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.

Labels: hall, personal, school

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

Labels: food for thought, hall

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

Labels: hall, school

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~

Labels: hall, misc, personal, school

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...

Labels: hall, personal, school

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!

Labels: hall, personal, Ultimate

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.

Labels: hall, misc

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.

Labels: design, hall, personal, school

*phew* there was a bit of a downtime for the site due to some bills problem. i get kinda edgy when this kinda things happen.

yes, i've been missing for a very long time. life's been through a pretty bad patch lately, hence the hiatus. went to hong kong for an ultimate competition, came back injured, then everything started going downhill for me in life. might be because of the niggling injury caused a substantial amount of morale to do things to vapourize. i started ruing on the fact that im injured, taking one too many fags and just laze around, not working on my injury, or rather, not working on anything at all. not a very good idea considering that it was so near to my submission week and reading week (which is now).

the only takeback from all these things is the fact that i suddenly realize that i have a lot of time on my hands the moment i took a breather from ultimate. it'll be a good thing i guess, im starting to feel a lot more refreshed and i think im ready to start again (provided that my back doesn't aggrevate again).

got my first photography job for a christmas dinner through my sister and im pretty excited about it. makes me wanna take time of studying and do some preparation for the event, BUT it'll have to wait, i have a good feeling about my results this sem and im not risking it.

and yes, i'm doing photography, anyone who needs to engage a photographer or has friends who needs to, please point them my way. my online portfolio is still in the process of construction, so for the time being you can look at my portfolio here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/

ok, back to studies!

Labels: hall, personal, school, Ultimate

.. is not my age. sorry to disappoint you people, but im much younger than that. haha.

anyway, that's the number of hours that i was awake for from friday to saturday and it left me barely alive after that. even fell into a slight fever in the middle of the night and left me half dead when i was at training today.

night cycling on friday night was fun as of every year and we did crazy stuff to one another as usual (actually just to joanna and tim at times), how many times in a year can we act like we're fighting with each other at glutton bay and hang someone upside down over the railing of the singapore river.

this year's route was much better than last year, more straight roads, less uphills and longer eating times. really makes it relaxing that the "training" route that we had last year which made our legs feel like jelly by daybreak.

i left east coast straight after we reached the destination (east coast, duh.) and headed straight to seng kang for SMU's Ultimate competition, Grab Huck Score. this is also the event that chalked up the number of hours of me not sleeping. i had half a mind to let the competition slip because i was too tired and i pretty much had to play 95% of the points. but looking at how much effort everyone was putting in, i thought we'll just go all the way.

had to play the other NUS team in the quaters, we lost but the other NUS team went on to win the whole competition, which was still good although i didn't get to play in the finals (or rather, a good thing that i didn't play, i can't imagine the state that i'll be in if i played). i've got a very good feeling about the whole NUS Ultimate this year, people are enthu and hardworking, we've got quite a potential team this year. hopefully it'll turn out well.

Labels: hall, personal, Ultimate

it's insane that i'm still awake right now, this is my 3rd night in a row that im sleeping after 4pm and it's totally not helping that i've stuff to do at night till late. someone asked if i was busy with work. well, i AM busy with work, just not school work and it's really worrying. i really have to stop playing DOTA after clearing all my hall stuff and actually do some school work. it's about time to start revising my work.

on another note, was at sentosa for a beach tourney over the weekend and it was pretty tiring, came back with a semi-swollen ankle (old injury), a graze, cut on my back and pretty pissed off. pissed off at the fact that the filippinos that we played against in the tournaments were so much faster than me. haha. i'm not pissed off at them but myself, seems like im still not as fast as i want to be, it's giving me more motivation to run more. it's always a joy to play with the filippinos in any Ultimate Frisbee tournament, they're all really fun and friendly people.

pretty glad that i played in the tournament with an "all-star" team, it's rare to play with experienced players from different clubs and countries in one team. and i really have to thank jason for showing me how it is to be playing with heart, something that i've think that i've lost over the years and perhaps to a certain amount of laziness as i become more seasoned. reminded myself of the days when i just started playing, i made up whatever i was lacking in skill with heart and just played really hard. i haven't been able to do that in recent years and it felt good to be doing it again. now to make sure that it stays that way.

will leave this post with a photo montage of the singapore flyer that i made for a part of my assignment:

check out the full assignment here if you're interested to see more:
http://www.egomy.org/triggerhappy/2008/10/assignment-4-urban-fantasy-1.html

Labels: design, hall, misc, personal, Ultimate

sometimes i just really think that im asking for it. woke up this morning and had quite a bad case of diarrhea. in the evening, after i had finished a pickup game of ultimate in school and ready to leave for wala with the rest of the guys, i suddenly felt like puking (and stomach still feeling queasy). got to wala, ordered a beer anyway, didn't finish it and i actually met up with the guys from hall at wine bar where it was freaking cold and i couldn't resist drinking (as usual). halfway through, i started feeling feverish and achy, i had this coming the moment i was at wala but i still went on to do what i did and im suffering the consequences now. aching and feverish.

it sucks when your body is not exactly fully intact and you get the body aches, because all of your injuries will start hurting and frankly speaking, there's not a lot of parts of my body that are still out of harm's way. haha.

medicine. sleep. hope i can study properly tmr. roar.

Labels: hall, misc, personal

some point in time when i was younger, my mum pointed out that im way too independent, to a point that i probably won't be homesick even if i was away from home for a few years. i wouldn't say that she's wrong.

was telling val online yesterday that it was the first time in 3 weeks that i actually came back from hall and my sis and mum had been talking to me at every chance they can get, not asking me about what im doing in school, but just updating me about themselves. val said that if her sibling goes away for a few weeks, she would catch up alot with her when she gets back. i guess they must really miss me. haha.

somehow at night when my sister started talking and showing me stuff, i started to get a little restless but at the same time, i didn't want to disrespect her and go on with my own stuff so i still stayed on to listen and watch whatever she wanted to show me.

i realized that after 3 hectic weeks in hall of playing IBG, running DnD, thinking up proposals and rushing school work, all i was looking for when i got home was to have a little bit of quality "alone time". i needed some time alone to get away from all the work and just let my mind cool down a little.

this sem already seem very hectic, although it's only week 4. hope things will get better soon.

Labels: food for thought, hall, personal

yet another poster design. im amazed at how i managed to churn this out last night despite having had very little sleep and a wretched headache after i went drinking until 6am the previous night.

i think i design best under little rest and undesirable physical conditions. maybe i should consider some activities before i do any design work. hmmm... haha.

C&Cs are welcomed for the posters! :)

Labels: design, hall

... when your msn looks like this:



just relieving some unwanted stress from studying for too long.
good luck to everyone having exams!
mug hard! sleep is for the weak!

Labels: hall

we just had our very first TH(temasek hall) Band performance - TH Chillout, today and it was a huge success considering that this is the first time in TH history that anyone actually held a concert at TH's front porch and we manage to get license to sell beer to our hall residents during the performance.

there were initial fears of having a low turnout for the performance but any nerves present were calmed when we saw the crowd arrive for the performance and we really had a lot of fun, lots of singing, forgetting of lyrics, shouting "SEX!" when douglas was singing, screw ups and all.

it's not everyday that you get to perform infront of the hall residents with a beer in your hand when you're not doing anything on stage. haha. pictures soon!

Labels: hall

whenever tim, gab and i head for meals together, we never fail to have very "interesting' table conversations when we're having our meals:

*all of us are eating our food*

Tim: hey, i just thought of something.. what if you're going out on a dinner date with a damn hot girl and you suddenly farted?

Gab: damn easy lah! just laugh it off!

Tim: ok, 2nd part, after dinner she decided to ask you over to her place for some sexy time but you realized that when you farted just now, you actually shitted in your pants. if you miss this time, you'll never get it on with her again, EVER.

Gab & me: ......

Labels: hall

... or at least not anytime soon. it's just that i've been very occupied by a lot of things recently.

Temasek Hall orientation officially ended last sunday and it's really nice to see that the freshmen were touched at the end of the traditional temasek hall initiation to become a true blue temasekian. i can still remember the feeling when i walked out to the open and removed my blindfold, it was touching, period.

im still trying to recover from all the sleep that i lost during the orientation week, i swear i only got like 4 hrs of sleep everyday and sometimes even when we end early, we end up staying up till like 6 in the morning drinking, talking and all.

which brings me to the point, i think the guys and i have brought our hall lives to a higher level (literally, moving from level 1 to level 4). lying outside our rooms now is a 3m x 1.8m inflatable pool and amos is bringing in an electric grill as soon as he comes back to hall from home. hall this year will be smashing. and just to start this off with a bang, we're having a keg party tonight!!

time to prepare for the keg party..

Labels: hall

it's the time of the semester that everyone hates -- the reading week. it's the time where the pressure cooker really starts working up on everyone and it's working extra hard for my case.

hopefully i can get a good result this semester to pull up my overall grade from last semester (trust me, it's really bad. haha).

gonna be a long hiatus once again, or at least until end of the month. till then.

Labels: hall

my hall is doing a musical for it's productions this year and it'll be on Feb 24th, 7.30 pm @ UCC (University Cultural Center @ NUS). please come and support this productions although i only play a small role in the musical, it's going to be great fun watching it.

anyway, if you guys are interested, just give me a call or sms me, for those that i don't know personally, you can drop me an email @ weiliang8@gmail.com with your contact information and i'll contact you and know you personally from then on. haha.

below is a synopsis of this year's productions:

Synopsis of "Scarred"

A crime is committed. The evidence leads to nowhere, no eye-witnesses, just suspects. Desperate to find her fiancé's murderer, Selene seeks help from her ex-classmate, childhood friend Detective Josephine Fox. As they get nearer to the truth, they are compelled to face their past.

Having their children suffer for their mistakes, parents seek forgiveness, hoping to mend their relationship. The children are stranded. Longing for the love they never had ... they desire to be in control of their lives yet not having the courage to face the past.

Scarred by memories, haunted by conscience, is there a way out of this recurring nightmare? What price will they pay for the revelation of the truth?

Hope to see some of your guys there!

Labels: hall

Staying alone, as far as i'm concerned, is a great thing and i totally love the lifestyle that i'm having now in hall. there's so much freedom and unexplored territories in life to discover when you're living alone.

but nothing is perfect in whatever you do and i just discovered the downside of staying alone -- being sick. been down with fever and cold since the afternoon and now it's only getting a little better, although my body's still aching like a bitch.

good thing i was out when i felt the full-blown effects of my cold-fever combo and i ended up going to the clinic in school before heading back to hall. i can imagine myself being lerthagic from the fever/cold and just staying in my room to rest. i'd probably starve to death by now.

i really need to do my readings but i don't think my body is in the optimal state to be doing it. guess my weekend's reserved for that. argh

Labels: hall

as most of you know (or may not know), that i actually drive a Renault Kangoo, which is also dubbed as "The Fun Van" and my friends in hall sure had a fun time with my van on my birthday yesterday.

i was still secretly glad that im having a peaceful birthday in hall without having to go through the painful ordeal of being stripped, deep heat to where the sun don't shine, etc and even when i walked past a bunch of them who were gathering near my block after i came back from buying supper, they didn't attempt to do anything to me, or so i thought.

in the middle of the night when i was sleeping, i had a friend sms me:
"hey dude, happy birthday! and btw, nice van"

when i saw that sms, i immediately woke up at 3am, rushed out to my van and had the shock of my life:


at the end of the day, everyone who knew i drove that van, knew that it was my birthday because of all the artistic additions. everyone else who passed by would be pointing and getting amused by it.

i feel so loved. thanks guys. hah.

Labels: hall

had a full day Inter-Hall touch rugby carnival and i must say that it's really fun although we only managed to muster up 4 draws, 1 lost and 2 tries between 5 games. i'm really proud to say that although we're not the best performing team among all the sports, our bond is really strong and i really expect to see everyone back playing touch together again. i guess we're still a very young team made up of mainly freshmen, we'll come back stronger next year!

it really didn't feel tiring when i was still at the carnival after playing all full 5 matches (and scoring a try *gloats*) but once i washed up and started relaxing, my body felt like a wreck, even washing the mud of my clothes at the sink felt like a uphill task.

we decided to head to brewerkz and cafe iguana to booze up although all of us were really tired and we sure had helluva time. i must say that tired people do stupid things sometimes and the trip to brewerkz with san duo, gy, hammie, hongyi, kok and ziqi was freaking hilarious.

after sharing 3 towers of beer between 12 people (with only around 8 really drinking), we decided to head over to iguana's to try out the infamous CHILLI TEQUILA (who the hell drinks this crap?) and i dreaded the feeling of that drink because i can't take chilli.

and as expected, i hurled shortly after that drink reach my stomach, burning my throat, intestines and whatever that was on the way. it didn't help that i think the drink burnt me when i took a crap in the morning (HAH).

photos for the night coming soon!

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