Chronicles oF Those who have not Time Left

vendredi, novembre 24, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6164988.stm

super funny International Space Station

jeudi, novembre 23, 2006

i think there's a free radical in the sci lib. there's this missing chair at one table, and the missing chair "moves" from table to table, as people grab another chair to sit. so this mysterious free radical propagates endlessly around the sci lib. and then there seems to be one or two more missing chairs now. and there's this weird yellow chair that's also being shifted around.

missing chair = free radical.

bored.

hm the Catholic Church is thinking about condoms. what does that say, that everything is just a matter of perspective and interpretation. will they change, perhaps.

another day, another sky
but with happy blue skies and fluffy clouds in the morning
which welcomed jelly grey clouds and rain
and it descended into another thunderstorm so like nowadays
and the buildings outside the window disappeared into the greyness
and then it stopped, as suddenly as it came, a turn over the shoulder and there, the skies reveal all that lies for acres around
then before long it rains again
and stops again
and now it clears into a sleepy sky, one seeming of dusk, but not yet, one awoken from an afternoon nap and decides it is too late in the day to get out of bed

and in the library, the temperature barely changes, the wind enters not, the skies dim and brighten, the papers flip from page to page, as before. amino acids change to nucleotides to lipids to cholesterol to cell structure.

as life passes by.

jeudi, novembre 16, 2006

ok so they want to have Bridging lessons for Primary 1 kids who come from non-mandarin speaking families. but what's this about naming the classes so that students feel more positive about them. so they have names like "Happyland"??? what the... and what's the in chinese. it sounds more like kindergarten than pri sch, or have am i getting too old (still 21 years old =]).
not that i'm against their new scheme.
heh ACS(Junior) has 95% of students coming from english-speaking families.

but something bothers me, chinese Is Not my MOTHER TONGUE. i resent that. just like it's not important that what dialect group my ancestors trace back to, it's not important what race i come from. not to purposely be anti-chinese or anything. but, why, why this Emphasis on Mother Tongue. like baggages that can never be dropped. i can't wait for the day my french overtakes my chinese. but perhaps it never will. but, in some ways, my french is better.

mercredi, novembre 15, 2006

800m to Notre Dame de Paris
2100m to Louvre pyramid
4700m to Eiffel

48°50'49.86"N
2°21'24.23"E

borrowed time

i think im going mad this sem
i think there's too much to remember
i think i just mess up all the molecules
i think im crazy
it's just been a neverending series of deadlines too closely pack together that sometimes i wonder if anything is getting into my head but i suppose it is and it's amazing to see how many powerpoint slides can be clicked through in a lecture and how other people can have such amazingly slack timetables which perhaps on hindsight is perfectly normal and which i should strive towards.

mercredi, novembre 08, 2006
bleugh

yeahterday, the tôt came to my mind that, since a large proportion of Singaporeans emigrated here, like all the history they teach us, so perhaps that says something about the people. Perhaps it's a bottleneck effect, perhaps all the ?resourceful, ?hardworking, ?desperate, ?adventurous, ?dare-to-leave-home, ?willing-to-sacrifice people were the ones who chose to leave China, leave other countries, and travel to Singapura/Temasek/whatever, to find work, to seek money, wealth, better life, adventure, dreams. Perhaps we actively selected for those genes. us? who did it. but perhaps i could hypothesize that it happened. and so, that leads to the Singapore today, with citizens who are less strongly rooted in culture but more attracted towards adventure, wealth, progress, advancement, who are more willing to sacrifice for the promise of another future, who are more keen on enterprises, on globalisation, on delocalisation, on emigration. Perhaps these very qualities make Singapore so easily adaptable, so malleable, so successful. And at the same time make it so hard to maintain and keep together as an identity. Perhaps.

dimanche, novembre 05, 2006

I woke up with my right arm aching.
I dropped my bolster in the night.
I dropped my cup.
I stubbed my toe on a cat.
The bus driver didn't see me at the busstop.
I got shortchanged at the fastfood restaurant
My fries were cold and limp.
The chicken dropped out of the burger.
The rain got into my bag.
The ant lost its way on my laptop screen.
I dialed the wrong person on the phone.
Some person kept calling and hanging up before I could do a proper gangster imitation.
Some tears fell.
Some thoughts were forgotten.
But I lie.
And in so doing, does it happen that one final truth at the end of one's life could change the entire history.

blackout in Western Europe

started in Germany and spread to France and Italy. Temperature dropped to 0 and two 400,000 volt lines died and then the electricity grid went mad and the safety device cut off 5,200 Megawatts worth of power, wow. and the TGVs were delayed by 30mins to 1 hr, which means they can claim their ticketprice back.

lemonde

vendredi, novembre 03, 2006
-------> (X)

so exciting to have arrows flying 40m, so exciting to have no strength and confidence that the arrow can actually land somewhere decent. how. and the pain is back in my elbow, the big red bruise. how to shoot FITA900. and my cursed form is missing, im clicking at the wrong place, which is so tiring. argh. at least it feels half-decent. and sylvia keeps commenting that my arm is not turning, argh. which is very painful when i reach no-strength ends.

bonne nuit.

jeudi, novembre 02, 2006
Cereal

bought yummy cereal from Carrefour, coz im addicted to this from france. better than kokokrunch, but much more expensive.

mercredi, novembre 01, 2006

since i'm in a photo-uploading mood, and since blogger seems to work better tonight, i shall post a few more photos. [if the uploading wasnt so sucky, i would be posting 10 times more photos, but im stuck with blogger and free hosting.]
anyway, that's my breakfast in lyon. some toasted bread, carton milk, juice, cereal, miel(honey) which goes on toasted bread (lovely), some odd jam, some butter, earl grey tea. of course i don't eat all, but they like to leave it all on the table for me to choose. coz they eat breakfast at different time, and they eat different things anyway. so that's my big white bowl, which the french use for coffee, never figured that out, but i have a cup so i use my cup. tintin cup i think.

and this below is the temp sensor in the stairwell down to my room. taken in the morning. max 24 degres, min 16.3 degres. as you can see, the night is cold. and it has already warmed somewhat since i got off the plane. problem was that we werent expecting it to be that cool. sg sux. but anyway summer came round the corner.
did i mention i had a clothes-warmer in the bathroom, for warm clothes after a shower. so nice. *gwinz*

ok i can't help putting up my new found toys and stuff. so nice! my silver, black, orange theme-d footwear. new asics shoes! now i can run properly without flapping soles. and i just ran around the school in 26mins, i shall try to reach 20mins, in the long run. or should i aim for two rounds, shall see.
nice colors.

and my new Razer diamondback souris, whee. the old mouse kept reading wrongly, and suddenly jumping to a different part of the screen, especially with different coloured surfaces. anyway it's cheap off ebay. new enough and good enough.

Lord of the Rings Online!
Level 47 Elf Hunter Vindyamiriel

song of the moment:
de Jax
孙燕姿 - 雨天
周杰伦 - 珊瑚海

林俊杰&金莎 - 被风吹过的夏天
Kitaro - Symphony of Dreams
James Blunt - You Are Beautiful
Clannad - Seachran Charn Tsiail
Céline Dion - En attendant ses pas
ASIE - Et puis la terre
陈奕迅 - 十年
Yanni - Before I Go
Céline Dion/Garou - Sous le vent Dido - White Flag
梁静茹 - 如果有一天 [歌/词]
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

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