Monday, November 29, 2004

The Ni is Bitching

i can't stand it when people think you are stupid. i can't stand it when people think their consoling words are enough to make up for everything. i can't stand it even more when they think their hidden agendas are completely concealed under their smooth talks.

you think i'm stupid?

i act stupid cos i know you don't know i am acting (cos i know you are more stupid). so that you can be complacent and pretend even more. so that you will treat me like a stupid idiot and that i will know better your trueself. now that i say i am acting, you better stop acting so that i can stop too.

but i bet you don't even know i'm talking about you. haha...

i am so disgusted. i almost puked all over the place with disgust. but then i realised i cared. so, instead, i teared. and i hated myself for doing so. unfortunately for you, that makes me hate you even more. but may peace be with us. soon enough i will forget and i shall not hate you anymore.

pocky i love you so much for you never pretend. i know that (most of the time) you care cos when you don't care, you just ditch me like nobody's business. i've been missing you since we've parted 2 hours ago and i am hoping to see you again soon.

(i know it's dramatic - like a soap opera. i'm mushy and shameless. fuck me okay? go and read other blogs!)


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Thursday, November 25, 2004

happy week

after playing hard for the past few days after exam, i finally got to do something serious today. went to lab, finally has some progress for my fyp. went for basketball training after that.i think i'm getting old and unfit. ran for few minutes and i got really tired. but feel really good to exercise. i think i haven't touched a basketball for almost a year since last year's ihg.

many things to look forward to this week.
tmr, thursday - softball training
friday - play tennis
saturday - go to SITEX! yeah! =D
sunday - go to simlim and buy computer spare parts

maybe i should really catch up with esther this weekend too. haven't seen her for ages!


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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

My Inner Hero - Wizard!

I'm a Wizard!


There are many types of magic, but all require a sharp mind and a cool head. There is no puzzle I can't solve, no problem I can't think my way out of. When you feel confused or uncertain, you can always rely on me to untangle the knots and put everything back in order for you.



How about you? Click here to find your own inner hero.


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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

my bad bad news

i am not selected for an interview with Deutsche Bank. how sad. =(


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Monday, November 22, 2004

i didn't meet esther and qq in the end yesterday. woke up late. woke up at 5 plus. spent some time talking to pocky. at least we talked it out. then we went to watch the incredibles. it's incredibly funny. nice show. i didn't know that being stretchy could do a lot of amazing things. and Dash is sooo cute!

then we went to Round Midnight after the show. it was the old Swing. changed owner, hence changed the name but still under the same management. they have nice live jazz music. this pub opens till 6 am. so we stayed there until 6am. while we were playing scrabble half way, the manager and eddie the drummer joined us. not bad. i seldom get to play scrabble with strangers. will probably go there again tonight. -)


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Sunday, November 21, 2004

i'm just a kid

weren't i supposed to have fun tonight?

well... maybe you can't have fun everyday. not even if it's your last day of exam.

i'm the reject. no one wants to play with me. even my rabbitch doesn't wanna play with me. (mm... why should she, right?)

i'm just a kid. i probably need to grow up. get my own life. stop playing. the grown-ups have stopped playing. they're serious. they mean business. i should, too.

didn't go attica in the end tonight cos they were worried about age limit. such a kid. went to hideout instead. caught a band, but didn't catch the band's name, playing this really nice acoustic set. a little jazzy. the bassist is cute and his baseline is groovy.

said hi to Desmond, bassist of the electrico. told him i listened to his album every single day. bumped into "hall kid" - willy, at the club. but didn't talk to him much cos was in the midst of conversation.

meeting esther and qq tmr. finally after a long long while. esther must have been, indeed, beefed up. i miss these good conversations in a comfort of good friends where you don't have to say a word but they know what you mean. last chance to relax before starting on my fyp project.

well... that's all. good night.
(tired? no. sleepy? no. i was just told to leave)


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Saturday, November 20, 2004

i'm weak

i have an unfit body.
i have an unhealthy heart.
i have an eccentric brain that only works synchronously with my mood.

i can't concentrate. all i can think of now is something that i shouldn't be thinking of.

im such a lamer.

i shall fail programming tmr.


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i can't wait

i can't wait for the morning to come. i can't wait for the exam to end. i have many things lining up right after the exam.


sat morning:
sat afternoon:
sat night:
sat midnight:
sun night:
monday:
tuesday:
wednesday::
next week:
next few weeks:

last paper
fix chris's comps
post exam party@attica
catch shutter (pending)
catch up with es and qq
basketball match
catch up with my FYP supervisor
watch all the unwatched shows
meet up with phanida (finally)
try to catch weimin (after ages)



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Friday, November 19, 2004

i thought it's sunday morning

it is a quiet day today. most of people probably have finished their exams and gone back home. but i still have one more paper on saturday. the very last day of the entire exam.

i woke up early today. but waking up alone is not fun. single bed becomes too spacious. if not for the fan that's spinning, it would have been deafeningly silent in the room. woke up early cos i slept a lot last night. didn't know what to do. didn't want to study. so i decided to sleep early instead. i woke up. i bathed. did the dishes. did the laundry. cleared up the room a bit. it's amazing i actually like it when i can wake up early and do all the housework. it gives me the same kind of feeling as my favourite lazy sunday morning. but i shouldn't enjoy it too much. exam is tmr and, beside, the real lazy, worry-free sunday is really coming anyway. i should start studying soon.

i long for the exam to end. haven't touched my bass for really long. it probably gets rusty by now. chris seems to have churned out a lot of new songs. or rather her lyrical thoughts. ling is raising fund for momo ver.2 (don't really know what the heck it is. guess it's a new guitar) audrey wants to kill her parents. no. i'm kidding. she was just bitching. guess she's enjoying her holiday right now. i don't know what pin is up to. she disappears. busy with her internship? busy with her baby? =D i so miss u guys. we shall get together and jam soon after my exam.

btw, Pug Jelly is playing at Singapore American school today. Ronin too. and also Rafe, the winning band from the Power Jam. personally i think their skills are so so. (ling and audrey are probably better than their guitarists and drummer but their bassist is quite okay) but gotta admit that they write a song with catchy tunes. and they've got that X factor. that's probably why they won the competition. well, see them with your own eyes. be there and support local music. i wish i could be there too but i'm too broke to go anywhere right now! =s


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Thursday, November 18, 2004

surviving in Computer Engin - HRM review - Ni's gratitude expressed

to survive in CE, you'll have to be either
1. very very smart or
2. very very hard working or
3. very very resourceful
if you're none of these, it'll be really hard even just to get by. fortunately i'm a tiny bit of all combined together. that's why i've survived til now.

in HRM, usually the lecturer will give out exam tips in the last lecture and you're supposed to attend cos it's very useful. last year, i didn't cos esther was sick and she called me up to ask me to buy her pills just when i was on the way to lecture. so i gave up my lecture and went to buy her a pill and delivered it to her instead. and i failed HRM. (esther, do u feel any guilt now? - kidding haha... i actually sent weimin to sit in and copy down the tips for me. =P think about it, i'm such a bitch always make use of those guys. =S)

this year, i didn't go for any HRM lecture. i couldn't even be bothered to go for the exam tips one. but again, it's such a fortunate of me to have such a wonderful friend like Tim who called me up, asked me (with some implied force) to study HRM with her. she nicely let me read and copy everything she noted down during the exam tips lecture. (it's quite many pages. i wouldn't be bothered to note down anyway even if i were there) and she made me memorize all of them. we spent 7 hours studying last night, 10pm - 6am. and everything came out. EVERYTHING. no more. no less.

gosh... i'm saved.

if i am to fail this again, it's gotta really be my incompetency. and if i am to pass, it's gonna be the second time that Tim's saved my life. she once saved me from failing maths for the THRID time before in a similar manner.

i don't know how to say enough thanks to her.

[Tim is my thai junior under the same scholarship, 2 years younger than me but she didn't have to take bridging course like i did (cos she's so amazingly smart) so she's now year 3 in CE]


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Play this - Bush's Desktop

a hack into bush's computer [stolen from pum's blog]



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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

iSowannalaugh - Creative's futile attempt

honestly, i don't hold any personal biased hatre against creative. i even used creative's blaster PC before and i think creative makes the best soundcard in the world. but recent the desperate attempts to rival with the apple's iPod is just ridiculous. it makes me me wanna laugh my head off.

this coming weekend, creative is having a sale - Creative Fest, at their headquater in jurong. one of the promotion during the sale is desperately named as "iBetter Exchange"! it offers first 5 customers who already own an iPod to trade their iPods for Creative's version of iPod mini - Zen micro - for FREE! the subsequent 115 customers with iPods get special trade-in prices. "iBetter Exchange"? hahah... iWannalaughmyheadoff! i wonder how many iPod user will be willing to trade their iPod with Creative's Zen.

trade this



for this????




and do you remember when the Zen Touch was first launched? i also wanted to laugh when the Creative CEO claimed in the ST digital life that its Zen works better than the iPod and looks better than the iPod. i'm not sure about the performance as i never try . thus, i shall not comment. but aesthetic wise, even kindergarten school kids know which one looks better!


<---- this or this ---->


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Monday, November 15, 2004

is your internet explorer still alive?

if not, be part of the movement.

i heard from chris yesterday that her IE died on her. audrey's too eh? i heard u guys using mozilla? today my IE died. i tried to debug but i gave up as there's no point trying to resurrect the useless anyway.

so now i've joined in the gang. i'm using firefox (aka mozilla) too.
join the force. get one for yourself. your IE will die either today or tomorrow.

(actually i'm suspecting if there's any undergroud movement of the virus here. why do all the IE happily die together at the same time?)

anyway, to get the backgroud sound embeded in websites to play, you need a quicktime plug-in. install iTune, quicktime comes with it. or u can just install quicktime alone. but iTune is a good player. it's my default mp3 player now.




Ni's Review
you'll like...
- import feature, importing your bookmarks, history, cookies and everything else in IE which makes it extremely easy and seamless to switch from IE to firefox
- search field, search everything from google to webster to wikipedia to amazon to movies to ebay. very useful indeed.
- pop-up block. it can even block the tblog popup. my google toolbar couldn't do that
- pretty-looking GUI, makes it go so well with your XP
- tab function. instead of having ten trillions IE windows, you have a neatly-arranged tabs within on window
- download manager. and i find that downloading in firefox is much faster than when i did with IE

you'll probably hate...
- the need to install some plug-ins in order to view the page properly. it took me to uninstall and reinstall quicktime and iTune again and again a few times just to get the sound in my blog to play
- some CSS (web layout and colour scheme) might not be compatible (that what chris complain. but so far so good. i see no prob yet)
- get used to tab function? but that's no problem for me

well, overall, it's a good switch. i'm quite happy with it so far. will update u again if i encounter any bug or problem.

happy switching!


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Sunday, November 14, 2004

ridiculous questions asked regarding exam

esther: eh u think this sem, how many sujects u'll pass?
ni: what kind of question is that?~?~ &!%()#$&%

cody: this is ur first time studying database?!?!
ni: duh! of cos. how many time u want me to study?? i haven't even finished the first revision yet!

cody: do you think u're gonna get A or B for crypto?
he should have asked "do u think u're gonna pass crypto?"

random girl: how can u pass without going for lecture?
she should have asked "how can people fail if they constantly go for lecture?" that's even a harder thing to do.


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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

my life yesterday

yesterday i got suicidal in the exam hall when i realised that the database paper was easy but i just didn't study. so i couldn't do almost half of it while other people were so excited over the paper cos it's so managable. okie. so now i'm real dead.

the situation got better later of the day after i went out with pocky. stuffed my face with "not-so-high" tea buffet at Goodwood park hotel. i swear the Creme Brulee was damn fucking good. when it was melting in my mouth, i just wanted to melt with it. there was this durian puffy cake with durian sauce too. i didn't notice what it's called. but it's really good too. of cos, for durian lovers only.

and then i went to second hand book shop. got a book by DILBERT writer, Scott Adams. it makes fun of working life. so fucking funny.

and i played Blue Crush on x-box yesterday. mm... i didn't know actually video game could be quite fun. maybe i should add x-box or PS II into my wish list too. (no. i'm kidding!)

and then i watched a french show, 5x2. i warn you don't blindly go and watch (like me) just becos it's french unless you really know exactly what you are expecting from the show. actually it's not that bad. dunno why pocky made so much noise about it. mm...

what am i doing here? i should be studying crypto right now or else i'll go suicidal in exam hall again! =s


oh, btw, pocky is just so amazinng. =)


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Monday, November 08, 2004

Ni is dead

i want to die. someone please kill me. my exam is eternity. like a neverending story. i have had 3 papers. i still have 4 more to go. the next 2 papers are too crammed together. it's stressing me out. i'm panicking... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.......................................




...silent...



[Ni is dead]





.the end.



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Sunday, November 07, 2004

as per requested by esther [updated]


datesubj.status
fri 5 NovNetworkingDead
fri 5 NovFrenchOK
sat 6 NovLawsHalf Dead
tue 9 NovDatabaseDead
fri 12 NovCryptographyOK
thu 18 NovHRMOK
sat 20 NovProgrammingpending



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Saturday, November 06, 2004

american idiot

the result of the recent US presidential election has shown that more than half of the amercan citizens are either idiot or dumb, if not both. the bush's victory has confirmed that the united states is one of the stupidest nation in the world. despite the Iraq war, despite the economic slump, despite the oursorcing problems, despite the recent bin laden's video clip addressing to US voters [see the transcript here], despite everything else, they still voted for bush.

i indeed am disappointed. we are totally disappointed.

we thought the amercan could have been more capable of making the right choice.

but i suppose almost half of the americans are disappointed too. everyone i talked to in the US said they'd voted for Kerry and they hoped Kerry would win though one of them admitted that Kerry himself wasn't a very strong candidate. a lot of people say the americans voted for Bush out of fear.

fear of what?! the more votes for Bush, the more you should fear.

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"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not attack us, will not be attacked either."
-Bin Laden

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Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
- American Idiot, Green Day


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Thursday, November 04, 2004

runaway

truely Julie, in another day,
you know it really isn't far away
that i'm longing to be with you
you'll be waiting for another sun.
but that's when things begin to come undone.
and there's nothing that i can do
there's sense that's running in the air
and that's the time that you should never dare

running away, you can't pretend,
up to the door at back again with me
i know
running away, you make me wild
even someone who makes me mild like you
i know

there's a place where everthing is free
and everyone is just like you and me
like i've never seen before
but i would never ever wanna go
to a place unless you told me so
then you said that you wanted more
there's sense that's running in the air
and that's the time that you should never dare

running away, you can't pretend,
up to the door at back again with me
i know
running away, you make me wild
even someone who makes me mild like you
i know i know...

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one day we will runaway together
to a place that will set you free
and we will be there forever
just hold on and wait for me


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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

i want this!



iPod finally comes in black!!!
it houses 20 GB memory space and is compatitble with both Mac and Windows!!
too bad the battery life hasn't improved much. it only last you for merely half a day of continuous playing.

btw, iPod photo is just lame. the colour LCD display with 220x176 resolution is just too small to for anything! boo!


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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

what day is it today?












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Monday, November 01, 2004

Lost Angel




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