one more BIG hurdle...

all assignments are done. exams are in 1.5 weeks. 3 weeks till the end of this sem. not enough time to study for everything so far. too many projects and assignments to do. oh well... not much choice...

deadlines...

to remind me of the horrors of this sem

mp3004:
assignment 1 due 9/11 (SUBMITTED)
assignment 2 due 26/11 (95% done)

mp3071:
lab report due 15/11 (SUBMITTED)

mp3005:
project due 16/11 (SUBMITTED)

mp3010:
project due 3/12 (50% done)

mb106:
assignment due 23/11 (99% done)

ee8061:
assignment due 19/11 (SUBMITTED)

i can't wait to start working...

believe... trust... and push on. we'll get there together =)

how does someone go, from being so so sure that they're with the one who they can spend the rest of their life with, to feeling like that they don't love them anymore, even though they still care for them with all their heart?

I'm sorry for what i've done. I pray for your forgiveness, and for e forgiveness of god. I never would want things to turn out this way, because no one deserves this.

I thought everything was alright last night, that i could start all over again. A fresh start for both of us. But i just couldn't. i just couldn't. Please forgive me, because i don't know if i can ever forgive myself. I'm sorry

as adam lambert so aptly yells... "what do you want from me?"

u said everything changed. but honestly how i feel hasn't. it's still the same as day 1. but to you it might have. i guess it must seem like it has, otherwise we wouldn't be having this problem. you might think i don't care anymore. you might think you're not as important. all i know is that u're good at letting your imagination run wild. i blame all the taiwan dramas u've watched. all i know is that nothing will be fixed unless you attempt to resolve it. and not doing anything is not resolving it

that might've been the best or worst decision i will ever make. i only know i did it because it couldn't carry on like that forever. something had to change. either me. or you. i really wish it could be me. how i wish i could see just 5 seconds of the future. but for now. all i can do is sit by my phone and wait. and pray. that we both have a happy ending.

PASSED MY IPPT!!!!!!! =)

but i stepped on a dead bee and got stung =(

work to do during the sem break...

just so i don't forget the bare minumum.

1. catch up with maths tuts
2. mind maps for elective
3. practice 2011 drawing

looking forward to batam with mini-t19!!! and the sun too!

still FSAH... ah well... gotta mug for quizzes!

tiger year

this year's cny went well... even though it wasn't exactly at the best time of the year. rather late actually. so near all the quizzes and deadlines. i hope cny is in january for the next couple of years. fewer relatives to visit this year, as some of them were away and the timing wasn't good. my sis came back on the 1st day. after that drove from the east, to the north, to the extreme west. good mileage for my dad's car hahaha went house hopping with t19 on the 3rd day. a couple of days before the event we thought we were only going to 2 houses. but on the day we ended up going to 4! quite cool. josh's, sf's, derek's and mine. after that had my 2nd reunion dinner. eat eat eat. get fat and fail ippt hahaha sunday afternoon visited bang, and had bbq with 409 guys at night. haven't bbq-ed for a while. but it was fun! stand/sit arnd and just talk cock. next time will try to have it on a sat night. at least don't have to rush off.

got 3 quizzes this week. cleared one so far. wasn't perfect, but was still rather good. one more tmr. quite bored to study for that one though. cos it's just reading and reading. i'm better if i've got something to do while studying. ah well.

FSAH!!! irritating =(

bye bye '09...

i've finally found the motivation to blog! wanted to a couple of times, but just didn't get around to doing it. better look back at 2009 before i forget.

the semester at the beginning of the year went well. rescued my miserable GPA hahaha 1st semester of year 2... i knew i wouldn't do too well. my target was just to minimise the drop in my GPA. in the end i kind of achieved it. only dropped by 0.01 points, which more or less means i'm still in the hunt for a 2nd upper. sem 2 in year 2 SHOULD be easier than sem 1, mainly because i've cleared the harder maths module, and gotten tech comm and electricity out of the way. the hardest module i predict will be fluids. the good thing is that it's now 3 AUs only, so if i screw up it wouldn't be as heavy a blow. so my GPA is now 3.75... exactly half way towards 2nd upper. i'm hoping to pull it up to at least 3.85 by the end of the coming semester. pray and hope i get more A-s. and i'm still hunting for that elusive A. getting a bit irritating, but at least i've got alot of A-s and B+s hahaha and i'm sick of seeing Cs. they just totally ruin your day. but still better than da-baoing i guess.

suddenly remember what happened to me on the night of my devastating thermo paper. listening to 987fm... the muttons to midnight have been naming the days for quite a while. like "woowoo" wednesday, or "toottoot" thursday. as long as the sound starts with the 1st letter of the day it'll do. so that night i was waiting for wendy to get off work at the carpark outside the international school just outside town. and the muttons came on happily saying "today is... TA BAO TUESDAY!!!" omg... i swear my jaw dropped, and i could feel my lungs tense up and my heart skipped a few beats. i just sat there and stared with my mouth wide open, at utter disbelief at what i was hearing on the radio. of all the days for them to choose the word ta-bao... it had to be on the day of my worst paper. that hung around in the back of my mind for a couple of days after that, and it bugged me again as the results drew nearer. waiting for results takes years off your life man. it's just very very bad for your health.

wendy started working this year! big change for both of us. she's used to being free during my hols, but this time she's damn busy and that made her damn sian at work everyday. had to try to motivate her to work every day hahaha it kind of worked after a couple of weeks =p better late than never right? she likes the job, but a particular senior really demoralised her and a few other colleagues. not much EQ i guess. unavoidable in the working environment. but i still think i'd rather work than study. sure you get nice long holidays while you're studying, but i'd prefer to be able to slack when i get home, take it easy and just do my own things. feeling guilty whenever you switch on the tv or go on facebook every single weekday during the school term just sucks =p

christmas and nye were fun-filled and eventful! ate ALOT, played ALOT, slacked ALOT! hahaha it was all fun! parties began on the 23rd with t19 dinner at my place. tried our hand at cooking again, and we had turkey! we pretty much cleaned it out. not much left over food. we're getting better at estimation man hahaha previous years we had quite alot of leftovers, which meant i had plenty to eat at home after that. AND! band hero proves to be much more popular hahaha tested and proven. for both guys and gals =)

had a family dinner on christmas eve, a christmas day lunch and a christmas day dinner. lots of ham and turkey basically. met wendy's classmates at marche at 313. another big meal. the food's still good! tonight went to shaun's house for dinner! the last of the new year meals. played pictionary and charades after that. damn entertaining. good to see all of them again, even though i see neo and shaun in school quiteo often. but we just don't hang out that often. never gets boring with them around. met up with rao and bang for dinner too. walked around bugis area quite a bit. eat quite a bit of random stuff too! hahaha they came over to my place for guitar heroes too! i don't think i'll ever get bored of that game man. oh yeah met up with shuling and weichang too. hongkong cafe at ion. didn't go far cos wendy had work the next day. they wanted to eat durian crepes at goodwood park hotel but the restaurant was already closed. all the aussie ppl are back for hols. good to see them =)

and a first for me... nye i went to sentosa with wendy for the countdown party. initally thought of buying the tickets myself, but decided against it. but apparently someone up there wanted me to go and experience the whole thing, and my dad asked me in the day on the 31st if i wanted 2 free tickets! so... why not? hahaha would've cost me more than 50 for 2, even with early bird discounts. but at the end of it, i don't think i'll go again, unless i had free tickets hanging around hahaha there were 2 things i did "achieve" over there though. it was my 1st clubbing experience (yes noob i know, but some say we should try things at least once in our life right?), and it was fun! except... we just needed some better music. seriously. hahaha AND! steph's younger sister's friend's boyfriend's friend *double checking* stays on sentosa in one of those private estate. so we went to check it out. all i can say WOW! it's seems so americanised. the houses have no front gates, they all have their own swimming pools, and in their backyard? a waterway with their own personal dock for their yachts!!! the only thing i felt was lacking was lamborghinis and ferraris. i seriously thought i'd see at least a handful of them! i guess they were all out partying. either that or, all the massive humps in the area just kept the residents from owning them hahaha but the housing estate was really impressive. all rich people. it did have a bit of a kampong feel to it, because there were no gates, but somehow i think they wouldn't socialise with their neighbours that much? because of the worry-about-myself-only lifestyle in singapore, and because they're all RICH! i hope i'm wrong though... really do.

well the new year is here! 2010 should be a pretty standard year for me... i hope. don't want any big surprise changes to my life. small ones are welcome of course, like a car or something hahaha

reminder: remember to clear your ippt. $200 would be a nice new year gift from mindef hahaha

ohhhh myyyyy godddddd...

just did 6 hours of maths. only 430, means 6 more hours to go.

oh my god

shock start...

due to my week of absence from school during week 3, all thanks to H1N1 (btw i'm still cursing the bugger who went out when he was sick... hoping he loses control of his bladder and wets his bed hahaha), i'm finding myself very very far behind in tutorials so far this sem. i'm guessing even if i wasn't sick i'd still be behind, but maybe not by such a large margin.

2001 - by the end of today i'll be lagging by 1.
2012 - this is the only one i'm up to date with, because we have to submit assignments the following week so i have no choice but to keep up with it. plus there's no exam.
2008 - i did get started on the first tut, but she hadn't gone much into it at that time. since then i haven't touched it at all. missing another one this afternoon. lagging by 3.
2007 - the lecturer goes damn freaking fast. only halfway through tut 1, which has 30 questions. this friday he's starting on tut 2. i have a hope of catching up with this one...
2010 - thermo... damn dry topic... not a bad lecturer, but i haven't done a single tut yet. lagging by 4. worst mod so far this sem.

i've got a lab report and a damn tough design assignment due next week. and if i'm not wrong, i'll have an assignment for my linguistics elective due next week too. i'll find out tomorrow. omg omg omg... if something big is due next week for tech comm then i'm shit screwed again. lab report on tuesday, elective assignment on wednesday, design and tech comm on thursday.

the reality of year 2 is sinking in. when they said it was tough, i was getting mentally prepared for it. but being away from school for a week completely threw me off track, and now it's running away from me very quickly. i'm doing all i can to catch up with it, and the only reason i'm blogging now is because i've got to make my weekly journey to the south in about 20 minutes. so in case i don't blog until after my CAs the following week, i'll know why next time.

oh yes another thing sucking my time up this sem is C1. learning to use solidworks for EID. i've spent about 7 hours in the comp lab so far, and done 71/120 pages of the manual. not bad la i guess, since they said about 15 hours was required. but i'm not sure if the 15 hours included the assignment we're supposed to do at the end of it. initially i was hoping to get this part out of the way ASAP, but it's taking up a hell lot of time that i could've used doing tuts. gotta reprioritise again. need to sacrifice my weekends too =(

on a positive note, wendy's sales are picking up!!! making quite good money! hahaha i'm very happy for her because she did put alot of effort into setting up her blogshop. good job baby! =) oh and she's started her job at recruit express too. so far it seems like the perfect work environment for her. only problem is the freezing cold aircon that can't be controlled. and her direct boss said she needs to exercise more!!! stupid boss... not everyone has to be as slim as u!!!

snapping back to reality, time to start chasing the semester...

holy crap!

this sem has turned out to be a very very very busy one. projects abound, tough things to try to absorb, and gotta figure out a new study time because i spend about 1.5 to 2 hours everyday on the road now. that's damn tiring. and i don't have an extended period where i can just sit down and study now. i at most have 2 hours here and there, but nothing solid. damn...

i picked up 2 interesting quotes over the past 2 days of lecture. the first came from my maths lecturer. he said...

"that's the interesting thing about maths. sometimes you may learn but you may not realise"

oh well... i guess that's true to a certain extent. another quote, i picked up from my friend after going through an hour and a half of thermo lecture.

"i feel like stabbing myself."

i guessed that sums it all up

back to the old school...

headed back to cj today, with the intention to play volleyball and to enjoy some good ol' cj canteen food. it was really hot today, but we still played for a while under the grandstand. and my god we can still play!!! hahaha by we i mean me, wendy, tini and cheryl. i was damn surprised cheryl came, because i haven't seen her since december! hahaha it didn't dawn on me that she's back until she sat in the car for like 2 minutes hahaha so it's like she was never really gone. maybe that's because i don't usually see her for long periods of time anyway =p and miss many yong! told us in the morning that the canteen was closed! so we were all kind of bummed out. but after volleyball, we decided to go to the canteen to buy some ice cold drinks from the vending machine, and lo and behold, the yong tau foo stall was open!!! along with 2 other stalls that we've never bothered about! hahaha clar came along just as we sat down under the fan to cool down, so the 5 of us enjoyed cj yong tau foo together =) it was nice! the person who runs the stall has changed, but it still brought back some memories. but i think the sad thing was, there were some kids who actually stayed back after the national day celebrations to study in the library. yes i know the A levels are coming, but come on... take a break la!!! those were probably the ones who were gunning for scholarships. well i'm sure all their hard work will pay off, but it pays to relax too.

after that it took us a while to figure out where to go, and we finally decided to go to tini's house! never been there before! dropped her off at home a handful of times, but never been inside. on the way to tini's house we dropped cheryl at home for her tennis lessons. at tini's place i figured out indian poker, and we played asshole daidee until 430. it was damn funny. got videos of forfeits for indian poker on wendy's phone. catch tini and wendy doing pushups, and all 4 of us doing starjumps hahaha totally random stuff. it was a simple and relaxing day =)

i got some funny elective for next sem. technologically speaking. well... honestly speaking i don't know what it's about. it was my third choice, and i only put it down for 2 good reasons. first, i needed to apply for at least 3 PEs to get priority, and second, it didn't clas with any of my cores, which i have no choice but to take. so i got this funny thing, and i have to decide fast whether i want to drop it or not, because add/drop period will be here soon and it won't be hanging out for long. but i most probably will s/u it. just hope i get S!

getting some jitters about starting school again. i'm taking the not-so-conventional route, for once in my life. i managed to get into the design stream, which only a small number of each cohort get into. so i don't really know what to expect, but i know what i hope to achieve at the end of it. somehow i feel like i'm starting uni all over again. if i stayed in mainstream i wouldn't be as worried hahaha oh well... stepping out of my shell is something i don't do too often, but i think it'll do me good =)

INSTEP/GIP?

school's going to start soon, and i've been getting emails about overseas study programmes. i'd like to go for one of them, but looks like will have to put alot of effort into finding out whether there are courses that suit what i want to take there. i'm aiming to go in the second semester. will have to find out more about them first. main target is the US. mainly because i speak the language! hahaha going to europe will be harder cos the better technological universities are either in germany or switzerland, which will pose a big language problem for me =p

hey! if u're reading my blog, go visit wendy's blog shop!!! selling earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets at very affordable prices =) check it out HERE! it's finally up and operational =) really hope it goes well! put so much effort into it. jiayou! =)

new skin

as u can see... i've changed my blog skin hahaha why'd i do it? well the old one was... old. since i don't know when. and after helping wendy set up her blog shop, i realised the setting up of the template is much much easier than last time. it's all kind of automated and idiot proof now hahaha and i also learnt that livejournal is really hard to use. not very customisable, and it's hard to edit the html too. somehow...

hols will be over in 2 weeks. year 2 will be starting soon. what'd i do this holidays? hmmm... travelled to taiwan and genting. played alot of mahjong. played alot of guitar heroes. played god of war. played GTA4. drove alot. ran very little. read nothing. ate alot. need to do something with the movie posters i bought from taiwan, and finish up those wooden models. that'd take more time. and give me sore finger tips hahaha

coming and going...

more than half way through my holidays already. quite alot's been happening i guess. alot of people travelling all over the world! many went to spain & morocco, josh is now in US, shufang is in korea, tini is back but going to europe, don't know when cheryl's coming back, and i'm going taiwan and genting!!! t19 is going all over the world man. by august, only joshua will be left overseas. no more parties at his house till mid-september... bummer.

wendy and i just rushed our taiwan planning. planned for 8 days in 1. hahaha later on this morning going to book the hostels and train tickets. surprisingly the hostels in the main cities are cheaper than those in the outskirts. probably competition pushing the prices down. i hope all goes well! the main 2 things we'll be doing is cycling and shopping. it'll be a tiring holiday hahaha

my 1st manning period since ord has officially started. haven't packed my fullpack yet though =X i think some of the packs should be the same since 4sab, but still gotta check through. M.A.F.A.N!

results for special sem coming out this friday. so fast. hardly got over the studying mood and the results are out already. i just hope i can get an A. did well for my presentations, but for the final paper, i really don't know how to judge how i did. i wrote alot. but alot of it could be crap. we'll see.

swine flu is causing all sorts of problems nowadays. i hope nothing major happens between now and the 2nd before i fly to taiwan, otherwise my mum won't leave me in peace.

oh yeah my dad finally got a new TV at home! we both just overrided our mum's decision to use the old (and small) tv in the living room, and got a 42-inch one heehee SHIOK! but technology moves damn fast. by next IT show the same tv probably cost a few hundred less. oh well...

speaking of IT show, i went for the latest IT show 3 out of the 4 days. 1st 2 days was scouting for tv. 4th day, wendy just wanted bargains, and i guess she got them hahaha helped her buy some other non-IT stuff on one of the days too. damn embarrassing =( don't think i'll be buying that again soon.

saw an updated version of the netbook that wendy has. she's got the S10. the S10-2 is out. what an innovative name. the looks give the HP mini a run for it's money. the keyboard is much improved, and the skin is niceeeeeeeeee. alot of style fused into the latest one. looks good!

today... going gym, going to the frame shop, going to dinner with t19 @ taka, and maybe mahjong? hahaha

somebody told me...

the target

if i get A for my marketing module, my cgpa will be 3.79. CHIONG AHHHH!!!!!

somebody told me...

hard work pays off

so i'm into week 4 of my hols already. almost through with my marketing module for special sem. so far i've had 2 presentations. 2 more to go. 4 presentations in 4 weeks. and they're all graded. W.T.F. talk about stressing us out. but then again... i guess this is the more practical way of learning? so maybe it's more efficient. better than just learning all the theories and not knowing what it's about. this was the main reason why i wanted to clear this module during special sem anyway, so that i wouldn't have to contend with all the presentations during normal sem. good call on my behalf! hahaha

results came out on friday. still didn't get any As. sian. got 3 A- and 3 B+. overall happy la of course!!! considering i thought i totally flunked my physics and i've never taken chemistry before. have to say thanks to my neighbours yonglim and lawrence for all the chem help. otherwise i don't think i could've gotten B+. so now my cgpa is 3.70... up from 3.38. good enough for me. got chance to get second upper alr!!! hahaha i hope i feel the same way at this time next year, after the killer second year is over.

wendy's in the middle of her exams too. jiayou baby!!! only one more paper to go =) then when she's done i'll have my exam. was hoping to be able to go overseas this hol. stupid swine flu. oh sorry... can't call it swine flu anymore. must call it AH1N1 virus. stupid A.H.1.N.1. virus...

somebody told me...