unbelievable!

so after 3 days of waiting, i've gotten my phone back from samsung. and the problem still existed... so i thought that i'd have to go down comcentre and ask for a new phone. then the lady tried and put in another sim card into the phone. AND THE LIGHT DIDN'T COME ON!!! hmmm... fishy fishy right? so i made my way down to comcentre in the end anyway, and the lady at the counter tried her sim card as well. so it turns out that the sim card i've got is "special". special in the way that it makes my phone light up continuously like chinatown during chinese new year. so i've got a new simcard now, which will be activated only after a day. so for all this... probably spent 15 bucks, from all that parking and petrol driving around. not to mention time!!! crazy man... i just hope the problem goes away and i don't have any more problems with this phone. then... maybe i'll get another samsung phone again hahaha being upset is tiring =p

and i've got a new motto for derek... smoke less eat more hahaha

i hope the rain stops soon too... otherwise josh and many will be having their wettest time ever on sentosa =p aiyah play vball in the rain lah! hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

not a good start

since i'm munching on my fruits now, i decided to blog before i start work on my maths again.

the start of school has been... highly jerky. according to my maths lecturer, when u differentiate speed u get acceleration, and what do you get when u differentiate acceleration? a jerk. or jolt. an instantaneous force hahaha something interesting to take home from maths class. in the past month, i've learnt in ONE page what F maths students at A lvls learn in 20. are we supposed to remember everything we learn or something? it's really quite demoralising knowing that you've learnt how to factorise stuff with that damn formula, but then you spend half an hour remembering it and remembering how to apply it. doing an hour of differentiation makes me tired now. half an hour of integration has about the same effect. curve sketching is really CURVE sketching. never seen such bizarre looking "curves" in my life hahaha

accounting, in my opinion is easier than econs in j1, but i'm supposed to be learning stuff at 3 chapters a lecture, it's going way too fast to remember everything. u give me 2 terms instead of a month and i'll be much much better off. i mean... my exam is next wednesday!!! how freaking fast is that?!?! thank goodness i don't have to take any maths exams at the end of this term, otherwise i'd be thoroughly screwed. i don't want to think about what it'll be like at the end of next term when biz finance comes into the picture. really will be hell.

the start of school really hasn't been a good one.

i got a new phone on sunday! the new samsung soul. it's really quite a nice phone, both to use and to look at. colours are really nice, and the touchpad is easy to use! unlike some other phones with touch sensitive panels that i've tried before. 5mp camera with antishake, althought i think it's not really antishake... just an image stabiliser, cos there's about a half a second lag time hahaha bang and olufsen speakers which make the sound coming out sound good too! but the only problem is... the screen lights up every 30 seconds when the damn phone is close!!! sucks the juice out of my battery. damn bloody irritating, so tomorrow i'm going to go to the service centre to get it looked at. hopefully they give me a new phone. they should! i only got this phone on sunday!!! ggrrr...

haiz... oh well. finished my fruits and a game of freecell already. wendy's exams are over, although i'm not exactly sure how well she'll do because she was really distracted during this exam period. but she's got a packed schedule of mahjong planned ahead. have to get used to seeing her alot less again. just like BMT. just that this time around, i'll have to study on weekends too. calculus here i come!

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

happy birthday many!

yesterday night i rushed home after my accounting test to get many's cake and present, then i chiong-ed down to raffles city. thanks goodness there was space to park so i didn't have to queue hahaha anyway we went to curry favour at stamford house. nice short walk from RC. it's a nice cosy place, and the curry isn't hot at all hahaha guess japanese prefer wasabi to spicy curry. they just like the taste i guess. it wasn't all that bad. she liked the cake i bought!!! hahaha white chocolate macadamia from secret recipe =) luckily i decided to buy the half recipe one instead of the full recipe one. couldn't really finish the half recipe one hahaha

after that we made our way to paulaner brauhaus at millenia walk. first time there. managed to get a nice table right in the corner for all 9 of us? oh wait... 11 hahaha and of course the best part was, some other guy was celebrating his birthday there too! so we sabo-ed many to go up to the stage and sing with him!!! hahaha it was quite hilarious... trying to yell her name to them. mandy, mary... i had to spell it out for them before they got it =p then we just started taking really spastic photos of each other. mr kwee has a really unique talent of taking people with funny faces.

after that louis, tini, vig, kwee and the birthday girl came over to my place for mahjong. vig can play man... just needs some help now and then. the combined powers of me and tini managed to win money in the 1st round hahaha played until 5 this morning, at which vig and many had both fallen asleep =p

have a maths test on thursday... need to mug more. going to eat my fruits now, maybe i'll study tmr hahaha

HAPPY 21ST MANY!!! many blessings upon you this year. GPA 4!!! hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

so dusty...

sorry for not blogging since my birthday. been a mixture of both lazy and busy hahaha and koon i do read your blog... just don't tag that's all hahaha =)

i'm a month into school already, and it's hard to get back into the rhythm of everything. sitting down and studying is still difficult. although i have to say it's much more so for accounting than maths. reading so many words and trying to absorb them all is definitely more difficult than just looking at formulae and numbers hahaha i'm lucky that there's no maths exam at end of this term, because accounting is going at an insane pace. i mean i'm covering the WHOLE textbook in 5 weeks!!! damn freaking crazy...

the atmosphere in ntu is... right now rather conducive to study. but can't say for when the main term starts when there'll be people everywhere. the new canteen is nice! just that it's always full at lunch time, because it's much nicer than the canteen in the south spine hahaha and of course it's air-conditioned, and the food is still rather cheap! that's on the upper flood. downstairs there's macs, subway, canadian pizza and old chang kee all at reduced prices!!!!!!! cheap fast foooooodddd hahaha i'm always trying to eat upstairs of course, but sometimes you just gotta eat and there's no other choice.

got my accounting presentation today. really fast if u ask me hahaha 4th week of school and i've got a presentation already. i'm just telling myself that everyone else in class has to do it, and whether i'm right or wrong it's all just part of the learning experience. i just hope i'm not too embarassingly wrong hahaha have to wear formal today, and the problem is i've got maths tut at 930, and my presentation is only at 4!!! just hope i don't sweat too much inbetween hahaha well at least the seminar room we use is always freaking cold!

wendy's moved house!!! thank goodness! at least now she's got her own room and can sleep and study when she has to! and it's a nice place! 2nd floor, and it's rather breezy too! right next to the fitness park, with 7-11 and convenient stores nearby! really really good find =)

i just ate 3 siew mais! haven't eaten those for a long time hahaha but after eating need to go toilet =X my stomach only waking up now hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

a blast for a weekend!

so now i'm 21 years old... had a really interesting and fun filled weekend to celebrate it too! friday afternoon went out for lunch at billy bombers at the cathay with wendy and her parents, then we went to the singapore flyer!!! never thought i'd actually go up that thing for free, but wendy's dad had free tickets, so why not? hahaha got a nice view of the singapore skyline, and you can really see malaysia and indonesia from up there! anyway... the coolest part about the whole thing to me is that you can actually see the mess that's going on at the IR site, and marina south. you can really see above the mess and towering cranes, and look down at the ecp and the cars on it hahaha i'm trying to imagine what the IR will look like when it's completed from up there, with all the lights and colours, it should be really nice =) oh and the floating platform used for NDP last year, is now a SOCCER FIELD!!! when i first saw it i thought i was seeing things hahaha wonder what'll happen if the water gets a bit choppy and the winds pick up. sea sick soccer players? =p

at night i went to carnivore at vivocity with my dad and wendy. my mum was overseas on work. if only i didn't have so much lunch to eat, i could've eaten alot more. it was like heaven man! meat coming at you from all directions, and the greens were totally out of the picture hahaha but somehow towards the end the quality of the food went down a little bit. luckily i was already full by then hahaha chicken, pork, beef, mutton, fish... meat meat meat! ultra high protein diet hahaha ok lah i did get SOME carbo in the form of bread, which also came around on skewers. the only thing i didn't try was the chicken heart. and it wasn't clearing too quickly either since the poor guy was walking round and round the restaurant and it hardly got taken.

saturday was probably my best saturday man hahaha granted it was tiring cos i had to wake up really early to pick my mum up from the airport. got back home just before 7. after lunch wendy and i went to watch street kings. it was an alright movie... somehow i still see keanu reeves in his matrix role. and in this movie he's packing lots of guns again hahaha the last standing gun fighter. sounds so much like the old west... but it looked rather cool either way. after that we walked around PS for a while cos wendy wanted to buy some stuff. then we went to her home because she wanted to get some stuff too... then my mum sent me a funny message saying "can you stall him. we're not ready yet" then some bells in my head started to ring hahaha SOMETHING WAS GOING ON AT MY HOUSE! then my mum called me to ask me to buy some hairspray! hmmm... that part was alright but somehow i heard some maniacal female laughter in the background, which obviously didn't sound like the tv or radio or any other person in my house. plus it didn't help when my mum was talking to me and wendy suddenly ran down the stairs, opened the car door and took the phone away from me hahaha ok lah it was my classmates trying to surprise me. it worked quite well... up till the point where everyone started panicking because i was going to be home too soon and not everyone was there yet hahaha got home to see a nice nija turtle performance, nicer cake, and a crazy wassup... 5t19 wassup hahaha first one in don't know how long. got it all on video too... and of course a wassup isn't complete until derek has one too, so after they got me, they got derek! hahaha

derek u better watch out man... your birthday is next. don't know how many you're going to get =p just imagine... u're turning 21!!! hahaha

they ordered a hell lot of pizza, some of which is still in my fridge, and got me a damn nice billabong leather wallet. it was a good thing josh works with my mum and they know wendy so it's really quite easy to get info about me and get accomplices hahaha all in all, thanks to josh, derek, koon, louis, vig, mr kwee, clar, many, tini, chip, shufang and cheryl. of the whole group i hadn't seen cheryl for the longest. she's been disappearing for quite a while hahaha and cheryl drove a FORD here... if u'll remember what i wrote about fords earlier, maybe you'll know how absolutely sorry i feel for her hahaha i love t19... never fail to brighten up the darkest, gloomiest (warning... word might not exist in dictionary), most pathetic of days =) thanks to you all so so much!!! my first surprise birthday party ever! hahaha

on sunday my parents helped me organise a family gathering... a rather LARGE family gathering. grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, parents cousins, the whole mix. it was really quite intimidating hahaha but at least that's all over and done with. got alot of hong baos. much much more than i expected i'd get. going to the bank i was damn scared someone would try to rob me or something hahaha in the evening i went over to josh's place to pass him something, and of course no point going to his house without playing his xbox right? hahaha devil may cry 4 is damn cool! but somehow... god of war is still the coolest! hahaha the combos on dmc4 aren't as spectacular as gow... graphics their about the same, but must remember that gow was on the ps2 platform. and it already really ahead of it's time.

my sister sent me an icecream cake from swensens too! big oreo cake hahaha thanks sis =)

happy happy birthday indeed. and now i just gotta settle my NTU stuff... forgot my damn pin. i'm such an idiot...

quote of the month:
"a motorcycle bit my ass!" - Derek Tan

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way