Off I go again

The clothes I'm bringing. From top left to bottom right:
1) Outing shirts (x5) - two collared shirts, one white long sleeves woollen shirt, one white striped shirt for formals, one white shirt.
2) Home clothes - 4 tops, 2 bottoms.
3) Outing t-shirts (x5)
4) Pants - 5 out door pants, 1 track pants, one berm
5) Towels - 2 bath, 2 face.

Just feel like keeping track of my clothes.

Should have more clothes over in cam... dont know why i'm bringing so many clothes also.

Here's my flight info in case anyone's interested... Who's arriving at LHR at 0550 too?

Singapore (SIN)
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:20

London (LHR)
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:50

Seat: 53A

Here we go again... Flying alone this time...
Bracing myself for another Cambridge year... *deep breath*

Been Cooking

My mum comes back from the US tomorrow, after being there for 3 weeks.

I think this period of being alone and not having someone there was good for me. I ended up cooking, entirely on my own, from my own memory.

If you think I am refering to instant mee and all, that wrong! I cooked stuff like chicken curry, chili chicken and some indian veg dishes. Also made pasta that was quite good. Yup, I guess thats the best part of the cooking. I did not cook food that was only edible, I cooked food that was worth-eating! All was learnt under the apprenticeship of my mum.

I guess I don't really like cooking for the sake of cooking, but its more to the fact that I know if I have to, I can cook good food for myself. I think cooking is a life skill, as is driving and swimming, so knowing how to do it and do it well, will serve me well. As for time to cook, whatever you cook should last you for at least 2 meals, to make the time-effort ratio worth-while. If you cook and have it over 3 meals, then you will most likely spend less time then travelling and eating out.

I had home food for maybe half the dinners over this time. I guess from tomorrow onwards, I will return to having majority of dinners at home. I will also learn some of the dishes that I like eating but am not confident of cooking right now. The next step once I have learnt all that I can from my mum is to learn to cook what I like the way I like it. In the end, thats what selfish cooking is about about, cooking food that will make you happy. I guess unlike my mum, I look at other people eating what I cook as a secondary advantage. If they like it, good, if they dont, its their problem! Maybe I will cook something for you all one day... ;)

Did you know that "g ~ π2" isn't a simple coincidence?

Here's the answer to an interesting observation I made a while back.

Turns out that there is indeed an explanation for the apparent coincidence.

It has to do with the fact that the meter was originally defined to be the length of a seconds pendulum...

You learn something new everyday!

Cutting Olives

Well, today I cut olives for the first time. Wanted to put it into the pasta I cooked for dinner. I realise that the olives you see on you pizza or at subway was not so easy to cut. If you have seen an olive before, you will know that around 50% of the thing is the seed. And the seed is smack in the centre. And the fleshy bits stick to it, unfortunately. So, its inpossible to cut it evenly into 3 parts and just chuck away the seed.
What is a good way I found out was that you can cut the two corners. The trick to cutting them is to cut until you hit the seed, the slowly go up and then come back down. By doing that, you take most of the top and bottom off. For the centre part, you will need to cut it in along the length of the seed. After that you will have to peel it directly around the seed. And voila. You have seperated the olives from the seed and now can be cooked!
*The process takes around 30 sec for novices and 20 secs for the nimble fingered.

stuff

finally my shipping came in!!! finally... been waiting forever...

unpacked most stuff.. books games DVDs music and electronics.... yet to do the clothes and shoes though...

hahaha.. john came in saw the TV and said i should be putting it outside... i had to be subtle with not obliging.. heh heh.... he was like yeess.. and i was murmuring noo...

and setting up the 5.1 speakers was really a pain in the neck... too many cables.. .and colour of connectors also confused me... i went and mixed up one of the speakers and the subs... no digital cable, so can only connect to my comp for now. if i can get a coaxial cable i could plug it into the DVD player or PS3...

oh well, that's it from me for now. :D

Raimbo 3.. 6??

yoyo... go watch ratatouille.. then read my review of it on my blog and see if you agree with me or not... hahahaha

better than Rambo 3 anyday man. btw, i got a game called Rainbow 6: Vegas. don't confuse the 2 ok.... one's a no brainer shoot and kill everyone movie, the other is a tactical shooting game that DOES NOT involve tanks and helicopters challenging each other.

fun blogspot webby...

http://play.blogger.com/

pics being uploaded onto blogs all over the world in real time. quite nice to just stare and watch..

WOTR

On tue, Tsang and myself played a game of WoTR. I played the baddies. The game started with the main activities happening for sauron vs gondor. All the forces in mordor moved west to Minas Tirith and gondor retreated back in. Unfortunately for me, Aragon also made it there and after a few rounds of fighting, I concluded that I could not take the city filled with the dwarf, elf and man, so I decided to leave it at a stale mate till the Southrons got their act together.

While the main action was going on down south, the forces in Dol Guldur somehow grew, so they poured out. Towards Lorien! Haha, if only the elves predicted their doom! Lorien was run over without difficulty. Also, Moria was growing stronger(stronger then the Mordor army no doubt), so Rivendale was the next easiest target, with the elves not even at war. So the forces of Dol Guldur combined with Moria and some from the north to move towards Rivendale.

It was after quite a while that both Isengard and Southrons got into a state of war. The Southrons tried a naval landing at Dol Amroth but due to their lack of luck, they did not take the town. Even more unfortunely, the witch king and 4 nazguls lost their lives(wait, they already lost that, so lost their souls?) there. Guess that would be the lowest point for the baddies.

Saruman on the other hand was having a ball of a time. Instead of usually dying from trees, he actually survived 2 attacks and managed to build up a considerable force, which was not deployed. The forces of Gondor with the support of Rohan eventually got too bold and pushed the remainding forces of sauron back to Minas Mogul. Haha, so the shadow forces were almost fortified in. Unknowingly, they would pay for their aggressiveness. Up north, Rivendale had fallen and the army moved west as Tom Bomberdale protected the east. The force reached to attack the Woodland Realm, which the elves wisely retreated away.

Gandalf the white must have gotten tired of waiting for Saruman to attack, so he initated it. A strong Rohan force moved towards Isengard. They forces Saruman to fortify up in his tower. But together with some units built in the north, they forced the rohan back to Helm's Deep, where depleted from their attack, they were wiped out. Haha, got rid of Gandalf!

The ring which was travelling slowly was finally in Mordor. Frodo had no corruption! Even the stupid spider could only deal 1 corruption. While wondering in Mordor, the final events were taking place outside. Isengard's army took an empty Edoras while the remenants of saurons forces just managed to reach Minas Tirith. Mouth of Sauron finally did not just talk cock, but managed to take the city. It was achieved on the last dice of my turn. If I had 1 die less, the ring would have most likely been destroyed as it was on the last step! A photo-finish. An interesting game no doubt where the shadow player felt sian but still won. haha.

boring...

so what's been 'going on' ?

getting more and more sian here.... been having alot of late night chats with yz... quite interesting lah, talking to her... playing games, as usual.. reading... also as usual... stuff hasn't arrived yet so still not all out on the playstation yet...

finally paid my outstanding phone bills today... also email starhub on terminating the internet.. no response yet...

otherwise, eating cup noodles distributed from somewhere in jurong and just watched Russell Peters Outsourced yesterday and watching some other movies as well...

send me some prata and/or mee gorend leh... damn hungry for those things.

Going on

Hmm, I remember we had this MSG who taught us urban warfare for the sea soldier course. He used to end his sentences with "this kind of thing going on". "Market and civilian kind of activity going on" or "support fire going on" or "explosion going on". It was quite stupid. So during that period I also used to say like "I am going to sleep going on" or "PT going on", etc. Haha, just something stupid from national slavery.

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So, as expected, the group campfire going on on saturday went fine. I guess when you have ppl intending to attend an event to have fun, it is hard for them to not have some. It was more of a performances going on then actual singing and such. The malay magician guy was quite entertaining, despite the circular shape going on of the area we used.

We went to RK after that, and what a crap standard they had going on! For one thing, there was an entire new crew going on. Only Nesloooooo Beng was the familiar face going on. So I TRIED ordering Neslo Beng some one of the sin jiaos going on. That cock looked at me like I if I were speaking a different language going on. After I got him to pronounce the term correctly and explained that it was a mix of nescafe and milo going on, he signalled to the drink guy, also new, who seemed to know what was going on. He came back with what must be the Neslo Beng Kosong going on. It was quite bitter and well, tasted like crap, but I drank it cos I like bitter stuff also going on. Anyways, they also failed to entertain us. I mean you would expect Shamir's favourite waiter to repeat our orders in a way that you wish you could shoot him kind of things going on. He just said it like he was a normal person going on. After that the parking wardens came and chased us out going on. I think it is fair to say that we wont be going there going on. Yassins it will be going on!

Anyways, I will end this post so that Gabriel can see what Borat did when he visited Cambridge going on:~

10.5

won't tell you what this is... guess its actually a movie after all...

click here first before reading...

and then maybe i can draw your attention to the comments below...

"This movie was so bad it was awesome. Ed Wood would be proud. Plan 9 from outer space now has company on the bottom. The Attack of the killer tomatoes was a more plausible movie. Think of Chris Farley explaining to Lorne Michaels how cool it would be if there was like this giant earthquake and like everything fell but scientist couldn't understand it so they nuked it, Huh wouldn't it be cool. This movie would have been better written by SNL writers. The lines were so bad I kept expecting the actors to look at the camera and wait for a rim shot,'bah dump dump'. Henny Youngman and Norm Crosby couldn't have put together more bad puns and double entendres if they tried. The shocked look on every actors face wasn't the earthquake; it was the thought of how they paid an agent to book them on this train wreck. Like any true tragedy, it was hard to avert my eyes. My middle school child laughed at the bad lines and the poorly though out plot lines. Between laughs he would say, `Now wait a minute, that can't be right'. Too late my son, we too were devoured by the `Attack of the killer earthquake'. Now quick, everyone, evacuate the west coast HAR HAR HAR. "

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Shamir and Aung! ; Aung and Shamir!

This post has nothing to do with the title, just to get ppl excited. Just goes to show that you cannot judge a blog post by its title.

Anyways, here is an interesting scene in Man VS Wild - Kenya~



The one in the Everglades did not have anything worth-while seeing, although he did kill a 2 foot turtle(censored) but while cooking it, you could see the blood on his shirt. He would have eaten a young alligator but said it was protected.

The Digital Times had a segment on the gaming industy in SG. Apperantly we are making quite a few games and its only going to increase. One game I am definately going to buy is Lone Wolf, based on the game-book, which I used to read like 12 yrs ago. The game should be out in Q3 2008, so will be looking forward to that(the author actually comes down to supervise the developers, so its not like they are running it on their own).

The Week Passed

For those who don't know, I have been jogging @ MacRitchie for around a month now, around twice weekly, mainly during the afternoon, 1 - 4pm. The main reason for doing so is just for a change in jogging location, instead of the area around my house. Also, I MacRitchie provides a more interesting place to run and a healthier(no CO2 and CO) alternative.

So on Tuesday, we supposedly had the same amount of rainfall that was recorded in last year August. And I went for a jog on Tuesday! Well, it was not flooded, but now I know how it feels like to run in a stream. The trails were flooded with running water. Fortunately, it was not really muddy, so I was just running over water. Another interesting sight I saw on tuesday was the monkeys that used a lamp post the same way as a fireman uses their pole thingy during an emergency. They did it all very quickly and was quite an amusing. Their emergency was to raid a pick-up parked nearby.

On Thursday, when returning from reaching the end of the trail, the underneath rubber of my shoe gave way, Cheap new balance. It was only the 4th time using it. So, since I wanted to salvage it as it was so new, I took both the shoes off and walked back barefooted. I walked mostly on the broadwalk, to avoid the stones in the trail. All I can say is that wood is quite a good conductor of heat. ;)

On Friday, the scouts had patrol camp. As usual with the present batch of patrols, it was full of poor planning. It was held at Sembawang Park. I guess on the whole nothing worth-while happened for me as I was not directly involved in any part of the program. Just slacked around and enjoyed the atmosphere.