Temptations

To wait or not? The waiting process is hellish, devastating and torturous. BUT, the reward is going to be sweet!

Half the sem gone

Woo time really flies. Its been 6 weeks since the start of the semester. Another 7 more weeks and it will be yet another chiong and piah-ing for my exams.

BUt the thing is after this 1 week ‘break’, it will be kinda hell for me really. 2 CAs, 1 presentation and one report to hand in straight right after it. Adding on to that will be my FYP work. I wonder why they call it a break instead of studying week? And the break actually ate up one of my public holidays as well!

Although grades is not quite an impt factor to me anymore, but still must work hard to pass it. This sem has generally been great really w/o me slping much in lessons so I hope that would cut some of my burden while studying. Gd luck to all those who are studying and take care of ur BRAIN in the process.

Can’t help it…

To maintain the biological clock takes 3 months BUT to screw that clock takes just 3 freaking days!

On caffeine these few days. Really can’t help it.

When the body says NO, I can’t say YES.
When the body says slp, the mind happily conform.
When the eyes says close, the eyelids will tend to kiss one another.
When the mind says bad, then the mood becomes ultra bad.
When the body refuses to work, I have to resort to caffeine to make it work.

Its not a characteristic that I would hope for in my body. Ever since I was young, sleep is the utmost important component in my life. Some say rest will bring you further in life but I would think slping is really a waste of time. So why are humans create to slp so much of their life away when there is only 24 hours a day?

I can’t take it anymore. The rebel just refuses to conform without 8 hours of sleep. And ok, I surrender.

22 years…

One week has gone by since my 22nd. Technically speaking, I have spend 22 yrs and 9 days on earth which is around 8039 days!

1-3 yrs – kiddy playful rascal
4 yrs – nursery days (still have my jurong bird park photo)
5-6 yrs – kindergarden (with the typical PAP graduation grown)
7-12 yrs – Primary school days (sitting in the humid hall for 2 hrs of assenbly)
13-16 yrs – Secondary school (wo zhang da lo)
17-18 yrs – back to the carefree days (sports and studies each take 50% of the 2 yrs)
19-22 yrs – worrying about cap lo (what else?)

All these were the beautiful memories when th flashbacks comes by. And finally coming to my last year of torture in the education system that is! When I was young, I keep hoping to grow up faster. Now I hope that time will stop moving so fast coz I haven enjoy life yet. I should set a target for myself to learn a new set of skill every year. Hopefully this yr I would get my driving license. Shall think about another aim for next year!

Anyway, birthdays are meant to be celebrated. Maybe its the 22nd time celebrating it, its getting a little meaningless nowadays. Its just another day isn’t it?

Lab clique celebration @ central

3 of us just cant resist the mix grill

Pork floss tofu – really super unique and weird too

And my present

outgear backpack

2009 LFC jersey

Celebration with my cousins

The “restaurant”

Controversial item

La mian ar xiao long bao (w/o the xiao long bao)

Cereal prawny

Claypot tofu

Sea cucumber ducky

Lo han zai

Sweet sour pork

Something is fishy?

Longan

~ I really can’t stand the fickle mindedness anymore. Changing proj 3 times in a span of 3 days is really causing me serious mental drain. The mentality change every other day is not as easy as it seems to most. And I really feel like a puppet being played and poked around.

Sadist to be….

This has got to be the most sadistic thing that ever happen on me till date.

On a normal thursday last week, I harvested the brain of 2 rats WITHOUT feeling a tinge of emotion. OMG I thought! Instead a sense of satisfaction was what engulfed my mind at that time. The satisfied feeling of harvesting a perfect brain model for my expt that is.

Nonetheless, this will not be the last of me in action. 2 more batches of rats down for harvesting in these 2 weeks. And I shall stop thinking too much and out of the skies for things that shouldn’t ever be a worrying factor ever since I chose this field. For every sacrifice being made, we strive for the betterment of another.

~ Is science too overrated?

Birthday celebration

Chinese birthday celebration at crystal jade yesterday. Haish, life’s been busy…. just too busy….

Didnt visit CJ for so long. But the food quality seems to have deteriorated and the price is getting far too expensive. Don’t think I will go back anytime soon for a meal.

Sharks fin soup

Ma Po Fried Tofu

Fishy

Bittergourd Pork Ribs

Cereal Prawns

And red beany soup

My Life According to JJ Lin (林俊杰)

Are you a male or female?
女儿家 (The Girls)

Describe yourself:
不流泪的机场 (Flying On Your Wings)，Always online

How do you feel:
压力 (Pressure), 害怕 (Afraid), 突然累了 (Down lately)

Describe where you currently live:
星球 (Planet)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
一千年以后 （A Thousand Years Later），江南 （River South）

Your best friend is:
天使心 （Angel）

You and your best friends are:
简简单单 （Simply）

What’s the weather like:
森林浴 （In the Woods）

Favorite time of day:
星空下的吻 (Heaven’s Kiss)

Your last relationship:
來不及了 (We’re Out Of Time)

Your fear:
不死之身 (Eternal Life)

What is the best advice you have to give:
爱与希望 （Love and hope)

Thought for the Day:
会有那么一天 （Someday)

How I Would Like to Die:
就是我 (I’m The One)

My soul’s present condition:
未完成 (To be Continued)

My motto:
熟能生巧 (Perfection)

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Yea life’s been really busy and tired recently which makes me ponder why I went on for honours. There is just so much so much so much to do for my year 4 modules. Add on FYP…. I’m close to dead. Time is never enough for a year 4 student maybe with so much presentations and reports to hand in. Every week is like a xue te (shitty) week. If not for the company of friends, I might have just gave up. Now the only thing is to hang on tightly and perservere on…..

Nice people…

朋友您好，为了你好，请您坐好，用心听好。

钱多钱少，够吃就好。
人丑人美，顺眼就好。
人老人少，健康就好。
家穷家富，和气就好。
老公晚归，有回就好。
老婆唠叨，顾家就好。
孩子从小，就要教好。

博士也好，卖菜也好，长大以后，乖乖就好。

房屋大小，能住就好。
名不名牌，能穿就好。
两轮四轮，能驾就好。
老板不好，要忍就好。
一切烦恼，能解就好。
坚持执着，放下最好。
人的一生，平安就好。
不是有钱，一定会好。
心好行好，命能改好。
谁是谁非，天知就好。
修福修慧，来世更好。
天地万物，随缘就好。
很多事情，看开就好。
说这么多，明白就好。
人人都好，日日都好。
你好我好，世界更好。
总而言之，知足最好。

1st week of school

School has officially started last week. After 3 months of brain rest, it was relatively difficult to get back to a student’s life which includes going into lectures.

Furthermore, the year 4 lectures were also much more difficult than what I had expected. I’ve sort of forgotten what I had learnt for the past 3 years, with little confusion of things that were previously taught before. Yea I know this is pretty bad BUT well, thing might get better as time passes by.

And there…. 1 week past just like that without much notice. It seems that time is flying at twice the speed its supposed to go. Especially since this will be my last year in NUS, I gotta enjoy more as a student before my freedom gets taken away 1 year later.

~ Age doesn’t signify maturity. Its just a numeral to show the biological age of your body. But mentally, the correlation is blur or rather non-existent at all.

Long Holidays….

1) Night Cycling

Truly enjoyable experience. But it seems like I cannot go without sleep for 24 hours. The body just couldn’t take such stress.

Set off: East Coast Park

Dinner over at Macs and headed for the bikes at ECP. Set off from ECP towards Kallang Basin @ 2200.

First stop: Indoor Stadium @ Kallang Basin

As usual, the indoor stadium bridge is the most visted spot for night cycling trips. Photowhore with the jumping style again.

Second Stop: Geylang Beancurd @ lane 27A

The road to Geylang wasn’t that smooth afterall especially when we have to bypast the ‘popular nightspots’ on foot. Walked all the way from Kallang to Aljunied station to get to the famous beancurd stall. Its my second visit in 2 weeks.

The soya bean drinkwas quite disappointing. Well at least I thought the sugary taste spoiled the whole drink which is supposed to have the soya smell. But the you tiao is actually quite good. Its crispy and not too thick. Quite nice.

Third Stop: Lao Pa Sat

Walked again from aljunied back to kallang and biked through nicoll highway to the city area. The roads were partially closed in due of the national day parade the next day. At around 3am, all the stalls were near closing time. There ain’t many night spots in Singapore I believe as we really had diffculty planning where to stop next.

Forth Stop: ECP

Initial plan of heading towards changi village was dropped due to a bike malfunction. I seem like the bike technician – ‘repairing’ all the bikes that had problems. And since when did I know so much about the bikes? I wonder….

Headed home after that in a half-sleep condition. I literally dread the way home and found myself lucky that I didn’t took my own bike along for the trip. Else, it would be a long way home from ECP again.

2) National Day celebrations

Was at marina square to immerse myself into the national day celebration atmosphere. The place was almost filled by the time we reached the place. I wonder what make singaporeans come all the way down to squeeze with fellow citizens just to catch a glimpse of the fireworks after that which only last for maybe 3 minutes? For me, it was more for the company because the cam whoring event sort of made time pass rather quickly. Others? Not too sure… Maybe it was a family or bf/gf outing maybe. But it was definitely not worth the time spend waiting just for the 3-minute show.

“Coffin” – Crispy outer layer with cream filling in the interior

Super big serving chicken chop rice.