Late Holiday Post!

So finally, its time for holidays!

There are so many things that I want to do.

I need to meet up with my friends....clear as much of my driving lessons as possible and play my games!! I've gotten so many games but yah... i don't have any time to play at all. You know the feeling of setting up the most powerful computer u ever had in ur life..but not being able to appreciate it fully? its damn sux one ok!

This isn't exactly what I envisioned NUS life to be like. I expected myself to have enough time for my games and for my friends during the non-holiday period. I took up a CCA and I was thinking that if I had time during the holidays..maybe I could work a little to add up to my investment funds. But yah... NUS turned out to be the extreme opposite of what I had expected.

I knew it would be challenging. But I did not expect school to drain me of my life, I had no time for other things besides my GF. I lost touch with my friends. I probably think that they had given up asking me out anymore! I'm always too busy. I used to believe that hard work pays off.. but i think the environment has changed.. hard work doesn't really pay here in nus.. I think in order to do well in NUS u gotta be very well-composed. Some of the papers are set with the intention of killing off 90% of the students... panicking would only make things worse...

I haven't really made any new friends in nus.. I don't find myself happy in school. Joining a CCA did not help as well. I guess I'm too used to SPAC2GO. At least everyone knows each other in there.. I used to look forward to getting my exam results.. now the more i think about it..the more sian i get. People say after army will take some time to get used to studying.. i don't think that is a valid reason... there surely must be a reason why the girls are also struggling right?

I find it really funny. I was telling people how I was looking forward to schooling again while I was still in the army. Everytime our tonner passes by NTU, I would feel happy.. knowing that I would one day be out of the army... and back to school. But come to think of it now, I guess the army is a better place after all. I had time to exercise..to keep fit and I could afford plenty of rest! I had friends in the army, I could still remember all the nights out we had. I miss having pizza at bento box @ jp. And i miss talking crap to my fellow specs. We suffered...but at least we suffered together and we supported each other through the difficult times. In NUS, we suffer together.. but I guess everyone's too occupied to bother helping one another? You don't even feel like getting to know new guys when u are schooling now.

Schooling is messing up my body... In the army, there were also lots of stressful periods. However, we knew that the suffering would end. In NUS, there seems to be no end to the sufferings. You are bombarded by 1 tutorial after another.. and these tuts are not easy. Its not like in the poly days where you could simply do 4 tutorials ahead of class and just go about doing your own studies and slack about.

I miss the sound of firing my 25mm weapon.. I miss the roar of my vehicle as we speed about the training area. I even miss the smell of the jungle in the morning.. you can never find it elsewhere...

Term Break!

I finally got the time to update this blog. So as my msn nick was saying From SP(Study=Pass) to NUS (No Use Studying), I think I sort of screwed up my semester. I made big big mistakes in my 1102 and my maths. I actually got owned by an E maths standard question! So disgraceful lor! wah lan eh.. that kinda of questions give sec3 kid oso can do lor... i duno what the hell i was thinking!

Anyway, actually i don't know I got wad stuff to blog about leh.. I bought a new com that's designed for gaming... but ever since school start..I've not been able to play at all! 0 minutes!! nothing!! no time to play games!! I was only playing the front of crysis. Now crysis warhead out liao!! I still haven't even touched my dear crysis!!!

I've decided to join the school's club for cca. I guess its good to meet people from the same faculty, since it seems that in order to excel in nus...we need more den just hardwork and a thorough understanding of the textbook materials. Networking with people from the same faculty would probably help me understand my seniors experiences in the school. and yeah.. i guess school would be more fun if you knew more people around?

My break is short-lived. still got projects to go... and more tests when sch reopens. I think i got to relac more and work less.. i spend everyday working till abt 1 am+ that everytime i go sch i feel damn tired..end up i fall aslp in class... i think there must be shift in strategy already. I seriously don't know how long i can last in nus.

Ok dats all from me for noW! i'm sleepy! tomorrow when i wake up..is another day of work for me.. work never ends...

NUS Rag And Flag + NDP 08

My OG 2gether with the SOC float

Orientation week is finally over now. I just realised how rusty I am when it comes to tech-related work. While trying to format the pic above, I switched to the HTML view of blogspot's UI. I realised that things have really changed quite a lot? HTML is like v5.0 already? I think so..I've seen a reference book that teaches HTML 5. Everything is now based on CSS. Looks like I have lots of catching up to do!

Anyway, how was orientation? It was ok. I did not fun it very exciting nor was it like boring or a waste of time. It was just so-so lor. But yeah, I got high during the final few days of orientation and I started a spree of rock-scissors-paper.

So finally, our OGL asked if we would like to help with float preparation. As usual, everyone was undecided. I guess we probably didn't mind helping out, but we just don't have the guts to make the decision for the team? You never know if anyone seriously don't want to help out and stuff..and we like inadvertedly sabo them into helping? So yeah, dear friend eugene came out with a wonderful suggestion. He suggested that we decide by 1 round of rock-scissors-paper. If I won, we help~ else we dun help. So yeah... judging from the photograph above, you know what was the outcome.=P

So yeah, we played those usual group orientation kind of games till about 1 or 2am where we started to shift the float. It was $#@!$#@%. Having to push the thing from School Of Computing to the Field near Yusoff Ishak House. The thing wasn't very light and there were mulitple upslopes that made the journey really really 'unfriendly'. So yeap, due to the fact that the float had to be shifted in the 'am', we did not bathe. It felt a bit 'army-ish', I brushed up my teeth and washed my face while the rest did nothing! I forgot about bringing my own powder again! Else I would have powder bathed at least.

Basically, after the float reached the destination.. I just sleep all the way lar.. I heard from the rest of the guys that I even slept tru the whole national anthem. Erm...ok. That was a bit bad..but yeah..not intentional one !! The rest of the float thing involved us being in the hot sun pushing the float around and waiting to go home while the rest of the so-called volunteers pangseh the poor float team. But yeah, the sian thing was that we did not have lunch till like 4 to 5pm? I think the float guys totally overlooked the fact that time should be set aside for us to eat or maybe that they should at least ta pao some solid food for us? Eating marshmellows + twisties + gummy bears for lunch is not good! The day ended with us going to vivo and consuming lunch/dinner at 4 to 5pm.

Us at Vivo at the end of Day

But yeah. Anyway, I went with Joan to catch the fireworks at NDP2008 today. We happened to find a wonderful spot by the padang area as we were intending to walk towards marina sqr to catch the fireworks. We came across the young ntuc NDP celebrations. They happened to have the NDP broadcast projected onto a huge outdoor screen. So we sort of planted ourselves there knowing we could probably catch the fireworks while being able to view the broadcast at the same time.

The screen at NTUC Celebrations

So yeap, the place was perfect except for the family that was next to me. The parents were smoking lor... Smoke already nvm..they dun care where the smoke end up. Seriously, the place quite pack lor...still smoke what shit? Want to smoke smoke when little people around la? Don't need so buay zhidong right? Somemore they were with their kid. probably 3 or 4 year old only!? Bad parents...i hate it when parents expose their kids to 3rd party smoke.its the most irresponsible thing to do.

Anyway, this year fireworks not v good. Not like last year where they spammed lots and lots of it. But yeah, I spent too much time focusing on the camera that I did not really get to appreciate the fireworks...But yeah, still good time spent with joan despite the fact that I got too engrossed with the cam.

One of the better shots.

So yeap.. The day ended with us moving through the crowds, we were intending to catch the NEL train back to S'goon. Guess what? While walking back, some idiotic kids were smoking again-_-. I seriously think the govt should pass a new law that prohibits smoking in all areas,whether indoors or not, where there is a crowd of people packed tightly together. Firstly, these people are being irresponsible by exposing others to 2-nd hand smoke. 2ndly, people were so tightly packed together..what if someone gets burnt by the cig? These people really make my blood boil lor..ccb pple.

Ok..i shall end my entry here...gotta game nw... want to enjoy a little b4 sch starts!

First Post After 2 Years of No-Updates

I'm finally back to blogging again. I just like the feeling of having an outlet for typing in things that I am thinking about, that's why I decided to restart my blog. My previous blog http:\\vehement86.blogspot.com is still around..just that I can no longer log into it as I am unable to create a google account with the previous blog.

Anyway, anyone wonders why the address is called fc-needs-chill-pill? I just couldn't think about any other names and yah, I've been thinking that a blog would be a good place to let out my frustrations if I were to be really dulan~ so yeap~ in a way..typing in this blog would serve as a 'chill-pill' to calm myself down?

This blog is also intended to keep people updated with what I'm thinking and how I'm feeling. Since people have been saying that they do not know what's going on in my mind as I'm like always drifting away in my own thoughts.

So yes, 2 years have passed and I'm now out of the army! It was tough but yah, somehow I enjoyed it. I shall reserve my comments about my time in the army in a separate post. I actually gotta sleep soon as I have to wake up for NUS' flag day tomorrow!

I had just attended about half of my orientation week. I think I'm starting to have the kind of feeling again. I don't know how to describe it, its just a feeling that I'm in a familiar place. Knowing that I'm back in school and probably doing the things that I like to do? The only thing is that the uni-environment feels a lot more uncaring. Not much assistance is rendered to us by the lecturers. There are no longer fixed classes and we got to actually bid for the moduels we want to study. While this gives us the feeling of independence and the power of flexibility, it makes me feel somehow 'naked'. It's like we're to used to having see the same bunch of people for all our classes while in poly, and now we will not be having any fixed classes at all? My poly lecturers used to chat a lot with us and be-friend us, even gave me lots of good advices, I just don't feel the same here. The university does an acceptable job by making all the relevant information available online. However, there is one thing known as information overload. Information is readily available,but its splattered everywhere and is pretty hard to digest for the newbies.

The people that I met during orientation are also pretty different from the friends that I know from the 21 years of my life. While some are normal(in comparison to my other friends), I've got some pretty exaggerated characters in my OG. I don't know, I'm not the super-enthu kind of person. And I really don't understand the need for such vehement enthusiasm. In fact, I do find it irritating. But yah, that's the way people are and its not wrong that they are like that? Its just that everyone is different. It's something we got to live with.

Judging from the way the professors talk and from what the dear seniors have said. I would guess that live in NUS will probably be much more than a simple stroll in the park. I would be very busy when school starts, I had successfully bidded for 2 modules that the seniors have mentioned as 'killers'. In fact, they had advised against me taking these 2 modules simultaneously as they do not think that I could cope. I just hope that they are wrong and that I have what it takes to pull through. I need to clear as much as I can, being a poly-guy who's so-called inserted into the 2 year(even though that's not really the case). And I seriously need the CAP of 3.5, else bad stuff would happen.

Anyway, I gotta go already..need to slp early for tomorrow's flag day!

I stumbled accross this while looking at my pic collection.tot I would upload it up here, looks pretty nice imo. and its probably one of the last shots of the national stadium as they're going to tear it down realli soon. This was taken during the SG VS SAUDI ARABIA match sometime ago.