Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed?
With the next hundred chores running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die?
Cause you never had time to call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Slow Dance
Sunday, October 16, 2005
As you are receiving e-mail...
...it's wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes unintentionally and with serious consequences.
Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. Hearing the scream, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
"Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here!"
Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. Hearing the scream, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
"Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here!"
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Help lar help lar
Was asking this acquaintance I met in school yesterday:
Me - How much does the electrical engineering recommended textbook cost?
Him - 40 bucks.
Me - Oh ok, then, I supposed I can try to get a second hand one at around 30?
Him - Huh? Why bother? Its just $10 and its your parents’ money anyway.
Me - .....
(Ok… end of conversation… disgusted, walk off, said I better go for my class…)
For one thing, I dun leech money from my parents anymore since NS. In fact, sometimes, in order to make ends meet, I have to contribute my ns savings to settle some bills. Yes, it can be really bad at times. There, got a picture of my family financial situation? So when other students are merrily preparing for their term test, I was filling up forms for bursaries and worrying about my tuition fees. Taking a freaking long bus ride to school when there is the mrt, cos the bus concession is quite a good deal. Taking up 5 tuition kids at one point in my life and currently down with 2 due to obvious reasons, in order to save up and take care of my daily expenses in uni. Saving up as much as I can in ns while people can use up their entire allowance in just 1 week after pay day. I have an officer friend whom I met in a course during ns telling me: “Aiyo 1k where got enuff? I have to buy this this this and that that that, and also girlfriend leh? Huh? You managed to save up one arh? Amazing!” There, it should be the other way, how you spend every freaking single cents truly amazed me. And still have the cheek to tell me that its not enough for him. So there get it right; I am using money that I saved up plus the pay I got from the 2 kids. So dun come fuck around saying I can always depend on mummy.
Second, it makes me wonders, just because you are using mummy’s money, you can just spend it as though it has no value? From the attitude he portrayed, that guy is obviously the pampered type who has a lovely silver spoon stuck in his mouth since birth, dun have to worry about anything that involves money. Your parents worked so hard and there you are spending their money like as though it is in abundance. Probably you parents also pay for your tuition fees and they might be saving up and are as thrifty as possible to send you to uni but not telling you about their problems so as not to let you worry and that you can concentrate on your studies? So, are you doing justice to their efforts by making such comments and spending like as though their money has no value? Now, I am not against spending your parents’ money; you have the absolute right to do so. I just want to bring out the point that, dun be like this freaking arrogant brat with such sickening mentality which I totally detest.
Offended? Dun be, if you are offended, it means that you belong to that group and I urge you to truly contemplate upon the value of money and dun take everything for granted.
Me - How much does the electrical engineering recommended textbook cost?
Him - 40 bucks.
Me - Oh ok, then, I supposed I can try to get a second hand one at around 30?
Him - Huh? Why bother? Its just $10 and its your parents’ money anyway.
Me - .....
(Ok… end of conversation… disgusted, walk off, said I better go for my class…)
For one thing, I dun leech money from my parents anymore since NS. In fact, sometimes, in order to make ends meet, I have to contribute my ns savings to settle some bills. Yes, it can be really bad at times. There, got a picture of my family financial situation? So when other students are merrily preparing for their term test, I was filling up forms for bursaries and worrying about my tuition fees. Taking a freaking long bus ride to school when there is the mrt, cos the bus concession is quite a good deal. Taking up 5 tuition kids at one point in my life and currently down with 2 due to obvious reasons, in order to save up and take care of my daily expenses in uni. Saving up as much as I can in ns while people can use up their entire allowance in just 1 week after pay day. I have an officer friend whom I met in a course during ns telling me: “Aiyo 1k where got enuff? I have to buy this this this and that that that, and also girlfriend leh? Huh? You managed to save up one arh? Amazing!” There, it should be the other way, how you spend every freaking single cents truly amazed me. And still have the cheek to tell me that its not enough for him. So there get it right; I am using money that I saved up plus the pay I got from the 2 kids. So dun come fuck around saying I can always depend on mummy.
Second, it makes me wonders, just because you are using mummy’s money, you can just spend it as though it has no value? From the attitude he portrayed, that guy is obviously the pampered type who has a lovely silver spoon stuck in his mouth since birth, dun have to worry about anything that involves money. Your parents worked so hard and there you are spending their money like as though it is in abundance. Probably you parents also pay for your tuition fees and they might be saving up and are as thrifty as possible to send you to uni but not telling you about their problems so as not to let you worry and that you can concentrate on your studies? So, are you doing justice to their efforts by making such comments and spending like as though their money has no value? Now, I am not against spending your parents’ money; you have the absolute right to do so. I just want to bring out the point that, dun be like this freaking arrogant brat with such sickening mentality which I totally detest.
Offended? Dun be, if you are offended, it means that you belong to that group and I urge you to truly contemplate upon the value of money and dun take everything for granted.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Haiz...
Got back my sociology term test paper and I am awfully ashamed to announce that I think I did better in this than any of my core. Well, I spent much more time revising this subject than my cores during the 4 days term “break”, so it better be good if not it would not justify the amount of time I spent on it. Also, perhaps due to less expectation and therefore I did not pressurized myself too much during the test itself. Also, come to think of it, I seem to enjoy this module more than any of my cores… Dang, sometimes I feel that I am in the wrong faculty… -.-
Physics jokes
One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a party (ok, there were some non-physicists too who crashed the party). Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and was able to observe some of the guests...
- Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept moving around at a constant velocity and showed no reaction.
- Einstein thought it was a relatively good time.
- Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.
- Cauchy, being the mathematician, still managed to integrate well with everyone.
- Thompson enjoyed the plum pudding.
- Pauli came late, but was mostly excluded from things, so he split.
- Pascal was under too much pressure to enjoy himself.
- Ohm spent most of the time resisting Ampere's opinions on current events.
- Hamilton went to the buffet tables exactly once.
- Volta thought the social had a lot of potential.
- Hilbert was pretty spaced out for most of it.
- Heisenberg may or may not have been there.
- Feynman got from the door to the buffet table by taking every possible path
- The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time.
- van der Waals forced himeself to mingle.
- Wien radiated a colourful personality.
- Millikan dropped his Italian oil dressing.
- de Broglie mostly just stood in the corner and waved.
- Hollerith liked the hole idea.
- Stefan and Boltzman got into some hot debates.
- Everyone was attracted to Tesla's magnetic personality.
- Compton was a little scatter-brained at times.
- Bohr ate too much and got atomic ache.
- Watt turned out to be a powerful speaker.
- Hertz went back to the buffet table several times a minute.
- Faraday had quite a capacity for food.
- Oppenheimer got bombed.
- The microwave started radiating in the background when Penzias and Wilson showed up.
- After one bite Chandrasekhar reached his limit.
- Gamow left the party early with a big bang while Hoyle stayed late in a steady state.
- For Schrodinger this was more a wave function rather than a social function.
- Skorucak wanted to put everybody on his web site.
- Erdos was sad no epsilons were invited.
- Born thought the probability of enjoying himself was pretty high.
- Instead of coming through the front door Josephson tunnelled through.
- Groucho refused to attend any party that would invite him in the first place.
- Niccolò Tartaglia kept stammering throughout the evening.
- Pauling wanted to bond with everyone.
- Keynes was keen to question the marginal utility of this party.
- Shakespeare could not decide whether to be or not to be at the party.
- John Forbes Nash wanted to play a n-person zero sum game.
- Pavlov brought his dog; which promptly chased after Schrodinger's cat.
- Zeno of Elea came with two friends - Achilles and the tortoise.
- Bill Gates came to install windows.
- Bertrand Russell kept wondering if the cook only cooks for the guests, who cooks for the cook?
- Witten bought a present all tied up with superstrings.
- The food was beautifully laid out by Mendeleyev on the periodic table.
- Riemann hypothesised about who would arrive next; to which Newton retorted, 'hypotheses non fingo.'
- Chadwick was handing out neutrons free of charge.
- Everyone was amazed at Bell's inequality.
- Watson and Crick danced the Double Helix.
- While Fermat sang, 'Save the Last Theorem for me.'
- Maxwell's demon argued with Dawkin's friend, the selfish Gene.
- Russell and Whitehead insisted on checking the bill for completeness and consistency. Godel said it was incomplete and it can never be proved otherwise.
- Epimenides the Cretan announced that only non-Cretans spoke the truth.
- Rontgen saw through everybody.
- Descartes cogitated, 'I think I am drunk. Therefore I am at the party.'
Saturday, October 08, 2005
The dream
“Wake up.”
“Wake up. You shouldn’t be sleeping.”
“Wake up.”
I gazed before me as the cloudiness that misted up my vision materialized into a female image slowly moving away from me.
“Huh?” the bewildered me turned around in an effort to orientate myself. Yet, the surrounding scene baffled me further: A garden laid before me, adorned with roses, lilies, orchids and other plants. Behind me was a smoothing white fountain that tranquilized my mind, all my stress, anxiety and worries seemed to evaporate in that instant, something I have never experience in a rather long time.
I found myself asking, “Where am I?”
“Wait! Dun go.” I exclaimed as the image slowly drifted out of sight while I gave chase. I continued to run, even as the image became a speck in the far horizon, without purpose.
Unexpectedly, I fell into a deep hole. No. My world shifted, taking me into a bottomless pit. The light above me seemed unreachable. The darkness overwhelmed me, reminding me of my loneliness and despair. It seemed capable of consuming anything, including everything I treasure as well as my dreams and hopes.
Then, shouts rang out far away, yet, as if from deep within me. Louder and louder with each unbearable second.
Then, everything shifted. The deafening scream was gone, in its place was something not much better, cries and chaos of a battlefield. I fell onto my knees as an arrow buzzed past me. There were no distinct two sides of battle; everyone was just killing each other. It’s the survival of the strongest; kill or be killed. Swear and cries rent the air as weapons flew and swung. Blood flowed freely onto the blood-stained ground. Oh no! Some were advancing towards me. I threw up my hands to defend myself or was it to surrender? I could not tell as everything suddenly spun and disappeared.
Silence hung in the air as the distant light flickered wildly. I examined the new area while my blood was still pounding rowdily in the veins. A chamber? No, it’s a prison. I rushed over and gripped onto the bars, shaking it violently with all the strength I could muster. My whimpers resonated in the endless corridors that loomed before me. I am all by myself again. NO! The light! My only source of light began to weaken, as though rushing back into itself and in time disappeared into nothing. Darkness again.
-------
I came awaked with a start, sitting bolt upright, causing my chair to shift backwards suddenly and creating an annoying squeaking sound. The light blinded me momentarily, but as I recovered from it, another shock gripped me. Several faces stared at me as though I am a freak. A familiar scene greeted me – students mugging in the library. I quickly wiped the sleepy look off my face and drown myself back into the pile of tutorials.
“Wake up. You shouldn’t be sleeping.”
“Wake up.”
I gazed before me as the cloudiness that misted up my vision materialized into a female image slowly moving away from me.
“Huh?” the bewildered me turned around in an effort to orientate myself. Yet, the surrounding scene baffled me further: A garden laid before me, adorned with roses, lilies, orchids and other plants. Behind me was a smoothing white fountain that tranquilized my mind, all my stress, anxiety and worries seemed to evaporate in that instant, something I have never experience in a rather long time.
I found myself asking, “Where am I?”
“Wait! Dun go.” I exclaimed as the image slowly drifted out of sight while I gave chase. I continued to run, even as the image became a speck in the far horizon, without purpose.
Unexpectedly, I fell into a deep hole. No. My world shifted, taking me into a bottomless pit. The light above me seemed unreachable. The darkness overwhelmed me, reminding me of my loneliness and despair. It seemed capable of consuming anything, including everything I treasure as well as my dreams and hopes.
Then, shouts rang out far away, yet, as if from deep within me. Louder and louder with each unbearable second.
Then, everything shifted. The deafening scream was gone, in its place was something not much better, cries and chaos of a battlefield. I fell onto my knees as an arrow buzzed past me. There were no distinct two sides of battle; everyone was just killing each other. It’s the survival of the strongest; kill or be killed. Swear and cries rent the air as weapons flew and swung. Blood flowed freely onto the blood-stained ground. Oh no! Some were advancing towards me. I threw up my hands to defend myself or was it to surrender? I could not tell as everything suddenly spun and disappeared.
Silence hung in the air as the distant light flickered wildly. I examined the new area while my blood was still pounding rowdily in the veins. A chamber? No, it’s a prison. I rushed over and gripped onto the bars, shaking it violently with all the strength I could muster. My whimpers resonated in the endless corridors that loomed before me. I am all by myself again. NO! The light! My only source of light began to weaken, as though rushing back into itself and in time disappeared into nothing. Darkness again.
-------
I came awaked with a start, sitting bolt upright, causing my chair to shift backwards suddenly and creating an annoying squeaking sound. The light blinded me momentarily, but as I recovered from it, another shock gripped me. Several faces stared at me as though I am a freak. A familiar scene greeted me – students mugging in the library. I quickly wiped the sleepy look off my face and drown myself back into the pile of tutorials.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
More jokes..
This one is quite similar to be previous one:
Ahh check this one out:
Err.. oops.
A mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer and a software engineer are travelling in an old Fiat 500 (Bambino) when all of the sudden the car backfires and comes to a halt.
The mechanical engineer says "Ah! It's probably a problem with the valves, or the piston!".
The electrical engineer says "Nonsense! It's most probably a problem with the spark plugs or the battery!".
The software engineer says "How about we all get out of the car, and get back in again".
Ahh check this one out:
Engineers normally go to heaven, since they help mankind with their ingenious work. So, one day, this engineer died. However, because the angels made a mistake, he was sent to hell. Now, when the engineer arrived in hell, he decided to make good use of time and started building all kinds of machines for hell. Everyone, especially Satan, became quite fond of this engineer.
Soon, God found out of the mistake and went down to hell to approach Satan. He wants Satan to release the engineer. However, Satan says, "No! This guy is useful. He made aircons to make hell cooler, constructed toilets for our relief, and even networked the whole place with good transport lines and set up information lines so that we have an easier life! He is too precious to be released."
Then, God was frantic. He quickly threatened, "If you don't release him, I'll sue you."Satan glances at him, then replied, "Ohh really? And where are you going to find a lawyer?"
Err.. oops.
Some jokes related to programming..
Taken from Nus cs1101c jokes forum:
Another one:
A project manager, a computer programmer and a computer operator are driving down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The three men try to solve the problem.
The project manager said: "Let's catch a cab and in ten minutes we'll reach our destination."
The computer programmer said:
"We have here the driver's guide. I can easily replace the flat tire and continue our drive."
The computer operator said:"First of all, let's turn off the engine and turn it on again. Maybe it will fix the problem."
Suddenly a Microsoft software engineer passed by and said:"Try to close all windows, get off the car, and then get in and try again."
Another one:
C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ also gives you the tree object to tie it to...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Programming lab - Battle report
Finally, after a series of battles with lots of irritating syntax errors, I am done with the programming lab nonsense. It was an intense 6 hrs++ struggle with the bugs, first contacted upon its releases at 051005 0000hrs when the lethargic mind was unable to function properly after a tormenting route march to the objective. The firefight was strong initially but the sense of direction was lost by the second hr where the mind tried frantically to figure out the logic behind the direction adjustment of the cannon in question. Are we supposed to launch the “abs” bomb or the “fabs” one? The battle orders seemed to be confusing… Or is the mind shutting down due to fatigue? A retreat order was given by 0300 hrs as the mind was brutally weakened by the enemies and sleep was imposed…
Battle resumed at 1000 hrs and lasted an hr with a significant breakthrough. The directions are being adjusted and the target became reachable. However, the bugs persisted and kept reappearing once in a while reminding me its time to have my lunch and go to school… From 1500 to 1700, rigorous debugging was carried out by myself and the crazy Yi Cai. With these potent reinforcements infiltrating deep into the enemies’ territory, the irksome bugs were eliminated with little effort.
Following a bit of clearing up of the battle ground, the most anticipated transmission through that stupid signal set (Read: Heavy) was heard. “Mission Accomplished! Paradise now!”
Ok thats crap.. i must be bored...
Note: The programming lab was to write a program to predict the results of firing the cannon by slowly adjusting the launch speed to make it closer to the required margin. To close in to the target, everytime the direction changes, the adjustment will be halved and this goes on until the target lands in the required margin or when 10 launches are completed.
Below is the transmission of the battle orders:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs1101cl/lab2/evenweek/
Battle resumed at 1000 hrs and lasted an hr with a significant breakthrough. The directions are being adjusted and the target became reachable. However, the bugs persisted and kept reappearing once in a while reminding me its time to have my lunch and go to school… From 1500 to 1700, rigorous debugging was carried out by myself and the crazy Yi Cai. With these potent reinforcements infiltrating deep into the enemies’ territory, the irksome bugs were eliminated with little effort.
Following a bit of clearing up of the battle ground, the most anticipated transmission through that stupid signal set (Read: Heavy) was heard. “Mission Accomplished! Paradise now!”
Ok thats crap.. i must be bored...
Note: The programming lab was to write a program to predict the results of firing the cannon by slowly adjusting the launch speed to make it closer to the required margin. To close in to the target, everytime the direction changes, the adjustment will be halved and this goes on until the target lands in the required margin or when 10 launches are completed.
Below is the transmission of the battle orders:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs1101cl/lab2/evenweek/
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Diablo 2
Was browsing through some of the old fav links when i stumbled upon planet diablo forum.. one of my frequently visited forums during my diablo2 days. I have stopped the game for more than 1 yr i think.. So I was very surprise and touch to see that i am still remembered as the crazy druid lover and people are still referring to my unfinished guide to play the game as a summoner druid. (and possibly my noobish fan-fict too?)
Yup thats right.. even me, the druid lover, gave up on the summoning druid build, dun think anyone else can do better right? Ohh anyway I reached Hell level mind you, act 2 if i remember correctly. The wolves or bear are just too weak compared to the necro's army of skeletons. And the vines and creepers are just useless. He is better off with his elemental skills; the windwalker is still the best.
Also, diablo 2 patch 1.11 is out. Hmm all this patch does was to add 10 new runewords and fix a few bugs plus introducing a few bugs for balancing purposes?? Nah, nothing tempting enough to summon CurrytanTheWindwalker back into the world of diablo 2.
Yup thats right.. even me, the druid lover, gave up on the summoning druid build, dun think anyone else can do better right? Ohh anyway I reached Hell level mind you, act 2 if i remember correctly. The wolves or bear are just too weak compared to the necro's army of skeletons. And the vines and creepers are just useless. He is better off with his elemental skills; the windwalker is still the best.
Also, diablo 2 patch 1.11 is out. Hmm all this patch does was to add 10 new runewords and fix a few bugs plus introducing a few bugs for balancing purposes?? Nah, nothing tempting enough to summon CurrytanTheWindwalker back into the world of diablo 2.
Monday, October 03, 2005
Sore throat, go away...
I have been pretty sick for the past 1 week.. down with fever and sore throat.. perhaps due to the stress from the mid term test? However, my condition miraculously became much better after my sociology test.. as opposed to what I expected...I felt much much better after this test than any other of my core modules’ papers.. Ohh well.. I came to a conclusion that essay papers are not as wearisome as MCQs papers.. I confirmed this deduction on Saturday after my electrical engin paper (It was short ans).
Argh enough of that.. as I was saying my condition got much better after the 2 test. However, it got worse after Saturday night.. Thanks to Meng Hui’s birthday party! I thought you said you are not going to have BBQ? I have been eating porridge and mee soup for the past week and there you have satay, curry chicken, otah, chicken wings among other mouth-watering food. You can’t expect me to eat only the mee right? Although I faced strong objections from Liu Ting and Xiao yun, I just could not resist the temptation. Yes.. I deserved it..
My doctor said I need more vitamin C; my body resistance to cold seems to be rather weak. This means more vegetables and fruits from now on and time to invest in vitamin C tablets..
Ok time to finish up my physics online tutorial. Question 3 and 5... Dateline is today 2359...
Argh enough of that.. as I was saying my condition got much better after the 2 test. However, it got worse after Saturday night.. Thanks to Meng Hui’s birthday party! I thought you said you are not going to have BBQ? I have been eating porridge and mee soup for the past week and there you have satay, curry chicken, otah, chicken wings among other mouth-watering food. You can’t expect me to eat only the mee right? Although I faced strong objections from Liu Ting and Xiao yun, I just could not resist the temptation. Yes.. I deserved it..
My doctor said I need more vitamin C; my body resistance to cold seems to be rather weak. This means more vegetables and fruits from now on and time to invest in vitamin C tablets..
Ok time to finish up my physics online tutorial. Question 3 and 5... Dateline is today 2359...
Saturday, October 01, 2005
My nickname?
Ohh if anyone is wondering wats up with that stupid nick? Well, the nick currytan does not suggest that i have a fetish for curry or something.. It has something to do with some disgusting experience i had back in sec 2 during one of the scouts camp.. Since then the nick stick to me somehow.. huh? wat disgusting thing?? It got something to do with curry of course and its outrageously awful.. so, dun ask.. zzz
The beginning...
Ohh well.. i used to dislike the idea of blogging.. i mean shouldn't diaries be something personal and secretive, kept in some concealed area not meant to be viewable by others.. And here we are.. posting up our daily lives and thoughts for all to see.. I do keep a journal but its existence is only known to myself.. Ohh well.. time to diversify and give in to new ideas i guess..
Then again, I am just bored.
Then again, I am just bored.
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