not your daily train ride

yea.. just got back home from a make-up piano lesson. took longer than usual to reach home because my train broke down or should i say encountered a technical fault a few hundred meters from J.E station. Stopped there for about 10+ minutes... seeing the driver running to the back of the train then to the front again with another staff that appear out of nowhere.

then i realise there is another train right at behind us.. anyway, it was to push us into the station. and there it goes.. push us into the station. ding! i think the problem with the train is a serious one, everything has to be done manually, including opening of the doors, all the passengers can only alight from the front end of the train. you can't expect them to open all the doors rite?

anyway, i would like to commend on the great job done by the staffs for bring us back to the station and staffs at the station for the great job done in controlling the crowds, swiftly getting everybody on their way with out much delay. Great job!

Well... this is really not my daily train ride.

Auf Wiendersehen!

IHP Experience (Week 7)

stress time is finally here. Wednesday had a wake up session with supervisor. The past 6 weeks was classified under research! my god! do we need that long to do research? at least, my project partner and I was steered into the right course by our supervisor. was totally affected by what he said during the meeting..

attended the Database design workshop today, very important! database is basically the backbone of our system. after the workshop, lunch! then went down to my "office" setup the iPark system and gave it a run. we must know how to run the system. will be the ones doing presentation to VIP if there is a need to.. anyway, the whole set up is just beside me now. all the wires and devices... couldn't get the PDA connected to the portal. Geez!

meanwhile, designing our database also, i need my Database textbook! totally lost now.

finally realise that i have a missing component in my project, stress... oh shit.. some visitor walk past the "office" hahah! never mind.. we can really proof that we are doing IHP, just look at my table.. in a total mess.. can tell that we are really "working hard!"

oh well i think that is basically the end of this week.

Rotting status = 20% completed
Weeks left = 14 Weeks

Auf Wiendersehen!

OL Cheer

THE OL CHEER (Ji Pua Nia)

the cheer that rocks your socks (half only)

Wa Lang Si Ki!

we all is up!

Wa Lang Si Lo

we all is down!

Wa Lang Si OL Pa Buay Toh!

we all is orientation leaders hit won't fall!

Ah Si Li Buay Song,

if you are not happy,

Ka Kin Ga Wa Kong!

faster come and tell me!

Lim Peh Ji Ka Zham Hor Li Toh

me, your father, will one leg stomp let you die!

OL OL Sa Xiang Ho!

orientation leaders, orientation leaders, three sound good!

OL OL Pa Buay Toh!

us, your father, times two, hit won't fall!

OL OL Sa Deng Ho!

us, your father again, three layers good!

disclaimer: this cheer is proudly brought to you by the garang OL's of ICT, credits goes to those who squeeze their brain juice out to create this cheer and those who took the effort to type out and translate the cheer!

updates...

3do ended on a high note.. ting! though there is hiccups and obstacles along the way but overall i pretty enjoyed myself organising this camp. planning comm went wild on the final day of camp, pulling stunts across campus. but luckly wasn't caught by the security guard.

dragon boat was fun despite not winning the race. it was tough race, nice experience, water splashing at my face for 300 m, my eyes were shut and i just keep on rowing. ICT won the best cheer, little effort has been put to prepare it, but when we cheer, we beat every other team flat down! Judging by our volume and energy, it really question us, did we just return from camp? (dragon boat was on the day after 3do camp) Lolz...!!! ICT staff team came in second on the finals, great effort lecturers! Geez.. i might consider taking up canoeing since i enjoy myself so much.

interaction games pretty fun also, being the head Game master at one of the game areana. tekan all the freshies, making them scream and shout, cheering away and bond all freshies together. well.. that's the purpose of interaction games rite, to interact. ICT director asked, are u tired? Yes i am, but its okay. I guess that the spirit of being a leader, never say die. agree? oh well, losing my voice... so i shall keep quiet for the next few days. zipped!

Auf Wiendersehen!

IHP Experience (Week 6)

okay, i finally realise it was week 6 already. what's been done so far? hmm... user interface only. i promise.. i will do the database and other parts of the project. being very lazy this week. didn't appear for IHP session at all!!!

Auf Wiendersehen

Rotting status = 20% completed
Weeks left = 14 weeks! (eeek!)

IHP Experience (Week 5)

oh this week.. dedicated to 3do. final days to the camp itself. attended the email n sms application workshop today. application is build base on ASP.Net framework. pretty neat stuffs and hopefully i would be able to use it for my project.

viewd the original iPark System also, got some detail introduction and learn its operations. i iwill have to do a presentation of this system if there is a need to for any VIPs (Very Important Pigs!) Lolz.. must really kick start my project already.. i have been sitting on it too long. lots of research to be done and i hope i could finish my project at least by Week 18.

other than that..

Auf Wiendersehen!

Rotting Status = 20% completed
Weeks left = 15 Weeks

crazy...

damn it.. this past 2 weeks have been so packed with meetings.. not that i want it. and i am not complaining about it. but 3do is just 2 days away.. oh my god. my mind is in a total mess right now.. its 12.56 am and i need to wake up at 6 am coz its IHP day again. Widely awake now.. lots of issues running through my mind. schedule have been very very very tight this few weeks.. running in a endless marathon, drown under a pool meetings. good thing is that i don't have that awful breatheless chest pain.. but been hit by a series of gastric problems. argh!

NP Band.. the concert seems so blur to me. have never attended regular practice. i know people will question my disappearance AGAIN! but am i still in for the concert?i myself also rather blur about this issue. sheehs...

IHP.. only do up to user interface. looks like more modifications to be done to the interface.. finally took a peek at the iPark system yesterday. looks bloody complex.. total lost on my project now.. the path ahead AGAIN seems blur...

Piano... have yet to attend any lesson this month. have yet to have regular practices that will irritated the hell out of my neighbour which kindly enough yet to complain or they can't hear my awfully loud banging of the piano? exam is coming.. am i prepared? hmm.... terribly not! geez... the path ahead is blur...

Other issues.. should i drop the whole idea of that "thing"? or should i still continue to strike when the iron is still hot? should i put everything on hold till my mind is more clear and objective about things.. what are the objective of my life now? always been an objective person, but seems no more.. lost lost lost lost lost lost lost.. nothing is clear nothing is definite everything is nothing...

OH! I BETTER SHUT UP! argh! think i better go and sleep now! tomorrow won't be a better day. sheehs..!

finding myself in the big big ocean

Auf Wiendersehen!

IHP Experience (Week 4)

practically this week i have done nothing for IHP, the project currently came to a total halt. Wed was busy with preparations for the games trial run that happen the next day. Every bug(my comm members) were buzzing around preparing stuffs and other business...

Oh yah.. the 2 days ended with a game of water bomb. Wednesday's water bomb game was at its best, running up and down block 73. I think we packed about 150++ water bombs? Anyway, got soaking wet for that 2 days.

Thursday night received a SMS from Dawn(3DO PL) about the urgent meeting on which i manage to read it this morning at 6 AM!!!! Sheehs... why would i want to wake up at 6am? anyway, as usual, just come to school and sign in, rot for 2 hours till 11 am then meeting starts. The rest of the gang just left the clubhouse. i am waiting for time to pass so i can sign out. Alumni band is next, we are having performance tomorrow, and base on yesterday's rehearsal, we are not ready. My god! pulling out Lilo and Stitch from the repertoire.. my favourite..

Meeting the developers of the system that i am currently enhancing on monday, after 6pm. that means i have to cancel piano lesson again. Argh!!! Schedule is in total mess.....

ain't rotting further this week.. busy with 3do...

Auf Wiendersehen!

Rotting status = 20% completed
Weeks left = 16 Weeks

Singapore's very best..!

Pulau Ubin, a rustic island at its very best.

Drag myself off bed early this morning to follow my parents and relative to Pulau Ubin, always wanting to go there but still waiting for my classmates to organise a trip there. Who cares.. i go ahead first.. muahaha!

First impression, its a place that you would never ever find anywhere else in Singapore, a very laid back village where it present a lifestyle of the 60's. Stunned by all the shophouses as i make my way across "town" to an open court where mini vans await us to bring us to Chek Jawa. Shophouses are basically old and simple design, lifestyle is simple where you don't find any fast food, shopping mall or other things that could be found on the mainland, a perfect representation of the 60's. Vehicles that drive around "town" belongs to an era which could no longer be found on the roads of mainland.

Chek Jawa, a "nature reserve" on the eastern part of the island. A place where you can get really close to Singapore's marine life. Lots of marine life over here, but you can only discover this part during low tide. Did lots of shots today, will post it up as soon as post production is done.

I would love to return back there one day and trek around this rustic island on bike taking a closer look to this rustic beauty. Hopefully, this island will be kept as what it is today and development will take place in a minor scale as to keep the beauty of this island alive.

IHP Experience (Week 3)

Yes! Week 3 is coming to a close in a matter of minutes. Development of my system has started (Finally.....!) Begining to design the user interface but doing simple designs for now.. i need to refer to some of my notes before making more complex but user friendly interface design. I left all my notes at home...

My project partner and i just come to a decision to just do it regardless of anything said by our supervisor.. muahahah!!! don't care don't bother. Spent the whole day in ICT clubhouse (home of 3DO committee) all alone in here.. manage to grab hold of the key.. haha! steaming hot in here.. but still manage to cool myself down. but how am i going to cool my laptop down? poor baby...

Society Head of sports called me asking me if i am interested to participate in Dragon Boat competition. yup! dragon boat.. geez.. i just agreed to it.. hahah.. new experience... well.. more details to come.... gotta do some training...!

Auf Wiendersehen!

Rotting status = 20% completed
Weeks left = 17 Weeks

IHP Experience (Week 2)

finally seen some movements to my project. met up with my supervisor last wednesday, got to know another guy working on the same project, then now we are doing the project together but each of us focusing on different area of the project.

Counting down the time to head home. Basically everybody sitting in the same room as me now are either sleeping, surfing or playing games. The room have somehow warm up compared to this morning which is was freezing cold.

I WANT TO GO HOME!!!!

Auf Wiendersehen!

Rotting Status = 15% completed
Weeks left = 18 weeks

results out!!!

Good morning! my results greeted me by SMS. the worst i ever get..? hmm.. no A's no D's Basically lots of B's and C's. Well.. still i am satisfied about it.

Dentist brought great news yesterday, another 2-3 visits and my braces will be off! cool.. looking forward to it.. so i must be disicipline enough to go for all my appointments. Counting down... manage to sneak off for dental appoinment during IHP hours.. haha! lucky supervisor didn't call me or look for me. only manage to see me during the afternoon when i quietly sit down drafting ideas for IHP project. Phew..

Oh.. i better start kicking my ass back to NP band. concert is round the corner and have i done any rehearsal's yet? NOT! SWO concert also round the corner.. have i done any rehearsal's yet? NOT! SWE alumni concert? they better start having rehearsals soon too... concert concert concert.. hey peeps! time to buy ticket from me!

its an honor

its an honor playing side by side with the grammy award winner Nestor Torres. what am i talking about? just reach home from a concert with Nestor Torres performing as a guest player in Soka wind ensemble. Anyway, he is a flautist!

The concert is featuring him... and all his latin and jazz music. Pretty cool actually! enjoyed it alot have fun listening to him while fooling around in concert position. Geezz... i am losing my concert discipline. the audience were just beside me and i am fooling around. Haha!!! Must punish myself soon. Hahaha!!! But the latin and jazz beats just kept me going... lalala! who cares about concert discipline!

Am so tired now but couldn't sleep because of all the supper in my stomach currently undergoing digestion. Haha..!

Its a great concert, fun concert. Its an honor! Auf Wiedersehen!

SYF 3 & SSO

just got back from SSO's Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op.73 "Emperor" played by a russian pianist, Mr Valdimir Feltsman. He is a superb pianist! geez.. anyway the orchestra sounded good, maybe because i have yet to hear other orchestra play live before? Haha... The program sheet has a very nice picture of a french horn that is drawn with musical notes.. very nice! post it up another time.. got his autograph also.. haha.. kind of bo liao... but interesting! The horn players were fantastic, 2 only but they compliment each other very well.. and they have a sound of 4 players. wow.. Can't see is who.. fantastic tone.. tempted to take lesson from them.. hahaha!

On top of that, they played this piece called Central Park in the Dark. Pretty interesting piece, a modern composition. It depicts Central Park in NY at night... the quiteness of the park at night and all the jazz n broadway around it. Cool..! i want to hear that again! haha... could not get enough of orchestra music...

oh yah... congrats to Riverside, Unity sec. for getting their silver medal. happy for them! Especially riverside. Hmm... can see that they put in lots of effort in getting that medal. 2 years later.. lets improve further..!

SYF 2

i believe many people have heard and know about it.

Alumni's are upset and disappointed. Students itself have taken a big setback. I am just at a snap of a finger lost all mood to do the banner for 3d0 camp. but still put on a happy face infront of my comm members and continue to do my work.

My message to Shuqun Alumni's --> no matter what has happen, its part of history now, look forward to the future. If our brother/sister band falls, we should be there to help them up. If our brother/sister band succeed, we should be there to celebrate. Don't be dishearten and look forward to the future. Be a goodwill ambassodor in which ever band you perform in, show them the quality musicianship that shuqun has trained and mature in you!

My message to shuqun members --> don't be affected by what has happen and lead to a decision to quit from the world of music. Work hard n think positively, train up the future generations so that you all will in time shine again!

My blessing to Riverside and Unity too...

SYF

SYF is in full swing this week! heard lots of ups and downs since monday. the results for my cousin bands are pretty much expected. Compassvale - Gold, Zhenghua - Silver, Fuhua - Silver. Kudos to you all! They now do deserve a long break. Shuqun n Tanglin will be presenting at S.C.H today. All the best to them. Too bad, i am "grounded" by the school otherwise i won't mind spending the afternoon listening to them. Tomorrow is Riverside n Unity.

Well.... good luck to them!

IHP Experience (Week 1)

i am losing my mind pretty soon. one guy sitting in the middle of no where in NP staring at the laptop and the laptop staring back at me. TOR is pretty much into it version 1.1 and gantt chart is sort of completed.

Waiting for call from supervisor to give him a "presentation" on my idea. Did he call? maybe soon.. growing cobwebs now.. hahaha!

3do meeting later on today, going to do banner during IHP hours. hope my supervisor won't kill me. Meanwhile...... growing cobwebs while waiting for time to pass so that i can sign out and go home? go band? go rot somemore?

Rotting status = 10% completed%
Weeks left = 19 weeks

oh whatever 5

argh! no more horror films for me. 1 is enough, count me out for horror movie, count me in for comedy or action movie. thank you ppl! kinda fun though, haha.. contridicting, freaking people in the cinema. Well... its a way to distract myself from the screen. hahaha....

invited to perform in SOKA band. performance is next Sat. my first rehearsal with them today, kinda good. the conductor is good.. learnt a few keywords in describing how to play certain music or phrases.

IHP starting tml... think i am going to rot in school instead of doing project. whatever...!

SYF starting tml... whoa hoo....! good luck people! wish i could be there, but i need to do in house project so.. so sorry, will be looking forward to hearing your results! Horns... play great, do great, score perfect! Stress......

Don't wish or hope for your medal. Get it!

God... please bless them!

Auf Wiendersehen

B O R I N G ! ! !

oh this is so boring.... my final paper finish yesterday that means i am offically on holiday now.. Muahahaha... only one week of holiday before going back to NP to start on my IHP.

How did my exam goes? Pretty smooth actually, it all happen so fast. But doubts on getting good grades this semester. Well, i will work hard on my IHP and semester 6.

This is boring boring boring... okays.. let me go burn some fats by sleeping.

Auf Wiedersehen!

time files..

so delighted..! received SMS from Angie, my family ex-maid, tonight. Updated her about stuffs over here and find out how she is doing over there. Well.. she is doing fine over there. Now a mother of a baby girl, Crissa Ann. Such a unique name.

Think about it, it was just a few weeks into first year poly that she left and now a mother of one. Gosh.. gotta fly there to visit her some day. Guess everyone from my grandmother to me miss her alot, especially her cooking.

That's all for now... Catch up with her sometime soon...