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Woah i just realised i’ve not updated this blog for donkey years, it had being idle for almost a month!  However since i’ve already given my personal blog address to the people in Marcus’ entourage by decree from Queen Brennagh, i think i should more or less upload a short entry.

School has being crazy i guess, especially in the areas of writing. Very often i would find myself writing essays, blog entries for a module which must be done weekly and not forgetting quizzes! the endless quizzes  that are always so frequent. Lastly the module that spoils all the fun and drains the lifeforce out of your very being — math.   Math is the absolutely the most hated of all in my top list of most hated things. talking about it now dampens my mood which means i shall stop talking about it, its a waste of time to even rant about it.

I am not a freaking left-brainer to even begin with, i would say i’m more to the right-brainer sort of person. That doesn’t mean i’m very arty, but i do love art and visual stuff.

I spent my last saturaday hanging out at Timbre with the fun and outgoing people of Marcus’ entourage.  Yes, good music, good food, good drinks and great company. I would say we laughed the night away till 2am and not forgetting Paul with his “high” finger gesture. I think he had too much beer. Btw, Singapore Sling was awesome, paying 10 bucks for it is absolutely worth the money.

Alright, gonna make a move. Mid-terms are coming and when i’m done with them, assignments are up next follow by more quizzes! oh my that sucks! I’m so screwed

first of all, just wanna wish each and everyone a happy and prosperous new year!  well well, let’s see, the friday before reunion dinner, due to the overdosage of my favourite new year goodie, the bah kwa, i lost my voice as a result. yea i couldnt even speak at all and i sounded worst than a crow. i had to communicate either using simple sign language or to write down what i wanna say, something which i did during a project meeting after lecture. it happened this way, whenever i want to give my ideas, i had to open up my notebook and write down my thoughts, whenever that happens one of my members will go

“wait wait, ,the james has something to say…”

then everyone will look in my direction while i try to write as quickly as i could. sigh.

subsequently i regained my voice throughout the weekends which was definitely a good thing, i dun wanna spend a new year in slience. of course during new year day 1, i was ransacking the bah kwa at my relative’s house, the same applies on day 2. i still have a slight cough though and hopefully it will go away soon.

school is starting next week, really grateful that i have the entire of this week as holidays and that means getting stuff sorted out and also stuff that needs to be done.

i’m desperate to get into that place, i really am. oh man i’ve never felt so desperate over anything before. i cant see what’s ahead of me either, its all smoked up and i cant see at all. sigh

have a good day ahead folks.

yes its already the new year and somehow it doesnt feel like it at all, i still think i’m living in 2008, one fine example would be me trying to look for photos in the 2008 folder when i uploaded it on 2nd jan 09.  yes i have returned from the RACE camp and yea there is clearly hope in 2009 for alot of stuff.  the bad thing is i spent 18 bucks on coffee throughout the camp.   seriously  i must cut down on my caffeine intake.

school’s orienation is starting next tuesday on the 6th and school itself starts on the 12th, yea that’s how fast time flies for you and me. i am not really very excited about school neither am i really enthusiastic about it. school simply means waking up early, study and along with endless projects and perhaps presentations. nonetheless i guess it beats ns and perhaps working as well. i gonna be a poor student in a week’s time.

at least i know i’m not alone going through the journey of being a student, the nus and ntu people are starting soon with the former starting on the same day as me. heard that many nus people are going away for a 6 months culture exchange programme in countries such as canada, germany. guess that the word chris yang gave me is starting to give me some kind of comfort now. opportunities are coming, what could they be. i simply wonder.

yea that’s about it for now.

you look perfect with your nikon FM2.

when i log in i realised wordpress has changed its user dashboard screen, hmm not bad in my opinion, i get to see most of my stuff on one page which is really a God-send.

well well, the month of dec has been spent doing and preparing stuff for the camp mainly in the area of publicity which i’m in-charge of. Pleased to say that the camp booklet is about 60% completed, all i need now are the contents needed to be added in.

next week’s gonna be busy though, 2 days are gone for training and also the finalization of the camp booklet before the meeting on sat. I have seriously learn a great deal of things just doing the logo and the booklet , simplicity and consistency always go hand in hand. i love simplicity, something which i’ve always said.

oh yea, i had a camp meeting today at NUS with dalun and ephraim. i suggested NUS though because since now they are having holidays, the campus will be more or less quiet and peaceful. yea it was quite peaceful until this group of NUS students appeared to do their station games thingy, reckon its some kind of CCA holiday camp.

the bench where we sat at were in a very much open place (sheltered of course) and that means we were constantly treated with the nice windy breeze which i reckon is way better than air-con. yea i enjoyed it very much, if only there was a cup of hot latte infront of me, perfect.

speaking of latte, i had one vanilla latte last sat with a few of my cell group friends, the small size was not small, it looks more like a medium size and the taste wasn’t too bad. never regretted ordering it.

that’s about it, will try to update as frequent if possible. take care folks!

last thursday marked the start of the horrendous 4 days of fever, cough and a really bad flu.  fever went up to 39.3 degrees when i returned home from the doctor.  needless to say, weekends were burnt,  no friday outings or sat latenight hangout. As for the fever and flu, i attributed it to me being stubborn enough not to wear a sweater out on a rather chilly evening.

i spent the weekends alone, both mum and dad were working and my bro was off at his gf’s place. medicine, thermometer, glasses of water and tv became my best friend.  needless to say, i survived mainly on bread and porridge over the past 4 days.

i’m glad to say that i’ve recovered from my fever on monday after all the dosages of fever pills but i’m still having a rather bad cough and i must get well before the ben and jerry’s ice-cream fest happening on the 6th!  ahh i’m seriously missing everyone in church even though i didnt see them for just a week.

and i’ve finally adjusted my body-clock back to the normal timing which it should follow, that means i sleep at 1am the latest instead of the usual 4 or 5am in the past. the adjustment was done partially because of the fever which forces me to sleep as early as i could. well glad that i’m not the owl which i used to be anymore.

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look at the weather widget! its gonna be raining throughout the week till next. i dun know why i love such rainy days, perhaps i should just go London or something.

anyway I’m feeling really uninspired and unmotivated right now. i hate such feelings, its the worst when these 2 factors come together and it drains you out easily.

I bet no one has ever being that unlucky in his or her life before except me. brief recap of the disastrous day.

Today I was supposed to meet Gladys at king albert park mac for breakfast before she revises her work while i prepare some camp publicity materials on a laptop ( courtesy of beatrice for her generosity)  The sad thing was, the entire mac restaurant was already packed despite being only 11am in the morning. the only lucky thing is that she managed to buy breakfast for the both us. next stop, we headed for the mac at serene centre.

2nd tragedy took place in the cab to serene centre, i dropped gladys’ cup of tea by accident, as a result it spilled onto the floor mat of the taxi. apparently the cab driver didnt know cause i sat directly behind him, naturally i did try to clean up as much as i can. feeling bad for what happened, i bought her another cup of tea when we arrived at serene centre.

3rd tragedy. i couldn’t even find a power-point in the mac restaurant. i think i’ll just transfer the files over from the portable hard drive into the notebook first. halfway through transferring, the com went into sleep mode of all a sudden and i couldn’t wake it up from sleep. even thought i manage to turn it off, i couldn’t turn it on again despite having a fully-charged battery! panic struck me. my next instinct was to quickly look for a power-point and see if i could turn the com on with ac power. in the end i looked like an idiot walking around the entire serene centre looking for an AC power outlet with the notebook and power adapter in my arms.  good thing is i managed to find one!  its those AC powerpoints meant for those children machine, those which u insert a coin in and you ride on it for a couple of minutes.

during that short 10 minutes of testing out the notebook, somehow i felt like i have the words “i’m desperate for AC power” stamped over my forehead cause people walking past kept giving me that weird look. i was actually squatting beside those machine with the notebook in hand. the notebook is working and apparently the entire battery has being drained off and that means i’m totally dependent on ac power if i wanted to use it. good but there’s no ac powerpoint in the mac and no way am i going to squat beside the machine and use the notebook for hours.

4th tragedy. i returned to mac and joined gladys who has already started studying and a friend of hers was there to join her in their mugging session. me? hunting around for ac powerpoint. i did find one somehow, it was outside mac, located at the foot of a pillar. however there were 2 girls sitting at the table nearest to the power outlet, gladys did me a favor by asking them politely if they could shift to another table instead, yes they were kind enough to move. i thought the nightmare was over but noooo, it wasn’t over! apparently when i happily plug  the adapter into the outlet with a sense of triumph, i realise there was NO power coming out from that outlet. all the joy for nothing. fine, i try my luck at Island Creamery which is next door, unfortunately no power points as well. my world crumbled into pieces. i returned to mac again and this time i spotted one sole seat with a power-point!  cool my nightmare was finally over.

5th tragedy. i plugged in the adapter and power surged into the drained notebook. i thought all the hassle was over. halfway through while installing a software from my portable hard-drive, just when it was about to complete installing, i accidentally touched the cable connecting the drive to the notebook and the connection was lost! so was the installation!!!! $##%^%&^&#^$@ i had to re-install the entire freaking software again, the entire process took me an hour of my precious time.  When it was over, i finally got the chance to start on my work, only to realise the place i’m sitting at was extremely cold and i do not have any sweater with me. i soon found myself blowing my nose very few seconds while working on my notebook.

5 tragedies in a few short hours. great. and now i’m kinda down with flu. maybe that makes it the 6th tragedy.

i’m the youngest child in my family and i really identify with what is said below.
Personality: Youngest children love the limelight and are used to sitting in it. They are charming and creative, have a good sense of humor and manipulate others when they want to get their way.

Famous younglings: Jim Carrey, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Cameron Diaz and Rosie O’Donnell.

Seriously if i would to be doing any administrative or clerical job, i’ll just take a gun and kill myself.

seriously i would love to study arts management at Lasalle but am put off by the high school fees of 63K for 3 years. 63K! FREAKING 63K!  well in the future, i would really want to get a job that is related to the arts side. i may not be technically proficient in creating arty works but the least i can do is to be involved in the management side for the arts projects, eg visual arts or performing arts, be a festival/event manager or something. mingle around with artists and asking them what was the inspiration behind their works and from there i get to see countless of artistic talents. its just wow.

i was thinking of giving the course a try and see if i can get in. as a matter infact, i;ve already prepared my portfolio. the only thing is what if i get in but decided to drop out cause of the high school fees, wouldn’t that be a waste? the money wasted in printing the portfolios, buying mounting boards and glue spray, the effort wasted during the interviews.

hmmm….. maybe i should just heck it and give it a shot.