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I'm been thinking about it lately, since I'm graduating pretty soon and I predict I will have quite alot of free time (when I'm expecting much much much more free time than now), I would like to do smth I really really like. And so I've been watching some videos about drawing and I found this amazing video.
This (below) looks like any normal day on a highway...
So how to make is LESS BORING? Well, maybe by
+ crashing a plane into it,
+ making some cars flip,
+ adding an outta-control-bomb and
+ booming explosions everywhere else??
It's possible, just look at This (below):
(look) *rub your eyes* and (look again).
Yes, its difficult to believe it at first, but thats the power of art and skill. They ARE the same image, just with a touch of photo make-up that is. How cool is that! I mean, although the images' origin doesn't come from pleasant sources, but, the skills of this person who did this is *whee wheet*. Amazing, right? Watch the video to bring it all together, enjoy! =) Catch more of the amazing skills here!
“We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.” ― Walt Stanchfield
Okay, think I better start doodling more on my lecture notes!

I'm now witnessing a very interesting LIVE telecast of a man
Felix Baumgartner who is attempting to break the record of the highest jump and free falling at supersonic speed. The video also shows many different views captured by the high-tech cameras attached to the capsule and also from the ground (can u believe it? ground all the way up to space!) up and they all look so clear! Gosh, so much better camera and camera skills than mee =/ hahas, and I really like the commentator who makes the whole telecast interesting by telling past stories of what have happened and giving enough explanation for different terms used for a layman, like mee, to understand the whole picture. And because the stories/facts are soo interesting, I plan to keep a record of it on my blog =) Here goes;


Fact 1:
Armstrong Line is the line when went beyond, causes the human body liquid to start boiling if not countered by being in a pressured chamber.

Fact 2:
Another sky-jumper held the record for
1) Falling from highest height (Highest Parachute Jump)
2) Falling at fastest speed (Fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere)
3) Longest lasting free-fall
and his name is: Joseph Kittinger

Fact 3:
Float altitude is the height where the capsule will level off and not rise any further.

Fact 4:
It gets colder and colder as it gets higher, but it slowly begins to warm again as it gets into thinner air.

Fact 5:
The Balloon has valves on the top to release the Helium air to prevent the Balloon from climbing higher! Didn't know Balloons could have such gadgets attached. and this is the largest balloon i have ever seen (O.o)

Story 1:
Two guys (Malcom Ross & Victor Prather) held the highest manned balloon altitude record and manage to land safely, but while being rescued, Victor slipped out of the safety sling he was tied too and drowned when his space suit got flooded with water.
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So yup, I'm keeping a logbook about the interesting events and facts along the way (also updating LIVE) right now as I witness this history making event ;)

and...
The door is open!
His legs are out!
And here he prepares to jump!
Freefall Whoooo~
Record timing??
It is within this time frame he opened his parachute. but even with 4 minutes of FREEFALLING is breathtaking enough!!
He is colour-fied.
When he just touch-downed
Mission Accomplished!

So that's the end for my blog about this Space mission, and now "to infinity and beyond!"

Such hard creatures to understand.
Sometimes why even bother.
Either position, u get reprimanded.
Better channel the energy where you know the results will be what you want.
Call it selfish, but u gave everyone a chance (or even two).
Ends up the same anyways.
Hypocrites.

We passed by 'SAVEUR' one day and decided to eat there since we have been planning to go there for sometime but didn't have the time to plan a date there. Just nice, we went there 15mins to opening time and so *tada*, dinner is decided!
This was the appetizer: Spaghetti with mini prawns! It was nice and under $5! But of course the portion is not big either. But it's just enough for an appetizer =)
Then, we tried this high class foie gras. It is really expensive!! Eat already only enough to fill the gaps within my teeth (0.o). It was really nice, but trying once will be enough heh heh
Woots~ This is the famous duck drumstick. BIG AND JUICY. Super worth it and if I rmb correctly, it cost about the same as the foie gras.
This is my dish: poached egg with 3 layered pork meat. It was yummy! but abit small piece ya...you can also use the (normal) egg size to estimate the meat size...
And this is mee with my dish before it disappear like 5s later!
wahaha, this is a on-the-spot sketch of him using a super cool board that appears like e-book:
It has been awhile since i ate this bread-pot! I still miss the stall at bugis which sells this bread bowl and western food. It was much cheaper and taste much better * reminiscent*
Okay, so we actually wanted to go boon keng to try out a popular bak kut teh, but so qiao the coffeeshop had closed for the day. So instead, we went to have chicken rice from another stall called....
The yummy fried toufus we ordered. I like them loads!
The inside decor. Not much but good enough to have a good meal!
That's it for the Food Log for now, and till then~
*tata*
"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do."- P. J. O’Rourke"

This week (and last last week) has been the week for mid terms examinations. Some are tough, and the rest, the competition is tough. I must really focus hard and do my best for all the tests. So here is a picture to encourage myself and everyone out there (of course to only those who deserve it)
And here's one funny picture, to remind myself not to complain =X

Amidst the workload and test after test after test, we still must get time off to enjoy. I love to drink starbucks (although I know its expensive and overpriced for a normal cup of beverage), but my body still like it more than other drinks. The ambiance/decor is nice and the items they sell also have an attractiveness to them. That's why whenever i'm at starbucks, I always look at the items and touch touch abit. Yep, look only, cos too expensive for my anorexic wallet. =P Anyway, I came across this interesting app which I think will be really useful if used in Singapore. Cant wait for this app and start spending some bucks to get my chocolate drink!

"It's not just coffee, it's Starbucks"

I have been slacking for so many days.... =( I must come back to reality soon.


*wake up you!*

Let me begin this little post with a very funky and super nice music collaboration between locals and the men behind the construction here:
Our Highest BaskbetBall Record!!

Why do I always take modules that I regret? Damn...I should have taken the medicine mod and life would be so much easier (or at least more interesting) now =( I doubt I'll have much improvements after this mod but only have a bad impression of it as well as my poor choice of modules. Anyway, S/U, it's time for you to shine. Please always appear in my mind to remind me not to put too much time into this $!@#* ☠
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
Now I know. P-I-E, here I come!

I was just telling derek about how big and round the moon was ytd when *tata* the news reported that BLUE MOON was spotted on the 31st of august!! Look at this pic!!
Well okay, the actual moon doesn't really appear 'blue' unlike the photo shown above. That picture was actually tinted blue by a guy (nice choice of colour btw!). Blue moon actually looks like this:
Yep I didnt know this before but a moon is dubbed the 'blue moon' when it is the second full moon of the month! And nope it doesn't occur that often that's where the term 'once in a blue moon' came about! how cool is that. history + english all in one. This can make learning so much more interesting =) Anyways, here is a little more info about the BLUE MOON:
Click the images to go to their respective websites for more info. So far, I have "seen" the red moon and sorta witness a blue moon (I still see it now!). WOW. The world seems so much more interesting 384400km away =S But i can say that is one limit i cannot reach, and so, first thing first, i shall aim to explore earth one country at a time =D So here's a quote for this post "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." - W. Clement Stone

P.S. The next blue moon will be happening on 31st July 2015!!

Okay so i noticed I missed out quotes for a few of the posts. But here is one i found rather amusing: “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts, while others come into our lives and make us wanna leave footprints on their face.” – Unknown
haha so funny, just that its not legal so not very possible.

Okay, the title of this clips seems to show what I can be working towards: using what I've learnt and saving lives, just like a doctor =) It looks interesting (and scary) but at least I see some light in my dark undergrad years where I have a hard time linking what I will be doing after I graduate from a 4 year course that I am an expert in no one field. But who knows, this job might require me to study another 4 years (which i don't want) and I might end up getting job in another field. nevertheless, it is an interesting clip. and i shall leave the vid here in case I lose direction of where my course can bring me to:

Getting a 5% off for not using phone?? I would definitely support this movement here in Sg! I miss those times when I wasn't this reliant on my phone, not that i'm super reliant on it but just that I will feel empty without it by my side when i am out. Shall keep this link as a reminder to visit this restaurant to give them my support on their movement if i ever go to LA =) Click on the image to check out this restaurant!

Yes, the schooling semester has begun, again. I'm into my fourth year at uni and things have been getting tougher by the days. By right, I should be having a more relaxed semester as I have a timetable with a 3 days week schedule on most weeks, but by left, every other free day has some thing coming up that has to do with school: meetings, meetings and more meetings! (and I can foresee even more to come into the semester) 2 weeks have passed and I'm left with 11 more weeks to go. Come to think of it, it's really scary how time flies by so fast and the notes starts piling up. It was just like yesterday when I was preparing for the first day of the semester. In reality, its already 16 days since i'm back from bkk. I cant wait to go on my next trip already! Of course, first things first, i still have 13 more weeks to go before i'm free from my penultimate semester (big word learnt thanks to my JC VP who taught the cohort GP during the final lap towards A levels). Oh wells, time to get back to preparation for my presentation...tomorrow (T.T)
Today's photo-quote: And this may be one of the reasons why I have always felt that I don't really learn much from school...

So my internship has come to an end, after a long 3 months of tiring work. Yes, i'll admit that i had alot of "free" days which i wasn't given any task but...i don't know why by the end of that day, the "being at work" part still gets to me. And the worst days were those that I have completely NOTHING to do, and every second seems really like minutes to me, passing so every super slowly....gosh -.-" But anyways, this internship has came a complete cycle and i'm quite glad about the whole thing (whatever i managed to learn, people i got to know and experience of a working adult at a company). Best of all, i got a free meal on my last day at work, heh heh. This feels great to me i dunch know why =P maybe cos i didnt really talk with a few of them but they chipped in for my meal too...My office people are quite nice too ya haha (yes yes, the bribery though the stomach). But sadly, my direct supervisor didnt even ask me for a meal (except the one where the whole group went but i didnt sit tgt w them too). And my previous mentor, he's gone MIA for half the time i was there. And I still tot he wasnt too bad cos he gave most of the people there the "better impression". But I guess certain people have different inside and outside work personalities..anyways, thank-you-my-office-people for the meal again! =) So here's a little photoshoot of my intern days, and here goes: My access pass *beep* *table on the first week at office* *table gradually getting messier as the days pass* *table gets filled with more stuff!* *table at its messiest with a super nice desktop dp!* Yep, so with that, my intern days are over! yipee~ i am a free man! Looking so forward to my overseas trip w derek <3 heheh now's the bidding time and i have to headache over the bid points and stuff. shucks, why always the modules i want then got so much competition..and why the dept don't wana open up more modules for bidding..wonder what will the rest of the modules prof be doing if their mods arent open then... argh..still have VIP and FYP report and research to do...shall quickly go do now before i go chu guo! Here's the personalized quote for today! =D

Me and my friend was sitting at macs, east coast, one time, and we didnt know what to say. So my friend asked another friend that had just came and said "hey, say one topic which we can talk about". After a second's thought, my another friend said "life. talk about life lorh!", and we all started laughing...haha, we came to a conclusion that life is really a big topic, involves almost everything and my another friend isn't really helping much by suggesting this topic. But the post i'm gonna write today, involves alot of stuff, and i guess, LIFE is gonna be the most appropriate title for it all.
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In DEATH do we part...
Paradoxically, i'm gonna start on death. It is really a forbidden topic for many people, but sadly, it is also a reality that everyone faces. Life is really unpredictable, one moment you can be well, and the next, you may be down and out. In recent years, I've been to funerals more than enough times (at least to me) to be familiar with certain procedures and process. Friends or family, (Of course) i wouldn't want to go to any one funeral more than another. But it is ultimately the "last respect" one could give to anyone else who every touched their lives. Sadly, it is really the place where a lot of last respects are paid, which should really be done when the person is alive. Dead, no matter what, is so much punnier than when he/she is alive. “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”-Mercedes Lackey
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The EXCLUSIVE club...
Yes, it happens everywhere. Official (like those with membership card) or not (mostly like those i encountered), they suck. s-u-c-k. yeah, don't call yourselves clique when you exclude people in the group. Friends hang out together in good times and bad. They talk about it over meals and make peace or just get used to each individual's characteristics. They don't have special clubs and then during gatherings, blame u for being the "odd one out" when they are the one that made you so. They don't keep secrets only for exclusive members, then pick on you when you can't catch up with the topic, because you don't know that in the first place. For these members, you can go on and enjoy your "privileges" because pretty soon, karma will be in your face. Anyway, it's already biting you back because you're hanging with birds of your same feathers or hair (in human context). yeah, sadly, only human betray. Even a horse knows what's loyalty (see the movie "war horse" for more info ;P).
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FRIENDS or FOES?
It's really sad when you used to be friends with someone for a period of time, and all of a sudden, you realize things start happening and you decide you cannot stand along with the wrongs that's ongoing and decide to end the friendship for the best. Of course, its not this direct, but it's direct enough. I don't know a lot of stuff, but what I know is that I cannot stand a backstabber. By that, i don't mean the playful-backstabbing which one of my friend practices and sometimes even doesn't know she's doing it, haha. ok, back to topic. Yeah, i mean, i wonder why alot of people say they don't like this, don't like that. And the next moment, they are the ones doing it. seriously, the last time i heard, you were the one bitching to me about tralala tralala. -.-". I mean, if you're jealous you can just keep it to yourself if you're not man enough to admit. But you dont have to say how much you dislike it and then do the same thing the next moment. If you know what i mean, i meant human to human either. If you don't then just wish this thing won't happen to you, cos it's really difficult to deal with someone that's a semi fake (half real cos they are themselves when with you?). “You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”- Red Haircrow. Why can't the concept of friends be as simple as primary school, where if we're friends, we're friends. If not, den the open declaration of "eh i don't friend you" occurs. Everything was so easy and direct then.
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The END is just the BEGINNING...
I guess why i talked about these 3 is because i'm facing most of them is the recent years. I tend to care less on other stuff as not to get over involved in those stuff, but in the end, I can't hide from them forever. So why not make the best out of it. Treasure the people who treasure you more and do good deeds no matter what. Let others owe you instead of the other way round. Anyway, good karma will always be in your favour. Do what's right and not what people think is right. Because they may ignore you now, but for every one that ignores you, more will cheer you on. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” ― Libba Bray

this week is the first milestone for my internship because...
I'M HALFWAY THROUGH IT!Yipeeeee~
Actually come to think of it, I had more to do recently so time passed much faster the last few days. I understand better what I was doing than previously but seriously, the working mood greatly depends on the boss' mood for the day i guess. I'm really confused by the way he speaks when he's laughing and joking at one meeting and the next he's hinting i'm working too slow for a job given to me a week ago, but really, our last meeting was only 2 days ago and he did witness the stuff i've done "up-till-then" and still "approved" it. But what to do, i'm only an intern there to learn whatever i can, and if it involves seeing the moods of people then so be it.
6 weeks in also means i have to quickly do my interim report that has to be handed up soon. Goodness, there's like so many things to do but so little time. And 6 weeks also mean that my holiday is half way thru. Sad that almost all my uni holidays are spent doing school related stuff. Uni life sucks.
Anyway, recently went to do CIP with my group of friends @ an senior citizens' home. It's a yearly event and we went last year and so we decided to do it again! It was more fun than the previous year as we manage to "do" some mural painting instead of painting the base coat like we did last year. And many more bizarre things happened to me during the course of the day, which includes getting SMACK by a "seemingly-gentle" old woman and having interaction difficulties with old aunties. But i guess most of them are still really optimistic people and they do not let their situation bring them down, which is really a good thing that people should learn and it will make the day a better one. But seriously, looking after parents by yourself is the best option. Even if you put your parents into the best ward (there was these 2 beds/room kinds and 6-8beds/room), the wards may have lousy service. There was unflushed shit in the toilet bowls and also shit-splatter stain on the ground. And i witness a lady being (wheelchair) pushed into her room and left there dazed while the nurses attend to others because of the help constrain. It's really sad to not be able to do anything by yourself, and ignored because they know you can't too. The woman was sitting on her wheelchair for at least 10 mins doing absolutely nothing in the same position (I dunno when they attended to her because by then, I was preparing to leave the place already). Hais, but there's only so much one can do as we don't have the financial capability and time.
So, now that father's day is coming, have you thought of how to show your appreciation yet? I know that with or w/o gifts, a simple meal will be able to make their day and let them feel appreciated of all the things they've done for us for the whole lifetime. That's how great all fathers are, and that's how great my father is =D
"Happy FATHER's Day Dad!"