I'm like soooo fucking tired. I just blogged this morning (when I just reached home) about some friendship thingy. Well basically now I'm still super tired. I had wanted to do my report this afternoon, but ended up doing nothing (as usual). Then I told myself that I'll sleep 1st, so that I would have the energy to do my report through the night, but now I'm still so tired that I feel like going to sleep now. OMG what am I going to do. Ahhhhhhhhhh. Okok lets not waste anymore time tonight, no matter what I'll have to accomplish something tonight, I cannot let this night go to waste, blog another time! Chao!
Friday, April 4, 2008
H2H
I've just got home from school. Yes I know that its like 6am in the morning now, I was 'studying' in school just now. Well at 4 they started playing Tower Defense, so basically all form of studying stopped at that period. I didn't play though, lent my lappie to Sean to play. Not that I'm not interested to play but I know that I'm not that good a player and also because I know that Sean is more gian to play. So I just watch him play. The funny thing is during the ride home, I talked a lot to Sean, and I shared with him a lot about what I felt about the Europe trip. For those who know me, I don't normally share what I think to the people around me. Especially when I know that the guy knows the other parties as well. I told him quite a bit of what I felt will pose problems for the trip. I mean for the trip, although I agree with the arrangements, but I feel that many areas could have been done differently. I know that I'm not the best planner around and many times what I think might not be the most correct ideas, but I feel that sometimes I do give certain valid points. But anyway thats not the issue for this blog entry. The main point of this entry is that its funny that I would share so much to him because normally I'll just keep my mouth shut. Of course you'll be saying I'm a hypocrite because here I am saying that I tend to keep my feelings to myself and on the other hand I've blogged a lengthy entry about the plans yesterday. And basically the blog entry can be seen by the entire world. But I know that my friends don't have my blog address, and none of them will read whatever that I write here, thats why I got the courage to write them, hahahaha. I really don't know why I've said so much. Maybe I just want someone to know what I really felt, or maybe I just want to let off some inert feelings inside of me. I don't know. But in case they do see this entry by chance, let me just state here that THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN ANYONE OF US. hahahaha. The great thing is that everyone is pretty easy going, so we do get along pretty well. However, its also because we are a little too easy going that landed us here, haha. I do not have big problems about the plans, but just some concerns that we will face some problems when we are in Europe and also the higher cost that we will incur because of our current plans. But having said that since we can't change our bookings anymore, we'll just have to work around the bookings, and in Project Runway's sense "make it work".
Well Sean is a pretty good chap to talk heart to heart. Somehow, I just poured out a lot to him (of course its about the trip lah, have not gone to other stuff), although I still reserved some parts of my thought, but it is already a miracle that I actually said that much (soooooo unlike me). But I must say that it does feel pretty good to let out some feelings once in a while. The other party may not feel the same way, he might find all that I said as nonsense. But it does feel good that you can think that someone is willing to listen and just take in what you have to say. So I must say that the conservation in the car was pretty relieving. Ever since Alvin got together with Ash, I've more or less lost a close friend that I can pour my heart out to. He used to be the person I turn to when I'm in desperate need to pour out my thoughts to, but now he's got someone more important in his life. Well he's still one of my best friend around, but its just not the same anymore. Hmmmm, I think I better not get into the best friend issue in this entry. Maybe will blog about it in the future. But, yah, its not the same anymore. So I find that Sean has the potential to be a listener, he listens and gives some ideas and thought. CY is another great friend, he is someone you can engage in Heart to Heart as well. But I guess his image as being 无理头 does not help in this matter. Sometimes you really don't know whether he is really interested in listening to you stories. Maybe its because our speech more-ofthen-than-not revolves around non-serious and unimportant stuff. I blog more about friendships another time. This topic needs a little more in depth thought, hahahaha.
Okok, I think its time to end this entry now, its now a quarter to 7am, dawn is going to break any time now, think I better head to bed, I still a long day ahead (cannot wake up too late), will need to try to finish up my FYP today. Just one last thing, Fuck my prof, everytime see him I have so much to do. Asshole! After seeing him yesterday, suddenly my FYP has so much more to cover. Damn it! Gotta buck up, just less than a month more to the end of school life. 加油!!!!!!! Okie good night, erm I mean good morning. =)
Well Sean is a pretty good chap to talk heart to heart. Somehow, I just poured out a lot to him (of course its about the trip lah, have not gone to other stuff), although I still reserved some parts of my thought, but it is already a miracle that I actually said that much (soooooo unlike me). But I must say that it does feel pretty good to let out some feelings once in a while. The other party may not feel the same way, he might find all that I said as nonsense. But it does feel good that you can think that someone is willing to listen and just take in what you have to say. So I must say that the conservation in the car was pretty relieving. Ever since Alvin got together with Ash, I've more or less lost a close friend that I can pour my heart out to. He used to be the person I turn to when I'm in desperate need to pour out my thoughts to, but now he's got someone more important in his life. Well he's still one of my best friend around, but its just not the same anymore. Hmmmm, I think I better not get into the best friend issue in this entry. Maybe will blog about it in the future. But, yah, its not the same anymore. So I find that Sean has the potential to be a listener, he listens and gives some ideas and thought. CY is another great friend, he is someone you can engage in Heart to Heart as well. But I guess his image as being 无理头 does not help in this matter. Sometimes you really don't know whether he is really interested in listening to you stories. Maybe its because our speech more-ofthen-than-not revolves around non-serious and unimportant stuff. I blog more about friendships another time. This topic needs a little more in depth thought, hahahaha.
Okok, I think its time to end this entry now, its now a quarter to 7am, dawn is going to break any time now, think I better head to bed, I still a long day ahead (cannot wake up too late), will need to try to finish up my FYP today. Just one last thing, Fuck my prof, everytime see him I have so much to do. Asshole! After seeing him yesterday, suddenly my FYP has so much more to cover. Damn it! Gotta buck up, just less than a month more to the end of school life. 加油!!!!!!! Okie good night, erm I mean good morning. =)
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Europe planning
Well for anyone who actually bothers to follow this blog (Although I hate to admit it, but really I think no one reads all my crap), you'll would know that I'll be going to travel Europe for my grad trip. After the initial planning, I've come to realise that this is going to be a luxury backpacking trip. Initially we had estimated the entire cost to come to about 6k, but from the looks of things, I'm raising the estimated cost to about 7k. Well I guess the group that I'm going with is not really a live hard group. I have some experience in backpacking (sort of) during my time in China, so I know what it like is to live in less that comfortable situations just to save some cash but this group don’t seem to think that way. Saving the bits and pieces are of utmost importance when backpacking, especially when we're going to an expensive place like Europe and when we'll be there for close to 50 days. Below I shall analysis some things that I think can be done better. Of course when I try to voice out a little of my experience, they had their reasons for doing otherwise. So you can say that my suggestions were put to rest and the consequence is of course higher cost.
One of the problems that I have is the choice of booking all the hostels now. The reasons they gave was that because the time that we are going is considered a peak period, so they were worried that we would not be able to find a place to stay there if we didn’t book the hostels now. Can you imagine booking a month’s worth of hostels at this time. This is not the wisest thing to do during backpacking, the reason being that our schedules will all be locked by the hostel bookings. I can imagine ourselves rushing to each hostel to make sure that we manage to check in (because we’ve paid the deposit). Being foreign to that country, sometimes we have no idea how much we would want to see a country and we do not know if something urgent might crop up. So basically with all the hostels booked, we’ll have to make 100% sure that we follow the dates at the hostels accurately or else if one goes wrong, the entire schedule will break down. My suggestion, which was shot down, was to book the first week’s hostels, then we book the rest of the hostels while we are travelling there ie book as we travel. This gives us more flexibility and it will make things easier for us.
Another problem that I have is the fact that they didn’t book any overnight train rides. . This is the ultimate sin for backpacking. The reasons they gave for this is because we do not have enough time to check the train schedules and that we might have to change trains along the way, so if we miss a stop we might not know where we end up. This is just crap. They told me that they have decided that we will be taking the plane for any train ride that is more than 4 hrs to save time, wah!!! Because the plane ride is only 20 pounds as compared to the 36 pounds for the train ride. Excuse me, if you do your maths correctly, the 36 pounds includes your lodging (which is about S$50 a night) + transport. Getting on overnight trains not only saves on the lodging fees, you’ll also save a lot on travelling time. Already we have to make sure that we get to the hostels on time, which also means that we will probably have to take day train rides. Can you just see how much time will be wasted traveling? I can only imagine us rushing from place to place when we’re there, it will not be easy to take in a lot from this trip.
I guess I have a certain expectation of backpacking, and from my experience this is not really considered backpacking. Backpacking is not just about taking a few train rides to experience it and staying in hostels, it is a lot about have flexibility to enjoy the country and experience how people in a different country live during that short span of time there. Flying around in planes and rushing to get to hostels is definitely not backpacking, in fact its far from it, which is why I’m not expecting much from this trip this time. Initially I thought that DY will have much better idea of backpacking because he had been to Shanghai for GIP as well, and that he’s pretty well travelled. Well it seems that all the while they had been luxury travelers that this is probably the first they are trying out something like this. You can say that I’m a little disappointed, but what to do, everything is booked already, I know that I have not been heavily involved in the planning because I was busy with my report then (and because they always meet in school, which is so far away from me). Well I can’t change whatever has been set, I can only try to make the best of it. Hopefully we’ll be able to get something good out of this. One thing for sure, this trip is going to be fun. Going for a trip with friends is always a fun thing, I mean its not always that we’ll be able to do things like this. So here’s wishing us a great trip ahead!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Rename
Well I'm in the midst of renaming my blog. Just feel that using my name for the blog is not cool enough, hahaha, so if anyone (if there are anyone out there who bothers to read my crap) got any good names for a blog, do put it down on my tag or msg me pls. I've already progressed to upgrade my blog, so I think I should change the name to mark a new start. Huat Ah!
Kidz
Before I begin, let me just take a moment to wish one of my bestest friend Alvin a very big happy birthday. Hey dude, enjoy yaself today, exams are around the corner, so you'll probably be able to only enjoy today (and maybe on the 17th of this month because its Ash's birthday) and work hard for the rest of the month. Haha. Happy Birthday!!! And also congrats to Dennis for going to his first appointment with HDB today. I have no idea what does a first appointment mean, does he get his key today or is he signing the papers or is it just a normal meeting. Well what the heck, its gotta be something big cause he seems pretty happy, well congrats to him. Hope its not some April fool's joke that HDB is playing on him. Wahahahaha.
Okie back to today's topic on kids. Well not too long ago, It was just a few days back. I went for Qing ming with my family, and on the trip I met a few of my cousins. Well for those who know my family, well for my generation, its like differentiated into 2 different groups. I guess its this funny thing called age gap, the older kids (I'd like to think that I'm still a kid although I'm already 25) belong to 1 group and those below 16 seem to belong to another group of their own. To simplify things I'll split the people in my mum's side to the 2 groups.
Oldies: My bro, myself, Melyvn.
Youngsters: Tyrone (I have no idea if got the spelling correct), Jocelyn, Nicholas
These are the 2 basic groups around, of course you'll find that not everyone is included in the list. Well thats because there a number of others who just don't belong to any group. For example: Gerald (seem to be in a world of his own), the 3 from 4th uncle (who seem to be in their own worlds as well, but I guess their closer to the youngsters), not forgetting Qing Yang and Qing Long (I don't even know if I got their names correct), I don't even see them often, and of course Debbie, John, Ashley and Natalie who are constantly overseas thus not easy to put them in any group.
It seems that even though we are in the same generation, our thinkings differ a lot. Conflicting interest has resulted in us not having any common topics to talk about, so you can see easily that we are not as close. But thats not all, another thing that is bothering me is the way kids are being brought up nowadays. Maybe I'm just too old fashioned to say this, but I feel that kids that were brought up using the ways of my time (wah like I very old liao) tend to be more polite and courteous towards the older people. Like myself (Let me just say that I'm not trying to sell myself here ok, its just my observation), my group tend to listen to elders when they talk, and not rebut to everything that others say. Our actions just don't seem so rebellious. This is somewhat different from the kids nowadays. Now I'm seeing my younger cousins talk back to elders, hit their daddies while their dads are driving, arguing to almost everything that they don't see fit. In the early stages it may all seem like their pretty cute to talk that way, but as this continues, I just get pretty irritated because sometimes what I am trying to teach them is how they can progress in life. I'm not some life guru but I guess my existence in this planet thus far has rendered myself enough position to speak of some things about growing up. And really, I think something that is lacking in many of the kids nowadays is the ability to listen. Ideally children should learn to speak up, this will definitely be helpful to them in the future. But they should also master the art of listening. Sometimes it will do them good to just shut up and listen to what others have to say. It gets utmost annoying when you try hard to teach a value to someone and they don't listen. Well that being said, I am not the kids father, so in what position am I to teach them all these facts of life. Their mums and dads have even more experience than myself, so who am I to be doing all this. I just feel that as parents, they tend to love their children too much to scold them (what they call 爱的教育), they try to talk sense to them to make them understand. But seriously I don't believe in that, or maybe just to some extent. I still think that some form of caning and scolding is required in the upbringing of the child. If there is one thing I cannot stand, its children who don't behave and don't listen. I find that most parents nowadays pamper their kids too much, to the extent that they are overly protected from the realities of this world. I mean although child life is short-lived and as children they should be enjoying their childhood but whats the point of making them believe that they are princes and princesses living in castles, and whoever opposes them will have to beheaded. I think some values should be inculcated in them while they are still little. When they get a little older, it will be even more difficult to change the mindset that they have.
I guess I have to attribute my bitchiness to Imran, now I do get irritated sometimes when I find that things are not the way they are supposed to be. But what can I do when I encounter things like this. If I speak out it might strain my relationship with my relatives and I might just get my arteries choked and I'll be vomiting blood because these brats don't listen, if I don't speak up I just can't bear to see the young ones degrade themselves further (they are still my family).
Haiz, the sad truth about life, sometimes its just difficult to be Mr Nice Guy.
Okie back to today's topic on kids. Well not too long ago, It was just a few days back. I went for Qing ming with my family, and on the trip I met a few of my cousins. Well for those who know my family, well for my generation, its like differentiated into 2 different groups. I guess its this funny thing called age gap, the older kids (I'd like to think that I'm still a kid although I'm already 25) belong to 1 group and those below 16 seem to belong to another group of their own. To simplify things I'll split the people in my mum's side to the 2 groups.
Oldies: My bro, myself, Melyvn.
Youngsters: Tyrone (I have no idea if got the spelling correct), Jocelyn, Nicholas
These are the 2 basic groups around, of course you'll find that not everyone is included in the list. Well thats because there a number of others who just don't belong to any group. For example: Gerald (seem to be in a world of his own), the 3 from 4th uncle (who seem to be in their own worlds as well, but I guess their closer to the youngsters), not forgetting Qing Yang and Qing Long (I don't even know if I got their names correct), I don't even see them often, and of course Debbie, John, Ashley and Natalie who are constantly overseas thus not easy to put them in any group.
It seems that even though we are in the same generation, our thinkings differ a lot. Conflicting interest has resulted in us not having any common topics to talk about, so you can see easily that we are not as close. But thats not all, another thing that is bothering me is the way kids are being brought up nowadays. Maybe I'm just too old fashioned to say this, but I feel that kids that were brought up using the ways of my time (wah like I very old liao) tend to be more polite and courteous towards the older people. Like myself (Let me just say that I'm not trying to sell myself here ok, its just my observation), my group tend to listen to elders when they talk, and not rebut to everything that others say. Our actions just don't seem so rebellious. This is somewhat different from the kids nowadays. Now I'm seeing my younger cousins talk back to elders, hit their daddies while their dads are driving, arguing to almost everything that they don't see fit. In the early stages it may all seem like their pretty cute to talk that way, but as this continues, I just get pretty irritated because sometimes what I am trying to teach them is how they can progress in life. I'm not some life guru but I guess my existence in this planet thus far has rendered myself enough position to speak of some things about growing up. And really, I think something that is lacking in many of the kids nowadays is the ability to listen. Ideally children should learn to speak up, this will definitely be helpful to them in the future. But they should also master the art of listening. Sometimes it will do them good to just shut up and listen to what others have to say. It gets utmost annoying when you try hard to teach a value to someone and they don't listen. Well that being said, I am not the kids father, so in what position am I to teach them all these facts of life. Their mums and dads have even more experience than myself, so who am I to be doing all this. I just feel that as parents, they tend to love their children too much to scold them (what they call 爱的教育), they try to talk sense to them to make them understand. But seriously I don't believe in that, or maybe just to some extent. I still think that some form of caning and scolding is required in the upbringing of the child. If there is one thing I cannot stand, its children who don't behave and don't listen. I find that most parents nowadays pamper their kids too much, to the extent that they are overly protected from the realities of this world. I mean although child life is short-lived and as children they should be enjoying their childhood but whats the point of making them believe that they are princes and princesses living in castles, and whoever opposes them will have to beheaded. I think some values should be inculcated in them while they are still little. When they get a little older, it will be even more difficult to change the mindset that they have.
I guess I have to attribute my bitchiness to Imran, now I do get irritated sometimes when I find that things are not the way they are supposed to be. But what can I do when I encounter things like this. If I speak out it might strain my relationship with my relatives and I might just get my arteries choked and I'll be vomiting blood because these brats don't listen, if I don't speak up I just can't bear to see the young ones degrade themselves further (they are still my family).
Haiz, the sad truth about life, sometimes its just difficult to be Mr Nice Guy.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
More changes
Well as you can see now, my blog is getting more and more complicated. Wahahaha. I've added my photo (not that I really like to show the world how I look like, but wanna personalise my blog a little). Another new feature on my blog is the hot links, yup these are just some sites that I find interesting and visit pretty often, of course I've excluded the porn sites that I go to, thats not really suitable to be added in my blog, hahahaha. Also added a tag board to my blog. So all you peeps, if you really have something that you want to say, you can tag it in my tagboard. Actually I really wonder if anyone will write here, but what the heck. Woah, I'm like a techno geek now. I'm like getting so smart with all these computer stuff, hahaha. Oh yah, for anyone who actually manages to find this blog, and actually spends a few minutes of his/her life reading about my most exciting life, please also click on the advertisements and visit the sites on adsense, even for just a few seconds. Yup, helps me to earn a few cents from this please. Thanks a million for your support!
Friends :: April Fool!
Well I found this on Facebook, and thought it was really interesting, so I decided to post it here! Oh yah, its past 12 already, which means that its now 1st April!!! Happy April's Fools!!!!
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