Friday, December 29, 2006

Updates...

Hello!

Been a while since i updates, no thanks to my laziness.

Anyway, life has been simple and plain during my absence. I am no drama king so i don't have excitement in every moment of my life.

Went for the Student Kenshu during the Christmas weekend. A rather rejuvenating experience i would say. Though i didn't really enjoy it as much as the previous ones, no thanks to some problems, i dare say i learnt the most from this Kenshu. Let me just strive hard in my faith, practice and studies and welcome the new year with rejuvenated faith.



Book out last friday... morning. Quite a interesting experience as as you are booking out and going home, you see people coming to work. Cool. Friday was boring though, helping out at home, packing stuff etc. My house is due for renovation so things have to be packed so as to allow the renovation works to be carried out. Will be staying at my big sis's home for a while...

Sat was different. Went for 2 gatherings successively. The 2nd one ended in a disaster... One of my friend had her muscle pulled while engaging in a "physically-demanding" activity. But glad to know she is fine after i met her 1 day later. =)

Than, in the wee hours of Sunday, went for a mini movie marathon. Caught Death note 2 and Curse of the Golden Flower. While Death Note 2 was excellent and provided a very satisfying ending, Golden Flower was a bit disappointing.





Although i knew beforehand that Golden Flower was modified from , a very famous chinese play, i expect something... better. Yes, the acting skills of the actors and actresses (including Jay Chou) were superb but action wise... cannot make it. I mean, when you see Jay Chou led his men clad in Golden Armour rushing through the palace in the trailer, you expect something big, something epic. Sad to say, what the trailer show is what you see in the movie. But the part where the assasins sliding down from dangerous cliff to a mansion (in the movie, that mansion is a inn) to carry out their mission was quite nice though. All in all, after you finished the movie, you had the following realisations.

1) Curse of the Golden Armour is not about big battle scenes but rather the various mind games fought among the characters that is simply heart chilling. Kind of reminded me of The Banquet. But Golden Armour boost better actors and actresses with better acting skills, leaving on you a greater impact.

2) The use of elaborate backdrop is not good for any movie. Wah lao! The whole show you can see gold everywhere! Things ranaging from palace decor, armour to even threads on clothes are all in gold! Kind of distract the viewers from the show you know.

Oh, the well-endowed bosoms of the females in the show, especially Gong Li's one, are VERY distracting. Haha.

Was in a drowsy mood throughout Sunday. In fact, my mind was shut down. Looking stoned and sleeping was what i did on Sunday. Wah kao.

Went for New Year Midnight Gongyo before catching Death Note 2... again. Well cause my this circle of friends want to catch the movie, so... But i don't count it as wasted lah. Cleared some of my doubts from the 1st time i watched cause the subtitles was simply too fast. Went home, slept and next thing i knew, on a train on my way to East Coast Park. Haha. Attended another gathering but it was not very fun la. Had some fun with the sand, had dinner before staying overnight at a friend's house cause staying over is a much better option than going home.



And that conclude my activities over the past um, 3 or 4 days? Whatever it is, the long break from camp was welcomed gladly and boy, i had fun, lots of it.

On a more personal note... for the past 3 gatherings as mentioned above, this 2 "female" appeared everytime. I don't know, but whenever any one of the 2 is around, i felt... odd. I just can't be the way i am while with other female friends. Oh well... i should just let nature take its course and instead concentrate on saving money for tozan. =)

Monday, December 11, 2006

Tekong...

Finally set foot on Pulau Tekong this week.

What? You have not been to Tekong?? Than where the hell you have been training during your BMT??

Well, i have been undergoing BMT training in NDU lor... haha. Ask the Commandos too. They undergo their BMT training in their camp too, right?

Anyway, went to Pulau Tekong to see wild boars. Yeah right. It is for navigation training la. Haha. The trip is to train us on how to navigate with a compass and take into account number of paces to determine roughly the distance covered and see whether you tend to drift left or right. Another training is on how to navigate with a map. Plan the route and execute it and see whether you are able to follow your planned route. Not much of a problem with the open terrain map navigation but close terrain was shitty... Last but not least was getting used to the radio set. Carrying it around while navigating is one thing. Able to communicate with HQ is another thing. Guess we learned quite a lot from this trip.

Oh, in case you EVER noticed, my last post said that my current status is light duties, so i only join my team for planning, not execution. Haha. All i said above was their experiences. Was mending the radio set for HQ. Kind of fun initially but it gets very boring later on.

Tekong wasn't as bad as the seniors said. In fact, we were well taken of. Slept on safari beds, whacking was limited to squad level and although everyone felt tired, Tekong was kind of fun. Can see that the whole island was meant for military training but excuse me for not being able to reveal much details here. Haha.

Anyway, the week has been peaceful. Let hope this peaceful situation can carry on through the next 5 weeks.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Too many things has happened recently and i feel so sick, so sianz. I just want to escape from everything, escape to some island and live a simple life without having to worry about anything.

Oh well...

Land Phase is really sucky. Don't want to think about it anymore. Just endure for 6 more weeks and everything will be okay.

Went to see a specialist on Friday for my back pain. Luckily it isn't anything serious. Just that my back muscle is injured and need long term rest and physiotherapy to recover. However, i face a big problem now. I got light duties for 3 months, which literally translated to 3 months Att B. So it is either I skipped Land Phase and join the 27th batch for Land Phase or simply endure for another 6 weeks. All depends on what my unit MO has to say when I meet him for review on Monday...

Caught 2 great movies recently. Casino Royale and The Battle of Wits. I don't really know what to say but the movies are simply worth the money.

Student Kenshu 2006 is coming up. Helping out in publication... again. Don't really mind cause i always has that interest and furthermore, workload is not heavy so... kind of perfect for a guy dying in NS like me.

Lots of thoughts crossed my mind recently. Some required me to ponder deeply while some are just random and forgetting it may be better than having it stuck in my mind. Maybe i should just forget all the thoughts altogether and live life simple.

Kind of 迷上 2 China actresses, 范冰冰 & 周迅. Like their acting in recent period shows(范冰冰 in The Battle of Wits and 周迅 in The Banquet). Must be the fact that i am watching too much China-made period shows. Haha

Anyway, shall end this post with the following.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.

Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct... leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A."