Sunday, December 31, 2006
curse of the golden flower
yesterday i went vivocity to meet up with a bunch of my jc friends, and they decided to watch the "curse of the golden flower". i have no idea about the movie so i decided to just watch and see how it goes.
at the end of the movie, i saw that the credits included chow yuan fatt, gong li and jay chow. i asked my friend which character is jay and they told me its the eldest son who led the coup.
when i came back to hall, daniel told me that some of his friends said jay sucked in acting. i was a bit surprised because i thought that role (which i did not know is acted by jay initially) was pretty well played. perhaps its my lousy judgement or people being biased towards famous celebrities when they venture into other areas of entertainment.
overall, i really liked the movie. go watch it if you have the time, which there isn't much left... at least for 2006.
- Anonymous (0) 12:21 PM 
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
a prayer of a physicist
Dear Father in Heaven,
Praise You for all Your act of creation
Of the wonderful universe I am living in now
For your magnificent design of heaven and earth
And the architecture of the physical laws
From the tiniest quark, to hadrons leptons
To atoms, to the matter world
From Newton, to Einstein, to Planck
To Schrodinger, to Feynman
From mechanics, to electrodynamics
To relativity, to quantum realm
Of how the Lagrangian determines the equation of motion
And the Hamiltonian causes the evolution
Of how the space-time is curved
And field is quantized and normalized
Yet, it's always come to my astonishment
When all the physical laws tallied up
Consistent as they are, persistent as they should be
As if they are part of the mother-nature's
Harmonious grand symphony
Bearing the witness of Your Almighty Power
Who am I to be able to understand Your creation fully
Yet, my soul longs for more
My mind is restless for questions
And my body never worn off seeking answers
In my conscience is the wisdom of the universe
In my grasp is the power, to create or to destroy humanity
Hence, teach me O' Lord
To fear Your Presence
For all knowledge begin from You
And all wisdom belong to You
Guard my heart O' God
Lest my pride take the best of me
Be a good scientist I desire to
And be your faithful servant I'm willing to
Yet, not my desire be fulfilled but Yours be done
For at the end, all glory belong to You
The Greatest Physicist
Of all eternity
In the name of Jesus Christ
I've prayed and thanked You.
Amen
- Anonymous (0) 4:48 PM -
christmas
i bought a lcd monitor to free up some desktop space.
i had my ritual pizza dinner on christmas eve: huizhen, daniel and i ordered 2for1 canadian pizza. this year was different from previous years as i used to order pizza hut instead while watching home alone at home, alone.
christmas was pretty uneventful as usual. i basically slept through the morning before going back to tampines to meet some of my jc friends. we originally wanted to eat at cartel but the queue was extremely long. hence, we settled for the "foodcourt standard, restaurant pricing" han's restaurant. after dinner, we went to the void deck to play "big 2" while eating candies and chocalates.
merry christmas. boxing day is the day nus students open their present: exam results
- Anonymous (0) 4:24 PM -
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
BEng & Lian - 0002
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- midget, the squeaky (0) 1:45 PM -
johari and nohari windows
i found these two websites from some of my friends' blog and would really appreciate if you can share a bit about your impression of me. i've added the two websites to the "curiosity" section on the left as well.
positive trait -
johari windownegative trait -
nohari window
- Anonymous (0) 12:25 AM -
year end holiday
i haven't been keeping in touch with my old friends due to schoolwork, and i feel pretty sad and guilty about it. some of these friendships seemed like those which would last forever when we were able to meet daily (be it school or army), but going into different phases in life pulled the distance apart.
it occured to me that university might be the last time i can get away with pulling pranks, name calling, lame jokes, and do all other sorts childish nonsense to our friends in a forgiving environment. i need to cherish these times before they slip past my fingers once again.
i need to make an effort to meet up with my old friends during this short term break.
- Anonymous (0) 12:07 AM -
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
cats and dogs
it has been raining non-stop for 17 hours. it'll be interesting to see the condition of the nus src field later in the morning.
- Anonymous (0) 5:05 AM -
Saturday, December 16, 2006
ntu hall 11 visit
raffles hall hosted the annual "ntu hall 11 - raffles hall combined event" for a full day of fun and bonding between the two sister halls. sports was one of the event held in the morning and we played some social game of touch rugby.
problem is field one seemed to be closed for the day
but then again boys will be boys...
it lasted till the campus security came :)
- Anonymous (0) 12:12 AM -
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
BEng & Lian - 0001
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- midget, the squeaky (0) 1:18 AM -
phd anyone?
someone started this experiment in 1930 to test the fluidity and viscosity of pitch. i hope the researcher is not going for phd thesis as the experiment lasted over 76 years.
1930 The stem was cut
1938 (Dec) 1st drop fell
1947 (Feb) 2nd drop fell
1954 (Apr) 3rd drop fell
1962 (May) 4th drop fell
1970 (Aug) 5th drop fell
1979 (Apr) 6th drop fell
1988 (Jul) 7th drop fell
2000 (Nov) 8th drop fell
don't be deceived by the smiling face. that was years ago... she's an unhappy grump now.
- Anonymous (0) 1:00 AM -
Sunday, December 10, 2006
night cycling
just woke up after sleeping through the day due to rh night cycling. i didn't really sign up for the event and was lucky as there was two extra bikes. my group consists of huizhen, huiyuan, wanjun, junda, daniel,
xingyi yingxin, jasmine, jasmine's friend, jasmine's friend's friend and i.
we started off from raffles hall towards
KEP KAP (and i'm still figuring what that abbreviation stands for) macdonalds. to everyone's dissapointment, the dessert kiosk is closed and nobody ate anything except me who got a double cheeseburger. so people can start laughing at me now that it's a well known fact i *do* get trashy fastfood on supper trips.
after that, we cycled towards some eating place which i'm not sure of its location. there are about 7 stalls open with the stall owners looking as if we are the first customers in 10 years. the minute we stepped into the hawker center, this indian muslim food stall owner started touting for business and repeatedly chanting through his menu for the next minute or so. at the end, we felt that the variety is not enough so we decided to eat at newton circus instead. poor stall owner who probably have to wait another 10 years for business...
at newton circus, we met some other rh night cycling groups. we ordered carrot cakes, fried oyster, hokkien mee, minced meat noodle, satay and lots of sugarcane juice. food is pretty nice but expensive.
next, we rode to esplande and stoned there for a while. some of the folks were discussing about astrology (something about orion, southern cross etc) while gazing at the sky. during this short period of time jasmine found a better activity to do: catch a quick nap (that opportunist!). there were as usual some young punks horsing around their bikes and acting cool, except they are probably under the teenager curfew at that time.
finally we arrived at east coast park. i had fillet-o-fish breakfast meal. yeap, fastfood again :)
- Anonymous (0) 4:51 PM -
Saturday, December 09, 2006
mensa chalet
yesterday night i went for the annual mensa chalet and stayed over until tonight's bbq. i just reached my hall after a brief 30hrs of fresh air outside nus, which is possibly more than the total amount of time i spent outside nus/ofs for the past 4 months this semester :)
unfortunately i didn't bring my camera along so i'd have to wait for the organisers to post the photos on their website. but if you *ever* been to any mensa gatherings by some weird coincidence (as a friend or member), you know it typically looks like this:
so we were playing intellectual board/card games most of the time. in fact i might as well replace all future mensa outing photos with the above generic photo since it would work pretty well. we also went to 'wild wild wet' on some complimentary tickets, so for the first time ever, that attraction was totally worth the money (aka free).
what amused me most was the way they tried to start the bbq fire unsuccessfully, using close to half a box of firestarters, by the time i went downstairs after a short nap. nevetheless the people were nice and all so it's cool.
- Anonymous (0) 12:34 AM -
Thursday, December 07, 2006
long overdue
exams are over and i finally got the chance to start this blog that i've been thinking of for a while... hopefully i'll have many interesting journeys in my life to put up on this site.
btw if you're wondering where did i get the picture on the top of the website, it's from one of my trips to pulau ubin in june 2004. this is the original picture i used:
somehow i don't have a graphics editor other than mspaint in my computer, so most of the work is done on
http://myimager.com. a big thanks goes out to the folks who made that online graphics editor!
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