Inertia !

I've lost the liberty of doin' all the things I've always been doin' or have always wanted to do ever since school's started. I guess it's because of a packed schedule, unsettled responsibilities, the dying eagerness to do well for this term's mods, meeting so many people and alot of unnecessary self-inflicted worries. Get a life, ernie...just get your stuff done with and quit worrying!

These days, instead of reading some of my fav books on my train-rides to and back from school, i've been coercing myself to read my textbooks. Damn i hate tellin' myself this is the kinda stuff i should enjoy reading and then lug them to and fro school without even turning a page sometimes. And the damn locker supplier hasn't issued lockers yet and it's already the 2nd week of schooL! what the duck!?!

And I was supposed to be doin' 4 mods so that i can 'better focus on getting better grades for each of them', but something JX said kept me disturbed for awhile. He said it was just an excuse and I would end up slackin' away the extra time off my 5th mod eventually. Oh wellz, he has a point there really...so i decided to bid for one more module - Computer as an Analysis Tool. I quite like it in fact, ha..should start coaxing myself to like all these subjects. It's just the mugging part that's damn sian.

And then there's the smu squash recruitment drive. Some of our members have put in a lot of effort at the CCA carnival aka Vivace hoping to attract more people to commit themselves to the club, but so far response has been lacklustre. I guess this is what happens in the world everyday. Businesses don't do well because they didn't market themselves correctly, so it's def gonna take a considerable amount of effort to keep the smu squash club up and going. Things should get more organized hopefully as time goes by. I especially appreciate all the efforts and support some of the members have given for the club. And here's what we've designed in our recruitment mailer:
Dear ernie is still trying to find time to have fun...frisbee, softball, M.I.C, kayaking, project kampuchea, KTV, drinking sessions, birthday celebrations, mahjong blah blah.. Perhaps all it takes is just a little bit more of time management.

Hmm..and very glad Dad's smiling more these days. I hope I don't get too oblivious of matters at home man...still need to psychologically help my dad thru' this difficult phase of life.

Oh man...so many thingS!!!! Who ever said growing up was easY?



~*treasuring my sleeping hours each n everyday
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hello, i am uncle lim.

My eldest cousin just had a little party at my estate function room in celebration of her daughter's one-month birthday.

Here's little Liying, the latest addition to my extended family on my mom's side...and first of the 4th generation, which suddenly makes me feel damn old la.



And meet one of liying's other uncles, junming - my 3rd uncle's son. I still can rem carrying this young rascal in my arms not long ago actually.


4th Aunt & baby liying


Mom and baby liying


I think by the end of next yr, there'll be a few more additions to the 4th generation from some of my other cousins.

It's amazing how your age catches up on you and change your life completely in a matter of a few years. This was what i saw in my older cousins, and perhaps in myself real soon. You mug like mad in university, graduate and go out and look for a job, find a girl of your liking, work hard in your career, marry the girl, work even harder, shag the girl and produce a miniature version of yourself or your girl, work even harder for milk-powder money, shag the girl again and produce another mini-me etc...

Oh man, where's all the fun man?...can hardly squeeze them into the spaces among that chain of words. Just exactly what is life all about man? Is producing a mini-me an eventuality? What am i living the next 10 yrs of my life for?














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A smashing start!

Today is the first day of my second academic year in SMU!...met up with a couple of my freshies for lunch after my marketing class and am right now chilling out to some class95 music in one of those group study rooms, waiting for my Applied Econometrics class in an hour's time....hope AE's not gonna be as boring as last term stats' class man...i'm already getting damn sleepy now..

Received the my ACCA results via email just minutes before the marketing class this morning. Was actually quite worried when i opened the mail...but hengz ah..i passed both papers i sat for...so happy now...still got 3 papers before i graduate with the whole cert....am suddenly very motivated and driven!

Hope things will just get better and better both in sch and at home.


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~saying goodbye

Today is my last day at work at my dad+cousin+uncle's frozen food warehousing company. My duties have been fully discharged and whatever's left has been handed over to the relevant employees. It's been quite a different experience working with the drivers and the storemen. You learn how to appreciate their brashness and complete disregard for redtapes, houserules and paperwork in order to get things done efficiently. And also, when you respect them, they will respect you. It's very important to be on talking terms with people who're the pillars of strength in your company's core operations. It's also quite a challenge shouldering the responsibility of managing a few hundred thousand dollars worth of customers' goods in an extremely harsh working environment (-18 deg celcius coldrooms!), part of which is what auditors do during inventory stocktaking...so chances of me becoming an auditor in the future are kinda remote liao.

I'd especially want to thank the ops manager for his kindness and welfare and also to my cousin aka da boss for bringing me around to places where there're learning opportunities, and also granting me an internet connection in the office, generous paycheques and super-flexible working hours~! WOots!

I wish sch didn't have to start so early man.

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Am also quite sad i've to leave Kudo-san's japanese class permanently to attend the saturday afternoon one instead cos of my tuesday squash trainings and my arrangement for a 3-day week. Learning jap under her was damn fun la...she'll make fun of our jap mispronunciations and talk nonsense once in a while. I wonder how the new teacher Nakamura-san is like but since saturday's gonna be a super-packed class, i bet the attention every student gets from the teacher is gonna be very minimal, unlike in Kudo-san's class. In any case, i hope there's a chance to take classes under Kudo-san in the future.

Two days left before the school term officially kicks off!
*vroom vroom*

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卡拉永遠 OK!

KTV@MarinaSquare

K 歌一族


bean 小孩

K 歌之王
(Catch him on the next season of Project Superstar!)

“我家的母老虎！我家的母老虎！”

情歌對唱

卡拉永遠 OK!

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二十二

What an appropriate song for my b-day...

二十二

词:陶喆娃娃曲:陶喆

春天是他最爱的季节
当微风随意吹乱他的头发
他并不在意身边世界的吵杂
只想著自己生命中的变化
还有十五分钟才午休
从早到晚没有想像中那么好过
安定的日子不一定就是幸福
忘不掉他在心里做过的梦

他今年农历三月六号刚满二十二
刚甩掉课本要离开家看看这世界
却发现许多烦恼要面对
oh yeah
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他就像一朵蓓蕾满怀希望

秋天是忽然间就来临
青春虽然有本钱可以洒脱
一场恋爱二十二个月就结束
才知道有些感情不值得赌
九月天气还是有点热
他想公车再不来就走一走路
他开始明白等待未必有结果
一个人也能走上梦的旅途

他今年农历三月六号刚满二十二
刚甩掉课本要离开家看看这世界
却发现许多烦恼要面对
oh yeah
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他一直满怀希望

人生偶尔会走上一条陌路
像是没有指标的地图
别让他们说你该知足
只有你知道什么是你的幸福
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他笑著想过未来
oh 他应该得到幸福
如此的简单的梦
有没有实现

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NDP ushering

It was quite an experience doin' NDP ushering as a student volunteer. I've already done it twice (last yr and tis yr). Before that, I've only been to NDP once, and that was during my JC days when I was hosting an exchange student from Taiwan and part of his programme was to attend the Singapore NDP.

I must say it really isn't easy to do crowd control. You have people yelling at you, disobeying directions and accusing you of giving preferential treatment to others. But the flipside is that an usher gets to watch NDP for free, make frens with fellow schoolmates and NDP participants and observe the way people plan and manage huge events like NDP.

But i guess the thing i value most at NDP is still the fun element...

NDP video clips

Took some video clips at NDP 2006....







arrggh..youtube didn't show the full dimension of the videos taken, and hence only part of the fireworks were shown in each video... sigh

My first serious crush...

Saw my JC heartthrob and her boyfren on the train today...and then it all started coming back to me...those good old days when i attended all her school band performances and admired how she played the flute so elegantly and gracefully.

Somehow the 'crush' concept doesn't get beyond JC...i guess it's just how we view liking someone as part of our growing up .... In retrospect, i can't help but laff at how shy and silly and unskilled i was at going after gals...blame it on my all-boys sec sch environment? or me being too much of myself?
haha...

Ha, the weird thing is this heartthrob of mine is in SMU too...will bump into her once in a while and nothing goes beyond hi and bye....ha i think she knew i was head over heels for her before.....damn paiseh la!

*blushing liao*


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More pics from OIKOS!

Thank you Yn Ay, for all the memorable shots!


Flour frenzy!


say cheese!

















STRIKING RESEMBLANCE EH?

















Danny Ocean (2nd from left) and Ocean's 13.
...Opening summer 2007



Grand finale night...



We actually won the best cheer award. It goes like this (with a bangla accent)

圓的不拿扁的拿
扁的不拿圓的拿
圓的拿
扁的拿
圓的扁的都要拿
*Repeat ENDIA!

Thanks to mag, for the absolutely wacky idea...and also Adrian! for his wonderful performance as the endian dancer/coconut tree.

*still experiencing post-orientation blues*

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ENDIA!

Ha, courtesy of Timothy from teckwee's OG...managed to get a group picture of my own OG (Endia). This was taken just before dispersal. Look at how delightful everyone was when they screamed ENDIA!



There's one more grp pic of everyone with flour on his/her face...will post a few more when i get them from the planning comms.

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The Lake House

This is one show in which you shouldn't dwell too deep into its logic and sequence of events. The idea of getting engaged in a love episode across time is definitely not original. Somewhere In Time, Kate & Leopold, The Time-Traveller's Wife，Il Mare etc are all written using this time-assisted technique.

I generally quite enjoy the show perhaps out of sheer boredom, or just cos i'm a sucker for romance flicks. And I personally think keanu reeves n sandra bullock really make an excellent movie couple...Lots of cheesy lines expressed in their letters to each other...nice soundtracks, light humor and simple setting.

I would prefer to see The Time-traveller's Wife made into a film though.


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& what's left of the holz...

It's work and more work..all kinds of work....my temp job, planning of squash activities, renewal of uni+vantage contracts, final ndp ushering...

Still trying to find time to do things that i won't getta do when school starts....mahjong n more mahjong, catching up with frens whom i haven't met for ages, KTVing, watching good some good old movies, reading books that i've always wanted to read, sleeping, gyming and possibly a weekend diving trip. It's time to pick up my racket as well...have been really out of touch with the game.

And then my ACCA results for the previous exam will be released on the first day of school. Let's hope i can start my second year in SMU on an inspiring note...definitely not gonna let my tumultous first year repeat itself in complete shambles.

And last but not least, I hope Papa sees each n everyday more positively as he tries to lead his normal life again.

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What's gone...

Econs orientation camp is gone. I really miss the fun of working together with the orientation team, scaring the shit out of the freshies at the fort canning night walk, and watching my freshies perform silly charades across a 5-lane road. And i've absolutely no idea why i got the most caring facilitator award. I knew what i've done and i couldn't convince myself of this nobility. Still trying to find out who're the ones who said I got a brotherly look...haha.

The bulk of my temp warehousing job is gone, although I really didn't getta learn much beyond the operations. I guess I was just getting paid to make life easier for everybody, a pity I didn't getta help much with my cousin's setting up of the new trading branch. Learning opportunities are aplenty, as quoted fr my "Mgt of People at Work" course, it's worth the effort to take on stretch assignments once in a while.

The second term of my japanese lesson is gone. Gonna be doin' my final jap exam this thursday and im not exactly prepared for it yet. And this is where I have to rethink abt this self-proclaimed passion.

The first few NDP sessions are gone. Somehow, NDP's no longer interesting to me anymore. I couldn't even be bothered about the show itself, but that's exactly what's required of ushers-to just pay attention to the crowd and not the show. Made a few frens here and there. Watching the fireworks alone at one corner...sigh.

I guess that pretty much summarizes all the things I did after my ACCA exams ended. Sad huhz..


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