Today is a weird day..

It's quite amazing today even though as usual, I stayed at home doing nothing conducive. What is the probability that one of contacts on msn that you have not chat in a long time message you? It's quite low isn't it?

At about 9pm, one of the colleague from last year's job suddenly sent a message about a blog site where she is trying to sell some clothes. Guess it's been more than a year since we had msn-ed.

At 12am, coincidently my secondary school friend who also hasn't contacted since last Mid-Autumn Festival also initiated a chat. Now the probability is even lower. But the story ain't ending just yet. At 12.30am, a signaller who has MIA for most of the time suddenly msg me and asked me 2 questions from the A-Maths textbook(which his tutee asked him about) but he couldn't solve.

Now this probability is really small. It's kinda amazing that something with such small probability occurs at all.

Therefore it can be seen that:
1. Events with low probability do occur
2. Miracles have a low probablility of occuring
3. Therefore, miracles do occur

Oops, I seemed to have been Poisson by the current modules that I'm taking that I'm constantly using them in my language.. Anyway,

Happy Mid Autumn Festival to ALL!!!

Wrath of the Semester

The semester is finally attacking at full-power this week.

CS2105's group assignment is out. With my group of 3 who don't really know what is going on in the networking module and all of us haven't touch programming since the end of last semester, we're in for a fun time for the coding of the program. However fun it may be, the deadline for the first part of the assignment is set on Children's Day.. Hai, means cannot enjoy Children's Day this year.

The EE2006 laboratories will also be commencing this wednesday with D2 lab, which means programming in VHDL - some language that is used for designing circuits. For the early part of the lecture, it's seems manageable, but as the lecturer goes on and on, there seems to be a lot of things to memorize. Worst part is I've never really try out the programming myself, and don't know how the programming will be like.

I have probably lined-up too many things for the upcoming recess week. Everything is so rushed and it won't be a recess at all.

Enemies have surrounded me..

Would you play with the you, you who you see in the mirror?

My enemy count has been increasing over the weeks, and most of the problem seems to lie with me. I've been feeling that I'm under-achieveing, but I just cannot get the motivation to get myself to work. This frustration has caused my mood to swing vigourously and i find myself acting sulky most of the times, and find that everything irritates me.

Over time, knowingly or unknowingly, I have offended a few people that I know of, some whom I don't know, and neglected some of my friends. I should extend my apologies to all these people.

With such sulky facial expression, it's difficult to get to know more people. I feel like a lone ranger some of the time. With no friend to turn to when I can't solve my tutorial question, it's difficult to get to understand the information that the lecturers are bombarding me with.. I'll have to try to know someone in my course that is equivalent to Kai, so that I can leech on his knowledge.

However, the most important thing that I need now is a sorting algorithm that can help sort out my thoughts and something that I can use to retrieve the old self that the garbage collector had garbaged a few years back. Finally, a constant smile on my face will help a lot in making new friends, but that's an uphill task. It's good for you to have a constant smile on your face too, as no one will like to be with someone who is always sulking.

Time for the sun to shine again

After meeting Charmaine (Treasurer for GF) today to pass her the invoices for the rental of van and a taxi receipt, I officially wash my hands off GF. This involvement was basically a disaster for me as I had written why on my previous post (the very long one), and I got into a few more people's black book, but who cares..

The past weekend, I haven't gotten any work done at all.. All the tutorials have been left untouched, and even when i read the textbook, nothing seems to go in my head. Somehow, I'm lacking the concentration to do serious work. I'll need to instill more self-discipline if I really want to make it out of the semester with something to feel glorious about. How I'll achieve this? Nope, I don't know yet, but I'll get it figured out after I get my locker, if I managed to get 1 in the first place.

Why am i busying myself with nothing?

It's been more than a mth since I joined that dratted committee. I've stopped working early in the holidays thinking that I'll be involved in some meaningful event, but now, i feel that i shouldn't have signed up at all...

In the period, I've went to a grand total of 3 meetings, 2 of which are crashing into a committee that I'm not in, and another one which totally does not require my presence. Apart from that, I've not heard from the head of my committee(Erwin) until I emailed him, and not seen him till yesterday (the start of the event) and I really have an issue with him.

All the things that I've done so far are basically Sai Kang.. Registration for the event(last week), collecting a rented vehicle in Sin Ming Ave (Bishan for pple like me who donno where it is), chauffeuring pple around and delivering gds (yesterday)..

I was told to collect the vehicle at 7.30am, so can you imagine how early I have to wake up? Though I have my doubts that the rental company will be opened so early in the morning, I reached there on time and as I thought, it was not opened. So I msg Erwin, and now he tell me the company opens at 8.30am. WTF!! NVM, I wait... When I went to pick him up at Suntec, he told me actually he wanted to meet me at 7.30am (for f***) and he overslept (he was supposed to be at Suntec for some matter and did not sleep the whole night), to collect the vehicle.. Was he actually thinking of meeting me at Suntec? Mind you, he knows where I stay.. 7.30am? He's got to be kidding...

Today, he once again SMS-ed me and told me to return the vehicle to the company as they won't be using it. It was already 2pm, mind you, it's saturday today and most places work half day, and it is mostly the case for this company, since they are located at such an ulu place. Ok, no one answered the phone of the company, no problem, I can bring the vehicle over and take a look, at most I think of something else if the company was closed. So off to Suntec to get the van.. As Comex is also on going, Suntec was so crowded.. All the way from City Hall MRT, the traffic was so heavy, especially the bridge from City Link to Suntec, you have to queue up to get across.

When I finally reach the tentage, Erwin was no where to be found. When I called him, he told me he wasn't there and will get someone to call me then hang up before i can finish asking.. He got Violet to call me, and we met. Guess what she told me... They will need the van tmr and no intention of returning it today. Think there was mis-communication between them.. Do they think it's fun to spend 1 hr going down to Suntec and another 1 hr back to listen to some rubbish like that?

All together, he's already made me spent $4.50 on transportations, and wasted 7 hrs of my time which include making me go a big round to Mei Ling Street from Suntec.. Telling me to take the exit at NUH and travel thru South Buona Vista Road to Pasir Panjang Road to Alexandra Road and getting lost there (see map), instead of taking the Normanton Park exit, cutting through Queensway and getting to our destination (see map). Does he even know how to use the street directory?

If Chubbs think think that he's made "another botched attempt", he shd think again. This event is poorly organised and communication among them are bad, not worth wasting time on it.