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Haha... a pilgrimage to old trafford.. to see the fine display of talents and soak up the experience... and also to see them beat portsmouth 2 to 1. Really glad that although it was a FA cup... they fielded mostly their first team excluding ronaldo as he was holidaying in dubai... lasy ass... haha... old trafford... looked beautiful... the bright red stands and lush green pitch... all i can say is... woooaaahhhhh.... must take picture... but i din bring my cam... so only william and terence were taking the photos... yeah... so the pics u see are not from my camera... cos my camera was holidaying in dubai too... lasy ass... hehe... haha.. hoho... hmmm...

Why must manchester be so far away?? haizz... the funny thing about watching a live match is that there is no commentry and no replays... and the pitch looks bigger on tv den in real life... but i must say that we got good seats... not too far that everyone on the pitch seem like ants kicking a grain of sand and not too near that we cant see the whole pitch properly... yeah... got to see rooney, larson, giggs, scholes, park, solskjaer, gary neville, ferdinand, carrick and some others, couldnt see SAF , sir alex fergie, cos too far away... the bench was at the other side of the stadium.... rather glad that rooney scored both goals in the second half... cos it was at my side of the pitch... if the goals were during the first half... den i couldnt really see as it would have been at the other side of the pitch... so yeah... good weekend...

cheers!!!

haha... it snowed in london!!!... and it was beautiful in the morning... the sun was bright and the ground was white... quite happy today... haha... din know snow was so therapeutic!!! i was really happy to see the snow since it was so unexpected!!... i on my laptop and my weather widget said that it was snowing... i was like 'yeah right'... din believe and pulled my curtains to check... and there it was ... a thick layer of SNOW !!!!!!! you have no idea how happy i was!! on top of that... considering that this year's winter is warm... having snow was miraculous... because it hardly snows in london even in normal colder winters... haha... as if God just wanted us to see snow!! yup... a dip in temperature this week... including snow... and the temp will rise again this week end to a more comfortable 8-10 deg.C. its now hovering slightly above zero. haha... now, who said english weather was rubbish... haha... happy happy happy... today is a good day!... life is so weather dependent!!

not bad i must say... considering that the cast and everyone involved are students, full time students... of course cannot compare to the west end musicals... they cant have rotating stages like les mis and candels popping out of the stage like phantom... and the cast is not made of prefessional singers... but it was very enjoyable... a lot better than expected... and they are singaporeans and the plot is so singaporean... which relates very well... well... thats singapore culture overseas i must say... haha... quite impressed... surprisingly... of course there are screw ups... but they can be overlooked... many of them ended up as comic relieve for me anyway... haha...

kinda think major event will fade in comparison to excess baggage... actually i am pretty sure of that... but must try to be optimistic... not too keen about watching major event... let alone to participate and help out with it ... haizz... i dun really want to be in my position now... oh well... cant change it... might as well make do...

tests are over... screwed up my mechatronics... haven gotten back my results... but i realised my mistake at the last min of the test... y i so careless? can see diagram wrongly??... but i have gotten used to it... however, this time round... it will cost me dearly... i better buck up... good thing my labs and design course work are doing well... at least for the first term... haha...

well, watch it before it closes, talented show... good singing. after it closes, it will not be les miserables but no miserables... haha ... lame...

tests ending... hmmm... should be able to do well, at least well enough to ensure that i get an early summer break... why u ask?? let me exprain........ that is because for mech eng... the last 3-4 weeks of the school year is manufacturing workshop courses... aka D & T practicals that we use to have in sec sch (only that the machines now are bigger). but since the workshop is not big enough for all of us... the batch is split into five groups which is determined by the results of our progress tests, the ones i am doing now. so if i get to the top fifth of the cohort, my workshop will be in the first week and after that i am a free man!!... woohoo!!. while everyone else will end school 3 weeks later!! bwraahahahaaa... evil grin!! thats why the tests are so important... not that they account much for your overall grade... but they will/could potentially affect my holiday duration... and when i go back singapore!...

stopped playing rome... finish already... invaded rome with my legions... destroyed the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus) and declared myself imperator of the civilised world... haha... call me caesar!!!! haiz sianz... suddenly feel lost now that i got nothing to do... maybe its time to start on those tutorials... and study for mechatronics test.

not happy with my maths tests results... could have gotten full marks.. actually... should have gotten full marks... but careless mistakes as usual... haha... damn stupid mistakes... tanh x become tan x and 1 - 4 = -5... hahaha.... these are my mistakes and they cost me a freaking 10% of my marks!!! sianz... haha... careless mistakes are mistakes that i never seem to be able to learn from... i guess thats true for all of us... but i feel that i am somehow very prone to this... oh well, too bad... life goes on... and to all who have this same problem during exams... i feel for you... feeling it right now... aarrrgghhhhh...

materials test was tough.. i expected to interpret graphs and calculate results... instead they ask me to quote properties and factors of materials and testing methods... blleaahh... so many things to memorize... how u expect me to remember?? u think i what?? wikipedia ah... anyway... the test is mostly mcq... so i pray that i have made all the right guesses... time to have faith in my "intelligent guessing" skills now... haha... dun pray pray... my guessing skills quite good one... exp lvl 10^10 one ok... just hope that it still works well... 3 years never practise my guessing skills liaoz... excluding army APKT test... which stands for armour profficiency knowledge test??... not sure... everyone calls it apkt test.

need to claim insurance for my shoulder... haiz... need to go post office... haizz... cannot email... must snail mail... haiz... why so hard to get money leh??? sianz...

kk thatz all byez

school has started... what can i say? but 'here we go again'. tests are coming... but they should not be too difficult. just finished a lab report... not too bad... this one was easier... it seems to be getting easier and easier... thank god.

had a 'scare' recently, got a letter about some fraud case from my bank... not my fault... they thought that some one may have transacted my money without my knowledge. so they wrote a letter to inform... i dun know how they determined whether which transactions are fraudulous but they were wrong... cos i did pay/authorise those transactions.. i mean why would my school or the supermarket have any reason to take my money without my consent???!! those bankers are really smart... hmm... well, anyway... no big deal... the administration here sux. Even if it really were a fraud case... it will probably take a year before anything gets done... unless you do it yourself of course...

i should stop playing rome... not good for health... and it stops me from studying... but den again... i really dun wanna study... no motivation... not when the tests only account for like 5% of this years grade... but anyway... as a singaporean... i got to be kiasu and do well for it anyway... not a reason to do well other than for the sake of doing well... haha... rome rox... its like one of those classic games that never goes out of date... fighting against a bigger army and defeating them is such a rush of 'ooo, i am so powerful' kinda feeling... hahaha... on top of that... the romans are so soooo cool... the colosseum, bath houses, roman architecture, powerful legions, caesar... sometimes when you conquer another roman faction's city... you get to see those huge temples to mars or jupiter or whatever... its like so amazing when your troops are marching around it to attack the last remaining enemy soldiers... fighting beneath those huge buildings...haha... veni vidi vici... i came, i saw and i conquered...

u know... i kinda destroyed my left toe nail during the ski trip due to my boots being too tight or not tight enough... anyway... it turned purple, den black, den now its like gonna fall off anytime soon... hmmm ok

nitez

changed it... new look... will change it or "upgrade" it... looks too plain... lacking the rustic feeing that i want...

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel really bored... you cant wait for the sun to set? and rise again?? feeling as if you should be doing a whole lot more with your time? but just dun know how to do it?? you feel as if you should be out there:
conquring the world
changing history
advancing humanity
but you find yourself still in your room... staring at a computer and typing a blog just so that you can spend the time? haizz... today is one of those days...

i just feel inspired to do stuff... but there is nothing to do... other than starring out of the window... i could study and i know i should be studying for next week's tests... but i am not in the mood right now... i should be doing greater things... other than mugging... i am daydreaming... thinking about the future... entertaining ideas in my head... and the future is so exciting... i just hope i can live to see my ideas/visions come true... hmm.... i am still daydreaming... i like letting my imagination take over... reality just cannot compare... but ultimately, its reality that matters... haizz... one day... one day, i promise... i will make it a reality... when the time is right, the funding will come...

reminds me of a book i had which i would write my ideas down... hmm... and i sorely forgot to bring it here... haizz... a book that will be handy in a time like this... haha... a book kinda like a diary... but instead of writing about the past... its about the future... or rather my ideas... that are yet to come true... many of the ideas are destined never to come true... but i just wrote them down anyway... hmmm.... writing them on pieces of paper just does not do them justice... oh well... no choice... too bad...just hope i remember to bring them back home...

just had the most expensive badminton game in my life... ... it will still be more expensive even if i did not convert currency... yup... y doesnt london have community centres?? or community clubs? or whatever you like to call them...

finances are looking good... thanx to "income" from parents/relatives/pastors... yup pastors frm evangel family church...thanx for the love offerings... greatly appreciated... and also money from mom and dad and ah ma... hmm... i dun know y they still need to give me an allowance... i got the government to do that... haha... just joking... also greatly appreciated...

Well, my family came over the last week to see me and london?? nothing much to see since it was their second time here anyway... hmm... always good to have family with you... yup... good to see that ah ma is till strong at her age... and thanx for bringing over all the things from singapore as well as cash!! never ate so much in a week for a long time... and good food too... especially when parents are always rich... and food in london is expensive... haha... need to go gym... starting to feel lathargic already... need to get some blood pumping... haha...
Quite sad that the week they were here, the weather sux... but today, after they left... its bright and sunny!! happy weather in winter is rare. absolutely.
got me saxophone, backpack, some pots and pans (i am forced to cook in london, where kopitiams are a lacking) and 2 CDs... lifesong live by casting crowns was excellent... really touches your heart, lots of good music and truth in it... destination by yellow ren sounds cheap... sorry but honestly, it dissapoints... maybe its because i dislike chinese songs, and very likely because i heard it after casting crowns... no fight... destination was destined to lose... time to put back the casting crowns dvd...
The best thing about having parents around is their wallets!! haha... but its true... with my own limited allowance, i end up having to do my own financial management, having to count my deficit and credit... and honestly, i hate counting money... i hate all these nitty grity details of dollars and cents, pounds and pennys... with parents... nothing to worry about... if you like it, and you think that its worth it, den buy it... also, travelling with a credit card just makes so much more sense... i personally hate spending money... somehow i always want to make the most of my money... i will spend it only if i think its worth it... but many things in this world are just over priced... so much money which i feel is spent on marketing and branding and not on quality and research... disgusting... den again... money, as in liquid currency, is worth nothing until you spend it... it is conflicting... becasue as much as i want to spend it all, i hate to do so... i mean... how can you be happy spending on something knowing full well that it could be better used... somewhere else.?. haizz... i guess there is nothing wrong in putting your excess money in deposits and investment schemes and what-have-yous instead... afterall, if you dun need to spend it, den at least let the bank invest and grow the money for you... we live in a material world, and it is costing us more den just our money... if money does not make you happy, den get rid of it... haha... easier said den done... simply because money is security... hmmm... my love-hate realtionship with money... : cant live without it... just wishing that i could...

Fireworks are over rated...