NOT Recommended

Oh no.. The latest victim of the Lot 1 expansion, the foodcourt at the basement has been relocated to the fourth floor. With the new location, some of the stalls have changed, among them is my favourite stall which sells the hot & spicy noodle.. Guess I'll just have to find other places to eat that dish.

Anyway, after my third paper today, miz and I had lunch at this new foodcourt. Without my favourite stall, I have to settle for something else. I chose the Hokkien Mee, which costs $5. Other things that the stall sells include fried kway teow, some rice sets, and popiah. I wanted to buy one popiah but didn't because the price of $2 was simply not worth it. I will at most pay $1.50 for that since hawker centres sell that at $1.20. I thought to myself who would buy them at $2, then four people came to prove me wrong.

After waiting for nearly 10 mins, I finally got the noodle. There wasn't a queue therefore 10 mins is very long. Time to check out the taste; apart from the lime that taste like a lime and the chilli sauce that tasted like chilli sauce, the noodle tasted like plain congee. That's it, I won't be buying from that stall anymore.

Good Luck for the Exams

Every semester, before each paper starts, someone I know will keep going around asking people to wish him good luck for his paper as he has not enough time to finish the revision for his exams. I never did wish him good luck before. Sounds quite cruel of me to deprive him of some luck for his paper, don't I?

Actually I just don't want him to come back to me when the results are out and tell me, "Walao, your luck is no use." this sort of things. Good luck in exams come naturally with preparation, and not through wishing, therefore I only wish people who prepare "good luck for your exams.". Then when the results come out, I can tell them, "See, my good luck helped a bit.".

Heat of the Battlefield

It's not the battle that hurts, but its preparations. I hate examinations because of the studying since I'm not the type that goes mugging whole day, and I simply don't have that kind of stamina to go mugging whole day.

Plus recently, I've picked up a new hobby that really took up a lot of my preparation time. Though I try not to do that, it's really not something that I can control and it can be really dangerous at times too.

Therefore this time, instead of staying in bed to read, I've been going to school to study. The reason is simple, I don't want to lose my challenge and partly to utilize my train pass. Even so, I still found myself going into a trance occasionally, slowing my progress a lot. Well, at least I completed the preparation for the module that requires the most work - Business Law.

After the lecturer keeps saying, "Hint, hint, this one sure come out.", "Study this for the exam, you will not regret.", she has successfully given us the hint that everything she covered in the lectures, will be coming out. So bimbang says we'll prepare what she said will come out during the final lecture.

Preparations for other modules are still underway. A.I. is a problem in particular. After the lecturer slammed our project as a level 1 assignment, don't think I'm gonna get a really good grade for that module. Let's see what the final exam worth 30% can do.

I am

I cerebrated about ways to be happy.

I cogitated about why school is never a happy place to be at.

I deliberated many ways to make myself look forward to what the future holds.

I feel cold.

The angel and devil in me are ratiocinating to whom should be in charge.

I reflected on my actions throughout the past two years, and found I've achieved nothing.

I imagine myself as a piece of jigsaw in a wrong puzzle.

I speculates I need to find the puzzle i belonged in.

I am contemplating to make a new start.

I wonders if anyone will care if I do.

Ways not to earn a "Thank You"

Many times when you help people, you will expect at least them to say "Thank you.". It's not really true in some cases.

Case 1a: Holding the door for able bodied people to enter/exit first

Why won't people say thank you in this case? It's simple, they think that you are treating them as handicapped people, obviously you don't expect them to thank you for that.


Case 1b: Holding the lift door open for people to board/alight first

The general mindset is: I would have got on/off the lift, irregardless of whether you hold the door. It's your job anyway since you stand so near the buttons.


Case 2: Giving up seats on trains by standing throughout your journey even when there are seats when you board

There are so many people who like to rush into the trains as soon as the doors open just to grab a seat, even for a few stations they will be happy as long as they get a seat. Then when they see some needy auntie or uncle board the train they start to practice their courteous side and give up their seats to them, even though the real reason is that they are about to alight soon anyway. But most of the time, these people will receive the "thank you", while not those that chose to give up their seats right from the start.


Case 3: Returning something to the person in front of you when he dropped something

This case is dependent on the things that the person in front had dropped. Usually, if the thing is regarded in Law as a a thing of value, he will thank you.