bad day

woke up at 11, got to school at 12 for a quiz that we were to have during ewebapps lecture.. finished it, and went to CC to slack away.. prepared abit for my speech also.. Nick Chan came in and told us something funny.. remember that i had dinner with Dick and Jo yesterday at the round market, well Dickson randomly pointed to a black BMW convertible 3-series on the road and said: woah! look! well, Nick came in today and said to me and Dickson: you all saw me yesterday right? when i said no, he told us that Dickson pointed to his mum's car and we all looked over.. so he waved back.. only, we didnt notice! HAHAHA!!!

anyway, here comes the bad part of my day.. starting with public speaking.. i actually wore a black polo tee with jeans to school under the freaking hot weather for it.. i also lugged my bloody camera over for use during the speech.. but the result? i didnt even present at all.. so have to repeat my feat over again next week.. -.-"

if that wasnt bad enough, this is.. i went for asp.net discussion with my groupmate, and when we were done, i was just randomly looking through my virus ravaged thumbdrive, and found out that.......................

MY WHOLE FRIKIN MOBCOM WEBSITE WAS DELETED

i was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bloody pissed man.. the virus going around EN19-7 is really starting to get out of hand.. so now i'll have to restart my whole project again.. dammit..

something that i took way back in 2005.. something that Noel and others replicated a few times.. haha

the BERM

the huge wooden berm in the Tampines Mountain Biking Trail, Jungle section

woke up at 8, asp.net at 9.. again, group member absent.. and i realised that i did the project wrongly.. so restarted it for the 3rd time, and completed loads of stuff today.. more or less, the project is left with the programming.. i actually sat in my seat, and did the damn thing for the whole 2 hours.. haha..

APEL today was quick.. just show mr Ng our portfolio, and we could leave.. when he turned to the page where i slot my CCA award, he was like.. good good! very good.. hahahahaha..

went back home after APEL, cooked lunch for myself, and then cycled down to school.. sent baby home, and took a cab back to school.. met with Suan, Dickson, Josias, and Marian.. Dickson and Jo cycled to school.. Dickson on his new 2k Santa Cruz.. had a spin on it and loved the lightness of it..

me, Dickson and Jo cycled down to the usual string of bike shops along street 11: Tay's, brother Tay's, and SCH.. i wanted to get new handle bars, wanted to get this at SCH:
but sadly, one of my shifter's bolt was rounded and could not be removed.. so no choice but to abandon it.. to get it fixed, i'd have to leave it over for at least a day.. not really keen on that, so decided to go for dinner instead..

the 3 of us feasted on lots of stuff at the nearby coffee shop before me and Dickson headed for sunplaza park, and Josias went on his way

went to school for the most productive mobcomp lesson, where i single handedly finished the more than half of the project.. so im thinking of leaving the rest up to my 2 groupmates who have, so far, contributed nothing..

went down to CC for lunch and study abit of maths.. Suan came down and we discussed about the upcoming Ubin overnight trip for VC.. we went upstairs to discuss it with Terrence, and had a major overhaul on the whole idea.. time to sit down and discuss with my helpers Dickson and Suan..

had maths test today, and i dont think i did too good =( i think i got the second question right, but it seemed too simple.. and it was worth 8 of the 20 marks.. hope my first question is good enough for at least 2 marks..

sent baby home after maths, and headed home myself

woke up at 1 on sunday.. had lunch at home, and slacked around doing nothing till 4-ish when i decided that i could not take it anymore and i had to give my bike a trashing round a trail.. so i headed down the the TBT (tampines bike trail) and had a go around the covered jungle portion about 3km long, and full of rocks and roots etc.. it was fantastic man! cannot wait to go the full round when i have the chance to.. had dinner at NSRCC's jumbo restaurant.. total bill was $107 =O

today, went for ewebapps in the morning and all the groups were made to present our websites up, and everyone got open-flame, bare-bottom, thousand-degree grilled by wilson.. at least thats the last i have to see of him.. went down to cc for lunch and to slack around.. played wahjong with Alfred and YaWen and won the most cash after a short visit from baby.. didnt win anything before she came.. haha! thanks baby~ =P

had my most productive asp.net lesson today, and then went for maths class before going to the sports hall to look for Dickson, Suan, Noel and Marian who were shooting the rugby.. TP won the champions! haha.. first time actually watching rugby and it was really exciting..

woke up at 8 and met Dickson at tampines platform at 9.30.. took the MRT to bedok, and took a bus to chapter2cycle at AMK.. waited like an hour walking around the small shop waiting for Suan to arrive.. bumped into Jojo and his parents who were there to change brakes for his old bike..

arrive did Suan, and Dickson bought his pedals and a fork pump.. Suan ordered his new wheelset (S$1050) and we took a bus back to bedok inter.. da bao-ed lunch, then took 69 to school.. ate outside CC, then Dickson went to teach the photoshop workshop, while me, Suan and Noel took 8 to tay's.. asked about some stuff.. the Kona Stinky '08 costs S$2700 after discount from the aunty who knew me because i went there so often.. haha! there was also a really wicked looking Haro with the works that costs $2500.. i think its specs are better then the stinky, and its lighter too.. but i still love the egro and the colours of the stinky.. hahahaha! the stinky looks so much better in life then through a computer monitor..

after that, took another bus to SCH, where i recalled seeing the Velo8 speedo going for only $30 bucks.. C2C was selling it for $45, Tay's at $40.. so bought one, and then browsed through the 3rd bike shop in the day.. hahaha

went back to school to see the workshop ended.. so took a bus back while the rest went to Dickson's house to look at his new Santa Cruz Superlight, then report for their NEXT challenge..

recieved a call from Dickson in the night that the street directory that they brought was severely outdated (1984).. so asked if i could lend them mine.. so cycled down to school to pass it to them as i was about to do some errands for my dad..

a new commercial that is shown on discovery channel recently.. i love the tune! haha..

8th month

HAPPY 8th MONTH BABY~

went to school for wireless and public speaking, then went to e!hub to watch the dark knight with baby.. the show is really good man! loved it.. the characters are so well portrayed..

we then took a bus to tampines safra, and had dinner at sakura as a farewell to Josias who will be leaving for his OSIP at brisbane, australia on sunday.. ate lots and lots of stuff! left there at 10 feeling very full.. haha..

past 3 days spent about the same.. school, cyber center slack, home.. didnt do anything much.. 

just started on my netinfra project today.. and finished it within 2 hours.. most probably full marks, plus 5 bonus for completing it within the time frame..

rushing for 3 other projects at the moment.. ewebapps is the most worrisome followed by mobcomp and asp.net.. i also have to complete a report for wireless tomorrow and start on my speech for public speaking (rehearsals tomorrow, haven even begun).. coupled together with recent events, i on a really short fuse.. i dont recall being so angry before

woke up at 10.30 on sunday, and met Dickson near my house at 12.15.. cycled through the siglap park connector to kembangan MRT station where we rendezvoused with Noel.. we then shot to east coast park, where we met up with the freshies from toot-brush, then went to rent skates.. Alfred and Delia joined us, but wanted to wait for YaWen, Sharon and Clara.. so the rest of us took our time and went to the food center..

to lessen confusion,
Group 1 consists of: Me, Dickson, Noel, Suan, Jojo, Sarah, Wei Jun, Priscilla, and Javier
Group 2 consists of: YaWen, Sharon and Clara
Group 3 is Awas (Alfred and Delia) in their own little world

the freshies drank, while we ate.. the freshies, on skates, decided to go first as they were slower.. after Jojo and Suan joined us, the 5 of us cycled back, and it rained halfway.. before it got really heavy, we sought shelter, and waited about 10 mins for the rain to subside.. on the way back, we bumped into group 2.. once back, we stopped to decide what to do next.. Sarah decided to go home, while the rest decided to get bikes.. Group 2 went ahead and cycled while we discussed, and we cycled after them.. we passed each other without knowing, and turned around.. Noel got into abit of an accident, and my first aid kit came into its first field deployment..

met up with everyone, and the freshies went home.. Me, Dickson, Noel and Suan went off while the rest went for dinner.. Suan was headed to NSRCC, while the rest of us went back the way we came..

learned not to put 100plus into my reservoir today as it is super burp inducing.. H20 (the isotonic drink, not water) is loads better..



Today: woke up at 7 for e-freaking-webapps.. my teacher decided to bring forward the deadline to next week.. WTH!? omg man.. freaking hate him.. had lunch at mensa, then slacked at CC.. went for asp.net, and discovered, much to my horror, that i actually did the whole damn website in C# instead of VB.. so had to redo everything.. went opposite school for prata after school with Dickson and Jo, then to SCH to look around at the bike stuff.. thinking of a new frame..

didnt have school yesterday.. so cycled down at 11.. lent YaWen my calculator, then went to CC.. pei baby for lunch, then just hung around.. went for a short project discussion at 1, then just stayed at cc till 6 for the camp debrief, which was pretty eventful.. waited for jo to finish reformatting baby's laptop to windows XP, then cycled all the way to her house to pass it to her before cycling back home

today, went to school at about 1.30, bumped into Suan, Jo, Dickson, Noel, and Marian at the bus stop, then went opposite school to da bao some stuff.. went back to school for the photoshop workshop, and left at 4 with Jo.. Jo went to walk around simlim, while i went to meet baby, then walked over to suntec for dinner.. ate the spicy ramen that i wanted that day, then walked around abit more before sending baby back home, and heading home myself

Nikkor 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye

Tried out the Nikkor 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens.. I think the distortion is not that fantastic enough for me to consider it a full fledged fisheye lens.. the Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 is still the way to go

Mounted on my D300

woke up at 8, school at 9.. went for asp for a sure-pass quiz, then redid my whole website template as i accidentally deleted my old one.. went down to cyber for awhile, then off to apel.. wasted time there, then left for CC again..

only Dickson was there when i arrived, and then left again to look for Alfred and YaWen at mensa for lunch, then back to CC, and the darkroon for baby's model shoot for IIT school's mural.. went back down to CC to slack, then at about 4+, went up again for part 2 of the shoot.. slept there for about 1 hr during the shoot..

left at 5.30, and sent baby home before going home myself

woke up at 9, got to school at 10 for mobcomp.. the usual long long talk before our lab, then we did our projects.. finished up 2 of the 3 databases, and linked them to the website via servlets ..

went down to cc to have lunch with Suan Dickson and YaWen.. then had abit of help regarding emaths2 from Noel, whom i really really want to thank because i breezed through the paper today.. should be able to pass! hahahaha.. went back to cc after the test, and then went opposite to prata paradise for dinner..

had the usual cheese chocolate prata, and an additional sup kambing with rice.. tried their black spider, and i dont think i'll have that in awhile.. haha

woke up at 7, went to school at 8 for another torturous session of ewebapps.. im really starting to hate the tutor.. he likes threatening people.. someone would be late, and he would ask for a reason.. before the person can reply, he would shout at him/her: 'I ASKED YOU A QUESTION!'.. moron..

moving on, stayed back after class, and completed the template for the web page.. went to cc to rush Noel to get the proposal done.. haha! and then went for lunch before going for the makeup lesson of wireless.. we were using some old nokia handphones for the lab and we were all playing with the oldie ringtones.. haha!

went for ASP after that, and got the masterpage up also.. used some of my own pics for the template.. totally love the template! haha.. i'd post pics of it, but my thumbdrive got infected by the damn computer and i dont want to plug it into my PC.. i'll have to reformat it with my mac first..

maths was canceled today.. so went back to cc and waited for dad to come pick me and my injured bike up.. went to Tay's with the intention of getting the $90 wheelset from the brother shop, but we bumped into Tay himself when i was taking out my frame and wheels from the car.. i think he remembers the bike and promptly picked it up after learning what happened from my dad, and took it to his shop.. he took a bike from the rack, and told the mech to take the wheelset out and put it on my bike.. total cost was $150.. should have gone to the brother shop.. he says that the wheelset is a notch better than my ex wheelset..

cycled home and felt the bike ride like never before.. everything was so precise and smooth.. totally love it and cannot wait to take it on a trail.. haha! had dinner at home and then studied maths~~~

woke up at 12.30 today! hung around the house doing nothing till about 2 when my mum came back with lunch.. then just spent my time at home.. felt pissed of for the good part of the day because of my wheelset.. brooding over how much i've spent on the damn thing..

75 bucks for the marzocchi fork
70 bucks for the maxxis Larson TTs
36 bucks for the lights (both of which mounts broke in the crash)

and now i'll have to fork out a minimum of 90 bucks for the cheapest wheelset.. so that got me thinking.. why not just get a whole new bike? i know i want a full suspension system.. but that would set me back at least 2k for a decent one.. but will this be a worthwhile investment? will i keep up this interest?

anyway, moving on, went for dinner at a fine dining restaurant at bukit timah called riders cafe.. had their grilled chilean codfish for $28.. dad had their rack of lamb ($32) and bro had their ribeye ($28).. coupled my main dish with a vanilla milkshake and a 'death-by-chocolate cake'.. the food was great, but it took ages to arrive.. they served us bread sticks 3 times during our wait.. haha.. at least it was free..

went to giant to walk around before heading home

overnight stay

went to school on the hardtail on friday morning and dumped everything at CC before going to class.. after class, went to catch hellboy 2 with baby at GV.. the movie was quite good.. i would recommend that you watch it.. haha..

went to meet Suan, Josias and KaiXin at waterloo where Jo got his helmet, tires and pads.. i then sent baby home, then went back to school to get my bike, then to Tay's to meet my dad.. got myself lights for the back and front of my bike, and new tires (Maxxis Larson TTs).. then went back to meet Suan, Josias and Geraldine.. after meeting them, went back to the bike shop to change the tire on the hardtail as the tire wall burst..

went back to school, then out again at about 11+ to go to simpang bedok.. a 5 bike convoy consisting of me, the leader, followed by Dickson, SuanYang, YaWen, and finally Josias, the sweeper.. my new front light is super bright.. and my tires are so damn smooth to use.. love them.. on the way back from supper, YaWen took a tumble from a method i told her time and time again to avoid.. haha

went to bathe at design school (amazon) with Suan and Jojo before sleeping.. woke up at 9-ish and then cycled to waterloo at 10.. reached at about 12.30, then went for desert at ice monster.. went to mum's shop for awhile also.. decided to go back through ECP and went for lunch at the food court..

on the way back, Dickson, who took Suan's bike out and complained about it so much that i consented to switch bike with him, got hit from behind by some foreign lady, causing my bike to fall to the ground with the lady and her steel bike on top of it.. Dickson got minor cuts and bruises, the idiot lady and her bloody steel bike was fine, but my rim was warped beyond repair.. so Dickson had to take a cab back to school while me and Jo cycled back..

after packing up everything and leaving school, me, Dickson and Jo went to Tay's to check the price of a new set of hubs, spokes, and rims.. the cheapest we could find was 90 bucks.. dammit..

busy busy busy

been quite busy lately.. so havent been blogging.. actually.. who am i kidding.. im just plain lazy arent i? LOL!

spent a normal day at school on tuesday.. sent baby home after school.. wednesday, i ended at 11, and waited at cyber till about 4+ when Suan Yang finally came in and passed me my new fork! so went straight to Tay's to get it fixed on.. the main shop actually wanted to charge me 40 bucks because i was on V-brakes and not discs.. so i tried the sub branch (the low scale one) and they charged 20.. so got it fixed there, but found out that the fork is abit too long.. so an additional 5 bucks for a spacer solved it..

cycled back and then went for dinner with Dickson and Josias at prata paradise.. met Suan for awhile so that he could inspect my bike, then went off to tamp safra to see them bowl.. cycled home after that..

typing from cyber center during my break! haha..

VC Day Camp pics

During the camp, we had to dress up YaWen using recycled stuff, then do a model shoot.. here are the pics i took.. she's Gaia, the mother of the earth




The total strength of the camp

my group, TootBrush! we are the champions, my friend~

sunday: got up at 12 and went to PS to change my reservoir.. actually the salesperson didnt let me change it.. but due to my mum's constant nagging, he gave in and changed a new one for me.. went to parkway to get my bro's eyes checked and did some shopping before going home.. bought a new pair of Vans and a helmet..

today: woke up at 7.. and was on the way to school when i decided that i couldnt go due to diarrhea.. so went back home and rest before going to school again to see if i could attend any lessons.. but didnt in the end and went to the doctors after school with my dad and bro.. during school, we tried out Josias's new bike which he bought yesterday.. improved on my track-stand slightly also..

went to have dinner at the round market after the doctors.. i actually wanted to drag my dad to look at the forks at Tay's, but they were already closed due to the long wait that we had to endure at the doctors.. which brings me to another point.. there was this book of puzzles and such.. why do idiots have to use pens to circle out all the answers to the puzzles?! have these people no life and are trying to make the others wait in the waiting room even more boring than it already is?

Technology sucks

i had to print out a single page document just now.. and it took me 2 hours, 3 computers, and 2 printers to do it.. computers were invented to solve problems.. but more than half the time, they are the problem..

went to school on friday normally and presented for wireless.. after presentation, went home to cycle my bike to school.. just hung around for the rest of the day and slept for awhile at the darkroom..

at about 7, we all went to tay cycle to look at the bikes there, then followed by dinner at the new Aston's outlet (Astons Express) at the round market coffee shop.. it was a first time eating at Astons for many, and i'm glad to say that they were not disappointed! hahaha.. caught Hancock after that till 1+.. the movie was reasonably good, but we were sitting so far in front that i was dizzy by the time it ended..

woke up at 8 today and had a briefing for the day camp before we got into our groups and all the freshies started coming in.. i was with Janis in group 1.. and our 8 freshies named ourselves 'TootBrush'.. had lots of fun and some slight miscommunication along the way.. the photo-hunt was probably the most fun of all.. we found all but 6 locations, and to top it off, my group was so 'on' that we ran all the way back to the lounge to be the 1st team there and win 10 extra points!

so in the end, i'm really really glad to say that TootBrush WON FIRST PRIZE!! super glad and proud of them! you guys rock!

after packing up everything, we took a bus to simpang bedok for a farewell dinner to our fellow members going for their SIP.. wanted to eat at Spize, but the wait was 1hr.. so had dinner at the sub-par stores next to it before going home

didnt do much for the whole week.. just went to school, and then went home.. went for my 2nd bowling roll off on wed.. bowled with the likes of Theodor and Marc Wee.. didnt bowl up to my expectations again =(

today, went to school and just lazed around.. had a presentation for public speaking and then went to do project with classmates before going home..

nothing interesting is happening to me! tomorrow we're going to stay over at CC followed by the VC camp on the following day.. guess thats something to look forward to =/

lost

have you ever had the feeling that no one understands you and that you have nowhere and no one to turn to?

Audi TT Coupe

Casualty at Ketam

Suan after falling from the titter totter
the open wound


the blood stained stone

i realised that i totally forgot to blog for the past few days.. hahaha.. so here goes:

on saturday, went to school at 10 for a meeting with the main comm.. it was by far the most productive meeting (IMO).. after that, i helped with the last session of the BPW.. 36 people turned up..

after the BPW, i went home and packed everything for the next day's cycle to ubin.. slept at about 1+ and woke up at 5+.. prepared, and then cycled alone to changi village.. i was expecting an hour of travel time there, but it only took half of that.. so i was super early and had to wait for the rest to arrive.. we had breakfast there, then cycled to the jetty to take the boat across to ubin.. after we got off and Alvin got his bike, we cycled to ketam quarry where there was a bike trail..

Suan Yang tried to clear a titter totter on Dickson's encouragement, and fell off it pretty bad.. he cut himself quite deep and there was lots of blood.. so we helped him wash the wound, remove the small stones that were lodged in there, and used 2 packets of tissue to stem the bleeding.. meanwhile, me and Alvin went to look for help and bumped into some aussies who gave us a pressure bandage which we used to hold the tissues in place over the wound..

we cycled back to the jetty where we looked for the coast guard for first aid.. after that, we didnt really do anything exciting except to go up and down a downhill course 3 times.. it was super fun man.. cannot wait to do it again.. had lunch at a seafood restaurant before going back home..

stayed at home for dinner that day.. i shall blog more about today tonight (i guess) as i'm now outside cyber center waiting for Dominic to come back from his lunch