Cannot believe my life is getting more and more boring by the day. There is cmopletely nothing to do now. Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, absolutely NOTHING happening in my life. The most interesting stuff is probably mugging, and how interesting can that be. (By saying this, I am, of course, assuming that you are a normal student in NUS and not some stinky P** who derives life's pleasure from psychotic mugging) I know you are probably thinking that I am some stupid racist that serves to undermine the social and political stability, especially in a multi-racial country like Singapore, since racial harmony is, without doubt, very fabric which our social and economic prosperity is built on. If you are really thinking this way, then you really dunno me, and hence, you should just piss off and stop reading this blog. I do have P** friends ok, esp those soccer friends in hall. They are really nice pple and vv easy to get along with. It is just an unfortunate consequence that the vast majority of them mugs so darn hard and screw the whole bell curve thingy up. And I really got a surpirse when I heard Xinghua said the other day. Cos if you are in NUS and not in medicine, dentistry or FASS, you should know that these P** normally has an average CAP of at least 4.4 and above right? That day we were asking XH wda his CAP was and were expecting something like 4.2 at least. Guess wad he said... ... ... I forgot the exact number, but it was less than 3.0 Can you believe that?? P** having a CAP of less than 4.0. I think if he was studying back in China, this would warrent a death sentence and he would long been shot or something, since apparently u can get shot for farting loud in public. Haha...

Seriously I dun think we should judge a person by his/her CAP score and/or his/her academic results. Being able to study does not mean you are smart. Similarly, screwing your grades up does not mean that you are a dumbass. Y do I say this?? Throughout my studying life, I have met countless pple who really pass all tests and exams with flying colours, but when it comes to stuff that you cannot learn from the books i.e inter-personal relationship, helping others, selflessness etc, these pple suck big. And these are the things that personally I think are the determinants to success compared to academic reuslts. You can only study for the most the first 24 yrs of your life. After that, you are going to be thrown to the society, where you have to fend for yourself, earn your every cent, stand up for yourself, build up your network of friends whom you will make to help you achieve success, whichever way you define it... From how I see it, studying well does not help at all in the above process. Good grades may affect the way pple, like your potential employers, look at you, may affect your chances of being employed etc, but once you are on the job, you can dump your cert in the bin. That's it. No more use for it anymore! I have this friend in chem engin, my JC classmate. K I admit he is smart. He is from GEP in sec sch, and from the way he talks, nobody in this whole world would call him dumb. His results are not really excellent, just above average. However, he is good, or should I say, excellent, at forming networks and building bonds etc. Pple feel close and comfortable with him, and he knows wad he wants in life. He is only year 1 now in NUS, but has already set up a company outside and is raking in an average of 2.5K monthly. Nice huh. This is wad I call success, and he is wad I call smart. CAP 5? So wad??!! Go eat shit and die if u wanna brag.

Oh, all the shit and I have not touched on the highlight of today. Cannot believe this is the highlight... Even typing it out makes me feel so embarrassed. Highlight was consultation with my quantum mechanics professor this noon. Ya ya, I know. To many pple, consultations are just boring sessions when you get your ques answered and you get the model answers and you are assured that you know everything that you ought to know and yada yada... But consultation with dag is awesome. There is this large group of us looking for him today, in the quantum information lab, for some last min revision, given that our exam is next tue and mon is a public hol, so basically today is the last chance that we get to ask him any ques that we have about his mod. Of course he goes throught he mundane process of answering our ques, giving us solutions and ... However, in the end, I dunno wad sparked it off, but he started bitching about taxi drivers in Singapore as the worst thing on this sunny island. He drives (obviously! Which professor doesnt??) And he was bitching about taxi drivers horning him everytime at traffic light, even when the light is red and just going to turn green. And he gave a vv interesting physical analysis of how it is. Here goes. Now let's say the car is stationary and there is no red-shift of the traffic light. So everyone should see the same colour right?? Let's assume the car is about 3m from the light. Since light travels at an estimated 3x10^8 m/s, it would take approx 10ns for light to reach the driver, so his reaction time is limited by this speed of light. So, apparently he claims that the reaction time of taxi drivers are faster than 10ns. How can that be?!! Well, the reason he gives is, these taxi drivers dun actually see the peak of the wave envelope, that travels at Vgrp = 3x10^8m/s. They can actually see the individual waves that make up the packet, that apparently travels faster than c. Hence, they can see the light turning green before it actually appears green to pple like you and me i.e non-taxi drivers. Haha, interesting right? On top of that, he also gives an analysis of y pple beat red light. In the frame of reference of the driver who will beat the light, the traffic light is moving towards him. Hence it will be blue-shifted in a way that the red light actually appears green!!! So it is a problem of different frame of reference, not because the driver refuses to stop. It is just that he cannot see the red light that mandates him to stop. Haha, super funny guy. Though I screw QM up, I totally love him... CHEERS DAG!

This is the cover of the DVD of the film that I have been trying so hard to get for the past few days, running from Suntec to Holland V to Clementi, and in the end, got it from the Poh Kim outlet at anchorpoint. It is exactly the same as the one I saw in Suntec, and no, it is not the extended version. Then how come I wanted to get it? Cos I ask the lady at the Poh Kim shop where is the deluxe version of this DVD.

Me: "小姐, 请问这个有没有deluxe version 的?"

小姐: " 我们没有..."

Me: "是没有还是没有货?"

小姐: " 没有货不时没有咯"

Then I really diao. 没有货 and 没有 are two completely different thigns la, pls. Dun you know the difference? 没有货 means it exists, just that because of some reasons, like maybe it is too popular, or pple like the fighting scenes, or some gay bastards think that Jet Li is so man and decided to get the DVD and **** as they watch it. 没有 means that the company that produces the DVD has not made the deluxe version, or is not intending to make any. It may not mean anything to her, but it means the world to me ok, so stop the attitude. In the end, she said can wait if i wanna, for the deluxe version to come out. Somehow I know that it will be out, but I dunno when. There is this little something inside me that really gives me the strong urge to buy the show, deluxe or not. I was more than happy to give in to the urge, and hence, got the movie version. Just as I handed the notes over to the cashier, I made a promise to myself. When the deluxe version comes out, I am going to get it, although I already had one le. I dunno why I am so attracted to this show. No, it is not because it is Jet's last action blckbuster. It is something in the show that made me wanna watch it again and again. This is one of the very few shows that I dun think I will ever get sick of. The only other such show is "Saving Private Ryan", which I had watched nearly 10times and can get the dialogue in my mind and know who is going to say wad.

Apparently there is this hoo-haa about the fearless show. The descendents of the hero 霍元甲 decieded to sue the producers or script writers or director or dunno who dunno who la. Bottomline is, the big shots in charge of the film got into some legal issues with the descendents. Apparently our 霍大侠 did have descendents, unlike what the show protrayed, where his only daughter was murdered in a feud. I think his death was also edited in the show. In actual fact, he did not die from poisoning from some Japanese bastards. He died due to some other reasons that I cannot remember. And he did have 2 brothers, who did not appear at all in the show, and he was not the arrogant young fellow that he was protrayed to be in the show, and his mother ought to have been prettier and yada yada... All these inaccuracies really pissed the descendents off I think. Well, maybe they think the show protrayed him in a bad light.

However, I dun think so. There is actually a lesson for all, esp for those who are learning or are interested in picking up martial arts. It may not have to be wushu, just applicable to any form of martial arts. It shows the transformation of an exponent, to a real master. Exponents may be good at the techniques, at the skills, at the physical aspect of the art, but to be termed a master, one has to incoporate the... the... Well , I dunno how to say it in english, but in mandarain, we call it 武德. Meaning there is some virtues that comes with the arts, like control, discipline, and to me the most important of all, humility. There is never something, or someone called "The Best". The someone may be the world champion, may be the record holder, or may be the defending champion or wadever u call it. But is he really the best. I dun think so. He is only the best among the pple who took part in the same competition, but these pple may not be the best that there may be. Who knows the leacherous uncle whom u see sweeping your neighbourhood may be better than the so-called champion, just that he did not, or is unwilling to show his skills, and is contended just to be the leacherous old man... Haha. Ok, I know it is crap.

I also wonder how come pple make so much noise when movies or serials that are based on a book or historical person deviates from the actual event that took place. My first experience was with the serial on channel 8 <<神雕侠侣>> starring fann wong and lee. At that time, there were articles and newspaper reports of stupid and senseless pple who wrote in, complaining how the serial deviates so much from the book originally written by Louis Cha. Seriously I think these pple are just show-offs who wanted the world to know that they had read that series of books. Pls, what is there to be proud of? I read it when I was in sec 1 la. And they just keep complaining and complaining about the same thing everyday, just that they took the time and effort to rephrase wad the person said on the newspaper the day before. Bottomline of their arguement is, the show does not follow the book's plot. Hey, if u wan the original plot, go and read that book ok? Cant you just take it as watching another show that happens to have the same name but is actually telling a different story? Wouldn't all teh problems be solved then? I mean, you can spend your time watching a show if it is not 改编 from a book or history, so y cant you shut up and watch one that was 改编ed from one? Since they said it was 改编 that means it has been changed la, so shut your trap and enjoy the show. Otherwise, switch chanel and watch something else, or just throw your pathetic tv down the block.

So conclusion is, the show is nice and I dun care whether it is accurate historically. Not only does it feature great action choreography, there is actually a deeper moral lesson behind the show. Lastly, if this reason actually entice you, it is Jet Li's last action movie. Strongly strongly strongly recommended!

I promised myself that I will start mugging for my upcoming quantum mechanics paper from today. Given that I will be having a consultation period on thursday, I should start today, and go through some questions and problems so that at least, I have something to ask him on thursday. But guess wad I did? I slept from after bf till about 1130. Woke up and swpet my room. Then started off to holland v to meet hz for lunch.

Surprisingly she wasn't late, as i expected her to be, and as she always had been... Ate nasi lemak from the "katong laksa" stall at the subway outlet beisde. Strange ah, cos she wanted to eat subway and cos the katong laksa stall was too crowded for comfort, so i da baoed and went over and ate with her. Ok, u must be wondering wad has our lunch gotta do with dear Mr 霍. Here is where he comes in. We ate lunch in holland v cos we believed (wrongly) that there is actually a video ezy outlet on holland v, and it was there that I can get my dvd for fearless a.k.a 霍元甲. She kept insisting and apparently claimed tt song en told her that. Obviously that outlet doesn't appear in reality. Had to walk into an electronics store flooded with indians to ask the owner where the outlet is. How pai seh can that be. And the smell is really overpowering. I had to breathe in deep, walk into the store while holding my breath, and use part of it to ask the uncle where on earth is the vcd rental store. Worse still, I had to wait for him to go on and on and give me directions to where he thinks it is. After saying "thank you" with wadever remaining breath I had, it was a mad dash for the exit. Wow, some fresh air at last, but nope, smelled something worse. Oh, cos hz was there... Haha.

K. Apparently there was this video rental store at blk 41 in holland drive, which was some distance from where we were, in holland v. So hz said she finally decided to give me a treat since I am so nice to her and stuff and cos I sacrificed my mugging to pei her eat lunch. It was then off to essential brew. Oh, how cheated i felt when we reached there. She pulled out an essentual brew voucher from her purse. It was the $5 voucher that we got from the XQRJ shit, which I had lost long ago. Nevetheless, me being the nice person that I am, still went in and ate a oreo cheesecake. Not bad la, but was pretty ex. $6 for a miserable piece, and to think that my lunch cost only $2.50... In the end decided to pay for it la, after using her voucher. Since she kept saying that she had only $100 for her tuition monthly and I had already been earning. Wan her to treat me I also pai seh. I mean if it is for special occasions then ok la, but where got guys wu yuan wu gu let the girls pay for them one, esp when the guy is earning much more than her. Very diu lian, and vv bo seh leh. But this is not the highlight.

We then went off to blk 41. Given the setting, I hv the bad feeling that the shop that the uncle recommended would be the kind that is super run down, desolate and over-grown with cobwebs and stuff. The shop-tender is old, lecherous towards girls and rude to us guys, esp to the handsome ones... The cover to the vcd holder would cruble the moment u open it, and presto! That was exactly how the shop is. Lying at one god-forsaken corner, and the man inside is, well, not exactly old, but nevertheless leacherous. Haha. Joking. But there is something wrong with this hz I think. Almost everytime that I went out with her, she would keep saying that there are guys staring/smiling/looking/ogling etc at her. Not that I dun believe her, but hello, sure not... Everytime meh? Are we, Singaporean guys, really that 糟糕? Looking at girls all over the place meh? Maybe cos she is too paronoid, or maybe she is really too pretty le. That is why got all those unnecessary attention. Those guys must be hating me. Haha.

In the end we had to go all the way to clementi central to source for that dvd. There is one video ezy outlet there which is, well, much smaller than I expected la. It wasnt even the size of one full store, just half of it. Half of those kind of neighbourhood barber kind of size. Even before I went in I felt all my hopes dashed, haha. But give face la, just walk in. Who knows wad I would find? And guess wad I found? ... ... ... ... ... ... Err, cannot put wad I found la, in case my blog gets read by someone and I get a lawsuit. And I get sent to jail and caned and sodomised in my cell that I share with 20 other gays/faggots... However, wad I found didnt really help in boosting my confidence of finding the dvd. We ask the tender and she said that all video ezy outlets did not get the dvd version of fearles. They only got the vcd version. There was this vcd of fearless that was once used for rental and now they wanted to sell it, at $4.90. Dirt cheap la!! But no, I held on to my belief that other than the full-length version of the DVD, I would not compromise and get anything else.

So in the end, from Orchard to Suntec yesterday, to Holland V and Clementi today, I still did not manage to get what I wanted. The closest I got was the DVD at suntec, but it was teh movie version, not the full-length version. (movie was cut by a good 20 minutes I think) And the thing still hangs at the back of my mind, not settled, not statisfied. And bad thing about me is, when I get such stuff at the back of my head, I cannot mug!! I will just keep thinking and thinking and thinking about it, and lose my focus, and I think this is very undesirable, especially at this period of time when our dear professors decide to suck our brain dry with killer exam papers. I have decided. I shall try to borrow Lynn;s bike and try out the outlet at anchorpoint. Better luck tomorrow. The show better be worth it...

Had my second last paper today, EC2101, microeconomics analysis. Was not as bad as I thought, managed to do most of the question, so I dun think this can be regarded as a hard paper. Howeverm the thing with NUS is, if u think the paper wasn't hard, so do the rest of the world. And everyone will be able to do the paper, esp those P**... They will spoil the market, pull up the bell curve, increase the average score, and make normal pple like us look bad. Com'on, who in the right mind and normal social life would be able to spend so much time per day studying??? We have a life ok, and we wan to do wad we enjoy, and studying is definitely not one of them! They just hide in the room all day long and stare at either the notebook or notes, both are equally bad. I sometimes marvel at the self discipline that one need to be able to do that for the whole day. Yes, I am not joking. They do it for the WHOLE DAMN DAY. I cannot do that for even a straight 2 hours. Mind starts wondering off.

Last december, went back to MINDEF for my attachment, and my boss happens to be this guy who likes interacting with the younger generation i.e. pple like me. Somehow we started to talk about those P**, cos he was saying that he volunteered his home for some foreign student to stay, and act as their "parents" here, attending to their needs, bring them out for excursions and invite them for family dinner and stuff. Then me and this commando friend of mine who is also in NUS started complaining about these foreign students. "They pull up the bell curve!" "They dun do things in hall" "They smell and look disgusting" and yada yada... Then he said something that makes both of us look at this issue at a completely new perspective. "Now suppose u r on a scholarship and studying overseas. Your job is to study and get the best grade u can so that your scholarship will not be suspended. Wouldn't u have done the same thing? Studying is their job. It is your job too, but if u think enjoying your life is more important, then pls dun blame them for studying hard. Without people like them, do u think certificates issued by NUS will be so prestigious and be internationally recognized? It is precisely because they can do much better than local students on average that our government gave them scholarships to study here, to pull up the reputation and standard of NUS."

Come to think of it, he makes perfect sense. Singapore government always has some higher agenda when they do stuff. And in this case, it may really be to pull up the standard, I dunno, and I dun think I care. Cos wad I am concerned with are my grades, not some standard of NUS thingy... It does concern me in the future, call me myopic, short-sighted, wadever u like... But I think me, as well as the majority of the NUS student population, are concerned only with our bloody CAP score and nothing else. So at the end of the day, it makes no difference. I still hate them. Dun they have prestigious uni's over there? Y come here and flood our market, irritate pple like me, and as a result, get me to hate them and...

K. Enough of bitching about these pple. Highlight of the day: watched 8 below at eng wah suntec with sheryl ang, zhenzhen, and a new friend called marcus. Originally asked zz only, cos the whole NUS is having exams other than the M1's. In the end dunno y sheryl and marcus come to know about it. I am ok with sheryl la, as in, she is nice and I feel comfortable talking to her, so I really dun mind her coming along, but I cannot say the same thing to marcus. Saw his pic on zz's laptop, but today is the first time i saw him in person. Hard nut to crack. Tried to talk to him several times, but either met with a one sentence answer or just didnt manage to work. In the end sian le. I mean pls la, the things he talk about are all the high end stuff, that I dun even give a shit about cos I cannot afford them, or rather, I dun think I wanna spend money on them. Then no common topic. In the end know from zz that he is filthy rich la. Drive his own car to suntec to catch show somemore, when I am having problems with buying a bike. Haha, He is really out of my league la. In the end he left early, so left the 3 of us. Wah, the moment he walked away, he brought the load off my heart man. Now I can finally have freedom to talk to both zz and sheryl le. And run less risk of kenna ignored. The whole time he was talking to sheryl, while zz, trying not to make me feel out, made an obvious effort to keep talking to me. Haha. Really appreciate it. I do admit sheryl and marcus made me feel out, but sheryl doesn't. So the only prob lies with... ... ... ... ... me lor. :p Maybe I dun open up to new pple that much la, and unfortunately that may be the same with marcus as well. When u hv 2 pple who dun open up easily and u put them together, u get two dumb ass, or asses. And zz kept reminding me that I dun talk. Wah pls la. Tell that to pple like jason and yy and pc and hz and see how they will react. They will prob give a smile and "ya right" u.

Enough of the pple. The show was ok. Not really excellent like fearless, but ok la. 8 below. Abt this group of 8 sleigh dogs who were let behind in Antartica cos the place they were supposed to leave on was overloaded. Cannot carry alll of them. So they were left behind, despite objections from the guide, whose name I hv forgotten. Let's call him tom. Tom has this lady friend called jane who knows how to fly. She promised that she will get the dogs out as soon as she sent them back to base. However, ren suan bu ru tian suan. There is this major storm that is the worst in 25 years, and all flights in are to be cancelled. Jane cannot go back to get dogs, and tom sian. Tried to get pple to go back, even trying to hitch a ride in, but all to no avail. Then finally get to go back in August, for which he had left the dogs there for already like 7-8 months. Majority of the show is on how the dogs survived, and hunt for food, so not much dialogue. Producers are smart nowadays, filming dogs more than humans. Then they can pay less and cut cost of production. U dun bloody hv to pay dogs. Just give them some food to shut them up. In the end, only 6 out of the original 8 survived. One dog called jack (actual name from movie), who was also the oldest, refused to break away from the chain that tom used to tie them to. He just lie there and look super sian and then pass away peacefully. Another dog is stupid enough to stand at the edge of a cliff and when the ice broke, it fell down the cliff. Broke some legs and bones I think. Then also die. So left 6/8. Nice touching kind of show. If u r the kind who likes to be touched, u can either come to me or u can go and watch the show. Of course coming to me is the better option, since u dun hv to pay for tic and can get touched all u wan. But if think u r too rich and dunno where to spend your cash, go catch the movie then, cos I hate rich pple. Haha. Joking.

Next paper is on Tuesday, in 8 days time. That's y i dare to actually give myself a break and watch a movie all the way in town. Tmr still gotta meet hz for lunch and get my fearless dvd from holland v. Hope I am not wasting too much time.