Thursday, July 6, 2006

Gong Qi Jun

Watched a few of 宫崎骏 's animaes recently - 哈尔的移动之城, 龙猫, 天空之城, 飞天红猪侠, 神隐少女. They are not terriblily exciting, some people even say it is boring. But strangely his animae has a unique kind of appeal that is different from all other animaes. Most of the stories doesn't make any sense (A living cat bus? A pig/human riding fighter plane? Flying castle? A girl trapped in a strange realm?), but stirs your imaginations, and you will wonder what the author is trying to tell you. Then, the scenes are beautiful, the music are smoothing. While you are watching it you will feel very relaxed - it is like in a art gallery and a concert at the same time, and the pictures are moving.

 

    

 

Ahhh... watching relaxing movies in the relaxing holidays. This is life. 

 

享受人生. =)

 


 

 

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Daisy Music Video

A bit outdated here, but well, good stuff must share mah. Nice music + beautiful scenery + handsome actors + pretty actress + cool professions (assassin, artist, detective) + good plot = good movie.

 


 


 

 

The Man in the High Castle

Just finished the above book, which was written by Philip K Dick. The most well-known work by Philip K Dick is Minority Report and most of his stories have the idea that the universe is only apparently real, an illusion behind which the truth might dwell. (And I love this kind of stories.) Since I think you guys won't bother to find this book and read, I'll just share the story with you here.

 

This story is set in the present times, with one major difference: Allies have lost the Second War World. Nazis and Japanese rules the world, each taking half. The minority people living at the Nazis' side are kinda sad. The Jews and the Blacks are persecuted. The entire African continent is wiped out - it is now a radioactive wasteland. It is hell. People in the Japanese side are generally ok, and eastern cultures and philosophies now seep into the west.

 

One very good example is that the chinese I Ching, The Book of Change is widely used as an oracle by the general public throughout the world. It possess wisdom accumulated for thousands of years - it knows everything: past, present, future. It knows the Way, and people consult it on all matters.

 

In this alternative world, it happens that there is another book that is very popular: it is a novel called The Glasshopper Lies Heavy. In this novel, it depicts a world where allies won the war. Everyone who read the book was facinated by the world depicted in this novel. It becomes a bestseller in areas not controlled by Nazis.

 

So towards the end of the story, the main female character finally found the author of The Glasshopper at the High Castle. She demanded the truth about the novel.

 

"The oracle wrote your book, didn't it?"

 

The author admitted it. He consulted the oracle for at every history's cross junction. One by one he made the choices. Thousands of them. Historic period. Subject. Characters. Plot. It took him years.

 

The main female character, Juliana, then asked, "Why would the oracle write a novel? Why one about Germans and Japanese losing the world? Why that particular story and no other one?"

 

In the end, the two of them finally asked the oracle these questions:

 

"Why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?"

 

After they tossed the coins 6 times, they arrived at this:

 

Sun at the top. Tui at the bottom. Empty in the center. The Inner Truth  hexagram.

 

"I know what it means without using the chart. Do you?"

 

"Yes. It means, does it, that my book is true?"

 

"Yes."

 

"Germany and Japan lost the war?" he said disbelievingly.

 

"Yes."

 

The story ends with the author autographed a copy of The Glasshopper for her, and she left.

 

Interesting huh? =)

 

 

Sunday, July 2, 2006

A short summary of what I did this week

Played some games - DOTA and Unreal Tourament.

 

Watch My Sassy Girl, a movie I downloaded long long time ago. Very nice and touching story! 4 stars.

 

Planning and finding cast for mystery walk. Rehearsing the cast. Orientate them.

 

Shopping for props and makeup at Bras Basah and Bugis Village.

 

Watched Superman Returns. Is the director trying to compare Superman and God? I rate it 3.5 stars. Stories ain't terribly exciting when the heroes inside are almost godlike.

 

Arranged to meet an old friend to watch 千里走单骑 by 张艺谋 this tuesday. Finally found someone who appreciate one of my favourite directors. 

 

Played basketball.

 

Doing handicraft - making crosses (props) from wood. Cut wood until hand pain.

 

Yesterday is our hall FOC mock camp for senior. Did a tech run for mystery walk. Cast turn-up rate only around 50+%, but I am thankful for those who turned up. From the comments of those who went through the walk, I would say I am quite happy with the progress. At least 50+% of the stations are good and ready.

 

Watch a bit of World Cup when we come back. England vs Portugal first half. Boring dao siao. 0-0 until penalty. Watch until I want to sleep. zzz...

 

Today - ate dim sum with my dad at Suntec. Rented 3 vcds: Election 黑社会 2, Daisy 爱无间, Typhoon 台风. Watched 2. Election is not bad, but somehow I feel very sleepy towards the end of the show. The 2nd one Daisy is better. It captures my attention throughout the show. The girl damn suay, meet 2 guys, all bring bad luck. But the story is quite touching. I am starting to think films starring 全智贤 will be good. 3.5 and 4 stars respectively.

 

Next week's highlights will be: More rehearsals, moving to new room (housewarming anyone?), meeting up with friends, Pirates of the Caribbean maybe?

 

Hopefully next week won't be too bored.

 

 

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Puzzles

Here are some logic puzzles I heard during the course of my work. And I love logic puzzles.

 

Puzzle 1 - difficulty: **

 

There are 3 identical light bulbs A, B & C in an enclosed room. Outside the room there are 3 identical switches 1, 2 & 3. After you play around with the 3 switches, you can only go into the room once, after which you know which switch control which light bulb, ie, Switch 1 control what, Switch 2 control what, Switch 3 control what.

 

Point to note: when you are outside the room playing around with the switch, you can't see the inside of the room, including the light bulbs. 

 

 

Puzzle 2 - difficulty: ***

 

There are 3 death row prisoners standing in a single file, the tallest behind, shortest in front, and all of them is facing front. The king choose 3 apples from a bag of 2 red and 2 green apples and put 1 apple on each of their heads. The king throws the remaining 1 apple away, whose color none of the prisoners know.

 

Each prisoner cannot talk to one another, cannot turn around, cannot see his own apple. So the scenario now is that the tallest prisoner can see the apples on the head of the prisoners in front of him; the one standing in the middle can see the apple on the head of the shortest guy; and the shortest guy can see nothing.

 

The prisoners are supposed to guess the color of the apple on top of their heads. Upon giving the right answer, they will be freed. However, upon giving the wrong answer, they will be beheaded immediately.

 

So, it happens that the color sequence of apples from the tallest guy to the shortest guy is: red, green, red. And the middle person, upon some hesitation, figured out the color of the apple above his head and was freed immediately. He did not simply guess the answer, he was absolutely 101% sure of the color of the apple above his head.

 

How the hell did he figure out?

 

 

Puzzle 3 - difficulty ****

 

There are 2 rooms, one is filled with traps, tigers, scopions, snakes - after you go in most probably you will never come out again; the other is filled riches and treasures beyond your wildest imagination. We will label the rooms 'Good Room' and 'Bad Room' respectively. However, you don't know which is which.

 

Don't worry though, there are two persons in front of the two rooms to help you. BUT, there is a catch: one of them can only tell lies and one of them can only tell the truth, and as usual, you can't tell who is who.

 

You can only ask any ONE of them one question and ONE question ONLY. You die die want to get all the treasures in the Good Room. So the question is:

 

What question will you ask?

 

Hint: the question is phrase in such a way that it doesn't matter who you ask.

 

 

(I found out about Puzzle 3 on the net long time ago, but alas, I forgot the ask my colleagues...)

 

 

Oh btw, no answers will be given. I won't want to rob you of the joy you will have when you figure out the answers yourself. =)

 

 

Friday, June 23, 2006

Ramble ramble - In search of God

There is one line from the horoscope personality analysis in the last entry: Aquarians 'seek truth above all things'. I can't help but think of the discussion with my christian colleague today about the existence of God today. Frankly speaking, I'm a free-thinker, I've nothing against the existance of God. However, evidence and logic point (quite strongly, I would say) towards the non-existance of God (see here), so for the time being, I would remain a free-thinker.

 

Actually there is this argument by my colleague and a very good friend that may best prove that God exist, and that is the Healing Crusade, which shows that some pastors can actually heal seriously-ill people miraculously. If God doesn't exist, how did these miracles happened? Of course I don't have any good answers to this question. I do have a not so good answer though: the paster is a mutant with healing powers? (kidding =P) But being the 'seeker of truth' (aka skeptic) that I am, I won't believe in God unless I get cancer and is healed personally in the Healing Crusade.

 

Errr... But God, if You exist and being extremely benevolent, surely You won't let me ganna cancer to make me believe in You right? =P Afterall, it is You who give us the freedom to choose whether to believe in You or not, isn't it? And if I don't belive in You, it is not due to the lack of trying, really. If I'm not trying, there won't even be this entry! 

 

But the problem is: if You do not give me cancer (and heal me), I won't believe in You!

 

I think after I posted this entry, I'll be suffering like shit either in life or in hell if God exist. =(

 

Wait. I've a strange thought: From the above paragraph, the high probablilty that I'll suffer in life sooner or later (as most people will) proves that there is a high probability that God exist!!! And if I am going to suffer sooner or later, isn't it better to believe in God now?

 

(Hmmm... another question came into my mind: is suffering the main reason why people believe in God?)

 

But then, if God = suffering, how can I believe in Him??

 

 

P.S. This is just a random rambling of a 峰子,which was inspired by a conversation he had with his colleague this afternoon. I hope that my christian friends won't take offense in the things I wrote. I really meant no offense to anyone. Meanwhile I will welcome any attempts to convert me to christianity; philosophic discussion is always fun. 

 

P.P.S. The colleague told me that we are just like ants crawling on God's hand. Just like ants crawling on our hands don't know what we are thinking, we don't know that God is thinking. At that time I think she sounds quite 有道理. But in retrospect when I reached home, I found that I do know what I am thinking when ants are crawling on my hand...  The thoughts ain't too comforting for the ants =( 

 

Fiona, if you are reading this, what you gonna to say? =P

 

 

I imagine she will say,

 

"Go to hell ." =)

 

 

On the road to self discovery


Aquarius About Your Sign...


Aquarians basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding the considerable depths of their character under a cloak of frivolity. Both types are strong willed and forceful in their different ways and have strong convictions, though as they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions, however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-shallying as to which side to take. Consequently they are unprejudiced and tolerant of other points of view. This is because they can see the validity of the argument, even if they do not accept it themselves. They obey the Quaker exhortation to "Be open to truth, from whatever source it comes," and are prepared to learn from everyone.


Both types are humane, frank, serious minded, genial, refined, sometimes ethereal, and idealistic, though this last quality is tempered with a sensible practicality. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive, and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor.


They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically intuitive, so that the Age of Aquarius, which is about to begin, is much anticipated by psychic circles as an age in which mankind will experience a great spiritual awakening. The Aquarian philosophical and spiritual bent may be dangerous in that it can drive the subjects into an ivory-tower existence where they meditate on abstractions that bear little relevance to life. On the other hand it can help the many who have scientific leanings to combine these with the Aquarian yearning for the universal recognition of the brotherhood of man, and to embark on scientific research to fulfill their philanthropic ideals of benefiting mankind. When some cause or work of this nature inspires them, they are capable of such devotion to it that they may drive themselves to the point of exhaustion and even risk injuring their health.


Both types need to retire from the world at times and to become temporary loners. They appreciate opportunities for meditation or, if they are religious, of retreats. Even in company they are fiercely independent, refusing to follow the crowd. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms. Normally they have good taste in drama, music and art, and are also gifted in the arts, especially drama.


In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian, and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily. They sometimes appear to condescend to others and take too little trouble to cultivate the acquaintance of people who do not particularly appeal to them. They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are sometimes accounted cold. But once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or lovers, ready to sacrifice everything for their partners and be faithful to them for life. However, they are sometimes disappointed emotionally because their own high personal ideals cause them to demand more of others than is reasonable. And if they are deceived their anger is terrible. If disillusioned, they do not forgive.


Aquarians work best in group projects, provided that they are recognized as having a leading part in them. They have a feeling of unity with nature and a desire for knowledge and truth that makes them admirable scientists, especially astronomers and natural historians. They may excel in photography, radiography, electronics - anything connected with the electrical and radio industries - aviation and everything technical. On the arts and humanities side their progressive tendencies can be expressed in writing, especially poetry, and broadcasting, or as welfare workers and teachers. Some have gifts as entertainers and make good character actors (having an ability to mimic) and musicians. The more psychic among them possess healing gifts, especially in curing the mentally sick.


Among the faults to which they are liable are fanatical eccentricity, wayward egotism, excessive detachment and an inclination to retreat from life and society, and a tendency to be extremely dogmatic in their opinions. Aquarians can be a threat to all they survey or a great boon for humanity in general. Circumstances - for example, continuous opposition to a cause they hold dear - may cause the atrophy of the openness of mind that is one of the Aquarian's most attractive traits. They may express a lack of integrity in broken promises, secretiveness or cunning. Simmering anger and resentment, rudeness or, worse, a tense, threatening silence which may suddenly burst out in eruptions of extreme temper, these are all part of the negative side of the Aquarian. This can also reveal itself in a sustained hatred for enemies that is capable of enlarging itself into a misanthropy toward the whole of mankind.


 


http://www.astrology-online.com/aquarius.htm


 


Those in bold is quite true for me, I think.


 


 

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Work

My workplace is only five bus stops and one MRT station away from my house. That is the good news. However, I need to take a bus, change another bus, change to MRT, and in total, take about 1.5 hours to reach my work place in Expo from the moment I step out of my house. That is the bad new. Luckily, that is the only bad news. Phew.

 

Basically what I am doing is to register those who came to the exhibition and print out their passes, together with about fifteen others. And the number of people coming to the exhibition after the first day are, well, let just say I am quite free after the first day morning. =P

 

The job would be extremely boring if not for the fact that I was surrounded by my fellow hall mates, and some interesting new friends I made during the course of my work. We entertained each other by talking cock, asking qian bian questions and playing puzzle games. Though the work is quite tiring (sitting there for hours is actually quite tiring, in fact, now is only 10.25 pm but I wanted to sleep liao), I must say I kinda enjoyed myself.

 

Tomorrow is the last day of work. Glad that I finally can get to sleep at 3+ and wake up at 9+ once more. =)

 

 

Monday, June 19, 2006

Think out of the box

But once you think out of the box, the thing you think become the box. No wonder there is a saying: 'Think without the box.'

 

Kinda hard, though.

 

 

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Recommendations

Watched countless shows recently, movies in cinema, movies on tv, rented movies, variety shows etc. Some recommendations for ya if you are very bored nowadays, if you haven't watch my recommendations before, if you have a movie rental near your house, or if you can download anything you want from the net. 

 

Old movies (all > 4 stars)

 

Pirates of the Caribbean -

Watched before in theatre, but rented again for my dad to see, and it is still as good. Part 2 coming soon.

 

SWAT - Same as above.

 

Shutter - Recommendation from one of my FOC's bosses. Not scary, but the twists are good.

 

三更 - First 2 parts are crap. But the third part by 陈可辛 is superb.

 

Lord of War -

Watched it long before exam. But still want to recommend it here. It's about an arms dealer trying to make a living. Is he right, or is he wrong?

 

 

Variety show

Love Letter -

Korean match making show for its celebraties, full of handsome guys pretty gals, and it's damn funny. I only got a few episodes, if you know where to download tell me!

 

Drama

Prison Break -

It is about a genius younger brother going into the prison helping his innocent elder brother break out of it. At the same time friends outside trying to expose a big conspiracy about US Vice President. Very exciting.

 

Currently showing

Over the Hedge - I repeat: MUST SEE!

 

X-Men -

Ok lah, if you are fans, you would have watched it. If you are not, watch it if you are free.

 

 

That's all folks. =)

Thursday, June 8, 2006

Theory of a Good Ghost Walk

Finally my design and innovation project is over. Now the only things for me to do is play games, write ghost walk script (in our hall we called it mystery walk), play games and play games... Actually now I'm kinda sick of play games, so now only left writing ghost walk script. =P

 

Hmmm... Seems that I've been writing the script for ghost walk for months now and yet nothing has come out of it. Well well, writing a good ghost walk story is not easy business. Let me share with you guys the 'Good Ghost Walk' theory - my idea of a good ghost walk.

 

Firstly, a ghost walk is a... ghost walk. It is not (just) a ghost story or a ghost movie. The people are going through this. So, what does this means? It means there's opportunity for the 'walkers' to interact with the things and characters, unlike the audience of a horror movie. And this is the key - INTERACTIVITY.

 

For example, a typical ghost walk in NTU is about a murder, and the walkers are required to solve the murder. Well, there are interactivity, true. The walkers have to talk to the characters/ ghosts to get clues. But in my opinion, this kind of ghost walk is a under-usage of the opportunity for interactivity provided by a ghost walk. You either solve or didn't solve the murder, but nothing has changed. The murder happened.

 

However I was thinking, why not make the walkers part of the characters in the story? Why not if they solve or do something, the murder won't happen?? Multiple endings will be a good idea.

 

Secondly, a ghost walk must be scary. Let me ask a question: You see a ghost going to murder someone else who you don't know scarier? Or you see a ghost going to murder you (or your friends who are going through the walk with you) scarier? This is the second key - IMMERSITY

 

Thirdly, I found a problem with traditional murder mystery ghost walks. There is one killer, there is one victim, so there is supposedly only one ghost. Why the hell when I walk the walk I saw so many ghosts poping out from nowhere? WTF?! It is not LOGICAL! And talking about being logical, unless you can write as good as 佐藤文也  (金田一 's author), there is no point writing detective/ murder story for your ghost walk. (And I can't write as well as him.)

 

Lastly, another question: which is the scariest? A) a killer B) the ghost of a victim or C) a evil spirit/ demon which has already killed alot of people. Lets think about the protagonist in a very very scary horror movie you have watched. 真子 came to your mind?

 

With these ideas in mind I wrote a script that is, I won't say revolutionary, but I would say it's different. So I took my scripts and let my friends read, and they gave lots of constructive comments, like I failed make my story for suitable for local audience by writing about demon - LOCALITY. And the script kinda lack emotions - ya know, when people kill another people there's lots of emotions involved, but since my story is about demon... I more or less didn't emphacize too much on the HUMAN FACTORS. I admit these are good comments, and I will make changes accordingly. 

 

However what makes me abit 心灰意冷 is that got people wants me to cut down on what they called Game elements (which is actually increased Interactivity) and die die want one ending instead of multiple endings. Then they told me there is a reason why typical ghost walks remain as what they are. Then there is another group of friends that tell me that a ghost walk being scary is all that matters. People don't heck care about the story.

 

Well, all I can say is, different people have different ideologies for what constitude a good ghost walk. I can't possibly reconcile everyone's wishes, though I'll try my best, really. Actually I don't mind people don't like my story, but if people don't like my style, I must say there're some ideas I don't wish to compromise. If I'm going to do it, I am going to try out my ideas.

 

If not, I'm not going to do it.

 

 

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Over The Hedge

If you looking for a good laugh, watch Over The Hedge!!! 5 stars! Highly recommended! =)

 

 

Friday, May 19, 2006

This week

Recently I discovered a very very very horrible fact -

 

I can't button up my pants anymore!!!

 

Arghhh... I highly suspect this is the result of me sitting an average 16 hours a day in front of books and computer for the past two years (the other 8 hours I'm sleeping). And this is bad. So I decided that some extreme measures are needed... I've decided to tag along my neighbours for basketball and soccer session the next time they go... both sports I haven't played for years until last monday, which I would say is fun and tiring.

 

Did a little part time this week, and its the most interesting job I ever did. Basically you are supposed to use a little eduacational software which teaches complex systems (the ideas behind chaos theory) and give them feedback. The first time I'm paid for studying! And they are very interesting subjects woh - eg. how ants search for food, how traffic jams are formed without accident whatsoever, the fluctuating relationship between predator and prey, dynamic actions vs event actions, decentralisd vs centralised control, feedack, self organization etc etc...

 

So, does a traffic jam move forwards or backwards?

 

The answer is backwards. The explanation 说来话长, so I won't write here le.

 

Then went for a little walk after dinner last night until 12am. Looking for all the dark places in NTU. Frankly speaking, we discovered quite a few good spots, hehehe...

 

What else did I do last week? Hmmm... went to watch an art house film L'enfant (The Child) at cathay picture house. Lian He Zao Bao gave a whooping 4 stars to this movie. All I can say is, none of you reading this blog, I emphazise, none of you here will like this movie, unless you like the MOST art house of the art house films. Haha the movie is not bad lah. To me, no movies are bad. There are only three kinds of movie: Highly interesting, mediocre and highly uninteresting. And sometimes, strangely, watching movies at the very extreme end of the spectrum can be quite interesting also.

 

But this is not something you would want to do everyday of course. =)

 

Lastly, besides all the above, the rest of the time I spent doing data entry for my project, play DOTA, play Heroes 5, write mystery walk, play DOTA, play Heroes 5 etc etc...

 

Canoeing one whole day this sunday. It is going to be another xiong day again... Hopefully I can button up my pants after sunday. =P

 

 

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Holidays

Quoridor, Dungeons and Dragons board game, DOTA, Ghost in the Shell, Swimming, Mystery Walk writing, Retail Therapy, Movies (MI3, 小孩不笨), Coffee Bean, Stephen King, DIP project, etc etc...    

 

 

No time to feng yan feng yu at all...

 

 

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

JJ outing

Had an outing with my 姐妹 (minus 姐) 们 yesterday - dim sum buffet plus Settlers. Hmm everytime go out with them very stress one, they will judge whether you are gentleman or not. Liddat I want to jiak jua oso cannot... sianz... Luckily from their blogs can see that I passed with flying colors, hehe =P (Thanks for the good comments!)

 

Then there's this topic that will be brought up without fail every single time by my 'caring' sisters - "when will we get a dao sao?" Imagine I heard the same question for 6 years since we (have the misfortune to)  know each other liao. Argh! Cannot take it le! Next time I will 乾坤大挪移 the topic to... 小妹 ! (Now your 大姐 and 三姐 pang4 seh1 you, you cannot use the 'da ge must get attached 1st then sisters then can get attached ' defense le =P)  *evil laugh* Watch out man!

 

But all in all we had lots of fun and laughter during our short gathering, except maybe when the conversation goes something like this:

 

Sis: When your exams end?

Me: Friday.

Sis: Mine Saturday, 迟你一天 =)

Me: (Hehe NUS still got pple later then me? Sure anot?) Mine this coming friday leh.

Sis: Oh! Mine is last Saturday. =)

Me: ......  

 

 

And this happened not once but twice lor... Haiz... I think I betta go study le...

 

PS. Come to think of it, lucky they din let us play Snakes and Ladders =P 

 

 

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Interesting sites

1. Hapland! Crack your head over it ba! (But it's definitely solvable, unlike Hapland 2...)

 

2. Mansion Impossible - a game for future real estate investor. High score: 15 years 5 months

 

3. Da Chang Jin flash movie. Cock dao siao!

 

4. Click here - Haha! Make one for your friends too! Jus change the name at the URL.

 

 

For the extremely bored.

 

 

Tommyknockers

Have been reading novels by the horror master Stephen King to get ideas for my hall FOC ghost walk. Just finished reading Tommyknockers. An extremely good read, and getting very exciting 1/3 into the book. Exam period didn't stop me from finishing the 5.5 cm thick book within one week. Basically it's about the discovery of an ancient alien artifact that changes the entire fabric of the town. There's one sentence from the book that is quite interesting, and it goes something like this:

 

"We always assume that the alien is alive in an alien invasion. It never occur to us that alien invasion can also happen when the alien is dead."

 

Tommyknockers and It  are two very good stories by Stephen King. Highly recommended.

 

 

Monday, April 24, 2006

The Simpsons Personality Test

 


 







You Are Barney


 


You could have been an intellectual leader...

Instead, your whole life is an homage to beer

You will be remembered for: your beautiful singing voice and your burps

Your life philosophy: "There's nothing like beer to give you that inflated sense of self-esteem."


 



 

Haha! I'll be an alcoholic next time!

 

 

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Prediction

EE2003 - B

EE2004 - B+

EE3002 - B

EE2005 - C+

EE2002 - D

EE2007 - C

 

This is bad...

 

 

*** Months Later ***

 

In the end I got ABBCCC. Slightly better than the worst case scenario I anticipated, but after this single exam my total number of Cs increased by a whooping 4 times! This is very bad. I guess neglecting 4 weeks of tutorials to play World of Warcraft was a very bad move. Better buck up, if not I can't get even a second upper...

 

 

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

EE3002

God damned me for not going lectures!

 

Just 5 minutes before entering the examination hall, I overheard the guy sitting beside me saying "this one surrre come out one..." Out of curiousity, i turned around and peep at his lecture notes. At that time I thought to myself:

 

'Wah liew, the diagram like never seen before one leh, he must be taking different paper from me lah. Won't so heng one ...' 

 

(*My examination hall is the venue of more than 2 different exam papers.) 

 

So I went into the examination hall thinking nothing about it... until I saw the first part of the last question.

 

Now it seems very familiar...

 

 

That freaking question costed ELEVEN marks! 

 

 

Arghhh!!!

 

 

Morale of the story:

 

REMEMBER to ask your friends (who go lectures) for tips before exams!

 

 

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Together In Electric Dreams

Giorgio moroder / phil oakey

I only knew you for a while
I never saw your smile
’til it was time to go
Time to go away (time to go away)
Sometimes it’s hard to recognise
Love comes as a surprise
And it’s too late
It’s just too late to stay
Too late to stay

We`ll always be together
However far it seems
(love never ends)
We`ll always be together
Together in electric dreams

Because the friendship that you gave
Has taught me to be brave
No matter where I go i`ll never find a better prize
(find a better prize)
Though you’re miles and miles away
I see you every day I don’t have to try
I just close my eyes, I close my eyes

We’ll always be together
However far it seems
(love never ends)
We’ll always be together
Together in electric dreams

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Sunday

This morning when I opened newspaper, I saw the first FIVE stars movie review I ever saw on Zao Bao - The Producers . Wondering what the story is about, planning to watch it 2 weekends later, and hoping it's not another Brokeback Mountain. Inside Man also not bad - 4 stars... The week after?

 

My dad's Honda Civic was 'langa'ed at the back by another car, so he brought back a temporary Toyota equivalent, and I got a chance to test drive it. Here's the comparision:

 


  1. Corolla's pick up is faster and more powerful (Honda's VTEC engine is better at high speed, say >100kph, though).

  2. Its suspensions are softer*.

  3. Its tyres are quieter (fiction lesser also).

  4. Its turning radius is smaller. 

  5. Its steering is harder.

All in all I like my dad's Civic better - it looks sleeker. 

 

(*Suspension softer means it's more comfortable crossing humps but you can't go too fast during cornering - unless you want the person in the back seat to slide from one side to another.)       

 

Afternoon studied in Shaw Tower's Starbucks. Normally it's a nice and quiet place to study, sipping Mocha Frappuccino at the same time. But today got a boy and a girl talking at the table behind me and their conversation is projected to me very clearly due to the structure of the shop... and I can't help but listened. 

 

The way they talked chinese seems very familiar (almost perfect Singaporean chinese), and I continued to 'eavedrop'... They were discussing about benzene (hmm... chem students?), then about teacher teaching 红楼梦 until they fall asleep (红楼梦?  X老师?) and blah blah blah until they finally revealed they were from TJ studying LEP. Makes me think of the good old JC days with my LEP classmates. My classmates also talked like them in JC...

 

In the evening, while I was shopping in NTUC, the radio station broadcasted the song Together in Electric Dreams...

 

I almost forgot the dance steps.

 

Foward together, back together, left together, right together...

 

 

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Year 4 Specialization

The descriptions 粗心大意不拘小节, 讨厌琐碎事 somehow doesn't equate to (or is it 'relate' or 'associate'?) to a Nano-Engineer leh.

 

Heck lah. Who cares??

 

明知山有虎,偏向虎山行。

 

Anwz now worry about exams first. Better go study now.

 

继续往牛角尖的那个 atom 钻去 ...

 

 

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Birthday Horoscope

Very inaccurate.

 

It's hard to find such an inaccurate horoscope you know. Feel free to take a look. =)

 


 










 


1月21日 先锋者


在1月21日出生的人,总是以迈向巅峰为目标,一旦达到目标后,也都会知道该如何保持在巅峰状态。然而,在他们真正了解自己的野心之前,可能已经承受了许多无可名状的挫折。这些人可以说是具有巨大驱策力的坚毅个体,不过在他们失去方向的时候,本性中喜欢玩乐的一面就会浮现,转而滨管他们的时间与精力。在这天出生的人,如果可以整合内在的双重个性,就会成为其中的佼佼者。然而,许多在这天出生的人,就像钟摆一样周而复始地,在轻松与紧张的状态之间摆荡,似乎很难在两者之间取得平衡。

今天出生的人无论男妇,早晚都会涌丙领导的欲望。一旦他们在自己所选择的领域中成功地到达颠峰,再要他们放弃,可就非常困难了。即使是陷于与自己的兴趣相违背、健康状态每况愈下、年华老去、甚至工作本身没什么乐趣的情况下,都还是无法让他们放弃自己既有的地位。如果他们真的从赖以本身的高枝上走下来,通常都是由于内心喜爱玩乐的本性,缓和了咄咄逼人的竞争本质所致。


大部分在这天出生的人,并不适合作长期的领导人,因为他们缺乏领导人所必备的冷酷与内在权威。这样的人也不适合从事高度政治化或独裁化的职业,真正适合他们的,是那些可以在才能和技术上不断精进而达到最佳状态的事业生涯。


在1月21日出生的人拥有浓厚的明星气质,总是不断吸引别人接近。他们不仅在工作领域中领导潮流,在社交生活中,也同样独领风骚。同时,因为他们在待人接物上的手腕特别高明,只要一提出看法或建议,通常都具有高度的说服力。


在这天出生、且在社会上居处高位的人,通常都具有平易近人的共同特质,因此得以融入各行各业的每个阶层之中。他们令人激奋、多彩多姿又热情奔放的天性,形成了令人难以抗拒的性感魅力。但是这样的物质,往往也令他们背负着“负心”的罪名。在一些最好只是挥挥衣袖告别的情况下,却因为他们表现得过于关心,而伤害了有心人。不过,即使相遇的时间很短暂,大部分的朋友与爱人还是会对这样的邂逅无怨无悔,因为他们的魅力丰富了那段彼此共度的时光。


对于他们的公众生活,在这天出生的人是有些隐密,他们很少会让自己的公众生活与私生活混在一块。不论是温馨的家园或是安静的避风港,通常只为少数经过特许的人敞开大门。他们最大的总是可能是考虑自己真正想要从生命中获得什么。在人生目标确定之前,他们就像萤火虫一般,此出彼没,四处飘荡。


塔罗牌
大秘仪塔罗牌的第21张是“世界”,牌面上有一位女神手持权杖在奔跑,她拥有无尽的力量,穿越全世界以展示真理。这张牌表示,在这个星球上没有什么是得不到的。这张牌正立时的解释是报酬优厚、人格正直;牌面倒立时则指出巨大的障碍、精神涣散以及自怜的性格。

静思语
在当下将力量集中于内在,经由不断的练习,准备在必要时往前迈时的能力。

优点
具吸引力、多彩多姿、开朗。

缺点
犹疑不决、耽于逸乐、容易伤害人。


 


 

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

I am studying...

Just discovered that studying in a empty Lecture Theatre while talking cock with 3 friends and listening to baroque music (not mine though) through the LT's surround sound system in the middle of the night can be so enjoying. Peace.

 

 

Monday, April 3, 2006

What Do People Envy About You?

 


 








People Envy Your Ingenuity



You're a person with unique ideas, big plans, and a zany outlook on life. Many people look to you for inspiration. People envy your creativity and "who cares?" attitude. They feel very ordinary next to you - and they usually are!


 


 

Sure or not??

 

 

Oh no!

According to our research, you'll be dead by




December 2060
at age 78


- probable cause -





cancer















YOU DIE:  78.0 years
AVERAGE MALE LIFE SPAN:  72.5 years


As you can plainly see, you have more health & vitality than the average man.






























WHY YOU DIE?
56% cancer
24% car accident
13% loneliness
5% drowning of the lungs
2% wounds







You have 19985.3 days left on this earth.
You've already lived 30% of your life.

 


http://www.okcupid.com/death


 


Sianz... I've already live 30% of my life. Better don't believe. What if it's a self-fulfilling prophesy??


 


 

Today's song

If you listen to 933, you will know that there's a new song by some unknown singer with the same title - 好了歌. Maybe you would like to listen to this song which was composed by my favourite lyricist 梁文福 years and years ago and compare which one is better?

 

Anwz the original 好了歌 is a zen-philosopy 词 by 跛足道人 in 《红楼梦》. Brings back memories of the JC days where we study《红楼梦》until we almost commit suicide. Dedicate the song to my JC classmates and those who read the Red Chamber before.   

 

 

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Campus Super Star

If you ask me where my loyalty lies, this:

 

            Or this:               

 

Given that both contestants are equally good, I'll hesitate a while before saying that...

I'll OF COURSE support one from my school rather than a sweet looking girl lah!

 

(despite the fact that I hesitated for a while. =P)  


Good job Zhiyang! You've done us proud!

 

(Hmmm... I won't put your picture here. I don't want to see you everytime I come to my blog =)


 


 


PS. Teressa, though you lost, you did a good job too! All the best!

PPS. I can't find the old HwaChong logo anywhere on the net already... Haiz...

 

(I used the one in friendster)