(Tuesday, August 21, 2007-)
+4:37 PM]*
+4:37 PM]*
# Busyness
Psalm 23 in a busy world
The clock is my dictator;
I shall not rest.
It makes me lie down only when exhausted.
It leads me to depression.
It hounds my soul.
It leads me in circles of frenzy for activity's sake
Even though I run frantically from task to task
I will never get it all done, for my "ideal" is with me.
Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me.
They demand my performance from me beyond the limits of my schedule.
They anoint my head with migraines.
My in-basket overflows.
Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.
From "101 Ways to Simplify Your Life" written by Paul Borthwick, and published by Victor Books.
Hi blog. I am busy. Hence I have kind of ignored you. Today, lecture at 6pm. Ends at 9pm. I feel like bringing my laptop there. Ok i shall.
Im going to get married to my Fujitsu Lifebook S6410 soon. This coming Monday willl be the wedding ceremony. Officially we will be married when my first tutorial starts.
So what am I doing now? Resting in my room before my GEM 2901 class starts in LT32 in Science Fac. Gonna have to leave at abt 5.15 to get there on time. Disgusting ryte? Im on campus and still have to leave 45 mins early. Saded.
Life has been quite nice off campus, but today, I shall make it a nice one. Txs Beverly for the convo yesterday (= or today rather. Hehe.
Shout out to Yumei, Pras, Sek, Kari, Joanne and Stephanie. Miss you guys. Makes TJ seem so far away when I met u guys, cuz haven seen u guys in three eternities already lar.. treasure ur JC life, cuz it doesn't get much easier in Uni. That's local uni if you're wondering. Go overseas! Pls do! Dun make me see u in orientation when im in Year 3. If i do see u also, be in the camps k?
Ok, back to NUS life. Met Amanda today who graciously lent me her CashCard cuz Vanessa's had not enough credit to print my notes. Ate at the fabled Arts Canteen. Ok only lar the western food there. Still haven't found the best which is apparently at Business. Which makes sense. Business, west, seems to click quite well. While Engin, food? Hmm.. the only thing we know abt cooking is how many Joules of energy the stove will provide and to find the best material to cook the food in. Oh, we would claim to design it too, but i think SDE takes credit for that. So I guess engin canteen will not be able to boast much for now other than our Indonesian Panggang. Which I have yet to try. I will. I have four years... How will I not...
Ok, time's up Blog. I've gotta sleep and bathe before lecture. Trying to figure out how to squeeze in DINNER when lecture's from 6 to 9. Oh well, good to be back in PGP, although im not too excited.
Oh, yes, there's one thing u can take back from reading this post, I now have a Facebook account! Yes, search for the ONLY,i repeat ONLY Kenneth Stephen Wilson on Facebook k? Cheers ppl!
The clock is my dictator;
I shall not rest.
It makes me lie down only when exhausted.
It leads me to depression.
It hounds my soul.
It leads me in circles of frenzy for activity's sake
Even though I run frantically from task to task
I will never get it all done, for my "ideal" is with me.
Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me.
They demand my performance from me beyond the limits of my schedule.
They anoint my head with migraines.
My in-basket overflows.
Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.
From "101 Ways to Simplify Your Life" written by Paul Borthwick, and published by Victor Books.
Hi blog. I am busy. Hence I have kind of ignored you. Today, lecture at 6pm. Ends at 9pm. I feel like bringing my laptop there. Ok i shall.
Im going to get married to my Fujitsu Lifebook S6410 soon. This coming Monday willl be the wedding ceremony. Officially we will be married when my first tutorial starts.
So what am I doing now? Resting in my room before my GEM 2901 class starts in LT32 in Science Fac. Gonna have to leave at abt 5.15 to get there on time. Disgusting ryte? Im on campus and still have to leave 45 mins early. Saded.
Life has been quite nice off campus, but today, I shall make it a nice one. Txs Beverly for the convo yesterday (= or today rather. Hehe.
Shout out to Yumei, Pras, Sek, Kari, Joanne and Stephanie. Miss you guys. Makes TJ seem so far away when I met u guys, cuz haven seen u guys in three eternities already lar.. treasure ur JC life, cuz it doesn't get much easier in Uni. That's local uni if you're wondering. Go overseas! Pls do! Dun make me see u in orientation when im in Year 3. If i do see u also, be in the camps k?
Ok, back to NUS life. Met Amanda today who graciously lent me her CashCard cuz Vanessa's had not enough credit to print my notes. Ate at the fabled Arts Canteen. Ok only lar the western food there. Still haven't found the best which is apparently at Business. Which makes sense. Business, west, seems to click quite well. While Engin, food? Hmm.. the only thing we know abt cooking is how many Joules of energy the stove will provide and to find the best material to cook the food in. Oh, we would claim to design it too, but i think SDE takes credit for that. So I guess engin canteen will not be able to boast much for now other than our Indonesian Panggang. Which I have yet to try. I will. I have four years... How will I not...
Ok, time's up Blog. I've gotta sleep and bathe before lecture. Trying to figure out how to squeeze in DINNER when lecture's from 6 to 9. Oh well, good to be back in PGP, although im not too excited.
Oh, yes, there's one thing u can take back from reading this post, I now have a Facebook account! Yes, search for the ONLY,i repeat ONLY Kenneth Stephen Wilson on Facebook k? Cheers ppl!
Labels: Amanda, Arts Canteen, Beverly, Facebook, Joanne, Karilynn, Pras, S6410, Sek, Stephanie, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Tuesday, May 29, 2007-)
+11:15 PM]*
+11:15 PM]*
# (can't think of a title)
Tuesday
Today was pretty interesting. Woke up after a crazy chat session with the three in one, actually jz two, but yeah, it was crazy. Was chatting with a few other ppl too and eventually gave up because 2am (apart from being a track from Altered Frequency's album) sounded more like "you're asleep" and "you're not supposed to be making sense... what?.. precisely" so i slept. And woke up this morning at around 9 plus 10. Slacked around, surfed blogs and what not, yeah, actually what what not ar?
Who cares, i got myself out of bed (which takes a lot of effort when u haven't been working or 2 weeks plus...) and went for lunch. I think i stopped by TJ first to get my shoebag, talked with the fewex-councillors in the room and then went opposite. Got a rather ok lunch, and then as i was abt to leave for Beach Rd, Jaren's sms came.
Then went over to under LT 2,helped distracted sek's/pras's PW group with their soapy slippery GPP and then finally started to make our way to lunch. Why was I at lunch again? Don't know. Where were we going to eat? Don't know. We had many funny suggestions.
-->Daikin (go figure)
-->IKEA
-->McDonald's
-->LJS
But we settled on Pizza Hut cuz of their tempting student offer. But Jeryl still wanted his porridge. So he went and bought and brought it into the Hut.
Then we had many funny conversations and almost persuaded Diantahhhhhh not to buy lasagne and the person who took our order had some math problems. When the food came, Jaren's balls didn't seem to appear. But they ate anyway. Had a little surprise with Adele and Valarie coming to the Hut as well, but they were doing PW there... so sad... And then Shi Yun came and i told her they were inside before she could call them (on the phone lar). Then Chinese Drama Girl (CDG) also came. Sorry I dun know ur name. Sek thinks CDG is from AHS. But then again, everyone is from AHS lar in TJ. But u wouldn't recognise them from their EZLINK CARDS!! It was so funny when Yumei started laughing at the pics at the counter. Even the staff were so unprofessional and laughed with her. Jaren was "stretched", Diantha looked like nurse. After the meal, went off... haha, Yumei, u cannot read from this point on ok?
[-------------------------No Yumei allowed-------------------------]
We went to City Hall first cuz i wanted to get my ticket from nearby Beach Road. Diantahhhhh wanted doughnuts but the queue was insane, so we got nothing from there. Haha. So we decided to head on to Orchard to get more stuff with Jeryl Kari to join us there. When we were there, they were at Eunos. So, you guessed it, we moved on! Haha, but really, all the best to Kari and Jeryl for Band EXCO!
Stopped for Ah Pek Ice Cream, which Diantahhhhh and i got hte same while Joannie got some green thingy. But pro of the day goes to Joannie who ate it the tidiest. I get the the fastest eater award as usual, and wanted more.
Okay, now when we finally reached our destination, Kinokuniya was having a stock check. For ONLY today. It had to be JUST today.
-Business will resume on 30th May NO THANK YOU!-
Oh well, we headed off to level 3 and shopped ard. Ok, we started by sitting down while getting Diantahhhhh's Rubik's then we got Yumei her stuff. And had loads of fun looking ard all the weird stuff. Realised i haven't played board games or Uno in a long time. Oh, when Jeryl Kari arrived, I could only see Jeryl. Heee!
After we bought e stuff, got it wrapped, we went down to Happy House, or so i thought. There was this rather embarrasing moment but since this is my blog, i shall not suan myself. Haha! If u know about it, u can blog abt it.
Left for tuition, came home, and blogged.
Ok, some observations today.
Blogskins are created to irritate me
I missed 2 14s today.
Justea-Lemon+Green tea is cough mixture in disguise
Im losing my appetite
Life is a very deep word.
Life is meant to be explored and slowly understood.
If we fully understand life, it's not worth living anymore.
But we still strive to figure life out all our days.
Why?
Today was pretty interesting. Woke up after a crazy chat session with the three in one, actually jz two, but yeah, it was crazy. Was chatting with a few other ppl too and eventually gave up because 2am (apart from being a track from Altered Frequency's album) sounded more like "you're asleep" and "you're not supposed to be making sense... what?.. precisely" so i slept. And woke up this morning at around 9 plus 10. Slacked around, surfed blogs and what not, yeah, actually what what not ar?
Who cares, i got myself out of bed (which takes a lot of effort when u haven't been working or 2 weeks plus...) and went for lunch. I think i stopped by TJ first to get my shoebag, talked with the few
Then went over to under LT 2,
-->Daikin (go figure)
-->IKEA
-->McDonald's
-->LJS
But we settled on Pizza Hut cuz of their tempting student offer. But Jeryl still wanted his porridge. So he went and bought and brought it into the Hut.
Then we had many funny conversations and almost persuaded Diantahhhhhh not to buy lasagne and the person who took our order had some math problems. When the food came, Jaren's balls didn't seem to appear. But they ate anyway. Had a little surprise with Adele and Valarie coming to the Hut as well, but they were doing PW there... so sad... And then Shi Yun came and i told her they were inside before she could call them (on the phone lar). Then Chinese Drama Girl (CDG) also came. Sorry I dun know ur name. Sek thinks CDG is from AHS. But then again, everyone is from AHS lar in TJ. But u wouldn't recognise them from their EZLINK CARDS!! It was so funny when Yumei started laughing at the pics at the counter. Even the staff were so unprofessional and laughed with her. Jaren was "stretched", Diantha looked like nurse. After the meal, went off... haha, Yumei, u cannot read from this point on ok?
[-------------------------No Yumei allowed-------------------------]
We went to City Hall first cuz i wanted to get my ticket from nearby Beach Road. Diantahhhhh wanted doughnuts but the queue was insane, so we got nothing from there. Haha. So we decided to head on to Orchard to get more stuff with Jeryl Kari to join us there. When we were there, they were at Eunos. So, you guessed it, we moved on! Haha, but really, all the best to Kari and Jeryl for Band EXCO!
Stopped for Ah Pek Ice Cream, which Diantahhhhh and i got hte same while Joannie got some green thingy. But pro of the day goes to Joannie who ate it the tidiest. I get the the fastest eater award as usual, and wanted more.
Okay, now when we finally reached our destination, Kinokuniya was having a stock check. For ONLY today. It had to be JUST today.
-Business will resume on 30th May NO THANK YOU!-
Oh well, we headed off to level 3 and shopped ard. Ok, we started by sitting down while getting Diantahhhhh's Rubik's then we got Yumei her stuff. And had loads of fun looking ard all the weird stuff. Realised i haven't played board games or Uno in a long time. Oh, when Jeryl Kari arrived, I could only see Jeryl. Heee!
After we bought e stuff, got it wrapped, we went down to Happy House, or so i thought. There was this rather embarrasing moment but since this is my blog, i shall not suan myself. Haha! If u know about it, u can blog abt it.
Left for tuition, came home, and blogged.
Ok, some observations today.
Blogskins are created to irritate me
I missed 2 14s today.
Justea-Lemon+Green tea is cough mixture in disguise
Im losing my appetite
Life is a very deep word.
Life is meant to be explored and slowly understood.
If we fully understand life, it's not worth living anymore.
But we still strive to figure life out all our days.
Why?
Labels: Ah pek ice cream, Diantahhhhh, EzLink cards, Jaren, Jeryl, Joanne, Karilynn, Orchard, Pizza Hut, Pras, Raffles, Rubik's, Sek, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Tuesday, March 13, 2007-)
+12:41 PM]*
+12:41 PM]*
# Found
Thursday
It seems so long ago, looking back. It was rather a dull day other than the fact it was fry-day. Eugene and JoJo had quite a fun time giving out points. Sorry to Shermin and co who walked away and missed 1000 pts. Mostly did scholarships and university applications. Mostly a boring day, feeling rather lost. And was actually looking forward to Friday. Mahjong seemed tempting.
Friday
Continued applications from the previous day. Also saw Eugene playing TD with Aaron. Had Canadian $10 lunch as well with the RTs. Nice. Im really not in the mood to blog, but its sort of the reason why im blogging. Just wanna be FOUND. By so many poeple. But I'll be back on this issue. More of what happened next that was quite exciting.
Guest appearance of Jia Yi in TJ. Met her at scroom. Had quite a nice time talking. About council. What went right and the many wrongs. The traditions. The fun. The mistakes. The fights. The people. Its common knowledge that the 29 has been outshined by the 30. We all know they've pulled the right strings in and left some loose. They've held the right people close while for us, its only a shadow to be feared.
A unity we could only hold together has been cemented
Privileged
Yet not knowing the price
Strong
Yet lacking the refining fire
Favoured
Unknowingly masochistic
Great
Yet ungrateful through time
Yet what can a shadow say
Observing
Yet what is lost cannot be found
Stepping away
Council has been good. It always will be, it's the very essence that keeps it going. No matter the batch, the traditions held, the culture taught or the knowledge passed down. It will groom you if you let it. It will teach you if you are willing to learn. To Diantha and Cadence, if you want to run for council, give it your best shot. If you get in, don't waste the many chances to learn and grow. It won't be easy, I know, but it will be harder if you get in and don't benefit from it.
Had a great time talking with JY, showed her 06 and 21 in the hall during the emo time they had. Danced two mass dances and a speedy. Laughed a lot at the chaotic fun-dance. Pointed out ppl like Eugene, Samuel, Cadence, Yumei, Mengting and others from 06 and Julie, Shuming and others from 21. Didn't find 04. Sorry. But then, all good things come to an end and it was time to leave the hall.
Back to scroom and then left to meet 06. Yay. But then realised i didn't have my wallet with me. Made 06 wait quite a lot. Sorry Yumei, knew u were really not feeling weel. Rushed to the staffroom and realised i didn't have my wallet. So I was heading for dinner at Simpang with 06 OGLs + Joanne without any money. But of course they weren't gonna let me starve and Cadence and Diantha offered money. Txs for the offer and esp Diantha for the $10.
Walked to the 2 and 9 bus stop and got on after quite a long wait and a talk on sc life. Finally reached Simpang Bedok and met 21 there. Haha, Shuming was so terrified of the pokes. And i did finally give in to one poke as 21 were leaving. Sat down and took almost forever to order. The menu wasn't very clear or helpful either so I had a mango with lychee dessert and 1 plain and 1 egg prata (read roti canai to Malaysians). Should have ordered my dessert later cuz it came way before anything and I slowly ate it. Some things i found out that night
- Cadence is a VERY slow eater
- Diantha is a slow eater
- Cadence, Karilynn and Dianthaaaaa all wear braces
- Stephanie is a healthy eater
- Yingen and Jaren eat fast
- (i already knew this but) 06 is full of cam-whores. Haha
Then after a very long dinner and queue time paying we left for Yumei's. The surviving people that made it there were just Yumei (duh), Ying and Jar EN, Cadence and Dianthaaaaa.
Had a nice bus ride with almost the whole bus to ourselves then reached Yumei's place which is so cool. Wish I could stay there. Haha. But the rooftop is really nice. Except people that are still high from orientation decide to bang the railings to cheer beats and stomp on the rooftop rather than enjoy the scenery. Took more pictures. Man... One should get Yumei an analogue camera and see how she suffers with film. Then went down for Mahjong and i surfed the net.
Took a swap after that and played mahjong instead, but ended up losing all anyway. Yup, so my mahjong skills haven been upgraded. But this time I could play without reference to the paper. Ok fine, I had to ask Yumei or Diantha, but well, i wasn't totally blur. I think. lolz.
Then had more fun playing bridge with Diantha. Ok, clarification on the scoreline, it was 3-2. So nobody thrashed anyone although i totally owned the first game and she almost owned the last no-trump game until I got control. Haha. Finally got the mahjong ppl to bridge. Which was a good thing cuz 4 man bridge is so much better. Bad thing cuz Yumei doesn't bridge so she curled up on a sofa and slept. Sorry to Yumei again. Then instead of leaving at 11 to get the last bus, we decided to stay till 11.50 to cab home and avoid the midnight surcharge. Jaren got his dad to come.
So we bridged on, was really fun to bridge once again, legally. Haha. And major discovery here is....
-Dianthaaaaa is the ultimate blur queen at bridge! *gives stacks of mahjong tiles!!!*
Finally we decided to leave and Dianthaaaaa led the way. You can so tell that this was a recipe for disaster but we were all too tired to realise. She didn't know the way. So we just walked till we reached a road. So much for avoiding the midnight charge. Then we found a taxi. Without a driver... Dotzzzz... Continued walking until we found a cab and took it home, with Cadence dropping off first in TP, then Dianthaaaaa the blur queen at Simei and me last. For the record, I owe
-Eugene $10
-Zsa Zsa $10
-Cadence $7
-Dianthaaaaa da blur $17
Oh well, it was a nice time (=
It seems so long ago, looking back. It was rather a dull day other than the fact it was fry-day. Eugene and JoJo had quite a fun time giving out points. Sorry to Shermin and co who walked away and missed 1000 pts. Mostly did scholarships and university applications. Mostly a boring day, feeling rather lost. And was actually looking forward to Friday. Mahjong seemed tempting.
Friday
Continued applications from the previous day. Also saw Eugene playing TD with Aaron. Had Canadian $10 lunch as well with the RTs. Nice. Im really not in the mood to blog, but its sort of the reason why im blogging. Just wanna be FOUND. By so many poeple. But I'll be back on this issue. More of what happened next that was quite exciting.
Guest appearance of Jia Yi in TJ. Met her at scroom. Had quite a nice time talking. About council. What went right and the many wrongs. The traditions. The fun. The mistakes. The fights. The people. Its common knowledge that the 29 has been outshined by the 30. We all know they've pulled the right strings in and left some loose. They've held the right people close while for us, its only a shadow to be feared.
A unity we could only hold together has been cemented
Privileged
Yet not knowing the price
Strong
Yet lacking the refining fire
Favoured
Unknowingly masochistic
Great
Yet ungrateful through time
Yet what can a shadow say
Observing
Yet what is lost cannot be found
Stepping away
Council has been good. It always will be, it's the very essence that keeps it going. No matter the batch, the traditions held, the culture taught or the knowledge passed down. It will groom you if you let it. It will teach you if you are willing to learn. To Diantha and Cadence, if you want to run for council, give it your best shot. If you get in, don't waste the many chances to learn and grow. It won't be easy, I know, but it will be harder if you get in and don't benefit from it.
Had a great time talking with JY, showed her 06 and 21 in the hall during the emo time they had. Danced two mass dances and a speedy. Laughed a lot at the chaotic fun-dance. Pointed out ppl like Eugene, Samuel, Cadence, Yumei, Mengting and others from 06 and Julie, Shuming and others from 21. Didn't find 04. Sorry. But then, all good things come to an end and it was time to leave the hall.
Back to scroom and then left to meet 06. Yay. But then realised i didn't have my wallet with me. Made 06 wait quite a lot. Sorry Yumei, knew u were really not feeling weel. Rushed to the staffroom and realised i didn't have my wallet. So I was heading for dinner at Simpang with 06 OGLs + Joanne without any money. But of course they weren't gonna let me starve and Cadence and Diantha offered money. Txs for the offer and esp Diantha for the $10.
Walked to the 2 and 9 bus stop and got on after quite a long wait and a talk on sc life. Finally reached Simpang Bedok and met 21 there. Haha, Shuming was so terrified of the pokes. And i did finally give in to one poke as 21 were leaving. Sat down and took almost forever to order. The menu wasn't very clear or helpful either so I had a mango with lychee dessert and 1 plain and 1 egg prata (read roti canai to Malaysians). Should have ordered my dessert later cuz it came way before anything and I slowly ate it. Some things i found out that night
- Cadence is a VERY slow eater
- Diantha is a slow eater
- Cadence, Karilynn and Dianthaaaaa all wear braces
- Stephanie is a healthy eater
- Yingen and Jaren eat fast
- (i already knew this but) 06 is full of cam-whores. Haha
Then after a very long dinner and queue time paying we left for Yumei's. The surviving people that made it there were just Yumei (duh), Ying and Jar EN, Cadence and Dianthaaaaa.
Had a nice bus ride with almost the whole bus to ourselves then reached Yumei's place which is so cool. Wish I could stay there. Haha. But the rooftop is really nice. Except people that are still high from orientation decide to bang the railings to cheer beats and stomp on the rooftop rather than enjoy the scenery. Took more pictures. Man... One should get Yumei an analogue camera and see how she suffers with film. Then went down for Mahjong and i surfed the net.
Took a swap after that and played mahjong instead, but ended up losing all anyway. Yup, so my mahjong skills haven been upgraded. But this time I could play without reference to the paper. Ok fine, I had to ask Yumei or Diantha, but well, i wasn't totally blur. I think. lolz.
Then had more fun playing bridge with Diantha. Ok, clarification on the scoreline, it was 3-2. So nobody thrashed anyone although i totally owned the first game and she almost owned the last no-trump game until I got control. Haha. Finally got the mahjong ppl to bridge. Which was a good thing cuz 4 man bridge is so much better. Bad thing cuz Yumei doesn't bridge so she curled up on a sofa and slept. Sorry to Yumei again. Then instead of leaving at 11 to get the last bus, we decided to stay till 11.50 to cab home and avoid the midnight surcharge. Jaren got his dad to come.
So we bridged on, was really fun to bridge once again, legally. Haha. And major discovery here is....
-Dianthaaaaa is the ultimate blur queen at bridge! *gives stacks of mahjong tiles!!!*
Finally we decided to leave and Dianthaaaaa led the way. You can so tell that this was a recipe for disaster but we were all too tired to realise. She didn't know the way. So we just walked till we reached a road. So much for avoiding the midnight charge. Then we found a taxi. Without a driver... Dotzzzz... Continued walking until we found a cab and took it home, with Cadence dropping off first in TP, then Dianthaaaaa the blur queen at Simei and me last. For the record, I owe
-Eugene $10
-Zsa Zsa $10
-Cadence $7
-Dianthaaaaa da blur $17
Oh well, it was a nice time (=
Labels: bridge, Cadence, council, Dianthaaaaa, Eugene, Jaren, Jia Yi, Julie, Karilynn, mahjong, Shuming, Simpang, Stehanie, Yingen, Yumei, Zsa^2
the story ends like this;
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