SSA BBQ!!!

Was darn tired after yday, having spent the morning doing presentation and then another presentation in the afternoon... the 1st one (e last min one) din go very well, as we know we had several issues to take care of... But at least its presentable and that we managed to show tt we actually did some work and stuff... the 2nd one wasnt done by me though, was done by the "leader", yeah tt turtle who was so bossy and authoritative and egocentric n etc... U get e point... Almost fell out with him on wed, his attitude was simply beyond hope... I always thought projects n stuff shd be relaxing one, there is no need to speak in a stern tone at all... Yet he just pissed me off once again with his "leader" tone... Wah... I hate this kindaf bossy ppl man... ppl who boss w/out any "zhen cai shi liaoz" (real stuff) this may explain y i dulan wif ppl easily... lolz... But anyway, the presentations are over liaoz... yeah!
Had e ssa bbq just now... Weather was tauted to rain, but heng nv... else think mi n xin yu would be darn dui... Esp him... but it was darn malu at the start as we could not get the charcoal started... As in, cannot make the charcoal warm enough to start... Spent like 1 hr trying to get it to work, cos we all unfamiliar with the use of liquid fuel... We all too used to the old way of using starters and charcoal, which is sth which US dun have... Felt darn bad we couldnt get the fire up soon enough and had to make several ppl wait... Heng got e ever delicious bee hoon by cocoa to keep their stomachs full for the time being... but towards the end, think it was quite good... ppl were like getting food, eating and chatting while i was enjoying myself bbqing stuff too... good thing though, many ppl want to bbq stuff, so i can easily go "eat snake" n slack at one side... The best thing of the day was still the discovery of how wonderful toasted bread with garlic spread can be... aka garlic toast... Darn shiok man... Personally ate 4 pieces of toast... Which i made myself... Find it rather fun... But when its all over, then back to reality... concepts... better study fer it... Had to pangseh a fren for a movie, felt quite bad tt i din fulfil my promise to watch phantom of e opera wif her, but heng she's quite understanding bt it... Stupid concepts... Arrgh... Mugging time has come! better conc on it...

N i tot its over...

Wah kaoz, just realised tt i have much more stuff this week than last week, wad e hell... the social psy exam really took up much more time than i expected, with 2 projects taking a much larger toil on me than expected too... Arrgh, i always thought i would be slack, but now, hmm... The project's kindaf bad cos we dun really like have an idea of wad to do... Had to do some really last minute piahing to come up with a reasonable presentation... kindaf regretted tt we did not prep earlier, but being singaporeans, its only usual for us to do last min work... Also had e ssa bbq to prepare too on fri n sat... N concepts coming up soon... sometimes, things dun seem to be a lot, but when u start doing, then u realise that its really quite a lot... Every night i seem to be bz rushing for something... E ssa bbq was fun though, preparing n everything... Went to costco n strip for th first time, n realised tt things are really really BIG at Costco... Everything's so huge tt i got kindaf scared of it too... Its really a lot!
Went to a restaurant called red lobster to eat... Wah the seafood there also really a lot lorz... I initially thought i could finish it easily but after eating ard 3/4, i could feel the strain on my stomach... Arrgh, how can it be? But in e end, still finished all the seafood... Wad darn full after tt, felt like sleeping on e way back... But cnanot, still gotta prep e food for tmr's bbq... It turned out to be real fun though, as xin yu was like telling me bt the sauces while i tried to learn... Maybe i shd try to cook... Ok, i know i've said tt fer upteen times n it nv works... But i really will try b4 i go back sg... We even made 3 types of wings, for the sake of experimenting with different types of sauces and stuff... Really hope it wun rain, will be super duper sianz if we prep everything then it rained... In e end, it din rained n ppl turned out quite on time.. E funny thing is tt we din manage to get the fire started... Felt so bad, wif ppl there waiting fer food... But i'm really bad at this kindaf stuff, like survival skills, etc... (come to think of it, its real heng i need not go brunei back in army times... Else think i'd be really dead... ) As again, i had a sudden inspiration to cook after preparing for food... Really wanted to see if i can still remember how to cook as i did back in sg...

Wah, darn shag week...

Arrgh, din expect thsi week to be this bad... Knew the week's gonna be tuff wif concepts n econs exam, but i seriously din expect it to be this bad... Had like homework for every subject... In fact, it was so overwhelming that i din even have time to finish my stats hw... But heng can drop 1 hw... Its really not me to drop stuff, but i was kindaf having my hands totally filled... Stupid social psy juz popped up a paper... Tot its due next week.... Grr tmd... Had to do my EPP project too, n its not tough... juz darn irritating... Was darn pissed wif my grp member, he was like assuming leadership n tot he's some kindaf big shot... when i personally feel tt he's juz being a pain in e arse... Tmd... There was this time when we were talking in a grp... Or rather, he was talking and sounding as though he's e leader... A fren came into the class to look fer e teacher, n he asked me where the lecturer went... But due to this interruption, that $@U!)$*!)*$ guy asked me, "did u hear wad i said juz now" in those stern tone... I was like, err no, cos i was telling my fren where he went. But he cut me short n maintained "so did u hear what i said?" I was feeling darn pissed at that moment... I meant, comon larz, this kindaf discussion is always relaxing one mahz, n even if its so serious, does it mean tt i have to ignore my fren? WTF... Gave him a darn sarcastic no, "can u repeat"? Luckily, i was not in e same subgroup as him... Else think i'd have already punched him... Kaim pah face, wif a kiam pah attitude, n of cos thinking tt he's so great when he's not... Btu well, its not worth getting angry over this kindaf stuff, so shallnt say anymore...

Had a nice bday dinner for my roomie, think e atmosphere n everything was darn nice... The only thing is tt its held on a thurs where ppl still had to go home early to do hw so a lil sianz... But wads sianz is tt i din manage to get the present i wanted fer him... Haiz... think he'd have loved it if i had manage to get it, but well, shallnt say anything much bt it liaoz... Darn suay lor... N wads worse, my concepts was like totally gone... Darn bad... Sianz... N it wasnt too hard actually, its just me... Arrgh... Indulged myself in food tt day, n its all bad food... Schatz was terrible tt day, wif nothing really gd... had to like eat the waffles n stuff to make myself full... I know its a bad thought, but was hoping tt everyone else had problems with the exam too... So that i wun be the only one... Can only pray fer e best now... Well, at least e week is finally over... I think... Just had a booth evaluation meeting, darn tired now... Well, at least i got e schatz to look forward to tmr...
Arrgh...

Tear down!!! Finally!

Wah sianz... Tear down... N i thought tt everything has ended with the putting up of the booth... Another big day fer me, having to squeeze everything into that teeny-wheeny cage... its darn tiring lorz, having to take down everything... As we were tearing it down, it reminds me of the time when we were assembling it... all e effort n everything... Brings back all the nice memories... But now, it feels darn shitty... Cos there werent many ppl here... N it seems to take ferever... Morale dipping... Gets even worse when i am reminded of all the stuff tt i have to squeeze back into the cage... It really felt like army times, when we were doing all the sai kung... But i'm real glad to have some great frens who came n help despite their bz schedule... Really appreciated it... Lasted till ard 8+...

Though i realised i got much stuff due next week, including that irritating concepts test... but still relaxed n slacked in e end... haiz... Watched some nice movies n stuf.f.. Haiz... but think shd be able to manage still... Well, today's been really a tiring day... Was a lil dulan, but dun think i shall go on n bitch bt stuff... Not too nice to do so...

Spring Carnival...

Had to wake up early fer spring carnival, the reason none other than being booth! Had a late night the night b4, but i still felt quite energetic on e day... Mebbe cos the building will be finally completed today and all e late nights n out in e cold will finally end! yay! But sth strange happened though, alan called me, i picked up my phone, then reallised tt i still got 5 mins b4 my alarm will ring n wake me up, so i went back fer a lil snooze... Then by the time i was conscious of myself again, oh no! i overslept liaoz... Was juz going to hammer my alarm clock b4 i realised tt it stopped at ard 7 5ish, when alan called me... REal weird... Must be lao tian ye want me to sleep more... haha... Excuses... but i felt real bad, cos promised tt i'll be down at eight... Then had to wait fer a fren a lil while, b4 gng down together so was like 40 mins late? Arrgh... Spent e whole day doing up the structure n everything, correctly every blemish and stuff, n finally yes its up! Then again, packing up n moving stuff away... Wah tt took quite some time as we had a shortage of manpower... As usual, ppl interested only in the building or other booth activities, but when it comes to packing up, i can c ppl who distant themselves away, basically just siamming...
Had a well deserved lunch at underground b4 playing soccer! Yeah, it was good to play soccer, evne wif an injured toe which makes me cannot shoot, n affects my movement a lil... The worst is tt ppl keep coming in late to join e game, n then there was always time being spent on discussing whether we shd expand and to where n etc... Then we even had to split into 3 teams even though i dunno y there is a need... Would prefer everyone to just play together...
The next day slacked a while b4 going to do booth duties n visiting the booths... think there were really some nice ones, but many were putting in their effort into technological gadgets... Which i personally dun really appreciate in booths... I am more of the mechanical or manual part of booth like really building something instead of buying n using computers n stuff... Mebbe i'm too old fashioned or wadever... but they were still a real eye opener... Had a lil manpower issues where no one was scheduled to do duty... HAte cock ups like this...

This made me think... Wad is the real purpose of having a blog? To let others know bt u? Or to share ur thoughts wif everyone? Or to use it to tell others stuff tt u wun want to tell em directly? Or to bitch bt other ppl... Or... guess its a combination of everything... Shallnt comment too much or anything, lest i kena flamed fer my entry n stuff... but just wanted to ask myself y i am writing all this... Well, guess its more to let my frens know how i've been n stuff... N mebbe let those who like read stuff have something to read...

Booth fer 3 dayz...

couldnt really differentiate between mon tues n wed... It was school then booth... din even have time to like really think n do my hw... Was more of doing on the day its suppose to be submitted... Haiz... Seldom kena that but now... Yet, i still had some allowance to not study n hw... At least the dinner was darn nice... Minced meat, cabbages, sunny side ups reminding me of homecooked food... Made me homesick after eating it, feel like just going back to sg n hecking bt summer school...
Yeah, n guess wad, everyday seemed the same... mon, tues, wed... It was all morning rush fer hw, then booth till midnight, then trying, n i repeat, e keyword is trying to do my hw after i got back... Seldom, or rather, never, before have i like nodded off in front of my comp doing hw... It was either i got tired myself or tt i felt so sianz of doing... Guess booth really is tiring... Nights were cold though the day was warm... Learnt from my lesson on sunday tt i shd always bring something warmer out, its always worth the trouble... Demoralisingly, the packing up was kindaf bad... When the power was cut off, there was debrief and then ppl left... leaving me stone n a few others to move all e stuff n pack up... Haiz, i hated packing up more than anyone, to e extent tt i hate to rearrange my rooms... ooops.. n now, i have to do it... Guess it must be retribution for me always relying on my mum to help me arrange my stuff... Haiz... But luckily the homework took a lil break too, n i could like push stuff back to do later...

Well, fer a moment, it feels like army again... But juz fer a moment... The company, the task, e food, is sooooo much more better than army, this i promise u...

Booth Weekend...

The next 2 days were booth n nothing else... Getting the booth to be up n away, wif loads of ppl coming in to help... It felt real gd to have so many ppl working away on something... Beginning to feel the spirit... And getting to understand y those upperclassmen liked booth... Mebbe it wasnt too bad... Had a soccer compy concurrently held on sat too... Tried my best to run in between booth and soccer, but played like shit though... Think we're just too used to playing indoors and cant really get ourselves physically prepared for it... Kena thrashed... haiz... Worse of all, even got my foot injured... Kena smashed by some darn tall, bald, strong ang moh... Tried to get the ball away from him but WHAM, n tts it... I'm off fer e week... Tmd...
Had fun working on e roof top tt night... Was cold though, but it was real fun tryiing to figure out the mechanics of fasteners and how to get things to be together... Machiam like problem solving... N of cos, had great company in the form of PC... Really enjoyed tt time... too bad i din get to taste the fried rice though, everything's gone by e time i got down.... Haiz... In fact, i was so tired tt i dozed off in the movie i was watching for extra credit... Cant believe it... However, it was a genuinely rewarding day...
Cant say the same about the next day though... only a few expected ppl turned up, n we had to keep working... Felt a lil sianz... Wif all the energy and morale from yesterday gone... Yet, i gained some strength and motivation from the ppl ard me, who were darn garung imo... Work work work, until some unexpected guests arrived, and of cos, my motivation went up... haha... Packing and wrapping things up was kindaf shitty though, as we had to stand in e cold, packing up n trying to squeeze stuff into our booth... hated doing this, but no choice, who ask me to be the qm...
din manage to do any work over e weekend, but i could still afford a lil time... Shall just sleep n relax...

Booth... Episode 1

The past 2 weeks were all about booth, booth, n booth... Juz had my xiong exams over, n so could afford the time to pia booth all e way... the first week was still ok, tues n thurs were kindaf late, but still ok... N i had mon wed to myself too... But after move on, it was kindaf tuff liaoz... Was initially quite scared of move on, cos as the QM, heard tt move on is really very difficult n stuff like that... so quite kan cheong... dun really know wad to do too... From the info i got, it seems as though there'll be like tonnes of ppl coming down... alright, there werent tonnes of ppl coming down whom i dun resognize, but one thing is, there was really quite a large grp of people... things could be sent off fast, n i think we took ard an hr to clear the whole store... Darn happy... Then loading in... Time was actually on our side as we managed to finish everything quite fast... Loading in was a lil slack, but i'd kindaf prefer it this way... Always prefer to do things slowly and comfortably rather than rushing away... Even had time fer a nice game of soccer wif freshies n all, b4 the night sets in and unloading was on e way... Things were done fast n efficient...

Thoughts: U can plan all u want, but its really the people n events that dictate the success of an event...

Slacking...

Saturday was booth, booth, n booth... Then watched "closer"... It was a "chim" movie, something deep... I dun think it is that great a movie, it does not have much suspense and the tempo is a lil slow... Dun really understand y the review was like superbly good... It has a deep meaning behind the plot, a lil of those arty kindaf shows, but i always believe tt a good movie shd be entertaining to the audience, but in this case, i dun really find it tt exciting... As in, its a lil too slow i feel... But there's something about the movie which i dun get... Its e kindaf feeling tt u know there is some message there, which is the supposedly most interesting part of the show, yet you cant grab it completely... I can only roughly see what it is, but cant get it exactly... Think gotta rewatch the show again some time... But think most prob, i'll forget bt it... So, forget bt it... Haha... Lz me...

Sunday was better... Super exciting day, typically my favourite kindaf day... Went to play badminton... One of my favourite sports... which was darn shiok... only thing is fer some reason, i cant seem to be able to hit the shuttlecock at full strength... Think all the drilling n sawing yesterday could have taken my strength away... But it was a great game nevertheless... WEnt fer my usual schatz brunch... Songz... The cheesy omelette, with the slices of pork chop, waffle, cornflakes, and scrambled eggs mashed potatoes, etc... Just simply nice... Dun understand y i like schatz so much too... Think i'm probably one of the rare few who like schatz, or at least, enjoy going to schatz fer brunch...

Did my daily share of homework, which was quite good cos i finished wad i set out to do... After that, had a great soccer game fer 3 hrs... Songz... I played better than my usual self, but one of e reasons being tt i was dulan... With some stupid ppl who simply like to push their way around... I admire people who have skill, envy those with speed, but those who play by pushing, i simply hate it... Mebbe tts y i oso went in wif e mentality of being more aggressive, using my hands to push his hands away... Was aight though in e end... but feel tt mebbe i'm really improving... Hehz...

Fish n chips at the underground fer dinner, no surprises... My favourite n most standard thing i eat... Always tot its quite unhealthy, n wanted to eat something else, like maybe white reuben, then i'll think tt i wun be full n go back to fish n chips... Went fer halo 2 4v4 after tt, wasnt too bad, but as usual, i sux... Haha... Sad sad... If it was CS, then it'd be better... Shall go back sg to play CS... Really missed it... Went back home tired, n filling... At least it was a great day, a day i seldom experience...

Random quote of the day "You are who u are, whoever understands u and is ur fren, is ur fren, whoever dxn, well, heck!"
=> No pt trying to explain urself at times, is the person worth explaining to? Or will e person listen...

Games day!

Fun, fun fun! I felt so darn relaxed today, went to play pingpong n pool after lessons... It has been so long since i went... I remember the times last sem when we used to go and play after eveyr friday's lab, or after school anytime we are bored... But now, everyone seems to be bz wif their own stuff, we seldom get a chance to hang out anymore... Feel kindaf sad fer a second, seems as though everyone starting to split up more n more, but at least, tonight will be e night we all come together fer games day! Was darn rusty wif my table tennis skills, lost to Sandy like 4287109283 times... But fer some reason at the end of the game, i feel tt i am better than last time...

The Dean's list dinner though, was kindaf interesting n funny... Everyone like dress up so formally, then go there eat buffet... somemore the buffet has 3 dishes only, mash potato, pasta, chicken... Haha... But the bread was nice though... The dean was quite interesting too, first time i actually seeing him... n hearing his name... But oops, i forgot his name again liaoz... Talking about short term memory sia...

Games night was fun... Celebrated our batchmate's bdays, wif an ice-cream cake which is darn nice... Haha, in e end as it was melting, i had no choice but to "sacrifice" myself, eating the cake while its still 1/2 melting... Haiz... Such a noble me, imagine all the extra calories i have gained, just for the sake of not wasting food... Played a bit of pool n Halo too, din particularly like the game, but the company was fun... Reminds me of the dota days in CMU n SG, when the game was excellento and the company was even better... Wondering how much dota i'll actually play when i go back sg this summer... Which is still like months away... Arrgh... Sianz 1/2... But its really been a long time, starting to miss sg again wif all this typing,... Oh no! Better go sleep early, tmr morning still got booth,...

Random quote of e day "In every moment of adversity, keep urself alive with dreams of tomorrow (or more appropriately for those in CMU) the future... "