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So I’ve decided to be more serious about my work from now on. Now that most of my projects have finished, I’ll try not to skip any more lectures, and concentrate on catching up with my work.

I just registered for a talk on Monday from Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on “Preparing Changi Airport for the New Airbus - A380″. According to the details, the talk will be on how Changi Airpotty Airport gets ready for the arrival of the Airbus A380. The talk will also cover career in CAAS Engineering. It’s at LT1 in NTU, anybody wants to join me?

I want to go for some job-hunting-related workshops like resume writing, interview skills, career management, and job hunting (networking) before my attachment next year. But too bad these workshops are conducted in early May, by which time I’d already started my EE2079 Design & Innovation Project (DIP), which will require me to work in school the entire day.

By the way, I opted for International Research Attachment for next year, which will put me in an applied research project at a research centre/institute overseas. Hope to hear some good news from the school.
But if I don’t get it I’ll just go for the same old Industrial Attachment which most Engineering undergraduates go for.

Just like some of my friends, I think it’s good to set some targets for the exams. So here are my targets for this semester’s subjects. They may not be as high, because frankly speaking I don’t have too much confidence, because apart from Digital Electronics and Language Puzzle, I’m not quite interested in the subjects being taught.

EE2002 - Analog Electronics - Pass
EE2003 - Semiconductor Fundamentals - B
EE2004 - Digital Electronics - A+
EE2005 - AC Circuits & Machines - C
EE2007 - Engineering Mathematics II - B
EE2072 - Laboratory 2B - B
HW801 - Language Puzzle: The Study of Human Language - B

Wish me luck!

On a totally unrelated note, my right gum next to my lower wisdom tooth was swollen last Tuesday. I ignored it for a day, and it didn’t bother me except when I try to talk, chew, swallow, and spit.

But that damned swollen gum stimulated my salivary glands to produce saliva all the time, requiring me either to swallow or spit (in the toilet lah!) anyway. On Wednesday, I couldn’t take it anymore, and went to the doctor to check it up.

She prescribed me with some pain killer, which subsided the pain for a while.

But on Friday, I ran out of the pain killers, and decided to go to the dentist instead.

It was a harrowing experience. It has been a couple of years since I last visited a dentist. The most horrible experience must be the wait for my turn, for the simple reason that I didn’t know what to expect.

It turned out that there was a flap of gum covering my wisdom tooth. The doctor gave me two choices: one was to extract the tooth, and the other was to clean the affected area and try to bring the swelling down. If I chose the former, I wouldn’t be able to celebrate my birthday in peace, knowing that I would have to eat porridge or soft stuff on the day itself. If I chose the latter, the problem may recur in the future.

I opted for the latter.

So the dentist euthanised me, and I’m writing this in the midst of a flock of angels in heaven anaesthesised my gum and did what he promised to do. After that, the dentist prescribed me with more pain killers and antibiotics.

It was a funny experience getting euthanised anaesthesised locally on only one side of the gum. The last time I got it was way long time ago when I was still in primary school. The right side of my tongue became numb, and thus when I try to take a cold drink, I could only feel the taste of the drink and the cold sensation only on the left part of my tongue. I was quite worried that I would bite the numb part while having my lunch, because I wouldn’t know what I did to my tongue until the numbness wore off.

And I went home that fine Friday evening, knowing that I’m still wise after all.

The Guy,
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The thing about being a blogger is that you have a responsibility to maintain your blog. Either let people know what’s going on with your life, or at least update the site with alternative contents for people to look at.

And when you hit a busy period in your life, you might tend to put blogging aside first, thinking that once you’re out of the busy period, you’ll resume blogging as per normal, and promising to update your blog with what your readers have missed.

Unfortunately, as the days go on, you realise you’re more busy than ever, and when finally you can sneak that little bit of precious time of yours to finally update your blog, you’re simply stumped with what you should talk about first, becase there are simply too many things to talk about and too little time that you can spare for blogging!

Well, I shall spare you with all the nitty gritty details of what happened within the past few weeks or so in my life. I shall spare you the story of how I almost got a heart attack when The Gal wore what she did when we were out on a date about a week or two ago. Oh, I just did, didn’t I? Anyway, she wore this lovely shirt and skirt that made her probably one of the prettiest girl I ever saw.

I will also spare you the story of how we were practically full of static that time, electrocuting each other as we walk along in one of the shopping malls. Oh I just told you that too, didn’t I?

But what I’m going to tell you here will probably be one of the most interesting epidosdes in my life. The other episodes that you’ve missed will be updated soon too, if I can sneak that little bit of precious time of mine.
You can click on any of the photos to go to the Flickr photo set containing all the photos in this blog–and more.

Well, the most recent episode in my life would be my 21st birthday, which I just celebrated a couple of hours ago with The Gal. In fact, I was sitting on the train on my way back from her place when I was typing this entry. I know I was supposed to be doing my lab report on the train, but never mind, since I couldn’t do much because the silly me forgot to bring the question paper of the lab.

I’ve practically been booked on this date by The Gal since a couple of weeks ago. The reason for that, as it seemed, was that because she wanted to hold a mini birthday party for me (now everyone out there say with me “Awww… That is so sweet”).

After tending to a disaster at my place (that damned air con leaked and flooded my floor!) and getting a haircut (which made me look really silly) I arrived at her place at about 4.30 p.m. I was talking with The Gal, her mum and sis, before I retreated to The Gal’s room to watch her play MapleStory. Yes, those who read her blog too will know that I too play MapleStory once in a while.

It wasn’t too long before dinner was served–specially cooked by The Gal’s parents (now everyone say with me again “Awww… That’s so sweet.”). Dinner was sotong (squid) filled with fish paste, pork ribs, and clams. (Um, don’t ask me how they are cooked as I don’t quite know how to describe them). They’ re really yummy! The pork ribs easily beat whatever pork ribs I’ve ever eaten in my life.

After dinner, I slacked around, wanted to do lab report, but ended up that I forgot to bring the lab question paper. So I just surfed the net, tried to update Maple to the latest version but failed, while The Gal’s mum and sis promised for a second round of “lemon chicken”. Oh, we also ate mangoes–nice but too sour to my liking.

It was not until 9 p.m. that the “lemon chicken” promised come. The “lemon chicken”, as it turned out, was in fact a chocolate mousse birthday cake, complete with chocolate flowers and leaves and gold wording and candles!

On we went with the celebration–all lights out, candles lit, and camera ready.

Singing happy birthday to me, The Gal’s family walked out of the kitchen with the cake, and presented it right in front of me on the dining table.

I made my wish, and blew the candles in one go–not so difficult, because the wind almost beat me in extinguishing the flames.

But the next thing that greeted me was not the cake…. But cherry tomato laced with sour candy… Haha… Thanks ah, make the birthday boy wince in sourness before enjoying the cake.

And the cake was then cut. The first cake went to her dad, followed by her mum, and ended with her sister and The Gal herself. I had the last cake, but never mind, I had the biggest cake. Mwahahahaha.

The cake is so yummy. It actually consists of three types of chocolate. One is the chocolate cake itself, one chocolate mousse, and the other a layer of criss-crossing bitter chocolate on top.

The Gal gave me this sweet little letters frame that depicted my name, while The Gal’s sis gave me a maroon-black-white striped T-shirt. They said I just need to even out the tan on my arm a little bit, and I would look good in it.
After the celebration, we went to review the photos we took throughout the day, and before we knew it, it was time for me to go home. How I wish I can stay near The Gal so that I can go home later, but no, it was impossible.

It might be simple, but it had to be the most memorable birthday celebration. Well, last year one was memorable too, oif course. Thanks to all my friends who celebrated my birthday with me last year, it was the second most memorable birthday celebration. Considering that today was the probably the second birthday celebration I’ve ever had for the past ten years, would you be surprised?

Love you Gal…

Click here to view the Flickr photo set.

Blessed Guy,
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It’s quite funny to walk into a Lecture Theatre and instead of “Hey, how are you?”, your friends greet you with “Long time no see!” or “Holiday, ah?”. It’s just as funny when you finally sit down, try to listen to the lecturer, and understand close to nothing on what is going on.

It kind of shows how much lectures I’ve missed the past few weeks.

The Voice of Elmo: So this is the guy behind Elmo’s voice.

Real Simpsons: The Simpsons opening scene–acted by real people.

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Voices of The Simpsons: And here’s the voices behind The Simpsons.

Samsung SGH-P300: This phone instantly gets into the top of my wishlist… Heheheh…