Thursday, March 30, 2006

i just wanna sleep...

rest my blistering feet, aching muscles and heavy eyes, that are threatening to close every min..

- a tired body, a sleepy brain, a happy soul.

forget abt upcoming tests and projects, unfufilled committments or not-yet-achieved goals.

cant concentrate manz, should just oblige my body and go to bed.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

car wash

waking up at 6.30am isnt that bad after all..if i make a point to sleep slightly earlier the night before that is.

fanatically washing cars these days. yesterday was rainy, business was bad but the donations we got more than made up for it.

today was bright and sunny, business was good, too good at times. more than what the lack of manpower could dealt with. at 12-2pm, there were only me and fengyi. we were frantically trying to get the cars leaving at 2pm washed. nonetheless all turned out great. we ended the day with many many helpers, many of which dont even belong to the project. they just came along to help..all for charity! oh yea thanks JAS, for helping me out. haha sorry i made you wash cars all alone by yourself. :X

and thanks to alex too, our star waterboy of the day. transporting pails of water up and down, with an injured leg, and was in the end late for his appointment.

we were all very happy at the end of the day, albeit being exceptionally tired and hungry, since most of us actually skipped lunch. but after we looked at how much we actually earned for the day, we were all pretty motivated. haha.

it is worth it, as long as you think it's worth it.

2 down, 3 more to go. time to rest my fatigued legs.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

saturday

first event of the day started with me and xiaojun meeting up with the philippines team to discuss about the upcoming combined car wash next week. was a little stunned when our manpower hours clearly outnumbered theirs, when we actually have less people. weak in numbers but strong in spirits! that's the way to go!

a someone told me recently,"it's not whether you can or not, it's a matter of whether you want or not."

how true. a lot of times we think it's our lack of talent that led to our failure, when in actual fact, perhaps we just didnt want success badly enough.

i also realised something, it's only when you put in the most efforts, when you gain the most.

when things dont go according to plan, do you question yourself of your own shortcomings, or would you think it's just fate? is it always fair to say: it's fate. some things are just never meant to be.

because recently, someone also told me,"god has better plans for you."

when things go wrong, the consolation to myself has always been: when you lose something, you gain something else.

i'm really okay with it, i will not be selfish. i will not ask you to stay, because i want it for your own good.

the meeting took place for a few hours, until evening time, when my 2 leaders came to pick us up to chit-chat a little and have a drink together. stayed only a little while because i had to rush off for jas's surprise party.

glad it was a real surprise party, cos she didnt expected it. haha. it was fun, wasnt it?

happy birthday bestie! may you be happy always...:)

after her bday party, i rushed off to alex's 20th bday celebration at chinatown. stayed for an hour or so and then went walk walk with dear at boat quay area. lomantic lomantic a while by the river. has been quite a while since we have done that. i'm sorry dear, i know i have been really busy recently and neglecting you. the fatigue and stress has been making me really short tempered and irritable too..i'm so so sorry. i never meant to hurt you in any way ok?

it is late, should i say, it's really early.

the idea of bed sounds really inviting.

Friday, March 24, 2006

things waiting

ahh.

i'm very very tired. must be partly due to the lack of sleep last night.

today is supposedly my rest day. thursday ya. after class, alex drove me to get the donation check. he is really becoming my personal chauffeur these days..must really thank him for all the inconvenience i'm giving him. good boss!

anyway for the donation..there's one person i really have to thank too..that's...davis ng!!! thank you guy....:) you know how much it means to me..

went back home after that, had to make a few phone calls, and my hp bill for this month is exploding. was hoping that without the distraction of my lappie, i could focus on some of my work. unfortunately, fatigue took the better of me and i fell asleep on my comfortable bed.

went back hall to get the bottles for xiaojun n sylvia and then rushed off for meeting at sci. meeting was great. we played this really interesting game, whereby everyone had to introduce their names, for example say how did our names come about, our nicknames, whether we liked our names or not etc. it was fun! there was plenty of laughter. usually when you know someone, their names dont really matter much. it's just a label for a person. but today, without this session, i wouldnt have known that so many weird/funny/interesting stories behind those names. :)

i never really liked my name, because i feel it sounds really guyish. i know quite a few guys who have the same name as me. the ming in chinese character actually means cultured. oh well. as i said, it's the person that defines the name, not the name that defines the person, so i guess the name doesnt really matter.

somehow, i enjoyed myself.

should be getting other stuff done before i blog. seems like my priorities are reversed. sigh. laters.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

i had an exceptionally long day again today. due to some screw up in the schedule, some people couldnt make it at their time slots, so i spent almost the entire day at the bazaar. skipped all three lects today. sigh, that means more work to catch up on. everything went on much smoother today. sales were even better than yesterday's. there was a teeny weeny glitch at the end though..the sum of money we had didnt tally with the sales we have made. well it got me panicking quite a bit. so i calculated and calculated, using 2 calculators, but still didnt get it right. in the end our wonderful treasurer came along and did the sums for me, n it was miraculously correct!! haha... when did my maths become so screwed up??

yawns.

sleepy.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

more and more of nalgene bottles

to facilitate the torrent of questions people are asking me, i've decided to post a informal online catalog of the nalgene bottles on my blog, since all the bottles are in my room now anyway.

all colours available for all designs..(almost lar..)..


sapphire blue 1.0l wide mouth (guys' fav) , sea blue 1.0l narrow mouth, red 0.75l (guy's fav design)..sea blue is my personal fav colour..


slate blue, grey with black top, green, moss green..dont ask me how they come up with all these names..


violet, pretty pink (most popular among girls), amber ale, grey with blue top..(the last wide mouth 0.5l bottle i have here, cos the rest were all sold out..)


firefly, sage green, crystal clear, ruby red..

going to get more stocks tmr! quick quick buy from me! it's for charity!

Monday, March 20, 2006

Come come buy from meee!!!

havent really been down to blogging recently because of several reasons..one of which is, my com at home has gone bust. completely gone, so i cant print my notes or use the net. sigh..a huge inconvenience. secondly, i've been really busy with the ongoing bazaar, which took place and tmr. the trouble one has to go through just to sell a few items.. negotiation with the organiser, the manpower assignment, the transportation of tables and chairs and goods, the stock taking.. ZHEn MA FAn.

sigh anyway i wasnt doing my job very well..made a few mistakes here n there..but oh well.. they always say that's how you learn right? so i wont dwell too much into that. just made a strict mental note in my head not to let any repetition of it take place again.

anyways, does anyone want to buy nalgene bottles from me?? or any outdoor equipment?? i have a wide range of colours and products, and though i cant guarantee a super duper good deal but i can assure you that the prices i'm selling at are definitely cheaper than the retail prices outside. and it's all for CHARITY!!!


nalgene bottles of all assorted colours that you can possibly think of..


keychain bottle openers, carabiners, bota bags, waterproof pouches, compasses, torches..u name it i have it.


be an angel..

Friday, March 17, 2006

have you ever seen a flashing amber light, and still thought you would take a chance.....

and then you realised it's too late, the light has changed to a shimmering red before you knew it.

i did, and got a speeding ticket.

i'm so sorry dear.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

ARGH!!!!!!

i wanna scream!
i wanna pull out all my hair!!!!!!

it's now 5.15pm, and i've officially been working on my stupid STUPid 2104 project for close to 5 hours. it's the worst project i've ever done, because

1. i have no idea what the entire project/module is talking about
2. i took a bloody long time just to figure out which are actually msa SOFTWARE and which are not.
3. i have no idea what i'm writing; i'm merely paraphrasing all the info i can find from the net about the software.
4. whatever i've done, is crap. no consistency, no link, no content, no nothing.

helps.

brainfreeze.

i'm hungry, because i havent eaten anything since i woke up.
i'm bored, because no one is around. my dearie is currently having rehearsal for his production tmr.

and yes more probs. it's just those small little details that go wrong, that is irritating me.

calls that should been returned but have yet to be. please dont let me call you again. my hp bill is mounting.

loads of things to be done and coordinated. the bazaar, the car wash, the padang consignment, the sponsorships... the projects, the unwatched webcasts, undone summaries...

helps.
it has been a terribly long day.

i have too many things to do, and too little time.

tired.

perhaps some things are really better off left unsaid.
i just hope you know.
those unspoken words.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Friends

i have friends whom i used to be very close to. i used to see them everyday. we used to do a lot of things together. and then life changes, our paths diverged. i no longer see them very often. we no longer do the same things together. when i spoke abt them to others, i still refer to them as my good friends, but sometimes i wonder, are we really still as close? or have our lives differed so much from one another, that we would have nothing to talk about when we meet up?

yet i know that there are others that, no matter how much time and distance have tore us apart, when we finally meet, it'll be just like the old times.

i have friends i see often, whom i know will stand by me no matter what happens, whom i know we will be friends till the end the time. yet sometimes, just occasionally, they too disappoint me. with some tactless words uttered, some insensitive actions. but i supposed these are forgiven, for each friendship is not without its own hiccups.

i have friends whom i see pretty often, but sometimes when i look into their eyes, i dont know what i see, what i hear, is real. somehow, deep down inside, something tells me i cant trust them.

i have friends i see every now and them. we eat, we drink, we club, we have fun, we have no issues, and we are happy.

i have friends whom i know will do anything for me.

i have friends i've hurt and lost.
i had friends i've hurt and lost.

sigh.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

white light, a rainbow.

an eclipse, the end of the world?

a meteor shower, the descension of gods.


does my life really matter that much to you? so what if it's true, so what if not? in what way does it affect you?

just leave me alone, will ya.
nus open house


the eusoff booth! i think amongst all the hall booths, ours was the cosiest and the most successful one. really really, and i'm being objective here. :x


credits to sheares hall for their mandarin orange booth! jas and i were so tickled by the orangey man that we couldnt resist taking a pic with him. n oh not to forget, the not-too-bad-but-still-lost-to eusoff odac booth.

so it was a tiring day spent yesterday, repeating the same words over and over again to batches of nus freshies to be. garnered all my enthusiasm to portray the 'best' hall image. was quite fun actually and met many juniors of mine from rj. the funny thing was that i could tell right away whether they were from rj or not. it's just this..six sense thingy.

met andre and ET for dinner after that. was too tired to talk much, didnt have to anyway cos those two just kept going on and on and on AND on about polo, which i have no clue to whatever they're saying. home sweet home after that and spent the night watching the pianist. good show. :)

oh yes i bought a top from future state. do you know they're having a storewide sale??? up to 50% discount. took a pic of myself in the fitting room because i wanted to mms dear and asked him whether i should buy the top. haha.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Wronged wronged wROnged!!

I feel so disgustingly furious now, for someone whom i have not exactly known for eons, but long enough to know that his character isnt what someone else made out to be. they always say, before you start pointing your finger at others, perhaps you should turn it around and point it at yourself first, ask ask yourself whether you're in any part wrong.

i am angry because she was angry, and she took things in her own perspectives, twisted the words around, and made a lot of people misunderstood the situation.

i am angry because he is obviously a nice guy, albeit lacking in a little bit of diplomacy, but he got victimised. not just him actually. now everyone has to suffer, because of HER.

grr.

honestly, she thought too highly of herself.

sore loser.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

days are running short these days. i'm getting a little too listless to put my thoughts into words, so i shall just let me pics do the talking.

lunch at munchie monkeys with buddies


me and jasssieee


posing for ikea photoshoot, btw his name is called yiming too..-_-"

a short trip to the SCI lib with ck and ter since they wanted to find some research journals for our proj. books, books and more books! i swear the sci lib is the most boring place in the world..

me and my dearest

mini truck..? oops nope, it's some transformer under the facade of a truck..

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

agenda for the rest of the week:

today
classes - 10-6
meeting + phototaking - 10pm
note to myself:
- get board from zy's room to paste eh's map
- get vanguard from sheena to do culture board

thurs
ONE jap tut - 10-12
freee in the afternoon whee!!! go IT fair??
proj angel meeting -6.30pm..sigh meeting AGAIN.

fri
classes - 11-6
decoration for talenttime - 8pm
night..clubbing anyone?? :x

sat + sun
nus open house..sigh..there goes my lovely weekend.

Monday, March 06, 2006

finally! it's the last of my mid term tests! phew..can heave a sigh of relief..but i screwed it up though. i really think i'm gonna fail...:(

been to nuh a couple of times during the weekend to visit my dear old friend, who was hospitalised after a bout of appendicitis..silly old turtle..dont you know you're not supposed to do vigourous exercise after eating?? -shakes head-


poor timmo -tagged, labelled, tortured, and tubed! hehe but all is well again..

had a wonderful dinner dear yesterday and desserts at holland v. happy 5th month anniversary my dearest..

just stuff

went to nus career fair with kenny on fri afternoon. there were quite a wide variety of companies there i thought. mcdonalds, hsbc, british-american tobacco, dfs, great eastern, some islamic development company, times, and many companies recruiting engineers, which generally didnt interest me. actually there are many companies which recruit graduates possessing a degree in any discipline. they run their own training programs and ultimately whether you excel in that particular field or not is really whether you're capable and whether you have the qualities that the job requires. i mean stuff like sales and marketing..the real world is very different from what you read on text, isnt it?

that should explain why the streetsmart team did just as well, if not better than the college team in the previous apprentice series. whatever you study, by the time you graduate, you probably have forgotten half of it.

oh well but then of course, areas requiring techical knowledge like engineering and biomedical research is entirely another subject altogether. sigh. kenny is right. it's hardest for people like us to find jobs, because we studied/are studying something we dont like, hence when we start finding a job, we dont really havce a focus.

whatever. i shall worry later.

had dinner at big O with davis and then we went tcc at holland v for desserts. thank you for a great time! the desserts at tcc were yummy and visually appealing, but just a bit bit expensive eh.



Thursday, March 02, 2006


intellectual me..wore specs because i had a sore eye..


sinseh-fied..finally after a week..whole process took 10 mins only, and it wasnt thatttt painful. hehe.

timmo the turtle
yeah!
grouch

i love thursdays, because thursday is the only day i have my entire afternoon free. such luxuries are hard to come by this sem..so finally i can call an end to my torrent of tests..oh well almost, one more next mon to go. taking a break before i start my chase all over again. tired! the rest of the week is gonna be busy as well...

today
project angel meeting at 6.30
social comm meeting at 10.00

fri
erc meeting at 11pm

sat
balloting for open house booth at 11am

ok what have i got to do..to remind myself..
1. email bazaar person
2. hand in jap essay
3. pa7 - timetable + personal particulars
4. check out auction swap
5. do jap hw
6. study for test
7. memorise jap dialodge for tmr
8. 2103 webcasts

bahs.

anyways my ankle is much better now. i can walk! though there are still some angles that i cant rotate my ankle, and it still hurts every now and then, but at least i am no longer crippled.

been busy these days, and assaulted by sudden fits of sneezing every now and then which is extreeeemely irritating and draining. on top of that, you GOT to agree with me that the weather has been freaking HOT. it's hot, hot and hoott...and yesh plus my sprained ankle. it just served to make me sooo short tempered these days.

i'm sorry bf, it's down to you to bear the brunt of my grouchiness...:(