BBQ

Went for a BBQ meant for those who entered NUS at the same time, from CSC.

Cos I only went for the 2nd night, there were only 10 people including me.

1.. 2… 3.. 4.. 5… 6.. 7… 8… 9.. 10..

If you count Fred as 1.

Anyways, it was a superb night, cos of the intimacy. Fred kept saying I missed out the fun in the 1st night, but I thought I gained more. I mean, yes, I know everybody who went for the 1st night, but I don’t know them well. Given that this is supposed to be an event meant for us to enjoy ourselves, I chose to join the more intimate session.

The guys were so fearful that we could not finish the food. I thought that since there were only 3 gals, we should have no problem. But they were wrong, and I was wrong too. The gals were the one who ate the MOST.

After eating, and a little bit of clearing up, there was a fruits session. ermz… everybody had a bowl of watermelon, dragon fruit, apple and jelly. And we took the same photo over and over again. lol There were only 10 people, but it was already so hard to accommodate all of us in the pic!

I brought some poppers, left over from some chalet over 2 years back. haha… So we went up to the balcony and had a cannon salute, with the 1st popper, and then together with the 2nd popper each of us had.

Oh… cos the poppers were so old, a lot misfired/IA. lol At least they didn’t cause casualty of some sort.

Then, it was some lazing around, waiting for those who intended to go home to finish packing up/chatting/settling scores.

yc dropped us at White Sands, and Fred, LF and me went to wait for cabs. lol We waited at one ulu taxis stand, and they got on theirs only after a 5 minute wait. I had to get onto mine 5 minutes after. ah… Next time must go to the one in the shopping centre one…

p/s: No pix… All at other people’s cams. Shall try to see if I can kope.

Clear Out in 5 Hours

wa… Weather so hot. My mum never prepare breakfast. I started working straight away after I woke up.

Basically, I cleared out my wardrobe, which was the 1 of the 2 main storage in my room. You see, the shelf I had was open-concept, so everything I put there was neat and tidy, easily obtainable. But the wardrobe contained everything I don’t use/see frequently, maybe once a year during CNY cleaning, and I basically just squeezed everything in there.

I threw out quite a number of stuff, especially old ones that I kept for dunno why. But more of recent history, I threw out my 1st discman, which I bought in Sec 3, I think. I also through out the box for my 1st handphone, which I don’t know if I still have the phone itself.

But I still kept my childhood set of ‘toys’, which consisted of 1 small plastic bag of stationery and what not. ah… haha… One of the penguin sharpener’s beak already disintegrated le. haha…

I also kept this series of ’story books’ I made during primary school days. Those days, it was the rage for us to write, draw and compile our story books and leave it in the reading corner in the class. ha… I always made, but never displayed. aiya… Other people one very neat, very beautifully drawn. Mine, handwriting like seismograph, drawing like graffiti. It was again more of self-satisfaction than show-off.

Anyways, I think I cleared half of the wardrobe’s initial mass, though at the end of it all, my wardrobe is still 80% full (more loosely arranged). haha…

the main bulk of the rubbish, but the boxes are empty. I actually emptied the contents, threw the stuff I didn’t want to keep in plastic bags, and threw the empty boxes out with them lol

also threw away a whole bag of clothes I couldn’t wear or went out of fashion. They were mainly those I kept all these years thinking I would wear them again. ha… my mum wants to sell them to karung guni…

I also cleared my lockers, and my wardrobe of cos, and stacked the notes I had for the past 4 years in a corner of my room, waiting for the day I receive my final results and confirmed my graduation status to throw them all out

But they are not all lah. Last year, I threw out most of my 1st year notes liaoz. Which was a lot, since I was conscientious enough then to print a lot of stuff for reading and doing… lol

Tower 1

Tower 2

Nightmare II

What is my subconscious telling me??

I dreamt of being ‘attacked’ by lizards.

1st, Fred showed me a kitchen (which I assume is where our food came from) where there was a lizard being cooked in a pot of food.

Afterwards, one lizard jumped on me and tried to climb through my sleeves.

And then there were a lot of lizards around.

Scary~ @_@

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To see a lizard in your dream, signifies your primal instincts and reactions toward sex, food, etc. and your anxieties toward these feelings. The lizard can also be representative of a person who you view as cold-blooded, fearful, or thick-skinned. On a more positive note, the lizard also symbolizes emerging creativity, renewal, and revitalization. It may also suggest that you are well-grounded.

Interview with TECH Semiconductor

Went for TECH’s walk-in interview held in NUS. After all, they were looking for good honours; I wouldn’t be even granted an interview if I applied through conventional means, so I thought I would crash this interview.

There were surprisingly quite a number of people. I mean, this is already like their 6th day. But oh well…

I went in for the Procurement Engineer post, took a (super taxing) logic test (took 1 hour) and then went for the interview. The whole thing lasted for 3 hours.

Anyways, this experience is like Chartered, quite easy and the interviewer was more interested in getting to know about me, unlike S*** who straight away asked me about my grades and told me she didn’t want me cos of my grades.

But I dunno. Was it cos I did well for the logic test? Or was it cos they were really looking for more than grades? Or was it cos the interviewer was kind enough to give me a chance to enhance my interviewing experience?

Well, I focused a lot on me being a ‘people person’ and constantly on the lookout for chances to learn. lol It does sound cheesy now that I’m talking about it here.

I tried to tell myself that I should not put too much expectations (cos of their requirements) and to relax and enjoy the process, but he still told me I was too nervous initially.

End up, I got quite chatty. I rattled off without thinking much anyways. Managed to convey my philosophical reasonings, talked about my family. ya… We talked for almost an hour. I wonder if he really was considering me, since he bothered to talk to me for an hour. Perhaps he knew there was no one else after me or something.

Whatever!

Medan told me to think positively.

I saw on TV that negative thoughts will attract negative events and vice versa. I shall practice the same. hmmm… I will be a hot property lol

Week 12 Intro

Prep For Final Lap

The coming of the end of exams feel so surreal. For me, it isn’t actually the end end (of my studies), but yet it’s almost the end. Although I have a egging worry that I might *touch wood* da bao my Digital Communications (cos of the cheat sheet saga), I still have 70% confidence I could pass the test.

You know, last sem, for Communications (which was the pre-req for DC), I couldn’t finish a single question for the final paper, cos it was 100% on calculations revolving partially or wholly Fourier Transforms.

Just to side track a little, the reason why I took the Communications track was for the Antarctic job that I applied (but got rejected) for. But I’m a stubborn mule. Despite the fact that I was rejected (but hey, I was rejected in the middle of this sem), I stuck to the Communications track, cos it was my decision to take it up and whatever the outcome, I only have myself to blame.

Somehow, I have this premonition that the history of LEP paper would repeat itself.

Anyways, for Communications, I got a B- in the end. Not bad for a module of which its paper I couldn’t complete.

Whatever.

After Saturday’s paper, I have the overnight KTV with _____ (fill in your names yourselves) followed by the shifting out of the abode I lived in for most of the past 9 months. Wow! I can have a baby too!

Anyways, back home, will have to change my bedsheets, cos after all the non-sleep, the sheets have become musty and I always suffer from allergic reactions when I went home on weekends.

Then it would be the fitting in of the stuff I shifted back home into my room. Can’t really throw away notes, cos well, must wait for the nail on the coffin to be… well, nailed, to make such decisions, right? hehe…

Then, I have to write for STCLA, due next Thursday, clear my locker, edit my thesis for next Saturday. Then write for Fei Yue Shi Kong contest, then work on EE2001, prepare for my driving test in June etc. oh… I decided to defer cos my EE2001 demo falls on the LAST day of my ICT, which means for the week before, I will be condemned by my team mates if I abandon them for ICT.

But well, my OC has not replied to my e-mail. They have this funny system where we must get our OCs to approve, then refer to CO to approve, before I can submit my online deferment officially for approval.

Whatever.

Anyways, I missed out the most important thing to do: Job Hunt!!

Gotta work for working lol

ZZGY Chapter 7 edited, Commentary uploaded

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2008/05/01 Old Posts: Sights Around Punggol (Along The LRT)

2008/05/03 Just Some Updates

2008/05/04 Old Posts: 杰诺一周

2008/05/05 K N S…

2008/05/05 I Like John Cho

2008/05/06 I Have A Whole Corridor To Myself

2008/05/06 From ‘Unkept Promises’ to ‘Irresponsible Stereotypes’

A Ray of Light(!)

Went for the 1st lab session. Found out that the Yr2 group mate was a gal, so I thought it was a respite. Gals are more serious than guys bah.

Turned out that the group members were not of the race I thought to be, but they are still different, anyways. And the gal was telling me, she gave up hope on the other 2 le, cos they pontang the 1st lab.

I told her, never mind. I want to pass the module. I’ll definitely work with you to achieve that.

wow… I sound so chivalry.

the bench my group belonged to…

Anyways, the gal is blur. After forgetting to make sure the polarity of a capacitor before soldering it, she committed the same mistake for 2 more capacitors. haiz… I was blur, but not that blur. Had to help her remove the 3 capacitors, cos she said she could not do it herself.

ah… End up burning 2 of my fingers.

oooh!!

oh… Did I mention? I spent 2 hours soldering devices onto a circuit board. Breathed in a lot of lead. haiz… But it was satisfactory. I like hands on activities than brain brain or leg leg ones…

the board which I soldered the parts on

the bumps are the soldered parts

oh oh… and the guy in the department office said that he is helping me with my deferment thingy. Nice~ I love this world…

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Had our 1st meeting.

I felt sort of relaxed. The other 2 guys, ya… looked quite slack, but they also looked like they knew their stuff. That is, they may put off doing the stuff, but will end up producing it in the end lol

Thanx Medan for praying for a non-believer like me. ha!

Nightmare

It was so scary, I felt I must blog now.

I dreamt that I went back to school. ‘School’ here refers to an unknown place that I know to be ’school’, and more probable to be NUS.

Then, I collected my results, of which, showed I failed TWO modules, and my CAP dropped to 1.11~!!

I cried after receiving the results…

It felt scary. When I realized I was dreaming (in the dream), I continued to cry, cos well, my conscious mind was still not 100% awake and the ‘Me’ continued to be in a ‘weakened’ state, with uncontrolled feelings.

Whatever.

It’s over now.

I hope dreams are really the opposite of real life…