A little too friendly?

Okie I've just written a whole long passage and now its all gone. Damn it. My comp just blacked out, I mean blued out. Suddenly the scary blue screen came out. I was soooo worried that my lappie was dead again. Luckily its still working. Heng ah!

Anyway let me try to remember what I was saying, I'll just give summary of everything, tired to repeat everything. Well I got an email today from my ex-boss from MHA - Pauline. Yup she was telling us that her NS boy was getting a little freaky these days. He's been coming over to her cubicle to tell her about his problems, everything from at home, to in office, outside. Basically all his problems. So Pauline does get pretty busy at times, so sometimes she'll just give him some words of encouragement or just some simple ideas, mainly targeted at trying to get him to go away. But it seems that he's taking them very seriously! To the extent that he'll sometimes message her late in the night with thank you messages and things like that. Hmmmm a little freaky right, and did I mention that Pauline is married with 2 adorable kids (or brats, hahaha Pauline's so gonna kill me if she read this. She's got 1 boy and 1 gal). I think there is a line between giving some counseling advice and getting freaked out by the people you counsel. This boy seems to fall into the latter category. And this has been going on for quite some time. Pauline was already talking about this since we met her during CNY, just that the problem seem to have gotten worse now.

I've of course advised Pauline to talk to him about it, just tell him that maybe there's a problem here. And of course I suggest that she does this subtly, definitely not the direct approach. Later the 想不开, who knows what he'll do. From the looks of it, he's a pretty emo person, so cannot be too direct with him. I suggested Pauline to ask his office buddy to talk to him or something, to find out if he needs any help. I'm not boasting about my batch here, but from the feedback I get from my ex-bosses (not only Pauline, I'm in contact with some of the rest as well), it seems that the quality of the boys coming to MHA have gone down a little. And there seem to be more weird people in MHA these days. For instance, calling this kid in question a weirdo is definitely not an overstatement. Well thats that, hope Pauline can settle this soon, but then again if she settles this, then we would not have anymore interesting stories to hear when we meet up next time, hahahaa.

Men's problems

I had initially wanted to blog about my dinner with Imran aka the next-big-thing malay blogger in town. Haha. He told me that he's been getting quite a few weird looks in school these days and was recently invited by the malay community to meet up to discuss on some malay issues. So not him! Haha, but I think I'll save that to my next entry, today I want to blog about a problem that majority of men will face at a certain point of time in life, only that sometimes it come a little earlier. Like in my case, its here just a little too early, come on I'm on 25 this year, I still have quite a few years ahead of me, and I hope I don't have to life with this problem throughout. And please I'm not talking about male menopause, erectile dysfunction or low sperm count ok, I assure you that if you get a hot babe in front of me, I can satisfy her and get her pregnant. The issue I'm talking about today is on hair loss. Somehow there is this close link between alot of males and high forehead, so much so that it makes us look like we're losing hair. For me, I'm the typical 'M' shape. As in the 2 corners of my forehead go higher than my front, so this makes the sides look pretty empty. Of course I've been doing my cover up all the time but every now and then it still get quite obvious. And that is irritating. Already made a pact with beng to go yun nan to solve our problems, hahaha. But I've also heard that these hair hospitals are not as effective as they advertise to be. Haiz, why must this happen to me, I'm only in my mid 20s now, don't this only happen to those old men who are enjoying the fruits of their life's toil. You know how difficult it can be to play cover up all the time, there is a limit on the hair styles that I can do. I tried having short hair, it was good because the empty patch didn't show, and I think I look alright in short hair, but the problem is I have to constantly maintain the length,. Once the hair start growing a little longer, the patch gets more obvious. For the rest of the time, I'm usually in mid length hair (ie its too long to be called short hair, but its too short to be called long hair). This length allows me to cover up the patches but I do not have very dense and thick hair. So the patches are still visible through the spaces between the hair, and I have to spend quite some time to adjust my fringe to cover it up nicely so that it looks filled and not fake. As my friend would put it, it should not be as fake as a fake gucci from petaling street. Yup, these are the everyday problems that I face. And that is why I usually have to spend up to 15 mins to do my hair before going out. So sometimes I'll just choose to don a cap and go out. Not that I love to wear one, but just to save me the time to cover up. Well my aunt just introduced me to this chinese herbal wine thingy that she said might help, so I'm not taking any chances, hopefully I'll see some results soon.

1 down, 1 more to go

Yesterday was the first paper for this semester. It was high vacuum. Don't know if its because I'm taking too little modules this semester or is it because I'm nearing the end of my school life, but this semester has generally been a pretty slack half a year. Usually by this time of the semester I'll be frantically studying and reading and digging into my books, but this semester I'm still playing games and watching TV up till now. Throughout the 25 years of my life I've taken countless exams and test and this has got to be one of the most relaxed exams I've taken in my life. Don't get me wrong, I'm still worried about my results and I'm still studying hard for the papers, only that the feeling thats going into the exams is not exactly the same. Even my mum was telling me last night," I thought you are having exams now, how come always see you watching TV". haha. Well I just hope that this semester will be a good semester. Yesterday I wouldn't say that I did very well, I don't think I managed to write an A paper, so I can only hope for the best.

Anyway just before I left home for the paper yesterday, I took some photos of myself (who else) and some of the things I bring into an exam. I thought it would be interesting to blog about of the exam must-haves for me, and some of the taboos that I have during the exam period. Hmmm lets see if we have anything in common....

One of the must haves in an exam is definitely my water bottle. Don't want to be like thirsty inside. But then again, drinking too much will result in going to the toilet too much during the paper (don't look at me like that, it happened to me before)

Watch. To take note of the time of course. Although there is always a clock in the exam hall, but if you sway sway sit behind the pillar or is too far at the back, you might not be able to see the time. Time management is super important in an exam. (again this happened to me before)

How in the world would anyone go into an exam without a pencil case. Erm I know my pencil case is a little bigger than others, but I prepared everything inside. I think I got at least double of every stationary.

Notes. These are super important especially if its an open book exam. Well if its not, then you can read a little bit of it just before the paper (while ya waiting for the hall door to open), though I do not recommend this. I'm just afraid that I'll see some points that I did not read about before in my whole life.

This is quite important to me. Tissue paper. Sometimes my nose just lose control in the exam hall, and it can get quite messy and irritating when this is not present.

Of course, no exam is complete without Brand's essence of chicken. I must have one of these before the paper. I don't know why, but guess its a tradition thingy.

Never underestimate the power of the air con in the exam hall. Always bring a sweater to guard against the cold. Shivering throughout the paper is not going to help you during the paper in any way. Mmmm I do have a lot of sweaters at home, this is just one of the many. I have this thing about buying sweaters, been telling myself to stop buying (I'm in SG anyway, its like hot here, don't know why I like to buy them so much)

This is me just before I left my place. I took a nerdy photo of myself with the glasses on (I don't wear glasses, those are my dad's glasses, haha), and another photo without the glasses. If there's one thing thats very important during exam days, its grooming. I always take the trouble to make sure that my hair is ok, and that my shirt and jeans match. This is very important during exams, I believe that when I look good, I feel good, annd I'll do better in the paper, hahahaha. Well at least I hope so. I have quite a few taboos for exams, think I'm actually pretty phan tang. Another thing about exams is that I don't cut my finger nails for hair when it is very near the exams (even more so during the exam period). I believe that I know everything at my fingertips, so if I cut my nails, I lose some knowledge. Haha, sometimes I wonder how I manage to come up all this. And I'll always make sure I go to the Guan Yin temple at bugis before the exams to light some joss sticks and pray for the papers. I admit that I'm not a very religious person, I use to attend an Anglican school for 12 years, my kindergarten is in a church, my brother is christian, my family is largely buddhist, I used to go to sunday services of my friend's church (my very good friend, Alvin, who used to ask me along), I go for many of my friend's cell group gathering. From the looks of it, I going in the direction of the chapel, but nooooo, I'm still a free thinker, and I think I'm more inclined towards the buddhist side ( my parents play big part in this). Not only for the exams, usually if there is anything big that's coming up, like our family going for holiday or something like that, I'll go to the Guan Yin temple to pray, just for health and safety. Well it doesn't hurt right.
After the paper we went for kopi (they had lunch/dinner/high tea, whatever you want to call it) at canteen A. DY was eating this steak that he can't bite off, he ending up looking at the chinese ghost with the long tongue 黑白无偿, hahahaha.
So now its just one more paper to go, and thats 14 days aways. Gotta also prepare for my last presentation, just got my date, its on the 7th of May at 1pm. My big day!!!!

IKEA

Today... I mean yesterday I went to my absolute favorite place to study in the east - IKEA Tamp. Love that place. Weekdays are quiet, there's air-con, I get free flow of drinks (I go the IKEA friends card, and the ticketing machine is not working, so all I have to do is flash my card to get a drink, haha, but they are not losing anything for those few cups of drinks rite), there's free parking, its near my house, and did i mention the $1 hotdog. Well you can see that this is the ultimate study place. So why in the world have I been going to Beauty World and school to study for??? Haha. Of course I know the answer, its company. My whole gang is in school these days. Well yesterday Sean joined me in IKEA. Its good to have someone to study with, makes the process less boring. At least when we're bored, we can chat a little. I can say that the trip was pretty effective. I went through quite a few chapters, hopefully can remember what I've studied, haha.

Then when I came home just now, I tried to study another chapter before going to sleep, so that I would have less to cover today, I still remember the section on sorption pumps. Well I thought it looks a little important, so I went ahead to memorise the use of it. Then after that I went to check the notes that my friend wrote. In big words it read," Sorption pumps - Not impt". WTF!! Damn it, wasted my time and brain cells on that topic. Well thats the problem when I don't attend class myself. Ok gotta sleep early (not very, its already like 3am now), another long day today. Today's D-day eve. So I'll have to make my final preparations for the war!!!!

My old blog

Just when I was thinking of why I have been blogging all this while, I came across my old blog. OMG. That was like way back in Sept 2005. That was my very first blog (erm its not like I had many blogs, that was the first, this one that you're looking at is the 2nd, hahaha). Initially when I wanted to get back to blogging, I had considered getting back that blog but I can't find it. I don't know if it was the password or user email I got wrong, but I just couldn't find open it. So just now I just tried to type my old blog address in and I'm so surprise that my blog is still around!!! Was reading through some of the articles that I had written (again about my life then), I was in my second year in university, and it don on me that my life was so bleak then. Most of the articles were so sad and disheartening. OMG. I had such a gloomy life. Well maybe this is the reason why I blog, so that I can have some memories of the past, to remind me of how I felt at this point of time.

Anyway I have no idea how long my old blog will be around still, but the blog address is www.darkwing1983.blogspot.com

Why???

Hmmm, sometimes I really think to myself," Why am I blogging??" I mean I do not have the most exciting life, whenever I'm free nobody ask me out, even the number of phone calls I get are only a fraction of other people. So what is there for me to blog about. I remember when I first had the idea of blogging, I knew that I was going to be lazy after sometime and just quit (which was one reason that delayed my blogging life), and I only wanted this to be an online diary for me to keep track of my life. Just to write down some things that happen in my life, and give me an avenue to bitch about the people around me. And it is precisely this reason that kept me from giving out my blog address to my friends. Everytime someone ask me if I blog, I'll either say nope or that its a private blog. I guess I've seen things through, and now I'm slowly starting to open up just a little. I not as afraid to let others know how I feel and my inner thoughts, and to really find out about me. But now the question is whether it is too little too late. Hmmm.....

Final exams in 3 days!

As the footsteps of my final examinations draw closer, I have also been studying harder (well at least I try to). This semester is a little different, we no longer stick to beauty world as our study hide-out, in fact this year, we rarely go to beauty world. The new kid on the block is NTU canteen B. Its a little bit further than beauty world, but the guys just want to make use of the internet for games. I did take some pics with my phone, so I'll just share some of our study pics here.

Saw this dead rat at the stairway lobby last night at canteen B

These are from beauty world.
My Tazmanian Devil toy

Vivian and Shy

Me taking photos of myself when I'm bored from studying

Shy blocking her face

This looks like the prayer joss sticks, haha.

Tried to get an artistic look from the coffee and coke. Failed!