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finally man...

stupid questions, stupid answers

now, which is worst? stupid questions or stupid answers? how about encountering both on a same day?

well u see, a question may sound stupid to a person but not to another.

see the thing is, some questions maybe as harmless as asking things like "does FYP sucks?" *FOR SURE IT DOES!! (though i really dont mind ppl asking me that but i think it can labeled as a stupid question using some others standard) to totally dumb ass question like "how do twins tell themselves apart?, "can u drown a fish?"

there is no doubting that asking simple question may lead to the discovery of new things. at times it could even enhance ur knowledge on a certain subject - fundamentally speaking. questions like "are we made of atoms or cells?" falls into the catogory. i believe that when someone asks a question that challenges the norm, for example "is removing energy the only way to create ice?", it helps to bring some form of creative thinking into play. maybe a poor example but u get the idea. some stupid questions can be higly entertaining at times too

the definition of a stupid question is however, highly subjective. But still, there are those that are totally jack ass and universally accepted as downright stupid. Some accquaintance asked me a truly damn ass question today. Its so stupid that i could have fainted and concuss for months, to think he is nice enough to complete the night with a stupid answer, Kudos to him..

When the waiter asked him if he would like his cup to be filled, he answered.. "well, maybe..."
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Fever

Seriously, the sooner 2008 passes, the better...

FYP

when the professor replies "The two equations in your message are mathematically similar. If the filter is before the sampler, then continuous filter should be ok." it can only mean one thing.

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undo saturday's redo...

Continous transfer functions are in fact ok.

i am officially hating fyp... and damn the flu...

there is this girl...i hope to know more about her than i currently do...





anyway, for the 2nd song... i aint got a clue what is it about...

when continuous transfer functions are used instead of discrete transfer functions it can only mean one thing

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redo last week's redo...

We were babies once.. and young..

It must have hurt real bad to laugh like he did... what a evil dad...haha..

when 0.05 x 0.05 = 0.00025 instead of 0.0025 it can only mean one thing

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redo

"pa rum pum pum pum" i am broke..

My investment strategy just sucked dry one of my bank account... well done...



is it too early for christmas songs? I dun think so, this one is great.

Acid Bar

Great place, great band, great singer. Place too small.

Oh and somebody's desperate for cap 5.

Managerial Accounting

He told us to focus on a few topics (investment centres and variances) then proceed to warn us not to spot questions or study selectively (hmm...?). So I spent a day or two trying to figure out everything about the topics that he told us to focus on. Then on the day itself, zero questions on the above mentioned topics were set. Who would have thought that he would set two questions from the mid term for the finals since it was tested already? Damn... my brain malfunctioned for 10 minutes when i saw the questions. We were always taught to do A->B->C, this time round we are suppose to work backwards C->B->A. Great.. and did i mentioned that the test was at 9am? oh and did i mentioned that i did not do a single tutorial for this module? LOL Well, one more to go and after which i will be a full time FYP-ing student which is due on e 31st of December.. sem 7 just got extended.

Looking for the song "If i could" by 1927.

Check out the balloons:

i think i have turned in too early (like at 1 to 2 am?) these days, 早睡早起，所以身体很好, 吃得也很好. I have put on weight, damn. i have practically given my pacs an extra layer of clothing in preparation of the cooler months ahead. So what's left of them? last check , they are still there...only when i suck it in and 'cake' of cos. I got a call up for remedial training... how embarassing. A few years back, i was still wondering how can one fail ippt if u do sports, well, it is happening to me now.. you see the sports that i am doing now are, well, not so strenous , one of them simply requires me to stand in the field and pull some strings. The other one requires me to engage in some vertical displacements along with some pulley actions. These are of cos not the type of hardcore sports that i do previously when my ligaments (esp. knee) were still young and flexible.

Good news: i have only 2 finals this semester

Bad news, both papers start at 9am. that's my breakfast time..hmm.. and one of them is in MPSH 5.. great...

i think i am a freak. i've finished reading 10 chapters and completed about 12 tutorials (last year's and this year's) for managerial accounting today. darn it... sometimes i scare even myself. Time to watch some simpsons, or maybe soccer, or maybe try out the new game, Spore, that my sister had gotten..hmm...

Try solving problems using the Feynman Algorithm, trust me it works, its arcane stuff and goes something like this:

1.Write down the problem.
2.Think real hard.
3.Write down the solution.

how amazing..





check out these kids, they are great

Last friday at around 545pm, i was making my way from engin to biz... As i strolled along the corridors and walkways of engineering i was saying hi and hi and more hi-s to my fellow engineering friends, all rushing their assignments, projects and fyps. However, as i slowly made the transition from engin to biz, the crowd grew thinner and there were more empty benches than any other places in school that i have ever seen. Where the hell are the biz students, shdnt there be plenty of assignments and projects due on the last week? Or have most of them already completed theirs? I wonder...

i like to walk from engin to biz, not the other way round.

just some of the witty comments that my friends have made before.... i can remember some but too bad i cant remember all. Some were real good but i have forgotten...

"I love you, you are perfect for me. Now change.."
"People with opinion just go around bothering each other"
"The quickest way to a men's heart is through his chest"
"Forgive and forget what they've said, but never forget their names and face"
"The Asshole Rule, U r an asshole u rule"
"Don't die in the hands of your doctor, it causes unnecessary embarrassment"


oh well... 来听些音乐

How do i walk from engin to biz, back to engine, to biz again and back to engin tomorrow with an inflamed knee joint... 明天的事明天再烦..

虽知天下无不散之筵席，但，有些筵席也未免太早散了吧。快得让在座的贵宾们都搓手不急，不知这是不是一个玩笑而已。但有些时候，这就是残酷的事实。尽管有着万分的不舍，道别的时可来临时，想躲真的也躲不了。有的人不忍相信，有的却带着笑容大声的说，“改天再见了！”

对了，这只是暂时的告别，有一天必定会重逢。

虽然不跟你很熟，但是 a promise is a promise, 倒时，我会教你溜滑轮。

明天有两个测验，一通电话，却打翻了所有读书的念头。。。

Lego

Playing with blocks is my favourite past time. I match them together and colour them as i wish. I literally play with them by clicking on the 'play' button. I am not kidding, they can do lotsa cool when you 'play' them. They can even sing when you command them to. That's how 厉害 they are. I am constructing something uber cool using these blocks. No it is not a Toy R' Us Giant Lego Giraffe, it is an...
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how ... exciting is that.....


Although they do not topple over, they are a major pain in the arse. No they are not lego blocks, they are simulink blocks.. damn.. life was indeed easier when i was young... if a child ever tells you that he/she is gonna build a 'pancreas' using lego blocks, he/she needs some serious counselling... no wait, it will be better if you can introduce him to me, i will help him build his 'pancreas' and he can build mine. haha

正辉，白的是纸，黑的是字。。。不要再看着白纸而希望字能进脑袋里去。。。

Oh No

A friend said that i am 'muscically backwards'. another said that i have an 'old soul'. One said that i have a 'unique' taste and another said i am a freak. Oh well, i cant stand most of today's music. The 90s and 80s are the best... where music is really music, (english and chinese songs alike). Bring back the Bee Gees, Boys2mens, frank sinatras and 是谁。。。 of yesteryears man.

My name is Luka

song title is just 'luka' instead of my name is luka

crazy month of september. anyway something that i read about in the managerial accounting class.

When Nasa began to launch astronauts into space, it found out that pens don't work in zero gravity - ink doesn't flow down to the writing surface. So scientists developed a pen that worked in zero gravity, upside down, under water, on practically any surface including crystal & in temperatures ranging from below freezing to more than 300 degrees Celsius. It took the boffins a decade and US$ 12m. As for the Russians - well, they solved the problem faster & cheaper: they just used a pencil.

interesting? well, which is why before you put ur time and effort into something, it is always good to take a step back, reframe the situation and re-analyse things once again before taking the plunge. Easier say than done perhaps

朋友是一生一世 , 互相扶持

废话

Old ppl likes to lament, “when I was young, things were tougher.” I no longer believe that sentence entirely, for I say, ” When I was young, things were easier.” Relatively speaking i have a whole lot 'more time' as well when i was younger, so much so that i have to kill them indiscriminately. At present, i am beginning to regret my past actions. i might even have to pay for it. It must be karma i tell you, if not where has all my time gone to? You might ask,if i dun have much time to kill, so y am i here typing these nonsense then? well to keep my sanity in check of cos.

At this moment in time, i really do not need questions such as:
"If humans evolved from monkeys/apes, why are they still here?" and
"Can one cry underwater?"

because if you ask me these sort of questions, i will start to think and it could drag on for hours. If you do not know this, let me educate you, this very action is call 'time killing'. I really do not need any more bad karma at present. Nonetheless, these questions and any form of 废话-s are greatly welcomed. i still need to keep my sanity. but i will be gathering more bad karma as a result.. however i really needa keep my sanity... hmm.. what a difficult choice to make. See..? things were indeed easier when we were young.

Ahead of the Curve: 2 years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves.

This non-friction title was written by the author whom went to Harvard Business School (HBS) to study for his MBA. He doesnt have a goal here, unlike his peers, to enter the dog-eat-dog world out there in the corporate jungle. (just give him the benefit of doubt) The author studied Latin and Greek literature, history and philosophy, but knew nothing about business. Business people he thought, were wine-swilling, golf-playing and predictable slaves to money. By the time he finished his MBA, his understanding of business was considerably deepened, but his opinion of the business world and its players was not much different.

He admits that HBS does succeed in its mission of transforming students into business leaders. But he views it as failing them in almost every other way, he calls HBS a 'factory for unhappy people.' He labels his classmates as people of modest talents but with oversized ambition. Boastful, insecure and at times charming, they were destined for great things and careers that required them to sacrifice family and friends for the success they felt they so richly deserved. An intriguing insight provided by the author whom is that 'little' bit outta the norm; perhaps it was due to his education background that sets him apart from the rest of his peers at Harvard which allows him to see things that these people do not or failed to notice. A great read it is (if you can stop questioning why is he doing an MBA in HBS if he doesnt want a high flying career). it is only 298 pages long.

烧掉-ed

Need to go to a beach, sit down, read some books over the weekend, with my handphone switched off of cos. I have stopped giving tuitions, but my schedule is still rather crazy. I have passion for the stuffs that i am doing but i still suffer from burnt outs, what gives? i dont understand.

累了吗?

累了就去休息... 听些音乐..

Primary and Secondary School --- Gold
Junior College--- Silver
Army --- Gold
2006 --- Silver
2007 & 2008 --- Fail

damn man.. i need to get my fitness level back. Soccer games, rock climbs, blading and cycling cant do much to help. Otherwise, RT beckons when i finish school.

Anyway, do you have goals or objectives? I have one now haha (read top). I guess we all have. However, do babies have goals? They cant set goals that's for sure, but does that means that they do not have goals or objectives? (remove the thought that goals exist only because ppl set them alright)I was pondering over it yesterday with some friends... in the end, it was concluded, babies have goals too. Though they might not know it or have set it, but it is in their subconscious anyway. You see, what do babies do all day besides sleep? Whenever they are not sleeping, they are eating (most of the time). Also, when babies cry, what do u do most of the times to shut him/her up? You stuck a bottle of milk into his/her mouth right? Isnt that obvious? Their objective is to 长大. haha.. u cant be feeding for most of your waking hours unless u r determined to undergo some immense cells multiplication right?. Otherwise, it doesnt seems right... no reasonable person will eats for all of his/her waking moment. Yup, so they do just that because that is their ultimate goal in life at that moment in time =)

p.s. faulty arguments aplenty i know. haha

you ask me, "if one keeps thinking about what the other person is doing at this moment in time is that call love?" and " if one keeps looking out for that particular someone either online or when you out with a group of friends is that call love?

i do not know the answers really. But the first is pretty obvious no? The 2nd one, maybe yes, maybe no. It could simply be that u find him/her interesting that's all.. dun think too much... 顺其自然...

Its the holidays, lets do FYP... Back to school, go Bata buy shoes

I want to finish my FYP 2 weeks before the deadline, or at least a week, so i can travel overseas. That said, i need to stop recommending stuffs to the professors who will then stop encouraging me to 'explore' further. My friend said (knowing my working style) with this 'take-home' project i will bound to work on it whenever i can. man is he right.. However, 'whenever-i-can' doesnt occur frequently due to other commitments and even when 'whenever-i-can' does arrive, i might not have the mood to work on it. You know there is this lastly invention or craze call Facebook? oh you heard about it already?! i am sorry... i am a laggard (by about a year). hmm.. nvm, u understand what i am talking about dont u.. some applications are sooo #$@&#@%-ing interesting... well well, 'whenever-i-can' has arrived (cant tell?), i better go get acquainted with some codes and blocks.

Such is life

This week hasn't been the most pleasant of weeks. No not because of the fyp or friends; and definitely not due to stock market or business either, these are too trivial in comparison. My family hasnt been in the pick of health lately. My grandma was diagnosed with suspected Parkinson but is ok now after some treatment. My shu gong just underwent an operation this Tuesday to treat tongue and lymph nodes cancer. went 2 visit him today, i was close to him when i was young. he taught me chinese chess. Almost cant help it when i see the scars on his mouth and shoulder and the tubes sticking out of him. damn it man.. really..

Dear prof Laksh

I am sorry for not paying attention in class during the module CN2108 and i apologize for spending only 5 days or so to study for the final examination on Matlab codes. You have taught us well and many of us have went on to become well-versed in the Matlab language. However, sadly, i am not one of them. so, could u please give me a one-to-one refresher course this coming semester? i have free days on mondays, wednesdays and thursdays but would prefer sectional teachings to be held from 12pm to 3pm on alternate weeks (odd weeks preferably) on a monday. Some refreshments at about 230pm will be nice. I will give u full marks in the tutor evaluation exercise and nominate you for the best lecturer award. Let me know you opinion on this. Hear from you soon.

regards
Matlab 白痴

well well, some said FYP is a test of character, others said it is a test of endurance. For chemical engineering student however, it is really more of the former than the latter. Our project lasts only for a semester. So we will experience immense suffering for e next 6 to 7 months; unlike other departments. Theirs are, well, prolonged suffering with lesser intensity. so which one's better? i prefer the chem engine style.. sadistically motivating us constantly .. However, progress has been at sloth-like-pace, i am officially stuck.

Over lunch, my entire brain is still thinking about the project. It was so pre-occupied that i forgot to pay for the food. I just took it and walked off. It was only a while after i started eating that i realised i had forgotten to do something and went back to pay. The aunty said she was stunned for a while when i simply grab and go without paying hah. So, since i am stuck and the weather is so hot, i think i shd give my fish a bath.

Colonscopy

Same doctor, same operation room, same nurse, same porter, zero pathology found (as clean as a baby's colon). So irritable bowel syndrome it is. The scope was a breeze. The hard part though was the day before, the colon cleansing part. Now that all checks have been done, I think i really have to re-adjust my priorities. I guess i am human after all.

Spam

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

Nowadays men often feel that their lives, or private lives are made up of a series of traps. Vicious vicious traps. We sense that within our everyday world, there are troubles we cannot overcome, and in this feeling, we are often correct. What we, e ordinary men, are directly aware of and what we try to do are often bounded by the private orbits in which we reside. Our visions, powers and the societal norms that constantly bombard us are well, limited to the close-up scenes of our jobs, family ,neighborhood and society; In other milieux however, we are mere spectators.

Take a look at this clip:


simply awesome, wouldnt u say? (watch in high quality in youtube, it is even better)

How you wish you were like him? No? Someone who seems to defy most (if not all) of the societal norms that we were brought up to believe in here in Asia. It will take lotsa courage to do exactly what he does; no doubt there will be bungee cords pulling u back screaming at you "No!, you should work hard, save money and so on.." But how tight that strangle hold is on you will very much depends on how badly u want it or how sick of your life you currently are. thus e questions remain: just how determined are you in ur pursue of that one dream, that one truly unforgettable memory? and break free from all 'traps' and to become the envy of others.

So, when life gets you so down and you start tumbling down like a rock, turn yourself into one huge boulder, break the societal cord, do something that is truly meaningful and be away from all the disapproving voices just for once. The rewards can be amazing, the experience unbelievable and the best thing is: you arent a mere spectator anymore.

pity those that were in the same pool as me. every gasp for air was accompanied by a cough or a sneeze. I wish them well.

the food that i put into my mouth these days are already considered plain as compared to what i was taking a year ago. A bout of flu only made it a lot more worst.. food are, well, virtually tasteless now. Hmm, pass me the smelly tofu...

周华健

Took out the discs that i burnt for my mum a few months back, hmm, 周华健's songs are pretty good.. or so i think.

歌词写得真好. '没有错是你说得对..' this song is well... awesome..

old school music with the drums, but still, it is good.. no?

Chemical Engineers like process and block flow diagrams; which explains the invention of HYSYS and SIMULINK (to a certain extent).. however.. we are still students... so .. really.. this flow chart makes more sense to us than PFDs and BFDs of chemical processes.

Panoramic photography

didnt know that by simply using the panoramic mode differently, one can create such an interesting effect. weird but refreshing isn't it.

The 90s and 80s

alright, i apologize for the stir that my previous post caused. 请多多包含. It wasnt meant to generalize things; it was written in the context of 'couples' (ok, dun start another round of bombardment), pardon me if i have not made it explicit enough. That said i understand that there are some erroneous statements, however, just take them with a pinch of salt k.

So.. FYP readings have started and i do not understand a thing that i am reading. E project title is: "Are PI/D Controllers Effective and Sufficient for Blood Glucose Control?". Its a computational based project, not experimental. Cant stand labs. It requires the use of Matlab and Simulink to solve numerous ordinary differential and partial differential equations which models the patient dynamics i.e. gastric emptying processes, renal threshold of glucose and the like. (quite a mouth full ya) There are of cos the controller parts too which will release the proper amount of insulin required after some computation which i will have to model so as to prevent hpyo and hyperglycemia. (not a clue). All the maths are coming back to haunt me, the 4th order Runge-Kutta method, 1st order Euler integration. i have forgotten everything about them too... great

great singers:

Men are direct, Women are indirect

When a women talks, sometimes or rather most of the time, she uses indirect speech. She tends to hint at what she wants or beats around the bush without going straight to the point. Indirect speech does have its perks, to me it serves to avoid confrontations or discord and seeks to preserve harmony. However, men lack the sensitivity to pick up the real meaning most of the time and that can cause lotsa frustrations for both parties. I can identify, at times, when the ladies are hinting at something, but i can never quite guess correctly what they really want. T

Just last month, my mom was telling us over dinner which singers she like and what songs are nice et cetera. Some days later, she went on to talk about the high quality music dished out from DVDs. I dunno if i did the right thing here but i went to burn about 10 discs for her. she looks happy though. It may look obvious now, but it was pretty hard to decipher then. Maybe that day i should have bought some TOTO, was probably very heng then. Also, last month, i do not know why but my mom got pissed off when i told her that i do not want to go on an overseas trip, i have forgotten about the details in e conversation but even my sister found it strange. I am confused and still do not understand what went wrong that day.

Last week, i was out with my friend and she asked me "would you like to drink some coffee?" I cant take coffee but told her "hey, y not?". i have learnt my lesson from a previous incident. when a women asked you if you wanted cofee, what she really meant was that she wanted some. (correct me if i am wrong here). So dont simply reply "No thanks, its okie. " and think how nice it was of her to ask.. you might just get some silent treatment later on

Last year, i was out with another friend, she asked me a couple of questions and i simply answered them honestly. It pissed her off almost immediately and she starts to get unreasonable and accusing me of this and that. (I was so shocked and its like where did that come from?) I have a high tolerance for 小姐脾气 but that day i was pissed off too and replied "why not you write down on a piece of paper of all the questions that u wanna ask me so i can give u the perfect answers you want next time." You can roughly envisage what happened next. haha. However after a while, we both started to found the entire thing silly and simply laughed it off. But still, i aint got a clue.

Just last night, i was talking to a friend about soccer and told her that i will be going out to watch the euro finals later tonight. She asked me "where? with who?" Then i replied not sure with some friends of cos and her next reply was "HeHe~." Initially i though that was the end of the topic and wanan ask her something else, then it stucked me 'Ohh man, i am talking to a lady here' ..and asked her "y u wanna 跟来 is it" and her reply was "hah~ is tat ok?" ... 女人ah女人．．．

So when the girls ask you guys if u wanna do this or that, just ask them “你要吗？要就走咯”and do whatever they please. If they ask you to choose between two siutations (i.e. shoes, career path), ask them if they already have something in mind as most of the time they have already made a choice and only want a confirmation. Oh and shut up when they call or chat online to 发泄, just 很无奈的听着，把它当做 story telling time, i guess they simply needa let it out of their system. I am rather glad that i can be their 发泄 or 出气筒 (pun intended, haha, nah call me anytime.) In the end, i guess indirect speech is part of their genetic wiring and there is nothing guys can do. so just learn to deal with it. Lastly a friend of mine told me this, "女人是拿来爱的，不是用来了解的"。 但是,如果不了解，那how to 好好的爱呢？.

Enchanting enough?

These songs reminded me of a horror show call 'Enchanted', it was nightmarish watching it. Almost killed myself in the cinema when all the lovely birds and animals came out dancing at the start. That said, these are still great songs. =)

alright, sorry for the lack of updates.. i wont say i am really busy, but it has been a wild break. lots of meetings... with a few interesting characters appearing now and then... some of them really got on my nerves at times. Oh well... also, given the soccer matches in the last few weeks as well as work, panda eyes are slowly developing. The only recreations i had in the past few months are well, meet up with friends for mahjong, movies, some chilling out sessions as well as exercises. The same old things, nothing very exciting. My friends and i cancelled the backpacking trip around SEA once again due to the weather conditions.

Anyway, you think ur singlish is good? check this out... i really wonder if friends from other countries can even make sense of what the guy is talking about cos he is too good for an ang moh.


Hossan Leong at dick lee's 2004 concert:


view dick lee's concert 2004 for some of his songs, rather amusing. lotsa singlish and hokkien. The songs on the right has been updated, you can always get them from me on msn.

FYP.. shit..

FYP starts on the 1st of July. Damn. It's a huge blow to my other plans of cos. Damn it. I do not like lab sessions & i do not like programming. How to do FYP like this? God damn it. I will just ballot using the professors as the main criteria. After gathering some information from the seniors, i guess it doesnt matter whether it is a experimental or computational based project, both of which are equally 'appealing'.. so sui bian ba...

Got owned (again)... damn

One of my friend told me or rather demanded me to put the 2nd videos up, it was from a drama. Why huh, why u always bully me? shdnt have told u so much previously, forever threatening me now. i have a couple of things to rush eh, argh you ... (i know your secrets too lo, i just never say only)

Hmmm...

Have u ever found yourself in a situation where things just seem too good to be true? In my life, when this situation occurs, it tends to be.. well.. too good to be true. I hope this time round, things will be different.

Anyway, my friends and i are pooling cash to start an 'investment fund', e initial sum will be less than 10k but more than 5k. you guys can visit Nustrades yahoo grp for comments and messages posted by us. I am using it as a platform to guide by friends into the world of investing and hopefully all of us can gain something outta it. Really hope that their opinions can help me see things from a different pair of glasses as i am already starting to see myself screening out some stocks just because of my previous encounters with stocks of a particular industry. Currently all the post are by me, if you find any debatable argument please let me know your opinion on that issue.

Music Spam

The first two songs are considered oldies while the last 2 can be considered as modern day pop i suppose. Well, the last song, what a disappointment, the beat is so catchy but the lyricsimply sucks. Just some random music, nothing much to blog about too as i wait for my friend. Wireless @ sg is really cool man.. its almost everywhere..Anyway, thanks to all that have tried to help me find the song 双人相梦 previously, now, can help me find another song? i just heard it at a department store, it goes something like ta he ta .. and it keeps repeating.. some lovely dovely song. 2 guys sang it. Anybody knows the title? songs on the right has been updated.

Sesame Street

Sesame street, Transformers, Care Bear & Capitan Planet are just some of the tv show that i watch when i was young. Good, clean and innocent fun. Some even teaches you what is righteousness. Kids nowadays are watching what, a yellow-coloured talking sponge, happy tree friends, south park and other twisted shows which i may not even know. These shows are thrash man.

Memories

Memories are heart wrenching; if they are about happy things, it makes you wonder why those times didn't last. Well, if they are about sad things, of course they will make you miserable when you think of them. In short, they can be bitter sweet at times. Now, why cant we make all memories splendid then?

"its all a matter of perspective and expectations" -xinhui

how true...like the famous adage goes. 'Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.' Well well, it holds true for most facets of life i guess.

ACH

a mail i received from a fellow chemical engineering student began with this "Hey ACH (pronounced as A followed by C and H, not Arch)... " i replied to her immediately, how do u know that you can address me as such? Still waiting for her reply though. I never recall telling her ppl call me ACH at times.

This 'nick' started all the way back when i was in secondary 2. I always like to day dream during class you see... it was the first week of school and i was caught day dreaming by my english teacher. She asked for my name, and my dear friend simply replied. "Call him ACH !!" Ever since then, friends in JC, Uni and even the army still call me by that name every once in a while. Its weird how it spread.. i din do it intentionally by telling them oh you can call me ACH, more often than not it was they whom overheard my sec sch friends calling me that; and they simply followed suit...if u were in AJC in 2001 to 2002 or even 2003, u might have seen the word ACH scribbled all over the lecture halls' and tutorial rooms' tables using correction fluid, it wasn't written by me, it was by my class mate. He wrote so many ACH here there everywhere that my sec school's classmates always ask me if i am zhi lian. Well well.. anyway, my dad is ACH too...and yes you guys can call me ACH if you want to, i will respond.

you know some American companies like Hewlett Packard (HP), JP Morgan as well as Ben and Jerry's are all started using their founders' name? Maybe i should start a company call ACH Pte Ltd and see how far it goes. It's main business will be erm... name branding and viral marketing... hahah..

This holiday, there are so many things that needs to be done and one of my NTU friend is in China, so that makes progress for the NTU project much slower than expected. The tuition thingie is giving me lotsa lotsa headache, i think it shd be scraped totally. You know at times when u r in business school and you encounter some really simple MCQ or structured question, and you start to think to yourself "what crap, these are so easy and obvious!" However, these so called simple questions are simple because most of the real life variables have been fixed for you. If those variables werent fixed, it can be turned into one humogous essay question worth 70 over marks. (akin to one huge irritating ulcer formed by the combinations of 2 to 3 smaller ones that are so close to each other. Then when u accidently bite onto it it bleeds like hell and for hours non stop and u keep drinking, tasting your own blood with every mouthful of saliva that you swallowed.. oh sorry i've digressed) The simplest thing can turn out to be the most nagging of issues. Things such as payments, for our NTU case, turns out to be the most irritating part and marketing turns out to be the easiest and cheapest. Shouldnt it be the other way round as stated in the books? damn...

Needa meet up with some friends this holiday, especially the chemical engineers, it has been a awhile. Just to chill, play mahjong, bbq or inline skate, whatever lar as long as can see those familar faces again. i wont be doing any internship nor going overseas this holiday just stay in tiny Singapore (rejected the uni of alberta summer programme as well as the Korea's one after being accepted, i think i will be blacklisted by the IRO soon).

Anyway, light house family are one of my favourite group of all time (their discs are with my sec sch friend and i have forgotten whom i have lent it to, darn) followed by wet wet wet and goo goo dolls etc. You just cant find this sort of music these days. i will set up another blog for investment and stocks discussion (if time permits). Wonder if anyone will take them seriously or even read them in the first place. Oh well.. i will inform you guys once it it up... tc all.

'妈妈'节

my family is the pillar of my life. abit early, but still Happy mother's day.

what the hell...

Open book exam today, so i brought in all the notes, tutorial questions and solutions, printed textbook materials and past year examinations paper. Imagine the amt of papers that i had with me. As i was flipping here there everywhere searching for some details in my notes i sort of misplaced my script along with the stack of papers. It got lost totally in the pile of notes. li hai ba. took me more than 5 minutes to recover it. damn......

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

congratulations to all that has unofficially graduated. Its time to party ya... Dun add to the unemployment figure k? 10th of May, kuai dian lai ah

alright, i have finished 4 papers, so far so good. 2 more to go... next sat will be my last paper.. thursday will be my next paper, 3 days to study for it..i am already losing momentum...

Technical elective module: thank god the prof din wanna kill us,
Biz law: Under product liability another product exploded, just like in previous years
Finance: 2 long questions were repeated from last year (60marks) just that he changed something. MCQ was really tricky.
Operation Management: they said it will be hard and it was disgusting...

last paper is on the 10th of May, ..Anyway, its always good to ask questions during the examinations cos some profs will just give u the answers unknowingly. that happened during OM, there was a variable missing and i cant proceed unless without that figure... so i raised my hand and asked what is going on, the prof replies, u have to find the variable yourself. and i was like 'thanks a lot man!!'... when i was in year 2 , doing fluid mechanics, i was stuck at a particular question so i ask the prof too, immediately he drew me the diagram which turns out to be the answer itself... so just ask if u r unsure, of cos some will be assholic and reply to u things like 'you shd know this' etc.. still.. there is a chance that the answers will be given just like that, sometimes 'computer hang' during test u see, need to reboot abit...hah.. well well back to books.. some soft rock music..



anyway, who has this song? I'll be there by Escape Club? cant find it..

i was looking for 'Tell Her' by Jesse McCartney when i stumble upon this song, i couldnt find the singer's name, it says Jim... most probably a relatively unknown singer or pub singer like Marcos Hernandez. (oh he is an Idol singer Jim bakkum from erm i dunno where)


exam starts tml, 6 papers, the first one starts on the first day of the exam period, the last one ends on the last day of the examination period. i would rather have all my papers in a week... oh well...

well, there are many contributing factors as to why i am still single so much so that it precludes a comprehensive discussion. Let's just say that i have always met the right person at the wrong time and erm at times the converse is true as well. I am can kinda disillusioned by it as well after an incident with a girl. Oh well, its not at the top of my agenda at the moment, the most important thing now is to get my health back completely, and oh i am working on two other possible venture at the moment, one with friends in NTU and another has got to do with tuition (not a tuition agency though) the details of which i will release if it turns out to be workable if not, then u wont hear about it i guess. Jiawei and Junyong why are u guys in France?..if not we can work together..executions for this two tasks are very important and i need both your brains... jiawei u always ask me to jio you if got any investment opportunities, but u r in france.... - -" both of you, drop the PSC/Eiffel Scholarship and come back... we can create something interesting and maybe huge here haha..like real


wonder if u fellows are reading this...take care if you are ..

ppl have always asked me from time to time why i work so hard. i have answered it countless of times and find some of them pretty frustrating. The answer to it is simple really, I wanna retire early and do the things i really like, thats all. However, it got to a point where it prompted me to think about it thoroughly. Have i gone overboard this time round? With that question in mind, i went to talk to my sister... she, like she has always been, is very good at giving advices. she told me that perhaps i have really over worked to the point that it is considered scary to some ppl. I think perhaps i really had.. so i guess i will be adding another item to the list of goals that i set for myself this year. She wanna me to bet with her for 100 bucks that i will change... and i have accepted that, i hear her and knows where she is coming from.





"what am i without my family." zh

A mathematical parody of Fergie's Fergalicious

i think i am a geek i find this entertaining. Anyway, design 2 is over..... excellent. the last few days were not spent on formulas to compute brust radius etc but rather on photoshopping our work to get the desired results...from chem engineers to con men... hah...

Anyway, i am not very up to date with chinese songs, the last time i actually listened to a chinese radio station on a consistent basis was when i am 13. i am currently sourcing for more gems from the chinese music industry as i found that there are in fact tonnes of them (old and new alike, faye wong has got a dozen of them)... personally i feel that this is a nice song... what do u think...

Alright, the plant's capital cost is close to 300million. Not too bad, i guess my friend and i dont have a feel for numbers (especially for plant's cost). Hydrogen plant powered by coal instead of natural gas has capital costs of around USD$400-500 million.


Today's 2 presentation went pretty well i think, managed to capture their attention. The chinese students btw are so eager to learn that they dun even mind asking me, someone with have zero qualifications, about investing. felt so weird, .. hope to pass at least CFA level 1 before i graduate, if can pass level 2 that would definitely be better. But if what i said can help guide them into the world of investing, i will really wont mind spending time telling them what i know as long as they are eager to learn.... Oh well, going back to the chinese students, only the investing and trading part i can be more of a help to them actually.... their eagerness to learn is really astonishing, Singaporeans are a rather apathetic lot, these Chinese Nationals are not afraid to ask and seek help on matters that they are weak at. One of them got a place to read medicine at peking U but yet gave up that opportunity to come over to singapore to study, (i think she is crazy, though on e other hand it could turn out to be an excellent choice for her since she is very focused now on what she really wants, i like ppl who knows what they want in life). so if Singaporeans dun buck up, it will be hard for us to compete with them locally or internationally.



Oh well, song of the day:

Design 2

Design 2 , i think is the worst module that i have ever taken, very time consuming. and my team, haiz.. they are all smart ppl but the things they do are er.. rather below par.

First reactor: 30% conversion. i throw into a beaker can get more % conversion lo

Furnace: It requires a forced draft fan. The total utility for it is amazingly low, 40kW. switch on air conditioner already dunno how many watts liao... that forced draft fan which is suppose to suck contents upwards against gravity requires only 40kW. If only i can patent that fan. Many many other mistakes were discovered too which shouldnt have occur given their intelligence level. Hwa Chong JC Alumni c'mon....you guys can definitely produce much better work than this

Our total capital cost was estimated to amount 107million (expected to grow further after including waste water treatment), operating cost is at close to 25million per year. Li hai. Our hydrogen plant is just a sophisticated way to burn money i think. When i told a friend about our cost, he replied, "you all building hydrogen plant or hydrogen bomb?"

"Kaboom, goes the bomb, sorry, i mean our plant" -zh

BBC's April Fools Joke & Karaoke

Flying penguins, ya right... why not pigs ..hah

anyway, overheard my neighbour's karaoke session just now. He sang for quite a while, with 4 chinese songs initially, i think this person is weird, just listen to what he sings in the following sequence:



Very nice song...... din even knew there was such a song by faye wong, beautiful



what the hell.... followed by...



this hokkien one at least not that bad... lastly...



after which he switched to U2's and Rob stewart songs... interesting combination ya... took me ages to find the title of these songs lo... was totally distracted once he started singing... oh well, back to design 2 ... as usual...

"Many of those students that were expecting to start working for Bears Stearns this spring as either an intern or a full-time hire, are now finding themselves cut loose following the firm's dramatic near collapse last month.JPMorgan Chase said Friday it had canceled a portion of the offers Bear Stearns made to students earlier this year, just weeks after it scooped up the troubled investment bank at a fire sale price. However, those interns that it was not able to hire could receive the 10 weeks of pay they would have received if they spend their summer working at a non-profit approved by the company."

I had encountered a similar problem when i secured an internship with chartered semi-conductor last year, got 'kicked out' due to some acquisition issues, but why wasnt i offered such benefits? Have to call the other companies that i have rejected initially to beg them to take me in.

ah, i finally remembered the name of the first ever korean drama i have watched rather nice, but not the first jap drama though.. seldom watch tv programmes except for sports and news.

At home in biz school..engineering? huh? whats that..

This semester has been rather fun, meeting lotsa new ppl in business and giving out name cards, especially to those in the CFA interest group and the other Beta Gamma Sigma members. Anyway, the students in biz are generally much more ambitious and street smart than the engineering students and they have rather good presentation skills, moreover, their resumes are pretty decent too. Also, not only do they have dreams to become entrepreneurs, some are already doing it for real, and the effort they put into the market research ah, amazing man. I have expressed interest in some of their plans and one is already sending me updates every now and then on his progress. His plan sounds really feasible to me, it is quite li hai of him to think of it in the first place actually. At biz school, i feel so at home. Oh well, back to design 2 ...

Reservist Posting

Alright, i have been posted to SNSR, RATC IHL. I have zero idea what it was until a friend told me what it stands for, he once worked in CMPB. Its reservist armour training centre, institute of higher learning. SNSR he dunno what it is too. Its for personnels that went on to well, IHL after they ORD... once armour always armour.... no more 4th Singapore Armour Brigade (4SAB) though...

Video from the Basic military training centre school 1 Passing out parade. We din have the infantry roar then... parade nowadays like so fun, few years back everything was so serious.

双人相梦

A friend of mine sent me this clip, this is the closest i can get to the real stuff...its a hokkien version though, but still nice.... i will pay to get hold of the chinese version of this song... been looking for it for ages..



if you were wondering why i like this song so much, well, firstly a lot of ppl likes 双人相梦 too => its nice lar. If i remembered correctly, i woke up in the middle of the night when i was in sec sch and this song was playing on the radio. immediately, i got up and try to write down its lyrics (as best as i could) so that i can ask my friends in school the next day about this particular song. well, with my fei chang li hai de chinese, no one could tell what the song is. After a while, i forgot its lyrics and melody totally, so i cant even ask anyone a thing about it. It was only last year that i accidently heard it on my sis's ipod, it was great to hear it again after so many years, big mistake not to have extracted it out. Another song call 盐 by 彭学斌 is a great song too, i have that song in wma format if you want just msn me. Anyway, if you like hardcore stuff well go listen to Greenday's Jesus Of Suburbia, 9min of rock... interesting stuff some of you might find it irritating though...

Pi Day & Yanni

14th of march is Pi Day because 3-14 is analogous to 3.14 thats how they write their dates in the west i guess. Heard that students in e maths department in Canada got free pie on that day itself. Anyway, view the clip on Pi, it's rather funny and irritating at the same time. oh and erm the clip at the bottom is from Yanni, great performance. sent to me by a friend. watch it maybe you'll enjoy it.

they should sack the producers of these songs...seriously

"I am sticking with you, cos i am made out of glue"...... interesting lyrics but still... haha



This song sucks...



and this as well.

Listen at your own risk alright... hahaa probably u will enjoy it, i just cant connect to these songs though... definitely not my cup of tea..

Jeff Dunham & Achmed

dun eat or drink when you are watching this, i almost choked... hah

Corrine May & Ning Baizura

the 2nd song doesnt have the 'omph' factor anymore, it sounded better years ago.
anyway i am still looking for the song titled 双人相梦....

I am a Bumble Bee.

Alright let me list down the quiz, assignments, test, term papers, projects , presentations that are due this month.

5th Econs Presentation
6th Operation Management Mid Term
7th Finance Quiz
8th Finance Mid term
14th Biz Law Term Paper due
15th Econs Mid term
24th Tech Elective Mid term
28th Biz Law Presentation
31st Design 2 HEN due
31st Operation Management Project due
elective term paper (due date unknown)+ weekly econs assignment + trading and investing +the venture

How? where is my time machine? no more mah jong already, i am always the cai shen ye so dun play also nvm. no more rock climbing or soccer.. just mug, my life will be pretty interesting, wont you say so. anyway, i've failed to keep a promise that i have made to a friend.damn.too busy with so many things that i'd forgotten all about it. Not an excuse though. Probably i just suck as friend.

Investments and trades

the building of my portfolio is now almost completed except for a few more real estate investment trusts, am currently looking at Parkway REIT and Mapletree Log REIT at the moment. am taking a rather cautious approach now and have added position to my existing holdin in Thai Beverage and Singpost as they are both defensive in nature. Still value-cost-averaging my index fund as well. Singapore long term bond and T-bills are paying really low interest about 3% and 1.35% respectively, hello, inflation leh.. REITs tends to fall when inflation hits as the risk free return are now expected to be higher so to reach market equilibrium (market forces) they have to fall in price else no one will buy them. (Ex. If it pays 6% dividend yield with inflation at 1%, thats alright, but if it pays 6% yield and inflation is 5%, thats not right, prices will be driven down to take into consideration the increase in risk free rate)

oh well, 3 weeks ago, my hand was rather itchy.. so i went to trade the US market with my 'speculative' money... (i dun believe in trading actually after my initial experience with it, it only makes the brokerage firms richer through the commission, read the book titled "Where is the customer's yacth" and u will understand what i mean)... the money was placed in an account called option express , away from my investment account (POEMS) so that i wont do silly things to my long term investments.

anyway here is the trade.. it kinda suck actually .. bought it as the RSI is low and thought that it will break out of the channel.


the picture is rather small, maybe it will be bigger if you click on it, well, i shorted the US market S&P 500 (meaning i want the market to plunge) by buying an Shorting Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). i entered at 64.8 USD with an exchange rate of 1.41. It plunge to 60 plus due to the recovery over the week. no need to cut lost still though, last firday it shot back to 63.4 after the DOW fell 200 over points. market crash ba pls.. then i can value-cost better, buy discounted shares as well as profit from this trade.

Exactly a week ago, a crane near NUS business school came crashing down killing 3 workers. Students in LT16 and the nearby bus stop couldnt believe how lucky they were to survive when they witnessed the aftermath of the incident.

Reports the next few mornings then revealed how luck wasn't what saved the students in the LT. A man who should be named a hero did. As the crane started to lose its balance at the site, it came crashing down towards LT16. The 47 year old Singaporean operator responded immediately and swerved the machine away from the building saving hundreds of young lives. I was in that LT.

So pls donate generously to the victims' families...

You De Mei De (三)

A 89 year-old grandma filed her nomination paper last sunday to contest a Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat. Maimum Yusof, who has 19 great grand children, was seen in recent days riding around on her bike cavassing for support. She had so far spent more than RM10,000 to register as a candidate and will mobilise more cash and resources in her campaign preparations. When asked how confident she is of winning, she said "I believe i can win."

good on you. Grandma nowadays just cannot sit still eh... my grandma is now learning dancing beside english.

Oh well, anyway...a rather unknown singer sang this, rate it...

You De Mei De (er4) ...

My grandma is 72 this year. She is learning english. Li hai ba. Its funny though when she tries to use them. "I am on the way" she can pronounced as "I am under wear"

Anyway, just found out today that my friend in SIM is currently working as a security guard. His monthly pay is about 1.5k, he said he just go there to sleep from 10pm to 6am every weekday, so why not earn some money while he sleeps. like that also can. hahaa. the things ppl do to earn some cash ^^ He teaches tuition and works part-time during the day as well.. so his monthly intake is i guess more than 2.7-3k.

Working as a security guard in singapore aint a bad job you know (when you are semi-retired and cant get elected as a director of some coy haha). See you can just sit there whole day day dream or just read some books. Toto books (20 years series), investment books or just any other book .. maybe plus one radio+mosquito coil+water+food+arm chair+wet tissue+toothbrush+toothpaste+handphone+laptop for trading+a dog.. then you are all set to enjoy while the dog works and you get paid. See you can take your shoes and socks off and just relax when everyone else is gone the entire complex is yours. cool. KIV for now.

Quote of the day

Dr Lucy Chen: " what do you get when you cross-match an islandic and a cuban"
Ans: "Little Ice Cubes"

Dr Lucy Chen: " what do you get when you cross-match a chicken and a turkey"
Ans: "Chickey"

when your professor is around 27-30 years of age. Lectures can be a rather interesting affair..

汉语拼音方案

汉语拼音 is celebrating its 50 years old birthday this year. I think is a really important tool to learn when you want to communicate with a chinese. See my friend has a rather weird name, his name is Rude. Well not Rude as in rude but Ru De. When he was in America, the Americans and the American-Chinese keep pronouncing his name as simply rude. He had a hard time convincing them that it is Ru De instead of Rude.

cny come and go just like that..

After all the gambling, interrogation during chu 1 2 and 3, it is time to chill abit. This year's cny is very happening as compared to the previous 3 years, which is good. The sad thing though is that i got to watch carefully what i put inside my mouth. Nothing spicy, nothing acidic in nature, no caffine, no oily fried stuffs (no ba kwa). only ate food that are qing dan,they are really hard to find though. it is pure sufferance i tell you...yen ba ba de kan zhe relatives gobble down my favourite ba kwa.....

Well back to work. I am in charge of doing heat integration for the design of a hydrogen plant. There are 7 units in total and each of us are required to write about 30-40 pages of report on the unit design. After which, we will need to do other things like cost analysis, safety health and environment, regulation issues, control systems, pipings et cetera. Past year reports are all around 350-400 pages..darn.. another thing is, the 6 of them are designing only for a single unit. however for me,i need to design a lot of heat exchangers each varying in design. also i cant do anything much until they have all finished designing their own units and then integrate them all together.

This is how a student sees a heat exchanger...

This is what it looks like in real life.. some looks like a mini truck or amoured vehicle



some looks like a torpedo...



some looks like a space shuttle...

It can cost millions just to build one exchanger so as to save on utilities as you are transferring heat from a stream that needs to be cooled to another stream that needs to be heated without any external load. if i design that space shuttle or torpedo-like heat exchanger out ah, i will get murdered...

You De Mei De...

My stomach hasnt felt this good for eons. Seriously, i have forgotten the 'normal' feeling that one should feel about meals. It has never been an enjoyment to munch on something for the past 3 months or so, slowly though , i am beginning to have cravings. The bill just came for the gastroscope..guess how much it costs? gastroscope plus half-a-day B1 ward along with ac and meals...... it's only $161.. i really have no idea why am i subsidied so much, my grandma underwent the similar thing at SGH for $300+, shouldnt an elderly get more subsidy? hmm.. weird ... also, consultation alone costs $40+, but day surgery cost $161.. what gives? i was recommended to go to CGH by my sis bf, who is doing his housemanship there. He said that the waiting list is really short relatively speaking and that there are fewer patients there as compared to TTSH and SGH.... indeed, it is a world apart as compared to TTSH and SGH.

Anway... my finance tutor is kinda qualified, he is a CFA and a CPA .. hell...

His current holdings:

25%-China 25%-India 50%-Taiwan (all equity funds) 0% Cash.. (Clap clap got guts.. tonnes of guts)

Mine:

34%-T Bills (No guts) 5%-Real Estate 4%-Infrastructure 30%-Bond and 27%-Equity(global index fund+individual stock)

Holding a lot of cash and bonds now..too risk adversive maybe..abit too much for my age...am transfering my cash position to equity though abeit at a really slow pace given the current market situations. Waiting for the news guy to shout "Stocks selling on discounts!! Buy Ah!!, " like real... haha..what they would really say though is something like " US stocks stumbles overnight, Dow Jones Industrial Index fell 5000 points... ". Whatever lar, as long as it falls i happy. . i tried to type about technical analysis here the previous night but it is really hard... so maybe i will discontinue my previous post on trading/investing for now...

took me a while to find this video, cos, i dunno its title..cept for the chinese opera sounding music at the beginning and in the middle, the rest are okie..

Gastroscopy, i slept right through it...

i said Hi to my stomach for the first time in 23 years, it's cute and pink in colour, with some tiny dots (inflammation) that arent suppose to be there. It turns out that i have Gastrities, nothing too serious, but will have to watch my diet and not to overkill myself from now on (less hectic lifestyle) before it turns more severe. Looking back i wonder why they perform all the other tests on me when one scope can do it. Did blood test, stool test, thyroid/pancreas/gall bladder/liver function test, ECG(heart wave tracing) and some CT scans and X-rays.... for what i am still not too sure, at least all turns out normal. Seen 7 doctors in jan'08 great start to the new year, tai li hai le, hope today's one is the last. Think i dun have to do these tests for the next few years already or so i hope. If i sign up for the NUH health screen premium package, i think i will covered like 60% of my entire body already. Looking at the smile on my mum's face when she found out that it was nothing serious felt really good. Oh well, probably have to cut myself some slack from now on... stop tuitioning, stop stock picking just use dollar/value cost average with index funds, stop mahjong-ing hmmm (cos keep losing money and alcohols are no good for my stomach) .. be a sleeping partner instead and dun read too far ahead of the lectures...

Army Style SOC



Children Style SOC



Children having fun
While we are holding guns
have you ever wondered,
why must we served
Because we love our land
and we want it to be free to be free..

I can't say that I'm in a state of despondency but it has been a while since I felt really happy. Part of it has got to do with my tummy, a lot of wind inside. But the wind tend to decrease a lot once i eat something but i have no appetite so gotta force the food down...called a couple of hospital today to check for their earliest appointment date to see a gastro specialist. SGH is filled till july. earlist appt for TTSH is in april. NUH is in may. So the current appointment i have is still the earlist, CGH in feburary. hmm .. come to think of it,i have forgotten to call CGH to see if they have got any patients that have cancel their appt or not. Will give AH a miss though after having my knee and ankle treatment there. Private hospitals are outta the question, too expensive. Another reason for my current state is, well, in school i have like no friends. Only 1 or 2 really close ones are around, rest are mere acquaintances. Damn.

Anyway, i think i have a common face. Quite a no. of ppl have ask me questions like, "Hey i think i have seen u b4." ," are from blah blah blah" or " were you in this school? " This sort of thing. I was in army back then and some officers came to me and told me, "I know your father" then walked away. (what the hell..) In BMT, a bunkmate asked me if i was from XXX primary school. Last semester's lab assistant ask me a lot of personal question during a particular session only to reveal that she was checking if i was her long lost nephew. When i was helping out in engine o week, a fellow helper came up and ask me if i do sailing on a regular basis as she felt that she has seen me b4. Last week i was waiting for a buyer of my book in engine canteen and a friend introduced 2 friends to me, one of them ask me if i was in the medic corps during army, he seem to have seen me somewhere b4 he says. In JC, when i was in J2.. one J1 girl came up and ask if i was in from RV previously. Also, in J2, a friend told me that there is a guy whom looks just like me in J1. Friends of my friends told my friends that they seemed to have seen me before after they saw me talking to my friends whom are their friends as well (get it?) (this had happened a few times) zzz. Guys whom said that they have saw me b4 might indeed have becasue i was a guardroom specalist. So anyone entering or leaving my camp will bound to see me when i check their camp passes. If that is not the case, i think i needa start differentiating myself from the rest of the equally common-faced guys. . grow a beard and shave off my eye brows?