it's sucky when i can't manage to find e full version of some nice songs from serial dramas (or if they are not released by e companies).. especially when they r not e opening and closing songs..

等你 by 佘诗曼 in 法政先锋2

隐约是你心跳舞
相爱后要怎结果
你别匆匆留下我
眼泪没掉我感觉
想去问你的太多
心里问你听到么
你别真的忘掉我
昨日约誓与经过
愿一生中有你无奈分开后会无期 仍等你 直到 你记得起
相拥中最美无奈今天绝望游离 仍等你 直到 再吻着你
感觉着听到我么

i've added e incomplete song to my chinese playlist.. e ending song in 情有可缘 is also a nice song..

爱情剧本 by malaysian actor 辛偉廉 William San in 情有可缘

如果说我们相遇 是个奇迹
而美丽爱情 不是瞬间流星
我早已写好剧本等你参与陪我演下去
如果最后我们平行前进
我还是会等你
一个我 一个你 两个人 的世界太美丽
曾经以为 不管多孤单都只能一个人去走完
但这一刻 有你我多安慰
如果你愿
我会用尽所有 力气去守护着你给的爱情城堡
一辈子让你听见我的心跳

blogging abt my jap trip in may now.. currently it's work in progress.. find e posts dated 30 april to 6 may..

stumbled upon more celebrity blogs while searching for e karaoke software.. hosts 权怡凤，王禄江， 许振荣， DJ 丁志勇, Project Superstars 陈迪雅， 杨佳盈， Daren Tan

just a little reminder on e stuff tt i wanna do this holiday..

-prepare for big 4 3 interview
-pack for ops manning
-blog abt my japan trip ages ago
-finish setting up my dream blog
-start on my project
-finish watching 法正先锋 2
-lyrics 7
-k box
-search for e karaoke software bra mentioned
-start a cedar pri wikipedia entry

Viwawa!

sorry for e small pic.. i guess that's wat they meant by a feather in your cap.. tt, for yr info, is wat i'll be having on my cap come july on convo day.. for having a minor.. took e picture from my friend's fb album and cropped it.. on 1st sight i thought e feather was seriously -.-''' but i guess on 2nd (ok.. maybe many) look, i think e feather is actually ok looking.. and in case u're wondering.. e feather is detachable..

Toronto exchange student muses about Singapore
it's always interesting to read abt wat ppl from other country have to say abt us singaporeans and to look at the comments following e articles..

Seng Kiat's photoblog

Lim Chu Kang Road as an emergency runway: Roads to Runways


Credits: http://fireopal82.blogspot.com/2008/10/dad-and-mum-will-provide.html
of course you should also listen to the other side of the story at Agnes Lin's blog and The Online Citizen..

and you can actually view the list of MPs in Singapore and their corresponding CVs here..

Pearls before swine 3

a difficult game, if u do not realise tt solving such a problem requires e use of binary and an understanding of nim.. to understand how to solve such problems, u can try reading Games and Representations and Game Theory.. i personally found e 2nd link more useful.. not tt i read both papers in detail.. just browsed through them.. and well, u dun strictly need to know wat nim is as long as u can find e solution from e 2 links tt i gave.. and ya.. e game starts to get boring after u get e hang of it.. i played till lvl 17 when i browser hanged on me.. one of e forums tt i read says tt everything repeats after lvl 31..

Bloons Tower Defense 3

bloons is back! this time with a vengence.. lol.. completed medium difficulty on e 1st 3 tracks and easy on e last.. also tried freeplay easy mode (beyond lvl 50).. totally gay.. so many ships.. best record so far is lvl 56..

HP206 links
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/
Neuropod (Podcast)

HP320 links
Venus HP320 main site
HP320 Behavioral Modification Assignment
YW HP320
Garlia HP320

apparently, chung cheng tried to come up with some motivational posters for e juniors back there.. not sure whether it was some selection bias on the part of lynn (the pics below came from her facebook photo album).. it seemed like e majority of e ppl featured were from my batch of '01 and were people whom i personally knew.. anyway, i sidetracked quite some bit while searching for some stuff.. and guess wat i found? listen to 中正校歌 online! O.o and rather disappointingly, i couldn't manage to find those for cedar pri and TJ.. there wasn't even e school song lyrics for TJ.. -.-'''

yet another sidetrack note.. just realised, again, tt cedar pri doesn't have a wikipedia entry of its own.. wonder if i could kickstart it during e dec holidays.. foresee tt i would be needing a lot of help though, if i really get down to doing it.. also chanced upon (or rather, i went to find) e cedar pri young wing alumni webpage.. there was this page tt talked about how ex-cedarians could contribute back to e school.. and i actually gave some thought abt it.. i guess there comes a period of time when one would start wondering abt giving back to society, or more specifically, giving back to his alma mater.. well of course all there is now is no action talk only..

not sure if i mentioned here before, but cedar pri underwent some extreme makeover few years back and judging from e pictures tt i saw, nothing from e old cedar tt i knew managed to survive e makeover.. and coincidentally, i'm currently listening to my cedarian senior singing from my chinese jukebox.. haha.. kk.. i noe u noe who i'm talking abt.. and just so happens tt it's one of my favorite songs too.. lol..

so ya ya.. back to e topic.. i think e posters below are quite poorly designed.. quite clearly someone require a crash course in Marketing 101 and Use of Colors in Inspirational/Promotional Materials 102..



well i guess i've talked abt her quite some bit in my previous posts liao, so i guess i wont be saying anything more..



so i discovered tt lynn managed to get herself a 1st class honors in law.. v impressive if u ask me.. and she certainly seems to be doing well in her current job..



knew him since pri school, but somehow parted ways (not in e bad sense) when we went into different streams.. him into art and me into science.. bumped into him at NTU S4 just last week and it somewhat slipped my mind to ask him abt e progress of his band's latest album..



not exactly a v close acquaintance.. last heard tt he gained some experience working at a local chinese FM radio station.. and seriously, i cant stand it but to comment again tt e poster design sux.. couldn't read abt kenneth's achievements from e poster.. geez..

and actually, there's another poster of this guy who managed to grab some pretty impressive achievements.. but i thought he wasn't impressive enough in his character for me to post his pic here.. so there goes.. e end of this post..

had a lucid dream yesterday nite.. was trying out this technique to keep myself lucid longer by focusing and alternating my attention amongst e dream constructs' faces.. quite amazing how real their faces look when i did tt.. anyway tt wasn't e main point.. e main point is tt i think my dream constucts are erm.. getting more rebellious.. -.- was trying to freeze time again by snapping my fingers, but somehow e snapping sound was quite muted and things didn't work out e way it was supposed to.. so after quite a number of tries (i was rather persistent), i tried changing to clapping my hands instead.. but haiz.. e same results..

and during the whole process e dream constructs were like showing the oh-no-not-again-he's-gonna-freeze-e-time look.. they probably even said it out loud (just tt i couldn't remember if they really did tt).. darn.. -.- they sure are getting rebellious in e recent lucid dreams tt i had.. maybe i should just try KO-ing them by wacking on their heads with a stick or scream at them to ask them to follow my instuctions.. lol..

ahhh!!! i think the kennedy choir really made some nice covers of some of the most famous beatles songs (check out my english jukebox).. and e lead female singer really sounds nice!!! ahhh!!! ok.. i'm starting to act like tty.. lol.. anyway this other choir also did a decent cover of hey jude: Nomonas-Hey Jude-Choral Beatles

omg.. i managed to find one of my favourite rainy day songs at imeem.. lol.. given tt it's not a popular song by a not popular artiste, it was quite a surprise.. anyway some of u may noe wat song i'm talking abt already.. it's 等待雨停 by 陈毓芸.. so now my sidebar has become very long from e addition of 2 more jukeboxes.. haha.. anyway, let me noe if any of e songs are not sung by e original singers or if they're imcomplete and i'll go change them.. ps. there's quite a few nice chnl 8 drama theme songs in e chinese jukebox..

added a jukebox on e sidebar and attempted to remove some unsightly blog template layout..

anyway, was reading this wikipedia article on hakka some time back.. quite a number of hakkas are/were famous (or infamous) revolutionaries/politicians/government officials.. these includes our very own Lee family (SM and PM), 邓小平, 孙中山, 宋氏三姐妹, 李登辉, 吕秀莲, 吴伯雄, Elizabeth Choy, Thaksin Shinawatra and former Cheif Justice 杨邦孝.. famous hakkas in other areas include Jimmy Choo, 张国荣, 周润发, 黎明, 陈小春, 曾志伟, 叶丽仪, 罗大佑, 曾国城, 黑人, 范文芳, 彭耀顺, 庄米雪, 谢韶光, 陈靓瑄, 李伟菘, 李偲菘, 巫启贤, 王光良, 黄品冠, 戴佩妮, 曹格 and 林丹.. haha.. i noe.. it's a very long list..

1 interesting fact as pointed out in e article was tt during e '80s and '90s, e 3 chinese-majority countries in e world were simultaneously led by hakkas.. (邓小平 for china, 李登辉 for taiwan and SM Lee for SG)

this leads to an interesting revelation for me.. tt SG is quite e odd ball out, being e other chinese-majority country tt's far flung from e chinese native land of china (together with e other chinese-majority country of taiwan).. i don't think there's another chinese-majority country in e world besides these 3 rite? tt's not to include hk and macau..

and yup, just in case u were wondering.. i'm a hakka.. lol..

haha ok.. so i'm not doing my stuff again.. was just browsing through the photos on liena's blog when i saw her convocation photos.. turns out tt she's a valedictorian for her school of chemical and biomedical engineering, just like emu.. not really surprising actually, considering tt she has been on e dean's list all this while and being e poster girl for her school..

but what really caught my eye, other than she having an audience with nathan himself (ya e president.. duh), is tt she's also e winner of the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal..

did a stunt 2 nights ago in my dreams.. managed to perform a jump (from e movie jumper) with a person in tow.. wondering if i can jump an entire building.. hmmm..

just a little note to remind myself on e stuff to do for e recess week.. hopefully it'll be a fruitful one..

1.go through all 320 lect notes DONE!
2.go through all 304 tuts DONE!
3.do all 306 tuts
4.work through ACL Postponed to next fri
5.format desktop DONE!
6.update resume/careerfit DONE!
7.prepare my 3rd blog for 320 project DONE!
8.post on my hokkaido trip donkey months back Postponed
9.meet up with bra Postponed
10.talk a nice evening stroll DONE!
11.read 320 textbook Partly done
12.find 320 research papers Can't find
13.compose lyrics 7? Postponed

ok.. i think i'm damn free.. or rather i'm not doing stuff tt i'm supposed to be doing.. was searching for my olympiad questions and stumbled on a treasure cove of darn nostalgic items.. maybe i should just talk a bit about e olympiad questions tt i found.. looking at those questions, i wonder how i managed to do them back then (cos i don't think i can even do the majority of them now) and even get e accomplishments tt i got then.. -.-

anyway, among e nostalgic items tt i found were my pri school chinese booklet of good phrases to use, gunung rabong packing list, sec 3? bio tutor's (ms sia?) wedding invitation, ncc treasurer related items, inter-class debate apeaker notes (quite unbelievable tt i still kept those), chinese newspaper article for our 'o' level batch results, straits times forum letter sent in by yixiang, me and i-forgot-who, chinese essays throughout my sec school (didn't noe my chinese essays were so lousy), CCHS times, TJ times, sec 3? script for a musical performed by me, kian pok, jiun han, brandon and tty (maybe i can type e script here when i'm free), batik cloth tt i dyed for some arts lesson, JLPT application guide, y-i-should-go-to-cchs promotional notes (O.o), SAT related materials (curse e constant change of SAT requirements for uni back then), JC project work stuff (together with my speaker notes!), music scores/lyrics from our friendly cchs music teacher, cchs graduation songs' lyrics.. truly a walk down memory lane..

so.. was showing yw e olympiad question tt i was talking abt in e previous post.. following which he gave me some IQ questions, together with some other lame questions.. thought i might just wanna share it with u all..

1st up, e olympiad question from e previous post:



Question: How many squares are there?
This question was actually a question from e primary school mathematical olympiad 2000..

Problem 2:



Question: With one straight line, divide the figure above into 2 portions of equal area.
This question was adapted from (i forgot wat was e original figure) e same olympiad 2000 and was e last question in part A of e competition..

Below are the questions posed by yw:

Problem 3: There is a wonder tree which inceases in height by twice per day ie. it may be 1m tall on day 1, 2m tall on day 2 etc. On day 100, it would have reached its maximum height.
Question: On which day was the tree half of it's maximum height?

Problem 4: There is this boat at sea and it has a rope ladder that dangles from the boat into the sea. The distance between the rungs on the ladder is 1m. At low tide, 1 of the rung is submerged under water. At high tide, the water level surges by 2 meters.
Question: How many rungs are submerged under water during high tide?

Problem 5: There are 8 balls, of which 1 ball is of a different weight from the rest.
Question: You are provided with a weighing scale (similar to that of the astrological Libra sign or e one carried by Lady Justice). How can you identify the odd weighted ball with only 2 weighings?

Problem 6: There are 10 packets of 10 balls each. 9 of the packets are normal, containing balls that weigh 10g each. The remaining odd weighted packet contain balls that all weigh 11g each.
Question: You are provided with a bathroom scale (one that shows u, electonically, e weight). How can you identify the odd packet with only 1 weighing? You are allowed to tear open the packets.

Lame problem 7: You were tasked to investigate the deaths of Ah Ming and Ah Hua, whom you found lying in a pool of water, with broken shards of glass littered around. Upon reaching the crime scene, you faintly hear a cat meow.
Question: How did Ah Ming and Ah Hua die?

Additional problem 8 (by me): Solve 1 + 1/[1 + 1/[1 + 1/[1 + 1/[1 + ...]]]]
this is a favourite question of mine.. and yup, it's solvable.. u might actually want to write it down to see e question more properly.. this linear way of expressing e question may not be tt clear..

Additional problem 9:



Question: Similar to problem 2. With one straight line, divide the figure above into 2 portions of equal area. Total no. of squares: 18
Just realised tt question 2 was not well constructed as there are 2 solutions for it.. hopefully i've constucted problem 9 carefully enough such tt there is only 1 solution..