Frustrated

... because I've yet to watch HP 7.2. I've watched 7.1 and would like to wrap the whole Harry Potter saga up!

... because I'm left with 10 episodes of a Korean drama and the streams are starting to give me problems. And the laptop is starting to lag. Stupid spywares.

Is Happiness....

The things I do in pursuit of happiness. And the exams ... well, I needed a chill pill. Play time's over. Back to serious business, until Deathly Hallows hits the big screen in 13 days.

When it's not a game...

The problem is that even if you said "I love it", I'd not believe you. Julien, I no longer know when you're playing and when you are not. I'm lost. Wait, I'm not finished. Tell me you love me. Tell me because if I tell you first, I'm afraid you'll think it's a game. Help me, please.

.........Sophie, Jeux d'enfants

It feels like a game when one weaves words from a story into reality. It becomes a guessing game when one hides a word behind a word, a line between a line, a story within a story. It's been a dark habit that I've been trying to run away from but every time I slow down, thinking that I've finally managed to get away from it, Dark Habit sneakily sneaks up on me, taps my left shoulder and says in the sneakiest of voice, "Boo!"

Why the fascination with words? I ask myself.

Do I like playing games? I know I most certainly do not. But why then?

And why had I chosen to write all of the above instead of my initial simple one liner? I don't know.

But just so you know, I did try my best to leave it simply write the following:

"I laughed as they drowned in cement. Endless love at it's literal best! Not a typical love story but definitely my cup of sweet lovely tea. (:"

Letting go

My Sister's Keeper isnt about one's right to one's own body even though one's just a child.

It's about love.

It's about life.

It's about letting go.

It's about moving on.

Ayat-ayat cinta 2

Watched Ayat-Ayat Cinta the second time during the long trip back to Singapore and i must say there were a couple of moments that made me want to cry. The first time i wrote about it, i sounded pretty emotionless. Maybe it was due to poor sound quality the first time round.

Fahri was indeed a lucky guy. The writer of the novel must've left most guys dreaming...

The short vacation

It has been a long time since i went on a holiday overseas. This not including the two trips to Taiwan while in the Army.

Clearly everyone isnt used to going on a trip without the dad. And the morning got off to a pretty bad start. It's back to whether the mother should try to understand her children or the other way round. Personally, i thought she was being unreasonable but after a while, from my other perspective, us children should be taught a lesson on punctuality and that's just her way of doing things.

In short, it's hard to understand what goes on in the minds of our mum and dad. And likewise, i guess it's hard to understand what goes on in the mind of young kids nowadays. So i'll stick to if u cant understand them, just follow them.

KL was all about food. The cakes from Secret Recipe was awesome! Burger Ramlees. The hotplate noodles. The mangoes and mango juices are lovely. Shopping was boring coz the package are more catered for the makcik-makciks. Petaling Street was great -- and mothers know how to bargain best! If only there's more time.

Went to Bukit Bintang at night and it really seems like Orchard Road -- with mats and minahs here and there. Didnt see much of Bukit Bintang though.... coz we were trying not to miss the last monorail.

More shopping at makcik-makciks place the day after at Nilai and Ayer Hitam and i was back home -- surprised that Man U didnt capitalise on the draws of Liverpool as well as Arsenal. Glad that Chelsea drew last night too!

All in all it's definitely better than home and tv. For $75, decent hotel and cheap food, it had been a great short vacation.

Fine tuning the neurons in my brains

9 days without something.

3 seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender basically sums up the 9 days. There were some readings and i must say that i do not understand the relevance of pathogens, diseases, DNA, RNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Bioethics (and the list just goes on...) with Civil Engineering. Perhaps before thinking big, an Engineer has to start small -- i never thought that small is at the cellular level.

Genes, gentetics and the human genome reminds me of Dr Suresh from Heroes. And hypothalamus something something reminds me of the disease Michael Scofield has. 

I am beginning to wonder if too much television inhibits the way the mind thinks. 

December's here!

December's arrived a little early.

Ran out of The Big Bang Theory episodes a couple of days back. And ive decided enough was enough. But i did catch 21 and Eagle Eye though and both were great movies! Could have watched Quantum of Solace and Madagascar 2 back to back but I decided to wait till Harry Potter shows up. Till then, ive got more important things to do.

Getting my next speech up seemed hard. Firstly, the brain's filled to the brim with music, tv and movies. And secondly, would a speech on saying no to slimming pills offend un-slim audience? And thirdly, is such a topic relevant for an audience who are generally slim?

Im trying to write something interesting and meaningful, logical and clear. My aim is to present a 5-7 minutes that is organized in a manner that leads the audience to a clearly defined goal.

Anyways,

Since December's already arrived, I must say that it's time to hit the books again. If we dont start early, how else can we beat the smart internationals? And even if we cant beat them, we can try to beat as many locals as possible right?

And it's also time to hit the gym. im so unfit right now and fitness wise, im not ready for Sunday's game. Aiming for that $400 offered by Ministry of Defence. Wonder if it's possible.

I shall sleep, hoping that fats will miraculously be gone by morning.

How much is enough fun?

Marathons of tv shows been keeping me occupied. Been repaying all those hours of sleep that i owed to myself this past few weeks.

Past notes all cleared and my messy den all tidied up, im actually waiting for something to happen. I know i cant be waking up late all the time and watch hours go by after every two hours of Heroes, PrisionBreak, The Big Bang Theory and who knows what else after i run out of episodes? Project Runway or Cashmere Mafia?

Perhaps i shall start writing up on my second speech. I'll use my slimming pill persuasive speech as the back bone and add 4 minutes worth of muscles in the form of words to it.

Been a long day, but...

Long tiring day. Much more to be done but this post shall be nothing about school.

It's about how even two parallel lines can one day meet. Ive been using this quote ever since the night i watched the movie "Turn left, Turn right".

It's been 3 months since two parallel lines met. Usually, if a line sees another line whom it kind of liked, it would take the first step by slanting towards the other line. Whether both lines intersect or not is another story altogether. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

But there are some lines who seem to confuse fairy tales as well as the reel world with the real world. And when such lines happen to meet some other nice line during their long journey, they would still remain parallel -- but silently wishing how nice it would be if two parallel lines could meet.

And sometimes, like in the fairy tales, wishes do come true! :)

And there's a line somewhere silently wishing for two parallel lines to meet more than just once. If it can meet once, why not a couple more time? You know, each line travels by itself on a seemingly neverending journey. It can get pretty boring sometimes.

So if two lines are parallel, heading towards the same direction, wouldnt it be nice journey together side by side?

The Kite Runner

Ive yet to read the book but if it is as good as what my friend had described it to be, then the movie isnt a good one.

Soccer and movie

First 90 mins of soccer in like a long long long while. And now my body's aching, right calf and my left inner thigh experiencing a fairly decent amount of strain.

Had a couple of decent chances. When i should dribble forward, i decided to try a Rooney and shoot the ball from a distance. When i should shoot, i chose to dribble. And when i should dribble, I dribble and lost possession. Perhaps the grass was too long and the ground was too wet which made the ball too slippery. Perhaps i need a couple more games to gain more experience so that i could make better decisions on the ball.

It's nice to get together on weekends and just play. It certainly takes mind of work.






A friend of mine told me to read Kite Runner. Saw this book quite a while back during the days i like to read. And having read some blogs talking abt this book and some others, perhaps i should make a trip down to the library and read the first few pages. I always feel that a good book would be one that will make me want to keep on reading after the first few pages. Da Vinci code and Digital Fortress by Dan Brown are the first two and only books that took reading to a whole new level -- if i could lie down and read the whole day, i would.


A mother should never push a kid too much. Otherwise, the kid would write "I don't like my mother!!!!!!!!!!" when u ask her to write the answer to 213-53. Should u have kids one day, and should they be very bright at sucha young age, be thankful to God that uve been blessed with a brilliant child. Dun be too occupied into making her even brighter that all u know is scold when she doesnt get full marks. That u forget that she is just 7.

Touching on my future and university, the question begs to be answered: Does my future lies in civil engineering?

Ive yet to find the answer.