Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Smile

Smile when it hurts most...

Lost

Dreams lost, dreams found....Found? I hope...

Battle

This is Sparta!!!

Quote

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these "it might have been"

Mechanisms

Now I know why all chemists die young....must be the mechanisms they had to remember

If I gave you the moon would you notice.....

枯萎

看你那时离走的情形，我眼泪往下掉。

Fallen

This should be interesting to those in the know.

往事只能回味

Fickle

The fickle minded never achieves anything.

I must not deviate from my ultimate aim...Must not!

Optimism

May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays

Elation

Best response I have heard so far :D

Chance

Yet another chance goes begging...

Blank

洋葱

如果你愿意一层一层一层的剥开我的心
你会发现你会讶异
你是我最压抑
最深处的秘密

Vexed

Just cocked up my biochem midterm. Chickenshit motherfucker....it was carnage! Total anarchy!

Lets hope this week goes well....*crosses fingers*

Hope

Hoping beyond all hope. Don't let me down...

Alchemist

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve

Arnold

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed"
-Arnold

BonJovi

In the words of Bon Jovi,

Its now or never, I ain't gonna live forever.

Nano

I was at Epicentre recently and I got to play around with the new iPod Nano.

I have to say....terrible product.

Its probably the first Apple product that I have used that I don't have an intuitive feel of how to use the product. The clickwheel that we have all grown to love is removed. In its place, Apple has put in a capacitive touch screen. Admittedly, the screen is beautiful, but its too small to be used like an iTouch.

Bad product. I hope this doesn't spell disaster for Apple's line of products.

Ousted

If rumours are to be believed, things have come full circle :D

Indeed, The Best Is Yet To Be

Inspired

That hasn't happened for the longest time...

Morons

Piss me off early in the morning. Would it bloody kill you to ask? Morons....

Random

Meatballs!

Adipose

Something I have too much of...

Disease

One down....me next?

Outcome

Similar structure, similar reaction. This was a very simple piece of advice given to me by an acquaintance of mine with regards to organic reactions. Of course, there are exceptions.

Does it apply to real life situations? Similar situation, similar outcome? Lets hope it goes according to plan. Lets hope this is one exception.

错

爱到哪里都会有人犯错，希望错的不是我

Bread

Baking always makes me happy. :D

Rut

In another creative rut. Can't seem to take a compelling photo. FML.

Shall bake to distract myself. Banana bread....better turn out good!

Nike

I have signed up for the Nike 10km run. Now to start training...

Self-Worth

How is it measured? Who determines it?

I have seen countless examples in the gym of people who determines their self-worth by how much weight they lift, or how heavy the squat. Often, may I add, at the risk of injury while doing an incomplete repetition.

Why? Why is self-worth so important as a facade to others? Breaking apart the word, self-worth is merely a reflection of how much you are valued. Then the question comes, valued to yourself, or valued by others?

Why not live life as though others weren't around. After all, a real man makes the correct decisions when no one is looking...

Random ramblings I know, but I had to get it off my chest. Incoherent maybe....but it needed to be done.

Intangible

What an intangible piece of shit. How is it possible for anyone to fully understand it?

You know what, you can't. You can only try to accommodate the other party. It takes two hands to clap.

Intangible piece of shit.

Fear

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

How? Always caught between a rock and a hard place. Is there a connection? May there is, maybe there isn't. I have my gut feel, but that isn't always a very accurate thing.

Damn it, why do I always try and sabotage everything when it comes to this juncture. Unsure? Maybe... Afraid? Definitely... But fear is what keeps us going...

Oh well, 一步一步来，一天一天看.

After all,

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Signs

Why are the signs are always so mysterious? You never know if you read them right...

Feelings

Are feelings quantifiable? Can they be measured?

Once again, all questions and no answers...

Cookies

Desperado

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day

Really meaningful song. Something for me to think about. Me and all the stupid mistakes that I have made.

After all, I only want the one that I can't get.

Such is the depth of my utter foolishness.

Dream

Sándor Ferenczi, a Hungarian psychoanalyst, once proposed that a dream may communicate an idea that is not being said outright. If that is right, I must have a lot of ideas not being communicated.

Paradigm

Leonard: "Oh God, I am the bad fish!"

Cinnamon

Love

I was recently asked if I loved a certain individual. The first thing that I thought of was this poem.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

This is such an elegantly written poem, speaking volumes of what true love is all about. But hidden in the recesses of my mind, there is this thought... but at the moment, it is merely a thought. And if things continue the way it has been, that is all that it will ever be...just a thought.

Wish

Its 11:11, make a wish!

Untitled

I shall change the title when I think of one...

How do I go about it without fucking it up again? I wonder...

Actually, most of the time, I do not fuck it up, it fucks up around me....though the last one was entirely my doing through a very thoughtless act. Stupid stupid me.

But yes...all questions and no answers....Feels just like my econs exam.

Opportunities

What hurts the most is not having the opportunity, but having the opportunity presented to you on a silver platter but you not taking it. The regret is immense...

But what to do? Such is how life plays out. Such is how the roller coaster of life will carry you. Through the up and downs of life, we all just gotta stay positive. Look forward and capture all opportunities that we have from now on.

Unemployed

Well, I'm now unemployed. Taking a short rest before starting uni.

Coincidentally, I'm down with conjunctivitis. Means I really need to rest. Finally some sleep after all these months of late nights and early mornings.

Rest

Due to a recent spate of injuries and FOC that I have just attended, I have taken a 12 day sabbatical from any form of gym work. Tomorrow is the day I will test myself, though I already know that I have lost a lot of muscle mass.

On a side note, FOC was insane!

Zeiss

This is really cool! Zeiss on an iPhone 4.0!

Its not about whether it makes sense or not. I would want to do it just because I can.

Effect

Its amazing the effect you have on me. But its only you...

Inefficiency

So we suffer because of your inefficiency and inadequate, substandard planning?

Screw you!

Indifference

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference

Work

只要功夫深，铁棒磨成针!

Work at it!

Squat

"Yes, if you squat wrong it fucks things up. If you squat correctly, those same fucked-up things will unfuck themselves."
-Mark Rippetoe

Conundrum

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Decisions.

Idealism

I wanna know...have you ever seen the rain.

Talk about fading idealism and dying dreams. Dreams of glory. Passionate goals.

Strive!

We must achieve!

PacMan

Read an article here which states that the number on man hours wasted on the Google PacMan logo amounted to $120m US Dollars. Interesting read.

Backup

Saw this on a website that I frequent. Seems really useful. Much better than the IDE-to-USB connectors, albeit more expensive. But this would solve the heat problem with a standard hard disk, along with the lack of messy cables running round

Revelation

Was reading random articles on Wikipedia and I suddenly saw it. It was like a revelation.

Pythagoras Theorem is a derivative of the Rule Of Cosines

Efficiency

Its amazing how some people think that using Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V is doing things efficiently.

Using a built-in command to compile...THAT is efficiency.

Market

Excellent comic found here. Kinda explains how irrational the market can be.

Blink

Just finished reading "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. It brought forward a very interesting concept. It explains that humans make split second decisions that are actually very accurate. Sometimes even more so than long tests and expert opinion.

But the most interesting concept that one that our subconscious affects how we function. And it affects to a larger extent than most of us ca comprehend. I took a test that was mentioned in the book and below are the results.



Interesting. Considering that I thought I treated slim and fat people equally.

Search

Would doing a search on two single quotation marks yield the same result as doing a search on a double quotation mark?

Courage

Faint heart never won fair lady....

How

Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone
How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone

How? Like the lyrics of "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" say, "So many things to tell her, but how to make her see". How?

Emotion

Think I have too much pent up in me.

Been having very random dreams with lots of emotions involved.

Looking at you makes me wonder if it could be me.

On another note, Alison Lee! Where art thou?

Thoughts

They say its better to know and be disappointed, than to never know and always wonder. But what if finding out could cause the end of the friendship? Is the minute chance worth this huge risk? We'll never know. Such is the complexity of human emotions.

Passion

Its extremely important to be passionate about what you do. If the passion is there, the desire will always be there. Obstacles are nothing when you have passion.

Below is a picture depicting two of my passions. Photography and gymming.

Losses

What do you do if you know you cannot win? If what you want is unobtainable?

You cut your losses early, and drop the idea totally.

Screw.

Resistance

Citigroup has finally broke through the $3.70 resistance levels and closed at $3.87 post market. Hopefully this means a support level at around $3.85 and it can try to push the $4.00 barrier.

March 16th should be interesting when the Treasury can start to sell its 27% stake in the company. Any revivials in stock price should come after that.

Jim Cramer placed a very very optimistic $12 expectation on the stock. I honestly think that its too much. Using the high end of the estimates, it still only goes to slightly more than $8.00.

Crab

Grease

You're the one that I want!

Quake

Came across this link.

Its quite amazing that a quake can shake the earth off its axis.

ACS

Sing ACS forever more
Our ACS forever
God save our land and heaven bless
Our ACS forever

124 years and the passion is still burning. We will always be a part of ACS and ACS shall always be a part of us!

The best is yet to be!

Interocular

Word of the day: interocular

Thoughts

At night, I lie awake and think of the present and what I have, the past and what I lost, and the future and what I will gain.

Assuming all goes well...

Assuming is doesn't go to shit....

Scouts

Happy Scouts Day to all!

Not a day that means a lot to many, but it brings back tons of memories. Scouts taught me tons. Almost on par with what I learnt in the army. And at the young age, it was experience that became very very useful later in life.

Do a good turn daily! Be prepared! And go and change the world!

Quote

"The vastness of space and time and I ended up here"

Lorry

For the uninformed. This site explains it all.

Portrait

Hollow

How to put the glass down? I would just need to pick up the same glass the next day.

And to put the glass down for good? It wouldn't work.....it just wouldn't.

Dawn

Apple

Apple has done it again. Check out the new Apple "tablet", known as the iPad, here. Competitively priced, this could change the whole playing field.

The iPad is basically an upsized iTouch. With a 10 hour battery life, it looks like a promising venture on Apple's part, especially after their previous failed attempt to enter the PDA market with the Newton. Personally, I wouldn't say that this competes with other tablets on the market. I think it competes more with eBook readers like the Kindle from Amazon and the Nook reader from Barnes and Noble. Its a more interactive reader that offers a larger range of featutes and connectivity options. The ebook store will also do for books, what the iTunes Music store did for records, it will shift the focus from conventional books to ebooks.

Look at the possibilities for a photographer. The ability to bring his portfolio along with him at all times (shown on such a brilliant display), the ability to shoot tethered from an iPad. Wow!

On another totally seperate note, the world makes sense again. Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-1 to enter the final of the Carling Cup Final 2010.

Whose that twat from Argentina???

Naming

I have to say that the Nissan Bluebird probably has the be the largest naming farce to grace the planet earth.

Fiction

Inspired by Shuning's post, I shall attempt to conquer some of the books that are listed on the following list.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Just listing it down as a record of sorts. Will try to conquer it in order. Which kinda sucks as most of those that I want to read a further down the bottom.

Serenade

Listened to the above album and thought that I would give a mini-review of sorts.

The title of this album is "Painted Desert Serenade". Written by Joshua Kadison, this album has a very laid back feel. Through this album, Kadison mainly explores the theme of love.

In the title song, Kadison sings about his relationship with an old lady. It sings volumes about how love trenscends boundaries set by traditionalist. His voice matches the lyrics perfectly, bringing out all the hidden emotion of this song.

I would also recommend "Jessie" and "Mama's Arms". The former speaks about his longing for a girl that left him, but wants him back again, and the former is about a mother's love.

In all, I think this album is an awesome album and one that everyone should listen to and learn to appreciate.

Watson

Been listening to Russell Watson recently. Chanced upon this song "Catch The Tears". I think the chorus is very meaningful. And speaks true of many life situations.

Who's always there to catch the tears
When they fall
Who do you run to
Who do you always call
Who's there with the shoulder when you're feeling sad
When will you see me as more than that

Planimal

Came across this.

In short, the article writes about the discovery of a new creature that appears to be half animal, half plant. It appears that the slug has "stolen" the genes needed to allow the creature to photosynthesize.

They are even able to pass the genes to the next generation, although the babies will need to eat enough algae to steal the chloroplasts needed for photosynthesis to take place.

Imagine if we had chlorophyll in us....we would look like Na'vi's from the movie "Avatar" albeit green and not blue. And if we were broke, we would just lie in the sun to photosynthesize. Amazing!

Pop

Its pretty sad that after 22 years, Michael is still learning how to rock.

Cufflinks

Happy New Year!

No resolutions again this year. They are overrated and forces you to feel disappointed when you eventually realize that you aren't going to keep them.