tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100234772012-02-07T09:41:24.684+08:00This is my blog. Chock-full of random thoughts, as well as a (not-so-full-because-the-blogosphere-is-not-without-peril) chronicle of life, reflecting my often-disjointed and fractured state of mind.JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.comBlogger4131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-55601067209149165352011-05-08T04:04:00.000+08:002011-05-08T04:04:18.718+08:00

May 8, 2011, will be etched in the annals of Singapore history for it marked a watershed General Election, with a unprecedented 82 out of 87 seats contested, a younger electorate, ageing population, many issues contested, and for the first time, the massive (and generally clean) use of social media in campaigning. Results-wise, it was even more... impactful. The opposition Workers' Party have

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This is my second, and probably the last election rally I shall attend before polling starts and school begins in earnest. I went to the PAP rally back at Mountbatten to see what it was like, and compared it to NSP's in the same place. From my FB page: Comparing with NSP rally, also same place: Audience estimates 600-700 vs 1500-2000. Hardcore supporters: 50% vs 25-30%. PAP rally had heavier

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Once again, many things have happened since the last post. In greater detail today, I shall reflect upon my community service trip to Cambodia, as well as the first election rally that I have attended. On to Cambodia. Upon arrival, and our initial itineary (lunch at a restaurant, touring of shopping districts), I felt more like a tourist than someone who was out for social work. Especially since

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I have not blogged for two months. Earlier yesterday I handed in my last assignment for the trimester which stretched into the holidays... so I'm officially free now. Rushed out 2400 words' worth of nonsense, hopefully of enough quality to secure me a credit grade within approximately 72 hours, with most of my effort spent on the last 24. Anyway... I don't know what to blog about. Let my

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And so it has come to pass. One whole month - okay, 25 days to be exact, but yeah that's already being pedantic. As usual, most of my thoughts that I wanted to type in here have long since vanished, so I shall put in what is pertinent here. Firstly, is Chinese New Year: I don't know for you, but the magic has decreased significantly for me this year. I used to wake up to a feeling of euphoria on

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See, I've been too busy with work and going out and council business to actually tend to my little baby right here. As such, a lot of things I had to mind to blog about have once again left my mind. Well, what can I say? Council meetings have come, fast and furious, and we just pulled through with the first event of the year, our Movie Marathon Challenge 2011. Fine execution, although

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A couple of things made me rather happy and maybe a little wee bit emo over the past week. Firstly, starting off with the good things: Met up with some of my Air Rifle teammates for a quick dinner. Well, some of them are doing quite well now. Rhesa's doing his Final Year Project at NTU, Daniel's on a MOE scholarship to University College London, and Maryann... surprising "little" (no offense)

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Officially the first post of the new year. Had my faulty earphones replaced (the last one lasted 12 days, what the fuck?). And the new HP printer Dad brought back had a minor software issue though it could print and scan as advertised. Nevermind, I will perform the related checks manually. A little girl melted my heart though, because on my way home from Parkway Parade, I slowed down the car at

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Because I'm such a procrastinatory bastard, I'm actually writing this on the 3rd of January 2011. I meant to do it on the last day of 2010, but as I will explain later, I got too fatigued... So, on this last day of 2010 I'd actually like to look back on milestone events for the year in review, starting with January. While not commenting on them much, these were the stuff I blogged about, and felt

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Reading someone's blog got me back here to write on, something which I've wanted to do in a while but simply too lazy to do so. I think I've neglected (although it is evident) to mention that I've been on my holidays since my last post, and it's less than a week till the end of it. Firstly, about that someone. As with many other girls in my current course, I find her interesting. She shares

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It's been a long long time since I last posted. I've been particularly busy with assignments (churning out a website, and 5300 words' worth of essays, plus a 1600-word interview) lately so I haven't had the leisure to really log on and post (didn't help that I worked only from midnight onwards, I slacked and procrastinated quite a bit too). Had various council meetings, a chillout time at Pit

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So this week passed by busily. Tons of things to do, I've been putting some things on hold which I need to do, and yeah. More things to do. I don't think I can remember them all. Anyway, I got a pleasant surprise on Friday, seeing my marks for the Organisational Behaviour essay which I thought I wouldn't do well for. That partly made my day. And now, on to our main topic. ANIME FESTIVAL ASIA. I

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Happy Deepavali season! My mind's pretty blank now, although I'm taking the time out to make some post. Been slacking for 1.5 days now even though I have quite a bit of work to catch up on. And readings, too. Ahh, the work pressure. I've gotten so much so that I don't even browse The Straits Times anymore, and I'm supposed to be a Communications student at that. Hmm. On to the nitty-gritty.

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For the uninitiated, my post title basically means that many things have happened... (obviously), since my last post. I'll ramble on as I remember them. My heart's void has reopened as I let slip a bird from my tenuous grip. I got re-elected into Student Council (the 5th) 10/11, and also my second term as President. I hope I won't end up like President George Bush who finished his two terms

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My sleeping patterns have been fucked up of late (actually it's been screwed since JC, just that it's getting worse?) so I am awake at 0450 right now. What do I want to blog about? Two things: human relationships and some wallowing in self-pity and despair. Well firstly, my time in Student Council 09/10 has come to an end (embarking on a new path right up, since I'm in the running for SC 10/11),

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Your unassuming support behind the founding father of modern Singapore is venerated by all. May you have a safe and peaceful journey through the heavens. I feel guilty for not going down to the Istana to pay my last respects.

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I'm blogging after more than a full month on hiatus. So many things to talk about, and I shouldn't be blogging because I have work to do. School has started and it's been 5 weeks plus one day now, and I've been bogged down by shitloads of work and the like. My seniors were right, Foundation was just a freaking honeymoon. Being one of the few brave souls who signed up for the Communications

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Been wanting to blog since last week but mainly too tired to do so and too busy. So I want to touch on a couple of points mentioned by our Prime Minister in the National Day Rally sometime last week. First, of course, is the $9,000/$10,500 kitty for all serving NSmen and NSFs. Many people and even newspaper writers have said that this amount will never be enough to compensate all NSmen for the

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-7664925721443004662010-08-30T02:12:00.000+08:002010-08-30T02:12:33.719+08:00

And so, officially, my work at the Youth Olympic Games has come to an end. It seemed only like yesterday that I started my duties on the 8th at the Youth Olympic Village at NTU/NIE, and in the blink of an eye, we blasted past 26th August and ended up on the 28th. It has been an exciting journey indeed, and the fellow members of the Workforce Assistants that I've worked with were a fine team.

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The 1st Youth Olympic Games 2010 has officially drawn to a close, the closing ceremony having been held on Thursday. I have not been blogging much these few days because of fatigue from overextending myself, even going for shifts on off-days because it was getting funner. More about that in part 2. For now, I will be commenting on some pointers I observed during the IOC Youth Session with Jacques

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My work went swimmingly well over the past few days and for that, I have nothing much to say about it. Food's really getting better for us, which is a bonus since I don't really have much complaints about my food initially, anyway. I managed to get myself some pins courtesy of my fellow volunteers and an American Samoa coach who gave us some from his massive stock so we could get started on (

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I'm on off yet again, and time to blog. An aspiring fellow forumer at Black-Tactical.com was recruiting people to be casted for this short film he's making in conjunction with (I think) Mediacorp okto's short film competition, Project PDA - more information here -> http://www.sinema.sg/2010/07/01/project-pda-the-search-for-singapore%E2%80%99s-newest-film-directing-talent/ and here -> http://

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Yesterday, news broke about a volunteer who posted pictures of his substandard meal onto his Facebook account, provoking outrage and negative media coverage of the meals YOG volunteers are given, and also prompting a move by official food contractor, Singapore Food Industries (SFI) to 'make improvements'. I was among the outraged, However, the basis for my anger was not at the food, but the way

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My duties as a Workforce Assistant, deployed at the Youth Olympic Village in NTU has already begun. Although I'm not supposed to blog in detail about my work, I must say that the first two days of shift were indeed eye-opening for me. The NIE portion of NTU has transformed in bits, with more banners, signs, and the colourful stage and various booths for the World Culture Village already set up (

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As mentioned earlier, we sent 5th Aunt off yesterday afternoon. From folding paper cranes to stick onto the coffin (as recommended by the Buddhist reverend helping the family with the last rites), to listening to his sermon (very religiously tolerant; I like), to chanting sutras, singing dirges of deliverance for the dead as we proceed on foot with the cortege for a short distance, it was a

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I returned this morning from holding vigil over my aunt's coffin the entire previous night. Participated in chanting Buddhist scriptures for my aunt too! We stood, knelt and sat and chanted the scriptures, guided by some volunteers from a Buddhism study group (I think?). It took 50 minutes, during which I lost track about 20-30% of the time because things went really fast at certain parts of the

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My mother got two new students today, a cute pair of girls who were born in China, but were adopted by an (American?) couple as babies. So they grew up in a wholly American, English-speaking environment with virtually zero knowledge of their mother tongue. They've had some lessons in school, but from what I can tell, the level of difficulty was pitched at somewhere around kindergarten level. That

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As per my previous post, my 5th Aunt passed away sometime at 1000 this morning. I'm not sure if she was still in pain at the point where she breathed her last, but I know she passed away happy and peacefully. Her daughters were with her, the older one playing her a song that she wished for right before she died. I went down, as I should, to the wake earlier and paid my last respects to my aunt.

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I don't know if I should even be breaking this news right here online, but it's been on my mind for a while now. I guess I do have to get it off my chest... If my memory serves me correctly, my 5th aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer sometime last year. She had a mastectomy done but to my knowledge, no other follow-up, systemic therapies were conducted to completely eradicate the cancer (

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To start things off, I shall talk about the YOG Opening Ceremony, the third combined rehearsal (and also the first full-dress rehearsal) that I had the privilege to watch as one of the lucky few who got the tickets. :) Before I actually go into details, I must stress that the comments made here are of my own personal capacity, and that no part of it should be seen as the viewpoint of any

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Why am I writing this post on a seemngly random day, I am not really sure. Perhaps I was inspired by my junior's post about his search for a scholarship, or that I had this urge to "outdo" him (What? What manner of outdoing would this post even be? Strange thoughts indeed, have I gone mad?). Enough of crap. There's actually nothing much I have been up to, although the Student Council has met in

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And so I went to the pool downstairs, and did a whirlwind 30 laps (maybe more? I lost count, but it was definitely at least 30) in about the same time. As I swam, and later showered, I thought about many things, and again, revisited the memory of my younger days, memories predominantly girl-centric this time round. In primary school I did not mix around with girls much, save for those who always

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-62268490613542338022010-07-19T01:24:00.002+08:002010-07-19T02:14:13.147+08:00

So the Chinese and Vietnamese students went home. I might have started bonding with the Chinese on Day 4 or so and the Vietnamese by Day 2, but in the end I didn't give out my contact details except MSN to a girl named Elephant and my Facebook to one of the Vietnamese guys. Insociable yeah? So far no one has added me yet... I remember fondly the farewell ceremony, where I got quite a few of the

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There's generally always a discordant pattern between my posts and my post titles. Anyway, here's what I've been up to in the past 2 weeks or so: Over the July 3rd-4th weekend (coincidentally, Independence Day in America so a belated Happy ID to you guys over there!), I participated in Cosfest IX, organised by the Singapore Cosplay Club (?) in conjunction with Downtown East and some Japanese

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-57195796836345261072010-06-29T01:31:00.000+08:002010-06-29T01:31:08.206+08:00

It's week 3 of the holidays, I spent weeks 1 and 2 either at home playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising or going out. My mom's starting to nag at me to find a job, and with YOG in August, training in July and some Council stuff, where am I going to find work? A friend advised me to find like events work, ad-hoc based one. Hmm... I don't know. Personally I didn't intend to work

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I decided not to edit the holding post and come up with a new one because it's been so damn fucking long... many things have happened in the mean time that I have been away from. Again, a blow-by-blow chronicle: I visited Marina Bay Sands with Felicia, and was amazed at how cavernous it was. Not all shops were operational in the shopping zone, and we did not even go to the hotel area, but it was

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-50482212432425765672010-05-24T04:46:00.001+08:002010-06-02T21:07:22.630+08:00

Visited MBS partly. HUGE! Same shops... not really a shopping guy. Malls are all like that? Dr. GKS state funeral. for a great man. Ong Teng Cheong School ending...! so fast. felicia rocks my socks babehhhh

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Just a little over two weeks on... and many things have happened. Kinda lazy to write it all out now, though. I watched Iron Man 2. I submitted my research report and got close to perfect score for it (unexpectedly). There was a charity bazaar that my team was activated last minute to help out in but it turned out pretty fun after all. Many other things went on, but I cannot remember them.

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I have joined the ranks of the free. MY RESEARCH REPORT IS COMPLETE! But already upon submission my tutor pointed out some formatting errors. And I thought I was gonna score my full marks for those sections to make up for lack of content (bullshitted and typed long-windedly). After paring down the "unnecessary" I still ended up 800+ over the word limit. Lets hope I get 75% of the score, at

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Dear Diary, I have a lot of things to say this time round. A whole lot... so you better listen up. Instead of translating my hard copy edits of my research report to my soft copies, I am actually here writing all this. So here goes. Actually on the 10th, I was down at Team Leader training for my "role" for the Youth Olympic Games. Initially, I was pretty proud to be part of it and postulated

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I haven't updated in ages (10 days). So far, I've actually been enjoying the slight lull in activities and rushing up on the damn research report (procrastinating more than doing, actually). What more can I say? Time just seems to be flying. Only 4 more months till the start of the degree programme proper, where it won't be as much of a breeze as Foundation year. Goddamnit. On a side note, I

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A topsy-turvy week, punctuated by fatigue from report writing (ugh, I suck!), and having a minor flare-up in front of 'mates, unintended. But PSB Idol is finally over! 7 weeks, our longest-stretching event, handled very well by Suzanne and Shainaz (and also, everyone's effort), the event finally draws to a close. Cindy Charisma (what a name - Charisma - she must have charmed the audience + her

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A 4-day week, and it just flies. God damnit, I've been slacking... Oh, actually, I did go down to the Council for Private Education's (CPE) Student Services Centre on Monday, invited to represent PSB Academy (together with my two Vice-Presidents) for a soft launch/informal tea session with the Deputy Director for Industry Development, Student Services and Policy, Ms Violet Loo. The visit was (

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Spent the whole of Saturday with Vinsen, Vichika, Alvin, Sulung, Felicia, Tina, Shelly and Sumon aka Li Yun (hee!) at Marina Barrage, where I discovered that being a stupid little city boy, kite-flying is NOT easy. Vinsen, who hails from a more kampung background, was the expert among getting our kites airborne. This was my first experience with kites and man, it was eye-opening indeed, although

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OMFG I JUST LOST EVERYTHING THAT I WROTE. （270310 0054H） I went down to support the Indonesian students after Mathematics mid-term, ditching a trip to the library to seek research material for my report. The event? OlymPPIC 2010, a sporting event organised for and by the Indonesian students studying in various institutions in Singapore. It was held at Republic Polytechnic, a spanking-new

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Here comes a new post. With in-house competitions out of the way, activity has died down a little leaving me free to concentrate and help out on PSB Idol. For once in many many days I have reached home by 1730, an achievement in itself! But given my type S personality, I always ruminate and think (too much) over little things, like the thing that destabilised me today. My schoolmates were

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Must have forgot to mention it, but, shameless self-pluggage once again. Remember the interview I talked about in my posts in January? Well, the article was finally done up and released in The New Paper's guide to private education on 'A' Levels results day. Congratulations to my juniors who scored well, but for those who didn't, do not give up... So I represented PSB Academy and got my 5

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This has been a crazy month indeed. With PSB Idol starting proper as well as In-house Sports Competitions, I have been busier than ever coordinating the sign-ups, technical meetings, so on and so forth. Fortunately, PSB Idol is in the capable hands of Suzanne, leaving me freer to concentrate on the finer details of the IHSC. With that, I neglected to study for Accounting Quiz until Friday

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I must have mentioned about my continual hair problems in a smattering of my previous posts. Well, Dad fixed up an appointment with a specialist at the National Skin Centre today. His diagnosis? (the calculative part of me estimated it took no more than 15 minutes) The aggressive activity of hormones on the hair follicles, or something to that effect. The line from the Wikipedia entry sums it all

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今天，好疯狂的一个日子。上了数学课，然后跑下去参与International Day +Lunar New Year celebration此事。还过得蛮好，Joseph的策划，加上大家的功劳使我们第二个活动成功。 过了午餐，我回到校内，发现了雨姐。原本想离开的我，最后和她一起到３楼看剑道练习。在那呆了一个钟多，在Mayank仁兄面前出了丑（乒乓球，我被你打倒了！），然后才离开。如果我没陪着她的话，以下的事也不可能会发生。但是和她在一起，我还是决定去了。没有人干涉的闲谈，感觉倒是挺不错。只可惜… 后来遇见了死神。第一个重要线索是手机有它的照片。我也终于听清楚他对她的称呼了。很肯定的，死神的确是和她在一起。Ｒｅｙｎａｒｄ，Ｊａｓｏｎ，我相信你们了！回家的路途中，他和她吵了起来。前因后果太难解释了，但是，她最初的辩护就是把罪赖在我身上！感觉超不好的，Ｊａｓｏｎ说证明了我在她心中的地位。

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The biggest mystery which I never dare to ask is how a Foundation Year student like me with virtually no major leadership background got chosen to become President. My life philosophy, up till then, was that the world consisted of kings and kingmakers. I saw myself wholly as a kingmaker, I'd dedicate myself to a leader and a cause and do what I can to help my "boss". However, I happen to be

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The week flew by rather rapidly since the first three days were still the holidays for the CNY period for us. Thursday and Friday droned by; with myself slacking off most of it. I got interviewed by more of my Year 3 Comms seniors for Student Council stuff (I did one with this Genevieve Lim, a rather pretty girl who's actually two years my junior, I got it pretty right the first time round but

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And so, we usher in the new year once again (having done so already on the 1st of this year, New Year's Day on the Roman calendar). Every year we gain some, and we lose some. For me, this year's Chinese/Lunar New Year doesn't seem as exciting as before. I remember being very excited on 初一, or New Year's Day on the lunar calendar, when I was a kid, because it was time to go meet relatives, wear

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Over the past week, something interesting happened to me. On Wednesday, while manning the Student Council's booth for sign-ups for PSB Idol 2010 alone, listening to my own songs plugged into someone's laptop and blasted through speakers in an attempt to attract sign-ups, a tall Caucasian-looking man suddenly came up to me as he passed by the booth. He told me to follow him because he wanted to '

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So here I am, finally having some free time to write in this blog again. On Saturday I summoned myself to school to meet up with some of my councilors discussing rules and regulations for (one of our) upcoming events, the in-house sports competitions. One of them failed to turn up because he had problems waking up; I only found out today that he has insomnia issues. Well, to be honest I was a

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The planning for our inaugural event, the Grand Freshman Party, went on and ramped up to the extent that I stayed back in school till at least 1900 on most days for the past week, much later than even Week 3 (the previous week) of school. I was freaking out and worrying, although my plans were set in motion and updates disseminated to my fellow councilors. Friday came, and... -WHOOSH!- It was

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If I had to rank how strong the 7 Deadly Sins/Cardinal Sins/Capital Vices fester within me, it would be like this, in descending order: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Sloth, Greed and Gluttony. So I spent a wee little bit of time with PPTN today, and Blacksuitman (always him, why so...). I tried to study and barely met the minimum of my objectives. She was watching a movie on his laptop, he was '

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亲爱的blog, 这星期和上个星期一样，好忙好忙，都是为了我们学生委即将主办的Grand Freshman Party进行筹备工作。开会，摆摊子，出去寻找玩具... 好累哦！还需要做功课, 哈哈。这样的忙，有好有坏吧。我们学生委在Facebook 和 Youtube 都有户口了，在这一方面一切顺利。 忙着当时，我脑海里时常会想起雨姐。难道我真的对她有感情了？还是欲望罢了...我不知道，也没有勇气去追究。然而，死神的存在的确是令人郁烦 （有这个词汇吗？）她的确是漂亮，又与我志同道合... 但是我还在思考。想太多了吧！这是我的风格。别忘了，还有学业和学委会得操心... 刚过去的星期五，我从储藏柜里拿出她的课本以便还给她，但她却问可不可以放到星期六，然后给她密码，好让她把沉重的课本拿出来用？我当时不想礼拜六出来开一个储存柜，也不想透露密码，所以给死神战胜了这一局。储藏柜我通常不用，

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The second semester started proper this week. I have lessons every morning. Workload hasn't been too heavy since it's only week 1, but a look at the session plans and the various assessments coming up made me gulp. Oh, the fear... I was kept busy the whole week with preparations for Council's inaugural event for 2010, the Grand Freshman Party. Ramping up publicity, long meetings (perhaps a

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The 3-week holiday has ended. And it's time to slog for another semester. So I spent most of the holidays playing Dawn of War 2 and Modern Warfare 2 the whole day. Did go out for some gatherings and stuffs (LAN party FTW!), one jog saw me meeting up with Shen Jiayi, one of my classmates and semi-namesake from my primary school days. That, among 2x karaoke sessions, a failure and a decisive

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Posting events in reverse order: As humankind steps into 2010 with the same well-wishes and hope and dreams for a better year ahead, so do I as I live through each day. 2009 just went away in the blink of an eye, and it's now 2010! Entering the 22nd year of my life now. The outing with Angel Precipitation has finally come to fruition. I finally got to invite her to a K-Session, followed by a

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Those 4 nursing students could relate to my maternal grandmother in a way I never could. Damn I feel ashamed. Bought Modern Warfare 2 at $89.90 from the Parkway Parade games shop (the basement one, whose boss has acted in Jack Neo films) from the boss himself. The sucker didn't want to cut price down although Digital Life seemed to place it at around $80 if I remember correctly. (His staff

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1. Have not followed through with my NCAP Technical courses (haven't wrote the email, yet). 2. I got a job offer for my volunteer stint during YOG, but I really want to do it at the Games Village. 3. Karaoke session No.2 was a failure because there weren't enough people to begin with. People dropped like flies, and my dear Romeo alphA inDia novEmbeR couldn't make it as well. Couldn't find

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To continue from the previous post regarding my observation of the second mosquito: On the first day it flew vigorously but it seemed spent by the second day despite bening full after a (few?) blood meal. By the second day, it was spent and appeared visibly thinner. This mosquito died by the second day. One special observation was the downdraft it created, first spotted when the mosquito was

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As it is, I am either too busy to write here, or just too caught up with my own things during free time to write. Wahaha. Anyway, seriously, past two weeks or so been a flurry of activities. There was my first and official Council meeting with the rest of the councillors, and boy, was it LONG. Like those 3-hour sessions back at SYOGOC, only difference is I was helming it instead of just sitting

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Let me take this chance to once again wax lyrical about my life during my Full-time National Service. Having been hearing tons of scary stories from when I was a kid, although I disbelieved the older I got, and the more immersed I was into military stuff, I was still afraid, anxious perhaps, on that very first day of enlistment on the 10th of April, 2007. But there wasn't time to think, for the

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3 weeks since last post. Getting caught up with stuff and no time to post even on freakin' Sunday... First to sum up happenings over the past 3 weeks. Memories are starting to be hazy, but several important events appeared on my radar of date. Our tutorial group had a barbecue at East Coast over on the 10th. I met up to buy what we thought we needed (miser in me says NTUC would have saved more $$

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(This was finally posted on the 27th of September 2009) It's been a long, fucking month. Some weeks went amazingly, some, perhaps a bit of a downer but perhaps it's my attitude that's been causing it. Anyway, school has been busy, and life in general passes me by. Let me try to remember what I did for the whole of September. Everything start off from the very first weekend, the 5th. It was an

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I haven't made a post in two weeks. Why? Because there isn't much to post about. Going into the 4th academic week of the school year now, things are slowly settling in (although the quizzes haven't come yet). Lots of pretty (Chinese; meaning from China) girls in school, but also some from the other countries. Being amongst tons of international students, whatever their background, is a new

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So school has officially started. The orientation brief went okay and I had to reach out to make new friends, two Singaporeans, some Indonesians, a Cambodian for starters. None of my accquaintances were in PSB Academy-University of Newcastle since they all made it to the Big 3, SIM, or overseas. It has always been like this, for the past few years I guess. Always me going at it alone in a foreign

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Orientation brief for school is tomorrow. School starts on Wednesday. OH MY GOD! I got the jitters since 4.30pm. GAH!Please read and comment on my articles on Facebook if you haven't. Thanks! :D

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Haven't posted in a bit because I was busy being a hikikomori. Well, almost. Sucks, but I am beginning to see the signs... Anyway, with a simple Ctrl-F5 (why didn't I think of that?) Blogspot/Blogger has returned to looking normal for me. So, since my last post, I have still been stuck at home, and going out with friends and stuff. Caught Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (didn't mean to,

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I am actually still supposed to be in Vietnam now, but I am not. Instead, I am here, blogging, and cursing, and grieving over all this. It is still annoying no matter how you look at it. What happened? I have no idea. My throat started feeling queasy on Monday night, and by Tuesday morning I developed a fever. Not wanting to chance it, I went straight to see the doctor whose initial diagnosis was

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The posting layout for blogspot seems to have become screwed up. I have no idea why, but it just doesn't work on Firefox nor IE8.Anyway, on to the title and all. No inspiration for any particular title except "Days go by..." which seemed to be part of a trance song thingy I remember hearing on the radio in secondary school. I believe I have used it before already, so, nada. Then these words

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So this week I'm officially done and not tied down with much things. No work, AYG finished, so I got the time to chill out at home, spent on Wikipedia, Youtube, returning to that frustrating Silent Hunter 4 (not too bad now that I have the 5 incher and 40mms on my sub), and discovering what caramelldansen is all about, among others. Did I mention that I watched Transformers with Jason and gang

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On to my AYG volunteering experience. I was the Results Distribution Manager for Shooting (@SAFRA Yishun's Indoor Air Weapons Range, upgraded to be fully electronic), so that put me in the field of play where I could catch the action up close (in fact, I stepped into the control room for the first time in my life!) What I had to do, was to send copies of the results out to my runners after every

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Tuesday marked the end of my internship at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee. I spent the day organising my stuff and uploading all relevant data to the network server, and preparing to hand over physical documents to dear Gilberto. I bid my Multilingual Switchboard volunteers and fellow Language Services interns farewell, although those that I really wanted to see weren't

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I need to get this out of my head before it starts to fade away.Firstly, kudos to the Organising Committee for everything, from planning, operational simulation, client flows, etc etc, stage managing and all.Credit also given to the performers who have rehearsed so much and done pretty well under the tutelage of their trainers/choreographers.And the volunteers who helped out everywhere.And to

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The action this week is a lot less, and I get to have some breathing space. I wonder if I will ever be suited to office work after all...I still owe an article to a colleague of mine, will get down to doing it tomorrow perhaps. Other than this, the entire week has been pretty unremarkable for me. the Multilingual Switchboard is all set and ready and we have survived a few days of operations. With

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Last week I put in enough OT to last me at least an extra one to two working days (+2 to 3 hours each day - is this a precursor to real working life?), heh. Was busy helping to organise and schedule the volunteers for the Asian Youth Games' Multilingual Switchboard (a service we're providing to them, also to net some data for our own use). I have since realised that searching for, then managing

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ProloguePeople from Volunteer Management (VOM) came over and took a video of my colleague Martin. Thought nothing of it at first, didn't know what it was for. Received a notification about Volunteers' Day approximately 3 weeks ago, when Samantha asked for the interns to come together and try to brainstorm for ideas on what to do for that day. Did not attend first two brainstorming sessions due to

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Read all about it here!Lets make this a good one, guys! Thanks Clarissa for my 17 words of fame! xD

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The past two weeks have been really busy, perhaps sickeningly so. I only left office on time for I think one or two days, the rest probably later. Volunteer's Day is coming up, and it took a while for me to get clearance to perform with some of the other interns (and with that, rehearsals and all). Caught two movies in a row in two weeks with my colleagues and stuff. Angels and Demons (typical

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Yet another week flies by, and the date nears. June 16th is the day SIM will send the letter to me, and I hope to hell it's an offer. Praying fucking hard. Is the most worrying thing on my mind now and I won't drop it till I see the letter.May have made a couple of faux pas(ses) at work the past week, I hope all were taken in good stead. Well, as long as I keep delivering the deliverables on time

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The humdrum of everyday office life. Girls to see, work to do. Repressed urges to cosplay and stuff. :) Putting in the best you can. People leaving. Must get contacts! University really changes the outlook of people. The SMU interns are so talented! There is much to learn.Much to learn.Signing off. 一个敷衍的post.

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-87667310663890800702009-05-11T00:41:00.003+08:002009-05-11T00:57:35.971+08:00

Short post, 'cos I'm really supposed to be sleeping now. I went down to John and Rowell's scuba diving centre (51 SCUBAFEST or something like that, did I get the spelling right?) on Friday, and I'm quite surprised and amazed by the stuff they've done. Their new office, totally done up by themselves, was a pretty cosy place indeed. All of us ('us' meaning, apart from John and Rowell, the Student

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-17291308073959118232009-05-03T23:58:00.003+08:002009-05-04T00:10:19.403+08:00

A normal-ish start to the week, tempered by escalating alert levels in response to the swine flu, now known as Influenza A (H1N1) or whatever more scientific-sounding and less swine-offensive nomenclature. So confusing... just to be politically correct.Then a weird Thursday where tensions were high, and daggers flew. Not too sure whether I did right on that day. Am I a team player as I believe

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Here is the half-baked effort of mine to sum up my thoughts from last week.I have been informed (assuming you are who you are, 'someone from ttp') that I would be informed if I were to be quoted. Still, political correctness is at hand. Jing Yi actually invited me to watch it on the debut night, since I had nothing to do so on that Friday, why not? Paid her for the ticket, and off we went. I must

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/random. Throughout the week many thoughts passed through my mind and I wanted to put them down on blog, but I never got around to doing it. Some other things, like a blow-by-blow, chapter-by-chapter account my life thus far were entertaining thoughts, but I did not have the guts to post it up yet.So I have nothing to talk about today.The insociable nerd doesn't know how to up his relationship

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-might be quoted, political correctness is at hand-invited to watch paid for tix, nothing to do so watch-not an arts or theatre person, but hey why not?-awesome shit, blew me away, took away some misconceptions i had about it? what miscons, though? Boring? Dominating by China Chinese talent?-sing chew xin huey cute with the wig. her live singing is good!-attracted to joanna dong's character. cat.

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-22149342349670337162009-04-12T21:26:00.003+08:002009-04-12T22:13:54.058+08:00

The long weekend was good, but it's already ending! Tried unsuccessfully to ask Aneru out but I couldn't catch her at all. Anyway, got invited to Wen Xiang's mega-21st-birthday-bash yesterday. While it's heartening to see him surrounded by so many friends and family, a sense of melancholy struck me. Perhaps I am jealous, or that I know I wouldn't be able (wouldn't dare, perhaps?) to do something

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-83638261928924180432009-04-05T21:34:00.002+08:002009-04-05T21:45:58.090+08:00

Work was hectic yet rewarding once again, with the big thing being sitting in on Friday for a meeting between my manager Emma, and representatives from the translation company Transperfect. Boy, was the American aggressive! That's what I'd like to think, after ruminating over what was said at the meeting. Looks like they really want the deal, and the way he put it made people feel very

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-90789824830981418762009-03-29T22:59:00.004+08:002009-03-29T23:15:46.851+08:00

So, third week of work. Stayed till 8pm on Thursday (2 hours beyond the official finish-work time) and 6.15pm on Friday (45 minutes) just to finish up on a draft plan. I guess OT and stuff will be commonplace when I really do work in the future, not to mention bringing stuff home to work on (yeah, I did that too).Angels pass me by, but sometimes angels, being that they are, stay up in the lofty

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Spent the whole of last week doing administrative work (+sidetracked once in a while helping my fellow interns with things) for the personal assistant to our Chief Executive. Still not done yet, need to sort the 192 names (for the third file), and repeat the entire process for one last file.Finally managed to go for the AYG training. Sucked to have gone alone, because while I made friends and

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Last week was the start of my internship at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC, affectionately called 'shiok' by all staff members). It's something new, and the environment there is pretty different. Time to use my brain after leaving it to dry and shrivel up in the army. Was pretty overwhelmed at first, with all the stuff to pick up, and the lingo to get used to (

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-45761616542823786962009-03-06T23:36:00.004+08:002009-03-07T00:33:11.096+08:00

I must have failed to mention the ORD drinking party in greater detail last post. Not that I will elaborate on it (after checking last post, I did say one line about it, thought I didn't).Anyway, today's the release of yet another batch of GCE 'A' Level results, and while I wish my juniors (I don't think I know any more juniors younger than this batch? Apart from the VJARC few) the best of luck (

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-82755547140537867182009-02-22T02:01:00.002+08:002009-02-22T02:37:49.107+08:00

In the 12 days since I ORD-ed, I've been slacking at home. Re-watched Scrapped Princess, Last Exile, Lucky Star (bits) while continuing on Gundam. Gone back down to VJC's range, met the new coach, helped out with stuff. Attended gatherings, and an ORD party which I had misgivings about but still went for and made it out alive, and Min Khai's birthday party. Watched Valkyrie. Awesoem stuffs.

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-23994985556495196102009-02-09T21:37:00.003+08:002009-02-12T02:31:29.679+08:00

Finally, the day has come, where I finish my 1 year 10 months and reunite with the little pink card I surrendered upon entering Pulau Tekong. My Identification Card! Somehow, the day doesn't feel as dramatic nor as big as it should be, maybe because I've been clearing so much off these few days at home (although i returned to camp a lot in the last week) that it undermines how ORD day should be.

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-75956644273838204172009-02-05T21:05:00.006+08:002009-02-05T21:42:29.138+08:00

3 days before the big O, I have Combat Shoot 2. 5 days before that, get called back to run (and fail!) Standard Obstacle Course one last time (hopefully). 7 days before, back for ORD Medical Checkup (aka ORD FFI - Fit For Instruction?). 11 days before, I had my first and last COS (Company Orderly Sergeant) duty. So I will book in again, today. The hell... Just gotta roll over all these

JYotakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15086508826043991911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10023477.post-57341188295048000942009-01-29T20:34:00.003+08:002009-01-29T21:01:19.620+08:00

Chinese New Year came and went (the first 3 days are the most important, I think?). Visit relatives, sit and chitchat, and the like. Just the same old routine every year. Haven't counted my hongbao, but that doesn't matter. Somehow I was not as excited as I should be, although I talked a lot and was at my zaniest (as I am always with with my maternal-side cousins). I didn't drive (Maybe next year

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