Today in school

Today went to school as usual. The first lesson, Oral Communication, was shifted to 8.30am as many of my classmates are always late so the lecturer decided on this, but still there will be latecomers in the end. The lecturer just showed us presentations done by other students who took the module before and pointed their strengths and flaws, like this girl is what what what, that guy did not this this this etc.

Then went for Maths and listened to the old witch babble about like a machine gun. Seriously, her teaching is not suitable for the majority of modern students and she does not comprehend the polytechnic style of teaching and learning. She suits more for primary school kids(not even secondary schools where students are young adults). I guess she came to poly to teach as the salary here is higher than secondary schools, her face tells it all, she has a very sly and shrewd face

After Maths, I had lunch and McDonald's fish burger was it. Speaking about it, I realized something during noon, either the size of the burger has shrinked or my hand has grown bigger. It should be the former, the burger was gobbled up by me in less than five bites and five minutes. It did not literally make a difference between eating it and not eating it to me, as I was still kind of hungry. Well, due to rising global food prices, one cannot complain about the amount so long as it does not contain melamine or any other non-edible chemicals

Next was Data Comm after my "little lunch", the lecturer talked about shampoos at the start which I wonder how it could be linked to computers? Computers do not have hair, do they? He shared with us how he bought shampoo in the supermarket when he was young which is absolutely not related to the syllabus. Then it was Character Developement again, the lecturer was late so while waiting outside the classroom, my classmates found something to entertain themselves in the meantime


At last, it was home sweet home after a long day

It is cold

For the past 3 days, I naturally woke up at 4 plus in the morning. On Monday morning it was 4.30am, tuesday was 4.45am, today was 4.15am(yeah!!! new record set!). Wonder what time will it be for Thursday?

Anyway, I still returned to sleeping mode after turning and tossing on the bed for an hour or more,in the end, I had to wake up after entering dreamland for less than 30 minutes.

For today, it was extremely cold when i woke up in the morning, it feels like I'm in England or maybe even Iceland. I guess I needed three blankets to keep myself warm at that time, but after a while it was alright. I managed to survive the ephemeral chilliness, I think it's a mental problem that was bugging me. The weather forecast states that temperatures range from 23 to 28 degrees, so I think it's my imagination after all

Change™ is the only constant

In a time when

Japan disclaims it's war atrocities against fellow Asian people,

Thailand's respected ex PM is facing some big problem in his hometown and has fled to some other part of the world,

Russia "gostunned" the democratic achievements it accomplished over the previous decade,

Political uncertainity and not so good relations still haunts China and Taiwan and their people,

Arsenal proved their critics wrong by defeating Manchester United(this one is a little irrelevant)
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America shows the world that it is still the most powerful country to date, it has been more than 4 days since Obama became the country's first black president. By electing the Democrat, its people have proven that the genuine power of the nation still lies in one of it's most valuable resource, the people themselves.

After years of leadership under Bush and Clinton, the people want a change, and sending Mr Barack to the White House through election has shown that they are ready for a change, a revolution, well maybe just an alteration. They are ready for an African-American leader to govern them. But is Singapore ready for a change? A PM of a minority race to bring us to greater heights?

This question is rather unanswerable by myself at the moment, not in the near future I reckon, how about you?

Cannot change MSN display name

I have a problem, not a really big one that endangers life but one that makes me feel rather uneasy recently. It has occured about one week ago. I cannot change my msn display name! Actually, I can change it, but it will just "naturally" change back to the old one after a minute. I asked my friend to sign in his account using my computer and try changing his name, and the same problem happens.

It is only the msn on my windows vista in my laptop that has this problem, I have absolutely no issue with changing the display name when using windows xp. I tried the uninstall and reinstall method but the problem still persists. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? If you, reading this post now, know of any solution, please tell me

US presidential election

Somewhere just after noon today, reports on the winner of the US presidential election were announced around the world, firstly I would like to congratulate Barack Obama for becoming America's first black president

His inauguration, however, will only occur somewhere in the beginning of next year if I'm correct. Oh, and he will acquire one of the worst economy crisis, ensure that he brings change like what he promised during the campaign and think of how to deal with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Ironically, I was keen to know the result by myself and made sure that nobody but myself informed me of the winner firsthand, but in the end it wasn't. My friend who was sitting adjacent to me in the library surfing the net told me that Obama has won the California state, which is the largest I think, he actually did not notice that the Democrat has already chalked up more than 270 votes(it was about 300 plus then), and I spotted it and told him, and there was a little comotion between both of us for half a second. So, he had indirectly notified me of the winner...arghh...looks like I'll have to wait for another 4 years

Tomorrow will be terrific Thursday and I can't wait for it to arrive as I will be having Character Development class yet again, so maybe there will be more nice pictures in store

Pictures taken at the right time in class

Here are some photos of my boring Character Development lecturer in class taken by my potential professional photographer classmate, Nasrullah


Bargaining in the market


Yes! I'm pointing at you!



Act Cute

The start of a new week, bring it on!

2 pleasant days have passed, and the writer of this post will have to lose some beauty sleep and wake up earlier than usual(actually that's the usual) for school, but compared to my other classmates who live much further in other parts of Singapore, I am considered rather fortunate. I live the nearest to school among my classmates, at least I beat them in something, hahaha

Enough said, this shall be a short one, I am heading to dreamland soon after I brush my teeth, which happens after I switch off the computer, which happens after I type this sentence, which happens by the time you read this word

It's Friday

Finally, the weekend has arrived, and I can get more beauty sleep since there is no school.

Actually there wasn't supposed to be school today too but because the Web Publishing Lecturer is in overseas during the the first week of the semester as mentioned in one of my previous posts, we had to go back to school for his make up lesson. Speaking of which, it was actually quite worth it after all today, the computer illiterate guy got to learn many new and interesting things

The tables are newer and cleaner in the classroom that we were in today which is at t17, but the one thing that was not so good is the internet fengshui. I got disconnected a couple of times and the connection was slower than usual at a mere 17mbps and my friend, Zhi Teng's one was only 5mbps. Maybe because the row which we were seating in was directly under a beam which is not very desirable in fengshui, I guess so

I wanna go eat apples now, bye

War of Web Browsers

During the evening, I read an article on web browsers in the digital life section of The Straits Times, it had listed 5 different web browsers, all of them I had used before, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera

The writer's choice was Firefox which I'm using right now too, he stated that it has a clean interface, good features, enhanced security and fast Web page rendering. As for me, I would not say Firefox is slow, but if you want to go for speed, then Safari would be your choice. It's the cheetah of web browsers

Also, I like Google Chrome for it's simplicity compared to other fellow browsers, ability to have tabs pulled out as a seperate window and it shows a snapshot of the most visited websites when a new tab is opened(convenient for lazy people like me)

As for Opera, the article states that it stands out from the rest as a multi-purpose web browser with special features but for ordinary people like me, it doesn't really have an impact, and it's slower than the rest

Lastly, let's not forget the mighty Microsoft Internet Explorer which has more than two-thirds of the market share. It is so "mighty" that the whole thing can just crash for no reason when you are busy typing something or uploading an important file. When something goes wrong, it will just pop out a "IE is not responding blah blah blah" kinda message, and humans will be tempted to click the [end now] button to end their "suffering" once and for all

So my choice? Ermmm, maybe Clean Chrome...or Speedy Safari or Favourable Firefox, alright, "odd one out" Opera also can consider. did I say Internet Explorer? No I did not, I did not, idiotic explorer...

New TV & HP

I have officially became the owner of 2 new things in my house, the first one is the TV which arrived on Saturday and the second is my handphone

My old Toshiba television is spoiled somehow, the channels just go "zar zar zar" and nothing but black and white dots appear on the screen when you switch it on, it was so annoying that it prompted my father to swear that he will never ever buy Toshiba products again just like I'll never buy Acer products too. Compared to the new Sharp TV, the old grey Toshiba looks less classy and stylish than it's shiny black successor. Designs aside, the only significant difference is that the sounds are little more "high pitched" somehow, I think so

As for my handphone, I have switched to Sony Ericsson c902, the camera is 5MP(sharper than the previous one which is 3.2), and it is lighter plus thinner than my old k810. I have been eyeing this handphone since it was launched months back and now that i have owned one at last, I just feel so joyous today

Also, Liverpool won Chelsea 1:0 and they are top of the table now, this is gonna be mad man!

CIP

Do we really care about CIP? Is it really that crucial to us in our lives? Only the person who introduced this time-consuming and learn nothing thing will know. As for you and me, we just know that doing it is obligatory and will not harm us, so we still do it for the sake of it and to give face to the organizer

During the Character Development lesson today, the boring lecturer just sent us into "almost sleep mode" by talking about our CIP project, she showed us previous examples done by other students which really make me irritated as it was a waste of time. She also told my class about the benefits of doing it, but I wonder whether those benefits are really genuine or are just created by the writer to occupy space on the powerpoint slide so that the page doesn't look empty

After doing CIP, we just forget about it and continue leading our lives, if you ask yourself and answer truthfully, do you think you will really benefit anything significant from it?

Oh, and here's a photo of the dull lecturer