Unfortunately i couldn't find a way to embed the video here. This was a song i've been looking for for ages. was quite surprised when a misquoted "ba da ba da" on plurk brought this google result out. Cheers, Linny!



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1. Good pair of sun glasses
2. Crumpler bag
3. Computer
4. With extra HDD

Was going through Supernatural, and there was an episode in the earlier seasons which some of the Deadly Sins. A quick dig through Wikipedia, 1min later I was glad I'm not a Christian because I'm guilty of the 7 Deadly Sins to the point of damnation! haha!

There are apparently the "venial" sins (minor) and could be forgiven through any sacramentals of the church, and also the "capital" sins or mortal sins, which are more severe. Mortal sins destroyed the life of grace, and created the threat of eternal damnation unless either absolved through the sacrament of confession, or forgiven through perfect contrition on the part of the penitent.

Do a self check, if you're guilty of these 7 sins, cos they will come back and tear your skin and flesh in hell.

• Lust




• Gluttony




• Greed




• Sloth




• Wrath




• Envy




• Pride

According to Wiki, Pride is the worse of them all.

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It has always been part of guys talk to discuss how horrible girls look with make up, and some other chicks who look like Mrs Dracula with make up.

Let's warm up to the topic (as soon as my brain is working) with this E! Online link which compares the celebrities with and sans make up.



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unless the small basin of water near your subwoofers vibrates like this:

If I'm not listening to the particular kind of music, that means you're slowly killing yourself with it. Either

-too noisy (your ear drums will pop)
-too soft (hey you need a strong dose of drugs to stimulate yourself, right, so your wasting power by playing that)
-too acidic (ear drums melt)
-too holly (leave your amitaba-chant music to days when there's exams)

五月天 - 后青春期的诗
南拳妈妈 - 南搞小孩新歌
林宥嘉 - 神秘嘉宾
王力宏 - 改变自己
王力宏 - 盖适英雄
萧亚轩 - 三面夏娃
萧亚轩 - 1087
ABBA GOLD - Greatest Hits
David Archuleta - David Archuleta
David Cook - David Cook
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Kylie Minogue - Kylie X
Kylie Minogue - X
Lifehouse - Who We Are
Linkin Park
Matchbox Twenty/Matchbox 20 - Exile On Mainstream
Rob Thomas - Something To Be
The Weepies - Hideaway
Timbaland - Shock Value

This house is fuking weird. Someone will be hoarding all the extra fine markers i buy from the store --- ALL THE FUKIN TIME. I'd then have to replenish them often (each one is rather expensive) then I'll chuck it into the pen container at my pc desk in the living room.

Somehow the very next time I want to use it, which ranges from 1 day to about 1 month later, IT WILL BE MISSING! What the fuk?!! Some cheebye in this house has a fetish to plug that fine tip into his ass or something?! Now I'm looking for it, and I cannot find it again?! I swear I bought just before the sem started, chucked it back into the mug (instead of into my pencil case) out of pure laziness and didnt use it, even though I know the FUCKIN MARKER THIEF will steal it again.

WTF, WTF, WTF!!! Now my perfect Debian DVD discs are destroyed by the fugly-ly thick labeling strokes on them!

1 good singer, 4 other great dancers. A good music producer. This is modern dance.

If you ever noticed, there's a relation between school work/exams with blogging, ie, the more stressed or more work you have, you'll blog more about nonsense instead of mugging properly.

Exams are temporarily over for me. I can't even begin to think how screwed I am in approximately one month's period. Until then, there will probably be half less than the number of posts I had in the last 2 weeks --- this sounds weird, like a subtle hint that I miss mugging!

(Friggin writer's block early in the morning)

Oh yes, I'm very much the tv series junkie now. Computer's close to bursting its operating seams. Don't feel like whipping my brains with Gordon Ramsey. Finished season 2 of Dexter, subsequent episodes of DSM 2, Supernatural 4. Other than National Geographic, what else good is there to watch?

FBI increases reward for suspected eco-terrorists

...regardless of their political or social message, their actions were criminal and violated federal laws," Arthur M. Cummings II, executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch, said in the FBI statement.

The statement said the agency is offering "up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest" of the four.

ELF made no secret of its responsibility for the Vail fire, and on October 19,1998, issued a statement saying: "Vail Inc. is already the largest ski operation in North America and now wants to expand even further...

Urm..They went THAT way.

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fuckin song keeps looping in the head after i played it in the afternoon.

Matchbox 20 - Disease

Feels like you made a mistake
You made somebody's heart break
But now I have to let you go
I have to let you go

You left a stain
On every one of my good days
But I am stronger than you know
I have to let you go

No one's ever turned you over
No one's tried
To ever let you down,
Beautiful girl
Bless your heart

I got a disease
Deep inside me
Makes me feel uneasy baby
I can't live without you
Tell me what I am supposed to do about it
Keep your distance from it
Don't pay no attention to me
I got a disease

Feels like you're making a mess
You're hell on wheels in a black dress
You drove me to the fire
And left me there to burn

Every little thing you do is tragic
All my life, oh was magic
Beautiful girl
I can't breathe

I got a disease
Deep inside me
Makes me feel uneasy baby
I can't live without you
Tell me what I am supposed to do about it
Keep your distance from it
Don't pay no attention to me
I got a disease
I think that I'm sick
But leave me be while my world is coming down on me
You taste like honey, honey
Tell me can I be your honey
Be, be strong
Keep telling myself it that won't take long till
I'm free of my disease

Yeah well free of my disease
Free of my disease

I got a disease
Deep inside me
Makes me feel uneasy baby
I can't live without you
Tell me what I am supposed to do about it
Keep your distance from it
Don't pay no attention to me
I got a disease

I think that I'm sick
But leave me be while my world is coming down on me
You taste like honey, honey
Tell me can I be your honey
Be, be strong
Keep telling myself it that won't take long till
I'm free of my disease
Yeah well free of my disease
Free of my disease

1. Laundry that is sunned.
2. Endless fruits around.
3. Packets of instant coffee lying aroundin the cabinets or shelves
4. Cepat-cepat internet
5. my 5.1 creative speakers
6. 2L carton of milk, at my disposale anytime
7. my little pillow
8. a clutter-free table
9. Seeing my FATFAT and his new friend running to me



10. My bolster. Like a real bolster.

to be cont'd.

Its not many days I do Superman. The last was probably in army during the fuking field camp days --- to keep calm under the extreme lethargic feelings, also to hold the shit in, so I don't have to risk getting tekan by the mozzies stinging my ass and the sergeants by going to the latrine. (Don't ask me. They just love to make fun of people doing their major business, alright.)

That was Superman for me. Of course there were another few times with Callista and Emberlynn I had to be SuperKoKo, juggling 2 impossible kids and their impossible demands, but still keepingmy patience.

Then there is today.

Officially, I slept at 12midnight. Unofficially, 3.30am.

So you can probably imagine, yours truely pulling his hair in fustration, counting the hours left to his paper, flipping around in bed, throwing the blanket up and down, too hot turn up the fan, too cold turn down the fan, too bored play music, too muthafukin can't sleep chew on panadol, too hungry, suck thumb because too lazy to spread the bread to eat. WHY didn't I think of panadol sooner. Albeit the weird bitter taste, even the non-drowsy formula was enough to make me relax.

And yours truely did 2 papers today, 1 at 9am, another at 5pm. Managed to catch a little more than 15min of 40winks at 2, otherwise another 2min of literally 40winks at 6.30pm(right in the middle of the paper with 1hour to the end). Couldn't help it, my essay was slurring, meaning if I write "H", it'll turn out like "K", "e" to "-----....", etc.

And I'm just about to launch into another half of the physics question to prepare for the coming paper. ARGH, 4 more days.

It takes muthafukin forever to load a file in school.

Especially in times of crisis.

I'm gonna get myself a new computer and a new Crumpler when exam is over.

Now you know the rules, guys. The old bumper and new bigger engine is out of fashion. Apparently Japanese are doing these.

Feeling much better after jamming a few albums: Josh Groban, Wang LeeHom, Madonna, and talking to a couple of people msn, even though its mostly work related (talk cock with the resident bimbo just to find her suddenly replying what a lousy gf she is to her bf --- wtf, bombing run with random info), with the Polar Bear who just went off to cook his dinner.

Mug mug.

When things get too tough for the pun brain, it tends to hallucinate.

Me: Saturday evening in school alone. How pathetic can I get?

Sub concious: Suck it, bitch.

Me: But I doooowaaaaannnn.....

Sub concious: Few more days darling, what this kind of pain compared to field camp?

Me: Field camp was not. It was tekan camp! And its different!

Sub concious: So you want to feel guilty for the rest of the holidays for not trying your best to cram a bit more into that brain?

Me: No. But this sucks!

Sub concious: Its only this weekend, dear, out of the 52 weeks you got.

Me: Fuck off, skank.

Sub concious: Study, bitch.

Me: I hate you.

Sub concious: Long as it motivates you.

Sub concious is telling me dont be scared, cos its 6 more days.

But the mator cortex is making me shake every single minute that I'm not reading something academic.

I'll pay a demon to take over my body for this week to make it pass.

How much I'd pay to sit at the beach right now.

In the quiet of the night,
to listen to the waves splash against the pier,
the never-ending drum roll of sea to drown out its predecessor,
sounds of sand beating each other,
twirling of water slowly,
as they wind up more shells against the occasional pebble,
whistling of small tides when they slap each other with the friendliest gesture,
like a whirlpool beckoning "join in the fun".

And then it happens soon,
the water slowly drifting away from the feet,
drying out the sand like the mother gently dabbing water from her child,
torrents of salty fluids,
giving way to the unforgiving rocks,
the random seaweed draped across them,
like a babe enjoying her sun tan.

The water still drifts at the far end,
slapping each other silly,
like children fooling around,
not having to care for their tomorrows,
in the quiet of the night.

How much I'd pay to sit at the beach right now.

Being in school almost 7 days a week is driving me crazy. 7 days meaning all 7 days 6 nights. (1 night when I give myself some time off from my roommate, go home and see my FAT FAT and his new friend.) Actually this place has become like a second home nowadays. Except for the food, everthing is self-sufficient. Probably lack of a cinema, some huge ass shopping mall, company of girls (the females here are either too childish/ too much my little brother's age/ ah tiongs). One bus ride to the town central settles the problem of getting closer to proper civilisation --- still, much better than being in the army, when some weird boys become girls.

Luckily for me, cy has somewhat settled in to my choice of music, so I dont get scolded for blasting songs from Lifehouse and 南拳妈妈. Little bits like this makes me feel at home. (And now he starts to play Lifehouse again.)

Pictures.



And a clean room too.




We are not exactly sure how this got here, though we know for sure it was on top of cy's study table.

One more week of this madness. Hopefully I can lead a guilt-free life for a month, before the race resets itself on January.

So you think this is birthday celebration.

Shameful.

Do read the last section.

After all these, they walked away, leaving the wet and dirty victim begging for mercy with her hands tied to the poles, seated in an awkward position.

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I SWEAR I'M GONNA FUKING KILL THAT GUY NEXT DOOR PLAYING JEDIKNIGHTS.

DURING THE FUKING EXAMS.

When you want to play, USE EARPHONES. YOUR BOOMBOX IS NOT FUCKING HELPING MY STUDYING.

HE PLAYS THE FUCKING GAME AT 11PM AT NIGHT, AND AT FUCKING 3AM IN THE MORNING.

WHAT THE FUCK. YOUR STUPID GAME'S SOUND EFFECTS ARE NO HELP TO EVERYBODY.

YOU DON'T NEED TO REST AND SLEEP, BUT WE DO.

No thanks to Mike (aka our dearest "Jade_Fox"), I'm hooked!

Excellent article on cancer. Pass it on.

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.


WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intes tina l tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk, cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to no urish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

more animals

Just finished Season 2 episode 5. Can't wait for the next one!

Was flipping through FB photos of some guy from the hall who had his birthday recently. And I came across this chick. She's loud, she noisy, and I don't like her. There were numerous occasions that we can walk past each other, if she is alone she would give a polite smile, if with a bunch of friends from the hall, she would be in her usual self-high state and exclaim "ISN'T THIS GUY FROM OUR HALL?!!"

I never liked loud and noisy people much.

Perhaps its because they can be much louder and noisier than me, but of course more stupid and petty. I suppose its human nature to hate someone you see an a competitor. Of course it could also be the face that matters. Take this chick for example. Equate her to all the negative aspects of human nature I mentioned earlier. This is a living example of 'trash'.

Then there is another guy in my tutorial class called "Bryan". He is loud, he is noisy, worse of all, he wear blacks 24/7. Now picture a person, who's relatively skinny, looks weak, incredibly fair, gels his long hair to the same style which come to think almost looks like a wig, and rather short.

And he always wears black.

Not the best colour, IMO.

Before tutorials, he would act like he's Mr Hollywood Popular, going around asking every most stupid question you can ever imagine -

"JACKEEEE, HOW AH YEW TODEY?"

"SETIAWAN, WAT THE FARK YEW DOING, MAN!"

"EY, I DON'T WANT TO SIT BESIDE YOU, YOUR RESULT VERY LOUSY, LATER I COPY SURE FAIL ONE."

During tutorials, especially when the tutor is local, he would make his presence known. Instead of speaking like a university student, his behaviour reminds me of that punk I shamed in primary school.

"EH TEACHER, CAN LET ME TAKE PHOTO OF THIS SLIDE AOR NOT?" *click*

"EH TEACHER, I NEVER DO MY WORK, CAN DON'T GO UP AOR NOT?"

In a lot of ways, this person reminds me alot of me. But the thing is, his upbringing is alot worse off than mine, being rude to ladies, acting like a punk, as if he's everybody's friend. So I really can't give a flying dick.

During computing class, he was at it again - leeching answers from everybody.

"EH, YOU DO QUESTION 7 AH?"

"I COPY LIAO. NOW NOW YOU DO QUESTION 8."

"ALI DO QUESTION 9."

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with this loud mouth. He's almost like an elephant's ass having diarhoea. Then he attempted to come over to ask me for answers. I was reading up, trying to memorise the codes for file-in/out. He saw the codes on the screen, and demanded what I was doing. Perhaps its the little bit of kindness in me left, I didn't punch his face but instead told the yahoo to "Fuck off."

Like a leopard that doesn't change his spot, he didn't apologise for his rude intrusion, and moved on to a new target to bully.

I so hate loud people.

Last week, my indian neighbours still had his clothes on my clothes line, despite hanging there for almost a full week. With his clothes there, I wasn't able to wash my own clothes and hung them out, because there is no friggin space! As a result, I very nearly had to turn my underwear inside out, front to back, to reduce the clothes I had to wash. Leaving dirty laundry inside the basket in the dorm isn't exactly the option, since the perspiration and shit would make the room extremely smelly.

Back to my neighbour's clothes, I'm not exactly sure why they are there for the full week, but I'm very sure those set of clothes have fully experienced all of nature's elements, except snow.

Including fire.

When I told cy I'm seriously considering burning that hideous brown pants (wtf, this is the 21st century, no muthafuker's son will wear brown semi-polyester pants!), I hopped off my table impromtu, grabbed my lighter and stepped outside.

The starter did start, but the problem is, the fuking pants didn't catch fire. When they imported those hideous pants, the indian manufacturers must have taken into consideration all natural elements of the earth, including yours truely's species' intention to burn unclaimed clothes.

Squatting there like an idiot, I pushed the lighter again.

After about 5 tries, I had to retreat, for fear of the possibility of unknown orh-nehs lurking in the background, watching me burn their clothes. Besides, the hall president is my other adjacent neighbour. Though we both hate them, its best not to put him in a situation at having to evict me for attempting arson.

Feeling dejected, I had to report back to the room with failure.

But the muthafuker's clothes disappeared the following morning.

Talking about videos that don't make sense, this definitely ranks number 1.

No. I take that back. Its stupid.

Oh no. No more multiplier effect!

Saw upclose the new 2009 Mazda6 when some guy pulled it out from the carpark lot. From far, it remotely looks like the new Accord, maybe slightly bigger. Absolutely love it!



From what I reckon, the Mazda6 might not be the best in terms of passenger comfort, but its quickest off its feet. Youtube video below compares it with 2008 Nissa Altima and 2008 Accord

Rise and shine, bitch!

Came back from almost an entire day of practically intensive econs with the tutorial classmates. Feels great to trash out the rough topics in subjects that I'm not sure about. (That will cover almost all subjects.) At this time --- was 10.30pm, people are still in the old canteen A mugging it out like muthafrikkin slaves to their texts, which is rather amazing. We thought we'd carry on this type of studying even after this sem, trash out the topics we're not sure of, not go back until we get everything straighten out.

Another round tmr, and hopefully we can finish revision on all those frigging chapters.

This has gotta be the first few times, I study (or so I think I am) until I want to cry like a little girl.

Sigh. So bored. Sick of Electrical Field. So sick or physics. So sick of intestimal finite elements.

This muthafucking prick is gonna make me all confused about electricity.



Meet our new friend Carl Friedrich Gauss. You may call him Gauss. Sounds familiar? Cos in one way or another, as long as you're an engineering of some sort (maths, physics, even astronomy) you would have definitely heard of him, Until the day I understand his fucking laws, this person's face will be at the bottom of my foot.

I usually find that Cowboy Caleb rarely gives any good advice. Partly cos he

1. is on a permanent self-auto-high
2. is not sober at all times

But during these tough times, I couldn't help but agree with his points on how to help out your parents in the dire situation. Its a good read, just don't overshoot and start reading his other bs time-wasting links. HAHAHA!

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For what used to be headache inducing music, it's turned out to be a rather good album to accompany the midnight oil.

We got this msg a while ago:

ADAM KHOO SEMINAR-
Tmr 5.15pm meet at hall 10.
Please be very very punctual.
Look for ERIC 8XXXXXXX when
you're there. Revert once recerived.
Thanks! :-)

Nothing sounds wrong? Read again. And again.

Lets take a look at the definition of "revert".

(Taken from Dictionary.com)
revert
–verb (used without object)
1. to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
2. Law. to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.
3. Biology. to return to an earlier or primitive type.
4. to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.
–noun
5. a person or thing that reverts.
6. Law. a reversion.

(Taken from Google.com)
revert
# go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
# undergo reversion, as in a mutation


I don't mean to put down the author of this message, but my geepee teachers always thought me not to use big words I'm not sure of. And in this case, yours truely thinks "reply" would be a much more suitable word.

;-)

I am too fustrated with physics. Gonna take this place, crash it at the runway.



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Was watching Supernatural just a while ago. From the initial season, it only offers a darker, more vivid and sinister version to Ghost Whisperers. However, the show has morphed even darker as the seasons progressed.

Through the seasons, the Winchester brothers have found themselves to have demon blood, went to hell and back (literally), new powers to perform exorcism without having to chant rituals and risk anybody interrupting them. And now apparently their new focus is from killing Yellow Eyes the demon and his evil pals (aka mostly demons and tricksters) to preventing the worst evil of them all --- Lucifer.



I was checking out Lucifer ( Morning Star, Fallen Star, etc ). I thought all the long Lucifer was one of Satan's good kai kias. Look like I was wrong. Lucifer is Satan himself. (So much for a normal sounding name). Wikipedia wasn't very useful. Almost half of the page of "Lucifer" was probably written by the same w@nker who's upsessed by the variations of his name ("Morning Star, Day Star, Cheebye Star").

Looks like I have another interesting story to check out during my holidays.

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I came across this group, and its pretty funny. Now that the current situation is close to the morbid one, it's pretty amusing.

You might be an engineer if:

1)You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
2)You enjoy pain.
3)You know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
4)You chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force".
5)You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
6)It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
7)You frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver".
8)You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
9)You think in "math".
10)You've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
11)You hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
12)You have a pet named after a scientist.
13)You laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
14)The Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat experiment.
15)You can translate English into Binary.
16)You can't remember what's behind the door in the engineering building which says "Exit".
17)You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
18)You are completely addicted to caffeine.
19)You avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
20)You consider ANY non-engineering course "easy".
21)When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.
22)The "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
23)You'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
24)The blinking 12:00 on someone's VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.
25)You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading.
26)The salesperson at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
27)You can't help eavesdropping in computer stores... and correcting the salesperson.
28)You're in line for the guillotine... it stops working properly... and you offer to fix it.
29)You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards to see how they do the special effects.
30)You have any "Dilbert" comics displayed in your work area.
31)You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
32)You have never backed up your hard drive.
33)You haven't bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.
34)You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.
35)You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
36)You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon
37)You've even calculated how much you make per second.
38)Your favorite James Bond character is "Q," the guy who makes the gadgets.
39)You understood more than five of these jokes.
40)You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door (or your home page !)

The Top 10 Things Engineering School didn't teach:

10. There are at least 10 types of capacitors.
9. Theory tells you how a circuit works, not why it does not work.
8. Not everything works according to the specs in the databook.
7. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex math, which you will never use.
6. Always try to fix the hardware with software.
5. Engineering is like having an 8 a.m. class and a late afternoon lab every day for the rest of your life.
4. Overtime pay? What overtime pay?
3. Managers, not engineers, rule the world.
2. If you like junk food, caffeine and all-nighters, go into software.
1. Dilbert is a documentary.

And the most important of them all (hahaha!!)

Top 14 reasons to date an engineer:

14. We are trained to do it right the first time
13. We are used to all nighters
12. We are always willing to experiment
11. We know how to decrease and increase friction
10. We know all about heat transfer
9. We do it with more torque
8. We can wire your circuits
7. Free body diagrams
6. Potential for smart children
5. Engineering couples have better moments
4. We know how to deal with stress and strain
3. We know it's not the length of the vector that counts, but how you apply the force
2. "Lubrication, Friction and Wear" is actually a class
1. The world DOES revolve around us....we pick the coordinate system

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I bumped into Olivia on the way back home just now. Olivia was a primary school classmate, prolly one of the few who seemed to be same class as me forever. Now she's a third year MAE student (well, the mechanical part) which is itself quite surprising. Olivia has always gotten considerably good results (compared to mine) and we know MAE, like CEE, is only second place as major dumping ground for anybody who wants to take up an engineering degree in NTU.

Currently she's doing her IA (industrial attachment), which explains why I didn't see her in school at all, and my cousin too, who's also currently on IA. While walking back, we talked about how tough the competiton and pressure is on studying, and especially now the exams. Seems like not studying happens to almost all of us. (Except for the foreign talents.) She usually only starts serious mugging --- like wake up till 2am kind, about a couple of weeks before entering the exam hall. And "somehow everything will turn up alright", says the former Hwa Chong girl.

I was skeptical. Firstly, she's rather smart. Secondly, HCJC. Thirdly, she might have seen how stressed I was that I actually didn't see this lanky girl waiting at the entrance while boarding the bus, so words of assurance, yeah. Bottom line, work hard even though you might feel like dropping school to give up (like how I feel now), cos "everything will turn out just fine".

Fug it, 1.40am and at home now, but I think I'll go look through my econs again.

I realised my spiraling expenses after a temporary break from Mycrocosm.

Incidentally, I've been using it to keep track of my eating expenses about 2 months ago. It's quite flexible, and the way you plot out your life, is limited by your imagination. Go take a look.



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