Thursday, April 29, 2004

I need to work out.
After eating so much for the past few days in Malaysia, put on a few pounds already. Ipoh hor fun, Assam laksa, Penang laksa (not nice one.. sour and fishy), yam paste (very tasty), chicken biscuits, preserved nutmegs, wan ton mee with super big wan tons... And with the Taiwan trip coming up, I better start doing some exercises and TRY to eat less.

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Back from KL. Tired.

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Finally finished my last exam! So happy... Overall quite a crappy day today. Slept 3 hrs before hand and woke up at 6 plus to prepare myself for this last exam.. Sort of paranoid cos scared of being late and missing it and then have to retain for another sem (cold sweat). Paper wasn't as difficult as previous sems but I'm not that hopeful for the essay question though.
Met up with crappy gb and zm for lunch. End up laffing n crapping over the most trivial stuff and doing some silly actions again.. Then went to "ka jiao" them at central library (i think it's only my 2nd or 3rd time stepping there throughout my 4 years in NUS :P). Quite a great way to signify my last day of school by being the ONLY person going to central library and NOT studying.. heh.
Then went swimming n relaxing at jacuzzi with my sis at temasek club, but due to my laziness n sleepiness i only swam 2 laps :P. Most of the time we were jus soaking water and talking our sista stuff and gossips.. We went shopping after that and i bought one bikini on sale (actually the rest of the designs were not that nice, but i managed to dig out one i like, yeah).
Having cooped up at home for so many days, quite glad that I can finally unwind le.. Next up: Going KL-Penang on Mon and coming Taiwan trip in mid-May! Can't wait hee...

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Woo-hoo!! HYP presentation is over!!! It's definitely not as bad as I thought, mainly because I've got 2 very nice professors as my evaluators. The first one (he wore pink! how cool) actually read thru my hyp report and noe what my report is talking abt!!! I thought my report was kinda hopeless.. and no one would quite understand it. I'm so gan dongz man.. bet my own supervisor din even read thru my report and even noe exactly about my stuff. And he actually pointed out some minor errors in my report like numbering my subsection wrongly etc and told mi there's no much grammatical errors in it. He even offered to email mi those minor mistakes so that I could make the necessary changes b4 submitting the final digital copy. He was so smiley and friendly and encouraging throughout the presentation. Just hope he'll be just as lenient when he gives the grade. As for the other prof, he came only at the last half an hour of the time slot and was so rushed for time that he din ask much questions. In fact the presentation with him was only 10 min. Somehow I got the feeling that he dun understand my presentation at all. He's an ang-moh so he might not understand my english just like I dun understand his. Not too optimistic about the grade he giving mi, but heard from frens he's quite lenient. So hopefully can get good grade bah.. a B will suffice hee.. I'm easily contented.

Sunday, April 04, 2004

Hidalgo

If we ignore the controversial issue about how true the story is, this is rather an entertaining movie (or perhaps I'm biased). Viggo Mortensen plays Frank Hopkins, a legendary long-distance horse rider who participates in a 3000-mile horse race Ocean of Fire. 400-mile is considered a marathon race already, so 3000-mile is like the impossible. Hidalgo is the name of his beloved Spanish Mustang and they really got this very cute n expressive horse (his eyes can talk!) to play the title role. So cute that Viggo purchased this horse after the film completed. While there is no historical evidence to support Frank Hopkins' claim that he really participated this race and the existence of such race, just treat this movie as fictional and watch it for the King or for the cute Mustang.

The King with his cute Mustang

Thursday, April 01, 2004

Singapore vs. Japan
Just back from watching this exciting football match. The last football match I watched (ttfr not included) was Singapore vs. Brunei 10 years back when there was a Tiger Cup (or Malaysia Cup?). My sis somehow got 2 grandstand tix of this World Cup Preliminary at the last minute. We wanted to sell the tix away cos we tot it would be a one-sided match. According to my sis, grandstand tix was going for as much as $400 (!!!) each in the "black market". But in the end we din manage to sell cos too last minute. When we reached Jalan Besar Stadium, we had a culture shock. For a split second I tot I was in Japan (I wish!). At least 3/4 of the spectators were Japanese.. and all kawaii neh. It seemed like Japan was the host. Anyway, Singapore put up a tough fight against Japan and tried their best not to be intimidated by them. The goalkeeper Hassan Sunny should be commended for saving so many goals especially in the first half where the Japan team dominated the game and put 1 ball in the net. Singapore only possessed the ball 5% of the time in the 1st half.

Oh yah to digress a bit, the Japan team was really a bunch of eye-candies especially the suave and stylo Nakata (he's the only one in the team i could recognize actually). Everytime he was brought down by the Singaporean defender (3 times I think), all the gers in the stadium (Japanese and Singaporean alike) would stare angrily at the defender with fists clenched. And whenever Nakata touched the ball, all the gers would swoon and go ga-ga. The power of Nakata. Oh well..

In the second half, Singapore managed to attack a few times, one of which was the unexpected goal that caused 1/4 of the spectators to scream like mad and all the Japanese to drop their jaws. That was when Japan team started to get "kan cheong" and thereby quicken their pace in attacking. Singapore, after the morale-boosting goal, started to play more confidently. This 25 minutes was the best part of the game where the actions were spread more evenly between both halves of the field. Finally Japan kicked in one more goal 10 minutes b4 full-time and all the Japanese fans heaved a sigh of relief. But that's not the end. At the 86th minute (i think), Singapore made a dangerous attack towards Japan but the shot at goal went a bit too high. So in the end the score was a close 2-1 and not 9-0 like most pple (including me) predicted.

I mus really say Singapore put up a tough fight and the goalie really saved a lot of balls (no pun intended). And I really sympathise with those gamblers and punters out there who bet Japan to win by at least 2 goals. I perfectly understand how u all feel. The ball is round. Anything could happen. Toto would be a better option.