Imprezzions

Goodbye World!

2006-04-20T00:13:00.000+08:00

The Million Dollar Homepage

2006-01-11T20:28:00.000+08:00

So I had this little idea the other day. I was trying to think of interesting ways to make some cash before going to Uni (which is in about a month's time) and somehow this crazy thought entered my head: I'll try and make a million dollars, by selling 1,000,000 pixels, for $1 each. And so 'The Million Dollar Homepage' is born...

And now this guy is a millionaire. If only I thought of it first I wouldnt have to bother with scholarships and stuff. Maybe I should just quit working and bum around and think of million dollar ideas.

Once Upon a December

2006-01-04T23:35:00.000+08:00

One month has vanished now where have I been? For now I've returned from my accidental hiatus. Hola!

December was a beautiful end to the year :)

Prom was surprisingly enjoyable albeit being a total ripoff with substandard food. I still congratulate myself for spending on nothing more than the neckless I wore :) I snapped 99 shots this time compared to the 300+ at the rgs prom. People generally become more apathetic as they grow older. Or maybe it was the guys ha.

I've had projects coming my way even though minglee.biz wasn't and still isn't anywhere near completion. And while everybody else was looking for a job I was offered a design attachment which also means that I get more say in terms of remuneration and length of contract. I need more creativity I need flash8 I need to learn scripting I need upgrading...

And driving is fun! First lesson and I was already hitting the roads around ubi. Still rather unfamiliar with the clutch-accelerator tango. I swear my instructor modelled his hair after phuachukang. But he's a nice guy.

The novelty of being around children wears out after you've done the same thing over and over for 6 years. I was helping out in the usual school holiday camps out of obligation and ohboy, kids these days are monsters. There was this 6yrold kid who spoke as if the fword was the first word he ever learnt and peeped at girls from under the table. The worse thing ever about peeping is proclaiming what you had seen and that was exactly what the little brat did. Geez little pervert. Then there was this other boy who knew how to run before he learnt how to walk he just kept zooming everywhere and was unstoppable.

Oh and handbell carolling this year wasn't that bad. Our esplanade performance has been recorded in their archives :)

But what made the month all so gratifying were the little gatherings with family and friends. It's like your whole life in summary meeting everybody in succession and recalling the old times and laughing and drinking along with it. And then the month ended with a bang. With many bangs in fact.. the fireworks were magical.
As I always say it's never the place or event, but it's the company that matters :)

And so that's december in a nutshell.

Have a great 2006 everybody!l

Just As I Am

2005-12-04T15:42:00.000+08:00

I’ve had a lot of big dreams
I’ve made a lot of bad moves
I know you could walk away
But you never do

I’ve met a lot of cold hearts
I’ve learned to smile and deceive
I know I’m hard to be around
But you never leave

I’m not easy to understand
But you hold out your hand
And you say you love me
Just as I am

Beautiful

2005-11-28T00:19:00.000+08:00

While the whole world was sleeping, the magic began.

Now I'm playing so hard I'm even more tired than during the Alevels, coming home only for sleep. Amazing really it feels like it's been 3 months after As already. I love my life :) :)

Boing

2005-11-19T01:55:00.000+08:00

We all need a childhood friend to remind us of how young we all once were.. Despite constant reminders and occasional revelation of how fast we are getting on in years. But whatever happens, talking about it just makes you all young again :)

One Last Shot

2005-11-18T23:27:00.000+08:00

For the first time in my life I can say fmaths was easy thankgod.

And I admit I have this shameful aversion for checking answers after papers. No point really since you can't change anything. The only thing I can possibly do after knowing the right answer is to worry and regret which is really not my thing. Got to move on.

And before we know it it's all over I really hope we kicked some Alevel ass! So many things to look forward to right after :)

Hotel Sofitel

2005-11-11T19:09:00.000+08:00

Click to Enlarge :)

One down!

2005-11-08T22:39:00.000+08:00

Am surprisingly relaxed, watching discovery and starworld now more than ever before. And i'll soon be a maestro at the rate I'm visiting the piano :)

You know what happens when the whole world says a paper is okay?
It just means the bar would be raised anyway, vice versa.
Why rejoice?

There's no escape really.

Everytime i think of my next paper I dream of when it's all over. And then my memory skips back to a year ago, when I was sitting with Fsu handing out the Alevel results to 03 batch. The girls all looking older than their age and the guys easily spotted with all the cool caps we wonder why ... and before that i thought 4As were a given, but I thought wrong.

Soon we'll have been there done that.

The thing about council is that it puts you through the same experience at least twice. Talk about mental preparation i should have done that a year ago...

Not so exponential

2005-10-31T18:53:00.000+08:00

13 39 61 ?

Some things we'll never have answers to.

So now it's down to the final 7days :)

TCH Diary Intrusion

2005-10-08T15:20:00.000+08:00

This is rather insulting but quite amusing if taken with a pinch of salt:
http://diaryofachinesehighboy.blogspot.com/

Sheralyn finds the weirdest stuff :)

Look!

2005-10-07T20:57:00.000+08:00

There was this ongoing swimming lesson in the lane beside mine and over my shoulder I could hear this mother screaming to her son
"Why you keep looking back at other people! Don't care about them lah! Look infront! Boy ahhh!!"

That's the way some things are.
Seems like I've been living a lie.

Up up and away

2005-09-30T20:01:00.000+08:00

Everything is going up.
Everyone is going off.

Guys with manic depression suck the LIFE out of you.

Sapere aude. It's all in the mind.
Here I go.. Goodbye!

Oops

2005-09-21T02:51:00.000+08:00

I must stop getting into trouble.

Stage Show

2005-09-18T21:02:00.000+08:00

It's so difficult to trust.
Cause you never know when you're being played.

Grow Cube

2005-09-18T02:43:00.000+08:00

From the guys at Eyezmaze, the newly released Grow Cube :)

Been trying it for almost an hour and I've gotten maximum levels for everything except the Tube. But I think I've reached the end already cause it said congratulations? Ohwell, for those who just want to fastfoward and see the effect, just hover over below for the solution:

1. Man
2. Water
3. Bushes
4. Bucket
5. Pipe
6. Fire
7. Plate
8. Bone
9. Spring
10. Ball

Hope I've got the sequence correct lol.
But really the fun is in getting it yourself. Enjoy!

iGod

2005-09-17T20:06:00.000+08:00

What do you do when you need to repent? You talk to god.
And now it even comes with a fresh hip look, with colour chosing capabilities and all. Introducing the iGod!

I think toyshops are the happiest places in modern day living.

Alright

2005-09-15T22:48:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow marks the end of my first week of prelims and also my FIRST morning paper! It's been alright. And in fact I was having quite alot of fun with econs today. Found much amusement in my last minute 2cm PPC diagram I almost burst out laughing but I masked it behind an innocent cough.

But the sleepness nights are driving me crazy.
Convoluted thoughts of 3D trigo in the nth dimension and particle mechanics in helical paths and coming out with maths formulas for GP and econs and just meshing everything together is just what my mind does when I lie in bed.

And then I get SMSes at 3am and I know I'm not alone :)

But it's been alright.

Don't Ask

2005-09-13T00:02:00.000+08:00

Almost everything went wrong yesterday.

I fought.
I cried alot.
I couldn't fall asleep.

But I kept it all in and went in with the right frame of mind.
Everything just worked out swell.

And I'm proud of that.
Just eat that will you.

Everybody has problems of their own.
It's every woman for herself.

Joey

2005-09-11T00:36:00.000+08:00

Some people just don't get it.

Talking to sheralyn makes you very very high :) Not good in the face of your first prelim paper but on the bright side it's very good stress relief! All the better when you have a certain common topic of horror stories and nightmares.

And then I come back and have some of the most hilarious conversations:

the other day i was watching joey
huh a kangaroo?
NO
lol

as in friends

oh
joey
OH the guy

Creeps

2005-09-09T20:38:00.000+08:00

Ripped from Mel's blog :)
I thought the moo would appreciate this too lol

Ipod Nano

2005-09-09T02:17:00.000+08:00

Check out the IpodNano.
It's actually 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27 inches and not all that small.. which also means that (if you take a look at that hand holding the nano) the thumb over there must be aover a whopping 1inch thick! So much for advertising gimmicks!

So Do you belong to the Apple Lovers or Apple Haters?
Haha I think those articles are classic. I especially like how the first one starts of with "the ethnic looking clipart model" hohoho.

Damn but I feel cheated.

But then again looking on the bright side,
being small means being in fashion :)

Counting Down

2005-09-08T23:32:00.000+08:00

All thanks to Pringles, I have no more voice to speak.
Not like I have any substance to speak of anyway.

3 more days to doomsday!

Pringles

2005-09-06T20:00:00.000+08:00

I finished a whole jumbo tube of pringles (+40g free). All by myself. In one day. At one sitting. Shrimp and pepper flavoured. And I'm still craving for more. I've come to the conclusion that Pringles are undoubtedly the most addictive potato chips on earth.

Each chip is perfectly engineered to curve with such elegance such that it wraps itself perfectly around your tongue, with the middle portion seasoned in a much higher concentration than the rest of the chip so you get that enriched flavour where it matters.

I can't believe I'm devoting an entire entry to a pringles potato chip.
But then again I was thinking, that since I'm at it I should jolly well go all the way...

Doesn't the pringles mascot look quite like an aged monopoly man? Less hair, puffier cheeks, still the look of class and wealth for he was cashing in gazillions of monopoly money at his prime.

Haha ok I think I should stop. This is what happens when you don't want to think of physics. Nor econs or maths for that matter.

And I've resorted to irritating this guy. Haha i like the acting!

Oh and this is highly amusing. I don't understand a word in that article but from the pictures I guess he's just obsessed with being a VIP. Join victoria integrated programme lahh.

Sudoku

2005-09-04T21:21:00.000+08:00

A game a day keeps my sanity at bay!

Play Sudoku online!

I did the easy one in 4minutes and the Evil one wasn't very evil either.

I'm always at the right side of the curve for all the wrong things.

Desire

2005-09-02T20:37:00.000+08:00

I just finished my personal statement after many days and many gruellingggg hours. That one page glorification kinda sucks up your energy such that you don't feel like doing anything else after. It kills really. When you see the PRCs coming up with all these fantastic writeups about their goals and ideals with unusually impeccable english you know you've got to step up your game.

I need to find desire.

An ode to Google

2005-08-31T22:37:00.000+08:00

http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
The URL speaks for itself. We'd have to start emailing each other in morse codes or maybe write sdrawkcab like this to sly the system lol.

So it seems as though Google has literally joined the dark side with its plan of world domination with Google Talk which is really quite disappointing and much much more to come...

Or perhaps you could just quench your thirst for knowledge with Google Gulp as a signal of defeat.

Oh and on another note, do watch this trailer for March of the Penguins (that I found on google, just to fit the theme) because it's just as good as watching the movie. In fact, it's such a steal it's even better than the real thing. Oh how i pamper all of you :)

The Missing Link

2005-08-29T18:36:00.000+08:00

Talk about futiliy. Talk about GP.
Talk about how I didn't answer the damned question.

And with that my resolution for online abstinence comes to naught.
Hi I'm back.

I'm unconsciously binging to the point of ad nauseam. Worse when it only sets in after that occasional glass of water and the iceberg begins to tip. Maybe it's just making way for Titanic. Should we all jump?

All my dreams recently have had me being admonished by someone or another, over the most frivolous things I can't even remember. It gets all the more scarier when they're chiding you over the very things you want to hide from them. Call it hypocrisy or whatever I believe everyone lives behind a mask. At this time however I guess there's some interesting internal civil war going on in me. The battling of the cells hahaha.

And with regards to sheralyn's feministic comment, I guess it's about beating the statistics. Guys cannot win All the timeee :) If there were to be the occasional anomaly why not you!

It's no more only prelims. It's prelims. I'm getting the blues!

It's the beginning of the end.

Petrified

2005-08-26T18:18:00.000+08:00

Finally! The Teaser Trailer is out for Sayuri (Memoirs of a Geisha) and I'm dying to catch it! Looks pretty cool except for the voiceovers which sound a wee bit too forced. Haha i liked that stare. Haven't been to a movie in agesss.

GP prelims on monday! I'm spending my entire weekend out of the house and may well end up visiting the night safari for a last minute midnight kick. I need to rest my mind and breathe. To go in the next morning with a fresh and happy brain that's hopefully not empty by then. Ha call me crazy or whatever you like.

I think I've been petrified lately. Too afraid of the impending doom to do anything about it. I need to get over this state.. this trance.

What's the counter-charm? Where's Harrypotter?

Guten Tag!

2005-08-25T03:18:00.000+08:00

eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn

Languages are fun!
I just picked up some conversational german from these great websites with audio samples. Adding to my collection of 1- 10 in english chinese malay hokkien thai and japanese I now have german! It's been a long time. And speaking of japanese I found a lame animation that teaches you to count in Jap. It's always the Japs huh :)

Oh distractions distractions.

I seem to be awake at all the wrong hours.
There's absolutely not a soul online lol.

Ohya and I saw this stall advertising their 100% Mackerel Otah in big angry capitals that I found rather amusing. Doesn't 100% mackerel mean I should get a whole mackerel fish under those banana leaves?

Accountability

2005-08-22T21:03:00.000+08:00

So many people I have to answer to.

Dreamer

2005-08-21T22:29:00.000+08:00

I'm a dreamer.

I look at people around me pursuing their passion in music or sports and getting mentioned at rallies or going all out securing scholarships and placements everywhere else in the world and winning competitions and getting asteriods named after them and then I wonder what the heck I am doing.

Of all the things that Elim Chew had ever said I forgot the one about ability, until I met her yet again at the Scape focus group where she said it the second time. Abilities only become better the more they are being used. It feels as if I have lost the ability to study. It's nauseating just stuffing ourselves. I want to get on with life. I want to experiment.

But that's just the way things are.

I'm going to watch apprentice.

Students' Sketch Pad

2005-08-19T16:40:00.000+08:00

Check out the latest comic on The Students' Sketch Pad. Love the way they take a dig at education and the blogging community lol.

The power to change

2005-08-18T00:09:00.000+08:00

For all the brouhaha, what makes them think that girls would want to join VS in the first place? Let's not pick on the nittygritty like the lack of toilets for one. Ah the world's going INSANE. First with dunmanhighJC and the move and the syllabus and now this, looks like everybody's turning suicidal. The greater depression anyone?

I picked up this phrase while reading into Foucault's model of power:

Where there is power there is resistance.

It seemed all so lucid that obviously when people have the power to effect change there almost always comes resistance (with the except of Singapore ha). But soon my mind subconsciously deviated into this whole realm of physics where it actually made a lot of sense too, that a load has to be present for energy disspation in a circuit and hence where there is power there is resistance! Oh what a stroke of genius, I'm feeling like John Nash :)

Or maybe not. I'm just going crazy.

Ohdear

2005-08-17T18:36:00.000+08:00

I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm so very afraid.

How can there be time

2005-08-14T21:38:00.000+08:00

One entry from the Singapore Writer's Fest [100-word epic challenge]:

"How can there be time to write a story when we’re all too busy stirring waking sitting standing waddling stumbling-to-the-bathroom groping scratching yawning peeing wiping brushing shaving showering wondering-what-to-wear-today? Dressing eating leaving running missing cursing waiting waiting waiting boarding smelling getting-off-and-rushing (again) squeezing sitting reading sleeping ignoring-old-ladies-and-mums-to-be. Walking jaywalking greeting emailing working slacking surfing snacking calling eating sweating cooling slacking working snacking surfing hanging-out-by-the-cooler slacking leaving meeting waving smiling-hello-dear-how-was-your-day? Strolling eating chatting drinking laughing smiling paying adjourning entering kissing cuddling petting sucking watching moaning gasping pretending screaming pretending kissing turniing drifting drifting dreaming how there can be any time to"

Love

2005-08-12T19:12:00.000+08:00

The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone.

Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.

This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.

It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

- Sophocles

Ruthlessly ripped from sheralyn's blog.

I want to be in love with my academia too :)

Sleep Tight

2005-08-11T18:55:00.000+08:00

i think the reason why they say sleep tight is bcos sometimes when yu sleep your mind feels as if it's drifting in a million directions at once. so yu say sleep tight so that yu keep your thoughts and your mind close to yu when yu sleep so they dont run all over the place and yu dont hafta go catch them before yu wake up and end up even more exhausted than when yu went to bed. sleep tight - wrap yourself up in a cocoon, don't spread yourself too thin and don't lose yourself in your dreams.

I love shermaine's way of thinking :)

The Stumbling Block

2005-08-10T18:31:00.000+08:00

Life has been going all too smoothly, I just had to take that stumble.

The worse part about fainting is getting back up again. The part when your brain is conscious but everything else is paralysed. Like you try to swallow and you just can't. That part where you can't remember what just happened and you're straining to figure out where the hell you are. And it's made worse when you have 20pairs of eyes staring down at you in shock. Ah well as I always say, we all have to get used to my unpredictability :)

I just visited the VJ moblog and I'm saddened at the state it's in. I never believed in the concept anyway, because having a school-based blog totally defeats the point of blogging. This illustrates perfectly how phenomena or trends like these should be left to the natural state of things and should not be controlled, much less recreated by any relevant authority in such an artificial environment.

And to quote a certain someone on the greener pastures across singapore, "Cannot win in studies let them win in blogging lor. Big deal!"
I guess the only big deal is the prize money. Money speaks.

And this leads to the VIP saga. I guess it's a case of imperfect information coupled with the inability to see things from the different perspective. To all those furious about the school wasting money, do you know that MOE gives the schools an exuberant IP budget? And when I say exuberant I really mean in the excesses, but that's just my opinion. To put it simply, it's just like having food rations: Don't use on food then use on what? Bottomline, it's not your school fees they're touching and the money used could not be chanelled anywhere else but for the VIP anyway. That's what I've gathered, correct me if I'm wrong.

And I guess there's this amusing misperception that just because the design company that did the VIP hub also did up the entire school with the same colourful curvacious flavour people unconsciously think the VIP owns it all. And what's so wrong with a school functioning like a company? Singapore's run just like one big organisation anyway, (fortunately not a DOT com) against the other corporations like America Inc. and China Pte Ltd. Pun accidentally intended.

I've come to the conclusion that all things happen for a reason. And unless you see the other side, you'll always be an angry man. But it's so easy to complain isn't it? Quite fun also hor.

Me being a half-half I tend to agree with many people at the same time. Like how I feel the 600000 was justified but not the goldtap, like how I see the meaning in College Day but don't see the need for the average Victorian to find meaning in being there.. and like many many other things.

Ultimately, it's impossible to make everybody happy.
So cheers to whatever makes you happy. Peace :)

Winning

2005-08-04T19:52:00.000+08:00

You know the race between the tortoise and the hare?

Well the tortoise won.
The tortoise always wins anyway :)

Crazy

2005-08-02T20:56:00.000+08:00

It pays you know.

I wish someone could diagnose me crazy so I could skip school for the rest of the year. Goodbye.

Croak

2005-08-01T19:59:00.000+08:00

Tis' no good, the fact that the more I try to study the more I end up munching and then I get so full and bloated I end up sleeping all my time away.

By the time Prelims are here I'll be like a bullfrog.

Goodie Grabbing

2005-08-01T02:29:00.000+08:00

[Photos Removed]

Just two photos to sum up my National Day Parade Preview experience.

Did you really think the second photo was real? Nah, it's mega modified - I did a blend of three photos and it actually turned out quite good :) Lol the deception. Hard to trust photos nowadays aye.

It was a good day of goodie grabbing, from the career fair in the morning all the way to NDP at night. The free gifts nowadays are quite hightech come to think about it. There's also this sort of pen warfare going on with almost everybody giving free pens. But who's complaining.

And we had a very interesting talk. 6 years dude :)

Ah I hate being confused.

College Day

2005-07-30T03:10:00.000+08:00

I've got a jaw ache from 45mins of Russell Peters :)
So on to some idle thoughts since I'm too high to hit the hay.

I think college life is akin to the newspapers.

We all know that it's the ads that constitute the most expensive parts of the newspaper, yet people often overlook or intentionally avoid them for they serve no apparent purpose, or so they think. College activites are just like newspaper advertisements, as our main curriculum is to the articles. Companies waste resources paying creatives to conceptualise the most attractive ads, just like how various adhocs put in all their time effort and money into making every event as successful as possible.

I believe in the celebration of efforts, and there's so much that can be learnt from all these events, especially from failure. But before I start sounding like a stuffy diplomat, no I'm not encouraging any change of habits whatsoever. It's just the way different people view different things, and to quote Russell Peters, whatever makes you happy :)

Wouldn't life be boring without advertisements? You wouldn't know what's going on, as much. But I guess it doesn't matter if you couldn't care less about the community you live in, which isn't a crime really. And to bring the illustration further I think CCAs are like the Life section. It just adds colour to your newspaper.

On to College Day, here's a brilliant entry from the VJC Moblog that sums up the event as witnessed from those in the hall. One of the best entries yet, now that is what you call the victorian spirit!

It was quite a different story from where i was though. Was involved in taking photos for the Moblog with Colin and was hence at the heart of the action, quite literally. As in I had to go right up to Tharman and shoot him. Hee. I guess the best part was seeing some of the seniors again and speaking to Mrs Dawn Lee for a fleeting second and reminiscing the time i was at the prize table last year.

Wouldn't life be boring without advertisements?

Savoir-Faire

2005-07-27T23:57:00.000+08:00

Fate really works in the strangest of ways :)

Today has been ultra dramamania. Imagine having lived with someone for a almost a decade and then not hearing from him until another decade later only to find out that he's become a totally changed man. Honestly, I'm happy for him, though the transformation itself is quite unbelievable! And then there was this huge sms booboo I made and a mini outburst because of the ear, and many other interesting little revelations here and there.

I think I need a heart of steel, and someone who can really widthstand all my nonsense. Thanks moo!

Doesn't it seem that SDD is drawing near? That only means that the As are looming and prelims are almost here! 27 more days! Colin was saying how SDD reveals what kind of friends you have, and I so agree. I'm not used to everybody just sitting back and watching the tide and not doing anything about it. Somehow it was taken for granted in RG that everybody went for prom unless they had other family commitments. After all, it's the last time we would get together as a batch and it's that kind of spirit and fun we honour :) Over here people think it's just cool to hate the council and whatever they're doing? Ohsigh.

And someone asked me one day how many friends I could actually trust my life with. I have three and we concluded that I'm either far too trusting or seriously lucky. I don't know. But I just know that when I pray I don't really ask for luck or wealth or health. All I ask is to meet good people along the way. It sucks if everybody you meet just wants a piece of your flesh.

Just let me leave my rosetinted glasses on for while would you :)

tick

2005-07-26T18:22:00.000+08:00

one week behind my revision schedule

Being Weird

2005-07-24T19:36:00.000+08:00

Gah. Was looking forward to Corrinne May's Homecoming Concert but apparently tickets have been sold out already! Shall just have to take comfort in my DimSumDollies tickets :)

A great weekend for introspection and daydreaming. Yes it's been more than a month after returning from US and I'm still sorting through my photos. Was looking through the Disneyland ones and thinking about how part-time work itself is already so much more fun over in LA than over there. I could go work as the Chip&Dale mascot or something. But then again it's hard to sustain that bounce the whole day if you're tigger and I'd probably get dragged by kids half my size if I had Merlin's beard or Eeyore's tail so maybe I'm just not cut out to be a mascot either.

Then I was wondering what would happen if I put a shark through my roof or if I were to build my house shaped like a naked woman (Mexico) or just do something bizzare and attention seeking... and have neighbours all the way from the opposite side of Singapore write in to the STforums and HDB officials knocking on my door and getting all the warning letters. And we wonder why such stuff don't happen over here.

I found the perfect word to describe Singapore - Sterile, meaning clean, efficient, effective, but that's about it. In other words, Too Clean, Too efficient, Too effective. But who's complaning, it's when you have met the basics that you go back and think, what if.

And I was reading into the lives of starving artists in New York:

"On the streets crowds of people were staggering this way and that, newly released from their office tombs. Grim faces, worm down like cobblestones, never to make anything of their lives. These were the worker bees and drones, who had been imprisoned in American thought-patterns since birth, with no hope for escape but the weekly mililon dollar lottery. Walking at a slow speed, which drove me crazy. But what would have motivated them to move quickly?

It didn't bother me, the looks and stares I got. People were angry with me, and why? Because I was some sort of freak, an artist. They were trapped, and I wasn't. So I felt smug, even though I was starving.."

Mind Unwired

2005-07-20T04:35:00.000+08:00

www.dreamdaredive.com
Nearly done but not quite there.

This is what I have been busy with. 2 nights without sleep and still counting. Sometimes I wish I were less of a perfectionist. I don't see how people can give in sloppy work and not care at all. I'm dead tired but standards have been set, deadlines must be met. Actually I just want to see it done, well.

It seems like I'm posed with new dilemmas every night.

And I just spent 4hours online earlier doing absolutely nothing. I guess that's what you call a block. I had a million windows open (my taskbar actually had this long scrollbar) but nothing was happening. Half the time I was trying to find the correct window. I realise that I make alot of decisions for people. I'm in power eh? Come on people have a mind of your own! Half the time, no, more than half the time I don't know the answer either. There's never an answer anyway it's just how you see things.

I think my mind is just in a mess.

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. --Mark Victor Hansen

Musings

2005-07-16T13:53:00.000+08:00

Play Planarity! (courtesy of moo)
My computer hanged at level 12 because the flash scripts were getting too heavy! Looks Intimidating eh? Gah, but I wasn't allowed to continue!

I actually threw down The Economist yesterday and picked up a Chinese Book! It was a good change :) Chinese expression is actually much more beautiful. There's so much more to appreciate when you don't do stuff for the sake of the syllabus.

And check out the Iflea! You've just got to see this!

KiwiShot

2005-07-13T06:22:00.000+08:00

Do the Kiwishot. Nothing fantastic, a game only good if you need to destress. I got up till level 12 on my first try and didn't feel like playing it a second time.

The Crazy Ones

2005-07-11T23:38:00.000+08:00

Had a very insightful day today, although my moo went bonkers and Mr boy was trying to surprise us with something very unsurprising and I decided to argue my way out of GP and in turn had to take notes on the board while Fsu sat in the chair. Revenge? lol

To the SV peeps, it's 15mins to our one month anniversary! The day we flew out of our little fishbowls and gained enlightenment haha! Commemorating this event, I decided to post this poem that's still stuck in my head. There was something I really really liked about it when I first came across it while prepping for one of the SV priming sessions. Written by steve jobs, founder of Apple Inc.

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify them or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine.
They heal. They explore.
They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Think Different.

Solitude

2005-07-10T23:12:00.000+08:00

Hm, my horoscope prophesizes that I'll be at my peak of creativity this week! OH what a whole load of bullshit. Anyway I just turned down another business prospect yesterday, for a public listed company. He said I shouldn't be turning down business when I'm just starting out. Opportunities don't come often, to which I've learnt to disagree. When opportunity does not come to you you jolly well go search and create opportunity!

But this reminds me of Leslie's joke:

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Opportunity's here.
That's impossible! Opportunity knocks only once!

The tables have turned this time around.

Had a very fruitful weekend. Found solace in solitude.

What Distinguishes Designer Sheep From Desighner Goats Is The Ability To Stroke A Cliche Until It Purrs Like A Metaphor.

New Game curtesy of Victor: MiniGlobs!

The Answer

2005-07-07T21:30:00.000+08:00

Why?

Because.

Unititled

2005-07-06T20:21:00.000+08:00

Am getting into loads of trouble. I thought I studied enough to pass physics but apparently not. The level average is also quite disgusting, I'm wondering if it's just the paper or our rabbit year batch is just one apathetic unambitious bunch.

Oh London won and yeah my prediction holds :) Quite happy actually cause it's even more reason for the British High Commission to HURRY UP and give us our Sterling Pounds (which have depreciated ever since we won the competition).

Yes I'm turning down every biz opportunity that comes by. 8th one today. Opportunity costs too high :(

Read

2005-07-06T00:28:00.000+08:00

It's been a long time since I've flipped the papers I'm feeling too ignorant.

Anyway, check out the Ten Books Every Student Should Read in College and The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

My Game

2005-07-05T21:12:00.000+08:00

Sorry I'm not in the best of moods.

The high point yesterday was when I got those piercings. Not as bad as I expected, and as much as they call them guns, the instrument sounded more like a stapler to me. Was quite fun actually, and now I have mini gold star studs!

Got back both maths papers today too, scrapped an A for maths but got my usual F for the other. Was really thrilled because I was expecting a single digit mark for the latter and I exceeded my own expectations wahaha! And if you convert it to a percentage over the number of marks I actually ATTEMPTED I got like an 87% accuracy so whatthehell I should be rejoicing lol. Though I will be joining the HOD for kopi in his office and my parents will probably get an appointment for the teachers' meet parents session very very soon...

But I'm fully contented playing my own game on my own grounds with my own rules. Like seriously, I don't know what's with all the comparing. I think I know what I'm doing.

Anyway it's 84 111 minutes more to prelims! And in my game, this is the time where I cut off all the peripherals and isolate myself from the world!! Ok maybe it's not THAT bad but I do think I need some academic assurance now. The next 4 months could potentially determine my next 4 years and I've closed so many doors I don't want to close any more.

Ta!

TimeOut

2005-06-28T21:44:00.000+08:00

I've just received an influx of SMSes in the last few hours I was practically replying nonstop especially with an Ericsson phone that lags as if it were mocking my lack of time. The SMSes were for every other reason, from the SV peeps organising something yet again to people asking for more favours to the good luck wishes to haowen wanting to discuss how we could cut costs and make the handbell symposium as economical as possible to the many friends who just wanted to catch up for old times sake.

I love that feeling really. No, I really really do. But it was the first time I told people I need a time out. Kitkat would be fine too of course :) Hm and I just realised I have 4 more SMSes before I'll have to foot my own phonebill. Woops!

Ah well. Fmaths today was a disaster just waiting to happen. But now that it's out of the way..

I'll be finishing off with physics and econs tomorrow!

And then the cycle starts all over again.

Bliss

2005-06-28T01:41:00.000+08:00

I'm yet again the only soul online! Listening to Corrinne May in the wee hours of the morning is absolute bliss :)

I can't fathom why but I just felt really glad to be back in school yesterday! Many things have changed, the concourse floor tiling and the General Office which now looks like a fishtank and even our Vice Principal is new, I seem to have lost touch with knowing things before hand after stepping down from council haha but it doesn't matter it's good to have all these little surprises in your life.

And then I got to see everybody again! As huiping aptly puts it, there is this certain sparkle in the eyes of the SV people when we meet in school. I guess it's all in the company! I mean it's quite hard to feel unmotivated when you're around happy people who are all ready to work together and embrace life and dive into our passions. Heard that a few of them met in the canteen and soon all the SV people there started this little congregation but I think I was on my way home by then..

More good things today and many more to come! Our Passion board was suspended (supposedly deleted) due to a bug yesterday and I freaked out for a while but it's now up and running after I chased and bombed the admin lol. The 2006 International Handbell Symposium is now open for registration too. Am thinking of signing up for GYLC but it's a little steep and there's a slight chance that I may be going back to SV next year so I don't know! Anyway I'll be funding all my trips from now on so I really have to.. manage.

And by the end of today half of blocks will be over :)

La!

2005-06-27T18:00:00.000+08:00

It's 6pm and I'm the only J2 on MSN! Woah! This is a first!

GP and maths were not too bad :)

Decapitated

2005-06-26T19:10:00.000+08:00

It seemed like yesterday when I was oh so excited about going over to California. And then I realise that the holidays have ended and it seems like I've been trapped in a little time bubble.

Those 10 days were perhaps the best times I've had in VJ. It's really amazing how living and facing the same people for just 10 days everyday can make you grow so attached to each other. Spirits are still high and the fervour has not diminished although we are now placed back into our individual cages. All the withdrawal symtomps have set in (I've started making my own american breakfast) and the surprising volume of emails flying around each others mailboxes although the exams are near just speaks for itself, with all that ambitious talk about the unlimited possibilities like setting up a CCA to the stuff that is already being done like getting a board and a regular meeting place and tshirts and parties and the likes...

Ironic as it sounds, this is exactly how I imagined council to be.

So I've forsaken my blocks. Fmaths at least. Still trying to learn enough to pass the other 3 subjects. But somehow after returning from SV I can't care less this time round. The sacrifice was worth it, in return for the learning opportunity of a lifetime. I'm quite sure we can all catch up on our academia, or that's what I keep telling myself hm.

As someone put it so aptly, we now have the spirit to study and not mug. Incidentally I was reading py's blog and it reminded me how learning concepts could be oh so fun.

"When someone tries to get close to her, she would distant herself away from him. Yet when he moves away from her, she wants to get him back to her side. Essentially, thats Lenz law. In layman's terms, when yu push the magnet close to the coil it results in a repelling effect. and when yu pull it away an attracting force is created."

And then we had the ideal BGR which was Newton's third law that when a boy loves a girl there is an equal and opposite attraction which made for such perfect romance.

And then there was alpha being the fish and gamma being the deadfish. And it did not just stop at physics I still remember our very own homologous series with all our nicknames/surnames being classified into groups and then there were the bio jokes too!

Those were the days.

Though these hols have been extraordinary too! Was consolidating my SV stuff and I realised my journal entries take up 4 MiccWord pages per day, font 11. Quite a great feat since I'm normally quite relaxed with the details.

Think I shall just stop here and salvage my maths as much as I can. Ta!

Pinch Me

2005-06-03T11:03:00.000+08:00

There was a joke that my cousin told my brother when he was five years old. The joke went, "Fat and FatFat and PinchMe were in a boat. Fat and FatFat fell out. Who was left?" And my brother said, "Pinch Me." and my cousin pinched him. So when my brother got home he told my mother he was going to tell her a joke, and he said, "Fat and FatFat were in a boat. Fat and FatFat fell out. Who was left?" My mother said, "Nobody." My brother repeated the joke, and when my mother said "Nobody" a second time, my brother kicked her.

Twenty years went by.. I was always older than my brother, and my mother still talks about my brother's fury at her incorrect response. But little did she know that all he wanted was to relate to her what had been done to him.

- One of the more innocent bits from Slaves of New York.

Just Listen

2005-05-31T23:14:00.000+08:00

A very suddenly phonecall, from a very unexpected person.

It's been proven time and time again that the people who appear the most successful and the most happy are actually the saddest people on earth, especially if they have no one to turn to. It saddens me the way things are.

Reminds me of this poem from the 12 simple secrets of happiness.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you tell me I shouldn't be feeling that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you try to solve my problems
you have failed me.

Listen! All I asked was
that you listen
not talk to or do -
just hear me.

Advice is cheap;
the price of a newspaper will get you both
Dear Abby and Billy Graham

I can do for myself; I'm not helpless
Maybe discouraged and faultering
but not helpless.

So please listen and just hear me.
And if you want to talk,
wait a minute for you turn
and I'll listen to you.

More frequently than ever, I'm being asked the age-old question about what I'm going to study, what I'll be when i grow up, when are my plans for the future, how my life will be like. And for the last time I'm telling all of you. I don't know.

But I'll survive.

When Paths Cross

2005-05-24T02:50:00.000+08:00

A series of unfortunate events.

My Life Sentence

2005-05-21T19:43:00.000+08:00

I can't blame them.
Because sometimes I forget that I'm human too.

Hope

2005-05-19T21:20:00.000+08:00

Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition.
- Cavett Robert

That's why encouragers go down so well with people. They support your dreams, understand your difficulties, recognize your efforts, and celebrate your achievements. They keep you from going to bed with an aching stomach, broken heart, or damaged spirit. They seem to know what to say and when to say it. They provide nourishment for the soul. They build Hope.

I've come to realise that people love other people not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Funkyfish Unite!

2005-05-18T19:26:00.000+08:00

In the spirit of festivities (and skipping classes), the funkyfish unite!

I never knew I could laugh so much in such a short time that my jaws feel like their dislocated. Seriously, I miss them so much and it's not like I can decide to sit with them in a row during lectures or coordinate and wear our funkyfish jackets, it was just awesome seeing everybody again! Was attracting lots of unnecessary attention with our own mini and group hugs and onthespot cheering and the resonance of the 403 laughter never really changes.

The gossip session at the student's lounge was good! Of mak and her wedding (yes date already chosen), of py and how she has totally lost the art of gossiping, of pht and her usual fare of very explicit issues, and of shenonn with the most subtle bits of gossip that can shock you to a very dramatic extent. It's been eons since and I learnt lots of things I never knew! Hi laogong are you reading this :)

HCinvest was quite an eye-opener. It's like a mishmesh of the dramatic openings from the HCIinvest coupled with informal rgs affability, with the usual guygirl thing and exchange of presents and all, among batchmates, from senior to junior and from council to teacher. Lots and lots of presents! The programme was really long though, with a 5 minute intermission in between, it felt like I was watching a musical. Food was good too. We were drawing uncanny parallels with our own council and the similarities were really scary. and ohyes, karena is the one and only councillor of the year! How cool is that!

Met up with so many more rgs peeps, including the usual competition teammates. Am very enticed to team up with them cross-college for this upcoming competition. Hm, I miss public speaking actually.

The spirit never dies!

And they flew

2005-05-15T17:51:00.000+08:00

I was getting quite excited about the Singapore International Design Festival but I just found out that it spans exactly the same three weeks as my Alevel exams :(

It's already mid-May! Time really flies when you have so many little things to look forward to. Moo's stepping down this Wednesday, together with all the other funkyfishes in the HC council and there's gonna be a mini funkyfish gathering there on Wednesday! No prizes for guessing if I'll be there! Friday's gonna be very interesting as well. And another week will be over just like that.

I was wondering that day, whether nerds are nerds because they study so much that they do not have time for friends, or whether it's because they do not have friends and that's why they study so much. And it becomes a chicken and egg problem again!

Nah, nerds are cool in their own little way :)

Ah, now that I'm out of council I'm officially a councillor turn counsellor! Seriously, people should just stop wallowing in self-pity cause it's not that hip to keep on whining. Some problems are really not a problem at all, just unnecessarily blown out of proportion and added with all the unpleasanties.

He said to them
Come to the edge
But they said
They were afraid
Come to the edge
He said again
They came,
He pushed
And they flew..

Your Purpose

2005-05-11T22:27:00.000+08:00

Today was just awesome!

With an unexpected turn of events, the Taliban rule has been overthrown! And so I prove my point. Ever since I sat down to think of my purpose in life and actually live by my life philosophy, everything’s been going oh so swell... and I’ve not had any regrets ever since.

And so a new chapter begins. I just received news of new exciting business propositions, just confirmed another design project today, and will be wrapping up a website in a week’s time. Meanwhile, a group of us are spearheading a big-scale charity event scheduled for 3rd July in line with the President’s Star Charity [please mark your diaries], and I’m simultaneously working on three other design and photography competitions. Work wise, I’ve caught up in everything except statistics.

Life after council really rocks to the core! Don't get me wrong, council was a priceless learning experience in itself. But now's the start of a new chapter, for creating new memories, and to make up for all that lost time.

I’m living it like how I always wanted to :)
Have you thought of your purpose in life?

Babycal Throw

2005-05-11T01:46:00.000+08:00

Babycal Throw
It took me quite a while to get the hang of this game but it turned out very very addictive. Brilliant game concept! My highscore is a measly 5825 up till this point. But I have the feeling the scores on the highscore board are hacked. Go play go play!

21st Exco :)

2005-05-10T23:47:00.000+08:00

I just thought I'd post this, the 21st exco as never seen before!

Fuzzy Wuzzy Memories

2005-05-09T20:01:00.000+08:00

I met up with one of the funkyfishes over the weekend and we subsequently plunged into a long conversation and basically reflected upon life. We talked about life and philosophy, school, other schools, previous and future schools, friendships, careers, and how the other funkyfishes were doing. It wasn't the typical conversation full of superficial laughter and lame jokes, but rather one of the most meaningful conversations I've had this year.

I guess it doesn't matter how infrequent you meet up, or where or what time or for how long. All that matters is the company of a good friend just to catch up with and set things into perspective.

When two rafflesians meet, they achieve this certain resonance because they are typically of the same wavelength and frequency. I like that analogy, it kinda encompasses the whole essence of it all. Especially where the Rafflesian population is small, they tend to stick together for support. How fuzzy wuzzy!

I love watching the reactions of my peers when I hand out my namecards. Amazingly, they can be classified into schools of reactions which sometimes is quite embarrassing and it just shows how a school moulds their students.

The typical neighbourhood school of reaction insists that my company is either a sham or a make belief and that I printed my namecard from my own Canon i255 printer just to show off. It's rather sad that they think it impossible that someone actually studies and does business at the same time. Fortunately, a fraction of them show some interest in engaging my services :)

The typical chinese school of reaction asks 'Can I work for you?'
I feel sad for them too, simply because they are resigned to being employees even at this young age which should be the time of idealism and ambition.

But the typical rafflesian school of raction says 'Oh Cool! Let's affliate and create jobs next time!'

I'm sorry but it just shows.

And today when she was talking about the whole Raffles environment,
I could totally relate I tell you... and it really brought back memories.

Arty Farty Party

2005-05-08T23:11:00.000+08:00

Hokies. I've fixed my bandwidth problem and so the radioblog's back!
Will be launching minglee.biz in a few days :)

For now, some Arty Farty Links:

When Graphic Artitsts get Bored
Very cool photo manips!

Street Paintings
These guys are just geniuses, if only Singapore had this..

The Zoomquilt
A collaborative art project, a culmination of talent :)

Over

2005-05-04T18:57:00.000+08:00

I guess it only set in today.

I actually felt bouts of emptiness. First when I realised I left all my pins in school and the only thing I had at home was my council tag which I didn't need to put on anymore. Next when I realised I neednt do exco duty anymore and would actually be going for assembly with the class everyday.

It's not really a feeling of sadness. Hm, it's abit like working in a bank and one day Zeus throws down a lightning bolt on you and when you wake up you become a monk. Okay that's probably the worst analogy ever but I think the feeling is quite undescripable.

I guess council was a way of life.
I guess being busy was my way of life.

And now that one chapter comes to an end, I find myself frantically looking for other non-academic activities to occupy myself with. Actually I knew this would happen. Ah, well :)

Leadership

2005-05-01T22:25:00.000+08:00

It's not what happens when you're there.
It's what happens when you're not.

For the love of bells

2005-04-30T03:36:00.000+08:00

It takes a ringer to understand another ringer and the art of handbells. And that is why I think our alumni is so strong. It's because handbells is such a niche category of the performance arts it becomes very exasperating when you want to talk about it and no one has even heard of your instrument. Even so, it takes only a ringer to understand another ringer. And that's why there's this magical affinity and chemistry when two ringers meet.

It was a mind-blowing experience today, sitting from the audience's perspective and being the onlooker for a change. I was witnessing all the different handbell groups and their fruits of hard labour, many many months of it. I am very glad to see that the standard of handbells in Singapore has risen exponentially over the years. I've learnt that every group has something to teach you. I've seen that every group has developed its own style. I'm happy to see that each group is getting bigger and more groups are being set up, even in primary schools.

There shouldn't be competition and judging when it comes to the performing arts. Art is subjective by nature and no value can and should be placed on either the art form or the artist. Instead, performers in the same field should celebrate each others talents and work together to harness the true magic of it all. Judging should only come in when we look at skill, technique and the level of difficulty, and even so, this too is subjective and it takes a veteran in that field to be the best judge.

I don't think there should be much disappointment in them getting the silver. After all, that is a grading given by judges of high status in this sad little performing arts industry in Singapore, no doubt people of great talent, but still inherently not ringers. Is it a mere coincidence that the groups with gold all played a chinese song, when one of the judges was from the nanyang academy of fine arts? I'm not suggesting anything, but there's definitely much more to ringing than can be seen or heard from an audiences' perspective.

Ringing should be about loving what you do and wanting to spread the joy of handbells to your audience. I gathered from corinne that the handbell conductors and directors themselves are quite sick of all these central judging nonsense and we should all just pull of it and have combine concerts to spread the love.. But I guess we can just continue dreaming on because the the schools will never let that happen. After all, everything in Singapore is about FACE and schools are also judged anyway...

The Raffles ringers have been revolutionary and they don't need a central judging grading to prove it. We were the first group that went to SYF without scores, setting the prescedent of wearing chokers and gowns, starting the trend of actually moving to the music (such that most of this years' handbell groups had a marked increase of syncronized swaying), being the first to have a full-length concert at the Esplanade this year, and simply by just loving it.

It takes a ringer to understand :)
___

I just talked to my handbell batchmate for a couple of hours.
We could have talked all morning.

Shutter Bug Me

2005-04-27T01:10:00.000+08:00

My love for photography has been rekindled all over again!
Photos can now be viewed here: http://flickr.com/photos/minglee

Do check this out too!

Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier:
This page contains one of the highest resolution, most detailed stiched digital images ever created. It is the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel.

Kenneth Parker:
Very awesome landscape photography :)

On Body Language

2005-04-26T23:55:00.000+08:00

I believe that there is some sort of relationship between the amount of power or prestige a person commands, and his range of vocabulary. The higher up the management ladder a person is, the better he is able to communicate in words. This can be seen by the comparatively less amount of gesticulation he uses to communicate his thought and messages.

It's just like how toddlers express themselves through body language much more than what their limited range of words can achieve. And as they grow older they gesture less and speak more sense. That is also why the more flamboyant or what you call animated individuals are considered more childish.

We do not lose some of our reflex actions as we grow older. Rather, they become more sophisticated and obscure it almost seems natural! Adults still instinctively bring their hands to their mouths when they blurt something out by accident. However, this is quickly transformed into a noserub or chinrub, oh how cunning!

It takes alot of conscious practise and awareness to actually master body language. That only means that people good at telling lies must have been doing exactly that their whole life :)

Just Quit It

2005-04-25T20:35:00.000+08:00

Thankyou. For slapping me yet once again and waking me up.

To think that I was the sole Invest program ic last year.
When now there are two of them sharing the same workload...

And after restructuring there emerged many roles, roles that didn't exist and that I was covering. With this new structure, I would have effectively been the treasurer and sponsorship ic and creative directors all rolled into one. Now the work of three, or even four. Sometimes I really envy them.

And I shall not go into the other adhocs.

It's funny how people can get stressed over ONE programme booklet or ticket or tshirt or something. But why should I be surprised that they only know how tedious it is when they actually have to do it?

It's not like I was taught what to do or how to do what.
I've learnt, lost alot, and gained alot.

But I've had enough. Enough of all these thankless jobs. And just when I had my life back it all comes crashing down again.

Twisted Headlines

2005-04-25T00:38:00.000+08:00

There are many things that could go wrong with newspaper headlines. Note, these are actually the real thing!

For one, we have the experts stating the obvious. Doh!
- Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
- War Dims Hope for Peace
- If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While

Then there are those with unfortunate sexual connotations:
- Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training
- Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
- Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

The Subject Confusions:
- Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni
- Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
- Eye Drops off Shelves

The Double Meanings:
- Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
- Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
- Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

And basically we have those that just sound so wrong
- Deaf College Opens Doors to Hearing
- British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply
- Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Someone inspire me!

2005-04-21T19:28:00.000+08:00

You scored as Intrapersonal. You prefer your own inner world, you like to be alone, and you are aware of your own strengths, weaknesses, and feelings. You learn best by engaging in independent study projects rather than working on group projects. People like you include entrepreneurs, philosophers and psychologists.

Intrapersonal

93%

Musical/Rhythmic

79%

Interpersonal

71%

Verbal/Linguistic

64%

Visual/Spatial

57%

Logical/Mathematical

54%

Bodily/Kinesthetic

32%

The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences
created with QuizFarm.com

I picked up another J M Coetzee from the library and am once again crazy over his writings. His books have so far been very jam-packed with meaning, with brief and numerous dabs of sex. Makes for good reading when you are pressed for time :)

Every major poet a cloud of minor poets, like gnats buzzing around a lion.

There are many youths out there who aspire to be teachers, because they have once been motivated and touched by a great teacher and want to pass on that noble flame. But I'm just the opposite - I've seen so many more crappy and teachers with a dismal ability to teach and if I can't be one that inspires I rather not be one at all. I'm sad to say I've just seen the most uninspiring teacher in my life. It's evident that some do it just for the sake of teaching, for the money, for the promotion, for whatever other reason, it's just another job anyway.

A silly thought came to me this morning. That if the our principal were to sit in some of our selected tutorials, and the literature teachers were to sit in our physics lectures, I really think our school might just close down.

Link of the day:

Etymologic: Word Origin Puzzles

With a radical turn of events..

2005-04-19T00:45:00.000+08:00

I continue from where I left.

I've turned into a true blue blogger and will be permanently writing here to satisfy my nice little fellowship of readers. imprezzions.com will disappear in a few months, while I'm converting the space there into a more professional online portfolio in view of the next big thing!

Yeah! That's the next big thing! Ming Lee International. I think I'm falling in love with my own corporate identity :) Finally, I've registered the business, with my namecards, letterheads and stickers all on their way. Domain registered, site design in progress. Check, Check, Check.

That's my life for now. Do update your bookmarks!

Links for the Day

Modern Living [Neurotica Series]: Interactive animations with very provoking concepts.

Bush Mail: Take a look at George W Bush's hotmail inbox!

Some things never change do they ;)