Tuesday, March 23, 2004
unexpected liberation
i had a pleasant surprise today, just about half an hour ago. last friday, while in the bus coming back from the field trip, my tutor gently broke the news to me that i had failed my DCI test. i was going like"uhh, wow really, dammit, great work chris, you've dunnit this time" and kinda brooded a bit.
so today we got back our papers and my tutor handed mine to me saying something like i had no idea, i didn't really study, i gotta buck up, so with a heavy heart i looked at my paper, and started to agree with him before something struck me. it wasn't my paper. i exclaimed, "but this isn't my paper!" and yay everything started to fall into place. turns out i got 66, which supposedly is a good mark, and yeah i'm grateful whew, most people got like 50-something and 2 guys failed. my teacher mixed me and my classmate up! my student no. ends 5422, his is 5322. sooooooo something off my mind, for now.
paN!cker lost it at 1:46 pm
Monday, March 22, 2004
wot am i doing?!
self destruction, the order of the day. get a grip man, get a GR!P!
paN!cker lost it at 12:43 am
Saturday, March 20, 2004
lightning strikes twice
no it doesn't, but i needed a title, and since i watched school of rock for the second time, it kinda did for me. i heard pirates of the caribbean had a high chance of making its debut but ohhhhhh well the camp commies chose school of rock instead. needless to say, it didn't achieve what it did the first time i watched it, but still plenty of laughs all round. and in the end nobody really wanted to come down to church with me so i went "empty-handed". ahhh mebbe next time then ....
anyway, this certainly looks like an interesting something to go for! really paints the picture of what it was like in the old days instead of you having to let your imagination do it for you. :) contact me if you're interested! hehe
paN!cker lost it at 2:39 am
Thursday, March 18, 2004
*gasp* a field trip!
and i thought that was the stuff of primary and secondary schools! Our school organised a field trip for us students woo hoo. i love field trips. apparently we're gonna learn stuff, but anyway it's an interesting twist to an otherwise boring e-learning week. gonna try and pull the crowds to church for the screening of school of rock/pirates of the caribbean. it's a friday and i'm sure the poor folks at ngee ann will welcome the break from mundane groupwork and senseless projects.
8:30am Leave NP
9:00 - 11:30am - Citibank Data Centre Visit
11:30am - 1:45pm - Lunch / Interaction
1:45 - Leave for IPOS (wait what's IPOS anyway?!? i forgot, again. hmm research time ...)
2:30 - 3:30pm - Visit to IPOS
4:00pm - Arrive back at NP
maybe pool or something will fill the slot before goin to church.
paN!cker lost it at 4:32 pm
boooooooooooooorrrrrrrrring
wow haven't been here for quite some time now : ) super busy with nothing really, and everytime i try to blog in class then the class ends or something and i end up putting it off.
highlights of my -previous- week include going for my medical, getting horribly sick with a stupid inflamed throat, and getting back my results and finding out God has been merciful to me yet again =P
yeah my medical went smoothly, it's like the moment u walk in a machine picks u up, sweeps u off your feet and processes you. kinda like station games, so clinical, so efficient. the singapore army : ) haha, rrrrrrrrright. anyway i got PES A, deary me. so then after spending several naked moments letting oh-we've-seen-it-all doctors look you over, and hurrying to school in the rain, i got a fever and a slight bad throat. which got progressively worse during the week. couldn't sleep for like the next few nights, the fever went away after the first night and some medicine, but the only thing that remained was the inflamed throat! it was uber painful; i couldn't even swallow w/o grimacing. terrible terrible time.
but then i think it's cos the whole week i barely slept and that didn't help, finally on friday i got some good sleep and my throat got better and better. now i can relish my food again!
my results were pretty ok considering my nonsensical preparation for them, worse was ERP with 59 :( almost totally didnt touch on the dumb workshops haha. so i failed question 1 of 4, and the other questions couldn't put humpty dumpty together again. i think most surprising was MIS(management information systems), i got 79! woo hooo there were rumours of everyone doing badly and all and we were so worried. BOLLOCKS man! it was like any other test, wasn't like everyone got 40-60 marks haha. so i was like WOW 79 what the i thought i would get 50-60. and another surprise was that our tutor expected more of me! haha that raised my eyebrow. she was like "did u expect to do better? i did." whassup with that man, maybe i have the guai(obedient, or mugger) look, always studying and stuff. hopefully my final exam doesnt disappoint her, but then i'll hafta really work at it -in advance- for it to come together.
soooo that brings us to this week. total bore. it's e-learning week, and if anyone knows me, yeah u should know i haven't exactly "learnt" much. it's also projects week, because the deadline draws closer and we're jittery about our dreamweaver and ASP :) i borrowed 3 books, 2 super thick ones, just to make myself feel better. i don't get a thing inside those books man.
that's just about it, oh yea i tried running the trail to bt timah today with ivan; 3 words, cannot make it. made it there, felt halfway between vomitting and fainting. so we walked alllllllll the way back. took like 1.5 hrs total haha, when usually it's 45 mins.
paN!cker lost it at 12:14 am
Thursday, March 11, 2004
i wanna be ...
I wanna go deeper
But I don't know how to swim
I wanna be meeker
But have you seen this old Earth?
I wanna fly higher
But these arms won't take me there
I wanna be
I wanna be
Maybe I could run
Maybe I could fly
To you
Do you feel the same,
When all you see is blame in me?
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
More in love with you
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
More in love with you
I wanna go deeper
But is it just a stupid whim
I wanna be weaker
Be a help to the strong
I wanna run faster
But this old leg won't carry me
I wanna be
I wanna be
Maybe I could run
Maybe I could fly
To you
Do you feel the same,
When all you see is blame in me?
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
More in love with you (x3)
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
Maybe I could run
Maybe I could follow
It's time to walk the path where many seem to fall
Hold me in your arms
Just like any father would
How long do we have to wait?
How long?
We're goin all the way!
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
More in love with you
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm living just to fall
More in love with you
The wonder of it all?
And the wonder of it all?
The wonder of it all?
And the wonder of it all
Is that I'm fallin, fallin, fallin
delirous? - deeper
paN!cker lost it at 1:15 am
Saturday, March 06, 2004
a lil R & R
phew good to take it right back and relak one corner for a while :) till monday when everything starts coming back to haunt anyway. part 1/3 of death-defying feats accomplished! part 2 is the integrated humongous in-your-face kinda project, and part 3 is the bane of every student's existence, the final exam! but ohh that's far away(ok it's not, but pamper me), so it's ok :)
if yor feelin down and out, remember there's always peeps in worse off situations! [^_-]
in the player: massive attack - antistar
paN!cker lost it at 3:51 pm
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
just a lil more gas
almost there, 2 more days before it's all over. well -almost- over anyway, cos then it's back to the project schedule and realisation that we've probably missed all the deadlines we set for ourselves ;) sigh, we'll hafta present our prototype next week i think, and i can safely say not many people have been workin on it(it's test week after all).
i just hate it when exceedingly easy and straightforward papers come along and i cannot for the life of me remember the dang points to write!!! gahhhhhh! ended up bullshitting a lil, smoking a lil, and tryna come up with my own terms and all haha. hopefully the DEAR and KIND lecturers will spot the inkling of truth in my farcical answers. speaking of farcical, hehe, everyone out there should catch monty python and the holy grail! man it was a riot the movie!
ok off to start my "study"! if u can call it that =) my mum has more truthful terms for my studying. something along the lines of last-minute-flipping-thru-books.
in the player: blur - he thought of cars
paN!cker lost it at 10:54 pm
Monday, March 01, 2004
wot's in a name?
well not much, but well thought i'd at least leave a mark in history as to where tha heck the blog name came from :)
Now that the cay's in place
Where the sea is to be
It seems to be that I'm seasoned to be
In a season of the old me
I wouldn't trade my place
I got no reason to be
Weathered and withering
Like in a season of the old me
Bust the lock off the front door
Once you're outside you won't want to hide anymore
Light the light on the front porch
Once it's on you're never wanna turn it off anymore
And now it's on
Now it's on
Now that the lake's in place
Where the dead sea is to be
It seems that I'm seasoned to be
In a season of the old me
I wouldn't trade my place
I got no reason to be
Weathered and Withering
Like in a season of the old me
Bust the lock off the front door
Once you're outside you won't want to hide anymore
Light the light on the front porch
Once it's on you're never wanna turn it off anymore
And now it's on
And now it's on
And now it's on
And now it's on
Now it's on
Now it's on
grandaddy - now it's on
paN!cker lost it at 2:50 pm
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