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The Tank Rolls Into NYC Today!!!

posted by David at 12/26/2002 10:36:00 AM

 
THE TANK ROLLS INTO NEW YORK ON THE 26th DEC till 2nd JAN

Will soon be on my way to the BIG APPLE!!! YIPPEE!!! I CAN'T WAIT... feel like screaming.... really... this term is such a disaster that i just want to throw them all behind... leave this dead boring town of Ann Arbor.. go out have some fun... then come back to with a vengence next term to kick some ass... yes... i need a break... getting burnt out in the middle of the term is not fun at all... hahhaahh

But then again... the weather is a big worry... snow started again... well... just in time for a white Christmas... but visibility out there on the road is just horrible... i hope everything will clear out by the time we move out so that we have a safe journey...

Since i can't drive, i am now the designated map reader... a.k.a the navigator... yes... and i am good... for past record pls refer to my Dad... hahahha... i am good... and i am serious... i like reading maps and move around..... really feel like you are on a trip and having an adventure of your lifetime... heehee... not like sitting in a tour bus and get shipped around... hahaha... yes yes... i can't wait... i can't wait... BRING IT ON MAN!!! YIPPEE!!!!

posted by David at 12/25/2002 02:22:00 AM

 
This song is all the more close to my heart in light of the recent events.. every word seems to knock hard on my heart.... hmm.... friendship... dreams... luvs... the way it was... the way it will be....

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Played it til my fingers bled

It was the summer of '69


Me and some guys from school

Had a band and we tried real hard

Jimmy quit and Jody got married

I shoulda known we'd never get far


Oh when I look back now

That summer seemed to last forever

And if I had the choice

Ya - I'd always wanna be there

Those were the best days of my life


Ain't no use in complainin'

When you got a job to do

Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in

And that's when I met you


Standin' on your Mama's porch

You told me that you'd wait forever

Oh and when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69


Man we were killin' time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no


And now the times are changin'

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

I think about ya wonder what went wrong


Standin' on your Mama's porch

You told me it would last forever

Oh the way you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

_{Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams}

posted by David at 12/12/2002 05:58:00 PM

 

Army Daze

Wenduan went in a couple of days ago... i bloody screwed up the time zone thingy... and missed calling him.... which got me totally depressed and mad at myself... seriously... and tianyu will go in later today in a couple of hour's time... shit... Dec only need to see two of them going in... dread the coming of Jan... almost everyone is going in then... shit...

When leaving singapore, it was seriously hard.... leaving my family and bros... last time i am always with them, or they are just a phone call away... or i just head down orchard and surely will see them one... and leaving singapore means cannot see them any more... shit... it was hard... but still got icq... still got email... can still keep contact... so still can... still be brave... but now this...

Probably not able to talk to them for the next 3-5 months... alamak... hate this... this means i might as well not use my icq for the next 3 - 5 months... might as well not check my email.... i am not tat type of person tat will only miss things when they are gone... but one thing you ppl need to know about me is that i can really really do a good job of telling lies to myself... and making me believe so good in it... i SAW this coming... but i keep telling me it is not tat big deal... tat we can still keep contact... still get to tok to one another... hahaha... yeah sure... a**hole...

i dun want to get nostalgic here... but seriously... will miss those bunch of goushi when they are gone for that 3-5 month in tekong... nope... i am not crying... at least... not as much as when i did the last time i did in the RJ canteen after the JAE results are announced... hmm... hahah.. childish right... damn pathetic right... already 19 years of age and still cry like a kid sometimes... muahahah... hmm... but this is just me... like a puffer fish... trying to puff myself up really hard... to have a strong and scary outside... but hahah.. inside... not much... just all the tears and the bleeding tat i try to hide... coz i dun even want to see them myself...

try to believe that i am brave... try to believe tat i am fearless... try to be strong... maybe this is growing up... if this is the case... then i had grown up... i learned to put on a mask... a mask that is dun tell ppl any hint of who i really am... a mask that i force myself to put on... and can only be taken down when no one else is around... when no one else is looking... so tat i can let the tears and blood tat had flooded behind that mask to come out... why??? so that i can put on the mask again to face the world... and to clear up the space behind that mask to allow them to be filled up again... maybe one day... the frequency of me needing to take down that mask will get less... and i will probably stop crying all together... and probably also lose the ability to bleed... why??? maybe coz i am already really strong and brave that no one can make me cry or bleed... or maybe the tears simply ran dry... or there is no more blood for me to bleed...

I am not all tat depress and hopeless really... the finals are around the corner... trying real hard to study now... but tianyu just pinged me on icq... "hey hi....this will probably be the last chat for quite some time..." hahah... dude... will miss you... no gaying here... will pray hard for you... be strong... be positive... no self-pity... be brave... be so brave that you scare yourself... all the best in the NS dude... it is only goodbye for now... think of the better times tat will come... seriously... when i get all sad and depress and lonely here... this is wat i think... i think about all the good times i had with you ppl... and all the good times tat will come... seriously... it is really not tat bad if you really think of it... someday...

SHE'S SAYS: WE'VE GOT TO HOLD ON TO WHAT WE'VE GOT

IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF WE MAKE IT OR NOT

WE'VE GOT EACH OTHER AND THAT'S A LOT

FOR LOVE - WE'LL GIVE IT A SHOT

WHOA, WE'RE HALFWAY THERE

OH, LIVIN' ON A PRAYER

TAKE MY HAND AND WE'LL MAKE IT - I SWEAR

OH, LIVIN' ON A PRAYER

_{part of the song Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi}

posted by David at 12/12/2002 05:42:00 PM

 
Time: A day in 1998

Place: 2H classroom in Bishan Raffles Institution, two rows from the back

I was at my personal best... making a totally nuisance of myself... and the target??? Koh Liang Shuo... (RI and VJC)... i forgot wat exact things i did to him or why i started "ga jiao-ing" him... but i remember something he said till this day... "FUCKER... can you stop being so childish and grow up?!?!? look around you lahz... you are the only asshole tat has not grown up..."

Why this story?? hmm... coz wat LS said has ALWAYS zoom in and out of my mind... cannot shake away... i am always having trouble with the idea of "growing up"... after many attempts... i found out that growing up is not about dressing in while long sleeve shirt and black color business pants... it is not about not laughing like a donkey (or... simply not laughing the way i do....) it is not about the kind of thing you talk about (i.e. comic book... dragonball... pokemon... etc etc...) but something deep within... something INSIDE... so tat is basically my problem... if growing up is something tat is more OBVIOUS... then i should not have problem with tat... but here we are talking about something really abstract... so what is the standard or definition of a GROWN up?!?!? hmm... dun think i have the answer...

Ben sent me his RJC prom nite photos... WoW... first i must say some of the 1A01E galz look really really nice that night lor... top vote go to Mabelle Jie and Xinyi lor... hmm... look really elegant i would say... hahah...

anyway... then i saw photos of my RI friends.. They changed so much... so so so so so so much... i could hardly recognised some of them... esp ChangYong... i was searching thru Ben's online album TWICE... coz i know he and ChangYong good buddy... so definitely will take photo with him... and i went pass that photo TWICE... oh no... i see that goushi for FOUR goddamn years... and now is only less than a year since i last saw him... and he changed SOOOO much that i cannot recognise him!!! and to make me feel worse... i was SEARCHING FOR HIM... tat means i was scrutinisig EVERY photo as i see them... and i only could figure out it was him on the third try... oh my.. oh my... wat is going on?!?!? and ChangYong is basically the MOST horrible/extreme case... some of the others also changed like mad... then i look at myself in the mirror... held my old RI class photo beside my face... except for the hair... which is now sorta GONE... i look exactly the same... no change... no change... no change... ARGH... WHY?!?!? i think this is relative... if ppl change... and you neva... tat means you neva grow up... relatively speaking... and tat is depressing... i think i been thru so much... (i won't say more than my peers... such comparison is stupid and unfair) but i think i been thru so much... why hasn't anything like leave a mark on my face or anything to tat extend??? still have that "arrogant" look when i dun smile... and still look like a clown when i do... so wat's so different about me now in 2002 compared to 1998 when LS scolded me for now being grown up??? hmm... dun think so... hmm... asked EngMeng about this just now... he sorta reassured me that i dun think i changed coz i look at myself everyday... but i am not sure if i want to agree to that... i listen to myself everyday... i replay wat i did in my head every time... hmm... everything seems to be the same... no diff... coz if something is different.. i would sense it... though i may not be able to pinpoint it... hmm... not very good really... not good...

posted by David at 12/07/2002 02:18:00 PM

 
ok... i am a little depressed... why... maybe it is the fact that the finals are coming up and the fact that i am totally prepared to be screwed... or maybe it is just the fact that so much happened this term...

It is funny how the phrase "The worse that can happen, will happen" ALWAYS happen to me... hahaha... we talk about how some of our believes are constantly challenged in life... and that each time it is challenged, we emerge stronger than b4... hmm.... they forgot the possibility of a person emerging totally confused and demoralised...

Anyway... i am a little sad RIGHT NOW... of the fact that all my bros are having their prom nite today... i did not graduate from primary school when i was in taiwan... and my primary school days in singapore is purely disastrous... so basically... the only schooling memory that i really care, and have a complete picture of, will be (shit... i am getting bored saying this again...) my days in Raffles Institution... coz i neva graduate from JC mah... (well... if i had stayed... i would neva have been able to graduate anyway... muahahahha....) so... now wat??? i am suppose to tell the whole world that the ONLY so-call prom i ever went to was with this bunch of guys?!?!? er... i dun think this will really look good on me... muahahah... and that grad party was seriously a joke... pls... ppl went there in T-shirts and everything... hahaha... i went there in a pair of jeans and Hawaiian shirt... alamak... WHAT KIND OF PROM IS TAT?!?!?!? ~!@#$%^ and some more it is held in the stupid Singapore Swimming Club... shit... could still remember that time every Sec school ppl in those singaporean IRC channels were saying while everyone will be wearing gowns and tux to their prom, RI boys will wear swimming trunks to their grad dinner.... shit... how good was that??? hmm... i also dunnoe why i am so depressed or sad over this thing... maybe (probably it IS) the fact that i am missing out on the so-call the ultimate nite of fun and memory... and while my bros are all dressed up handsomely and having fun and everything... i am stuck here... not with them....come to think of it... i have neva really dress up for an event... neva worn those really really formal attire b4... even last time wear school tie also neva wear properly... muahahahaha... shirt neva tuck in... pants was like super baggy and so long that it sweeps the ground as i walk... hair was always a disaster... hmm... oh shit... not very good memories here... muahahah.... but those were the fun days...*sign*

Dun get me wrong... University life is pretty fun in itself... different type of fun... different type of stress... so different that i am not even sure my friends in singapore will understand me when i tell them... so sometimes i feel so lonely... of course i have friends here... new good friends tat i can share my problems with... but maybe it is unfair to say... but these ppl here dun really noe me as well as my bro... they haven seen me in both my good and bad days... neva sweat over stuff with me... but still not all type of friendship are the same... and maybe tat is why i will always hold my bros so dearly... even though some of them might have changed... but it is kinda sad that those familiar numbers i will call last time or those ppl i will chat online when i am stress or depress dun understand my problems anymore... cannot blame them also... JC life is afterall... not University life... and life here in US is totally different from life in Singapore... or Taiwan for that matter... I dun want to tell them all the shit that happen to me... but by doing that...and telling them only the fun and good things that i have... i think i had did a horrible thing of painting to them too rosy a picture of a University life... hmm.... i generally dun like ppl to worry about me... i tok crap 99.9% of the time... coz i think it is fun... i dun like to be serious... i like to tell ppl those outrageous things i see or hear... but sometimes... that is all that i will end up talking about... coz i think it is fun... and ppl are interested in hearing such things from me... but... i think it end up making ppl not taking me seriously when i need them to... which is not really that often... but tat makes it all the more shit... coz when i really really need them... they dun seem to get the intensity of things... hahaha.... not very good....

So when i say i am not feeling too good now.... i am not even sure myself of just how NOT GOOD a shape i am in... when i say i miss home... when i say i miss sitting at Taka with Kaihong or with Ben at J8 chilling out or working out with KP in the gym or pio-ing galz in orchard with Chunyi, KP, Ron and JiaHwee... i am not even sure if i really NEED that to happen or if i am just being childish and not strong... but i noe for a fact that these things are just me daydreaming.... it will never happen again... these ppl are going into NS... and even if they are not going into NS... i will not be going back to singapore... so maybe it is just the fact that i am so stress that i want to be with those goushi again... or maybe i really miss them... argh... heck... i dun even noe wat i am talking about... i am not organising my thoughts at all... i am just typing watever that comes to mind... but i really need to get things thing out of myself... coz i am really really tired... i dun look like it... but i am definitely not feeling good... and stress as hell... i am losing sleep... my sleeping patterns are disrupted... i try to relax... but i am having headache and feel like vomitting for no reason... well... typical symptons of stress... reason??? maybe of the fact that i am not doing so well this term... maybe the fact that i am totally homesick... maybe the fact that i am feeling betrayed by some ppl that i call a friend for a long time... maybe the fact that i have not being exercising and that i am getting fatter and fatter... maybe.... maybe.... hahaha.... i dunnoe...

Wat i do noe... is the fact that my finals are burning my ass... and that i really really need to get a hold of my own life... or else... i have the first final (physics lab) tomorrow at 6... then poli sci final on the 10 Dec, then Cal and Physics final on the auspicious date of Friday, 13 Dec... and the last paper... Engineering C++ programming on the 17 Dec... hahahah... lab should be no problem... but the scores so far are all really close... so i hope i dun flop.... i am still my usual nervous self for my poli sci... i seem to noe wat is going on... but i am just nervous... i will have to start doing my own notes AGAIN.. just in case... muahahah... i am really paranoid for my poli sci... Cal and Physics is pure disaster... i can only concentrate on one to do it... so i am still planning on my revison schedule for these two... the C++ thingy... er.... start praying... i am getting only the basic stuff right... i can say now i am expert now with the IF and While loop statements... but the array, double and Matlab stuff is just beyond me... so er... see wat i can do lahz... i think i will only revise for this course after my Cal and Physics paper... if not i will risk not being well prepared for these two course also... hmm... sounds like a plan?!?!? hahah... being a while since i do such cleaning out of my brain... oh well... more will come after my finals... hahaha...

posted by David at 12/04/2002 11:02:00 AM

 

posted by David at 12/02/2002 08:07:00 PM

 
I am so sorry to those people tat actually bothered to frequent my site occasionally.... but i really have not been doing much for my blog thingy... so sorry... but i am really really drowning in my work... tat i dun have any more brain cell to write anything... i do check my counter and surf daily... but i am really really brain dead since the beginning of this term that i really have not been doing ANY reflection at all... usually i will do that b4 i go to bed... but now... i will just die on my desk or something like tat.... so really nothing interesting to write about... so sorry... both to you ppl and to myself... coz i think self reflection is bery very important.... you learn an awful lot through this... more than anything else... so i would rather put things like tat on my blog site.. .rather than some horrible ramblings and accounts of wat happened to me during the course of the day... of course i DO put those things here... but it is just that i would really want to put some more "intellectual" stuff here... hahahahah...

I am getting sick of this layout... may change to something else when this term is over and when i can relax and THINK again... taking physics, calculus and C++ really really can kill you... and make your brain from not functioning... so take it from the man... DUN ever take such courses in ONE stupid semester... you will die a horrible death... hmm.. okok.. .hope everyone is fine and well.... and here is something stupid written by my juniors in RI....

http://devoid.port5.com/jon.htm

posted by David at 11/23/2002 11:44:00 PM

 




hmm.... the raffles green blood seems to run more in me than the yellow bayley blood.. muahhahaha... hmm.... tat is so not funny....

posted by David at 11/23/2002 11:37:00 PM

 
something i got from alanna's webpage...

how would you commit suicide?


YOU WOULD HANG YOURSELF. you both crave and fear death.
you're fairly certain that you wouldn't actually commit suicide,
but you often fantasize about it because you can't think of any other way to escape living a life that you hate.
you're wary about doing anything irreversible and you have a healthy awareness of the repercussions of your actions.

posted by David at 11/09/2002 10:13:00 AM

 
I am soooooooooo tired... exhausted.... the excitement of preparing for the physics midterm really drained me out... and guess wat... more work is waiting for me now... i have a paper due... tons of homework due and another midterm this week... *sign*... stress lahz... really stress... just feeling so tired and not wanting to do anything... anyway here is something i had in my mail box...

Classic definitions and cool meanings:

1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one
end & a fool at the other.

2. Love affairs : Something like cricket where one-day
internationals are more popular than a five day test.

3. Marriage : It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor
degree and a woman gains her master

4. Divorce : Future tense of marriage

5. Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of
the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through
"the minds of either".

6. Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number
present.

7. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that
everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

8. Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is
defeated by feminine water-power ..

9. Dictionary : A place where divorce comes before marriage.

10. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens
& everybody disagrees later on.

11. Ecstasy : A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a
feeling you have never felt before.

12. Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.

13. Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

14. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home
life.

15. Yawn : The only time some married men ever get to open their
mouth.

16. Etc. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than you
actually do.

17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sitto
decide that nothing can be done together.

18. Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

20. Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be
spoken of when dead.

21. Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way
that you actually look forward to the trip.

22. Opportunist : A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally
falls into a river.

23. Optimist : A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in
midway "See I am not injured yet."

24. Pessimist :- A person who says that O is the last letter in
ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.

25. Miser : A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

26. Father : A banker provided by nature.

27. Criminal : A guy no different from the rest... except that he
got caught.

28. Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you
are early.

29. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your
Confidence after.

30. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you
with his bills.

31. Computer Engineer : One who gets paid for reading such
mails......

posted by David at 11/03/2002 02:19:00 PM

 






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posted by David at 10/30/2002 10:56:00 AM

 

About movin' on

Two incidents...

1. Send a mail to Alim.... and he replied commenting how gay it is for me to use the Rafflesian Principle of Honour as my email signature...

2. Went to Satchi's room and found out that his IM nick is "Proud to be a Wolverine"...

this two incidents really got me thinking... Ben Lee had told me a zillion times about moving on and forget about Raffles... ok... well... i am in a new school... and really i can finally put matters related to RI to rest... after my juniors won the house championship this year... i consider my job done for RI... i dun owe them anything liao... maybe next time if the school calls for me, i try as much as i can to help... but the point is... i just feel i dun have to actively do things for them liao...

but then again... look at people like Satchi... such pride in his school... peopel around me... such pride for this university... so the big question is... WHY have such pride??

I think it would probably boils down to the issue of loyalty... something like supporting a football club... e.g. do you only support a club only coz they are good??? are you only gonna be loyal to it only when it is doing well?? are you going to be with friend and be loyal to a person only coz you have something to gain??? and when situation turns and he became who he no longer is, are you still gonna be your friend?? hmm.... obviously some ppl will say that if a "friend" is no longer who was... then you probably will reconsider the kind of friendship you have with tat person lahz... but call me stupid... call me naive... call me ANYTHING... i still think for the old time sake... he will still be my friend no matter wat... even if he turn his back on me and do all sorts of horrible thing on me... i seriously find it damn difficult to "return him the favor" so to speak... seriously too difficult for me... i think this is kinda very important now... coz i am definitely experiencing such situations now... ppl that i once can totally thrust and depend on are seriously making me suspicious of their credibility now... i dun like to doubt ppl... but if the situation is really obvious that something nasty is going on... er... i am not THAT dumb hor... so obviously i will notice right... so wat should i do??? return him the favor?? ignore him??? or wat??? and also all the info i am getting about how some of the closest ppl i know are changing like mad... and totally not like the way they once where... what do i do??? do i still show they the same amount of loyalty and friendship??? same amount of thrust??? it is damn hard for me to change lahz... so once i call a person to be a friend... it is hard for me to change liao... i must admit i am a little picky when declaring if a person is a friend or not... but once declared.... i really find it difficult to change the "status"... hahaha... tough choice....

Did i digress??? i dunnoe... i just find this whole issue of moving on and "growing up" really a pain in the ass.... you are who you are... why change??? i am 19... going 20.... so wat??? i still enjoy pulling off pranks on people.... making myself look ridiculous and foolish... laugh like a hyena to irritate people.... sing boyband music the way they sound to crack the windows and drive everyone around me insane... throw occasional tempers and mood around just for fun.... so wat about tat???? acting childish??? not grown-up enuff??? not mature enuff??? hahahaha.... pls hor... i really really think life is far too short to think about such things.... so pls... DUN TALK TO ME ABOUT MOVIN ON AND GROWING UP... it's my life... i am who i am... so to put it very very gently to those who want me to "grow-up".... hmm... pls leave me alone... it is better this way.... (or i will bite your leg like a mad dog and chase you away.... hahahahahaha)

being a busy week.... damn tiring... so totally neglected this blog thingy... but now weekend liao... so can spend some time here.... hmm... anything new this week??? not much.... usual stuff... the TIMELESS debate of WHY I DUN HAVE A GALFRIEND.... my roommate Nick and Tearron had officially put me onto their homo-suspicion list... hahahah.... and it really does not help the matter when i told them i came from an all boy school.... never had a gal-friend.... (and of course dun have all the related stuff like kissing etc etc lahz....) and the fact that i scored like 75% on some "how much of a gay are you" test.... hahahah.... yeah right.... i am probably too "horny" to be gay lahz.... eh... dun think dirty hor... just tat i definitely prefer galz to guys... of course my soul mates all guys lahz... but still.... this is the result of not knowing any gal well enough wat.... not my fault right.... anyway.... since Nick and Tearron want to play so i just play with them lahz... hahaha... as if i will turn into a gay just because they suspect i am one... hahahahaha....

My parents back in Singapore liao.... hmm... so??? i also dunnoe... just thought that this is important.... in case i stupid stupid and call them in taiwan again... hahaha... eh... dun laugh... this kind of thingy not say never happen before hor... last time they went back to taiwan and left me in Singapore, i still blur blur and call back to my singapore home to tell them that i was caught in the rain and ask them to bring me umbrella... hahahaha... yes... i am dumb.... HAPPY?!?!?!? hahahhaah....

and btw... i changed the signature of my lycos email account... it is now the chorus of Michigan fighting song.... quite nice leh.... but i still retained the same thing for my Raffles.org account... hey... it is a raffles account... wat you expect??? some horrible lousy motto like "the best is yet to be"??? hahahahahah... YEAH!!!!

posted by David at 10/25/2002 08:32:00 PM

 
Hafiz just brought to my attention this really really cool site... it is the MIRROR site of google.... literally... so for those of you that dunnoe.... click on the real google link to see the real thing... then click on the mirror site here to see for yourself and have some laughs!!!!!

posted by David at 10/20/2002 03:31:00 PM

 

WHAT HAPPENED???

I just had a dinner tonite with two singaporean officials from A*STAR. The dinner was held in this posh Italian restaurant at South Main Street and seriously, after that dinner, i was totally confused on WHY i was there...

I was told that these gentlemen are here to talk to Singaporean students on their view of education in US and what are some things that can be used in Singapore and also to take resume for those interested in joining their scholarship program of something like that... at first i was like,"i am not singaporean or PR... why am i getting this??" then i was told that i should just go down and see what those officials have to say coz they also receive applications for foreign students... ok... I KNOW that my grades are not fantastic YET... and i say the word YET.. but still, i thought why not right... just go there and hear what are the expectations or ANYTHING that these representatives have to say... so i went....

ok... so i am totally confused now coz during the dinner, NOTHING even close to wat i was told happened... no resume was given, no feedback, no NOTHING... in fact one representative was like just chit chatting with these few singaporean SCHOLARS... i mean... look.... these people are scholars already... you have them in the pocket already... you want more people to work for you??? then why the hell aren't you talking to people like me??? alamak... not say i ego or not lahz... but it is OBVIOUS that this particular official is kinda acquainted with these three scholars that he was talking to... and check this out... the whole conversation is really kopitian chitchatting in my opinion... ok... fine... maybe it is an attempt by singaporean officials to be friendly to scholars... but er... HALF WAY ACROSS THE GLOBE and TREATING IDIOTS LIKE ME IN SOME POSH ITALIAN RESTAURANT USING SINGAPOREAN TAXPAYER'S MONEY??? er... is it just ME or is something JUST NOT RIGHT??? now you ppl see why i am totally in a daze when i left the dinner??? SURE... i had a GREAT AND EXPENSIVE DINNER!!! but then again, i am really not there for the food... i had expectations for this meeting... and i am just totally disappointed in this whole business... seriously... i have NO IDEA what it was all about....

but of course this whole incident is not all that bad lahz... i got to talk to this ME professor that is like TOTALLY NICE.... he is so fun to talk to... so i was like talking to him the whole dinner... actually kinda pai seh lahz... he was asking me about whether i have read this report from Stanford about how useless MBA is.... ok... i did read part of it... but i think i sorta give him the impression that i am like totally familiar with it... and he seemed kinda impressed... lol... so sorry... i always feel kinda bad when dealing with nice people like this... when i gave ppl the wrong impression of how good i am... hahaha... seriously... really feel bad... hahahaah

posted by David at 10/18/2002 01:27:00 AM

 


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posted by David at 10/16/2002 10:48:00 AM

 
Ai seh... went to the library to mug yesterday... hell... dun like it at all.... i mean last time in RI got study in library b4 lahz... but the place feel more comfortable and by being smaller and knowing everyone there feels sooo much better and at ease... but at the graduate library is like totally different lor... ok... fine... i was in this small cubicle all by myself... but still i feel being watched... it is a public building... and i just dun feel alone... or at ease... of course i did some work... (no lahz... actually A LOT of work...) but still... ARRGHH ... i dun like it...

that crazy sniper is going on the hunt again liao... but i just wonder is it sniper or sniperS... kinda scary leh... and to make it better, UofM is having its share of trouble lor... last time got that fraud email that is like super anti-palestinian and i just sense something big is behind it.... hell... the source of that email is traced all the way to california... and why stop there??? scared??? hmm... not good... and with all these pro-Isreal and pro-Palestine rallies going on... seriously... i have reasons to fear for my life.... damn... i mean, look.... UofM is one of the biggest public university in US... if some cranky terrorist want to DO something, this would be one of the beautiful targets to have wat... right??? hmm... think i just a tweeny-weeny paranoid... but then again, i got the right mah.... anyway....

posted by David at 10/16/2002 08:42:00 AM

 

THE HEATER IS ON!!!

ok fine... call my a wuss... but i was frozen to death yesterday... the temp went down to -3 deg C... i left my room's window open and i was out till like 1 am... damn... i closed my window but the damage was done... and i end up wearing woolen socks and SWEATER to bed... and yes... thermal long pants.... alamak... and was still shivering in my bed till i absolutely got tired and fall into coma... hahah... but YES... the central heating system is now on!!!!!! YIPPPEEE!!!!!

posted by David at 10/14/2002 04:05:00 PM

 
Hmm... alone in my room... Tearron and Nick had gone back home for the fall break... Hong had gone to Wisconsin to meet his gal gal... Went gym with Weehong and James yesterday... seriously... i like the way i look AFTER i worked out... hahah.. with the muscle all tensed up... hahaha... man... i set the standard for being a hunk!!! but then again, still not good enough... coz though my biceps are big, they are STILL not define... but wat to do... i never work out regularly... it is like one month very on... then slack like mad for two month... like that i can never get my bicep wat even though the strength is definitely there... alamak...so sad... but hey... just for that few minutes after i worked out... i really like the way my body look... haaha... wah lao... sound damn sicko... lol... sound like some psycho guy who is like self obsessed with his body or something... hahahahaha...

I JUST found out wat the heck was that Friday Five thingy that alanna is putting on her web... hahah...so here is mine...

1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?

My Harlem Number 1 CD by Harlem Yu!!!

2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?

The Godfathers and LOTR

3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?

a. Da Di (this is suppose to be orginally an English novel by this author by the name of something Pearl ??? but i read the chinese version and it was translated to this...)

b. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

c. Anyone of the book by this Taiwanese author call Liu Yong

4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?

My mom's food, my dad's egg fried rice, my grandma's super oily/salty pork and turnip soup and my own cooking that is done with any item (i.e. sauce, type of cooking equipment, type of flame/cooking machine etc etc...) that i want...

5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?

My Dad, My mom, my grandmas and my grandads

posted by David at 10/12/2002 09:31:00 PM

 

PROTEST!!!

This is getting outragous... in Taiwan's Double Ten National Day this year, a designated overseas chinese spoke on behalf of all overseas chinese in the annual STATE ceremony held in front of the Presidential Office. It is an annual tradition that such speaker will speak and I have no objection towards that... BUT... this year, an overseas chinese from Japan was chosen... again, i have nothing against it... what I am protesting is that that speaker made the speech in a DIALECT... hey... and i thought it is a STATE FUNCTION!!! yes... i know that it is a dialect spoke by a lot of taiwanese... but still, even if the president were to speak, he must give a speech in BOTH Mandarine and whichever dialect he wants to... but NO... that speaker spoke in dialect... ok... fine... and here is the best part... SHE CONTINUED HER SPEECH IN JAPANESE!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!! YOU GOT SOME PROBLEM???? YOU FORGOT WHERE YOU ARE NOW??? YOU GOT SOME IDENTITY CRISIS???? YOU ARE ATTENDING THE STATE CEREMONY OF TAIWAN AND REPRESENTING OVERSEAS CHINESE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND YOU FREAKING SPOKE IN JAPANESE??? ok... let us just for a moment try to ignore the fact that the Japanese had occupied Taiwan for ONLY 50 years.. and till now they have not make a really convincing apology for what they did... fine.... but what is THAT SPEAKER'S PROBLEM??? if she is speaking in her own capacity, i have NO PROBLEM with any freaking language she use... but here is a STATE CEREMONY... you FUCKING AH-BIEN want Taiwan to be recognised internationally as a sovereign state... and yet you allow this kind of JACKASS people to use some language other than what is "YOUR SOVEREIGN STATE'S RECOGNISED OFFICIAL LANGUAGE" to make a speech in such occasion.... THIS IS A DISGRACE TO ALL TAIWANESE BOTH IN THE ISLAND AND ABROAD... there are occasions that allow such speakers to make speech in his/her native language... but not here... she is here as a member of the Overseas Chinese Affair Official in Japan, representing, first of all, THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (which, the last time i check, DOES NOT INCLUDE JAPANESE AS A OFFICIAL GOVERNEMENTAL LANGUAGE!!!!) and secondly, the overseas CHINESE in Japan... and not JAPANESE that look that chinese, DUN SPEAK chinese, and only speak Japanese... which ever way you look at it, it is wrong... if she CANNOT SPEAK CHINESE, then she should not be giving a speech, I DUN GIVE A FLYING FUCK IF THERE IS ANY POLITICAL MOTIVE BEHIND MAKING HER THE SPEAKER.... THIS IS A FUCKING STATE FUNCTION AND I WANT SOME STANDARDS TO BE OBSERVED AND SOME SELF-RESPECT TO BE MAINTAINED WHEN DOING THINGS THAT CONCERNS NOT JUST SOME DUMBASS POLITICIAN OR PARTY.... in case for those of you that still dun get it... I AM PISSED... it dun matter whether you are pro-unification or independent... by making a speech in a non-governmental language in a STATE FUNCTION, she has offended everyone that loves the REPUBLIC OF CHINA and the island we live in call TAIWAN. THIS IS A FORMAL PROTEST THAT I AM MAKING TOWARDS THE ORGANISOR OF THE DOUBLE-TEN NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION IN MY OWN CAPACITY. I DUN GIVE A DAMN IF PEOPLE THINK I AM DUMB OR FOR THE FACT THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT WHAT I SAY HERE. I AS A PROUD CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA HAS BEEN DEEPLY INSULTED BY THIS INCIDENT AND I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION AND APOLOGY FROM ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN THIS INCIDENT.

P.S. The taiwantank will be now looking for an official way to lodge an complain towards this incident, if you happen to know a way to do this, please email the taiwantank at yll@umich.edu or cool_liu@yahoo.com. Thank You !!!

posted by David at 10/10/2002 02:03:00 PM

 
Something Stupid...

In case you needed further proof that the
human race is doomed through stupidity,
here are some actual label instructions
on consumer goods.

On a SEARS hairdryer: Do not use while
sleeping. ( and that's the only time I have to work on my hair.)

On a bag of Fritos: ..You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details
inside. (the shoplifter special?)

On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap." (and that would
be how??...)

On some Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestion: Defrost." (but, it's
"just" a suggestion.)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on
bottom): "Do not turn upside down." (well...duh, a bit late, huh!)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating."
(...and you thought????...)

On packaging for a Rowenta iron: "Do not iron clothes on body." (but
wouldn't this save me more time?)

On Boot's Children Cough Medicine:"Do not drive a car or operate machinery
after taking this medication." (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of
construction accidents if we could just get those 5-year-olds with
head-colds off those forklifts.)

On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness." (and... I'm taking this
because???....)

On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only." (as
opposed to...what?)

On Sunsbury's peanuts: "Warning: contains nuts." (talk about a news flash)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts:
"Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts." (Step 3: maybe, uh...fly Delta?)

On a child's superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you
to fly." (I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for this one.)

On a Swedish chainsaw:"Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or
genitals." (..was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)

Contributed by John Lim

posted by David at 10/09/2002 10:52:00 AM

 
The temperature outside now is ONLY about ONE/SATU/YI degree celcius... hmm... remember last time how i use to die when i go back to Taiwan in December... and the lowest temperature back then was still above 10 deg... and most of the time it is around 12 - 15... hmm... i just hope i recover fast enough b4 snow comes down... hmm... this is always the problem with me... i dun really fall sick often... but once i do.. hahah... hell it is man... takes me forever to recover... hmm... and the current workload i have is NOT helping me at all... *sign*...

Got my ear-phone liao... PERFECT!!! heehee... was listening to my music happily in the room and doing my work without interference... well... at least... MINIMAL interferece... hahaha... YIPPEEE!!! but right now i am in the computer lab lahz... coz 1.30 am liao... roommate need to sleep... and i still got tons of work to do... so must come down here... hmm... but heehee.. i got my ear-phone with me... so not too bad siaz!!! hahah... hmm... ONLY need to do my physics assignment and ONLY need to type out my Poli Sci essay... hmm... need to pull of a miracle to night again... hahahahah

posted by David at 10/08/2002 01:40:00 AM

 
I am still down with fever and bad cough... the weather is killer... supposedly snow will start to fall in 3-4 weeks time... hmm... bad....

Trying to do my practise sums for tomorrow's calculus examination... slept for the whole weekend... was half dead coz of the fever... not on medication... coz i dun like to take medicine... so was drinking lots of water... was feeling much better... but then i think the work on Saturday sorta stretched me kinda thin... hmm... not confident of the cal exam... not enough practise... but trying not to think negative... but still.... just trying to do lahz...

That pair of Jensen ear-phone should arrive by today... can't wait... then can listen to my music without bothering Nick and Tearron... hmm... but then again... did they realise that sometimes their music and TV is bothering me a little??? Oh well... i can't really say much... coz i myself listen to music when i work... so just because listening to R&B music or having the TV flashing all the time bothers me doesn't mean Tearron can't listen to his Tupac or Nick watching his TV when they work right?!?!? so must give and take lahz... in any case with my ear-phone i can probably just bring my Discman and go to the library or something like tat... hmm... but then again... the LONG time psychological barrier of NOT being able to study in my room is.... argh... killer.... but then the choice is obvious... stay in the room and get distracted every other minute and not being able to study... or go somewhere else and be able to concentrate... hmm.... not a really hard choice actually....

posted by David at 10/07/2002 10:42:00 AM

 
In Memories of My Grandfather

My grandfather passed away in 1999... which is 3 years ago coz I (i.e. my family) follows the chinese lunar calender... so today, is his death anniversary... hmm... been 3 years liao... seriously... but then depends on how you look at it... 3 years may be nothing to a person but to others it may means a lot...

My grandfather is your really traditional asian grandfather... he really adores me... when I was young, he will always bring me around, and show off to others... seriously... i think he kinda spoilt me... not say i am a big piece of sh*t now lahz... but just that i think i sort of took after his notorious big temper from him, his stubborness and etc etc... my grandfather is a good man... but then again, every man is entitled to some kinda of short-comings... my grandfather has a very good heart... but sometimes the kind of things he do is really puzzling....

But then i really like him... but the screw up things is i guess the puberty thingy tat i was going through at that time kinda make me stayed away from him... he is always scolding people... scolding and cursing... i think he is doing this to get the attention he want... but the more he do that, the more i wanted to stay away from him... kinda like a vicious cycle... really... call it regret?? call it guilt?? i dunnoe... i really should have spend more time with him... sometimes the unforgettable image of him sitting in his room playing card by himself or staring at the ceiling really really kills me... and to think that when i was young i always turn to him when i got into trouble... hmm... and i was not there for him when he needed someone... hmm... i am not crying... the tears kinda dried... everytime i go back to taiwan, walking past his room will always be something i dread... the screw up feeling just kills me... it is like he live on the 2nd floor and mine is on the third... so everytime when i climb the stairs up to my room... definitely will see his room... but only now he is no longer sitting there... no more sound of him banging the table as he curse and swear... no more of him spitting on the floor and letting my mom to wipe it for him...

I miss him... i only dreamt of him twice... but i forgot how it was like in the second time i dream of him... i just remember each time waking up with my pillow soaked... hmm... i chanted a sutra for him early this morning... not that he will need it... coz i noe he is in a good place up there... despite what my grandfather may seems on the outside, he is a great person deep down... that is all that matters... so he is in good place... i am sure... me leh???? hmm... i dunnoe... not a good person yet... not good enough... still must control my temper... the thing now is that i dun ACT when my temper comes up... so that can have two interpretation.... one is that i am getting better... or maybe the fact that i am just numb... but eventually my goal is not to have any feel of anger at all... i can do it... my temper is really the biggest problem that i have... i really must conquer it... then i can say that i am a better person... yupyup...

posted by David at 10/05/2002 09:48:00 PM

 
Stupid

A tank was doing his work when he realise (magically... coz he is usually too "care - less" to bother about checking...) that he made a mistake... when he could not find the appropriate equipment to erase the pencil mark, he turn to his roommate and asked :"dude... do you have any rubber to lend me??"

His roommate, upon hearing this, said to the tank :"hey man.. y do you need it for??"

The tank replied:"I need it for my work."

His roommate, upon hearing this, said to the tank again "you gigolo or something?? why in this world would you need RUBBER to do your work???"

The Tank:"..............................." (still in the process of vomitting blood....)

posted by David at 10/03/2002 02:33:00 AM

 
One Good Man

I really need to tell the whole world about this... good deeds should never go unnoticed or be unappreciated or unsung... yes... this is what i truly believe and why i am writing this stuff now...

The physics midterm will be two days from now... Mr Yours Truly is still struggling like mad... no confidence at all on how to go about doing all those questions... basically, i am in deep yogurt... really really deep chocolate flavor yogurt... yes... situation is bad... seeked help from Azwan and Satchi... got some confidence but not enough... bad...very bad... then came the surprise... my discussion instructor... Prof Uher, offered to give a review session for the classes he teach... which is something really extra.. he dun get paid to do this... now... it is not as if i had never attended a review session before... but those i attended in the past are really really useless... so i was like.. "ok... i will just give it a try..." and i was trying to find out his office hour yesterday... and boy... i was surprised to see that he is actually the Chair of the physics department of UofM... eh... not as if he got nothing better to do leh... this man is like the head... overseeing so much thing... and yet he still willing to spend two hours helping idiotic kids like me... doing those sums that are ridiculously easy for him... can you imaging how touch i was??? coz yesterday when i got to know his "true color", i still dunnoe he is holding a review session today... and i was like WAHHHh... i got a big-shot as my discussion instructor... felt damn privileged lahz... but seriously what he did today really really touched me... so what if those 30 odd kids in his discussion class are idiots like me who will probably bomb their midterm??? He is the freaking Chair... his job is more or less secured... ok... MAYBE ... he do get paid for that TWO HOUR of review session... but hey... get real... that guy is probably earning more money than to really care about that two miserable two hour of extra pay lahz... so you see... this is really really a good act... and that two session is really really useful... so much of my doubts are cleared... and seriously... i am so so so grateful... this is such a small gesture to make from someone high high up like him... those problems that we go through today are like... DUH questions for him... in fact, the Profs in UofM are all really really good in their work... but yet... how many are willing to go the extra miles for their student??? I did not have any review session for my chemistry classes back in spring??? my computing prof never offer any review session.... so you see... this is really a kind act that one must really spread and appreciate... and further more Prof Uher was not there to talk cock ok!!! you could see him really being there to help... within that two hours, he covered almost all types of questions that could come out... went through all the theories... and when the questions that he had prepared was done, you could see him still trying to squeeze out possible type of questions that could come out... sitting there watching him scratching his head and brainstorming is really really... hmm.. i dunnoe... must have used the word TOUCHED a million times by now liao... but then again, my pathetic pool of english vocabulary is kinda limiting me to use other words...

hmm... feel really good now... i am going to mug the hell out of myself for the physics midterm... cannot let Prof Uher down after all that he has done... yup yup... now... how the hell do you do those 3D vector questions?!?!?!? @#$%... hahahahahaha

posted by David at 9/30/2002 09:49:00 PM

 
YES!!!!! I have finally found a website that can let me watch Taiwanese channel online!!!! www.wwitv.com... i am sooo happy!!! feels so good to see taiwanese program... it is not like tat lousy channel newasia... everyday just see news... this is a taiwanese channel for real... heehee... and with T1 connection, it is just like watching the real TV... YEAH!!!!

Oh yeah... went to Azwan for help with my physics... sign... hope i dun have to bother him next time... but then again, with midterm coming up next week, hmm... think i will be bugging him more often liao lahz... hmm... think my studies is kinda bad nowadays... not doing enough... not doing them efficient enough also....hmm... i think no choice... i have to get out of my room and study in the library or something like tat... hmm... i really hate the idea of not being able to study in MY room... but wat to do... if i dun do something about it i think i will die liao... okok.. tat should be all for now...

posted by David at 9/28/2002 09:32:00 PM

 
Here is the news report on the dorm fire... "enjoy"...

West Quad fire may have been intentional

By Jeremy Berkowitz and Maria Sprow, Daily Staff Reporters

September 27, 2002

A small blaze in a West Quad Residence Hall restroom forced residents to evacuate their rooms for approximately two hours late Wednesday night and into the early hours of yesterday morning and is now being investigated as an arson.

The fire alarm was pulled by a student at 11:51 p.m. after he smelled smoke coming from a men's restroom in the hall's basement.

Department of Public Safety Lt. Robert Neumann said the fire originated from a soap dispenser in the restroom.

The dispenser was consumed and some damage to the surrounding area was reported but no cost estimate was available yesterday, Neuman added.

"There was smoke in the hallway and the responding housing officer obtained a fire extinguisher and extinguished the fire," Neumann said. "Nobody was seen in the immediate area at the time the fire was discovered."

But fire inspectors from both the University and the Ann Arbor Police Department ruled the fire to be intentional because there was nothing present at the scene that could have sparked an accidental fire.

There are no known suspects and the incident is still under investigation. DPS is asking for students with any information to call the department.

"We are looking for anybody who may have seen any specific activity in that area," Neumann said.

If or when a suspect is found, he or she would face charges for arson of an occupied dwelling. The crisis is punishable with up to 20 years in a state prison. There is no specified minimum punishment or sentence, he added.

Engineering freshman David Arft said that he first noticed the fire before midnight when he and his friends were watching a movie. They overheard somebody walking down the hall say he smelled smoke.

"As soon as I stepped out of the hall, there was a burning plastic smell," said Arft, who lives in the basement of Wenley House in West Quad, near the fire's origin.

The fire alarm sounded shortly after, and Arft and his friends evacuated the room, telling their friends and fellow residents that unlike many fire alarms that go off, this one didn't appear to be an accident or joke.

"We stepped outside of my room and a couple people ran by, saying that it was real," said LSA sophomore Dan Feldman, who also lives in the basement of Wenley House.

Rumors of what happened spread throughout the crowd during the next several hours, Feldman said.

"We got some word to be patient for just a little bit longer," he said. "What can you do? There is a fire going on. ... If the bathroom is burning, they got to do what they got to do."

posted by David at 9/27/2002 10:25:00 AM

 
here is a little survey i did

---------------HAVE YOU EVER------------------

* Missed school B/coz it was raining: only if my mom is not around... but i no longer do that...

* Put a body part on fire for amusement: you think i mad izzit... i want to eat roast pig also no need to do that to myself right...

* Got hurt emotionally: oh yeah... millions of times... still nursing one...

* Kept a secret from everyone: not intentionally...i dun like to hide things... but i dun go around telling everyone everything about me also lahz... btw did i tell you guys i have two eyes???

* Had an imaginary friend: NO.

* Cried during a Movie: yep. quite often...

* Had a crush on a teacher: yes... TSN and SIH

* Had a New Kids on the Block tape: nope... never hear their music b4

* Been on stage: yes... proud member of the winning Bayley house production of 1999... heehee.. got a chance to wack Tris XP on stage... YEAH!!!!! (and his parents were sitting among the audience when i did that... hahahaha)

* Cut your hair: YES YES YES!!! I JUST CUT MY HAIR BY MYSELF THE OTHER DAY!!!! IT WAS SOOOOO FUN!!!!! i am sooo proud of myself!!!



------------------FavORITES------------------

* Shampoo: any thing will do... i even wash it with soap...

* Soap: i dun like those tat has moisturizing thingy in them... i like my skin dry and dry...

* Color: black, yellow, orange green

* Day/Night: depends... not much preference

* Summer/Winter: use to be winter... but i think now no more liao.. and ben.. wait till you come over to states... then you have like 3 months of snow... i till you... you will go crazy... it is not like your annual holiday trip lehz... you get damn sianz of it... trust me... i am willing to bet on it...

* Lace or satin: wat the hell are these two???

* Fave cartoon Characters: wolverine, gambit, doraemo, all of dragon ball character and Sakuragi of slam dunk

* Fave Food: i think now it will be very bias... coz i miss home food... but then, i had always love my mom's cooking... i am serious...

* Fave Advert: no special fav... but there is this damn funny one i saw nowadays... it is a commercial for NFL.. it is like a scene in the supermarket... this cashier open up a new checkout line and wave to everyone saying "i am open...".. then this other guy look at him... reach inside his shopping cart, and threw a pineapple at him... then after that, there is this msg of "Got to be the football season".... hahahahaha

* Fave Movie: everything by tom hanks... Godfather (YES!!! I FINALLY MANAGED TO HAVE THE WHOLE COLLECTION OF THEM LIAO... haha.. DVD quality... damn good!!!)... i am a movie person... 3 generations of movie blood is in me... i will reopen my family's cinema one day!!! (i hope so...)


Fave Ice Cream: haagen-daaz and the taiwan local I-mei redbean and jello ice cream

* Fave Subject: no preference... studying is studying...

* Fave 'normal' Drink: dihydrogen oxide

* Fave Persons to talk to online: any one lahz... but i really really prefer to talk to ppl over the phone or face to face... but think that is not very possible now... sponsorship anyone????


----------------RIGHT NOW------------------


* Wearing: a singlet with a michigan sweatshirt over it and a pair of RI shorts

* Hair is: botak... YES !!! i did it myself!!!!

* I'm feeling: tired... lots of work to do...

* Eating : apple

* Drinking: water

* Thinkin bout: will the physics lab burn down tomorrow so i dun have to submit my lab report?!?!? hahaha

* Listening to: David Tao... he she liu ding (black orange)

* Talkin 2: my roommate... tearron is trash talking... hahah


---------------IN THE LAST 24 HRS------------------


* Cried: no...

* Worn a skirt: dun tell you... hahaha...

* Met someone New : yes... my physics lab partner's gf... forgot her name though... she is taiwanese... but i think she grew up here... nothing "taiwanese" about her....

* Cleaned your room: yes... took out the trash...

* Done laundry: i do them over the weekend..

* Drove a car: Daytona count or not???


--------------DO YOU BELIEVE IN------------------


* Yourself: definitely

* Your friends: yep... i have total faith in them... coz i dun call everyone i meet "friend"... they got to earn it...

* Santa Claus: nope... i WAS a good boy when i was young... and i never got my presents...

* Tooth Fairy: wat the hell is this???

* Destiny/Fate: absolutely

* Ghosts: absolutely

* UFO's: absolutely


-----------------FRIENDS AND LIFE------------------


* Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? : tons of boyfriends... life is forcing me to be gay... hahaha

* Like anyone?: me, myself and YenLin

* Who's the loudest: depends on who i am with lahz... if i am with those bunch of goushi from 4J then it will be them lahz... but if with other ppl then i will be the louder ones lahz...

* Who's the shyest: if in front of galz, then definitely me...

* Who's the weirdest: yours truly... my friends are all nice ppl...

* Who do you go to for advice: ben lee

* Who do you cry to? see who is the unlucky one lahz...

* When you cried the most: last year... around april may that period... before my tears ran dry...

* Whats the best feeling in the world: scoring A for my tests and making ppl around me happy...

* Worst feeling: getting screwed... or making half of my dorm black out coz of the microwave i bought...

* Who will respond to this email the fastest?: dunnoe... all my friends dun answer mails one...

* Who sent this survey: ben lee

posted by David at 9/27/2002 01:09:00 AM

 
10.25 p.m.

Mr Yours Truly was mugging his head away in his room when the fire alarm went off... kinda funny... this is the first time tat happened since i came over... and the first thing that came to mind was :"shit... is alim here???" hahah... somehow everytime the alarm goes off i will think of alim... tat @#$%^... hahah... wonder how he is now... so i went into the hall way... my RA was like asking everyone to get out coz it is an evacuation exercise... i was wearing a Tshirt and a shorts... so i put on a long sleeve shirt, and my cargo pants then i went off... hahah... it was quite a sight... ppl tat got caught in their shower... no slipper, whole body wet (hmm...) etc etc... everyone is like laughing... joking... so it was fun... though abit cold... temperature was like 6 degree C then... cold... but then again, we were only out in the open for like 5 minutes before we all went back to my room...

12.00 midnite

Mr Your Truly had mugged like crazy for the past two hours and was taking a break, sipping some freshly boiled tea, eating some chips and watching at that silly Letterman when the alarm went off AGAIN... Tearron and Nick were in the room with me and we were like.... "argh... screw it... we are not going out..." can't believe it you noe... bloody hell... TWO FREAKING FIRE DRILLS IN ONE NIGHT... but then my RA was like... guys... get out... @#$%^ no choice... the boss say go out... so must go out... so i put on my LS shirt and my cargo pants... and my shoe without socks... took my keys and off i go... thinking this will only take five - ten minutes... hahaha.... alas... it turned out that i had to wait for TWO FREAKING HOURS!!! coz this time round... there IS A FIRE... this toilet at the other side of West Quad started burning and even though we are like super far away from that place, the whole west quad got evacuated coz we are somehow all linked... beautiful... it is oledi midnite... temperature is at a sweet 3 deg C... wind is like blowing like mad... and Mr Yours Truly is like wearing so little... freeeeeeziiiinnnng.... at first i still try to jump around to keep warm... but after like 15 minutes... i gave up... freaking tiring... so i just sit on the sidewalk with Nick and talk trash... then we walk around alittle... but did not venture too far... coz i was damn cold... so wait wait wait... the fire was put down after an hour... but since some plastic were burnt, they got a team of ppl from the environmental office to come and suck out the carcinoginic gas...wah lao eh... can die one lor... make me stay for an hour and almost freeze me to death... very nice... and still got tons of work to do... bloody hell... finally got back at around 2.15.... then still got tons of work to do... stayed up till like 4... damn tiring... wasted two hours and got damn exhausted coz of that... normally if purely mugging till like 4 it is no big deal... but coz of that two hour of cold turkey treatment... hahaha... die... can't make it to the first lecture this morning which was at 9... went for the pol sci lecture at 10... but slept throught the second half... damn tired... damn damn damn tire....

posted by David at 9/26/2002 01:41:00 PM

 
Two things happened today....

1) I DID IT... I SHAVED MY OWN HAIR!!! not too bad leh... but then again, it is botak... so no big deal... just use the shaver borrowed from John just run them over my hair... but then again... it was damn shiok!!! of course got some help from Hong lahz... think he had fun doing it for me also... hahah... now i feel really comfortable... the hair was so long that my ears were covered... and it always feel as if some insect is resting on my ears... very itchy... then some more hard to maintain... look really sloppy... so well.. tat is history... at least for now...

2) another thing tat became history was my microwave... yes... it lasted less than a week in my possession... damn sad... but cannot be helped... i had already incurred the wrath of my hall mates... this one guys is like giving me shit faces everytime i see him... of course he has the right to be angry with me... coz i black out the hall again yesterday... which is really really a stupid thing for me to do... i mean it is not as if i did it for fun... but that guy just like totally give me this face... sign... wat to do... i was in the wrong in the very first place... so no choice.. made the decision to sell the microwave... heehee... but then again, i sold it for 30 bucks... tat is a neat profit of 5 bucks... hahah... oh well... so effectively, i saved like 15 bucks by cutting my own hair, and also earned 5 bucks from the microwave... heehee... not too bad... not too bad!!! and now i just have to figure out how to do the physics online assignment...*sign*....

posted by David at 9/24/2002 02:40:00 AM

 
Did i say tat C++ is hard??? die... how how... assignment due wednesday and still i am clueless.... very very good... hahah... went jalan jalan with malay gang yesterday... celebrate mooncake festival... saw the Singapore Student Association's mcf thingy.... lol... pay 10bucks for lantern and mooncake... very nice... i must be mad to pay tat kind of money.... but can't stand it lahz... think some of the ppl there a little AA.... both guys and galz... of course i realise that galz more... coz i pay more attention to them naturally... hahah... anyway i never bother to stay long... so went kroger to buy my grocery...

Weather getting cold... but i will be getting a botak very soon... will be cutting it myself... i dun want to spend tat 12 bucks... too expensive.... mad... so i will be getting the shaver from jon....

still lots of work to do... weekend is fun... downloaded tons of MP3... but all old songs... i am totally out of touch with the chinese music... Tearron is making me listen to R&B every day... so it is TuPac, nelly, D Dre and P.Diddy everyday... hahah... yo yo yo... you noe want i'm saying?!?!?!? hahahhaha

posted by David at 9/22/2002 02:19:00 PM

 
Yesterday was damn funny... i finally bought a microwave for 25 bucks... huge one... 1100 watt... very powerful... anyway... i was like studying till quite late... then i was watching the David Letterman show... then i got hungry... maybe it is because Alicia Keys was on... hahah... anyway... so i decided to cook myself a bowl of noodle with my new microwave lahz... so i rip open a packet of Ramen, took out a stick of super frozen turkey hotdog... put everything into a bowl and add water... set the microwave to 8 minutes... and was waiting for it lahz... then suddenly the power for the microwave went dead... then there were some cursings heard down the hall corridor... i was like totally blur... then Nick and Tearron went out to check... while i was trying to get my microwave working again... then still not working.... then nick came back and told me that the power went out for like half of the hall... hmm... so i suspected something wrong... ok... then the gung-ho guys down the whole took out all their tools and start tearing the electric board apart... it was kinda funny.... guys in boxers (and their gal friends...hmm... hahah) crowded in front of the electric circuit board, trying to figure out what to do... first they like tear down the metal cover... then found that it was the wrong one... it is for the telephone cables... so everyone was like oooopsss... then we got it right the next time... so they flicked the fuse back on while i went back to continue my cooking... and before they had time to screw back the metal covering, the power went off again... and tat was when i suspect tat it might be my microwave... heehee... but not the rest lahz.... so they flicked back the power on again... and i started my microwave again... hahah... of course the power went dead again lahz... and now the guys were pissed.... and i am like "oh shit... my noodle...my microwave... my TWENTY FIVE BUCKS!!!! Arrrghhh...." well... of course the guys found out tat i was the culprit lahz... and Jim (two doors down the hall from my room...) threatened to kill me... hahahah... of course joking only lahz... more like the other way round if anything were to happen... hahahah... anyway... i think it is jus that i overloaded the circuit... coz i plugged my fridge and the microwave together at the same electric output... not say the same pinhole... but at the same twin socket... if you ppl noe wat i mean... anyway... i was like damn pissed... but of course i smart wat... so i moved the microwave to another socket... plug it in... and yeah!!! it worked liao... no black out... hahaha... so it is good... but then by that time my ramen (maggie mee) oledi like shit... soaked in water until like porridge liao... hahahah....

posted by David at 9/19/2002 01:42:00 PM

 
Eh... can you believe how stupid i can get.... i just realise that the last two post were not uplinked... i had only clicked the post button after i typed them and forgot to publish them.... wah lao eh... i am ridiculously stupid... hopeless liao... anyway... nothing much still... er... actually there is lahz... but dun feel like putting it here... to put it short... i may be having gal trouble again... shit... okok... i shall be truthful... I AM UGLY!!! so why the hell do i still get galz bugging after me... okok... maybe i am exaggerating... it should be gal ... .and not galz... shit.... hahahaha

posted by David at 9/17/2002 01:05:00 AM

 
I have always believed that you are what you eat... took a test.... but dun really agree with the last opinion they had of me....

David, this is what the foods you eat say about you:

You have confidence in your ability to get things done. You are a leader among friends, and a good one too. You are responsible and like to challenge yourself by taking up difficult tasks - and you usually succeed.


You're very careful and circumspect in all matters but you won't face any problems until they actually happen. Also you're a kind and sensitive person.


You are vigorous yet gentle. You appear to be mysterious to those who don't know you very well because you don't often reveal your feelings. You like to socialize and are popular among your peers.


You are soft-minded. You find it's too hard to say "No" to others, especially when you are pushed. Quite often, you are taken advantage of because of your soft-minded nature.

posted by David at 9/15/2002 05:55:00 PM

 

What kind of Drug Addict are you?

posted by David at 9/15/2002 11:48:00 AM