 6, chatted with my classmates. Then i helped out with starting the fire for the bbq. I also helped myself to some "unhalal" fried mee, cooked by eileen's dad, as none of my malay friends don't have time to cook the food for us. The food that was bbqued were mostly satays, otahs, chicken wings. Half hour later some more of my mates arrived. Given their character rowdyness they made some noise, a least it ain't so quiet. Some of my mates had a game of soccer at the nearby open space while i helped my mate to fan the food.

I called it a day at around 10.

What a fucked up week

2005-03-05T00:53:00.000+08:00

This week.. To me it feels almost like an exam week as i had 3 tests in 2 days. Yesterday, i had an FET test. Today, i had DEP test at 10, and MCS test at 3. I got myself all stressed up by studying only for DEP, as i didn't understand a single shit about MCS.

Blog again some other time.

Canoeing kicks ass!

2005-02-24T22:20:00.000+08:00

Last saturday[19/2/05], i had my canoeing at pasir ris. Man, it sure is one hell of a fun! Heres the story..

I had to report to the venue, which is my school, as early as 9. Met up with my classmates Adnan, Jo, Branda, Jasmine and Amanda. The total was around 60, that is the whole of the electronics department. All of us had to take a shuttle bus to the canoeing site which was at the pasir ris sea sports club.

Once we arrived at the site we were all instructed to sit on a specific spot and then change into our wet attire. Then we were taught the basics on paddling. After that we were asked to find ourselves a partner. I partnered myself with branda, and we had to choose a kayak of 3 different colors - red, orange, yellow. All those who chose a kayak of a certain color had to follow a certain instructor. We chose a red kayak and followed our instructor leading the red kayak.

Branda and i had a great time going round the sea. We went as far, going round a floating fish farm in the middle of the sea. After that we were showed on how to paddle sideways and how to splash water effectively using the paddle by the instructor.

As the event ended at around 4.30, we had a ourselves a quick bath and we were issued "twisties" and chocolates. The shuttle bus picked us up at around 5 and we were dropped off at the tampines interchange.

Today.. half sucks, half happening

2005-02-09T23:38:00.000+08:00

Hung out with dil, huda[those siblings of mine of 7 years i mentioned, remember?]. We were actually planning to cycle at east coast but the 2 complained of hot weather. So it was cancelled and decided to bowl instead. The atmosphere at east coast was crowded.. damn crowded even on chinese new year.

We had a great time even though it's only 1 game, as we hadn't bowled together for quite some time. After bowling we made plans to have our meal at s11 and also stroll around Sunplaza Park. We got a ride on swings, see-saws, walked around the park while snapping some pics. After the park we headed back to Tampines Mall and Century Square to find a ghost mall, except for 2 or 3 open shops. I called it day when we all decided to walk around no more.

Later...

2005-01-26T23:46:00.000+08:00

It's been 2 weeks since school started, and 4 weeks since we've entered the new year. Boy oh boy, we've all have to accept reality, how time passes by now, everything seems to go off just like that, in a split second. Fucking unbelievable.. holy shit...

For the past 2 weeks i've been learning this "pain-in-the-ass" module, Fundamentals of electrotechnology, or FET. This one has lots and lots of formula, calculations.. trying very hard to understand it. But this one's easier: Digital electronics principles. Like FET it also has lots of calculations but not formulas.

Not much to blog about, blogging again in a few weeks time...

Holiday's over

2005-01-10T09:25:00.000+08:00

Finally, my 1 month holiday's over. I'm gonna be back at school starting tomorrow, and i guess its good to be back, to be able to see my pals again. School started a week later for me, as the primary and secondary schools started last week.

Hung out with my ODACT[or outdoor adventure club] mates on friday at town, we just did a little bit of window shopping and also caught "Meet the fockers". At first i think this show was one hell of a crap, but when i saw it i think its worth a shot, because of the silly jokes. Had a great time laughing out loud. Too bad i didn't watch "Meet the parents" as this is the sequel.

Back from ghost island... and my opinion of 2004

2004-12-24T02:36:00.000+08:00

Here i am, back from ghost island, or Pulau hantu after 3 days there. I had a camp there organized by my group, and apparently the place isn't as scary as the name goes. The place is just like east coast park, except that it's deserted and no one lives there. There's also nothing to do there, so i guess it's just boredom when you get there.

During these 3 days, all we had was a lot of games during daytime and chill out during night time. During night time it was all chats and lots of laugh out laughters. We even made made 3 in 1 coffee and cooked instant noodles which kicked ass, sharing it with others with the windy and relaxing atmosphere, along with "kua chis", fruits... man, it's just great.

And i'm writing my opinion of 2004. I really, really think it's a kick ass year. It's a year i got my first job and my first salary, getting to spend on anything i want, met all kinds of people, made a lot of new friends, experienced outdoor life[i never used to be an outdoor man]... Overall, out of 10, i would give a 9.5 rating for this year!

Holiday plus boredom, equals...?

2004-12-14T16:38:00.000+08:00

Its been three weeks since the exams ended and the school holidays started. And so far it's all boredom... except for what life has been recently and the upcoming plans...

Dil's just got into National Service recently, so i guess it'll be lonelier for me since i've no one to talk to, cos we'd always keep in touch with other almost everyday, so it won't be so boring, so now i've only huda to keep me company. He will be away for quite some time until the three of us can go and chill out together again in one piece.

To kill the boredom, me and my ODACT dudes are gonna hang out at sentosa. We all planned to go on tuesday, but some can't make it, so we'll be going on wednesday, the day after today, instead. Also next monday [20/12/04] i'll be heading to Pulau hantu for a leisure camp till the [22/12/04].

Exams suck!

2004-11-27T14:45:00.000+08:00

The exams's started! It began on tuesday, and there's 2 more to come on monday, after that, it's over... for now.

Boy oh boy, just as i expected the mathematics paper was hell, even though i studied for it countless times. The first section consisted of 10 questions, i managed to do 5. The second section requires me to choose any 3 questions. I managed to do some, but there were came the moment when i stopped the questions halfway as i was already "braindead".

Still stressing myself over 2 more subjects, but i'm gonna focus only 1. Man, 2 subjects on a single day... And there's only 3 days left for me... Seems like time is running out for me.

Stress and exams

2004-11-19T17:08:00.000+08:00

This is it... Exams! 4 months have passed, next week i'm gonna be facing the worst nightmare in my life. To start things off my first paper is gonna be EMT, or Engineering Maths. This subject, i dunno if i'll be able to make it, as i'm 50%confident.

Fortunately i've been doing some revision, since 6pm earlier today, that is all the way until i stopped at 10.30. For today i'm just gonna focus on one topic first: algebra, that is to me which is simplest topic in maths.

Sadly, the gonna-be singapore idol with an incredible voice, Olinda Cho, has been voted out hours ago. I'd say, too bad for her.

The reunion

2004-11-03T14:18:00.000+08:00

Earlier today i met 2 of my best mates. In fact the 3 of us are more than mates. We're "siblings", cos we just seemed to understand each other, after 6 years of friendship. We met up and got over the episode that happened. Everything was a little gloomy at first.

We had our breakfast at banquet, the one in Simei eastpoint, and after our meal we had a chat. Our first conversation seemed kinda awkward, but after talking for some time it became better.

Actually we made plans to proceed to haig road but we decided not to since we thought it's gonna be crowded. So we chose to hang out at TM instead. I bought a file and a new pen for myself. After that, we just walked around, and i heard from my kid bro that a portion of the 4th floor of TM had been renovated, so we went over to check it out. When we first saw the place we thought it'll be a geat place to chill out in future.

Boredom hits me!

2004-10-25T10:34:00.000+08:00

Day by day the more i'm at home, the more boring it is. I'm bored. I'm just freaking bored. There's nothing to do except tune in to the usual shitting lame shows on tv. My pc's being sent over for repair, and my ps1, nothing wrong with it except the damned controller's gone haywire. I may be an electronics student, too bad i can't fix it because i don't know how. I feel like dumping it away and get the brand new ps2.... And someone please give me suggestions on what i should do at home.

Back to school

2004-09-23T04:11:00.000+08:00

It's been 2 days since school reopened for me, my 1 week holiday's over. If you're wondering what i did during the whole week i became a survivor at Ubin[actually i had a survival camp organised by my CCA], made some new friends as well. All hell broke loose down there as i quite enjoyed myself.

I reported to school on monday, back to see my new mates. Except that a new teacher took over the maths subject, which i think, it really sucks... cos' i'm not used to this new teacher... That's all for now.. :D

Lesson boring

2004-09-09T14:23:00.000+08:00

Maths is getting tougher as time passes. I had a second maths test on Monday, too bad i did poorly for it as i didn't have the time to revise during the weekends. Today's Electronics practice lesson's quite a boredom as i had completed my project - the TTL logic probe had been completed, and there was nothing much to do.

Caught a damned cold

2004-08-29T23:41:00.000+08:00

Feeling a little unwell today, as there was this "bitter" feeling inside of my throat. I knew straight away that i was gonna catch flu, dunno what made me get it.. Damn the freaking vrus... :/

Earlier i was at Bugis looking for some stuff, well, there were quite a number of hunks and, chicks as well, everywhere. Except that some were innocent looking to me, some were dressed like bitches [those who reveal too much and smoke]. And i happened to stumble 2 of my former ITE AMK mates, now in a polytechnic just a few metres away from ITE AMK. I guess those 2 were just too clever for good.

Awesome! Simply awesome..!

2004-08-22T15:46:00.000+08:00

I went for another ODACT meeting earlier today, and i was taught some survival skills [ways of tying ropes, tent pitching etc..], to prepare myself for an upcoming camp during the 1 week september holiday.

To be frank, it was quite awesome and what made it more awesome was the game after the survival lessons.

Every member of each group was blindfolded, 1 by 1, a member from a group was being dragged somewhere, to be manipulated where to move. I was told to move till i bumped into a wall, and almost tripped while going up the stairs. Those blindfolded were treated the same way as me, until the last point i was brought to a room where 2 2nd year ODACT members stood by inside. One was carrying a plastic bag with something gross inside, claiming it was "slimy", and i was told to touch while the other fed a piece of gummy into my fat lip. Once outside, i was allowed to take off my blindfold while waiting for the others to finish.

Lastly, the chairman announced for the upcoming events, and also revealed that the "slimy" stuff was actually Maggi mee [cooked earlier during the field cooking lesson] coated in mud.. I was dismissed after that as i had something on later.

Blow my mind away

2004-08-19T01:01:00.000+08:00

Maths, maths and more maths, engineering maths that is... I simply feel as if the damn subject's just gonna blow away this only one and only mind of mine.

I was taught a new topic today - Indices. It's the same thing i studied 4 years ago, but forgot parts of it, and it just got a little harder for someone like me who's lagging in maths. Fortunately i've got myself a bunch of dudes who're damn good at this, but no matter how good they are, i find that they themselves feel like blowing their mind too at times.

Meeting

2004-08-15T09:03:00.000+08:00

Attended my 1st and only ODACT[Outdoor adventure club tampines] meeting today, for me being a new member. There were some games which required co-ordination before the meeting, and i was also told that there'll be a survival camp on the 13th september over at pulau ubin.. Anyway, i think the last camp i had was when i was in secondary 2, that is till now...

S'pore's 39 already

2004-08-08T17:42:00.000+08:00

I was planning to catch the fireworks at the Marina Bay area, going there at around 7.45 by arented car. But what screwed up my plan was there's a traffic jam and we didn't reach marina bay to catch it. Instead, we caught the fireworks on the main road at around 8.30, all because of the traffic jam. All those who saw it went, "Ooohhh... aaaahhhh...", in their hearts perhaps. Some vehicles even stopped on the other side of the road to catch it.

By the time i reached marinabay, there was this long stretch of vehicle from the entrance all the way to the inside. I was gonna look for a parking lot but just waited and listened to some heavy metal music on the radio. I waited for around 10 minutes and finally got one in the inner area. I got out for dinner but the damn thing was there were just too many "unhalal" food stalls, all serving seafood. Frustated, i bought some drinks and decided to have dinner at Lau Pat Sat instead. By the time i had dinner it was already around 10.20.

After dinner i proceeded to the Esplanade as there was a funfair. This place was quite packed with some dressed in red and white clothes. I bought some edible octopus balls, some drinks and sat by the shore. Some even brought mats and tents to spend the night there. I sat while enjoying the octopus balls till midnight, till feeling sleepy.

The outcome... :D

2004-08-04T14:14:00.000+08:00

Guess what??? I got 29 out of 40 for the test! I consider it quite alright, and most of my mates did well for it. But i still think i'm struggling with this module, coz', quite frankly, mathematics is my weakness.

Test... :p

2004-08-03T13:49:00.000+08:00

I had an engineering maths test today, it seems quite hard, struggling halfway through it. Fortunately i came prepared for it as i studied like hell yesterday, although it's only a "test", not an exam. Overall i was able to do some of the questions, although i had learned some of the questions during my secondary school days...

Anyway, i'm gonna just wait for the outcome :)