Entropy

Daily Ramblings, Interesting Stuff, News July 31st, 2006 @ 2032h

According to wikipedia, the Second law of thermodynamics states that “The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value.” It means, in English, that it just gets easier and easier to mess up!

And such is the state of our current world! Why does Israel have to start another war? Why does North Korea want to test fire its missles? Why does Pakistan want to develop a new nuclear plant? Why do terrorists want to wreck havoc? What a messed up world!

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  • Kai Lee: No la… we can have picnic instead of the boring BBQs and stuff for a change. AND NO I NEVER MUG! REALLY!
  • lelousy: hmm… lazy to watch =P
  • Yvonne: No thanks. I don’t ever want to become one.

Anyway, an interesting email:

Dear all,

FYI, don’t miss out the greatest opportunity.

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting
August.It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.This
will cultimate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of
earth.

Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am.

It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Share this with ur friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.

And today is Chinese Valentine’s Day!
This happened in 2003.

English as it is broken

Music, School July 30th, 2006 @ 2113h

Slacked the whole weekend away. I didn’t mug ,okay?

Cosiety was featured today in Sunday Times’ Life section. And John, my OGL too! Thinking back, I didn’t really enjoy the orientation and felt pretty negative about the school at first. I guess things changed for the better now.

Something of interest for today would be the new “English as it is broken” section for every week’s Sunday Times. Nice way to fix up our bad English and make Mr Kan happy.

9 more days to National Day. Yea!

Actually I don’t have much to blog about… but since CS asked me to “go blog la”, I did. =)

Sakura by NIRGILIS
Cherry blossom to wherever
Say goodbye to your faltering voice and fall in love
Cherry blossom, cherry blossom
Forget all my tears and fall in love right now
Will it reach you?

The Woes of PW IV

Anime & Manga, School July 29th, 2006 @ 2049h

Probably not a woe but… we got a positive feedback for interview from SMRT =) Thus proves what we learnt in economics is true. Monopolies make no effort to improve their services and it’s usually the smaller companies who are more willing to do so. Thank you SMRT!

College day today. Managed to get through the whole thing with volume 11 & 12 of Death Note. It takes very long to finish reading one volume.

And ZOMG, according to DeathGod.org, there are plans to show the Death Note Live Action movie here! This is one movie I’d not miss. =)

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The New Paper

Anime & Manga, Daily Ramblings, Music, School July 28th, 2006 @ 1948h

I’ve not had a liking for The New Paper for the longest time ever.

Remember the lecher? Well apparently, the New Paper sent reporters to shoot photos of VJ girls’ skirts for a nice scoop. This is absurdly disgusting. Further proves my point the New Paper is just a waste of money reporting on “news” that does not matter. We shall see how it goes.

It’s college day tomorrow. I don’t know how I am going to spend the 4 hours sitting in LT1 “watching” the ceremony. Mug? No thanks. Perhaps I could bring some comics to read. =)

If an endless sadness should surround us,
let’s hold each other as we wait for morning
I wonder if someday we can forgive even the irreparable scars
With a smile that hasn’t changed since that day…

Midsummer night dream

ZOMG, Bulbasaur is today’s Wikipedia featured article!?

The Woes of PW III

Daily Ramblings, School July 26th, 2006 @ 1950h

SBS replied to our questions, telling us to refer to their websites for more information. Great. It’s obvious that they didn’t even bother to read our email.

To be continued…

More things to ramble on. Looks like this blog is the target of some spam bots posting SPAM comments. Thanks to askimet, wordpress filtered all of them.

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BANNED IP: 205.134.172.*

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Class Photos

Photos July 25th, 2006 @ 2218h

Courtesy of Zwing =)

Click here!

Lunar Seventh Month & CNA mess up

General, Interesting Stuff July 25th, 2006 @ 2029h

It’s the start of an extended seventh month on the lunar calendar today. This also signifies the start of the Hungry Ghost Festival.

I used to be terrified of the seventh month every year during my primary school days. I would have up to a week’s notice of the month’s arrival. I would lie in my bed, cowering in fear, everytime I go to sleep. I paid extra care to watch what I say during this time period. To sum it up, I was scared.

These few years, I have not been noticing the arrival of this month, which is good since it just shows that I no longer care, and I only realized it today that it was already the seventh month when I saw people burning stuff at the void deck of my house.

Anyway, on a ligher note… Channel News Asia mess up!


From Tomorrow.sg.

And… courtesy of Zwing…
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Bus Rides

Daily Ramblings, Interesting Stuff July 24th, 2006 @ 2050h

Just when I thought I had run out of things to blog about, fate (or Ka as Roland Deschain would say) throws me two unnerving and interesting bus rides to spice up my life.

On-board 197, there was this man, of age 40-50 I guess, who kept on whistling the tune of birds intermittently. I thought it was okay at first, but when you have to stay on a bus for 30 minutes for more, it becomes not okay. If I were the Bus Uncle, I might have gone up to his face and bellowed “I have stress, you have stress so why are whistling?”

Next came 21, dubbed the Ghost Bus. I went up the bus to find a scene right out of a movie; it was like the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean I” when the captain of the Black Pearl told Elizabeth to start believing in ghost stories because she was in one; basically, it felt like a ghost story – save for the atmosphere. The lights of the bus were flickering and went out intermittently (note the intermittent events that keep happening).

Stolen from Shi Yun:

slacker (lvl1) – do nothing, never listen in lecture, flip notes before exam
smart slacker (lvl1.5) – similar to slacker, but somehow does irritatingly well in everything, hated by lvl 2, 3, 4 and 5. otherwise termed ‘closet mugger’, ‘secret mugger’, ‘damn gay guy’ (according to VS ppl), ‘smart as*’ etc. etc.

normal (lvl 2) – sometimes do tutorial, sometimes never do, will study a bit before exams.

mugger (lvl3) – will do tutorial, die die will study by doing tys, 100% study like siao before exams

super mugger (lvl 4) – confirm do tutorial & tys & past-year exam papers of your school, study like no tmr for exams. (ie. sleep max 4hrs/day. mug during break. turn down all movie/outing invitations to stay at home to mug. mug in the toilet, during meals, on the bus, and even dream about maths when you are sleeping)

ultimate mugger (lvl 5 = highest lvl attainable, for now, until i think of what other stuff an ultimate mugger can do…) – do tutorials and tys and past year papers a few times until you can memorise the qn and get full marks, still 3 mths before ANY exam, by hook or by crook (ie. trade, buy, bribe, beg, steal etc. etc.) get other schools’ papers and THEIR past year papers and SOLUTIONS and NOTES etc. etc. then try everything and eventually write your own notes that comprises of EVERYTHING you need to know (includiung stuff that only has 1% chance of coming out in exams, examples – fully explained, tough problems and 5 possible solutions to each of them, must-have summary, and an essential content page cause the notes will be thicker than Sloman’s book ^^) to get 100% (not just A) for every subject (yes, including GP). Oh and btw, the ultimate mugger will guard his/her notes in a safe and won’t give anybody else his/her notes to ensure that he/she enjoys major ownage over the whole school. ^^ oh and max sleeping time is still 4 hours, but minimum is 0…

I guess I am at level 2…

To end off, Happy Birthday Mum!

EQ

Interesting Stuff July 23rd, 2006 @ 2022h


Your EQ is 140


50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you’d have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You’ve got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You’re average. It’s easy to predict how you’ll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities – you’ve either out “Dr. Phil-ed” Dr. Phil… or you’re a dirty liar.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Daily Ramblings, Movies July 23rd, 2006 @ 1931h

Finally caught Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. It’s not bad, just that it was too long. The humour from the first movie was still there along with the play of words. The movie was funny though the plot wasn’t that great.

I can’t seem to catch what the characters are saying at some points. The accent was so weird that I simply couldn’t understand. This is one movie I can’t watch without subtitles

Oh yea, the soundtrack is good too. Johnny Depp’s acting is still good.

Anyways, I have been going swimming at the pool near my house and there has been many times when I met with some rather inconsiderate swimmers. It became a game of dodging as I had to weave in and out of these people who don’t bother to look where they are swimming. Including a few VJ people I saw today at the pool. Some time ago, there was this bunch of japanese perhaps who swam horizontally across the pool instead of the usual laps. I almost banged into one of them as they swam across without looking.

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