-= adventures in Europe =-
"They're both convinced, that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,but uncertainty is more beautiful still."

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Youtubing.



I like this song! Been listening it on 93.3FM recently. Hmms...Hebe mah, what to do, think Zhan will like it! Haha!



Ok I'm officially finding this song: Lovers In Paris - Ending. Nice song also :) (Though I've absolutely no idea with the lyrics...ugh)

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Lo & Behold!!! THE strikes back!

What THE heck? What's up with THE (pronounced by some as TE-ER)? A scan through movie times and THE Life! section of THE Straits Times uncovers many movies which are hitting THE shores.

Here are some of THEm:

THE Black Dahlia
The Covenant
The Departed
The Guardian
THE O in Ohio
The Prestige
THE Sinking Of Japan
THE Tiger And The Snow

I know THEre is already THE Chinese High School (now known as HCI, can be mistaken as hyrdochloric acid at times also). Is it just me, or is THE word "THE" giving more prestige and a higher-classed meaning to THE thing? Sounds plausible, but why do THEy want to start with THE word "THE"?

U can hear people say "Duh?!" and it still sounds THE same as "THE". Interchangeable? Seems true. HAHA.

I've gotta stop THE-ing else THE people up THEre would come and THE me for THE-ing my whole blogpost. THEz outz...

Current Mood: Awake!

Current Music: Christian Bautista - THE Way You Look At Me

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A day out with friends sure make your day!

An almost 24-hour marathon of activities - well just 2 only, but I'm really satisfied and happy with that already! It's been some time since I've last enjoyed myself with back-to-back activities away from school work, rovers work, running and other what-nots. Just a day with friends - any friends will do.

Started off yesterday, after the CN2123 weekly test, I gathered my class guys for a K-ing session...but before that we hit the Macs in school to get a 'cheap' brunch and sat there talking cock and playing the 'finger game', 动得到动不到 game, and some other lame stuff...proceeded on to Clementi K-Box where Zhansheng, Jialiang and I checked in first to start our warm-up session. K-Lunch seemed the cheapest for us, even though we had already had our meal. Just asked for the people to serve our food later on, which worked out perfectly fine.

Ghim Song and Gongyu joined in the action soon after, with Ghim's rapping songs (think: 潘瑋柏) and Gongyu's unbeatable renedition of some 周杰伦 raps sure makes me become envy of them...I can NEVER sing so fast, probably 'cos my mind doesnt move as fast as my mouth does, so I cannot process the words I see fast enough to let the mouth voice out something...that's why I'd prefer more of the slow songs, those songs with beats, those without great variations in tune (aka easy to listen and sing).

However, we still had fun. Despite having to leave at 3pm, we managed to hold out till 4, then we got our butts out, and proceeded to the nearby arcade to play...DAYTONA!

Imagine 5 young adults going into an arcade full of teenagers glued to the computer screens. How we varied in our dressing certainly showed. Well, had fun in being in the driver's seat again (and no it's not like normal driving), and we had a (rather short) play with the Time Crisis 4 machine. Just din feel that the shooting scope was accurate. Ugh.

Played pool later on, it was pretty good I must say, though for 5 people to play within an hour at a pool table, it was kinda slow. Nevertheless, we had fun, and Wenyong came shortly after to meet Ghim before they went off together for their meeting - the rest of us just continued for a while more. My skills...rusty already, long time no play. Geez. Reminds me of the times in my army camp when we went to the Mess to have pool 'practice' after lunch. Cool aint it? Relaxing, chit chat, yet enjoyable. Old times? Hmms...hope we have more of such stuff!

Went over to Yihui's house after that, 2 hours earlier for the Okailer gathering! Went over to Bukit Batok and to his house, played LOTR on his PS2 for about and hour plus, HwiBee came over, then we went down to meet the rest of the people - Celina, Haiping, Jianlong, Pei Geok, Shuying - at West Mall for dinner. Proceeded back to his house with food and other stuff...then mahjong-ing session is officially open and started!

Just played throughout the night of mahjong (w/ some PS2 cos 8 people cant play mahjong, rite???) Haha. But, lost momey. Jialut. It was bad enough cos it was late (will 6am???), it was even worse when u dun get to even win!!! From the minimum 3 台 I usually have, I had to get myself satisfied on just 1 or 2 台! Oh wells. But we had fun. It was night where we saw Geoks do a full flower set, Yihui doing a 大三喜 and continuing being 庄 for 4 conscutive games when it's almost the end of the game!!! Ugh.

Then we lazed around, had MacDonalds' breakfast....and home now. :)

Gonna sleep...zzz...



Current Mood: Sleepy

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Moustache = Source of Knowledge??



Driving a Ferrari in LT23? Attending your lecture is like watching Indian Die Hard & Indian Bruce Willis...*rolls about in laughter*

Simply hilarious. U guys just gotta watch it to understand it.

I'd think the class is totally uber cool. Maybe if we can get teachers like that who conduct such surveys and actually PUBLISH the findings to us. *lol* Wonder what answers they usually get too :P

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Youtubing?

YouTube? No longer...well, after being bought over by Google that is.



Apparently, YouTube has deleted 30000 Japanese videos after a request by some Japanese companies. And that pricked a nerve in people all around the world. YouTube started out being one where all could share videos with their friends, and it seems that it could not stop itself from falling prey to major entertainment companies and their censorship. So, try finding Ayumi Hamasaki, and maybe several other well known Jap singers' MVs, and you'll most likely turn up with no hits. Source: p2pnet.net, Googlified

How pathetic. The very essence and meaning to YouTube has disappeared. We just can't insulate ourselves from the greedy and bossy entertainment companies, can we??

(Read up on the Creative firmware update which prevents recording of FM in their players. That's equally pathetic too.)

Whilst YouTubing on a cloudy Sunday, I've come across a video on YouTube which gives the following statistics:

Views: 16,704,613
Comments: 22252
Favorited: 55438 times

I immediately went o_O" when I saw what the video. Pathetic!!! (but funny? eh...NO.)

Please kill us. *lol* Aliens, you listening up there??

Current Mood: Pensive

Current Music: Zhang Liang Ying - Midnight, Goodnight

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Barrage over?

After a barrage of mid-terms and tests...It seems to have stopped, or has it?

The long weekend (?) is here! Well, it COULD HAVE BEEN if not for a (stupid) Monday test which requires all to just come back to school on Monday. Gosh. If not we'll have a 4 day break (or 5 if u take Friday into account!) But presentation tomorrow, which is why I'm still awake doing a tutorial now. Haha.

Saw Guang, Zhihui, Jason, HwiBee and Wanling at the table today. Not all at the same time of course, but one after the other. Sometimes, it makes me wonder why the same people always appear at the table. Hmms.

Went running today. Totally shiok feeling. Though it's gonna be more of a routine with Thursday runs, 'cos of the upcoming 42km in Dec. Well, no choice, even with the haze, barely 2 months left till the crunch! Luckily I've some friends who're into the SCM thingy, like Junyong and Zhihan. Makes training much easier also.

Ran to Holland Road and back, about an hour's run, great weather and pretty good speed, though I think we've slowed down for the past few weeks 'cos of the (stupid) haze. I'm toying with the idea of Bukit Timah...Hmms...Seems do-able.

And...I saw HwiBee AGAIN at night in Clementi whilst I was having my dinner!!! OMG. It's so qiao lor. So many kopitiams in Clementi and yet the same one -_-" Hmms, fated? LMAOs. Damn funny la, anyway. Introduce her to another TA (again), just like how I intro-ed Andreas to her. HAHA.

Ugh...getting incoherent and crapping...Time for the tutorial to get over and done with!

I need to increase running slots. Anyone interested? Of course, it's haze-dependent now x_X

Finally, a lotta movies up - The Departed, Death Note (watch the anime, it's freakin' cool), World Trade Centre - time to move ur body to the nearest cinema also! :)

Current Mood: Tutorial Preparation time!

Current Music: Christian Bautista - The Way You Look At Me

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Scoop!



This is one helluva movie. Damn funny too! U'd should watch it 'cos I think the lines are super funny! Not to mention a geeky Scarlett Johansson, a nervy and stuttering Woody Allen whose lines are always the same, and the muscular Hugh Jackman (without his beard and claws this time).

As always, a witty movie made with a little of the 90s smell in it sure looks good! In fact, I kinda like the little 2-doored car which was showcased in the movie, driven by Woody Allen en route to 'save' Sondra. It's the Smart Fortwo:



Nice right? I'd think so too :)

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Was reading an article on how the Airbus Industrie have (yet again) failed to deliver its goods on time. Is it relying too much on its brand name and past successes to cushion the ineffectiveness of the management?

Have a read of it on the recent Sunday Times, page 31 "What ails the world's largest passenger aircraft?" The article is informative, useful, and provokes some thoughts about management.

Politics in the company. Ain't it the best to have everything working in harmony, no squibbles, no quarrels? Alas, that's the ideal case only. Here, we see a company which is divided due to it being a transnational governement where politics play a role in the running of the company. An external force, one may say. As such, the company is made ineffective and there are many back-stabbing and problems arising.

No coordination. Simply put, everyone who made the parts did their own way. There was no centralised control over the entire building of the aircraft, and even if it was done, it was too late. One might wonder why such a large company spanning thousands of miles would NOT have thought of a basic plan to centralise control, planning and design.

Riding on past glories. Indeed, that's what I feel that Airbus is doing. It's successes with A310/A320/A340 have certainly placed it as one of the 2 leading makers of commercial jetliners, together with USA's Boeing. But has the A380 fulfilled the promise to its customers? Not by a mile. And in doing that, the airline companies have to restructure their plans, make adjustments, and this resulted in frustration and unhappiness over the company. Well, you'd wonder how would the response be for the next aircraft built by Airbus, right?

Welcome...to the world where time waits for no man. But well, we'd sure like an escape or 2 yea?

Current Mood: Pensive

Current Music: Liang Jing Ru - Qin Qin

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Start of Something Big...

And a first sample is made! Looks pretty cool...wahahaha...learning how to make it from Hwi Bee and Zhihui sure was interesting!

Met Zhai @ NUS and we took 33 to meet HB @ BB (Bras Basah, not Bukit Batok like what Zhai thought. Haha) Went over to Artfriend to source for some of our materials, and we saw so many cute stuff!

So many ideas, so little time, so little money.

And when we finally settled on an idea (whilst I was busy discussing with Luiyee on the other event - Farewell party), we decided to go over to Bugis Junction to find more materials! And we realised they DO sell things which NTUC doesnt, so we trooped over to the one opposite Fu Lu Shou complex.

Been some time since I was last there. As usual, the NTUC was still empty due to the time in which we entered it.

Returned back to Bugis Junction with our growling stomachs, and we tucked into bowls of ramen @ Ajisen! Too bad, the day in which we require the camera, I did not bring it o_O"

So we were wondering how to camera-whore with our new sample, and we remembered that Zhai has her cameraphone!

So we took the picture of the sample...looks cool sia! Eager to get more done...woohoo!

Then, went to PS with Hwi Bee, where she met her bf and I saw Lijun there doing her project. lol. Damn funny la. Somemore there was a live band due to a band competition organised by Power 98 FM. Their music sound cool and soothing, even though they were just covers of the original songs, like Coldplay and Daniel Powter. Alas, we didn't stay long, and left for home shortly after.

Seems like the haze is clearing up...which is better! At least it makes it easier for me to go running. haha!

Current Mood: Listening to Music

Current Music: Daniel Powter - Bad Day

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Vivo!

Vivocity is HUGE! O_O"

(But not as huge as compared to Suntec, me thinks)

Went to this new shopping mall at Harbourfront with Eups on Monday, after her driving lessons. It's been so long since I've met up with her! Hmms...and she's pinkish. Haha!

Anyway, the possible reason (I could think of) why Vivocity's not bigger than Suntec would most probably due to the fact that less than half of its tenants are ready for business. It's very much like a half-opened oyster now...only F&B outlets available, but it's good enough! (Think: Gloria Jeans', Pacific Company, Haagen Daz, THE Coffee Bean etc!)

After browsing the mall, which was quite crowded despite being newly opened and it being a weekday, we settled at Haagen Daz for some ice cream (plus they were having some promotions!) Alas, the crew were kinda lost, possibly due to them being new. Greenhorns tend to be lost if there are no proper on-the-job training, which reminds me of the times in Army when new technicians have to quickly learn the skills from the lao-jiaos a.k.a. ORD-ing personnel.

Then, we had a sudden urge to just go K! Off we went! To Suntec somemore...haha. 97 was fast, brought us to our destination, and we went over to K-Box. Managed to get myself a replacement set of earphones (my old one apparently is dead on one side -_-" Prob a wire loose.)

And it was a ear-opener to listen to my jie sing, despite her flooding a lotta songs to let me sing o_O" But at least, with 2 people, singing is fast and furious, u just go on and on...and before we knew it, we had exhausted our 3 hours there pretty fast! There were also hardly any people at Suntec, and Eups quipped that most likely they went over to Vivocity, but I was thinking more of the effects of Monday blues. Haha.

Seems like I'd gotta get a fix of Gloria Jeans...too bad they do not have an open-air lounge like that of Pacific Coffee Company, admiring Sentosa whilst you have a cuppa. Tried their coffee and blends over at KL when I went Batu, hope it's as nice here!

The amphitheatre was nice, the outdoor parts were nice...the lil' playground is simply too irresistable! Hahaz...A place to chill? Maybe ;)

A damn nice song...once again...天天夜夜 by F.I.R. This time, with lyrics!

how do i live without you
i want to know
how do i breathe without you
if you ever go
how do i ever
ever survive
how do i how do i
oh how do i live

当你的手还握在我手中
没有一次
我还停留
说不出口的感动
当你的手还握在我手中
灿烂的笑容
不论过多久
都让我心动

每一天在你的怀里等待
每一次我感觉你的存在
不能重来
不愿离开
是永远都灿烂的爱

每一天在你的梦里等待
每一次我感觉你的存在
so how do i live
how do i live
how do i live
without you

当你的手还握在我手中
没有一次
我还放手
没有一次
停留
当你的手还握在我手中
灿烂的笑容
不论过多久
都让我心动

oh tell me now

how do i live without you
how do i breathe without you


Current Mood: Pensive