Egomy : Ready For Transmission

First Post (of the year)

2010-01-01T15:02:00.002+08:00

looking back at the year that just passed, 2009 was a busy yet uneventful year (yes, i know it's ironic) for me.

school was really hectic for me, sometimes sleeping only 3-4 hrs a days for like more than a month, which explains the ironic part of my days being uneventful, because i get cooped up in hall everytime i end up rushing for deadlines. this might sound pretty sad and unbelievable but i've been out so little that i can't remember any memorable events that might have happened in the last year. haha.

i guess with that, my other regret for the past year would be the fact that i've either lost contact or distant myself from some friends that i've known for some time since i stay in hall most of the time.

as with previous years, it's always a ritual for me to post my resolution here. so here goes, not in order of importance:

1. spend more time studying while im still in school

2. spend less money

3. get in contact with friends that i haven't been talking to for a while

4. get back to shape

5. get rid of my procrastination problem once and for all

6. cut down on vices

not much resolutions for this new year i guess. simple life is always good. the more things you wish for, the harder life might seem than what it really is. hah.

Breather

2009-11-04T03:27:00.002+08:00

just when i thought that my time has come to take a breather, work just comes right smack at my face. i've always been someone who prefers to work alone on projects and all. Partly because of my personality, i've never been a big fan of working in a team like it's a mass orgy and also partly because i can't really work with people that i don't have a measure of their capabilities.

i'm neither sizing people up before i work with them nor i think that i am a person of exceptional capabilities. i just need to know that people can work on their and solve their own problems. resorting to asking only when they've really hit a wall, at least when it comes to work. some people might find this trait of mine extremely hard-ass, but i always feel that it's a part of self development if you can solve your own problems instead of approaching the person with the solution straight.

talk can be really cheap when working in the team, people talk a lot during discussions, sharing their ideas, occasionally at the expense of someone else having to work extra hard once they manage to push through their ideas. it's funny how people will end up not working on the idea that they try so hard to push through and instead make other people do it for them. i'm not saying that one has to work on their ideas if they suggest it, it's just that if you're very pushy on a certain idea, it's probably an unspoken rule that you should personally see it through.

at this point of time, you might think that i'm a very tough person to work with. contrary to what you think, all i ask for is initiative but at the same time, a laid back mentality. ironic, it may seem, i think this is a pretty good trait to have. imagine having an uptight team member breathing down your neck every other day to check on your progress. not too cool eh?

my point is that if you want to be high strung and try to contribute a lot of ideas, you better be doing some work and show some result quick. it's not very nice to push your ideas through at other people's expense.

this semester has been pretty tough if you ask me, all the late nights working on codes that seem as alien to me as it was to my team members, sometimes i think people just need to try. this coming from me, it's not saying a lot obviously, since i was never the smartest kid on the block. its just that i bother to suck it up and take whatever was coming. its all part of learning.

despite all the work that i've been put through (together with peian), we agreed that the moment we get through this, we'd be the eventual winners. for as much work that we've been subjected to (for the iphone & roomba project), we really gain a lot from all these things. it'd actually be useful even after we're done and the weird thing is that we're actually feeling kind of happy doing all these, less the burn out that we're suffering right now.

on a lighter note, we've managed to cook up an iphone application which has the potential to be put up in the iTunes App Store after we're done with it. more of this when the semester is over and we start redeveloping the application to prepare it for the App Store.

got to suck it up and push through till the end of the semester. light at the end of the tunnel, i can catch a glimpse of it already.

Swarmed

2009-10-02T06:12:00.003+08:00

i can't believe that i have been so busy since week 1 of school till now. frankly speaking, out of the years that i've been in NUS, this is one packed to the core semester.

i'm leading an extremely hectic life now, i can't believe that i've only actually went out once for one whole day to let myself loose since the semester. maybe that how it actually feels to be studying.

all you muggers out there. i feel you.

more updates when i get myself out of this hole.

This Surreal Feeling

2009-07-29T16:35:00.003+08:00

what surreal feeling am i talking about, you might ask?

just moved back to hall last week with the rest of the guys up on C4 and it was only after we sat down for our first chat at the familiar common bench in a very long time that i realized that this will be the very last time that we'll be moving in back to hall and have long chats like this.

there's a phrase that can be heard when we come back to hall every year, "last year last chance"; last year in hall and the last time to do everything that you haven't done in hall. i've heard this from the seniors as a freshmen, when i was in my sophomore year and third year and it seems so surreal that now we are the ones that are saying that exact same phrase that we have heard for the past 3 years of our hostel/university lives.

this year's homecoming seem a little different than the other years, gone are the days when we just talk about things like who the chicks are in the orientation, hooking up (we still do actually) but this time round, quite a few of us are still working during the orientation week and i guess that opened the eyes of most of the guys that are graduating. we're actually talking about life after graduation and plans ahead, which sort of gives me a sense of relief (being the old man on the level) to know that everyone on C4 are actually able to move on from the daily mindless ruckus that we are.

it didn't take long before we resumed our drinking/smoking/gambling ways, but this time round, it's going to be different, or rather, we're going to take in the experience fully this time round. you always try to make full use of something enjoyable when you're doing it for the last time.

it always sucks to be doing enjoyable things for the last time doesn't it? who knows what all of us will be doing this time in a year's time?

Quarter Century and Beyond

2009-07-23T00:48:00.003+08:00

was out with my mum the other day and we were talking about my sis' marriage which was coming soon. for some reason unknown, the topic steered to the fact that i'm graduating in 2 semester's time and my van would have to be scraped at the same time. it was then i realized that i've driven my van for a good 5 years already and in another 5 years, i'd be hitting the big three-zero.

the moment i mentioned that i would be 30 in 5 years time, my mum sprung up from her car seat and said:

"yeah, then it's time for you to get married to~"

i immediately stared at her blankly and she gave me a shocked look after registering the awkward silence from me.

frankly, i think 30 is a bit too young to get married. at 30, im just at the end of my SAF bond and i'd be at the crossroad of my career -- deciding whether to stay with the force or look for a greener pasture. maybe i'm thinking a bit too far ahead of my time, but i've even factored in the fact that at 30, i'll be financing a vehicle while i hit the crossroads of my career, so marriage would kind of be out of the question at that age.

and more importantly, im still single right now. i think that's going to be a bigger issue even before she starts talking about me getting married.

as graduation starts creeping in, i find myself planning for a lot of future things that seem so far away just last year. an urgency just rose from nowhere and hits me, issues regarding finances, career, family start popping up and you suddenly realize that in the future you have to make all these decisions that could affect your life in the future.

it's a good thing that these issues that i foresee isn't going to be much of a problem and actually looks pretty good that im looking forward to it.

Own Time Own Target

2009-07-18T00:49:00.003+08:00

"if you don't know, ask your buddy first", "don't run and shout like a gu niang"

if the above phrases bring memories or make you feel right at home, Own Time Own Target will tickle your funny bone whether you're a NSF or NSmen. for those that have had nothing to do with the army before will be still be well entertained by the jokes and antics of the characters from this play.

Own Time Own Target is a double bill consisting of Full Tank by Laremy Lee and Botak Boys by Julian Wong which is based on Singapore's very own National Service. like it's movie predecessor, Army Daze, it cleverly portrays the life of NSFs when they serve their 2 years of national service. the only difference, this double bill might just make a few eyebrows frown. unlike it's predecessor, Own Time Own Target gets down and dirty when it comes to the scripts. profanities (often involving female genitals) are being thrown around throughout the double bill and for someone like me who has already been through it, finds it extremely familiar and close to heart.

all 6 of us were wildly entertained by this double bill and for me, being a sucker for musicals, was totally impressed by the second play. the singing and the acting was great and i could really relate to what was being acted out on stage (yes, even the profanities). one cannot help but notice about the representation of CMIO (chinese, malay, india, others), in both plays and i must say that it is very well represented, accent and antics included.

in all, Own Time Own Target really captures the very essence of what the young men in Singapore feel being in the army through conscription and i would definitely recommend anyone to catch it, even if you don't know anything about national service. just make sure you get the programme booklet to be well-versed with the army lingo to prevent yourself from being lost in some parts of the play.

Problem Solving

2009-07-15T00:48:00.004+08:00

i've been on course at CMPB for the past 1+ week and i must say that im glad that im not working anywhere near town, or anywhere that requires me to go past 2 ERP gantries every morning to be specific. i always knew that it was expensive, but i only knew how much it hurt when i actually went through the gantries myself every morning.

every morning i have to pay at least $4.50 (if im early, which is not very often) and $6 if im actually late (happens more often than i like). we did a little calculation and it turns out that in a worst case scenario, a person working in town has to pay $120 every month on ERP and guess what, that's just going to work. if you're being a good family person and want to go home straight after work for dinner, guess what, your dinner's going to cost you.

ERP gantries aside, the course that im on is pretty interesting, although the lecture can get a little dry sometimes, it's a set of problem solving tool called TRIZ which i'd be surprised if you've actually heard of it. haha.

anyway, just 2 days into the course, it made me realize that sometimes while trying to solve a problem, we actually concentrate too much on the problem and in the end ignore the fact that the solution is somewhere away from the problem.

a very good example by the instructor was one that involved making an unmanned vehicle to move around on the moon. the problem was that in order to take videos on the moon, they need a good light source, so they fitted bulbs on the vehicle. problem was, everytime they did a landing test, the glass that encases the filament breaks. so they tried all kinds of materials but to no avail.

the thing is, they didn't look at why the case for the filament was needed. the case is just there to prevent oxygen from getting to the filament to prevent oxidization (that's how the filament gets charred). to put things into perspective, the vehicle is going to the moon, with no oxygen, so why do you need a case for it? they ended up using a metal mesh to protect the filament when the vehicle lands and it worked.

i think this whole way of looking at solving a problem applies to life too. there are so many times that we look at the problems that we have in life and go "why is this happening to me? how can i make it go away?" without realizing that if we keep focusing at the problem we're just chasing our own tails and going in circles. whatever problems we face, there are always better solutions when you look away from the problem. this might take a while to digest but think about it. for example, if you think your life is miserable because you're constantly broke, don't just think about how you can get more money, think about how you're spending instead, it'll do you wonders.

think out of the box. don't be an expert of your own problems.

New Toys

2009-07-12T23:09:00.003+08:00

woohoo, i've been having an orgasmic week when it comes to gadgets (read: tech slut), i've gotten quite a few new toys and i just can't keep the excitement in.

first off, in preparation of becoming my sis' wedding photographer, i've been authorized by my parents to get L lens for my camera. after intense research online reading reviews, i narrowed down my shopping list to:

1. Canon 24-105mm f4

2. Canon Speedlite 580EX

shot a bit both of my new toys and i must say that i am very satisfied with the results of my buy.

next up, something that i've been looking forward to for a while and spent around 3 hours queuing up today to get. iPhone 3GS!!

after getting my iPhone 3GS i proceeded to getting gelaskins from far east plaza and my phone looks pretty funky now.

i must say that the new iPhone is definitely more powerful, the web browser renders faster and the camera just owns the previous one just because of the focusing. will update more as i use the phone.

ok, this is too much excitement in one post. till another time.

Mess

2009-07-12T20:16:00.001+08:00

it's going to get messy around here. im attempting to change the template of my website on the fly. bare with me for a while

Long Time

2009-07-11T00:46:00.001+08:00

hey people! im back, well kinda, i think most people would have thought that this blog is dead already, haha. i've been bumming around doing random stuff and i actually have a lot of things to talk about, just that im not home enough to type it down.

in the midst of redesigning my template, should be up very soon. stay tuned!

3 am Acoustic Cover

2009-05-03T15:40:00.001+08:00

was looking to take a video of the cover since during exams. now that exams are out of the way. here it is :)

Faith

2009-05-03T02:58:00.002+08:00

i've been so stressed for the past weeks, now that it's over. i suddenly find the peace that's finally here, a bit surreal.

it wasn't an easy time for me, having to study a module which i haven't really been to for the whole semester, and to make things worse, yes, it had to be a math module. failing it would mean that my path to a smooth graduation will be obstructed with terrible implications because of my bond.

i frankly haven't been so stressed for like years, i think it got so bad even my neighbors could tell just by looking at me. it's times like this that makes someone feel like giving up and whenever that feeling comes lingering around the corner, i'll keep telling myself that i need to have faith in myself and that i'll pull through this if i just hang on. which i think works for me.

different people put their faith in different things when it comes to sticky situations. most of my friends will know the answer they'll get from me if they ask "who do you believe in?".

my answer, "myself".

it's not that i don't believe in religions, it's just that i have my doubts about the teachings. i spent my secondary school days in Presbyterian High (the yck one, not bishan) and we have to go through an hour of preaching/storytelling during assembly everyday.

at first it was pretty interesting to hear stuff from the bible for the first time when i was sec 1 but as the years go by, i start thinking about what is being said is contradictory and ironic sometimes. maybe i didn't interpret the passage properly, or maybe i misunderstood the passage because i didn't read the ones before.

being raised in a strict taoist family didn't exactly help the cause of me being non-religious. there were too many taboos to look out for, parents follow whatever the mediums say that they should do. monthly rituals stopped us from traveling as much as we would have loved to. i didn't like any of that and it was not long before i stopped following all the strict rules that were in my life but of course i didn't let my parents know up till today. whatever they don't know won't hurt them, or hurt my ear in this case.

we worship deities, gods and look to them for answers when they are in trouble or in need. we cry out to god late at night when everyone's asleep under our blankets and ask "what have i done to deserve this". we visit mediums and consult them when we feel like we're running out of luck or we would like to know the forecast for the coming year.

so what if a voice suddenly appears inside your head and tells you what to do? so what if the forecast that was given by the medium was extremely accurate? ultimately, it all comes down to yourself, your life is in your own hands. if you don't take matters of your life into your own hands, everything will come to naught.

(here comes the part where it becomes slightly blasphemous to some, pardon me.)

what if there is no such thing as god and all the times when we prayed and got an answer was from our own conscience, nothing to do with any heavenly beings or god? you might ask god what you have done to deserve something bad and the answer that came out was just a corruption of your own conscience, which conveniently became an answer from god.

such things can be dectrimental to one's well-being, falling in one's own self-corruption and possibly becoming disillusioned when they realized that the very belief that they put their life's faith in was actually non-existant.

that would kinda suck wouldn't it?

please don't get me wrong, im not against any religion. it's just i have doubts about putting my faith in religions. for the longest time till today, my answer to where my faith lies is still the same.

my faith lies within myself. nothing can go too terribly wrong if you have your life in your own hands.

think about it.

No Music, No Life

2009-04-25T12:21:00.002+08:00

some songs that i've been listening waaaaay too much over this studying period.

music heals my soul.

I Am

2009-04-23T02:13:00.003+08:00

it's been a real mad rush for the past months and here i am finally, making a post for the first time in 2 months.

was watching the most recent episode of Heroes named "I am Sylar". it showed how after Sylar got a shape shifting ability, he started losing himself as he keeps changing his identity from one to another. i feel like we tend to lose sight of who we really are, we may or may not take a very long time to find ourselves again and pick ourselves up.

when was the last time you actually thought about who you really are?

i find it hard to get emotionally attached to anything -- people, teams, things, events. i don't get particularly excited when some big event that i was involved in planning finishes or runs smoothly when it's suppose to. i just feel like it was the way it was planned to be and it happened. nothing to be excited about. i can stay away from home for months and don't feel home sick although my family is pretty tight.

when i play any sports, i play to win, i go competitive, it's just me. losing just isn't my thing. scoring a point in a game is meaningless unless you win the game and winning the game is pointless if you don't win the whole competition. people always ask me why im so emotionless even after winning a big match, this is exactly why.

im a walking contradiction. i'm not fussy when it comes to food but i love good food and i complain about food that is bad when im eating it. yes, i'll still eat it even when it's bad. i hate procrastination in a person but i procrastinate. i want everything to be perfect, but i overlook details when im not particularly interested in the thing that im working on.

i trust people and i would like to think that people trust me as well. the only way to lose my trust is to doubt or betray it. when i lose trust in someone, the person usually doesn't get it back. grudges are meaningless to me but if it's a matter of betraying my trust, i get very bitter even when everything is over and i just think about it.

i don't judge people and i don't really care if people judge me or not. i am who i am, i will never hide it and show a different facade just to adapt to someone else. if i have to put on a facade everytime, how long am i going to be able to pull it off? the best is to go with the flow, just be myself and let people accept me for who i really am.

so have you started thinking about who you are?

Burnout Sem

2009-02-19T23:34:00.003+08:00

this semester seems to be like running on overdrive for me. over the past 2 years in school, i've never felt of burnt out despite the fact that i was very involved in hall and in the ultimate scene.

maybe this is how it feels when i actually study and do my work promptly, took me way too long to realized that workload in school is heavy eh? haha. i've even been less involved in ultimate these days to make time for the school work and the rest of my things.

the upcoming photo exhibition at the end of the month is taking up a lot of my time and energy, spent the whole day from like 11am running around places to grab prints and other stuff. had to rush back to school for a meeting for the exhibition and then rush to training in school after that. i was like so tired when i got back to hall, i just sat at the bench at the common area and fell asleep there. talk about getting burnt out. hah

another long day tmr. zzzzz

January

2009-02-08T00:00:00.000+08:00

January was a pretty topsy-turvy month for me, such that i don't even know when to start writing from.

start of the month was pretty smashing after going to christmas, new year and a week into the new year, i reach the time of the year when i reach the big two-five. so now that im a quarter-century old, everyone up on C4 is making a big fuss out of it although they're ALL only a year younger than me (less guoan, ben and eric). but well, i've always enjoyed getting older, every year i feel more accomplished than the previous and feel like im ready for more up in the year ahead.

thinking about being 25, i realized a list of things that i can probably do now, or i realize that it's happening as im 25:

i can now no longer call myself a young adult, for the fact that i can use the word "century" when im describing my age
i know that my quarter-life crisis is going to come soon
thumper and similar clubs are going to have to let me in now (provided i go there)...
.... although i should start chilling at bars now instead
im now 5 years older than the year 1 girls now
im going to be 6 years older than the girls that are coming into NUS next year....
.... and it'll be perfectly fine for me to date girls who are 7 years younger than me :p

and the list will just keep going on and on and on....

something im amazed at myself for this sem was that i rarely missed lessons and i actually found time to do some revision every week, or at least until the chinese new year week, where the cycle was broken and i find myself starting to have backlog in my work. and i never really liked CNY anyway, for the fact that i have a very small extended family and everything is like closed during the whole period.

at the same time as the backlogs started to pile up, work for my photo exhibition at the end of february went full steam ahead and yes, i've piled up even more work from before and the trainings of my various IHG sports really didn't help the whole cause.

even as i sat down one of the nights to plan my time, i realize that i have close to no time for myself, all the meetings, assignments, revisions, trainings, jam sessions, hall events, shoots, you name it, i probably did it in january, maybe i should have taken out the revisions out to make more time for the other stuff, NOT :p

sometimes i really hate myself for wanting to do so much and not being able to priortize. i know some people find it hard to believe that im doing so much that some of them think that im talking big, i don't blame you guys, sometimes i take a step back and look at what im doing in life, i don't believe it myself either. haha.

february now, still busy, but at least i have a bit of breathing space now, im left with 1 IHG event after a tremendous result at touch and a result on the opposite end of the spectrum for basketball, now i just have to concentrate on my assignments and my long awaited photo exhibition which all of you guys who are reading are coming for!

hope feb will be fine~

Inconsolable

2009-02-06T02:46:00.003+08:00

the scene of me making that last 3-pointer right at the buzzer but still losing by 1 is going to replay in my head for a long while.

something unthinkable actually happened, losing IHG Basketball in the prelims. seemed like something that's not possible considering our squad. guess that's why almost everyone is in an inconsolable mood now.

i didn't even realize that this is my first update in more than a month. it's been a really hectic, or rather, frantic month full of school work, photo exhibition work, trainings and shoots. glad that everything is settling down now already although im getting myself into a very big project very soon. but the monetary return might just soothe the stress that's going to come when i start that project.

more updates on a later date. time to sleep and watch the scene on repeat in my head...

2009

2009-01-01T23:23:00.003+08:00

happy new year people!!

new year's eve was quite a quiet affair as all of us didn't really feel like going out, so we just decided to stay in hall to chill and drink till 7+ in the morning. we found a new staple food for our drinking sessions - hotdogs cooked in boiling water. it's easily to cook and tastes pretty good on its own even without any sauces.

ben got really drunk admist all the drinking, we had to drag him back to the room and hurl him onto the bed. i had to hurl profanities at him to make him stop trying to get out of bed to go wherever he was planning to go in his drunken stupor. he realized later in the day that he busted his face from god knows what and chipped half of his front tooth. we suspect that he fell off the bed halfway through the night and face planted into the ground.

went for the new year hat tourney after sleeping for 4 hours, as much as it might sound like a bad idea, it turned out to be quite fun. although during the first game, with all the alcohol still in my system, i was sprinting up and down the field, and when i finally came to a stop and cooled down, i felt like i was going to faint anytime. as fun as it is, it's not exactly a very good idea to play when you're stoned and tired from a night of drinking.

some new year resolutions:

study harder (almost seem to be on the list)
work on photography
do more freelance jobs
stop procrastinating
workout more to prevent recurring injuries
get a 24-105mm L

made some "motivational" posters using some of the photos that i took last weekend at the ultimate league:

i have no idea how much trouble im going to get myself into when i see them during league on sunday, but oh well, i guess they're fine with it as long as people find it entertaining. haha! (sorry google and hayden :p)

as you can see, this post is kind of incoherent and the reason for this happening is that im freaking tired right. im pretty much just typing in whatever i can remember now before i knock out on my new mattress. sealy mattresses are good, i feel my lower back getting better already. hah. so much for trying to make a coherent post.

have a good year ahead guys!

Yes Man

2008-12-26T01:28:00.003+08:00

watched "Yes Man" with the usual suspects yesterday and it proved to be much more interesting than i expected it to be. some people might say that this show is pretty similar to "Liar Liar" but it's pretty different in a sense that this show's not over-the-top and i guess we can all relate to it in our everyday life. it's definitely one of jim carrey's best show in a long while (number 23 was pretty good too though)

saying yes opens up opportunities. i must say that i totally agree with this, although you weigh your options and priorities to what you're saying yes to instead of just saying yes to everything that comes your way like how carl did in the show. if the opportunity that comes your way would not hinder your original schedule or affect some things that are important to you, you should say yes, even if it's something that you only have a little interest in, you'll never know what you'll get yourself into (although it's not all the time that good things will happen).

a lot of times we dwell too much on the outcome of an activity even before we engage into it (aka thinking to much) and being brought up in a largely conservative environment doesn't help this cause. people tend to think of the worst case scenario when presented with an opportunity that they didn't expect or foreign to them. it's sort of like predicting failure even before you start on something. or the other kind of person would try to predict the permutations of scenarios that might happen depending on his/her actions.

it's during the times that we think too much while deciding to do something that we miss a lot of opportunities, be it learn a new skill, meet new people, gain new things, or even a chance to know a girl that you like better. even if you're who thinks alot, it would really help to not think when deciding and you can ponder what you've done after you've actually done something instead of trying to thinking of what would eventually happen and end up not doing it.

the only pitfall of this is not knowing when to say no (no man no man no man no man), like how carl didn't know how to say no to the old lady (gross).

so why did i end up writing this after watching yes man. i was talking to anand about some stuff when i was driving him back. the conversation kind of intrigued me as i thought about the movie and how it could happen in our everyday lives.

all i can say is that when making a decision, just do it first and think about it later. even if it's a project, it might turn out bad or not as well, but at the end of the day, you'll definitely benefit from it, somehow some way.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T00:27:00.002+08:00

Merry Christmas!!

pretty quiet and uneventful christmas eve for me though. i can't remember the last time i've had a quiet christmas eve but it ain't that bad.

nonetheless, hope everyone will enjoy this holiday season! :)

RNDMNSS

2008-12-22T23:31:00.007+08:00

pretty bored right now, so i decided to make a random picture (and 1 video) post. oh yeah and results were just realized. nothing good or too bad. looks like my CAP's not going anywhere anymore. oh well..

douglas sucking a big ass can of heineken

cock.. i mean.. poppycock anyone?

this is how a cute roadkill should look like

the don't study want party gang

a very old video that we made for stephen 4 years ago

and not forgetting to wish everyone a merry christmas!!

Rag Doll

2008-12-19T02:39:00.003+08:00

i know in the last post i said that i virtually ran out of things to do after i finished all my exams. life can be a bitch sometimes, after being "bored" for a while, im really freaking busy right now.

IHG (inter-hall games) is an important part of a hostelite's life as it is the pride of the hall and especially so in a sports hall like the one that im in now (temasek hall). being a slut, i have to do all the sports that i like, which turns out to be 4 sports (basketball, touch rugby, handball, track).

so far, out of the four, only 2 sports have started intensive training and i already have 2 trainings like almost everyday. i can't imagine what my training schedule will be like when all the sports go full steam ahead.

as much as i would like to train very hard for each sport, my body feels like a rag doll in recent times. it all started out with a back problem i picked up in HK after one of the ultimate competitions almost 3 months ago, then because of the back problem i hurt my knee and i got an unrelated injury on my bicep tendon after a knock during a league game, i can barely raise my left hand above my left shoulder after basketball training just now. the feeling of not being able to go all out really sucks.

i really just hope this body of mine can recover amidst the abuse it's still subjected to and make it in time for the IHG.

Excitement in Boredom in Freedom

2008-12-08T15:09:00.002+08:00

the past week has been pretty boring and exciting at the same time, boring cos of the fact that we've virtually exhausted the list of things to do while expending the least amount of money. we're all in hall, being bored, tired of playing of dota and just hanging around thinking of what to do.

we were just sitting around and ruing at that fact that we didn't break the lock to the rooftop of discreetly. the hall office found out about it and ended up chaining and pad-locking the gate to the rooftop. i guess boredom drives people to do the strangest things, we decided to break the lock again, so that we can drink on the rooftop again.

we tried an array of tools, scissors, metal rulers, an even bigger scissors to no avail. we suddenly thought of all the tools used of the hall float and we managed to get a big ass metal cutter from the room and the lock was at our mercy. before we know it, we were drinking at the rooftop with sofa sits, candles, music, chips and drinks until almost 6am.

drinking to 6am was pretty much a bad mistake for me because i was suppose to meet up with the guys and lecturer from my photography module at 10am the next day to check out the photo gallery that we're going to have our public exhibition in feb.

the gallery owner walked us through the gallery, explaining how we could use the place and the place is just fantastic. it's really getting me excited about the whole exhibition already and i volunteered to help out with the publicity (what's new?) of the exhibition, so be prepared to see a lot of promotions of the exhibition when the date gets nearer.

i need to head out to shoot some stuff soon. it's calling out to me.

Revamp

2008-12-02T21:25:00.002+08:00

hey people, i did a mini revamp of my site to accommodate my portfolio for my freelancing stuff so now the address of the blog has been changed to:

http://www.egomy.org/blog

do change your bookmarks (if you bookmarked it, if you haven't this might be a good time :p) or whatever. and do give my portfolio a look and point anyone that needs freelance work done to me :)

Karaoke Party

2008-12-02T13:37:00.002+08:00

as you can see, im extremely free these few days now that my exams are over and my friend just introduced me a site called karaokeparty.com.

everybody should go try. it provided me a few hours of mindless fun just singing the songs, regardless of whether i can hit the notes or not. think we were so loud while playing the game that we would have woken up the dead. haha