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I am sick

Officer down....

daZ @ 3:37 PM

I am blue.

With assignments. With test. With emotions.

I have been in the school's computer laboratory for the past 5 consecutive nights. I am spending my nights doing my assignments which are due at the end of the week. I find that I enjoy doing my school work in school. The intensity on the students' faces around me while they rush their assignments makes me feel like doing work myself. At home, I do not get this kind of pressure. There is just too little motivation to produce any kind of quality work.

I am now in the laboratory finishing the last bit on one of my assignments. I just had my supper at the 24hour MacDonalds. I had McChicken burger. Yum yum..

This may sound like simple things satisfying simple minds, but there is no need to get too complicated. Look what happened to Michael Jackson.. ok.. so there is no obvious link, but you do get my idea don't you?

It may be a while before the next update. I want you guys to know that this blog is going on. No more April Fool jokes again. Honest.

daZ @ 2:46 AM

Busy May

It is no coincidence that the lack of updates coincide with the last weeks of my semester. It is crunch time right now. Three more weeks to my first paper. What am I going to do? Ace it of course. But well, easier said than done. Back to the books now. More updates in a while.

daZ @ 10:37 PM

Credibility

daZ @ 9:10 PM

Exam Timetable

I got my examinations time table.

11 June 8:30am Enterprise Systems
15 June 5:30pm Web Applications
24 June 1.30pm Principle of Information Management
28 June 1:30pm Database Systems

It is kind of sucky. I start my first paper on the first Saturday of the examination period and ends on the last day of the examination period. What is worse is that my house mates end their papers earlier than me! Oh my... I am going to have a hell of a time after they are done.

daZ @ 2:01 AM

Dropping Temperatures

My heart is as cold as my feet.

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Having a good laugh:

I was having a good laugh on my friend's blog as usual. The blog doesn't belong to anyone of you here (I am sure of that). Her blog (yes, it's a lady) is just so funny! She chose to use all these big words thinking it would make her entries sound more sophisticated when her basic grammer and vocabulary is all wrong. One thing about blogging is that you don't want your user to carry a dictionary when reading your blog.

That reminds me of the 'Speak Good English' campaign in Singapore featuring Gurmit Singh. The slogan for the advertisement was "You don't have to use big words to speak good english." I totally agree.

Back to the funny blog. She was trying to make her ordinary stories sound big by having these big words to describe the situation. That is ok, you would think that she is a very good writer, until you fumbled on some basic grammatical errors. Hey, she knows the meaning of those words doesn't she? Then why is she commiting such an amatuerish mistake? Her entries are always good for a laugh. I am not trying to be mean here but just sharing my experience.

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Having a good cry:

I think I would never have a grilfriend in the near future. Haizz... it is so sad. I think I am not exactly boyfriend material. I think I repel girls like the same sides of a magnet. It is irritating and uncanny too. Why do I possess such powers? I thought I am a babe magnet. .... I hear some laughter going around..

Anyway, I feel that I am designated to be single all my life. I might as well emigrate to the Himalayas or something. I would be happy enough playing 'Pinball' on my laptop. I would live in a cottage high up on the mountain with a couple of sheep as my best mates. It is green and endless more greens around me. I would lie on a bed of daisies and bask in the sun alone, undisturbed. What a life I am dreaming of. Come join me, but live half a mile away in your own cottage please.

daZ @ 9:08 AM

Results of a different kind

I feel that my character has improved over the course of my tour here. It is in a different environment that i got to see what I am, through the eyes of other people.

I have become more tolerant of the itsy bitsy stuff that would normally irritate me. I have learnt to control my temper better. I have a better organisation of my time, though that still has much room for improvement. I have seen my life better than ever.

It is all about me in this entry isn't it? Time to ask about my friends out there. How are you all? Have you been leading a good life? My departure has different impact, if any, on different groups of people. Some misses me, some doesn't feel a thing. I do not know. My family misses me. That is what I hope. To my sisters whom may read this entry, I miss you two!

Here I am far away. Look at the map and the distance between the two dots that point to our locations. I can only work hard towards my study and hope that my effort would earn me the right to see you all soon.

daZ @ 3:06 AM

Visits

My family is coming to visit me next next week. I have been getting a series of visits recently. First it was Shuhui whom came for ten days. Then Veronica was here too. The next familiar faces I am going to see are my parents' and sisters'.

I better finish all my assignments before they touch down in Brisbane, else I might rush the job or have little time for my family or even worse, both.

Lets kick some ass.

daZ @ 11:44 PM

Questions

1. Who do you turn to in times of doubt and perplexity?
2. Are you waiting to be discovered?
3. How long will one live?
4. Is there a boundary to the universe?

Submit your answers to these questions to weida@singnet.com.sg and win a Sony Vaio.

daZ @ 12:38 PM

Lovey Dovey

What's in a name?

A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet.

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The world has its own way of how things work and often defies odds. I have ths friend in Singapore whom I had never met ever since graduation in secondary school. Now that I am in Australia studying, she flew over for a holiday here in Brisbane. I met her yesterday for a night out at the clubs.

The width of the island called Singapore is about 46 kilometres. The distance between that island and the city I am currently in is about 5000 kilometres. Why did we not make the short trip to meet up but instead have to go the hard way of saying hi?

It is by coincidence that she had to come to Brisbane of all cities in Australia for her holiday. It was a one in a thousand chance that I am going to study aboard after my polytechnic. A friend I did not see in tiny Singapore I met up with in wild wild Down-under. What were the odds?

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Do things with the lowest odds have any chance in the first place at all? I guess if the answer to that question is yes, then the consolation to my quest for love has arrived. I love to listen to love songs in the cafes here. It seems like they are consoling hopeless-in-love me.

What are the odds of me finding love here in a foreign land with friends less than four months old and strangers around me not understanding my language when I couldn't do so back home with established relationships, extreme familarity of the environment and everyone speaking the same language?

The odds seem small doesn't it? I guess I stand a better chance at my web applications project...

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I am listening to the fourth song in Jolin's newest album. It is a love song. The time now is 5pm and the sky is turning dark. It had rained during the day. Are rainy days the loneliest for singles? I am looking out at my apartment's window into the sky and wondering if it is the same spot I had stared into a year back when I was in camp.

I had counted the stars in the hope that it would bring a little something. I realised that is useless. The stark truth is, you got to work towards what you wished for. 'Wishing upon a star' is not going to get you what you want.

daZ @ 1:08 PM

Fear Factor

Confronting Your Fears

I am typing this post at 5.35am in the morning. I just came back from a night's out with my mates after watching Chelsea beat Bolton 2-0 to claim the Premiership title.

I am now in my room and could hear some muffled sounds coming from the living room. It is in the dead of the night and hearing funny noises coming from your apartment is not the best of situations to be in. i couldn't get to sleep while that noise remains a mystery in my head, and it is not helped with Karen's words still fresh in my head. It is a dilemma isn't it? What do you think my choice is?

Do I

(1) Leave the lights on and cover myself with my blanket while trying to sleep.

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(2) Confront my greatest fear and fascination of the unknown and check out the muffled sounds that is coming from the living room.

Well... what would you do?

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Have you decided on your decision and answer to my question?

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I chose the second option of checking out the funny noise.

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The sound is from the radio coming out of my housemate's speakers. Whew....

He forgot to off the radio. Why didn't I hear the sound when I came home? It is most probably because I was too tired and just wanted to jump into bed. Anyway, the moral of the story is to confront your fears and it will go away. Run from them and they will appear larger. I hope you had a better night than I did.

daZ @ 3:33 AM