yet another pointless blog…

I have spectacularly good timing - i decided to spend the weekend before NUS/NTU exams in Singapore - basically bugging old friends =P

Meaning that just about everyone was stressing out.

In my defense, though, it is my summer hols (3.5 months!!! woots), and that there isnt much time before leaving to China [dad's job], cuz visa arrangements take 5 days - in which my passport will not be able to be used, and the schedule is we’re all in China by 1st week of December.

drat. i have lost the ability to write in unconvoluted sentences.

Despite the bad timing, it ended up being a great trip. Bent ceiling fans and late nights and tired faces and long discussions ranging from lit to law to anatomy. Fun. Including two walks across NUS campus after 10 pm due to inavailability/infrequency of shuttle buses.

oh. and ambigious text messages :
[excerpts from said messages]

“if you want to sleep with Your friend also no problem”
two sms later -
“you’re seducing me”

for the record, ‘your friend’ refers to chee eng, and ya jie sent both sms.

Anyways, met up with the Sitiawan ACS alumni ppl - of which i was yet again the youngest and so was more or less quite quiet during the whole dinner - thanks to Kelvin for the invite (and the meal!)

Saturday - Boon Lay, NTU and Bugis.
Sunday - Lunch with ex AJC ASEAN malaysian scholars - then a panicked rush to Golden Mile (when i actually had plenty of time)

No photos tho.

The other notable incident was me almost getting stuck in Woodlands due to lack of any Singapore currency whatsoever upon entering Sg - there was neither ATM machines nor money changers. Hence i grew extremely thick skinned and went and asked a couple of ladies who were on the same KL-Sg bus as me for change to board the SMRT bus. garh.

Moral of the story - at least have some currency whenever you enter another country.

Wrapping up, just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who agreed to meet up with me, especially in the midst of exams.

Plus the whole thing wouldnt have been possible if Ya Jie didnt offer me accommodation.

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the last 2 lines sound like smth out of a Oscar acceptance speech. =.=”

and blathering on my blog is a sure sign that I’m looking for ways to kill time. well, scratch that, i do know a lot of ways to kill time….some more productive that others.

plus, i actually have a few things i need to complete before leaving nz for the summer holidays. like pack. and clean my room. and stuff.

but back to my list of “this is how eve kills time” [from somewhat useful to well-nigh useless]:

i am sorta-not-really-maybe-a-little working through the problems in project euler. im up to problem 11. yay. go me. (and yeah, its sad cause i suspect some ppl could actually finish problems 1 to 20 before breakfast).

oh, and tance quite kindly suggest another “programming problem” site. well. okay, its a assignment list for intro to programming students in nus, but, you know, still as effective in killing time.

theres always blog- and forum- lurking and/or random posting of comments. which ive been doing oftener than ever. see, my forum cycle goes something like this: lurk for months, then flurry of posting lasting maybe 3 week, then back to lurking. so….. its quite hard to get hold of me in forums.

also, the completing of random flash games - which can quite reliably eat up endless hours. i mean, really.

and theres fanfiction (always a surefire way to kill time) and comic reading, and downloading of books and facebook and blogging and……..

damn. all of these, in some way or another, involve to computer. *headdesk*

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and as an aside, i just spent about 3 hours fixing one table (one. table. damnit.) for a friend.

a html table. not the four-legs-and-a-flat-surface table.

my html/css skills have clearly rotted. but thats not too surprising cuz i never really did much of that stuff anyways.

(dont mention that my now long dead website used to have a javascript that threw endless popups - infinite looping is ….. well, used to be fun)

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hm.

it just struck me that my “Argh! exam! panic!!!” trigger time is set closer and closer to the exam than ever before…

now i only really start panicking 2-3 days before each paper.

Thanks goodness theres only less than 6 months worth of material to cover….

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one paper left!!!

Gahk! a 3 month hiatus from blogging … and i come back and friendster has totally changed everything. ah well, not like things have changed *that* much.

Hm… what did i do the last 3 months?

actually, not much. go to lectures, read, internet .. just about my normal routine.

Happenings:

• Slazenger Cup : I can’t believe we lost (7th out of 7 teams) by ONE game *headdesk*
• UMAT results : =D I’ll give you my raw scores - 68 (section 1), 69 (section 2) and 74 (section 3), overall 70. Very happy with it.
• Exams are looming… again

Go AWAY stupid flu!!!

and now that exams is over… i have.. um.. nothing to blog about.

Except for the fact thats its getting really cold - cold enough that going out is a major chore….

hm..

I may start tinkering with js/java again. maybe. to kill time.

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edit: I did start tinkering with java : if youre interested, see how i kill time by generating this.

ps: its not compiled.