On Holiday

re·cess
-noun
1.temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
2.a period of such withdrawal.
from dictionary.com
Or so they say…
It’s now the Term Break, or Recess Week. By definition, it should be a period when one gets to relax a little and do some stuff that you are too busy to do during teaching weeks. But in [...]

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Timetable

Now with the balloting of tutorials over and tutorials starting this week, school is kicking into high gear. And for this semester, I have a total of 3 assignments out of 4 modules… I think my acne is gonna come back with a vengeance…
The image below is my timetable for this semester… A little screwed [...]

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I am in acronym hell

It seems like I have died and entered acronym hell
(All events are based on true story. Any resemblance to persons living or dead are intentional)
Lecturer: As you can see, the PC is pointing to the address “00″, which is memory address of the next instruction to be executed by the CPU. The value [...]

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Wayang to the core

On today’s Channel News Asia
“Real-time arrival info for buses ferrying IMF/World Bank delegates“
So the world is coming to Singapore and suddenly our transportation system became a world-class transportation system (hereby known as WCTS) with “Real-time arrival info” to track buses down to the very second. And also, the bus timings will be adjusted accordingly to [...]

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Land of four million smiles

Its less than a month to the World Bank-IMF meeting in Singapore. And to welcome the expected 16,000 delegates that will be attending the meeting. The Singapore government has launch the Four Million Smiles campaign and to the uninitiated, four million is the population of Singapore, which means everyone has to start smiling.
Now, after NUSSU [...]

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No is the saddest experience

Nope, I didn't get dumped or anything (nobody to dump me anyway…) but I've just received the outcome of my scholarship application to NUS and I've been rejected. They didn't used the word "rejected" in the letter, but it somehow had the same impact…
"Thank you for applying to the NUS Global Merit Scholarship (NUS GMS) [...]

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Radio killed the music star

What's up with Jack Johnson's "Upside down" that warrant WKRZ91.3 to play it 4 times since yesterday? Frankly speaking, I'm really sick of the song. And it doesn't help with Gary's blog playing it in the background with loop… Does radio really have to ruin all the nice songs?

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Apple and Orange

In a letter to ST's Life!Mailbag today, a Mr Jonathan Boon wrote that rising diesel prices is not an excuse for the sneaky tactic of waiting for booking during peak hours and quote "consumer shouldn't pay for the driver's inability to negotiate with the taxi company for lower rental" unquote. Then he went on to [...]

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Burn baby, burn

A couple of stuff got burned today. Firstly, its my saturday… It was taken up by the battalion field live firing which I was involved in firing the GPMG. Went to Kidney Hill at SAFTI Live Firing Area this morning to shoot the GPMG. As usual with SAF doctrine, we were told that the bus [...]

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Enjoy the run

The battalion conducted a 10KM run at ECP today so we booked out from camp at around 2pm and headed to ECP.
It started off pretty normal, with the usual waiting and safety brief and such. Quite shagged out from the 10KM run actually, since the last time I ran anything more than 10KM is eons [...]

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