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30 June 2006

Holiday


Today is the day i've been waiting eagerly for...
Today is my big day...
Today is the day when my life took a 180 degree turn from 'Worry' to 'No worries'...

Yup, exams are all over for me.....for the moment...
And here comes holiday!!!




It's now time to relax....and ENJOY!!!!

29 June 2006

Examination period

1 more exam paper to go...

Usually, i hope that time would go slower...
But during the exam period, i wish time would fast forward to those after-exam hours, just so that i dun have to worry bout what's gonna come out in the exam anymore...

That is how i would feel during the hectic times.
But seriously, if anyone asked me on how bad those days were... I would say that i enjoyed them... Probably it's because I have more of those 'free time' during the exam period than any other times... Most of my 'studying time' would probably be on spent surfing the net, watching some cool video clip, listening to music, enjoying the night scenery, catch up with my sleep, and stuff which i feel like doing..

Now now now, isn't this a suprise??
People around me usually complain:
about the past paper, on how they could have done better...
about the upcoming exam paper, worrying on what is gonna come out...
about how 24hours is not enough...
about the slumber hours stripped from them...
and about everything else...

and me:
I am psycho who loves to see people worrying about this and that...
Not that i enjoy being around complainers and whinners, but sometimes its just reassuring that other people are probably suffering as well...

Well well, I still have 1 more paper to go.
And by tomorrow afternoon, its the start of my holidays and the end of my enjoyable exam period...

Sigh...time fly fast when you are having fun...
(I still hope that time would fast foward to the end of my exam time...)

28 June 2006

Don't WORRY, Be HAPPY

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY
Bobby McFerrin
Written by Bobby McFerrin

Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note-for-note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry, you make it double
Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy now

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo hoo-hoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Woo-oo-woo-oo-woo-oo-ooo Be happy
Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo hoo-hoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Woo-oo-woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Woo-oo-woo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, (ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha) be happy (look at me, I'm happy)

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo (Here, I'll give you my phone number. When you're
worried, call me. I'll make you happy.)
Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo Be happy
Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got no gal to make you smile
But don't worry, be happy
'Cause when you're worried, your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
So don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy now

Ooo-oo-hoo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo Be happy
Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Now there, is this song I wrote
I hope you learned it note-for-note, like good little children
Don't worry, be happy
A-listen to a-what I say
In your life, expect some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy, be happy now

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Ooo-oo-hoo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Ooo-oo-hoo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, don't worry
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't do it, be happy
Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down like
this
Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo It will soon pass, whatever it
is
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

(fading...)
Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo I'm not worried
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo I'm happy
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

26 June 2006

Panic Attack

Last wednesday 21/6/2006, was was my worst exam paper ever...
Sad to say that i did pretty bad for that paper. I'm probably sitting on the border between a pass and a fail. (For all my exams, it had always been a question of distinction or not... but this time, for this paper, it's a question of fail or pass...)
However, towards the end of the day, i felt suprisingly good because of that paper. No joke...

This is my story:

5mins before the exam, I was feeling pretty confident as always.
At the time of the exam, i was getting a little nervous... Suddenly, i had a very eerie feeling that everything is gonna be catastrophic.

And by the time exam starts, i was stumbled... Back then, staring at the paper was as if i was staring at nothing at all. It was then i realised that i was experiencing a black out.. A MAJOR one... I forgot all those related engineering formulas. Heck, i even forgot my own name... I had to refer to my student ID, not just once, but from time to time just to find out what my name is.. . It was so bad till the stage that i could barely recognise my own face on my ID card...
Yes, it was a very freaky moment...

Yup, i panicked...at the wrong time...
The next thing i tried to do is to calm myself down, even convinced myself to take a few deep breath and all this will be gone...
But NOoooo.... it got worse.
My heart beats faster, slowly sinking all external sound and voice until it dominates my auditory senses...
I can almost feel every pint of blood coursing through my veins...
I can almost feel the extreme heat emiting from my body...


I was getting more and more paranoid by the second..
And i sat there, staring at the exam paper, contemplating at virtually nothing...
Thats when those unnecessary crippling thoughts sets in.. I mumbled to myself: "Crap...I'm gonna die, i'm gonna die... Crap...What the heck... NOoooooo"
Pathetic isn't it??
Thats exactly how i felt in the 1st hour.


For the 2nd hour... I got tired of the "I'm dead" mentality... Instead of condemning myself, i tried to calm myself down...again. I told myself a millions times: "Calm down, calm down...go back to the basics.. assess the question properly... read the question word by word...take it slow... Chill..."
Glad to say i did cool down a bit, and began to read the exam questions properly.

But NOOoooo.... My panic attack came back as soon as the fella in front of me stood up and hand up his paper. Minutes later, another fella hand up his paper, and another and another one started to leave the exam room.
At that time, i can't stand the atmosphere anymore. I wanted to leave the room, the exam and everything else... After all, i can't answer any of the question, why bother trying??
The 2nd hour is like a deathrow to me... I spent most of my time flipping the question paper and not writting anything on my answer booklet.. Well, i did manage to produce some artistic sketch... Other than that, i wrote nothing...

And in the 3rd hour (the last hour), i had better salvage whatever marks i could get...
I shut myself from the world and meditate for bout 5mins... Hoho, now this is when i started to calm myself down. And for the next 15mins, I did more than what i did in the previous 2 hours...
Then i started to convince myself that, this paper isn't that hard after all..
(actually to any other student, the paper is not hard at all, but to me...it's a challenge since i black out!!) (and yeah, i find it extremely difficult)...

Anyway, in the last hour, i wasn't thinking about getting a distinction anymore...
I was thinking of getting as much marks as possible in my current situation...

After the exam, i felt super shitty as if I am some pathetic loser....
Out of 4 questions, i only managed to do 1.... And the other 3 questions, i scribbled some random words, equations, and numbers hoping to get some marks...
And that is very bad!!! There is chance that i might actually fail the paper.

But hey, i gave it all my best in my current situation...
I have no idea why, i felt kinda good after some time....
Even though i did really bad in this paper (to the extend that i might fail), but for some reason, i felt quite good...

Its probably because i've never felt this calm in a panic situation.... Actually, I felt great!!! Probably that's my defination of "the joy of confronting a fear a failure"...
(besides, i was lucky enough not to go on a berserk mode...)

23 June 2006

Baby Stayin' Alive

I'm addicted to metacafe lately..
(A website where ppl upload and share all sorts of videos from around the world... Kinda similiar to youtube, google video and the likes...)
Probably it's because i rather be watching funny and idoitic videos than to read my own notes...
Plus, it's a great website to release stress and frustration...

I present to you one of those videos which made me smile...

Don't u just love kids?? He may just be the next John Travolta...

17 June 2006

TARC Berita Kampus Sept2005

Just got this from my friend, Kean Boon...
Many thanks to him for acquiring an old edition of TAR college's monthly magazine, Berita Kampus September 2005

This guy is just too good...He got hold of the magazine a few days ago considering the magazine was released on september 2005...
A magazine as old as 10months old such as this is suppose to be extinct, or something like that...
Well, i'm just guessing that he'd probably threathened to burn down the editorial department or he probably kidnapped some editors and put up a ransom note or something like that...

Or it could be just that there are too many leftovers since no one bothered to read TARC's monthly magazine...
But this is probability is highly improbable since penang branch TARC ran out of Berita Kampus sep2005 issue...

So, yeah... Kean Boon probably did something under the shadows...
His ways of doing things are just to 'unique'...No one will ever know what he did to acquire a copy of sept2005 issue... And even if someone did, he probably wouldn't be able to tell the tale...

Anyway,
Allow me to present page3 of Berita Kampus issue September 2005... Happy Reading!!
(oh....read the lower section)

14 June 2006

Mystery of his weirdness (prelude)


Lately, Ms.Polaris (a.k.a Cheng Yuin Yin) left a message on this blog's chatterbox....
When i first read it, i really had a good laugh.... (as a result, my stomach cramped for a moment, and perhaps that is one of the reasons resulting in my appetite loss for that particular day.... ahahaha....)

Anyway, later that day.... i was still thinking about this...
And i went to the the dictionary for help....

According to the famous yet reliable cambridge dictionary:
Mystery = something strange or unknown which has not yet been explained or understood
Strange = unusual and unexpected, very difficult to understand
Unknown = not known of familiar

hhhmmm...makes me wonder....
Once, Ms.Polaris claimed that i'm one of her many 'best friend'.....
So, since the pretty and beautiful yet intelligent close friend of mine finds me stange and mysterious, then it's natural for me to conclude that not many people understand me either...which kinda makes me, 'unique'...as everyone else...

Question is: What makes me appear to be so 'mysterious' and 'strange' to everyone else??

To find out more....Stay tuned!!!
I'll try my best to enlighten the curious...
Perhaps i'll list down my belief system and,
certain 'comments' from other ppl which i've 'collected' so far....

Comments and critique are strongly encouraged!

10 June 2006

Ebay Snipping

Yes!!!!
Patience does pays off....
and when the fruit is ripe, the moment is su-weeet and satisfying...

I've been itching for a PC speaker lately.....
For the past 2 weeks, i've been shopping on ebay in search for a cheap good speaker.... For that period, i have my eyes on the logitech X530, and the logitech Z4... I'll take whichever i think is cheap enough for me... I've been monitoring the price of both speakers... the X530 usually sells off at 65+25(shipping fee)= 90aud and the Z4 usually at 90+20 = 110aud

However, i won a bid from ebay recently...
a brand new 5.1speaker from altec lansing... Name's GT5051.
ok, so the brand isn't logitech... but i suppose this will do just fine... it's altec lansing after all... According to reviews, the performance of GT5051 is somehow similiar to the logitech X530

I won the item at a super low price of 73aud..... Plus, there are no shipping and handling fees to it...
And i believe that was a rip off since the market price of GT5051 in australia ranges from 180 - 230 aud....
yup...i suppose anyone can say that i got it at 60% discount....




the whole process of bidding for the item was so exciting...
In the picture, that was me at the top of the list...
I outbid the previous guy for just 1aud...and look at the time!!!!
i placed my bid precisely 1 sec after he places his.....
Actually i kinda placed my bid 3secs before the bidding ends.... and lucky for me, turns out that i was the higgest bidder....
Now this is what everyone calls EBAY SNIPPING!!!!!
(names have been blurred to protect anonymity......and yeap, top of the list is the name of the ebay account i'm using)

I can almost feel the adrenaline rushing in as the bidding was about to end.... Coz it was at a super low price when the bid was about to end.....
And boy, was i relieved when the bidding ended..... to me, it was a bargain well worth...

Now, i'm just waiting for the product to arrive. Hopefully the product is in a near-perfect condition as promised by the seller....

08 June 2006

If the Uni wants to challenge us.... So be it


Incoming!!!!
Something big is coming in my way........
With it bears the malicious shadow that would ignite one of my greatest fear!!!!
Within their nature lies a callous desire to enslave our little mind, for they have the fearful destructive ability to sap the energy and drain valuable time out of their victim, robbing them of their spirit and zest....Those struck by this kind of lurgy will be be placed on the verge of insanity from time to time...

My heart rate beats increasingly faster with each passing day. And this phenomenon will not stop until this ghastly shadow is surface to light.

Yeap, they are here....
It is inevitable, it is unstoppable, and it's coming for me!

On the 20th of June marks the arrival of my uni examination period!
This war will last for 0264 hours since the mark of its arrival...
With 8 battles altoghether, the fight will never end until 30th of June...
If the uni wants to test us, bring it on!!!

Only courage will be able to evict the shadows of fear....
Until then, I shall prepare myself for war!!!!
Equipped with the latest and the most reliable, state of the art equipment, I shall triump!!!

06 June 2006

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a fear which originates in the belief that the Biblical verse, Revelation 13:18, indicates that the number 666 is linked to Satan or the Anti-Christ.

Whether you have this kind of fear or you are just superstitious about it...read no more....
Coz below, is some interesting intepretation of the number 666.

However if u do not dislike the subject, then drag your mouse over to read....or just press 'CTRL+A'
(it's nothing controversial actually...thought i should hide it, just in case someone find s the reading material...unpleasent)

666...Today may be the mark of 666. Because of the date, 06/06/06, many regard this day to have some certain connection with antichrist, mark of the beast, satan, armegeddon, doomsday, catastophe and the likes. And this dreadful day happens every 100 years..

As mentioned in the bible, Revelation 13:16-18,
"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

Revelation 14:9 goes on to say, that no matter how much pressure there is to receive the mark, we must, under no circumstances, receive it: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath."

The Number of the Beast is mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the Christian New Testament and has long been accepted to be 666 (or, in some cases, 616). The meaning of the number is debated. In some interpretations of Christian eschatology the "Beast" is believed to refer to a being controlled by or equated with the Antichrist.

hhhmmm...
i have no idea what it means. But by the sounds of it, it doens't sound good...

Another interesting stuff.....
John MacArthur explains the meaning of 666 this way: "The number represents the essential number of a man. The number 6 falls one short of God's perfect number, 7, and thus points to human imperfection. Antichrist, the most powerful human the world will ever know, will still be a man - a 6. The ultimate in human and demonic power is a 6, not perfect, as God is."
and according to an article in wikipedia, Organic molecules are based on carbon-12, with 6 Protons, 6 Neutrons and surrounded by 6 Electrons.

So, this question is still in debate....
Does the no.666 lie within each of us???

Compiled from: (most of the stuff written here...i just copied and paste...)
http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/mark-of-the-beast.htm
http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/meaning-of-666-faq.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_%28number%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast