post exam activities

The feeling stays about the same before and after 12mn in between 29th and 30th december. After the initial shout of joy and exclamation, the excitement surprisingly died down. God, I seriously now believe how You are working in me and my life. A few instances of getting the best grade for the weaker subjects and lousy grades for the subjects that I have more confidence in. A levels, Uni semesters, etc. No one else does it but You.

Okay. GPA didn’t increase……GPA didn’t drop also….I guess the hint is quite obvious. Silly COM255, u pulled me down….but I shall be thankful for the rest of the grades. (although a 4.8 sounds good…haiz). haha.

This december holiday is not really a holiday…it was and is just a month for me to catch up on housework, shopping for clothes, earning some pocket money, socialising, meeting up with close friends, realigning myself with God, did many recommitments and stuff…all in a month. I am drained. totally. I think the tiredness must have gotten to me, and somewhat reduced my initial excitement after the results. All the worrying (still a human being).

Some have gone, some are still in Singapore, more will go. INSTEP:Singapore, stick together man. I am looking forward for a new school term. missing wkwsci (but am totally not missing pulau ntu, boonlay, long journeys, late nights, countless assignments and projects, and the list goes on).

Shall be nice and go to sleep early…..i.e. after America’s Got Talent.

Merry Christmas

Have a blessed day ahead, and many more years ahead.

It is Christmas time again

Christ has become a random person ‘X’. Christmas has become x-mas. We are now worshipping a ‘thing’. The world tend to reduce an important person in people’s lives into an insignificant bit. This scientific reductionism tries to remove the importance of this day.

It was a timely reminder how we just gloss over the importance of this day. Let’s take some time to ask ourselves what does Christmas actually mean.

The true joy of Christmas was given to all about 2000 years ago. and most importantly, this joy was given to “whosoever that believes in Him.” It’s a personal choice. a life-changing choice.

anti-competition?

How do you even stop ‘bad’ competition when content providers encourage that practice?

Singtel and Starhub have already submitted a joint bid for the World Cup broadcast rights in a ”mutual decision”. Let us just assume that Singtel and Starhub are doing this all to help lower the costs of watching the World Cup series. The content provider thus isn’t helping. The payTV operators are now trapped between submitting separate bids (that will increase costs for the consumers and increase the chances of securing rights) vs submitting a joint bid (that may lower costs, but also lengthens the time taken to secure the rights).

We already missed the bidding process. FIFA, stop sucking money from us. Can’t you just accept this already-higher-than-last-year’s bid. haiz.

The only silver lining in the clouds for viewers in Singapore is Fifa’s ruling to make four of the most important World Cup games free-to-air. The opening game between host South Africa and Mexico on June 11, the semi-finals on July 6 and 7, and the final on July 11 will be available for free.

We just have to sit and wait.

Sources: 1 2

trains

Nice! The most priceless expression. Ever.

Was going to meet my mentor at Tampines after work. Arrived at the train station platform @ Bedok, stood around whilst waiting for the minutes to pass. As the train pulled into the station, I was quite surprised at how slow it was going. All of a sudden, the train made some squeaking noises, and came to a complete halt…even before the entire train was in the station. In fact, it was only 1/2 way in. As the driver made corrections to get the train aligned properly, the look on his face was priceless. Everyone was staring at him, wondering what was going on.

When I finally boarded the train, I finally knew why that mistake was committed. The way the train captain accelerated and braked for the subsequent stations convinced me that he was a newbie, a noob.

It was really funny. I wished my 97mini’s camera loaded faster. it would have been fun.

without school

This is surprising. I thought that the school holidays will be a month of rest and what-not. This is so not the case now. I sleep way past 12mn on a daily basis, as compared to about 10.30pm on a normal school day. During the school term, I still have time to ‘nua’ around, as compared to being on my feet the entire day.

Work, movies, church, housework, reading, gatherings, shopping, random activities, etc etc, takes up so much time. (as compared to school homework that is). I have gotta return to sleeping at 10.30pm.

And the nightmares about exams should stop…like….now.

results

SMU’s results will be released today, just a week-and-a-half after their last paper. NTU’s exam period just ended on the 7th of Dec, but we have to wait 3 weeks and 2 days for ours. NICE!

Wonderful addition

If i have the time, maybe i will write a review