Optimist or Pessimist

A short test to see if you are a optimist or a pessimist:

 

Imagine you took a quiz that weighs 15% of the total marks of that module and you got half of the answers correct. Would you think:

 

A. Yeah! I already have 7.5 marks out of a total of 100!

 

B. Argh! I've already lost 7.5 marks out of a total of 100... =(

 

 

If you chose B, you are a pessimist. If you chose A, go on to the next part.

 

 

Now to test if you are a very optimistc optismist:

 

Imagine you took a quiz that weighs 15% of the total marks of that module and you got one-quarter of the answers correct. Would you think:

 

A. Yeah! I already have about 4 marks out of a total of 100!

 

B. Argh! I've already lost about 11 marks out of a total of 100... =(

 

 

If you chose B, you are normal. If you chose A, you are a very optimistc optismist.

 

 

PS. I think I'm a very optimistic optismist...

 

 

 

'Nice' song

WAIT!!!

Don't exit this page before you listen to this interesting song! Press the play  button!

 

I've bought the album by Butak Pantai (at esplanade)!  It has been a long time since I bought a CD.  It has been a longer time since I bought a $20 CD. But well, I think it's worth it (anw so what if it's not? As I said, it has been such a LONG time since I bought a CD =P), despite a little controversy it brought when I was playing it in my hostel room. (My roomie almost go crazy!) 

 

I strongly recommend that you listen to this song (to see if you go crazy too! =P). I personally feel that it's funny (listen what they say!), creative and nice. However, if you are weak-hearted, feel free to press the stop button. (But I'm sure you won't right? =)

 

Don't worry if it's making you crazy. I'll only put it up for 3 days before I change to another 'nice' song. Hee...

 

 

NERD, a cok story

在很久很久以前，有一个 49% nerd 住在断前湖湖边。有一天，在那个nerd 钓鱼的时候，他遇见一个姓Boo 的Chiobu。她说：“Hi, I'm Boo... ChioBoo。” Chioboo 接着说：“你这个nerd 没师父指点也能到49% 的境界，真是百年难得一见的人才。好，我决定收你为徒。”就这样，Nerd 拜了 ChioBoo 为师。于是，ChioBoo 把她的绝世武功传授给他: 降书十八读第一式 -- 见书在床 ...

 

转眼，18年过了。Nerd 已经把降书十八读里的十八式给学完，变成200% nerd, aka Nerd 中之Nerd。他决定去浪迹天涯。可是Nerd 万万没想到，他一离开断前湖，就碰到他的arch enemy - 令人闻风丧胆，人见人恨的。。。搞事 (aka Xam)。搞事是个武功高强的恶霸，喜欢惹事生非。这天他看到 Nerd 经过便说：“Siao eh, 你要去那里? Nerd 抬起头看见搞事回答说：“I beg your pardon? Nim bei 在读书，没听到你在讲什么。”搞事chua4 dio3, 从来没人敢这样跟他讲话。 于是他说了“Soli soli” 就逃走了。从此，Nerd live happily ever after.

 

 

THE END

 

  

 

 

 

 Acknowledgement: This story is inspired by ChioBoo's msn nick.

 

PS. This is just an experiment on one of the usages of msn nick I thought up with - writing a story with msn nick. Expanding on this idea, how about a lot of people, each contribute a sentence, writing on the same story?? May be a mystery or a puzzle ha? Food for thought... 

 

 

I'm a visionary

 

 

You Are a Visionary Soul

You are a curious person, always in a state of awareness. Connected to all things spiritual, you are very connected to your soul. You are wise and bright: able to reason and be reasonable. Occasionally, you get quite depressed and have dark feelings. You have great vision and can be very insightful. In fact, you are often profound in a way that surprises yourself. Visionary souls like you can be the best type of friend. You are intuitive, understanding, sympathetic, and a good healer. Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker Soul

 

http://blogthings.com/whatkindofsoulareyouquiz/

 

 

Draw a house

Come come, take the personality test. Unleash the artist in you!
http://www.drawahouse.com/takethetest/index.asp?street=cc57afae2deb529eae32af21550c1fb0

 

My houses:

 

  

 

 

 
To view my street just visit: http://www.drawahouse.com/streets/Creative-Street/

 

 

A tiny drop of music...

...has been dissolved into this blog.

 

This has been something I wanted to do for a long time. Please feel free to enjoy the relaxing melody of *Bassa Nova music by pressing the little Play button on the left side of the page. The song is called Girl from Ipanema , by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto.

 

*Bassa Nova definition -

 

A style of music developed in the south east of Brazil that merges samba rhythms with jazz-influenced harmonies and melodies.

 

 

Anwz recently a programme in Yes 933 introduced the songs of a local a cappella group call Budak Pantai, which I found is quite interesting and creative. What these musicians do is that they "give songs an extreme makeover... often with hilarious results." This is their website, you can check up the soundclips there. Songs I found quite nice there are Ai Hen Jian Dan , All Rice , The Log Cake Song  and Sar Tan.

 

There are two songs I like a lot: Yi Bei Cha  and Tribute to Titanic . But too bad it's either too short or not included in the soundchips. But nevermind, I'll put them here once I bought the album. =)

 

 

   

Magicians

(For my own record purpose)

 

Jean Eugene Robert Houdin (1805-1871) - Father of Modern Magic

 

Alexander Herrmann (1843-1896)

Joseph Buatier De Kolta (1848-1903) - magician + tricks seller

 

John Nevil Maskelyne (1939-1917) - Keller's rival

Harry Kellar (1849-1922) - Maskelyne's rival

 

David Devant (1868-1941) - Maskelyne's partner

Howard Thurston (1869-1936) - Kellar's successor

 

Charles Morrit (1860-1936) - Houdini's friend

Harry Houdini (1874-1926)

 

PT Selbit (1881-1938) - invented Sawing the Lady

Guy Jarrett (1881-1972)

 

Source: Hidding the Elephant - How Magician Invented the Impossible  by Jim Steinmeyer

 

 

 

My element is Gust (wind)

Gust ~ 44% Water ~ 70% Wind ~ 44% Earth ~ 55% Fire ~

I want to live where the sky is big Simple and free...   Let's see... your personality reminds me of the... ...cool Sapphire, the non-red corundum, or its little brother, the Blue Topaz. Your colours are azure, indigo, and a bright yellow or gold. Interpretation: Out of the seven chakras, the Throat Chakra, which is associated with the element of wind and represents our desire to learn and communicate, seems to be predominant in you. Though this means you are probably the smartest one among your friends, it may result in feeling stressed or nervous or becoming too much of a perfectionist. You can balance it by wearing a Rose Quartz; its soothing attributes help unwind, enable you to "love thyself", and accept limitations. A Tarot references concerning your predominant element: If you are a young lass or lad and still unmarried your card is the Page of Swords. Young women, especially married ones, identify with the Queen of Swords, also known as the Queen of Spades. If you are a young, unmarried man, you are the Knight of Swords, and married or mature males are identified with the King of Sword, commonly known as the King of Spades. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your intelligent man you've been looking for. These are the results you will get if you score highly on... None of the four elements: Balance Wind: Gust Fire: Blaze Water: River Earth: Valley Wind & Fire: Thunder Wind & Water: Clouds Wind & Earth: Canyon Fire & Earth: Lava Fire & Water: Tornado Water & Earth: Trees Wind, Fire & Earth: Storm Wind, Fire & Water: Stars Wind, Water & Earth: Forest Fire, Water & Earth: Avalanche All four elements: Harmony

Just as expected. Intercept too much wind le.   http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=5009339405940095754

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The most useless visitor tracker in the world - of the 3000 page views, I think 2900 is mine.

忙与盲

歌曲: 忙与盲      歌手: 黄立行

 

曾有一次晚餐和一张床
在什么时间地点和哪个对象
我已经遗忘我已经遗忘
生活是肥皂香水眼影唇膏
许多的电话在响
许多的事要备忘
许多的门与抽屉
开了要关关了又开如此的慌张
我来来往往我匆匆忙忙
从一个方向到另一个方向

忙忙忙忙忙忙
忙是为了自己的理想
还是为了不让别人失望

盲盲盲盲盲盲
盲得已经没有主张
盲得已经失去方向

忙忙忙盲盲盲
忙得分不清欢喜和忧伤
忙得没有时间痛苦一场

 

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I just read a friend's blog. I just realised

 

I am so busy that I forgot to watch HuangCheng.

My friends are so busy that they forgot to ask me to watch HuangCheng.

 

Well well...

 

 

MSN nick

“以古为镜，可以知兴荣。”

 

This is my friend's msn nick. My first reaction:

 

"Wah Kao!"

 

I think she never read my blog, so it doesn't matter. Anyway she's my JC CCA mate. She is a very good friend of mine, once. But we almost never contact each other any more. She has her own life, I have mine. I guess it's inevitable in all friendships. I am glad to know such a nice girl like her though. =)

 

However everytime I think of her I just can't help comparing between she and I. Heaven is so unfair.

 

She's very pretty. She's cultured. She knows dance, practices chinese calligraphy etc etc. (Note: even our president also practice calligraphy.) She has a boyfriend. She's about to graduate if not graduated already. She joined PAP. She can think of such a chim nick. She is not from LEP, that means chinese is not her strongest forte. (In fact I won't be surprised if any of my LEP friends have this nick.) She has a bright future.

 

 

(And she's typical of most of my female JC friends from my batch.)

 

I'm not pretty. (I didn't say I'm not handsome though.) I'm not very cultured. I know how to scold bad words, and stop practicing calligrapgy years ago. A girlfriend don't have me. I have still a long way to graduation. I joined SLP. I can never think of a chim nick. I only know 天将降大任于斯人也， 必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身。And it is too long to be a nick. I studied A level higher chinese, yet my chinese also buay zai, england no nit to say le. Lastly, if I "以古为镜", I can foresee I will do tutorials until I die.

 

Haiz... Life... Sianz....

 

 

See stars

Look at this formula that appears in my lecture notes:

 

i_D = I_D - i_d

Somehow I just can't help but feel du lan.  I find it hard even to compare whether it is the same formula as this:

 

i_d = i_D - I_D

 

Is it the same??

 

 

A new look

Just discovered this fiery theme and I think it looks very nice. Therefore I'll keep it around for a while. In case you noticed, I've changed the title of my blog also. In case you never noticed, the old name was called 'Random Ramblings', which is quite cliche I think. So I've decided to change the title to an example of a random rambling - hence 'What are the Orcs?'. You guys don't know what it means right? It's ok, you are not alone. Me also dunno. As I've said, it's random and it's a rambling, so it doesn't necessarily need to mean anything. This also applies to the philosophy of my blog also -all the entries here are just ramblings (synonym: crap) and I guess this particular entry demostrate this very well.

 

But well, who care anwz?

 

Btw this fiery background can be associated with the very popular comic that  I'm reading now - Fire Phantom Patient Guy (loosely translated from 火影忍者), also known as Naruto. Heheh. Those who are interested can read it from this website:

 

http://manhua.fzdm.com/1/

 

Highly recommended... It's a 5 star comic man!

 

Here's another link to another: http://manhua.fzdm.com/7/

 

Nice comic also. Bleach.

 

That's all folks.

 

 

A cok nightmare

The background was the busiest city of China, Shanghai. Everywhere was full of people. It was a free and easy tour and I entered Shanghai's equivalent of MRT. The first strange thing I saw my dad and his colleague was squating on the train, concentrating on repairing something. (My dad was not a train technician, and definitely not in Shanghai.) I was surprised and walked happily to him. Then an announcement was made through the intercom:

 

"We'll be conducting a simulation of a terrorist bomb attack now. We want to know what is the reaction of people when the train is overturned. Participation is compulsory. Please do not worry, it's only a simulation."

 

The doors went shut. 

 

'Wah lan eh, na beh so suay!!! '  is my first reaction. I quickly braced myself against the overturn of train by leaning with my back against side of the train. Luckily there's no one else on the opposite side so no one will fall on top of me when the train overturns.

 

Suddenly there are 2 cars driving into the train and stop right in front of me! Then the train starts to overturn...

 

ARGHHHHHHHHH.....

 

I woke up.

 

 

 

Anyone can decipher the dream??

 

(Hmmm... cock is forbidden to use as a title??)

 

 

 

Interesting Articles

10 Ways MMORPG Will Change the Future 

 

Gamer Manifesto

 

Top Ten Sci-Fi Film That Never Existed

 

The Suicide Guide

 

 

From: www.pointlesswasteoftime.com

 

 

The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Particle-antiparticle annihilation. Deuterium and helium production. Density perturbations. Recombination. Blackbody radiation. Local contraction. Cluster formation. Reionization? Violent relaxation. Virialization. Biased galaxy formation? Turbulent fragmentation. Contraction. Ionization. Compression. Opaque hydrogen. Massive star formation. Deuterium ignition. Hydrogen fusion. Hydrogen depletion. Core contraction. Envelope expansion. Helium fusion. Carbon, oxygen, and silicon fusion. Iron production. Implosion. Supernova explosion. Metals injection. Star formation. Supernova explosions. Star formation. Condensation. Planetesimal accretion. Planetary differentiation. Crust solidification. Volatile gas expulsion. Water condensation. Water dissociation. Ozone production. Ultraviolet absorption. Photosynthetic unicellular organisms. Oxidation. Mutation. Natural selection and evolution. Respiration. Cell differentiation. Sexual reproduction. Fossilization. Land exploration. Dinosaur extinction. Mammal expansion. Glaciation. Homo sapiens manifestation. Animal domestication. Food surplus production. Civilization! Innovation. Exploration. Religion. Warring nations. Empire creation and destruction. Exploration. Colonization. Taxation without representation. Revolution. Constitution. Election. Expansion. Industrialization. Rebellion. Emancipation Proclamation. Invention. Mass production. Urbanization. Immigration. World conflagration. League of Nations. Suffrage extension. Depression. World conflagration. Fission explosions. United Nations. Space exploration. Assassinations. Lunar excursions. Resignation. Computerization. World Trade Organization. Terrorism. Internet expansion. Reunification. Dissolution. World-Wide Web creation. Composition. Extrapolation?

Copyright 1996-1997 by Eric Schulman.

This piece was the inspiration for the book A Briefer History of Time and led to the Annals of Improbable Research Universal History Translation Project. Reprinted from the AIR, Volume III, Number 1, January/February 1997, page 27.

 

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/hist/histwiki.html

A quote from Kong Zi

A JC classmate told me this while we are chatting about how to improve one's charisma on the MSN:

 

“诚其心，正其意，修其身，齐其家，治其国，平其天下。”

 

Think about it...

 

 

A black device

Has been thinking/dreaming of inventing a small handheld device that can provide infinite knowledge/ideas/stimulations for the mind. I imagined it to be a 5cm black cubic lump of metal mass with a few buttons, and it is strange, magical and exotic. What can be the basis for such a device? 

 

Food for thought... Hmmm...

 

 

My Johari Window

Arena (known to self and others) friendly, happy, intelligent, introverted, quiet	Blind Spot (known only to others) able, accepting, adaptable, calm, caring, cheerful, clever, complex, confident, dependable, extroverted, giving, helpful, independent, ingenious, knowledgeable, logical, modest, organised, patient, reflective, relaxed, searching, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty
Façade (known only to self)	Unknown (known to nobody) bold, brave, dignified, energetic, idealistic, kind, loving, mature, nervous, observant, powerful, proud, religious, responsive, self-conscious, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense

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Dominant Traits

52% of people agree that Jiefeng is friendly

All Percentages

able (4%) accepting (9%) adaptable (4%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (28%) caring (4%) cheerful (14%) clever (28%) complex (4%) confident (4%) dependable (14%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (9%) friendly (52%) giving (4%) happy (14%) helpful (28%) idealistic (0%) independent (9%) ingenious (4%) intelligent (19%) introverted (9%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (23%) logical (23%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (4%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (19%) patient (38%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (19%) reflective (9%) relaxed (33%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (4%) self-assertive (4%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (14%) sentimental (9%) shy (14%) silly (4%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (23%) warm (9%) wise (4%) witty (9%)

 

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Description Breakdown (21 people)

Michelle Liang thinks: helpful, patient, shy, trustworthy, knowledgeable.
shuhui thinks: calm, clever, logical, sensible, introverted, helpful.
Song'en thinks: friendly, relaxed, logical, happy, accepting.
yv thinks: calm, friendly, shy, patient, relaxed.
Justin thinks: helpful, friendly, relaxed, independent, searching.
manda thinks: clever, friendly, dependable, helpful, relaxed.
denice thinks: calm, organised, dependable, sensible, knowledgeable, accepting.
Jienan thinks: helpful, clever, knowledgeable, able, relaxed, quiet.
jiamin thinks: patient, knowledgeable, calm, intelligent, logical, friendly.
Yi Hui thinks: witty, cheerful, caring, logical, clever.
jiahong thinks: ingenious, witty, trustworthy, friendly, knowledgeable, silly.
xiangbin thinks: relaxed, intelligent, cheerful, organised, shy.
weiling thinks: clever, calm, patient, modest, trustworthy.
xiao mei thinks: relaxed, helpful, organised, dependable, clever, friendly.
peifang thinks: cheerful, giving, trustworthy, intelligent, reflective.
Kim Sim thinks: extroverted, friendly, patient, sentimental, confident.
zhijian thinks: introverted, quiet, calm, independent, patient, complex.
CHRISTINA thinks: friendly, warm, trustworthy, organised, patient.
sheena thinks: intelligent, self-assertive, reflective, quiet, logical.
ny thinks: happy, quiet, patient, warm, wise, friendly.
HealthyG thinks: extroverted, sentimental, adaptable, friendly, sensible, happy.

 

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Conclusion

My most dominant characteristcs (other than friendly) are patient (38%) and relaxed (33%), followed by calm, clever, helpful (28%) and logical, knowledgeable, trustworthy (23%).

 

Not bad i guess, and quite true also. I must be really relaxed and calm in order to stack my undone tutorials until so high. =P 

 

 

Mage

This guy has occupied most of my time for the past 2-3 month. But it's time to say goodbye. Farewell my little level 45 mage in the World of Warcraft, for now.

 

 

Horoscope

Aquarius, AB+, Dog

性情多变，直觉敏锐，但与人不能友好相处。 水瓶AB型的人很会察言观色，分析市场能力强，直觉敏锐，是做生意赚大钱的好苗子，但属狗虽然诚实，与人的合作关系却比较差，不善于处理好人际关系，生意场中也时常会出现一些分歧，通常都会不欢而散。 不过，直觉灵敏的市场分析让你在生意场中也站有一席之地，你的诚恳也让生意场中的伙伴感到信任。 如果与人相处上能稍微改变一下自己的态度，能与生意中的伙伴做到更友好地相处，那么生意就会越做越大，钱财也就会越来越多。       速配：水瓶座，A型血，属鸡   http://astro.lady.tom.com

Birthday

If there's any friends who wants to wish me Happy Belated Birthday, you can do so here. =)

 

Anwz, I had a kind of 'strange' birthday yesterday (21 Jan). A long long never contact JC classmate of mine suddenly suddenly called up and asked me to do a transaction with his friend at Woodlands MRT station. He told me that the transaction involve exchanging a bag of some ink cartridges, a hp, some dunno wat and some money with some bags of textbooks, a camera and many dunno wat.

 

A question mark immediately pop right up my head: WTF??

 

Then he told me that he had some misunderstanding with this person, and then she lives near Woodlands, and I happened to live in Woodlands also, and that's why he asked for my help.

 

So I agreed to help him (since he's my friend, it is a 'she', and the whole thing sounds interesting), despite I was wondering whether he's asking me to smuggle drugs...

 

We met at the void deck before the 'operation', and he gave me my mission briefing.

 

The story goes like this: My friend and her, whose name is L, contacted each other using email. And he is a 'she' whose name is P in the email. Then it happens that  P (he) 'get' chicken pox recently. However P thought she is well enough to meet L, but it turns out that she is actually NOT well enough to meet her. So Me, who is P's brother, takes P's place and do the transaction for her last minute (and L doesn't know).

 

Then my friend let me see L photo and told me that she will be wearing yellow and waiting at the ticketing machines. Lastly he told me she doesn't speak chinese. (Sian diao...) 

 

Then I went to the train station carrying the goods, she's not here yet. So I sat down and waited and looked around... then I saw a girl standing a few metres away in front me, wearing yellow, carrying 3 bags of stuff, back facing me, looking at the train gates.

 

I thought to myself: It isn't very often that a girl wear yellow, carry 3 big bags and waiting for someone. This must be her.

 

(And I felt grateful that I am borned smart so that I can reach such a difficult-to-reach conclusion.) 

 

So I walked the shortest distance (straight) towards her and kind of 'pop' up right in front of her,

 

"Hi, are you L?"

 

First impression: She looked chio.

 

But she looked stunned too.

 

"Err yes..."

 

"I'm P's brother. She asked me to pass you these."

 

So we exchanged our goods and I left right away since I don't know what to say (bcoz my angmo buay siu). The whole transaction took less than a minute.

 

She still looked stunned even as I left.

 

I took the goods back to my friend who was waiting at my void deck. Then he left after checking the goods. Luckily it's not drug... And that's the end of the story, an interesting episode on my birthday. =P

 

 

Moral of the story: 

 

Never approach a chiobu from behind.

 

Or

 

Never approach an angmo-speaking chiobu when your angmo is buay siu.

 

 

Production

Quote from my previous entry:

 

"WHY IN HELL do I agree to join Production, which requires me to work like shit, burn my Sundays, yet still have to canvess (pay) $250, and sell 10 tickets? (This won't happen again.)"

 

Actually despite all my complaints, somehow or rather, I found that I've been joining productions throughout my school years since I first joined HuangCheng in JC. And the answer to the above question is...

 

... Everytime when I look back at the 3 productions I've joined, no matter what post I was in (J1 as Publicity Member, J2 as Publicity Leader, Uni Yr 1 as Props Member), I'll feel the deep sense of satisfaction of a job well done, even up til now.

 

And that's why I decided to help my cock roomie when he agreed to become the Props Master when he don't know anything about props. Props... Haha... I can still remember that when I first joined HuangCheng in JC, I first joined as Props... for ONE day, before I deflect to Publicity, after I found out how xiong Props is. To think now even though I know there's a shit hole in front of me, I still step right into the middle of it... not once, but twice! (Last year and this year =)

 

Now that we've found most of our props, it's not that stress anymore, and so it's ok now. And I was actually quite touched by some of the subcommers and producers and directors for actually helping us to find the stuff we need. 2 of the girls even carry empty boxes from as far as SRC back to hall to give us. This is the one thing you won't found in most other ECAs: a sense of commradeship - people helping each other to make the thing a success. If you guys (as in all my subcommers and producers and directors) are reading this, you have my most truely heartfelt thanks.

 

I hope that this year's hall production will be a success. And lastly, I got TEN tickets to sell (arghhh!), PLEASE BUY TICKETS FROM ME!

 

http://www.geocities.com/up2w/hall11production/

 

  

Bridge Theories

Law of Total Tricks (by Larry Cohen)

 

The total number of cards in opponents' suit and your partnership's suit =

The number of tricks you will make playing in your suit +

The number of tricks your opponent will make playing in their suit

 

Eg. If your opponents have 8 card fit in hearts and you have 9 card fit in spades,

 

the number of tricks your opponent will make playing in hearts + 

the number of tricks you will make playing in spades is 17

 

That means

if you make 10 playing in spades, opponent will make 7 playing in hearts,

if you make 9 playing in spades, opponent will make 8 playing in hearts and so on...

 

 

So how do we use this law? To be continued...

Questions

Some mysteries in life...

 

Why are there always more outings/gatherings in January than December?

 

Why do people (like me) who are busy in December always mistaken that they will be less busy in January?

 

Why do 1/12 of the people who are busy in January have their birthdays fall on the same month?

 

WHY IN HELL do I agree to join Production, which requires me to work like shit, burn my Sundays, yet still have to canvess (pay) $250, and sell 10 tickets? (This won't happen again.)

 

Since when do people in logistics do video?? (No way man.)

 

When will I realise that though friends are friends, there is a limit to the amount help I'm willing to rendered? (About now.)

 

Is playing computer games a way of escaping from reality? (I'm quite far away from reality now =)

 

Sianz...

 

 

Oxymoron

Thanks Chioboo for your concern! But I feel that feeling emotionless is better than feeling unhappy or stress...

 

Anwz, talking about oxymorons, I saw a friend's nick (advertisement for our hall bash) on the MSN -

 

Zouk this sat, $16 for 2 free drinks!! anyone?

 

Hmmmm...

 

Btw, school is starting this coming monday, everyone jiayou!

 

An interesting typical conversation that happened a few times last week -

 

Friend: Today you no lesson ah?

Me: This week I no lessons.

Friend: How come?

Me: This week no tutorial wat.

Friend: ......

 

Haha!

 

 

Bridge Scoring

 

DUPLICATE BRIDGE SCORING TABLE

If Trumps are:		Clubs	Diamonds	Hearts	Spades
For each odd trick bid and made:
Undoubled:		20	20	30	30
Doubled:		40	40	60	60
Redoubled:		80	80	120	120

AT A NO TRUMP CONTRACT:		Undoubled	Doubled	Redoubled
For the first odd trick bid and made:		40	80	160
For each additional trick:		30	60	120
A trick score of 100 points or more, made on one board, is GAME. A trick score of less than 100 points is a PART-SCORE

PREMIUM SCORE:			x
For making a Slam:		Not Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Small Slam bid and made:		500	750
Grand Slam bid and made:		1000	1500

OVERTRICKS:		x	x
For each Overtrick: *tricks made in excess of Contract		Not Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Undoubled:		Trick Value	Trick Value
Doubled:		100	200
Redoubled:		200	400

PREMIUMS FOR GAME / PART-SCORE FULFILLING CONTRACT:		x
For making GAME, vulnerable:		500
For making GAME, not vulnerable:		300
For making any PART-SCORE:		50
For making any doubled Contract:		50
For making any redoubled Contract:		100

UNDERTRICK PENALTIES: *Scored by Declarer's Opponents if the Contract is not fulfilled			x
**Not Vulnerable**:		Undoubled	Doubled	Redoubled
For each Undertrick:		50	100	200
For each additional Undertrick:		50	200	400
Bonus for the 4th and each additional Undertrick:		0	100	200

UNDERTRICK PENALTIES: *Scored by Declarer's Opponents if the Contract is not fulfilled		x
**Vulnerable**:	Undoubled	Doubled	Redoubled
For each Undertrick:	100	200	400
For each additional Undertrick:	100	300	600
Bonus for the 4th and each additional Undertrick:	0	0	0

 

Happy New Year!

Actually I've been feeling quite emotionless (hmmm... feel emotionless??) these days. New year? New year new year lor, what's there to be excited about?? Maybe I finally attained the state of Buddism's 'emptiness'. Anwz, if there is anything I want to wish for in year 2006...

 

1. Get more As to decorate my Bs in the upcoming sems, and no Cs please.


2. Me, my family and my friends stay healthy and happy. 

Has been thinking of my HC friends recently - classmates, seniors, juniors, angels, mortals, cca friends etc, esp those I haven't seen in a long long while... wondering how have they been. I guess I'm too lazy to call them up or to organise an outing or something. Hopefully we'll have a chance to meet during CNY eve. Anwz hereby I sincerely wish them to have a Happy New Year. Take care friends. =)

 

 

Butterfly Effect

A butterfly flapping its wings in South America can affect the weather in Singapore.

 

- Chaos Theory (paraphrased a bit by me =P)

 

Loitering around the VCD rental shop today, suddenly thought of one movie mentioned in my Chinese Cinema module that doesn't follow the Aristotelian narrative structure. So I rent the movie and watched it just now.

 

I was absolutely impressed. If you think Sixth Sense is good, Butterfly Effect is better. Highly recommended if you like story with a very good twist.

 

 

PS. Btw a story with Aristotelian narrative structure is simply a story with the following characteristics in order:

 

1. Introduction


2. Exposition


3. Development


4. Conflict


5. Climax


6. Resolution

Basically it's very very very hard to find a story WITHOUT Aristotelian narrative structure, especially a good one. Watch Butterfly Effect!

 

 

Holiday

Time ......... Gone.

 

What the hell have I been doing this holiday? Do you guys sometimes have the feeling that sometime time just past by without you doing anything meaningful? Have I been living my life in vain??

 

Better let me make a summary of what I did in the hols. (Roughly in chronological order)

 

1. Went KL and Genting. Tried paintball.


2. Did ACCA invilgilaton for 4 days.


3. Bridge trainings.


4. Assembled 2.5 Gundams. (The other 0.5 finish by today.)


5. Did $50 worth of data entry.


6. Lead my hall bridge team to win the fifth place. (Almost got a fourth. Lost to Song'en's team.)


7. Rejoicing my B of a kind exam results.


8. Bring my cousin's and their kids (from Malaysia) around Singapore. Science Center is a fun place. Damn shag playing with 3 kids for 4 days.


9. Assembled 3 Lego toys for my cousin's kids. (The suitable age on the toy box is not accurate.)


10. Watched 'The Promise' with my family. Everyone, please don't go and watch that show. Dunno what happened to Chen Kaige.


11. Won a Weiqi game in the Interhall Games. (Out of 4.)


12. Finding props for my hall production. (Who got airport chairs and park bench?? Help!)


13. Done one full day of stocktaking in Carrefour, Suntec.


14. Introduced to some new interesting award-winning board games from French. Quarto, Gobblet and Quoridor is particularly fun. www.familydiy.com


15. Trained my Mage in World of Warcraft to level 24. He ganna fatal error and died yesterday. RIP.


16. Plan timetable and registered subjects. Very satisfied with my timetable. No lessons in the mornings and on fridays... err... well, no tutorials actually.


17. Meet up with my HC ChiangDao CIP friends. Long time no see! Played Quarto with them. Fun!


18. Watched Wallace and Gromit. The penguin cartoon very funny. Overall ok. A bit boring in the beginning. 3 stars.

Seems like I've accomplished quite alot in this holidays... Hmmm...