veintiun horas en la clase espanol

LOL ... that means '21 hours in Spanish class' ... ( not sure about the grammar though ... ). Finally, after 21 hours of clueless lessons, today my tutor taught us about verb conjugation (which is one of the most important components of Spanish grammar), everything starts to make sense now ... I have to say, coping with new sets of rules are quite difficult, but I LOVE Spanish so much I think I am going to keep going.
' ¡Quiero el lengua Espanol! ' ( I love the Spanish language! )

Besides, there are other benefits learning Spanish, the best is this :



Si, ¡¡¡es Primero Mexico's Next Top Model !!!

This only means one thing. I finished watching Britain Next Top Model ( all FIVE cycles !!!) ... now I have to resort to Mexico's Next Top Model ... while waiting for next ANTM in March. Unfortunately, I could only find ONE video with English subtitles .... and I can only pick up a few words here and there ... so basically I have no idea what is going on without the subtitles ... haih ... As you can see, Mexican girls are really HOT ... look at the semi-finalists I can see so many good looking ones ...

'¡Chicas de Mexica son muy bonito!'
( Girls from Mexico are very pretty!)
PS : Currently my vocabulary is very limited ... I'm sure there are grammatical errors here and there ...

Alright, enough about Spanish, next week is my recess week. However I am not going back to Malaysia as there are still 2 mid terms and 2 assignments due after the break. Better get started. Unlike Wei Han who gets to spend precious time with yt .... To help me make it through such tough time, I have booked the music room for EIGHT HOURS ( ie OCHO HORAS !!!) ... thanks to my friend's generosity in giving her piano time to me. And also my WORK ... which I am still enjoying .... not to mention the little extra income to help me out with my poor life ..lol

Madeline Zima

I'll have my Chemistry mid term exam tomorrow. What am I doing now ? The usual ...... NOTHING .... I needed something to take my mind off, so I downloaded 'The Collector" 2009 and watched it ... I have to say, I like this thriller a lot ... especially how the killer tortured the victims ... ( Don't worry, 我吾读书读到烧坏脑... still quite sober ... )

I saw something more interesting. Madeline Zima. She was the one the main characters in The Nanny (which I doubt many people know about) .... Weirder still .... there was a 'hot' scene in the movie and it felt kind of wrong watching it ....lol ... considering the last time I saw her she was 9.... Anyway, here are some pictures of her ...

Madeline Zima (as Gracie in The Nanny). She starred in this show since she was 6.

Madeline Zima in The Collector.


Before _____________ After

I personally rate this movie 9.5 ... the only flaw I think was the lack of introduction of the victims, and thus there was less sympathy when they were brutally killed ... Graphic and storyline were fantastic ... For Thriller/Horror fans, I really recommend this movie ...

Volleyball

Somebody has given me Dead Blog Alert ( someone very important ), so I'll post something really random .... considering I have nothing much to post already ... life is boring as it can get in Singapore .... btw, mid term is coming ... :(

So, moving on to what I am gonna talk about today .... well, actually not much to talk about .... just a bunch of guys trying to prevent a pathetic ball from dropping on their own compound ... lol ... ya, this is volleyball ...

Our captain, Javier. Star star star player ... damn good ... Year 1 only ...

Blocking formation ...

Scolding time ...lol ... no la ... Coach giving advice ...

Lost already also need to shake hand all ... sportsmanship ma ...

Hall 7 Male Volleyball Team .... thanks for all the support from you all ...
Jorn, Ming Xiao, Yu Cheng, Glen, Coach
Wai Lun, ME, Tech Chong, Kenneth, Javier
Chun Yi, Meng Heng, Keng Kok

Volleyball has made my first semester more fulfilling ... not to mention the crazy amount of sweat I lost ... now can rest up a bit before I lose weight again next semester ... : )

Sentosa ? Sentosa ?! Sentosa !!!!!

Last Sunday, I followed MSA ( like a Malaysian society ) NTU to Sentosa for our Freshmen Orientation Camp ( FOC ) outing ... with the purpose of bonding the committee members for our upcoming FOC for this year's freshmen.... As usual, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves ...lol

Morning gathering at Old Canteen A. Said 730am, we ended up taking the bus at 830am .... Worse, it was expected. That's why they put it earlier .... ==''' .... Typical Malaysian mentality ...lol

In the bus, the Senior Attached Group Leader (SAGL) ... for some reason NTU loves to use acronyms for everything ..lol ... They were very dedicated bunch to me, always hyper ... bus ride wasn't our rest time.... we sang and joked around ... half an hour went past before we knew it ...

Ice breaking session. I personally think this was very creative ... Firstly, they let us pass around a roll of toilet tissue and we were given the liberty to take as many as we want ... Of course, kiasu mentality set in.. Some took like half a row...lol ... but there was a catch : For every piece of tissue we take, we had to tell the group a truth that the rest of the team didn't know ...I only had 2 pieces ... lol ... :P

My OG ... named Sek Lou Sang = 吃捞生



FOC outing 2010 ....

Ice breaking penalty : Pole dancing ( just one of them only ok ? ) They have plenty .... but everyone was very sporting ... even penalties were fun to do ...


Adrian ... my group mate ... never saw him before. But we became friends in no time ..lol

Our war cry ...


Food Clamping. We had to pass around 4 different types of food ( 甜酸苦辣) WITH OUR FEET !!! Some food dropped out during the process... but we had to eat it as well ( with beach sand flavouring of course .. ). After everyone had the chance to add some scent from his/her feet into our food .........



We had to eat it. And THIS PERSON IS NOT ME !!! Even though I mistakenlty thought I ate a piece of raw ginger that day ....
甜 : Sweet cookies
酸 : Fresh raw lemon ( half of the fruit we had to eat.. )
苦 : Kopi sweets ( Not bad ... )
辣 : RAW GINGER !!!! ( I didn't touch those at all .. )



Next game: Tiger, Policeman & Sniper.
Whole group had to decide on one of the characters and do the action together. This was the 'tiger'.........



And the losers had to run for their lives before they get caught by the winners .... LOL ... I bet we all played this when we were much younger ... it was nice to relive some youth ...( I'm still under 20 k ... must savour every moment before I get old .. )

Next up : Human Fussball.

I think everyone knows what fussball is. Same rules. I think we can play this game if we had enough people in our outing ...

Super random : Our SAGL. Always hyper ...lol


War Cry !!! Was what we did every time before a game began. It really brought up our spirit .... especially everyone was practically forcing their throats out of their mouths ...

Seguinte ( 'The following' in Spanish... must apply a bit ..lol ) : Charade with lots of water spilting ...no one will look good doing it ...lol

We had lunch. Somehow MSA people loved to take weird pictures. I like this ... got some aesthetic values ....lol

Wet games: There were quite a few of them but I only managed to get some pictures on them. In this game, we had to transfer sea water using any part of our body apart from our arms.

Chill people .... this wasn't a fight .... it was another war cry ...lol

Losers had to do penalties. Very creative penalties though...

This is called Tsunami. The loser team formed a circle in the middle of the sea and the winner team splashed water at them .... somehow the loser team always got back to the other team...lol

If I am not mistaken, this is called 'Omochi' ... the losing members are the 'content' of omochi and were buried with sand ...

Sand Facial. And people are actually paying for them in spas ...

Do I need to elaborate on this? Pretty obvious right ?



This was messy .... sand in the hair. Sand underneath the tongue. Sand in places that were not supposed to be ...lol

NOT emoing ... just enjoying the sea water .... last time I did was in PD ... which was HALF A YEAR AGO !!!

Water group photo

Another group photo

That was how vain we were... whenever there were cameras, everyone would be posing ...

We arrived back in NTU at around 600pm. Everyone was so exhausted. I had a really good night sleep that day ..... : )

PS : Wei Han, can consider joining the programmers now ?

PPS : Today is also our 1 month anniversary .... Yeah .... we survived it after all ....

Can't get her out of my head ...

The person I meant was her .... and this piece that she is playing ( Chopin Etude Opus 10 Number 4 ) ... very very crazy for it .... but etudes are composed to give people with weak fingerings like me a tough time.... but I shall try and practise it after CNY ...




This piece will take me at least half a year if I am patient and determined enough to last me this long ... LOL ...

Today's Sentosa trip was awesome ( but super exhausting ... ) ... shall do a post on it when I get the pictures ...

Glycolysis

Sad ... Today is a Saturday and I am sitting in my desk trying to stuff this 10-steps glycolysis into this little brain of mine .... Enzymes, regulations, physiological changes ...... I almost can't take it ... this made sense considering I was gaming while studying ....lol

Tomorrow is Sentosa trip with my fellow MSA club members ( which Wei Han didn't join ... ). No time for tutorial ...so have to finish it by today ... T_T ...

PS : I just finished memorising 1-100 in Spanish ...lol ... next week got spelling ....

How to lose Half a KG in 30 minutes?

Yup. I conducted the experiment myself, and it worked. Just go to the nearest hospital, grab your IC and register.





FOR A BLOOD DONATION !!!!


Yup. That's right. And people thought losing weight was difficult ... lol ... best thing of all ... I actually managed to gain enough weight in Singapore to donate 1 pine ( 450cc ) of blood ....... Last time ( in mckl ) I could only do 300cc ..... Only good thing about gaining weight ....

It was actually quite fun .... After I donated my blood, they provided us with very good meal ( eg Milo, apple juice, waffle biscuits which were amazing etc ... ) ... I ate so much as if they were my reward for donating my blood ... I even saw some donors 'da pao' the milo .. =_= ..... Shame on them .... ( PS : I wasn't one of them ok ... )

The nurses here are really really awesome. Not only physically ....lol .... but their politeness was commendable .... I perhaps may have a slight chance of reconsidering donating blood during the next blood drive .....

The aftermath was terrible though. Right after this, I went for dinner with few of my friends. I ate so much ( I even took half of my girlfriend's rice ... no wonder she is getting thinner .... ) that I bet all the weight loss probably didn't count at all ...

LOL ... but it felt great. A small wound on my hand could possibly save 3 lives .... think about that ... it is worth it .... : )

17-25,25-17,17-25

THIS IS NOT THE LOTTERY NUMBER OR WHATSOEVER .....

It is our hall volleyball team's score against another hall's team. Well, as you can see, we LOST .... but our opponent was last year's runner up... so it was sort of expected ... but didn't know why suddenly our team became very geng .... managed to put up a reasonable fight .... well ... I won't be touching volleyball until next semester ..... no more exhausted days, twisted wrist etc ....

PS : What I did was only sitting on the bench and cheering ... :( ...

PPS : Today I saw a weighing machine at SRC ( Sports & Recreational Centre .. in NTU ) ... I couldn't resist it. And when I stepped on it ..... "OMG !!!!!!!!" ..... I gained like * kgs ( notice it is plural )... almost a miracle .... my first weight gain in Singapore .... I think I have been fed too well lately ..lol

PPPS : I now have 9 pots of plants in my room ( souvenirs from my project ) ... my roommate hasn't asked anything ... probably thinking they were my science project of something ....

" Do Mother Nature a favour. Adopt a Plant. " - Earthlink EAC 2010 -

3rd week anniversary

Today I am really really relieved and having a great day .... Not only have my committee completed our project ( the one which I am counting on to allow me to stay in my hall for the next semester ... ), I think it went so well we got sponsorsing agents coming down to NTU to offer their sponsorship for our next year's event .... I can still remember couple of weeks ago I was disappointed with our committee for taking things too easily ... but things just started to come together lately .... Couldn't have wished for more .... plus I adopted a few pots of plants .... 3 mothers and 1 daughter ...

3rd week already we have been together ... i just read her blog and noticed that she is not coping too well .... worse of all, I didn't know it from her mouth ... guess I was too busy with this project for the past few weeks .... I'll try to spend more time with her ....lol

Another week then we'll have ONE month anniversary .... wa .... like some sort of great achievement like that ... lol ... hope we get there ...

Satisfied ...

I was so satisfied yesterday ... like all my unfulfilled desires were thrown to me all at once ... Please don't get the wrong idea here ok ?Yesterday I had a very very nice Japanese buffet in SINGAPORE !!! Talking about saving huh ... I think it was quite reasonable , even when I have converted to Ringgit the price is almost like Tenji's price .... not to mention the restaurant is in SINGAPORE !!! I had my first taste of durian in like 6 months ... even though it was just Durian paste dessert and Durian ice-cream, I was over pampered by indulgence .... come to think of it ... Malaysian durian still nicer....

I always had this craving for Japanese buffet .... every now and then. I think right now my girlfriend and Wei Han probably can't put up with my obsession any longer ....

I haven't had such full meal in like forever .. probably gained a few pounds as I speak ... Only 1 complaint, the salmon wasn't really fresh .... so was the oyster ... The few of of us just sat there and ate and talked until the restaurant closed ..... so worth it .... we practically developed a second stomach just to accommodate the extra food we took in.... typically Malaysian mentality ... " Malaysia Boleh ! " ..lol

Come to think about it, tomorrow is our 3rd week anniversary already ... and look who's counting ( HINT HINT L** S** Z**** ... ) ...We are still surviving .....