why do even da strongest love stillcan be tore ap art ? i'm jus so tiredd of tis freakin life of mine. bring da strength in
me back again let mesmile like da sun once more.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
for some unknown reason, i decided to reactivate this dead blog lol. happily graduated from caltech, i'm going to shanghai tomorrow :) whee. eager for good shanghainese food that i have so dearly missed.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
[cover by me] 别说对不起 - SHE ／ Chinese version of Everytime - Britney Spears
Posted later than on my japanese blog, but I got my first youtube video uploaded :) A cover of a song I like a lot xD Bad quality though, I'm definitely going to record the English version with a better mic...lalala.
Quoting Chen Li's famous words, this blog has been collecting dust for 2 years. Not that dust can fall online anyway xD A lot has happened these past two years, especially emotionally, so much so that I didn't even have the heart to write about it online. To sum it up, these were two extremely difficult years, this year being worse than the last, and I never want to go through a year like this one again. I feel so old now. Mentally. Like I've grown 10 years in the last 3 years. Caltech is one hell of a place, for reasons I would never have expected 3 years ago. Oh well, the summer's going to be over soon and I'll get to go back to Singapore!! I guess I like what I'm doing for research now. At least it's pretty neat coz I get to plan my own schedule. Unfortunately, I spend quite a lot of time catching up on Conan episodes. Haha I don't know how I got into the Conan craze 10 years later than every other Conan fan, but I somehow did. And here I am, with 480 episodes down in less than 4 months. I should really spend some more time studying for GRE and thinking about grad schools. Speaking of which, everyone from our but Huiling and I have graduated from university already. Excluding the guys who went for NS and Med. people that is. Sigh I would be happy to be one of them.
Goals this summer: 1. Study for GRE 2. Apply for work/ grad schools 3. Improve singing xD 4. Finish writing 3 full songs ~~~~ Hopefully....
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
blogging after almost an entire year...lol im really very lazy. so much so i'd rather finish 70 episodes of cardcaptor sakura before writing a few simple words. oh wellz. now im stuck running a design program and hav nothing really much to do (too lazy to even bring a book). guess i really burned out 3rd term at caltech - and its only the freshman year. man if i took the astar scholarship i would be worried sick abt gpa next year..heh no offence to astar but 3.8 at caltech is really quite sick.
going fruit picking on sunday!! dave said july 15-start of aug is the best period to pick fruits. whee i've never done it before. hope i get plenty of fruits to last me for the week. ooo cherries and peaches :D and i should really start cooking my own meals. have been going out so often/eating microwave dinners bought with declining balance..very unhealthy. declining balance here is way too much for my needs and food here is too expensive for its value. not to mention that there isn't ANY chinese food. or at least, no decent chinese food...panda express is not food. when we go out to eat, we almost always eat chinese food, to the extent that dave has gotten sick of chinese food. haha.
research project's not getting very far :( stuck in the design process. the program runs rather slowly especially for big structures so its taking a ton of time. my mentor gave me other systems (oh btw, this is DNA) to design but since there's no fixed protocol, we ended up finding the best way to do stuff and i had to type a word document for the protocol....erm... very productive indeed. hope i'll get to do wet lab by next week. im a little sick of staring at a com screen every single day.
lalala wonder what there is to eat for dinner. im going to cook with my roommate if she hasnt run off with her boyfriend :)
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life. - John Burroughs Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things - Robert Brault
All too often I have been absorbed in my work, not listening to music so I won't get distracted. Today I left the sound on as I visited my blog, and marveled at the peace and happiness a simple piece of music (on the blog) brought me. I wish I could slow my footsteps to notice them and feel happy. That is more difficult than graduating from caltech, I think. Sigh.
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
every minute, no make that every second of my life, if I'm not sleeping or eating, I feel like a giant amoeba. I keep absorbing new stuff, some of which I don't understand fully, some of which I don't even make sense of - but ya, the key to success is absorbing. I swear I've never ever worked as hard as I am now, which isn't true diligence by some other people's standards, but what the heck. Yay I feel so accomplished. Which is why huiling and I go to Cold Stone, or get icecream from the convenience store every so often. Which is why I treat myself to the awesome pizza oozing with cheese from the canteen at least once a week. Which is why I sleep late on Saturdays and Sundays unless I have a hum paper to finish by the next day, so I can prepare for more efficient absorption later. If you didn't understand any of this, I'm only trying to find lame excuses for my getting fat. :(
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
I feel empty. After A levels, I seem to have lost my will to work hard. There doesn't seem to be any goal. I guess that's why so many people indulge themselves in the blissful happiness of having work to do. Even 1 hour per day sweeping the roads might be better than staying at home and staring at the computer screen. Piles of applications and loads of essays to write......Sigh. I hate life..at least the one month after a levels. I have been driven crazy. But sometimes insanity can give you good ideas for your essay. For example, featuring a little green bob from the oh-so-famous movie for an impt application essay. I personally don't think its the best thing in the world, but it's better than writing about "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" and that kind of stuff. There are things to look forward to though. For example, martial arts lessons, latin dancing, yoga, singing lessons and blah blah blah. Yay. How lame. Whatever.
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Monday, July 25, 2005
Wow... it's only 7 weeks till the prelims! Just the thought itself frightens me. I think I'll hyperventilate during prelims...I almost did during O lvls I think. Everyone around me is studying and doing practice papers. Not that I'm not, but nothing seems to go into my tiny brain. Sigh.
There's nothing too interesting about life now other than studying, I guess. Even 1 PE block has been cancelled. Hmm. My friends and I now converse about the future coz daydreaming is so much more fun. The only interesting event was last week's trip to Yakult Singapore. Besides drinking Yakult, I was surprised to have picked up quite a bit of interesting facts about Yakult. The funniest one was that only Yakult Singapore provides straws to customers. Yakult companies in the rest of the world don't. They tried taking out the straws for a few months, and Singaporeans took on the job they did best - complaining. In went the straws again. Haha. Nah we don't like changes. Evolution is bad :(
As the days pass, I am becoming more and more like a lunatic. Prissy and Grace just commented on tt. It seems like I have an overdeveloped laughter system if there's such a thing. The tiniest things seem to amuse me. What's wrong with me? Hmm. I shall go back to organic chem and try to cure my madness..
