Friday
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2335: Arrive in Singapore

Saturday
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1400: Cell
1800: Service
2000 onwards: Dinner and fellowship

Sunday
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1230: Meet up with brother and Ya Chee’s cousin Kah Boon. Then to Sim Lim to buy a few things then Funan to look around
1830: Meet up with Lim Hao

Monday
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I can’t seem to remember what I did on Monday I guess I was working on the timetable system for the Ruicheng Phonics Academy that I went to to teach English, ie the reason I went to China.

Tuesday
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1130: Meet up with Lim Hao. Out the whole day to shop and catch up
2200: Supper with Mark, Sze-Lyn, Andrielle

Wednesday
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1330: Makan-Strike day 1: Board games, captain’s ball, basket ball until 1800

Thursday
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1330: Makan-Strike day2: LAN gaming followed by dinner at Old Airport Road then supper at California Bistro @ Esplanade
2350: Catch bus and fall asleep and get nudged by girl as I mentioned in the previous post

Friday
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1330: Wake up :P
1400: Out to buy some Christmas presents
1700: Start travelling to Kovan to Nat’s place for cell Christmas dinner

Its been a busy week. Comtemplating on what to do today and on Sunday which is Christmas. All I know is that I’ll be going for my church’s musical entitled The Other Wise Men on Sunday at 1100.

I need to start working in my FYP again after a 5 week hiatus. School starts on the 8th. Need to find some sponsors for the annual IES Bazaar at the end of January. Plus I have other things of my own to do like my AMX mods to fix up.

Merry Christmas Eve people. Enjoy the last few days of the year =)

To girl who woke me up.

Ever since I came back from China on Friday near midnight I’ve been busy with things. So busy and tired that on the bus ride back last night I slept in the bus. On the last stop this girl nudged me and me being in my blurred state of just getting up was thinking why the heck she nudged me. Then it came to my realization that it was the final stop of the bus and it was time to get off. By the time I got off the bus I couldnt see her to thank her or anything. Luckily I took bus 10 that stops at Kent Ridge Terminal thats within the NUS campus thus it wasn’t much more of a walk than I was supposed to have. But felt kind of guilty not thanking that girl so this post is for that girl. Thanks =)

The events leading to my late night bus sleep night are as follows :P

22nd December 2005 log
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2350-ish: take bus 10 back to NUS campus

23rd December 2005 log
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0000-ish: End up sleeping on bus
0015: Nudged by girl
Woke up in a blurred stated
Realised that its the last stop and that I have to leave the bus
0016: Get out of bus, look around
Girl no where in site
Start walking back

0835 Destination China.
Going there to teach English. Its some kind of a mission trip, being church organised. Attened the Jackie Pullinger conference organised by my church COOS!!! Can say its been a great conference :D Ya Chee and I both got our tongues!! :D Praise God :D It’s been a tremendously tiring week with the preparations for the trip and still has yet to be completed. Need to stay up to finish getting my materials I need online as I doubt I will be able to get online while I’m there. Dancing to practise. Singing to practise even more. And language lessons? ChinesePod.com. Trying to listen to as much as I can. Just found it yesterday out of sheer desparation? :p
Anyway I better finish up packing and start getting my materials. To all trippers, to China, East Timor, India, Myanmar and wherever may God bless us all :)

How great is our God,
Sing with me,
How great is our God,
For all will see,
How great, how great is our God

Name above all names,
He is worthy of all praise,
My heart will sing,
How great is our God

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Give us clean hands,
Give us pure hearts,
Let us not lift our souls to another,

Oh God let us be,
A generation that seeks,
Seeks your face,
Oh God of Jacob

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Excerpts of two of the songs that really touched me today and that I will no doubt take with me :)

Good night people and God bless

Today, tomorrow and Wednesday will be having mission trip meetings for China. Yes you heard that right, banana (Chinese who doesn’t speak Chinese, well for my case its more like CANT speak :P) me going to China…. to teach English :P A bit of saving grace I guess.
Anyway we did some dance stuff yesterday and dare I say I like dancing? :P Considering my brother dances does it run in the genes? :P However I shall not upload the video of us dancing :P And to practise I cropped myself out of the video so I dont have to look at myself when I review the steps :P
We will have to sing some Chinese songs as well and thus there is the Pinyin for me to read but its still a pain. Ahhhhh… Need God to guide my tongue as I sing.
We did some choral speaking (length article. shorter article here, or you can try my explaination which is reciting a poem with expressions using just the face). I got 2 lines to do while most of them have only 1 line. Ack :P But its not that bad. My lines are “I’ll shiver like I’m cold, and hold my breath until I’m blue”.
Sad note. I have 1 semi-dead pixel :'(:'(:'(
Going to change after I come back from China I guess. Sigh… Another sad note: iPAQ 6535 (I keep forgetting the model #) PDA/Phone that I got for my FYP seems to be hanging more often. Guess Windows Mobile Phone Edition isnt that great or possibly just not enough horse power it (guess thats why its the cheapest, or at least 1 of the cheapest, PDA/Phone).
Anyway off to do my quiet time with God and sleep and rest before jogging in the morning for China again. They are going to make us to a 10km relay race aaahhhh
Always something to look forward to though… SNOW!!!! :P:P
Night people and enjoy the holidays ahead ;-)

CS2106 Operating Systems: pretty good content, bad way of delivery. Quite a bit of material so lots of reading. The most interesting module this semester perhaps. Went to the canteen to work just now and it seemed kind of sad because when I went down there wasn’t many people studying there. Strange seeing how it hasn’t even been a week since exams officially started. Don’t know what to type. Just feel like typing :P Perhaps I should get back to work :P

Just a quick link for fun: Illusions and Paradoxes:Seeing is Believing?. Dont trust your eyes :P

Just like that and there’s 1 exam left. And 1 FYP assesment as well.
Went to watch WCG at Suntec yesterday after I took my flu vaccination jab. Got there about 1630-ish. First thing I didnt like was the long escalator rides up. Its on the top floor I think. Getting on escalator after escalator after escalator got me kind of restless especially since I’ve never been to such a big event before (so I guess I was kind of ‘sakai’/’swakoo’/ignorant).
After I got in just took a quick look around. Gamers playing on the right, in the middle is the main stage event with chairs for spectators, on the left lots of booths and stuff and on the far left there was commentary for a WC3 game. I came just in time actually to watch Singapore’s CS:S team, TitaNs, beat South Korea’s MaveNCrew in a 16-4 win. After losing the first 3 rounds they had a 14-0 streak if I’m not mistaken. Apparently TitaNs are playing their match now against Canada’s Team_EG. All the best Singapore. Don’t know why I’m supporting Singapore but I guess I should since I’m here for the moment and that Singapore is hosting the games so that I can actually watch it LIVE :D:D:D Anyway better get reading and off to church. Have a good weekend people. Study well and all the best

:P Ok now time to study for real time

And today I install Quake III. Still as fun as ever :D Need more mouse space on this cupboard though.

Good luck everybody, back to ready HR readings… :|

Think about it

I think. I hope. Been doing Operating Systems Assignment 2 or as I like to all it ass 2 :P for the past 2 days with my ‘mummy’ and the ‘maid’ :P Something tells me it wasnt really worth doing the extra part however its fun to learn things. I still cant get over the malloc problem. Ok I just wanted to try compile the program in Windows to look at the problem and I just realised I dont have a C compiler!!!! And now thinking back on this I realised I know why, because cygwin never seems to be able to download the packages and install properly. Sounds a bit like Steam which is sometimes too fickle to update itself properly. Aaaaahhhh missing the ease of Linux in this sense where all I need is to “apt-get gcc”. As simplicity. Anyway I got NUScast working on Debian last night with the help of this page. I can watch webcast lectures as well, however it cannot fast forward or rewind!!!! ARGH!! Reminds me of TTT webcasts with his specialied application. Step by step migration. Becoming less worried about mounting my main “C:” directory in Linux, just was always worried that something may happen and I lose all the data on my Windows C drive and then I can kiss most of my work goodbye :| :P

Now where was I. Oh yeah talking about OS ass 2 :P Kind of finished it today after 2 and a half days of working (well maybe 1 day working 1.5 days stoning or something like that). What I need now is rest. Good old rest. Rest the body rest the mind rest the soul, and the study. Apparently I have to do all that tonight else I will have hardly any time to study :P Now I shouldnt be blogging now I should go sleep. Man it’s been a loooooooooooooooooooooong 1 and a half weeks.
Good luck people having exams. I look like a panda I’m sure. ‘Mummy’ says so :P Good night ‘mummy’ and ‘maid’ :P Good times, good times. Good ice cream at that too hehehe.

Serenity fans in Singapore click here for a chance to catch it in Singapore. Courtesy of uzyn for the link. I share the exact same sentiment as him, cant believe why it doesnt seem to be shown in the cinemas… Strange. Wish I could go but I got church “Makan Strike” event :D Who wants to come? :D
21st is outdoor games, 22nd is LAN gaming at Parklane and then overnight makan!!! :D We’re having a small get-together on 26th Nov to makan and watch Finding Nemo. Since I havent watched that (sad life huh? :P) its going to be free movie for me yay!!! :P

Ok ok.. SLEEP… SLEEP…