Saturday, October 17, 2009

What the Devil was doing in the first seven days?

By Nury Vittachi
Readers Digest March 09

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
And Earth was without form and void.

And God made a circular light in the heavens, and he called it the Sun.
And God saw that the light was good.

And the Devil made a smaller light, rectangular in shape,
and he called it TV. And the Devil saw that
the light was bad.

And God made springs which came out of the ground,
oozing fountains of pure, fresh water.
And God saw that the water was good.

And the Devil invented fizzy drink.
And saw that the fizzy drinks were bad.

And God said, Let the Earth bring forth vegetables,
and the herb of the field, that the children
may grow up healthy. And it was so.

And the Devil said, Let there be deep-fried potatoes.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth 10,000 varieties
of fish, that they may provide sustenance for the children.

And the Devil arranged that the fish be smothered
in batter, deep fried, and served with deep-fried potatoes.

And God created the cattle of the field, and said,
Behold, I have given you every living creature that moveth;
to you it shall be for meat.

And the Devil showed how the meat could be minced
and turned into burgers, and suggesteth that it be always
served with deep-fried potatoes.

And on the seventh day, God rested and asked that
his children rest too, and use the day to contemplate
the wonders of creation.

And the Devil created the all-day brunch, cartoon TV channels,
and Sunday newspapers filled with articles about
celebrities, that the minds of the children be filled with rubbish
and their bodies filled with yet more
deep-fried potatoes.

And God said to they boy, Take the girl and go forth
and multiply. And of your seed I shall make a great nation,
as numberless as the stars of the heavens.

And the Devil invented the computer and recruited 10,000
demons to fill it with online battles and images of top-heavy women.
And the boy did part with the girl and
did instead cleave to the computer.

And God pointed out to the girl that he had made her
with many attractive blandishments which she could use
whenever the boy was away from the computer.

And the Devil invented the Nintendo DS Lite so that the boy
will be able to take computer games with him wherever he goes.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any
of the animals that God had created. And the Devil did
enter into the serpent and cause him to say to the girl and the boy,
The tree in the middle of the garden the Lord hath told you not to touch.
But I say unto you, if you eat of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, your eyes will be opened
and you shall be as gods.

And the boy and the girl looked at the serpent
and said unto him: No thanks. We liketh not fruit.
But hast thou any deep-fried potatoes?

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Water + Heat

I guess recently the water inside of me has been drained. It used to take a lot of heat befre the water boils, but now it boils easily, and I'm not exactly proud of it. Even blew up on a good friend for some misunderstanding.


Someone teach me how to refill my water please >.<

Monday, September 28, 2009

Updates

For those who didn't know yet, following up from my last post, I have gotten the offer for commonwealth and am now staying there. Lucky got the offer last minute, saves a lot of money AND travel time.

Oh yeah, title for my fyp: polymeric photovoltaic cells. Until now, my assignment is still to read journals, and yeah, quite enjoying the freedom, but a bit scared for CA2.

Game Design is fun. For the 1st half of the semester, our group of 4 made a 2-player card game, based on Greek Gods and (which I think is perfectly lame, but oh well) Humans(What the hell? Gods leh, they can just crush human without even having to move a finger, how are humans supposed to go against them?). Here are some of the pictures used in the game:

Aphrodite


Artemis

Game Board Human(My design =D)

Game Board Gods(My Design too! =D)
so not going to upload any of the ugly human cards XP

Designing the board with photoshop is super pain in the ass cuz my com only has 1GB memory and photoshop alone eats about 500-600MB. Hanged dunno how many times dy. Without the hangs I'd be able to finish the work in about 2-3 hours? But it took me like a holw day to finish evreything with the hangs and restarting computer.

2nd half of the sem we're going to do a 3D game using Blender 3D. Learning how to use the program to generate 3D characters/images.


Chamber Singers! Challenging scores, and we have to learn to pronounce German, which imo includes a lot of throat clearing, tongue twisting, and the k' k' sound =b. Had our 1st performance which is some sort of a CA on the Monday before mid term break. I had sore throat that day but still went, and in the end I only managed to sing part of the 1st song and during the duration of the 2nd and third song I was busy trying to hold myself from coughing out loud on stage-phlegm stuck to my throat halfway through 1st song and made it so itchy that I'll cough if I try to sing, and even when i managed to make some sound(with the itchy throat) it sounded feeble and like someone on the deathbed trying to sing his last song. So in the end I just mouthed the words of the song. My 1st ever most pathetic performance >.< time ="b)." left ="(" day ="(" chicks ="b" booth =".=" class="thirdlevel_breadcrumbs">Toshiba Portege M900 - BROWN/ WHITE/ RED
Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology Core 2 Duo T9600
(2.8GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB);
Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset;
4 GB (2+2) DDR2 800MHz SDRAM up to 8GB (no free slot);
500 GB SATA Hard disk with shock absorbers and 3D motion sensors;
Built-in DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive (DVD+-RW/RAM);
13.3" WXGA Super Clear View (1280 x 800);
ATI Radeon HD 4570 with 512MB DDR3 Video RAM; Class 2 Graphic card!
Touchpad with Gesture Control;
Conexant D450 Modem; Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN;
Marvell Yukon 88E8072 Gigabit Ethernet;
3 USB 2.0 (1 high speed eSATA/USB combo port);
ExpressCard Slot; Bluetooth 2.1; IEEE 1394;
1.3 Megapixel Webcam with SmartFace Technology;
5-in-1 Card Reader;
HDMI-CEC (REGZA-Link);
DOLBY Sound Room Audio
Built-in Stereo speakers;
Windows Vista Business;
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium;
Microsoft Office 2007 Standard;
Notebook carrying case;
USB Optical Mouse;
2.0 kg (with 6-cell battery and integrated optical drive).
[3 years Local on-campus warranty and 3 years limited international parts and labour]


hmmm... see what's my mood when I get it tmrw lah. Nitez!



Something from Jeremy:
Jeremy's cousin was in a bus and this is what he heard from two bimbos:
Bimbo A: Hey, I think my hair is dry leh.
Bimbo B: Yealor, I think so too. Maybe because cuz u just came back from korea, it's summer there.
Bimbo A: But, summer in Korea same as summer in Singapore what...
Bimbo B: Yeahor...
Bimbo A: But maybe different continent, that's why...
Bimbo B: Ture also...
At this point, Bimbo A and Bimbo B went down the bus to NUS Arts faculty... *whistles*

Monday, June 8, 2009

Accomodation blues~

After been trying for one whole month to get a unit, still didn't manage to get one unit that everyone agrees on...

Unit 1 : Toh Guan Road -> 1800, me fussy and blur blur... I thought very far away since it says 9 minutes to Jurong East station... as well as some idiot offering higher price as well... ->down the drain

Unit 2 : West Coast -> 2200, everyone says it's fine at 1st, then half an hour b4 signing contract two guys says too ex dun wan dy... I'm fine if you tell me earlier that it's too ex, I can understand one wert... Just pissed that I wasted one whole evening going down there for nothing. well, except pissing off the owner. That might count as some fun sport.

My philosophy for this: b4 we move in, be as fussy as you want, since you'll be staying there for one whole year. After move into the unit, be considerate to each other, we dun wan unnecessary fights.

Unit 3 : West Coast -> 1900, but this one feels spooooookieeee. The lighting in the unit is bad, it looks super dirty, gives bad impression... the foyer downstairs also feels a bit like a scene from a ghost movie, where the ghost are gonna jump out in a few moments >_>

Unit 4 : Commonwealth, lots of units... but all grabbed within an hour or two after posting... >_>

Unit 5 : Bukit Batok->1500, Makes me super furious one.... so hard find one so cheap, 1500 for a 3+1, and then some freaking ass go and offer 1800 to the owner. What the hell is wrong with you people? Too much money dunno where to spend? There are other units nearby about 1800 as well, and I dun see anything special here as well other than the price, if you're not here for 1500, why the hell?

Unit 6 : Jurong East 2250

Waiting for another one, agent told us bukit batok as well, viewing on thursday after they get listed. Hopes everything goes well... In the meantime, prays that got a unit nearer to NUS that's cheap.... haiz... budget constraints, no choice...

Thursday, May 7, 2009

VIP

The VIP application form seriously needs a heading to say "every field must be filled in and none left empty", rather than put a * beside a few columns and say only those are the required field. Stupid system wasted my whole morning trying to figure out what's wrong. It gave me an error saying mentor and e-mail field must be filled in while in fact it is already filled in. And on the date it says I need 12 weeks for VIP, and yeah the dates I put in is exactly 12 weeks. The field I left out was *fax*, which wasn't given to me in the 1st place, had to go to the company website to find out the fax...

And oh, my working hours are from 8.30-6.00... 9 and a half hours... I was expecting 8, but oh well... I guess I'll just be late for choir practices then. and long sleeve shirt for the attire... have to go get a few other than my choir one :P was hoping can wear T-shirts or polo T's like james' one last time :P

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sick

I'm sick. Throat super pain, coughed until my phlegm is all reddish in the morning >.<>_>

On top of that, I can't produce any notes at all. I'm so freaking scared of this >.< Nvr had sore throat so bad b4 that it effects my notes. Hopes it goes back to usual soon... I'm really really so afraid that I've stayed quiet the whole day without speaking. :'(

Saturday, April 4, 2009

第一个华语布落格

我写华语是因为不想让某人知道我在写什么。看得明白的人,请不要跟那个人讲哦。Hmm... 想起来也没什么关系,她知道也无妨, 这是事实,我没有篇故事,诺她有问的话才告诉她吧,不然请住口。

世上怎么会有这样不知感激的人呢?教了她怎么使用那个program, 不但没有说谢谢,还要投诉别人教到不好 =.=' 我可是用了我星期天一整天来学会怎么使用的呢。还有,如果我没有把你当作朋友的话,我肯定不会教你的。教来干嘛?把你的 CAP 拉高好让我多一个竞争对手吗?朋友的话就另当别论。朋友是应该互相帮忙的。

你还敢说我假装做你的朋友,你什么意思?我一路以来都把你当透明,是你假装做朋友,好声好气地问我怎么使用那个 program, 我才给你机会做回朋友的(对,我好大口气,那又怎样?)。怎知道你问完过后就不再假装了。问你一些你写在 gtalk 的东西,你就说我再假装做朋友,不关我的事之类的。如果那些讯息是这么隐秘的话,干嘛放出来?我能忍受很多东西,唯一不能的是别人说我假装做朋友。

世上有两种人,一个是你认识的人,另外一个是你不认识的人。还要在分类的话,你认识的人可以分为朋友和敌人。竟然你不是朋友,那就是敌人对吧?以后有什么事情需要帮忙的话,请不要再找我。我不会帮一个敌人害我自己的。

我写的东西可能会偏袒于我的看法,不过我不是唯一一个不爽他的人。对,她有时候性格不错,不过她不知如何感激别人,还有投诉太多了。某某人跟我说每次跟她在网上谈话,他都是投诉投诉投诉的,令到某某人干得很厌倦。

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Commonwealth

Since so many of you guys asked me about it, I'll just save the time of answering everything here. Ask if and only if I didn't put the required info here.

yo:HA commonwealth
-double sharing rooms
-air conditioned
-there are two rooms per unit
-10 blocks x 3 storeys high x 4 units per storey
-equipped with washing machines, no dryer. can dry under the sun outside. got a special area set up for each block
-Hot plate
-Dining table
-1 stand fan for the living room, no fans in you rown room unless u get one yourself
-sofa
-toilet/bathroom with water heater

In your room:
1 single bed
1 study table
1 plug point(you need to get extension etc. if u need more than one)
1 cupboard

-hostel fees: last sem was 500 sgd per month, but this sem dropped to 350 per month. Not sure about next sem, no notice yet, I assume it'll still be 350 per month
-shuttle bus serviced just started this month. hostel->cenlib: 7:30am - 10am, half an hour frequency. cenlib->hostel: 6:00-8:30, one every half an hour. and another one at 10pm.
-If you don't wanna take/missed the shuttle bus, you'll have to walk a little, take a bus from the mrt station 2 stops down, then transfer to 95 to reach school

erm, and as to whether you can choose your room mates or not, I'm not really sure. Last sem it was because me and james checked in quite late and we went to OSA together, they let us choose room mate. If you need info on this, either call the OSA people or e-mail them. The email can be found from your NUS mail on accom application.

That's about everything I can think of now. If got other questions unanswered, please feel free to ask.