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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:

You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education:

Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

The right job for you:

You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

How do you view success:

You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

8:54 PM

It is definitely a tired but meaningful day!

RSP Physically Challenged brought our beneficiaries to the Singapore Zoological Garden for an excursion, which included a "Splash Safari" show. Although only five beneficiaries from the Handicapped Welfare Association went for this event, our volunteers are more than willing to bring them out for a day of relaxation. The weather was kind to us as it did not rain when we were there.

To sum up the experience that I had for today, I did some reflections on it.

Firstly, being one of the very few guys available to help, I had to push the wheelchair of the beneficiary throughout the whole excursion. This means that I had to push them upslope or downslope, whenever the ground requires me to do so. Of course, some of the upslopes are really steep and it takes quite a bit of effort for me to push them up, sometimes even using my body weight to push them upslope. So can you imagine if the volunteers weren't around and they had to wheel themselves in other places in Singapore and going upslope? What if they lost grip and rolled backward? It takes even more effort for them to wheel up using only their arm power, as compared to us who use body weight. So if we see anyone in wheelchair trying to wheel himself or herself up a slope next time, we should really lend a helping hand and assist them.

Secondly, pushing around the beneficiary makes me realise something. They are seated down on the wheelchair and we are standing up. So it means that the angle that we see things is different. On many occasions, I stopped the wheelchair at a position which I could see the animals quite clearly, and somehow assumed that the person on the wheelchair will see the same thing. However, everytime I realised that he or she might not be able to see it, I would bend down and see things at their eye level. Then I'll make adjustments accordingly. Sometimes, I would just ask if they can see the animal. So if they can see means it's good to go.

Lastly, bringing the beneficiaries from the Handicapped Welfare Association (since I stay just opposite the centre) with transport provided by the centre, I realised that Singapore isn't that wheelchair friendly yet. You may say more buses now are wheelchair accessible, but it is still not as secure. This conclusion came about after I saw how the Handicapped bus operates. It is super secure as not only they rely on the brakes on the wheelchair itself, it also uses external chalks to prevent the wheelchair from moving and also uses a latch to secure the wheelchair to the floor. So, it feels as if it is a chair fixed to the ground and not the movable one.

It is a meaningful day indeed, where I learnt a lot.

11:16 PM

I had a great day today!! HAPPY!! Nice 12 hours spent!! Enjoyed it max max!! And woots!! I got an exam welfare package!! Makes my day! And i can recover even faster!!

11:43 PM

At this point of time, who is still writing a blog? I've been to blogs which are active in the pass but are no longer active now. Is it because we all grow up and mature and don't have the time to blog anymore or is it because people are using twitter more now that they do not log in to blog anymore? And i really wonder who is still reading the pathetic blog of mine...

Been to RSPPC last session yesterday and we conducted a lesson on blogging. It became rather close to me because I'm familiar with what is being taught to the beneficiaries. The long 2.5 hours lesson on blogging made me talked almost non-stop, trying to teach and pass down the skills I have in using blogger.

After the session at RSPPC, I went down to AWWA for RSP Elders session. It was a long ride to AWWA as the bus I'm taking to reach there was very packed and the traffic was bad. It was due to guan yin's birth so that explains why the bus was packed and the traffic was bad. So I was late for session. When I reached AWWA, I saw Uncle Wong sitting at the stone tables before I got into the building. So I sat down with him and chatted with him over at the stone tables, asking him why he was sitting there. He was waiting for his daughter to come and visit him and told me that she would come at 3pm. When I looked at my watch, it was already 3pm. So I decided to continue to talk to him even though he asked me to go up. We talked on his experience during the World War II when Singapore was invaded and he shared stories with me. Oh by the way, Uncle Wong is one of my favourite uncles in AWWA and he plays very nice music with his harmonica! We chatted till around 4pm and his daughter finally came. So that made me realised after what Cheryl told me that Uncle Wong sat down at the stone tables facing the bus stop and waited for his daughter patiently, even for an hour! I don't know how long he waited down there before I saw him. Just imagine if I did not stop and talked to him for that hour, he would probably be sitting down there alone and waiting and waiting. From what I know, it is his own decision to stay at AWWA instead of going back to his daughter after he has recovered from some illness. So I guessed he must be very happy when his daughter came down and visit him yesterday. That actually add on to my session experience for I had my session not only just in the rooms of the beneficiaries, but also at other places like in the coffeeshop with Aunty Seeni and Aunty Salbiah some time back, as well as at the stone tables with Uncle Wong yesterday.

And after all these sessions filled with continuous talking, I had a meet-up with the secondary school friends, which was the first major meet-up after we have known each other for ten years! We did some catch-up on each other's life and some of us are doing very well, taking over businesses and setting up businesses on their own. And our topic has matured into work, marriage, buying house and even having children. So i guessed another ten years' time when we meet again, most of us would be bringing our spouse and children to the gathering and we would really need a very much bigger space then. Nonetheless, it was a great night catching up with people whom we have not seen each other for a long long time.

Oh yes, I'm going to Taiwan for grad trip this December. And my friends are going crazy over the MacDonalds Monopoly game. And I failed my midterm. Okay time to study! Wonder when will be the next time I'll be here to blog again. For my faithful followers, stay tuned!

9:05 PM

Just wondering.. Would you be handicapped or a lonely elderly? This is a thought that I have after joining both WSC RSP Elders and WSC RSP Physically Challenged. Personally, I think I would fear being handicapped than being a lonely elderly.

12:17 AM

1:31 PM

Thank you for making my day!!

Special thanks to the following people (not in any order):

Agneta Teng

Aloysious Lee

Andy Zhang

Angela Li

Anger Ang

Bee Hwee

Benjamin Chen

Benny Kang

Billy Cho

Boon Yee

Cai Xuan

Calvin Tan

Chaules Lim

Chee Shan

Cheryl Chai

Chin Leng

Chong En

Choon Wei

Cindy Teh

Colin Tan

Constance Tay

Daniel Chu

David Tay

Dina

Dong Yang

Doreen Yeo

Edmond Budiman

Edmund Li

Elaine Choong

Eugene Ng

Eugene Quek

Evangeline Ng

Fabius Ng

Fang Jing

Geng Yun

Geraldine Koh

Gim Keng

Gim Yean

Goh Wei Lin

Grace Low

Hak Soon

Hans Chau

Hari

Hillary Liow

Hong Jin

Hui Chan

Hui Yi

Hui Yu

Jade Lim

Jasmine Khoo

Jasper Toh

Jean Tet

Jeanette Tan

Jesslyn Ng

Jia Hao

Jia Wen

Jie Min

Jie Yee

Jie Ying

Jing Li

Joan Chan

Jocelyn Koh

Jonathan Wong

Jun Kiat

Jun Xian

Kah Chee

Kah Seng

Kai Wei

Kaiyuan

Kang Hwee

Ke Qi

Kee Chun

Kelly Wong

Kelvin Yip

Kheng Long

Kian Sen

Kwok Kiong

Li Ting

Lin Xiao Hui

Ling Hui

Ling Xin

Lucinda Tan

Mark Goh

Melvin Khoo

Mike Ong

Min Ting

Ming Yao

Osborne Chai

Pak Hou

Peh Suan

Peng Yan

Priscilla Lim

Qin You

Qiu Ting

Raymond Lim

Ricky Ng

Ronald Kung

Rui Qi

Samuel Tay

Sanchai

Sandra Lim

Sharon Ho

Sherilyn Tan

Sherry Chan

Shi Jie

Shi Min

Shi Yong

Shu Min

Shu Xiang

Shun Yu

Si Jing

Siok Wen

Sir Seng

Sook Han

Sunny Lek

Suraen

Teng Seng

Theresa Au

Timothy Teoh

Ting Wei Lin

Tommy Cheng

Umang

Valerie Lim

Victor Xu

Vivian Au

Vivien Tan

Wen Jie

Wern Chiet

William Chong

Wilson Chung

Wuan Chin

Xiao Rong

Xiao Yu

Xin Yi

Xiu Ting

Xiu Xiang

Ya Qing

Ye Wei

Yee Sam

Yew Mun

Yi Li

Yi Qing

Yi Zhen

Yin Xiao Hui

Yu Fang

Zheng Jie

Zhi Yi

Zhi Yong

Zhu En

Zi Chao

Zi Huan

Zibin

12:00 AM

Dear Blog, I have not posted for a long time. That's because I don't really have the time to post any. So I've decided to take some time off to give an update.

Well, internship is coming to an end with only two weeks left to go. The best part is that I still have not obtained the results that I expected for my MATLAB. I guessed that is no longer important anymore given the fact that I am to present everything to DSO this coming Thursday. To add on to the stress, I have not started on the report for both DSO and NTU. Oh yes! There's a second round interview for DSO that I have to go on Tuesday. I wonder who will be interviewing me and what weird questions will they ask this time round. Back to internship.. Honestly speaking I haven't been doing much except to play games and play card games and facebook and sleep in office. OOPS!! I guess it's time to produce something by Wednesday, if not gg.com

SPMS FOC is starting tomorrow with pre-camp events! And although I'm like the unofficial SA for this OG Ariel, I dont really look forward to joining it. Maybe I'm old already, don't have the energy? Or it is because internship made me tired? Tired in a sense that I spend the same amount of time going to DSO as I would when travelling to NTU. But still, I will be popping by the camp on some evenings to look see look see, just to catch up with some of the Ariel seniors.

Next semester will be a short short semester for me. If you have looked at my timetable on facebook, I have only one module. Yes one module only!! That would mean I can slack for all I want!! That's the fruit of my labour for working very very hard for the past few semesters okay!! And my lecturer for that module is ZHAO LIANGYI!! How "good"!

Elders had a new committee for the next academic year. I did not run for it despite being psycho-ed many times. So some poor souls who couldn't resist the psycho-ing ended up in the committee. No matter who is in the committee, I will stillgive my utmost support for them!! Oh and elders is thinking of expanding to another centre. So that means elders will have two centres soon! It's still in the planning stage. Nothing is confirmed.

Okay! I don't know when my next post will be! Got to rush out some work now. So see you then!!

3:58 PM

It has been quite awhile since I posted and my last post was in the midst of the exams. So here I am back here again to give an update.

Internship has started on 23 May 2011 at DSO. I am now in the room together with some of the other interns at DSO. So we lunched together and went home together. It has been 3 weeks since I started internship at DSO. I have sort of got used to the environment and stuff and every single day is very routine! Getting up, go to work, squeeze with people for bus 92 (now I walk to one stop before buona vista to take the bus), work (and slacked at the same time) and go home. The day repeats again and again and again. However, I am feeling the stress as my codes have problems everywhere!!! It's not runtime or syntax errors.. It's LOGIC ERRORS!! The most difficult errors to be spotted!! And now I have to convert c++ codes into MATLAB!! Ok, that's part of it I guessed. One more thing, I lunched with my potential boss in DSO on a friday!! Ok that's random...

Results day today!! I checked my results at 12 midnight. My GPA dropped, though it is only 0.01. And I'm proud to announce that I have secured my second upper!! So all i need is just to pass the module in my final semester. Of course, as usual I have a first in this semester's result. And the module of the semester has to be CM101: Java and the Internet!! Reason? This module is my very FIRST A+ that I get in my WHOLE NTU LIFE!! Although I did reasonably well in the midtems, I wasn't that confident for my finals because I realised I had quite a few mistakes here and there just minutes after the end of the paper. Apparently, the grade I got shows that the rest must have made the same (if not more) mistakes as me.

As for the rest of the modules, it was kind of expected, except for MAS317:Data Analysis with Computer which I expected A- but got B+ instead. HE321: Intermediate Econometrics wasn't that bad, at least better than my Principle of Econometrics. Last but not least, I have completed my two minors in Computing and Economics!!
GPA for Minor in Economics: 3.97
GPA for Minor in Computing: 4.75

And it's Friday tomorrow!!!!! :)

10:42 PM

In the midst of exams!! So far 4 papers down!! One LAST paper to go on 18th. Since there's one week break in between my last and second last paper, I haven't been touching coding theory since midterm!! So now its all back to basics again!! The past 4 papers were okay i hope!! I wont fail but I wont score either! Hopefully at least a B+ in every module this sem! For those still living in hell like me, JIAYOU!! For those enjoying life now, PLAY HARD!!

11:09 PM

The battle between TK Choir and NYG Choir extends for another 2 years!! Congrats NYG Choir for getting Gold with Honours! But still.... I still think a mixed choir is better than a girls choir!!

1:01 AM

Congratulations to TK Choir for geting GOLD WITH HONOURS in the recent choir SYF!! It is really a close fight because of the line-up of TK Choir together with 4 other Gold and Gold with Honours choirs in the group of 6 choirs. This means getting a Gold with Honours in this group is really an achievement. Anyway, well done and TK Choir has maintained the streaks of Gold with Honours in history, where it is one of the two secondary school choirs to have streaks of Gold with Honours ever since this scheme is introduced. The other choir, Nanyang Girl's, will be put to the test coming Monday. If they fail to get Gold with Honours (which I think unlikely after seeing the line-up), then TK Choir will be the ONLY secondary school choir with streaks of Gold with Honours!! And this is the set piece for this year choir syf! It's all in instruments. No singing since it will only be commissioned during the syf.

11:34 PM

Sometimes I wonder why do I exist in this world? To make up the numbers in the population? Why is the environment I am in so harsh on me? Why is it that some people are way better off? But the thought of having worse off people existed in this world makes me feel a little better. At least I'm not the worse. Being the emotional me, its really very easy to change my feelings, almost instantly. I can be okay for one moment and become sad the next moment. That's how fast my feelings can change. Well, that's life I guess. I cannot choose where I am to be borned. I cannot choose who to be my parents, siblings and relatives. But what really upset me is why can't people live together harmoniously? Why must home be a place that I don't feel like heading to after school? Why? Why is it always happening? I thought things have settled down, but I'm wrong! It's never settled down! Shit always happen! I think not many people know about what's going on in my family. I never shared with anyone, except for a few extremly close ones. I can't choose my family. I have to live with it. That's life my friends! So when you think you're in a bad situation, ALWAYS remember that there are people worse than you, somewhere in this world. Then, probably you'll feel better! Please don't ask if I don't wish to tell you anything... I will be okay!

10:59 PM

Taking a little time off to update this blog!

Just came back from Elders session and we cooked sweet potato soup for them!! It wasn't my group's event! So why did I end up in the kitchen cooking sweet potato soup?? Haha! The other group invited me to cook!! But it's okay I think! Because hearing the elderlys said "Very nice", "Ho Jia", "Good" makes me feel happy!! It's probably these little things that I derive happiness in life!! No I'm not easily contented, although I appear to!

Fell sick on Thursday! Still on my way to recovery! Oh recess week is over? What have I done?? Hmmm.. I had only ONE fruitful day with my school work, and that is the day I went back to school to do my lab experiment! Since the lecturer emphasize so much that we need to do it fast and prepare well for that experiment or else we cannot finish it on time, I decided to travel all the way back to school to do the experiment on my own. Indeed, I spend more time than I'm supposed to. YEP dinner gathering, Doreen's birthday party, BFF's birthday party took up three days, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. Lab on Wednesday, Thursday Friday sick, Saturday elders! Monday I slacked. See!! I justified my recess week! Oh no! That means Lim Ming Yao has spent more efficient time than me!! I have to do something to keep the 4.5% ahead!! Haha!!

Oh and I got a placement for internship in DSO!! I got a call from the supervisor on Monday. In fact, I received many missed calls on the Friday before recess starts and they are ALL from the same number and it happens to be DSO!! OMG!! How can I miss such calls?? But lucky for me, the supervisor sms me to ask me call back for a teleinterview!! (So now I got her mobile number, can blackmail anytime! Ooops!!) Ok, so I called back and I'm in Bugis at that time, and reception was really really bad!! I couldnt hear a quarter of what she said and just guess what she could have said. After the call, I was a little sian because I thought I did badly for the interview. Like hello I cant hear what she say and didnt answer it well! But when i checked my email on Wednesday, I was selected! Good for me! Internship would means my Year 4 Semester 1 will be a slack slack semester! And Wu Guohua will be my best friend for the semester if he still teaches Real Analysis.

Okay, I think I shoud go and study for my midterm on Monday and have an early rest tonight!!

8:12 PM

The crest of Knowledge

Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.

Indeed, we live in this world to gain knowledge every single day! We have to learn something new everyday. Knowledge is power! Do you agree with that statement? Staff Chan once told us, there's a pilot who says "We wake up every single day to learn new things. If we dont learn new things, what is the point of waking up?" I think this is quite true. We do learn new things everyday, just that it could be too minor to be noted. Sometimes, you don't even realise that you have actually learnsomething that day. Of course, my point is that if you have the knowledge, you'll probably go further in life. That is because you are well-informed of certain things, and can make better decision in life. So may we continue to persue the knowledge that we want in life, be it general or specific areas. I shall get back to broaden my knowledge.

10:18 PM