The Long Overdue Post.

I owe you guys this, but to nicole most of all........(have been unwittingly made her personal entertainer).

Life in Singapore this half year has been a roller coaster ride. Ups and downs, twists and turns...making A Levels seem like a piece of cake (one with whipped cream and an oreo base and almonds like thos one i had tonight...but much about that later on.....).

I am once again among super geniuses (an upgraded version of PE1 albeit a less fun one)...more of this later on.

I joined the Hall football team and god knows how many knocks i picked up.

Joined the hall tennis team.

In short, its been quite a semester. My roomate is an Animation student and is this totally awesome guy. He got a fridge for the room and this has been a life saver (stomach saver actually)......getting a fridge alone is enough to qualify him as an awesome guy.

The University is a purely engineering one, except for the Art School and the business school. Oh, and the art school is like really really loaded...with a specially designed building filled with animation labs filled with MACS!!!!!! (Every nerd's wet dream is to run a Mac tower comp..including mine), design studios, art studios, animation software, freaking expensive Hasselbald DSLR pro cameras, Film camera, tripods, tracks for cameras.....basically the works. Roomie says its the most well funded Art School in Asia......and looking at the equipment alone, i have to agree. And btw, the roof of the building has a lawn on it, which you can sit on and have a picnic =)

The students stay in hostels called Halls of Residences, numbered from 1 to 16. The halls are pretty decent (mine is Hall 9 and my room faces a forest, which kinda acts as a natural air conditioner at night) but the best halls have got to be Halls 3 &16 the newest halls, built like resorts......with resort rental rates too.

Sports is pretty big here. Extremely competitive. Each year in December, the halls have kinda like a mini olympic thing and it is pretty darn competitive. Take football for instance. We had a friendly game with Hall 12 about 3 weeks back and the minute i got the ball and started my run on the wings, 2 guys came sliding in for a tackle....not your half hearted unskilled rag a tag kind of tackle, i'm talking about the real thing. The result? A busted ankle which was sore for 3 days. Its so rough that the guys thought i was mad to play without shin guards...i agree with them.

And then you have nutters who go running at 12 midnight like what i'm going to do after i write this post.........

And the ones who play futsal in the dark after 12......

And the ones who frequent the 24/7 shop on campus for chocs and root beer......

Exams ended yesterday, will be home on friday morning, might leave again in 10 days for the Games.

Celebrated yesterday with loads if pizza and then again today in Orchard Road. Food other than the one you get in NTU is awesome. We have about 5 or 6 canteens and cafe's on campus, of them, only 3 are really good, and all happen to be very far away from my hall. When i return i have to pig out at the following places:

1) Home and on mom's cooking
2) Chilis
3) any pizza place except Pizza Hut and Shakeys
4) The Ship
5) all my fave food places...to lazy to list.


Righto, am a man of few words and will let the pics do the talking:

After exam pizza gorging session. Yudi on the guitar,Wahyu next to him, then Chee Yang and the physics pro You Quan

Hall 12 TV room

Vee-Liem, Malaysia's 2nd highest scoring STPM student..math and physics whiz....also a nutter

Famous words: "enna dei, ada pavi!!!"

Garen, bio whiz

Sheng Tao...aka: Paradox
Physics and math pro

Lay Yong looking blur before the Chem exam...mugging in desperation

Ahhh.....Raymond, the ultimate math pro. We call him "Fedor" after our Russian math lecturer

Zhong Yi

Suky with her perpetual smile

The baby of the class....17 year old Irwan....DoTA and physics addict

Chun Kiat. deomonstrating that Ribena is a smile inducer..nuff said

Chem discussion before finals......Irwan desperately trying to cram.

Yeah, we think a lot also.....Lei Lei giving a demo here

Even in moments of stress, we smile......Tong Wei

Anil

Ah, Wen Yan.
Lizard hater
Ant hater
Goddess
You must worship her, you must *hypnotic voice*

Chem lecturer's Harley

my workstation

My block over there

School of Art Design and Media...lawn on the roof.

Too many cooks DO NOT spoil the broth

Garlic peeling

School of Art , Design and Media

Art School halloween left overs.......pretty disturbing

walkway to roomie's lab in Art School

View from room door

Sleeping beauty in lecture (Aaron)

Anil's new DSLR

Lei Lei......in NTU, we get trained to be able to sleep in ANY position or place

Dad trying a few rounds of pool in NUS when went visiting Bro

Zin Htet

Goddess holding her worshiping session :P

I'M COMING HOME!!!!!!

Okies, i just have to do this now......



EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!!!! WAHOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

okies, that's put aside.

Righto, i'll be home on either friday or saturday morning. Then have to be back in 2 weeks time for the Inter-Hall Games. Will be playing on the wings for my hall (football) and tennis as well. Then , i'll be back again around late december (Christmas period) for a well deserved vacation in Bali (if dad has done all the bookings as he said he would).

Life's good.

PS: Nicole, will do a longer post with pictures later tonight after tennis practice

Hours from now

Yeaps, my last paper is about 2 hours and 55 minutes from now, and here i sit, blogging while my conscience is screaming:

"What the f&%k are you doing?!!!!!"

Oh, well, you know what Conscience? Lets play a game shall we? Its called "Ignorance" and to win this game, we shall ignore each other till...........about the 8th of January next year. It begins now.


PS: I NEVER LOSE.

Filter Factory by DEE...amazing music video in stop motion

(James Blunt Parody) She Was Beautiful...I Swear

This is freakin' brilliant—whoops! I started way, way, way too early. What? No. Just keep going? Yeah, it's fine. Cheers.

This is freakin' brilliant.
The embarrassment I endure
I thought I saw an angel
I was completely sure
She smiled at me on the subway
Turned out she was a man
I didn't know until I tried to sleep with her
After 8 black and tans

But she was beautiful, She was beautiful
She was beautiful, I swear
When I saw her face, it was in a crowded place
And I didn't see the bump right here
I shouldn't've drank so much beer.

Yeah, she had one lazy eye
But I couldn't tell in that light.
You should have seen the look on my face
When we got home that night.
And I said, "What the----oh my! Can we turn off the lights?"
But she just took off her clothes and my lust turned to fright.

But she was beautiful, She was beautiful
She was beautiful, I swear
When I saw her face, it was in a crowded place
And I didn't see the bulge right here.
Why did I drink so much beer?

No no no no no,
No no no no no no,
No no no no no no!

But she was beautiful, I promise she was beautiful
You gotta believe me she was beautiful, I swear.
I bet a flock of angels had smiles on their faces
As they watched me almost hook up with her—him—her—him—oh, gosh.
But it's time to face the truth
I got drunk and made out with a dude

Childhood Memories

I remember.......

Getting my first train set from Grandad, enjoying the superb electrc powered locomotive, made entirely of die cast metal......until a certain someone stepped on the tracks and broke it.....

Getting my first pair of football boots. The joy! The freedon to run on grass with a ball without slipping.....until said boots tore....after which i got another pair...

Eating chocolates....and asking for more......but then was denied.....cos it was over..

Sitting for my first exam.....in kindergarten...and failing.....after which i still got my Milo and Crackers.....

Playing with the toys kept in the kindergarten room's cupboard......of which the mega dumpster truck was my fave........

Getting my thumb crushed by a dumb girl in kindergarten.....and nail fell out.......

Mom whacking me for being rude to her........after which in a fit of rage i took the cane and broke it.....after which she got another and gave a few more on the legs, and made me sit in a corner....

Being extra good on Saturday, so that i could watch Mac Gyver , The A Team , Knight Rider and Mission Impossible....

Throwing stones at passing cars from the tree house uncle built......after which he caught me, gave me a few whacks and made me sit in the corner.....without chocolate.

Washing my school shoes and the cars on Saturdays......after which i had a really good lunch.....

Playing cricket on weekend nights, in the house compound, with the flood lights turned on.....

Playing football in Sentul Park with dad, cousins and uncles on weekends......we loaded the Unser with our traffic cones and football and water, before putting on shin pads and hitting the field......

Eating spaghetti made by aunt....it was so good......

Having mom's cheese cake with the mango mousse topping.........

Taking on the whole Standard 5 school football team with Kevin.......we sure ripped them apart mate........

Kevin and I being eyed by the school football team coach after said ripping in an open match.........

Running the 100m dash in 12.4 seconds........

Fighting in class with my nemesis Khairi...god i hated his guts.........

Mom hugging me after scoring straight As in every major National Exam...........and getting my MP3 player as a gift after SPM.......

Wearing the jet black prefect's blazer for the first time ever in my life in Form 4..........

The fun times in Form 5 'O' with Karam, Hsien Hooi, Soong Khang, Cheah and gang...........

Saying farewell to Colin after he abandoned us all for the US.......*frowns at him for said treachery*..LOL...

Joining the Drama Team, and emerging as Kuala Lumpur Champions after beating our rivals from Victoria Institution.....

The joyous times in St John's Institution.........fide et labore all the way baby!!!.......

Hating Taylors after a month there.......

Meeting closest PE1 pals Ting Feng, Nicole, Chee Lynn and Chin Yeun..whom can be trusted to keep secrets at ALL times..........

Trying to figure out Further Maths and Mr Peter in first month at Taylor's.......

Going for Paintball after the exams with PE1 peeps...........

Watching Man Utd lift the EPL title last season......and screaming with joy as Giggs lifted the trophy in a rain of red confetti............

Oweing a lot to Tim Weng for helping me out in Further Maths.......

Shal going *CONGRATULATIONS* after i went into shock upon seeing the A Level results........

Going to Sunway Lagoon and meeting up with the PE1 peeps after a long time..........

The sadness at saying goodbye as all of us went in different directions..........

Gambling at Hsien Hooi's house with Karam and Bernard during Chinese New Year...and actually getting a profit of 10 bucks........

Being accepted into university.....and the joy of realising i don't have to wait another year..............

The stress of uni.........

Cheers Mates!!!