Jamming+Basketball+Soccer= -..-

Today is a super slack day even though its a regular school day. Syllabus for maths done, so i guess no need to go for lectures. The RWP lesson, luckily, I did not attend. Earns told me the teacher just used her laptop and sipped coffee only. Total waste of time.

So, the first thing I did was to join Earns, JQ and JianLiang at FC1 for breakfast. After breakfast, everyone sabo'ed Earns to JianLiang's class! Oh God, NahSiep! Later, the 4 of us joined Darren and Manji for a 2 hr Jamming session at Moberly. I must say, Manji is damn good with the base guitar, Darren is good at almost everything... drums, piano and the electric guitar is his forte. Earns is only good at screaming.. thats all... nothing else! =P

At about 1pm, the 3 of them headed down to my house for slack time and 18-jin bu jin part 14. And, I noticed that everytime JQ comes to my house, he would flop on my bed for a good afternoon nap. Snores loud too!

After slacky hour, we headed back to school for the Project 2 interview. 1 word to describe it: Disaster. Summerised, short and sweet.

After the Project 2 lesson, the 3 of us (JQ went to meet Tiff) headed down to the basketball court. Together with WeiJie, XiaoJian and ShengYe, we played till about 5 plus. After that, JL, Earns and me had dinner at KFC.

After dinner, Darren and Manji came to pick us up in Darren's minivan. Cool van, blasting trance anthem with subwoffer! Rocks absolutely! We went to the clementi street soccer court to sweat it out. After the game, I was totally shagged out. And the most unfortunate thing that happened was JianLiang losing his phone. Luckily it seems that someone in school got it. And both parties came to an agreement to meet at SPGG tomorrow at 3pm for JL to get back his phone. With that aside, we went to have some ice kacang nearby and its home sweet home for me.

Jamming+Basketball+Soccer= -..-

Something quite random... That is, a still shot of myself in mid-air kicking the basket ball off JiaQing's neck. Super high-risk manouvre...

18 禁不禁

Below(L-R): PeiPei, XiaoXin, DiQiu, YouJia, AhJie, Qiao and AhBi (the tomboy HaoZi missing)

I am a person who doesn't watch chinese drama serials on TV. True enough. But this Taiwanese drama caught my attention, and ya, its not from the TVs. It can be downloaded from the internet.

18 Jin Bu Jin is about the lives and happenings of 17-18 years old teenagers going through college in Taiwan. The show is full of deliberate blunders that will guarentee make you smile. At times, it can also be touching too. Each episode is about an hour and 20 minutes long. Currently, the show is into its 13th epidode and the 14th episode is slated to come out tomorrow (that is, me and my friends go to the computer club o watch it).

Must watch!

Review at: http://movies.xunlei.com/movies/38/37382.html

Laptop formatted the second time. And hopefully, this time round, nothing crops up. Still, I've got problems retaining my MSN contacts in their respective groups. Apparently, whenver I login my MSN, all my contacts would be re-grouped back to "other contacts", and rearranging them is starting to get on ly nerves.
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The AS retest I took today was kinda hard as compared to the initial paper. All I want is just 80 marks and above; nothing more.

I'm Bringing My Laptop Back To The Doctor Again...

Below: Tecky and JoJo
Below: Kev and Dan

Below: Everyone still has a childish side in them

Below: Friendship lasts ^^

This particular entry is early in the morning 4.15am on a beautiful sunday after I retyped the entire 1st draft for the RWP Report...

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Yesterday morning till early afternoon, I spent time trying to recover more lost data for my computer. Thanks dear for sending me lots of pictures and several songs that I need. Although I was unable to recover all of them, I am happy that at least some of them are retrieved. Prior to that I got many essential programs up and running (Firefox, MSN, Maplestory). My laptop seems to be in good shape...

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Later in the afternoon, I met up with the all the available Mortar chaps for dinner at Suntec City. The agenda for the outing was to meet up with Johannes, who's currently in Singapore and is going back to Indonesia during late August. Really, it has been quite some time since I hang out with the whole bunch. Li Yang told me that he was in the organizing committee for the Funkamania 08 event that is slated to happen at Takashimaya, and he required our support; Can't wait to find out more of it. Tecky is having so much fun with his Cheerleading activities. Feng, Daniel Lim and Geoff were doing part time job at Suntec city about a couple of weeks ago and judging from their experiences with other happening people, they must have had a good time working there! How I wish that the Poly school term is in sync with that of the Universities. We had dinner at Carl's Jr. After dinner we hit the arcade and after that, we chatted and slacked at the Ya Kun outlet there.

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Once I got home about 12am, I got a rude shock. I discovered that my laptop was not in my room. Instead it was on Ju's table. And the screen displayed alarming warnings of spyware, malware and trojan attacks! The total number of malicious codes numbered at 36! Also, several seemingly unreliable anti-spyware and anti-virus programs appeared on my desktop. I deleted most of them. However, one of the programs somehow found a way to get itself embedded into the system. I tried all ways to get rid of it but to no avail. Thus I decided to virus-scan all my personal files and coursework and saved them in a uncorrupted folder. Following that, I plan to save that folder in a exteral hard disk and get my laptop reformatted again to get rid if the embedded spy/malwares and trojan; tentatively this Wednesday.

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Naturally, I was pissed. But admitedly, I don't dare vent my anger on Ju eventhough those programs were evidently downloaded while I was not at home. When Ju went off for supper, I just kept on complaining and ranting curses while my mom tried to calm me down. Eventually I settled down and started doing my report for the next 4 hours. Quarreling doesn't seem to be my forte anymore. A sign of weakness? Throughout my whole course of study, my laptop had been more or less free from such malicious problems. I just couldn't believe that it struck once I had my computer formatted. I though of changing my password and keeping the laptop usage exclusively for myself. The temptation is so compelling... But I figured, just because of this problem, I cannot be selfish to my younger brothers, right?

My Laptop Crashed

The functionality of my laptop came to a halt last night and it cause me to temporary lose mood in my studies. The problem seem to start when I decided to delete 11GB worth of games (Neverwinter Nights and NSF Carbon). NWN was successfully uninstalled. However, as the NSF is a pirated copy that does not require a disc to run, and also it lacks the uninstallation file, I just clicked the delete option. Files that are of the "xxx.dll" seems critical. But i thought since its under those games folders, they could only be critical to the games. Delete anyway...After that, I did a disk defragmentation on my C drive, following that, I did scandisk and then the virus scan. During the virus scan, I left the laptop running and went to the kitchen to make supper. After eating, I came back and to my horror, my computer was in critical mode and it just shut off before my eyes! I tired to revive my computer for 2 hours, but failed. In the end, I just gave up and went to sleep.

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The next day, I brought my sick laptop to see the doctor. I explained to the technician all my problems. She got a disk labeled "winternal" and tried to fix my laptop. She seemed to get into some difficulties and she got this indian guy to help. I told the indian guy to preserve my D Drive as all my critical data are all inside it. Then, he programmed something in my computer and did the reformatting process. While waiting, I chatted with a student helper about the games in my computer. The surprising thing he told me was that NSFC had a malicious virus that would trigger whenever the user deletes the game from the computer! I don't know how true was that! The reformatting process would take about an hour. In the meantime, I followed Earns, JQ and See Kiang to FC2 for breakfast. After breakfast, I headed back to the service center. After the formatting has been done and the systems finally booting up, I did all the necessary programming of the system files needed to connect to the school network. But, I can't seem to find all my personal data in the D Drive. I feel that the indian guy made a mistake and did a full format of my laptop. When the other technicians asked him, he pushed the blame to the other student helper! Fucktard!

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Losing all my personal information and data in my Laptop and reformatting it all over again is just like moving into a new house without all your belongings... Just got this pissed-off feeling that I must try to install all the necessary programs back to my reformatted laptop. (Anti-virus, School Network Files, Printer Files, Samsung PC suite files, MSN, etc...) Also, all my school work and course resources were gone; need to go to blackboard to get most of them back. Unretrievable items such as RWP, I have to start from scratch.

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Perhaps the most painful is losing all my Music and Picture files. They really mean a lot to me. And now I don't know weather to blame myself for being so itchy-handed *delete button-happy*, or should I blame that Indian technician for this mess.

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Anyway, I thought maybe I should get an external drive to back-up my information. Last time, I had faith that I would take care of my laptop and that it won't crash. I was wrong... The unexpected can strike. Johannes is in Singapore, so I guess while on outing tomorrow with everyone, I should go check it out.

FukTards...

Yea, very funny; laugh all you want. Retards we may be, but it takes a hell of an amount of courage to dare to emulate all you young and pretty sweet 16-ers out there! To all you she-posers out there, this is how u look in your own photograph. I can see that you take so much effort to open your beady eyes as well as to contort your lips and cheeks to look as if you choked in a fishball. But still, it looks shitty... *shut-up!* *enough!* *ZIP!*

Last night was my 1st outing to the Rush private party at Teddy Tez . And its kinda my 1st time organizing it coz last night was the Last dance there. Got Melvin to come and roped in JiaQing, Cheng Earn and Kenneth and also Marie. A pity that people like Sam, MingDa, JianLiang, Sotong, Sam and his girlfriend could not make it. But more or less I was happy especially that JiaQing and ChengEarn could come.

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But its a pity that we stayed till about 1.30am only. Marie seems like she wasn't feeling well and JQ gotta go KTV with his cousin.

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Thinking about the past years where I frequent techno clubs island wide, this culture is really going to die out one day. Hopefully either me or Melvin hit the big sweep 1st prize of 10 million bucks and we would reopen Sparks disco! Lose money nevermind, its our passion! Dream!

Sleep Like Pig!

Recently, I have developed a nasty habit of waking up late, especially during weekdays. Most of the time, I'd be late for less than half an hour. On occasions, I would miss the entire lesson! The worst case that happened to me was me missing out on one of my test papers. As a result, I had to undertake many troublesome administrative procedures just to get the re-test I badly wanted.

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Yesterday morning (thursday morning), I missed my lecture once again. I'm really scared another warning letter arrives to my house and I would suffer the wrath of my dad.

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Damn good sleeper... even my alarm could not move me from my bed... Maybe I should just get my mom to wake me. Or maybe I should just get 5 more big alarm clocks...

In times of pain and in times of grief

In times of tears when I don't belive

I can lose my hope

I can lose my faith

I can lose my dignity

But there's one thing I can count on

I'll always

always

always...

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have you...

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Stay happy always =)

AS MST Restest!

Finally, as if prayers were answered, and after nights of sleeplessness, after the troubles of the Office Admin, my Peer tutor, my A.S. tutor, and most of all, the company of my 2 buddies, I was allowed to sit for the AS MST retest! When I got the LOA back, I heaved`a sigh of relief and flopped myself on the couch in the office! Seems like I impressed the Vice-Director with my honesty and my persistance. Nevertheless, the test is happening in about another 2 weeks time and I got to refresh my memory before sitting for it.

Does Honesty Still Exist?

The first thing I did in the morning when I reached school was going down to the PEEE office to find out weather my LOA was accepted by the vice director. Apperently, and sadly, it wasn't. I was feeling down. The feeling was made worse during the tutorial lessons, when the test scripts were returned to the students. Everyone was more or less satisfied and/or elated with their results. A huge portion of the class had their marks in the 90s. Even JiaQing and Cheng Earn got their As! (No offence to my bros, because they have really put in effort in their work). That was one of the most painful "1 hour" of my life. Seeing everyone's joy while reflecting on my inability to get the retest. Even the "A" I got for my Microcontroller Technology paper did little to lift my unhappiness.

Earlier in the morning, I had requested an ppointment with the Vice Director of PEEE to explain my plight. However, during noon time, I received a call from the Office Admin that he feels that its unnecessary to see him regarding this matter. I was fuming mad. After lessons, the trio of us headed down to the office and I put my message across the admin that I really want to see him. But seeing the admin staff having a difficult time doing their job, I decided to write another appeal, this time with more persuation, force and verve. With my appeal submitted, I was told to come back in 2 working days to find out the result...

DOES HONESTY STILL EXIST IN THIS WORLD? I AM STARTING TO DOUBT THIS STATEMENT...