Just The Wei I Am

This marks my official comeback to blogging! It has been ages. Ages. Well, my server had problems and all, but it has also been a busy one month lah.

Ah... the semester is starting in 3 days' time. On the one hand, I'm glad to be back to school, but on the other, the holidays had been too long and it's gonna take awhile to readjust. Anyway, I think I'm gonna enjoy 3 of my modules - the Islam one, the computing one and the music one. The 2 E.Lang ones? Haha, I don't really have much idea what they are about. Hopefully, I will enjoy them just as much!

Even as I write this, I just want to go and sleep! And it's barely 11pm yet! Hardly slept lah. Slept a total of perhaps 1 hour this morning, sometime between 6 to 9, and that's about it. Slept from about 6 to 9 just now in the evening too.... so what was I doing?

Friday morning 9am. Met Benny together with Hanhui at Tiong Bahru BK. The coffee was horrible!! Poured it away and got a tea refill instead.

12 noon. Met Robert for PnW practice, had lunch with Ruizhi. NB caregroup from 1 to almost 4. Claramae gave a teaching on unanswered prayers. All familiar stuff, but I took the chance to take down good notes for future use. =)

4pm onwards. This is when things started to get really exciting. Qiaoping, Jiadai, Weizan and Daniel came back from the supermarket with groceries and stuff. We got down to work in Jiadai's cluster kitchen. We had a great time preparing the food, lots of joking around. Think we were tired but really really pleased with the outcome. Best little party I'd ever helped throw! Great food, great crowd and a great time. I think those of us who were there from the start had a much more enjoyable time than those who came only later in the eveing, but think everyone enjoyed themselves much nonetheless... I'm rambling ... hmmm

11pm. Me and Weizan decided to stay over in PGP. Glad I stuck around after most of the rest left, cos I got to witness Jiadai giving her life to Christ! Wow! We have a new sister... heehee ... so glad and happy for her. Hey sis, if you are reading this, welcome to the family (sorry for the horrible rendition that night, haha) and really looking forward to see the woman you will become in Christ... :)

2 or 3am. The whole gang of us - Meiyan, Weizan, Qiaoping, Jiadai, Daniel and I (Sijia KOed) - went down to Fong Seng for supper. Oh ya, haha ... did something funny .. we were meeting in the R3 common area, so I just suddenly thought of teaching them how to turn on/off the aircon ... laojiao tricks ..

4-6am. Joined Qiaoping and Jiadai in looking at photos - firstly of projectacts, and then those that Ben took in Sarawak... Quite funny, cos me and Jiadai were tired and we were falling asleep all the time. Qiaoping was the only one wide awake, cos she drank tea at Fong Seng. Apparently that's enough caffeine to keep her awake the whole night.

6-8am. Jiadai went and KO liao, so I was left with Qiaoping. Tired but didn't feel like sleeping cos it won't be a long sleep anyway... helped her to clear all the spyware junk from her laptop ... aiyoh! really a lot of it ... Spybot + AdAware seems like a good combination - between the 2 of them, I lost count of the number of 'objects' they found and destroyed ... now her laptop is much much smoother in operation ...

8am onwards. Didn't want to sleep in her room initially, cos now there are 3 girls inside. a little awkward. but really tired by this time and anyway I think Daniel wanted to meet for breakfast sometime soon ... so wat the heck, found a spot on the floor to sit down and get a little shuteye ... about an hour, i think... then we (Meiyan, Jiadai and I) got up and left. Haha, the effect of the caffeine had worn off by then and Qiaoping was super tired .. so we left her behind and went off. Me to Daniel's place to get the 2 of them. Jiadai and Meiyan to her place. Then me, Daniel and Weizan went over to Jiadai's place for breakfast, which was leftovers from last night. The nice bun thingy that Sijia got from JB, reheated in the toaster .. wonderful .. potato salad, now fully chilled .. great .. sure beat the original idea of going for breakfast in canteen ... can save money somemore

11am onwards. Jiadai went to UCC to meet Meiyan and Claramae. Me, Daniel and Weizan went to take a look at Rag. Interesting but it's quite a drag to hand around for the whole thing, esp under that sun ... so me and Weizan went off to go to Sim Lim to collect his mobo, while Daniel stayed behind to look for some friends. Had a long talk with Weizan on the journey there, about lots of stuff, mostly about religion and Christianity. We both spoke openly, which felt great ... I'm so much more comfortable conversing that way. Anyway, got to clear up some misconceptions (?) on his part and also to set him off thinking a little bit ... hopefully the sermon tomorrow might strike a chord too ... :)

4pm. Finally got home. Had slept most of the way back anyway ... realise that long bus journeys are no big deal when you sleep all the way ... then again, i already knew that ... haha ... thank God for aircon buses! Anyway, KOed from 6 to 9, got up for dinner, tried to install Need for Speed: Underground unsuccessfully (anyone got disc or image?) and blogging (finally) ... going to sleep after this ...

Rare chronological blog entry from me ... haha, but it was an interesting, long and fun day(s) ... Zzzzz

Just found out that EL3204 Discourse Structure is taught by Dr Benny Lee... Yes! A rather good teacher, in my opinion. Enjoyed his Pragmatics module 2 semesters ago. Woohoo ... this semester looks fun, academically ..

Oh yes, the icing on the cake is that the exam is only 40% and it's open-book! Haha, so what's new for EL modules? =P

One of my desktop icons caught my eye just now. I haven't noticed it for some time, probably because it's green against the green grass on the XP wallpaper ... lol

Anyway, it's Piolet - a P2P app intended solely for music. I had completely forgotten that I installed it. oops. Anyway, its network is probably not as big as those of the P2P giants but it's good enough. I can find almost everything I search for, and download speeds are good over broadband. No malware, adware, spyware ... it's bannerware, which I can live with. So having rediscovered this gem on my system, I went ahead to download some songs ... heehee

To see if you belong to my generation (okay, even if you do, see if you belong to my 'pattern'), see if you can answer these questions!

1. Who sang 'Come Undone'?
2. Who sang 'Ordinary World'?
3. Who sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings'?
4. Who sang 'From A Distance'?
5. 'The Crying Game' by Boy George was from the soundtrack of which movie?
6. 'The Power of Love' by Huey Lewis and the News was from the soundtrack of which movie?

Coffee at midnight. Shiok! Qping would never dare to, cos she'll end up wide-eyed awake till 6am. Yeah, but for me coffee at night is just shiok.. It does keep me awake a little, but it's not that effective on me anymore. Which is a good thing, I can drink it for kicks.

Got a really great cup of kopi from the food court opposite my place. Best 70 cents I ever spent. The auntie making the kopi was a bit blur: I ordered takeaway but she made a cup, so that had to go to the uncle behind me. Turned out that was the last cup of the batch, and I had to wait for her to make a new batch. I seriously did not mind waiting, man! For the first cup out of a fresh batch of kopi? Yeah, I'll wait ... I'm sipping it as I type this ... Aaaahhhhh... shiok! I love all the espresso stuff, but really, a good good cup of kopi beats any latte hands down ...

I have to always ask myself, can I account for the 24hr that I have each day? Time is not money, but time is like money. I have to steward and manage it just as well, or even better!

So what was I doing playing game, watching movie, surfing, anything that is not what I really wanted to do. Or needed to do. What a waste of time. I feel sick. Hmmm... This better not keep up.

They're doing renovation works next door, I think. All that drilling and stuff. It's horribly noisy! It's not exactly white noise although it's pretty repetitive. Want to get out as soon as I can.

But while I'm still stuck here, I shall attempt to make it more bearable by playing my music real loud. And guess what?! My very strategically placed subwoofer (on the table, next to the monitor, for easy reach) generates such a strong magnetic field that my display is shuddering. Not the monitor, mind you. The display. That's to say, the subwoofer's magnetic field is further diverting the electrons in the CRT, periodically, so I get wave-like effects on my display that corresponds to the bass of the music.

Thought of putting the big metal cover of the CPU in between them for extra shielding. Then thought better of it. I'll just shift the subwoofer to the floor, where it belongs anyway, later tonight. For now, degauss degauss degauss ...

(Stop sniggering, all you flat panel users!)
(actually, I believe that a grand total of 2, maybe 3, readers of this blog actually understand what I'm talking about.. haha)

By the way, I overslept this morning - again. Woke up 10 minutes before my lecture. Well, if I am staying in PGP, there remains the option of rushing and making it 15 minutes late. Haha, but when you stay in this obscure place called Gek Poh (somewhere near NTU), it takes an hour to get to school lah. So forget it. Argh, that's the second Islam lecture I missed in a row! From what I heard, I don't really miss much, but still I would rather be there.

Only good thing that results from this is that I get to eat lunch at home. Healthy food, and can save money. Well, I don't want to spend too much time cooking, so it's instant noodles. Topped with this super fibrous vegetable that I don't know the name of, and some slices of fishcake. I threw the Maggi seasoning away, I almost never ever use that. MSG, yucks.