i love this weather.
it is good for sleeping.
but too bad, my nose doesnt like it.
i've been sniffing and sneezing since evening.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
terrible school network
seriously man, NTU's internet service is terrible. it took them so long to discover that the quicklinks wasn't quick, save for the drop down function that was recently implented. and what is the search bar on the main site for if it couldn't assist my search?! filling up the Shell application now, I was wanted to clarify my GPA standing, and went to NTU search bar to key in that as a search keyword. and pathetic results was what I was returned with. in the end i had to turn to yahoo search engine to retrieve this document. and what is the school doing with two duplicated files in the database?! great! =E
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
我不停的举手发问却没有人告诉我答案
i seriously don't know whether i should or not get pissed.
my dear friend, i'm really sorry, you know, if I had gotten on your nerves.
i do not seem to be able to ravel through this. have i been domineering or agressive in our discussions? if you notice, I make it a point to get everyone involved, and that seriously includes you when I think you are lost. i do what i think i should when i see the discussion going off wire by rephrashing and trying to get it back on path. have i wasted too much of your time with it then? please let me know if i have, the discussions are indeed too long i agree, but this proj is not too engineering as many of this sem's proj are, so if you think this can be managed solely by splitting work and not having discussions to ensure the understanding, then i cant argue you through coz i think otherwise.
or let me see, have i been too harsh on you? hey friend, i never will see you as just a project mate you know. and that's past the line of friendship that even binds me on being a nice project mate. but sometimes things has to be delivered and thats why tasks are allocated. i am really not sure why my fault lies, but hopefully you can see that i'm not trying to cannibalize you or having taken you for granted in the project group because of the friendship between us. seriously, do you know that for this report, i felt like i've typed half of its content, and that wasted the whole of yesterday when i had initially wanted to do 3 projects in a day, plus i even had to reject request to go out just because i have not finished typing my part. i'm not saying this to point out anyone who is at fault, for i fully understand it is up to me to type out my segment, and the time taken depends fully on myself to maximize.
or was it not the work allocation, but the last minute allocation i have given you that has pulled you to this last straw of exploding at me. having spent one day typing just 10 pages, I seriously do not want to spend another hour even at this module. And I admit that looking at the combined report less your segment, the part i have yet to get from you seems to be the least. and since everyone has submitted their parts to me, it makes it even more justifiable to request this out of you. a conclusion requires just a brief through of what has been covered, and can i foresee it as just a one or two paragraph thing to sum up with given your language standards. Did you know why also that you will be the last to edit the report, because given any mistakes that we have overlooked while editing, you could assist us by filling up the loophole and smoothening the language. is this not agreeable?
i have taken the time before and while typing this post to reflect as you had requested, and I really cant dig out the problem that is bothering you. if i were to extend out into our daily lives, there were probably some instances when i have moodswings and am grumpy that had affected you. as my character is, often in those times, i just needed to be left alone, to take a breather, and be back to normal. how much do you understand me? how much do you know about my personal life? do you even know that I have broken up with my ex? no, you don't. you are not sensitive enough to pick up my hints of befalling silence when you talk about him. and with that very reason for ill-knowledge that still exposes me to his name, which saddens me especially if I had to tell you of the truth. it is just me being more sensitive than many others, which is why i could be easily affected by things people arnt, and especially for your case oh which I seem to notice you are very much less sensitive.
maybe somewhere out there, the reason(s) that had gotten you so pissed had also been the reason(s) that had led me to hear some unfavourable things from the #3. i believe that a person can never be perfect in everyone's eye, and somewhere out there are things I have wrongly done/said that have picked up in people's heart. i could easily explode with that tone i get an hour ago, but i really wish to understand the problem out there. same for the things i've heard which i had eventually decided not to venture in further to clarify. seriously, as I had told you before, if you want me to truly understand, you've got to be alittle vocal and explain things out. Now that i am asking and taking the time to listen, it just takes your part to explain it out. I do not hope for things to sour just because of this project, and moreso if it has to do with me, it will really help that you can point out what you see negative in your friend and thus allow myself to improve, or if wrongly 'accused', can allow the chance to clear up my name. an hour has been spent but not conclusion has yet been sumed up to.
for the very reason that i see a possible raise in my tone if i were to respond you there and then, I had chosen not to do it in case this situation sinks deeper down, down, down.......
我不停的举手发问
却没有人
告诉我答案
Saturday, September 27, 2008
overview of part F1 tracks
enjoy while you can, and take pleasure in all the little things in your life. do take a little break when you get tired from work, and look out of your window. you may never have imagined what a wonderful sight it lies out there.
i hope that each of your lives are filled with fun and joy, and that there are little things that you can be grateful of. seek understanding in your current state that at least you are better than many out there. if you have to compare, compare with people below you.
hence i truly hope for you the best of this 3 days nights (including the weekends) especially with this splendid view out there. as much as i can hope, i know i could not be there.
I hope i can carefree-ly go to the beach soon. sigh. tomorrow is a(nother) new day.
Friday, September 26, 2008
i am torn between...
doing lit review is strengthenous... it makes me review about the following.....
i am torn between...
work ..and.. play
more time to work ..and.. going beach
staying in sing & be sure to go convo ..and.. going for US work and travel
studying out ..and.. concentrating in-house
project A ..and.. projects B, C, D, E, F
projects ..and.. FYP
boredom ..and.. fun
studious ..and.. un-striving (没有上进心)
no love ..and.. not loved
Thursday, September 25, 2008
What is Short Selling?
Short selling or "shorting" is the practice of selling things the seller does not own, in the hope of repurchasing them later at a lower price. Often the sold item is 'borrowed' or 'rented' for the period of sale and re-purchase, and this constitutes as an attempt to profit from an expected decline in price, in contrast to the ordinary investment practice, where an investor "goes long," purchasing a security in the hope the price will rise. Strategies include purchasing derivatives known as puts (options in the short position) or futures.
To profit from the stock price going down, short sellers can borrow a security and sell it, expecting that it will decrease in value so that they can buy it back at a lower price and keep the difference. The short seller owes their broker, who usually in turn has borrowed the shares from some other investor who is holding his shares long; the broker itself seldom actually purchases the shares to lend to the short seller.[1] The lender of the shares does not lose the right to sell the shares.
Short selling is the opposite of "going long." The short seller takes a fundamentally negative, or "bearish" stance, anticipating that the price of the shorted stock will fall (not rise as in long buying), and it will be possible to buy at a lower price whatever was sold, thereby making a profit ("selling high and buying low," to reverse the adage). The act of buying back the shares which were sold short is called 'covering the short'. Day traders and hedge funds often use short selling to allow them to profit on trading in stocks which they believe are overvalued, just as traditional long investors attempt to profit on stocks which are undervalued by buying those stocks.
With effect from Monday (22 Sept), the SGX has imposed a fine to short-sellers who cannot deliver shares they sold within 4 days, and that will be at a penalty of 5 percent of the value of the failed trade subject to a minimum of S$1,000. This is in addition to the current processing fee for buying-in of S$30 per contract.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Bus 106 to Holland Village
i can vividly recall the last time i've been to the area of the Fairlodge condo apartments. it was a stop for me to alight and cross over the road when I wanted to get my travel insurance done for the past trip.
and it was a scary stop. if I had known, i would never had stopped there. firstly, i needed to walk a long distance to get to a point i can cross the road without hurdles in between. second, that road was damn damn wide without any traffic light. thirdly, as there are no traffic lights in sight, the traffic seems never-ending, and you have to risk your life dashing across that long stretch of road.
which i almost had to repeat that stunt tonight.
i took a bus of which i wasnt familiar with, and had missed the stop i was supposed to alight to go holland V, and ended up almost having to alight at that scary place. lucky thing was that i 'discovered' my impending tragic early enough, and there was a long stop at the traffic light before that far-away busstop, as well as the contribution of a kind bus driver who allowed me to alight there.
lucky for me. phew*
Saturday, September 20, 2008
random - about a dream...
its the weekend and the recess week! yeah! i know i should sleep earlier and i did really wanted (coz i'm really tired) but i just had work to do..
the work dragged coz i came home late. yup, i've been out today as a 'celebration' for the end of the half term. actually not much of a thing to celebrate though coz it'll soon zoom past anyway. hahaha! nevertheless, it was fun going out with this group of people. they're an extremely talkative and playful bunch, and as compared to the discussion of BTO flats and maximizing personal wealth from the guys on my side, these guys engage in more light-hearted conversations, as well as consTanT talks about girls - yeah, their radars are foReveR on. lol~
two totally different genres, two totally different levels of communication involved. emersing yourself in one means you have a higher tendency to form conversation topics and be aware of the things that group talk about. and it does hit me, I should be more reality-focused. I should open my eye wider and read more, as what someone once commented months ago. yes, open up.
*ps: search on You Tube this song :: How Six Songs Collide. lovely!
yesterday night i slept late too, but being a weekday still, i should have been more strict on my sleep timings, and have been caught 'awake at the wrong time'. hahaha! ok, i'll have to treat drink le. and prolly it was coz of the late hours i popped into bed that I think had resulted me in having a bad night yesterday. i dreamt. and i do consider having dreams = bad night coz your sleep is distrupt by thoughts. anyway, yup, i had a dream about being consoled by someone with a pat on the head. to me, having a real pat on the head is truly heartwarming, and it melted me in my dreams. when i woke up, the images and feelings still lingered on vividly (even till now as I type), and even though i still had the longing feeling for love, i know i'm not in field of reaching one...
i wonder how long does it take to come, for the next person who can make me .flutter.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lantern Burning Festival 2008
dang! i've missed watching the fullest moon of 八月十六. did it watched me home? for all i know, i'm home and it is unable to watch me through those thick walls of civilisation.
but it was great having celebrated 八月十五 on sunday with the hubbers. an interesting note is that we've met for the 3rd time in 1 wk then, and it was record breaking for us. hahaha! though there was just the 4 of us (as it has usually been the case when candy is away and wanL is too busy to join us), we had real great fun. Burning lantern was the theme, so was burning kai, and so we did, but only the former of course. we ended the burning session at the deserted road (which interesting was wide and branched out from nowhere, and ended abruptly just as it closes to a pedestrain path, beside which is another road), after which we went to the central for some pasar malam food and end of the day there.
it was a long travel back for me considering i had to travel northwards down, and occupied me with was not the book i brought along but another half hr of over-the-phone consolation talk. i hoope my handphone bill doesnt burst this month. hahaha
oooh yes, i must mention this, the book. on monday itself on the way northwards, i started reading this book "For One More Day". I'm sure most of you have heard of it before, but yes, i'm slow in only just having started to read this, but nevertheless not too late. as till now, i'm 4/5 done, not as exciting as Tuesdays with Morrie though it seems. but anyway, the interesting thing is, among the remaining 3 who went on mon night to Burn Lanterns, 2 had borrowed the book, and one had coincidentally brought it along as well! just as i started reading mine. lol~ and even more appalling is that as i was keeping the book in the 179 bus on tues when i brought to sch, i saw the girl who was seating next to me reading that same book! omg. hahaha! is it the phenomenon that people tends to take more notice in things they participate in? or is it just so qiao..? i'm sure its been ages since i last saw anyone reading the book. and suddenly 3 at a go? lol~
i'm sure thats an interesting book that i have thats why everyone seems to be reading it. look at the pages, even that is interesting - fyi. it's stuck together and needs cutting! hahaha!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
秋天别来 - 候湘婷
it has been raining so very often recently. and the rain is increasing my frequency of being in a drowsy/sleepy state. yawnz* 秋天 is coming!
在下一个秋天来临
如去年同样月圆之际
有人陪你 谁会陪你
i recall the best of my record for this sem is to have taken a 3 hour nap. oh my 天！ and for that night, i slept extremely late considering i had to wake up ard 8+am the next day. argh. i resolute to sleep before 12am and wake up by 8am on weekdays, and sleep by 1am and wake up by 9am on weekends!! i'm doing my best in enforcing this to myself by writing this rule out you know. see my determination! hahahah so please please help me with this. >.< . make sure i wake up ookie? you'll get a prize if you happen to catch me still aslp at the wrong time =/
one year has passed, and it is back to the mid-autumn festival. actually come to think of it, autumn = 秋天, so 秋天 has long arrived. summer is gone, back to the cooling weather. filled with sad happiness. roar.
and so, the moon is once again at its all-year roundest-state. last year, the moon was following me home; a month ago, the round moon was also following me as i walked the very same way home. but it was different. it is different. in a year's time from today, will I still have the time to wonder if the moon is following me? will I be happier than now?
在秋天来临之前
不再想你
秋天别来
……
我们都要
尽量靠近光亮
让心情温暖
i hope, i really hope so.
Friday, September 12, 2008
pat-tor-logy
haha funny. i am giving advices to my friend who has, sadly, just broken up, and talking abt relationship issues in like 2 MSN windows? lol. is today a night for patorlogy as my friend has put it...? pat-tor-logy pronouced as such. hahaha!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
KL Day 2!
1:59am . quite tired now actually. we just came back to the hotel/inn. howeverso, we have actually not accomplished much today, unless you consider eating...
First, we began with having breakfast. though we wanted to wake up at 7am, we ending up waking ard 8am, and leaving the inn at 9am, 15 mins behind schedule. okay this is a free-and-easy trip anyway =P we had breakfast at a street stall (bee hoon & chee cheong fun) despite initially having targetted KFC and A&W, and kaiy's tea from Tea King though its only king in its size ::
setting off at our stop Plaza Rakyat, we then went to buildings like urm , KLCC, Lot10, Sungei Wang (which is just opposite Lot10), Bejaya Times Square, Bangsar Plaza II.
oh and can you believe it, we had lunch at KFC!! (where you can just find in sg. lol~ it was because xiang's sis's bf had said it was nice, though it quite disappointed us all) and we had gone to 2 starbucks in the span of one afternoon! lol~ we didnt manage to shop coz we were just walking in shopping centers coz of the (stupid) rain!! hahaha! we should have guessed it -_-"
we almost went to the third starbucks for supper, luckily we had a better intro of this place called Xiao Yun Ding thanks to xiang's cousin, Kenneth. it was more for the view than the food, coz that place overseas like the commercial district area of KL.
oh our dinner was also at this rather posh place at the Bangsar Plaza II where he worked at. it was quite 'scary', coz one lamp was like 10,000RM! omg. 
nownow am going off to play cards for awhile. brain dead, dunno what to blog about le. tata!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
KL First Night!
hohoho! i'm blogging from my weekend gateaway trip now thanks to kaiy's lappy. after rushing for so long and sleeping late for so many nights to prepare in having this weekend off, I'm finally over with that 2am sleep nights and here enjoying!
its my first time here considering that its actually so near. we're staying at D'Oriental Inn at the Chinatown area that was warned to be 'messy'. hahaha! it'll be alright, right =)
gateaway~~
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
云南 Pics 1
Just gotten the pictures of the trip, and have been looking through it. coupled with the sharing abt life back there this aftnn... really man, it does seems those who have been overseas for a semester will want to venture to even more places abroad. i wonder how ahmeng will feel when he finally returns to spore. lol~
someone said something like this before "蓝蓝的天 白白的云 蓝蓝的底裤 白白的你". but too bad i cant rembr the actual phrasing. it was rather funny =) the picture above shows me on my horsey 小黑, siblings to mao²'s 大黑. such a peaceful view right.....
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someone said something like this before "蓝蓝的天 白白的云 蓝蓝的底裤 白白的你". but too bad i cant rembr the actual phrasing. it was rather funny =) the picture above shows me on my horsey 小黑, siblings to mao²'s 大黑. such a peaceful view right.....
.. so serene ..
nice pictures. great camera to capture the moment of stillness in vivid and exploding colours.
actually i've been really really really busy recently. have got so much to do with so little time that i basically hadnt much time to really enjoy.. plus the work I have to clear before going on the miniature enjoyment that's coming real soon *i'm so looking forward to the escapade* aww. so please dont snowball yourself mr.schwork!!
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