Woohoo...i'm back after so long! Lots to update as you can see from the number of tagged topics lining the top. Let me start in decending order from the latests happenings.

1stly congrats to Man Utd for beating Everton 3-0 early this morning. This heaped the pressure onto Chelsea who also beat Bolton 1-0. A 3 point gap to take into the 2nd half of the season is better to be trailing. The Man Utd vs Chelsea game last weekend could have gone either way but I guess a draw was fair enough and I think the fact that Man Utd scored 1st was kind of lucky as they did not have to play catchup. Hope this season will see the EPL title back in the trophy room at Old Trafford.

Yesterday marked the end of my exams for 06/07 semester 1. Mixed feeling really, but then again i've always been one to look forward to the end of the exams but once that is achieved, I feel indifferent. This semester proved different in alot of ways. 1stly I not only need to pass all my subjects but I need to get a C+ for all of them in order to clear my "status". A D grade is not enough. I also spent the least time in school this semester and its kinda contradicting my situation of obtaining a C+ for each grade but its all over now and whats left to be seen is the grades in 3 weeks time. My overall feeling about the exams this time round is rather good. Might have scored in a few papers but fell short at the last moment but a C+ should be no problem. Keeping fingers crossed.

Wasted no time after the exams to have fun! Last paper finished at 11am and I reached home at 12+pm to rest and change before heading out to Orchard to watch "Happy Feet"! Its a feel good show and the penguins are very endearing...haha love the latino penguins. Shan't reveal anything about the show but its a 4/5 star show. After "Happy Feet", rushed down to Cine from Lido to meet Rong Mei and JX for another round of Movie. This time its "Flag of out Fathers", its a story surrounding the American soldiers at the battle of Iwo Jima. Where the American Flag was raised on Mount Suribachi by 6 soldiers and a photograph was taken of that scene and eventually made its way to print in the American newspapers. That inspired the Americans back home that the War could be won. But its the struggle of the heroes in the photograph to come to terms that while they are being hailed as heroes, the real ones are dead or dying in the on-going war while they tour America to raise funds through convincing people to buy war bonds. 3.5/5 show...love war shows but there are better ones out there since this show tries to incorporate action and drama. Hung out abit after the show while waiting to meet Lionel. We were seating on the bench outside Taka along the Orchard road when we heard a bang directly behind us. Turned around and saw a car bang into this Indian family. Did not really see it happen but turned around to see a woman and her 2 crying kids on the road. Nothing serious as the woman got up and walked to the side of the road to inspect any injuries. The driver(female) stopped her car and got out to check only to be shouted at by the Indian guy who escaped the accident. Its quite amazing as it attracted quite a large crowd of onlookers. But the best part was the Indian family obviously not locals(from the accent of the guy) was jay walking through orchard road at 10pm...and though road accidents at orchard is not very common it happened...probably if they were locals they might have been more knowledgeable in how to jay walk and the Indian guy was yelling at the driver how she didn't know how to drive. Hahaha the look on the driver's face was priceless cos she did nothing wrong. Anyway was late already so rushed down to Clarke Quay to meet Lionel to go MOS. Ladies Night and Lionel was a member and so am I, just that not yet get my card. Well he needed to activate his card by 30th Nov so we kinda planned to go immediately after my exams way in advance. Nothing much to say at MOS. Music wasn't my cuppa tea as usual but the VIP perks are pretty cool and the girls there are always nice to look at haha.

Attended my cousin's wedding over the weekend. Sunday was tea ceremony and I was the car door boy hehe got a nice hongbao just opening the car door for them. Of course I made myself useful in other areas but helping to setup the buffet table, food and such. Monday was the wedding dinner held at Marina Mandarin. Feel so happy for the bride and groom. By the way my cousin is the groom and the next day is my exam (-_-") and apparently I already felt the pressure from the relatives that my turn will be next...omg!!!

Finally found some time off from my study/slacking/self-discovery schedule to update this blog. Ya look at the time stamp on this, I've become a night owl and the lucky thing is almost all classes has concluded last week leaving slightly more than a week of "free" time before the exams on the 16th of Nov.

This is going to be one of the typical rant post so bare with me as usual...

1. Screwed up my CPE204 quiz but thats not the most piss off thing about this whole thing. The questions were literally made available days before the quiz and I had it sitting on my hard drive. Was totally put off by the disclaimer note attached to the questions. The lecturer uploaded a "sample quiz" and stated that the questions MAY NOT be repeated in the quiz since these are examples from the notes with solutions. Hate myself for totally believing the quiz questions were going to be different. All I did was going through the "sample quiz" to get an idea of what may come out, totally not paying attention to the question in context therefore not even bothering to look up the solutions in the notes. I hope I can pass the quiz with the knowledge of the fundamentals (or the lack of it)...there goes maintaining a B grade so far.

2. Exams are coming so I just have to SHOUT it out here!!!!! So looking forward to the 29th when thats my last paper.

3. Examination duration has been cut down from 2hr 30min to 2hr. It could make no difference or be worse. If the paper difficulty is brought down a notch due to the 30min reduction, then its fair but if the paper is still designed for a 2hr 30min duration then it would totally suck buttcrack. Oh and the geniuses at NTU decided to throw in an evening time slot for exams as well. Now I have 2 papers starting at 5pm. Great!!!

4. Borat the movie might not even make it to the screens here despite spotting the movie posters at a few cinemas. The scheduled release date was 9th Nov but after checking the various cinema webbys, Borat is nowhere to be found. Singapore is always trying to be politically correct. They banned Zoolander from screening in Singapore because we might offend Malaysia (which also banned the movie). Borat definitely is more controversial than Zoolander and therefore i'm not hoping it will make it to screens here...so much for democracy

Ah well great week for english soccer. Man Utd demolished Portsmouth while its closets rivals Chelsea lost to Spurs giving the Red Devils a 3 point lead and a massive 10 goal difference.

YES!! Its finally over, one of the biggest hurdles this sem before the exams has been conquered. Could have had a smoother ride to completion but i'm just thankful I survived this ordeal and came out with guns ablazing. Settled down in the lab to demo my CEP208 mini project at 10.30am. There were a few guys there before for the same purpose as well but I though I could get it over and done with quickly. Apparently, the person assessing decided against 1st come 1st server and adopt the by class rule. Unfortunately my class is tomorrow morning and I decided to demo today so i'm considered an extra and priority is given to those in the earlier class but came in after me...finally done the assessment at 11.50am. All my worrying comes to naught when I was just asked to breeze through the demonstration and we spent the rest of the time chatting. Yup! the person assessing me was my lecturer in SP. We basically just caught up abit. Funny thing is, when he requested to look at my program, I knew he was going to question me on my codes. Decided to try my luck and asked him whether I could answer something which I had prepared for...haha and he said yes! In the end I got an 88/100 for the demo...very good in my opinion. Considering I got some help on it.

CPE204 quiz tomorrow. Hope to finish revision by tonight and hopefully nail the quiz. SO far this sem maintaining a B grade in whatever assignments has been rather smooth sailing. Don't want to stumble tomorrow and after the quiz it will be full swing revision for the upcoming exams in 14days time.

Got to go for class now...Damn the Red Devils crashed 1-0 to FC Copenhagen but I believe qualifying for the knockout phase is no problem