After this week....

Gusto Survival Camp will be over.
Windsurf Camp registration will be over.
Second Life will have no more events till Dec.
New media project should be 80% done.

then I'll be a free man :)

Totally screwed up Stats mid term.

Now I'm so demoralised :(

Try this personality test. Credits to jiawei for uncovering this. I'm getting so bored with school.

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you meet that person.

The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education:
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

hmm... attractiveness, i wonder how true this is? :P

Went kite flying for our recent Gusto session. I was really impressed by mr seewa, the teacher-in-charge for the school. he taught us how to make our own kites using just branches, newspaper and fishing line.

The process is labour intensive but the satisfaction at seeing the kite fly is just... wow.

mr seewa teaching the students

trying out the kite at the carpark

kite flying at the school field

the hand-made kite

soaring in the sky :)

Yesterday is probably the most tiring windsurf session I had for the year. 4 straight hours of windsurf definitely worn me out totally. But I'm glad I managed to learn some new tacking moves from jude and squid.

Now I'm more convinced I want to join in the race team for next year.

One interesting thing I noticed from the people at the beach is that whenever there is a strong gust, everyone rushes to inform everyone and all of them start heading out to the sea to surf.

That's the passion for windsurfing :)

Tagged by xia . (I'm too stressed up in school. arghh)


5 things I was doing 10 years ago:
Studying for PSLE.
Playing Basketball with friends.
Looking through all my stamp collection.
Watching cartoons.
Going for taekwondo class, arts class, abacus class (hmm... if only that was piano class)

5 things on my to-do list today:
Survive Statistics tutorial
Attend Second Life meeting
Do my health psy essay
Write out new media essay
Sleep

5 snacks I enjoy:
Chocolate Ice cream
(LOL i can't think of something else)

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Donate to Club Gusto & CDAC
Travel around the world
Deposit into the bank (earn interest to slack for the rest of my life)
Create a fund to help poor students attend uni
If I still have money left, I'll keep it under my bed (haha)

5 of my bad habits:
never wash my own utensils after eating
never care enough for my parents
never study when I'm supposed to
(hmm...think no other bad habits)

5 places I have lived in:
Woodlands all the way.

5 jobs I've had:
NTUC store assistant
Army RP
LISEN Project Coordinator
Mango Sale assistant
Matric Fair promoter for Second Life

5 people I tag:
Jean
Jiawei
Kelvin
Jasmine
Cheeyong

And the mid terms are over!

Now it's time to focus on all the remaining projects (3 projects and 1 essay all due this month). Better finish everything up before the 1st Nov. The Annual Gusto Camp will be held then, I can't wait :) All the hard work that we went through the last 2 months can finally bear some fruits of success. I'm looking forward to it.

Gusto just brightens up my day

This is a super slack week, especially when classes are cancelled due to mid terms and Hari Raya. But I doubt I can enjoy the week especially when there is still so much work to be done.

Stats test on thursday is going to be a killer again. And I still need to do up that health psy case study. Oh man, I wished everything could be get over and done with as quickly as possible.

Luckily for me, I finished one bio psy paper today, so that is a load off my shoulders already.

Fort Knighter's had their first outing at Jurong Lake Park yesterday. This group was formed from all the fortnight surfing sessions at east coast. We managed to click so well since the windsurf camp that it feels like I already know them for a long time. Kudos to everyone for making my surfing sessions so cool and fun :)

Sab (the broom) & me

spongebob

our common interest: windsurfing

See ya guys again next fortnight!

It's the recess week! But I still cannot slow down my studying pace (especially after a demoralising social psy mid term test). It's bio psy and statistics immediately after the break, so I better study hard.

Anyway, I had a great day bringing the kids for navigation course in orchard as well as the Bukit Timah nature reserve recce session in the afternoon.

Off to windsurfing now. see ya

Theme parties were a common sight in Second Life. But this party was the first I ever organised for the university and I was glad everything turned out smoothly. My greatest appreciation to the exco members, Fang, Indra, Andcoireiel, Inochi, Gshan, McPriPree, Silva, Scoops as well as special guest, DJ Junz for heating up the dancefloor.

I hoped everyone enjoyed it as much as I do. I'll save more money to buy a tip-jar for all our future events. Haha. pardon for the poor quality photos, my graphics card not that good. I'll upload the better quality ones when I get them. These photos are just a sneak preview.

Do stay tune for the party videos (yes, there are videos for it. haha)

Was out at Jurong Service Centre to help out at the Open House together with the Gusto volunteers on sunday, and it was definitely a memorable one. I had a fun time interacting with the residents and played out the different games too.

I'm too tired to write out another post, so you can take a look at the photos from the Open house in the Club Gusto website. We are in the midst of preparing for the end of year camp, so if anyone is interested in volunteering with Club Gusto, you can sms/email me. I'll be glad to help.

It's time to get back to studies again. Still need to rush through the assignments due and prepare for the Second Life roadshow cum inworld party this coming thursday and friday. Anyone that has a SL account is welcomed to visit us at the NUS island. The ridgecats party will be held from 8-11, NUS dancefloor on 11 & 12 sept. The theme is "Orange/Blue" and we will be picking out the best dressed avatars then too.

See ya around :)

Deadlines, Gusto camp planning and SL roadshow is tiring me out. I need some time off from everything (but I doubt there is enough time to sleep all day).

Ok, I shouldn't be complaining too much I'm doing things that I like (except the school assignments part), so I'll go through this entire stuff and get it over and done with soon.

I don't usually do photoblog but there were so many photos for this week from the 3 gathering, so I better let the photos speak for themselves (how much fun I had for the weekend).

Saturday was volunteering at Club Gusto @ Yuhua as usual but I met up with the primary school classmates at causeway point since our rare guest, Wang Ning was back from the States. He's going to graduate from Stanford in about 1.5 years so we can have more gathering then :)




The piece of paper above was actually the list of people in our class (we were trying to test our memory) and we succeeded in naming everyone, which was very much a surprise. Let's see if we can accomplish the feat of having a full class gathering again.

The next morning was the SMRT challenge 2008 and we woke up super early together with the 1750 people from all the teams. It was a fun event but the activities were a little *coughs too easy. haha. Even that, we didn't get first place instead we got 62 & 63 out of 250 teams. In consolation, we drew up our own $2000 prize money (as expected from the mixedrice).

Immediately after SMRT, I went on a camp recce with Gusto volunteers to MacRitchie reservoir for our end of year camp. Hike around for almost 3.5 hours and we totally immersed ourselves into the beautiful scenery there. A great time for volunteer bonding between the two schools.

After a hectic weekend, it's back to studying again. Ahhh... deadlines for work soon.

I'm now officially part of the NUS Second Life exco team as their in-world event organiser.

Haha, still wondering how come I got so hooked into SL that I even wanted to be part of them. But I do see a lot of potential in this new system. There is just so much stuff one can do inside that I'm neglecting my real life (basically staying at home and going online into SL)

Like what livideye (John) said about SL,"we wanted to make SL an integral part of the NUS virtual community. A place where students can enjoy their presence online and unleash their creativity to make NUS more lively and interactive."

I'm super impressed at the fact that NUS SL started out as a experimental platform to create a prototype to create the University town. Apparenlty, we get to design how the university is going to look like and the school might model the actual site according to the design. How cool is that!

No wonder so many developers are spending so much effort in NUS SL. So be part of the making. It could very well alter the face of NUS in the future.

The NUS Ridgecats

A pity that I'm a little too busy to fork out 5 weeks to attend this course, if not I'll definitely go for it. This is for Nus students who may be interested in forex exchange (which in my opinion better than investing in shares). Finally the investment club is conducting activities again.

No updates for almost a week because there is so little interesting stuff happening in school. Other than spending time mugging in the library, the only thing I wished to comment is "how come all the psychology textbook so expensive??" haha. Almost $50 per book and I had to buy all first hand because no one sells them on IVLE.

Windsurfing welcome tea is fun and I'm seriously considering whether to join in the new exco committee. The only drawback is whether I have time to study (really need to eat up these 5 textbooks to pass).

Off to do tutorial work again. See ya

I just had to blog down this historical day in Singapore history because our women's table tennis team has finally brought glory by beating S.Korea to reach our first Olympic finals (meaning we are guaranteed a silver at least).

I watched the live telecast at home and this was definitely the best match I ever watched. Feng Tianwei was the heroine of the match, helping Singapore achieved this magnificant result. This 3+ hours match was so drama-filled and with heart-wrenching moments (because I almost thought we are gone after Wang Yue Gu and Li Jiawei lost to the S.Koreans).

Li Jiawei's match with Korean Kim Kyrungah was extremely fantastic because Kim's unique defense indeed caused so much pressure on Li. It was a battle of the wits which the commentators agreed as a "cat and mouse" game. Unfortunately Li lost in the end after fighting it out evenly until the very last match point.

Feng was in top form today and cruised past the first match before fighting it out with Park Mi-young and it was another highlight of the match.

cheers for team Singapore :)

p.s this is so much more exciting than Phelps 6th gold medal today (which I saw first hand on live-telecast. basically I'm around when Phelps won all the gold medal till now, so you can imagine what a big fan I am (and how much time I spent watching tv everyday)

After a disappointing start, Project X is revived yet again. This time round, the blog will now serve as my private own workstation for all my story plots, poetry, playscripts. But it's set in private right now since it is all part of my personal portfolio and I'm just to shy to share it around yet until I feel it meets a certain standard.

I'm still looking for contributors to the blog too. so if you're super interested in writing, do email/sms me and I'll send the invite over :)

But please don't spread the things u see inside around because it might very well be the novel I wanna get published in the future (if I managed to do that well) haha. I don't want to like end up in some stupid copyright infringement case (oh man, I must have watch too much TV these days)

School's starting and this sem is so gonna be super packed with all the higher level psy modules. Pray this time round I can successfully pull my cap score up even more.

PL2131 - Research & Statistical Methods I
PL3232 - Biological Psychology
PL3235 - Social Psychology
PL3242 - Health Psychology
NM2220 - Introduction to Media Writing

and please don't ask me why I took media writing, because I can't find any other breadth modules to take and ended up taking media writing as a UE. arghh

and I had a fabulous weekend, hope every weekend could be as fun as this. No more staying at home to slack once school reopens. It's time to get busy again.