A Teacher's Day Indeed

In case I got too engrossed in my documentaries and can't return next month in time, here's a happy teacher's day to, well of course, teachers!

Not true that it's only for teachers, when they benefit, students do too! Here's some digression. When teachers get promotion, they get happy and they would scold less teach more! When teachers decides to take a breather and postpone exams for even just a week, we got more time to study! Haha. The latter looks improbable, but principals are welcomed to take the suggestion.

Today happened to be the exam day for the notorious and much mentioned Design for User Interface module. And I officially studied the day before at 10:30 pm. It's risky business, but that certainly made it a lot exciting. It's pretty unwise and only done by professional, so do not try this at home.

I returned to MJR to see how the students there have doodled the walls along the performing arts centre. Happened that they did slightly more then just doodling, I could say it's a painting from my tiny precision-favoured brain. I could guess the school's "evil" plan to let the student draw all they want here, so the new campus would be spared. That's my opinion.

MJR is catching the technology train. There were like 10 teacher awards for student to vote online. Saw them some day ago, but can't remember. But I'm sure I'm not going to check it up again, Moodle's a nightmare! For all I know, Mr Gui received some awards too, congrats!

I was pretty surprised Mr Gui would talked about IT stuffs with me. Then he went on talking about wireless energy transfer. Last time I thought that wacky idea was just some of my nonsensical brain wave spikes. Didn't know it really was possible! Haha. But I kinda got brain-stuck when talking to teachers, so I could only manage some nods and smiles. Should have expressed more yeah? Not to mention those were my area of "expertise".

But seemingly no one came back to MJR. I couldn't even find anyone I don't like. Quite appalling actually. Only Yu Ker and Sebastian came back. I actually made teacher's day cards for them too! But with slightly different message from the teachers one. Of course, Happy Teacher's Day! =) was changed to enjoy your holidays! =). Made 14 cards only gave out 7. Both of them are the representatives for Poly and JC peeps.

Haha.

That's finding laughter in disappointment. Sigh.

MJR is moving to the new campus in a couple of months' time. But I don't think many would go there next August end. My speculation does have some substantiation. Peeps in JC2 next year would serve NS or go university. And another academic year for university had just started. New semester, freshman and skipping lectures don't go together. Probably, poly peeps wouldn't come too then.

The remaining cards for the teachers and ex-students!

There are 3 more actually, but aiya, throw away already. The card's quite nice yet quite plain. No wonder the best excuse to boost a self-made card's value is: It's more sincere. The 3 paper clips forms my abstract flower! Yeah, IT guy cannot do origami but at least can take some decent photos.

The Halley's Comet comes near Earth only once in a human lifetime. Catch it or miss it.

'NUFFsaid.

Four Years of Peculiarity

Here goes yet another year. It's nearly 4 years since you had started producing peculiar posts that no one seemed to understand. Perhaps it was all intentional, but I can't be sure either.

The major upheaval that happened this year is probably the most unforgettable. I wonder if anyone would had remembered how I cried and begged the Blogger team to restore you when I accidentally deleted you. It quite funny to see what I wrote to them, from my perspective at least. Hmm, I haven't time to bring you back to one piece yet. Bringing back to one piece? Sounds like Humpty Dumpty! Haha.

I shall dedicate this entry to you. So I should say the magic phrase: Dedication intended. Haha.

Happy "birthday" my `starzdropS!

WHATScomin'?

Indentating with Two Fingers & Precious Memory

There was an entry I wrote a few months ago, should be in June, it was in 'draft' state and didn't got to be posted. The first paragraph was talking about how I got tremendous inspiration to blog about something during examination period. Let me think, that time I was studying for NMA, Network Management and Administration.

This time, more things struck me while I was revising on DSAL. Pronounced as dee-sell, it's an artistic acronym that stands for Data Structures and Algorithm. Okay, goes the big words, it's actually a programming module. I was doing the past year papers, and of course, the answers the paper wants are mostly codes. Don't know if you've seen how codes look like when seen from a far, so gotta show a snapshot.

The picture is blur because I need to simulate when you look a far, and most people in Singapore is myopic so that's a realistic model. ;)

So you see codes have quite some identations, that's the thing I want to show. It's for easy reading actually, so for my answer, I gotta write something like that. The thing is, it reminded me of the primary school days. I remember teachers always call the class, "Place two fingers along the margin when starting a new paragraph!"

Now I don't indent paragraph that often. Hmm, on second thought, why is there a need to indent a paragraph? You know this is the fifth paragraph of this entry right? It's only useful when differentiating text written on alternate line I think? What's your view?

Then I tried to do identation of my codes using my two fingers. My two fat fingers. Haha. I think the width of my two fingers now is 33% wider than 10 years ago.

Amazing! But true.

Maybe I should get it that draft post completed, it's quite a fun post when I wrote it. The word 'fun' could have a different meaning to different people. I wonder?

I've been watching Couple or Trouble which is showing on Channel U. Suffering from amnesia seems like a good thing. You can forget about unhappy things and sort of start a new life. Dare to try the things you wouldn't do now. But you need a good person by your side to guide you of course. Haha.

There was a documentary, where there was this part they interview people on the streets. If there's a new pill that you can take and erase your memory, would you take it? Hypothetical question. Haha. I happen to know someone who often ask me hypothetical questions. Haha. Maybe I should ask her someday.

Now I'm sitting on the fence, deciding whether to lose my memory or to lose my mind.

'NUFFthinkin.

Treasure Now. Time Knows No Patience

Heard this on a mandarin radio station, and I find it pretty meaningful. The female DJ said a person who dwells and wants to go back to the past probably isn't living a pleasant life. Haha. But I think a more fitting one would be, a person who dwells and wants to go back to the past probably isn't feeling pleasant at that particular instance.

15 August 2008 was a clear day. The full moon shone brightly. And it was a special day, not because something good happened. On this day, 3 things get synchronised. First, it's the fifth day of the week or Friday if you'll call it. Second, it's fifteen on the lunar calendar or it's full moon to be simpler. Third, and the most uncommon of the three, would be it's fifteen both on Gregorian calendar (the one we're using right now) and on the lunar calendar. If I'm not rushing for assignments and exams at the same time, I'd have lay down on lush grass and gaze the moon till dawn. Erm, the poetic way often doesn't really happen in reality. Haha.

Will the sky be the same on 15 July 2011? Sometimes when you missed the chance, it's a few years later. So gotta live in the present, if not the next best bet is to pray for the future. Or maybe, reminisce the past before your memory fades.

'NUFFsaid.

Olympics Ain't Just Sports

Alright, previous post was all about chicken and eggs. Now, where's the bacon!?

Oops, got too carried away. Heh.

Few months ago, I was getting bored and I ran a search about Elvis Presley. I was wondering why he's so famous. After reading through Wikipedia, I still don't quite get it. Anyway, the only thing I still remember is he died quite young on 16 August. His death anniversary is nearing, so I guess I'd feature his songs in MediaStation. That's the purpose of this paragraph actually. Haha.

Academic Year 08/09 Semester 1 inofficially ended yesterday (in relative to the post date). But my assignments are still hanging on to me. The final two are all about Flash, however there's nothing flashy about them, they are as dull as ever!

Anyway, Olympics 2008 had just started! The opening ceremony was pretty grand. But I never watched it fully, gotta do what I was complaining in my previous paragraph! =/

The most boring part was when players have to carry their country flags and wave and wave. Yet it wasn't all that boring. Looking at all the different countries, there are quite some country I never heard of! Even if I did, I couldn't be sure where they are on the map. Maybe I could make a guess for their continent. But the thing I'm sure is, I'm not the only one in the world.

Here I am in Singapore holding a phone in my hand and asking, "Got a country call Moldova one arh?"

Who knows that the people on the other side of the globe could be wondering, "Where's Singapore?"

Haha.

It's quite interesting to see some of the games. It's not just about winning the medals but also fulfiling self-expectations. It can be a heart-wrenching moment to see some players not able to do their routine as planned. I mean those individual/solo events.

Let's put the football match between Singapore and Brazil behind, and hope Singapore can do us proud this time!

'NUFFsaid.

Chicken & Eggs

My mum was saying that eggs got expensive recently. I'm not sure about the market price right now but it striked me this question: Which is cheaper? A hen producing 100 eggs or buying 100 eggs from the supermarket?

Well, I don't expect an answer actually, because there were quite many unknowns like how many eggs can a hen lay in its lifetime? How much does a hen that's still alive and kicking cost? Come to all these questions, it doesn't seem like chicken feed anymore.

But my answer is buying 100 eggs from supermarket. Why? All eggs are sterillised before they leave the farm. So it's safer and cheaper to get from the supermarket, medical fees in Singapore ain't cheap 'cha know? But it's quite an interesting question to think about it, if you're like me~

Okay, here's the ancient question that scholars and wise men had always wanted to answer: We got a hen from the egg or an egg from the hen?

From the scientific point of view, it would a hen from an egg. From the Christian point of view, it would be an egg from the hen. At least that's what I think. I don't really want to this post to be all about chicken and egg, so go figure why I feel that way. Actually, I really hope someone could figure it out. =)

On second thought, this post really is about chicken and egg in the end. Oh well!

'NUFFsaid.