Holiday

It's the third day of X'mas, the New Year's coming, sch's reopening. Merry X'mas everyone if you're still in the spirit of the season that is. The time has finally come to do those 3 pathetic tutorials which I've put off for a very long time. Lol.. this is the second least amount of December homework I've got in 4 years and I still managed to procrastinate... I ought to celebrate this achievement.... another time.

Ok, bad joke aside, I really wasted the hols away. Been using the com way too much already I think. I probably rank first or second for the most amount of time seen on MSN in my RJ class.. Haiz, I need to find a hobby that doesn't involve the use of a computer.

Unfortunately looking at the weather I don't think that's quite possible... Oh well, today's supposed to be the last day that it's gonna pour like mad for now. So er... anyone wanna go ECP? Lol.. countdown there or something... right.. it's 1.25, I'm probably dreaming. Class outings are starting to fail miserably with only the usual bunch of people turning up each time.

Can't help but think that some people don't turn up on purpose... However on the outings that do successfully take place, I really understand the meaning of one mountain got one mountain higher (一山还有一山高）. I used to think that I have a big problem about always being late. Yah, I still do, always about 5 to 10 or 15 mins late. Never did I dream that people would be half an hour, 1 hour late. Hah.. hear it happens elsewhere too. Maybe it's age related. Never heard of such things a few years back...

Lol.. I know the tone's of the above post is quite sarcastic and pessimistic... well yah, I'm quite stoned now... bit disappointed at how I just wasted my holidays so I'm ranting away at whatever peeves me. Oh and there's that CIP too. Well, not appropriate to comment about it before it's settled. So well, back to the point of this paragraph, please don't take offence if you think I'm referring to anyone or even you for that matter. I really don't. it's just a general observation. Hah, and now I'm making the mistake of criticising when I probably don't have the right to do so myself. Argh.. I sound messed up. Screw it. Rant rant rant blah blah blah.....

Ok now on to why I posted this in the first place. Yea, just popped by the tksspm blog and yes I do read it. Bon voyage chin. Lol... Anyway that blog's dying, just underwent cpr but dunno how long it'll last, the class blog's dying, underwent cpr it's now warded in ICU and still in unstable critical condition and then there's my blog. Dunno whether to say it's dying or not but looking from the tagboard and the counters, I'd pronounce it dying too.. 'Bout the same thing for the other 2 blogs too. I wonder where everyone's gone.

Thus I think it's time for a break, there've been a number of blogworthy things too, like x'mas eve, the concert. woops, I mean THE concert. Lol.. but can't seem to get the tone right. Blogging them seems to be a strain. I'm actually finding this rubbishy post fun to write. No need for corrections, no need to recall, no need to think, just write and crap. It feels like when I began blogging, when I blogged because I wanted to say something, to record things down. Ah.. those were the days... There were good times and bad times but hey, who's to say what tomorrow will bring.

Eugene remembered @ 1:17 AM

Flowers

The garden exhibits which were mainly the result of an international competition were much nicer though. Perhaps cause it's easier to appreciate than just one pot of flower or worse still, a lone orchid. Also tried taking photos with my new N73 which hung 3 times and the half full batt died after 60 odd photos. Oh well. Don't really know what to make of the phone, maybe can't push it too hard or gotta "season" it and the batt first. But least the quality's not too bad.

Here's one that I liked. The stuff that looks like the sun's rays where actually just something like the shiny thing you wrap around x'mas trees, but in this case it's not made out of plastic or foil. Didn't realise it at all until I looked at the photo so er... 以外的收获 lah.. heh.

Exhibits wise the one by Far East Flora was one of the best. It was this dome thingy which was addressing global warming by telling the story of a girl finding a home for her ferns in the new screwed up climate. Haha, shouldn't miss it if you go.. can read more about it in this picture if you're interested.

Bah screw it. I think I'm sounding like someone... nvm, shall stop here till I can blog properly agian.

Eugene remembered @ 12:47 PM

Ahhh....

Haiz, 转眼间假期又快过去了。新的一年又要开始了。但跟往年不同的是明年将使我们考“A"水准考试的year。对一个满习惯没什么大考试的我，看来可以准备拼了这条老命。

and it might be sooner than I think. Stupid H3 chem got some test coming up soon and the only thing I understand about H3 chem is that er.... it's a new subject which syllabus no one really knows. Die.. Actually I do have my reservations, no matter what H3 chem is a subject under the ministry, so how come it's so bloody imba?! I think the only thing that's more difficult is like er... NUS Phy. the einstein's theory of relativity stuff?

Worse part is dunno I take H3 chem for what. So much about pharmaceutical chem and yet PCME cannot go into pharmacy at NUS. Ok lah, maybe there might be some other related courses but it's still quite crap to take a subject at a JC level when you are not allowed to do the directly related version at the university level.

That said though, I think I'll still have to stick with it based on the existence of one word. "Kiasu" Haiz...

On the brighter side though, I think crapping about all these has just about gotten me into the mood to start doing my holiday homework and catching up with subjects like physics. Yea, grumbling has it's benefits. But before the pressure of sch reopening really gets me started on sch work, here's to the rest of the holidays. Cheers! Now excuse me while I go enjoy while I still can... <<>.>

Eugene remembered @ 2:04 PM

Dinner at Han's

Had dinner with my family at Han's Tampines outlet today. Since the beginning of this year I think, Han's has been trying to introduce pasta into it's menu.

Unfortunately, despite it being nearly a year, the variety they have is still quite limited and doesn't really sound too appetising to me but I decided to try the Chicken Carbonara for a change anyway.

Service was quite fast despite there being many people and the pasta looked good, but that's about it. The spaghetti wasn't good, the sauce was er... not exactly creamy, not exactly cheesy, not exactly tasteless but nowhere near tasty either. In the end, I had this feedback for them:

Eugene remembered @ 10:26 PM

I still hate PW

You know how you always seem to meet or see the things/people you hate? Well, guess who's back to haunt again....

Quote from The Straits Times, Thursday, 7 December 2006, front page, Title: Tourism booms as arrivals hit nine million: "...STB is lending financial backing to maintain the momentum."

What a great way to kill a positive article.

Eugene remembered @ 5:54 PM

100th post

Ah.. This post has come after all, my blog has survived to it's 100th post. Been procrastinating about what to do for this post for quite a while already. For this post I've put off posting about the failed class outings to make this post one to remember, maybe a recollection or something. So long I've thought about it that I've forgotten/no longer feel like doing what I planned before. -.-

But well, looking back it's been nearly a year already and I've been trying to document the bits and pieces of my not very interesting life so that maybe when I find myself wondering what the hell have I been doing with my life, I'd get an answer. Ironically though, I've never really read through all the entries, still roughly have an impression of each one, or at least the more significant ones.

And then there are those posts which never got published. Mostly crap which I felt at the time was unsuitable for the viewing of just about anyone bo liao enough. Probably wrote them when I was er... not in the best states of mind... Fortunately there are only a handful of them.

And even before there were the posts which never got published, there were those which never got written in the first place. To quote from an unpublished post:

Travelling home alone for an hour every other day, I've started to wonder about what do I want to do with my life. I mean, while life has been pretty much good so far, I seem to be simply drifting from day to day and just taking things as they come, without any real long distance goal in mind.

Not the best of quotes to use, but I did wonder a lot at the beginning of the year before the academic lessons really started. Wondered about things like life, how I've changed, what maturity is, why people do the things they do etc. but never got about to writing them down. I think that's what they call angst or maybe teenage confusion or something.

Before this, I used to think that with the passing of secondary school, I'd already passed the unstable "teenage phase" but haha, little did I know how different JC was. I think I've changed quite a lot from an emotional/psychological point of view. Gone were the simple days of secondary school where everything was mostly a matter of graded or not graded.

Sure, there were still the big events like certain cca matters, but nothing seemed to compare with the complexities that suddenly appeared out of the blue. Straightforward things suddenly become complicated, as though it was a differnt world that I was in, where while some things still remain the same, other rules can get turned completely on their head and rationality doesn't always exist.

Now looking back in contrast, things seem to have gotten better but I think it's still the same. Oh well, I'll wait till trouble troubles me, but in the mean time, a new journey awaits, next stop, the 150th post. Man, I've really got to break the trend of getting tired halfway through my entries... Yawn...

Eugene remembered @ 10:27 PM