Sigh...

I know it sounds like the typical thing that I always say. "This week's been really busy!!!" As always, the statement holds true.

I mean, I had meetings after meetings and I've got assignments and projects due on Good Friday and Easter (1 Each!!!) How culturally insensitive can professors get man??? Ah well, I spent most of good friday at meetings and the rest of the time was spent resting because I didn't sleep much the nights before..

I wonder why SMU students don't kill themselves more.

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Finally gotten round to deleting my Friendster account since I've had no use of it for more than 2 years already...

Went to Batam

went to batam for like 2 days 1 night, cos my uncle and aunty from Austria were visiting us, so we just went there to see.

We stayed at Batam View resort, which was quite a good resort, by the sea and the rooms were decent.

The 1st day was spent around their malls and shops, not too interesting. Then we visited the bridge that linked batam to the southern islands, the one i cycled across last yr in june.

After that we had a full body massage, which was a quite good feeling after. Also had some seafood dinner.

The next day we did not do much, just walked around the resort's property, beach and all and spent sometime swimming. Then came back in the afternoon.

It was quite a good trip, relaxing, so that was good. ;)

School

Tsang will like one of the modules I'm doing...

Popular Music & Society... these few weeks we're learning about the birth of Rock 'n' Roll and the music industry structure. really quite interesting...

I didn't know that the Beatles came from liverpool and that they were the group to export British Rock n Roll to America... and that British rock n Roll developed somewhat differently from the american one coz of their lack of a strong black population...

all very interesting. :D

Google Scholar

Don't know if you guys have heard about this...

but there's this google sub search engine.

It limits your searches to only academic journals and articles... might be useful for us since we're all in uni.

http://scholar.google.com.au/
http://scholar.google.com.sg/

On facebook

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Group Info
Name:
Instant ORD for MAS SELAMAT CAPTURE
Type:
Just for Fun - Totally Pointless
Description:
A little background on this fellow MAS 'the mat bomber' SELAMAT: Singapore's most dangerous man, who once plotted to hijack a plane and crash it into Changi Airport was thrown into jail, and was not heard of till he masterminded one of the greatest escapes in modern history; walking out of the back door of a detention centre's toilet. The man with a limp in his left leg has been able to evade the authorities since. Commandos, Guards, Gurkhas and thousands of policemen have been on the lookout for him, some standing 5 metres apart just in case The Flash blitzes past them.

Still, we feel our comrades in arms could do better, so we have outlined a detailed proposal to the government:

MINDEF SHOULD OFFER AN INSTANT ORD FOR HIS CAPTURE!OUR SOLDIERS NEED MORE MOTIVATION!!!

OR Promise Selamat 40 virgins NOW!

NOT when he reaches heaven.

I'm sure he'll turn himself in!

recent News include

On a more serious note,lets capture the BASTARD.So ladies and gentlemen, give me your 2 cents on his possible location. My take is pretty obvious, "one corner"
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PEOPLE! This is becoming abit of a HIT, so much so, that facebook groups "searching" for him like this, got a mention in the straits times front page article today(sunday 2 march 2008).

it read " on poplular social networking site Facebook, about 200 people have joined five groups which set out to join the hunt. They have put up pictures and news articles of Mas Selamat and held forum discussions"

Obviously our intentions arent as noble as stated above but i would like to think that we're creating awareness among facebook users and well youth in general...

and no i'm not saying this so that i'll be spared by mindef intelligence agents...KEEP POSTING!

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I love the "One Corner" remark!! hahahaaha

Some stuff!

Just read an email aung sent to shamir, giving him good advise, like take any job offers given, even by the vietnamese government to work while in uni.

For Tsang, the free streaming site:
http://www.watch-movies.net/

On sunday Tsang and myself went to play battlelore, a tactical warfare game, was not bad. Tsang said he will get it, so once he does, we could play it. Good that it is also a 2 player game...

accepted into RMIT

so i got the call on thurs afternoon.. yesterday.. that i got accepted into the course i wanted, BComm Media.. a bit rushed.. coz i was told that there's an orientation today and classes start next monday, 3rd march...

made some appointments via email, got my enrolment package.. they didn't have time to mail it to me so i just got it over the desk at the uni tiself... then the orientation itself which was cheap..
our tour guide just abandoned us on one of the streets and i hooked up with some other manjans, mostly from malaysia and hong kong, to go look for the lawn party. .which was also quite cheap... then we just left and went to slack at the canteen for a while and during that time i got an appointment to see some lecturer who was gonna run me down on my program map...

that went well... so now i understand how it works and what i'll be doing for the 3 semesters.. which is really good.. Graduate in june 2009.. so that's pretty much confirmed unless i fail some modules and have to repeat.. touchwood!!

and so it goes... just a weekend to change my mindset from slacker to student and to get all the little stuff i need like stationary etc etc... also need to get a printer too..,. and some files...

my room's got to change layout slightly from gaming entertainment center to media work/student center.... should be fun. :D

I'm looking forward to it.