Glutinous Rice Balls!

Celebrated 冬至 on friday at home by cooking and eating some glutinous rice balls (my favorite flavor is sesame and peanut) in peanut soup! 吃了汤圆，又长大一岁了哦!

2 ironies

Yesterday's release of results officially put sem7 to a big full stop! lucky to pass all modules. 2 ironies were discovered on me in this semester...

1. Effort is inversely proportional to grade---All me and my fellow friends who took CN4210, membrane science, agreed that this 3 mc module is the most siong module for our semester. 20 journals were tested, in addition to 7 chapters of lecture notes, and a term paper of which i've read around 15 journals to complete it.....In the end, i got a worst grade among all my modules taken this sem.....
2. Engineering student aceing in arts module rather than own faculty modules---This has been true for 3 consecutive semesters for me. Over these 3 sems, my best module have always been an "Arts" fac module.

• Sem 5 - Chinese heritage: History and literature = A+
• Sem 6 - Making sense of society = A+
• Sem 7 - Bahasa Indonesia 1 = A+
• I have only gotten an A+ for 1 CN module over my past 3.5 years in the WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY!!! No As and A-s at all!!!! Can imagine.........."am i in the wrong faculty???"

Celebration

Most of my friends did well for this semester. SW got a perfect cap this sem!! ZJ oso good to get 4.6. Thank u SW for ur steamboat treat @ 重庆火锅 and and ZJ for ur alcohol treat @ Dbl O.



"high" faces

guess the drinks????

The killer shots gotta be the "Tequilla", which according to ZJ, made 1 concuss - me, 1 merlion = SW, 1 abt to merlion = QY, 1 butcher = Jab (cos he was high until he went to "Xian" a fat girl).........

Not to mention i'm going to get another treat for a cap of 4.75 (crab feast @ AMK on 28th!). Thks k!!!

Memories at Bedok Camp

Got a 1 day job lobang at E mart Amoy Quee Camp and Bedok Camp.......I stayed at Bedok camp for 2 years during my NS period, and yesterday, was the 1st time I stepped into the camp after 3 years of my ORD. I walked along the familiar covered linkway joining the canteen and the brigade HQ building, the familiar lightstrike company corridor where we used to do our 50 push ups before meals, the chin up bars still with the black rubber grips on it, the MT line where we used to do our frequent bike maintanance........all the good and bad times which i have spent wif my army buddiez suddenly filled my mind..........and so "zhun", on this day, i received an ICT notification sms and phonecall!!!!!scheduled in next yr july!!!! wat a stupid timing.....how to find job like dat???

猪之歌

Click 猪之歌 香香

猪!你的鼻子有两个孔,感冒时的你还挂着鼻涕牛牛.
猪!你有着黑漆漆的眼,望呀望呀望也看不到边.
猪!你的耳朵是那么大,呼扇呼扇也听不到我在骂你傻.
猪!你的尾巴是卷又卷,原来跑跑跳跳还离不开它 哦~~~

猪头猪脑猪身猪尾巴 从来不挑食的乖娃娃
每天睡到日晒三杆后 从不刷牙从不打架

猪!你的肚子是那么鼓,一看就知道受不了生活的苦
猪!你的皮肤是那么白,上辈子一定投在了富贵人家 哦~~~

传说你的祖先有八钉耙,算命先生说他命中犯桃花
见到漂亮姑娘就嘻嘻哈哈 不会脸红不会害怕

猪头猪脑猪身猪尾巴 从来不挑食的乖娃娃
每天睡到日晒三杆后 从不刷牙从不打架哦~~~

传说你的祖先有八钉耙,算命先生说他命中犯桃花
见到漂亮姑娘就嘻嘻哈哈 不会脸红不会害怕

咳咳嗯 你很想她

Went clubbing last nite wif several primary sch and kindergarden friends @ Boat Quay.....Listened to this song as they played it during an intermission....sounds quite meaningless but quite cute.

Terror

Happen to rewatch a classic movie by 黄秋生：香港奇案 《八仙饭店之人肉叉烧包》.......It was until yesterday that i realise the movie is really SUPER GROSS..........Then i source the internet to find out that this was actually a TRUE STORY in 1985!!!!

Check out this link for the Top 10 mystery cases of Hong Kong (香港十大奇案)

World Class ranking DROPPED!!!!

Dear WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY, what happened??? your ranking dropped from 18 in 2004 to 22 in 2005! You must be devastated....so poor thing...probably the newly built U Hall did not help enhance your image. Now that you r slightly further from WORLD CLASS as where you were in 2004, you need to work harder next year......The 1st thing you should do is to make your admin WORLD CLASS, if not when things screw up again in some activities after X mas, you will still attribute it to the irrational behavior of the students............ :s

Dear WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY, seeing you reminds me of the typical 欧巴桑 in Taiwanese soap opera serials.... How biased you can be! Both soccer and softball teams belong to TEAM WC (world class) --- just like your children. The the soccer team seems to be your son and the softball team seems to be your daughter ----> receiving totally different treatment from you (the parent), even though both teams performed equally well at inter school levels........so disappointing...... 你在我的眼里又被扣了50分。你在我心里到底还剩几分?????

Bad News

This passage was adapted from putfile.com

Putfile Says Goodbye To Singapore
At dawn on December 2nd 2005, Singapore hanged a citizen of Australia, despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations. Whilst Putfile is not a human rights campaigning organization, we believe that if a country must have the death penalty, there is no need for it be barbaric. It is enough of a punishment, and a deterrent, to take someone's life in a painless manner, without having to be barbaric about it. Putfile prefers to not continue to provide our free uploading service to a country that executes prisoners by hanging, a method of execution which can take up to six minutes to painfully execute the victim.
For this reason, we are at this time terminating all service to users from Singapore. We shall be happy to restore service following any positive move from the government of Singapore towards abolition of hanging as an execution method.
Goodbye Singapore,
Putfile.


Personally, I dun wish to comment on this issue since i don't want to be sued in court for whatever reasons.....but it's definitely a piece of bad news for me cos I have been using putfile.com to host my songs online!! This simply means that from now onwards I need to source for other means to continue to host my songs in the future........Why must such things happen???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(

Spot the monkey!

Took these shots while waiting for bus to go to school from Bukit Timah...Saw this cute monkey hanging around the pavement. Can you spot its location in the photo?

Somehow this monkey noticed that i was trying to take photos of him and he decided to "buttock face" me...

《一生何求》

陈百强 一生何求---Listen to this song here
『义不容情』电视剧主题曲

冷暖哪可休 回头多少个秋
寻遍了却偏失去 未盼却在手
我得到没有 没法解释得失错漏
刚刚听到望到便更改 不知哪里追究
一生何求 常判决放弃与拥有
耗尽我这一生触不到已跑开
一生何求 迷惘里永远看不透
没料到我所失的 竟已是我的所有
一生何求 曾妥协也试过苦斗
梦内每点缤纷一消散哪可收
一生何求 谁计较赞美与诅咒
没料到我所失的竟已是我的所有


Reali love this song.....就是那么百听不厌。 Those people who belong to my generation should remember this TVB show of the late 80s <义不容情> If i din remember wrongly, the cast is 温兆伦，黄日华，周海楣，商天娥，邵美琪，刘嘉玲 etc.....I remembered last time, my mum and my sisters will hog on TV2 (m'sian) channel every weekday at 6pm to watch this show. I simply followed even though i can't reali understand the cantonese then. However, i juz had a deep impression of its theme song. It's not until when i've grown up that i find its lyrics pretty meaningful.

跟往事干杯

歌曲：跟往事干杯



跟往事干杯

原唱:姜育恒

经过了许多事你是不是觉得累

这样的心情我曾有过几回

也许是被人伤了心也许是无人可了解

现在的你我想一定很疲惫

人生际遇就象酒有的苦有的烈

这样的滋味你我早晚要体会

也许那伤口还流着血

也许那眼角还有泪

现在的你让我陪你喝一杯

干杯,朋友就让那一切成流水

把那往事把那往事当作一场宿醉

明日的酒杯莫再要装着昨天的伤悲

请与我举起杯跟往事干杯

举起杯

跟往事干。。。。。。杯

To listen to the song, click here

Exams finally over on last sat! This sem exam is really a nitemare, and i sincerely hope my cap will not drop.......(I'll be very contented if i can get B average!) Having studied in the WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY for 3.5 years already, somehow i feel that my diligence increased as every semester passes.....but not the results.......

Every sem, in order for us to be able to check our exam results via the internet, we are REQUIRED to do an ONLINE STUDENT FEEDBACK. In this feedback, students are required to rate the modules they are studying, and also comment on their lecturers. For the past 3.5 yrs, I've heard numerous rumors that these FEEDBACKS are not anonymous, and that the individual lecturers will know what the students said about them. Being a typical Singaporean----敢怒不敢言 type (angry but dun dare to voice out), because of the worries that the comments can directly affect what grades I'm going to get for the module......I believe there are also many such people in NUS----that provide the answers as to how much confidence the students have on the WORLD CLASS SYSTEM......and the WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY.......I will be posting my honest feedbacks about my modules here......

CN4210 --- Membrane Science.

All chem eng majors are expected to take at least 4 technical electives in order to graduate from the WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY, WORLD CLASS DEPARTMENT OF ChBe. Out of the 3 electives I've taken so far, this is the WORST module to take.....I have to give credit to the lecturer though, Prof Neal Chung. As compared to many professors of NUS ChBe, he can be considered quite a good lecturer. BUT, what really put me off is the terrible workload of the students.....the exam is a FULL MCQ paper. The exam covers his lecture notes (6 chapters), sounds acceptable right??? However, on top of that, the exam also covers some SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, of which students have to read 20 journals, understand them and from the questions he set for my semester, he expect us to memorise them!!!

Sample question taken from the exam paper:

In Chung et al paper entitled "Development of asymmetric hollow fibers from polyimides for air separation", they indicated humidity may induce early precipation and increase the perfect of dense selective layer. In Clausi and Koros paper entitled "formation of defect free polyimide hollow fiber membranes for gas separation", they indicated humidity played no important role on their system. The differences between these 2 studies may arise from:(2 choices)

A)The former used a fluoro-polyimide, which has a much higher water sorption than the latter

B)The latter spun the fiber at a much higher speed

C)The spinning solution in the latter contains a volatile component

D)The former has a higher viscosity than the latter

E)The composition of spinning solution of the latter is closer to the phase inversion curve than the former

***he expects students to memorise all little details of the 20 papers we need to read!!!!!!!!

Conclusion: Take this module if your brain can store 200GB of data......If not, this will be a module of chance, probability and luck!!!!

CN4215 --- Food Technology

Obviously less tough than CN4210, but i really have to salute the 2 lecturers:

Mark Xu: who teaches in powerpoint slides with blue font and red background (try it out on your computer to experience how it feels)!!!! and I always like to quote his 'trademark statements"

"Do you want a bread????"--- what he wanted to say = "Do you want a break???"

"(talking to a student) Now it's bread time, and you can now eat your breast........" --- What he wanted to say = "Now it's break time, you can eat your bread"

Prof Uddin: I still find that he's a nice person lar, but, he is still so blurr!!!!!!! On Sept 2005, we need to make a compulsory visit to "Gardenia" Factory and we need to submit a 2 page write up about the visit....thanks to the previous batch of students who all decided to absent themselves when a similar trip was planned for them in the previous semester.......

Me, as usual, being the most suay person, received an email from him 1 day after the deadline of submission of the write up, saying that my report was not found, which indirectly was implying that I did not submit the write up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luckily, my classmates were willing to vouch for me as they were sure that my write up was submitted together with theirs.........., and finally, he claimed that my write up was found........

Conclusion: In times of exams, or submission of any assignments, always make sure your script is being accounted for.......ask your friends to be your witness whenever you hand in any exam script.........remember my BH1001 incident???????????

CN4119 --- Design 1

Nothing much to comment about the module, as my tutor is really quite a nice teacher. Prof Karimi and Rangaiah are also quite good lar......but somehow, when they talk, I still have a tendency to fall asleep....=p....

The worst is Prof Feng SS. Attending his lecture makes me wanna fall asleep, listening to his webcast annoys me so much that I finished watching a 2 hr webcast lecture in 15 mins........Thanks to his poor articulation........Listening to him speak is really strenuous to the ears because most of the time, I will frown, mouth open big big and "huh"??? (cannot figure out wat kind of English he's talking), and then fall asleep because of frustration......To my juniors, beware of this guy and be mentally prepared for all these..........

LAB1201 --- Bahasa Indonesia 1

The only module i enjoyed studying this sem. probably because my tutors are really teachers and not "Professors". The truth is that most "Professors" can't teach, because the University employs them for their research capabilities, and not their teaching capability. Really hope that my results this sem can meet my expectations, so that nx sem I can take BI2 as a S/U module as i tink it's really useful to learn malay and it's a waste to stop at level 1. If not, I will have to source for 'easy scoring' modules to take to push up my cap............

Anyway, sem 7 is over and it's time to 跟往事干杯. Whatever it is, I'll juz let nature take its course and look forward to my FINAL SEMESTER IN THE WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY!!!! Meanwhile, I'm thinking of taking part in a coming song writing competition....and hopefully, i will be able to submit something to take part! Also i will be busy with softball trainings to prepare for my ORD Softball trip to Chiang Mai!