Watched some movies

ticket stubs

Terminator Salvation – Mr. Bales totally carried over his Dark Knight persona, kinda no effort on his part. Begins to dislike him because learnt from Wikipedia that he is not supposed to play John Connor initially. This sequel severely lacks the humour and “human” feel of previous Terminator movies. Arnold is still the “life” of the series.

Transformers: RotF – Robots look cool. Favourite scene is when SideSwipe sliced Sideways into two (yes, that R8 is NOT Barricade, & no, SideSwipe is not a Corvette Stingray Concept; he’s a Centennial). However, beyond that, feel that all the fancy animations and US military fanfare is just a cover-up for lack of plot. Luckily, this “cover-up” is solid enough to capture my attention for over 2hrs. Looks like once again, be it aliens or alien robots, only the US citizens need to worry.

Pelham 123 – Denzel Washington & John Travolta. ‘Nuff said. Denzel got plumber I tink, while Travolta manages to show off his latest Breitling endorsement. As agreed between my fren & I, a single small twist can make the movie an instant hit…too bad.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – Expensive tickets for a cheap 3D experience. Glasses should be wiped/polished after each screening. Felt that the film did not fully exploit the 3D effect but story-wise, a slightly above-average, very “family” plotline. Personally, felt the show could be missed…not as funny as I wanted it to be.

Ghosts of Girlfriend Past – It’s more chick flick than your average chick flick. Extremely cliché. It has cemented my suspicion that Matthew McConaughey is forever typecast. My old favourite, the forever lovely Mrs. Jennifer Garner, was a saving grace.

NUS, making things difficult for students. Again.

Purple for shuttle bus route (1.9km). Red for direct footpath (741m)

Once again, due to the magical & potent combination of lack of manpower, location booking, curriculum arrangement, faculties’ position, I am coerced by the wonderful NUS to have back-to-back lecture for 2 of my necessary modules in this coming semester. It seems that despite paying a premium school fee, NUS students often are unable to study the modules that they wish to pursue; often due to the fault of clashing/back-to-back lectures or simply because there is not enough lecturer to manage the subject during that semester. If our school fees are not used to hire more lecturers, or build more lecture theatres, then all those cash fly to where? Oh, they (NUS) must have used it to pay the arse that gave us CORS!~

Anyway, if you have noticed my back-to-back lectures are quite a distance apart. The purple route marks the path that I will traverse if I take shuttle bus A2. The downside is the waiting time, squeezing during school term, more time consumed by alighting/boarding at each stop. On the other hand, I gave the red route a go earlier and I was stumped…not by the patches of green forest that you may have guessed…but in between the 2 circle-like structures nearer to the right, there was literally a hill separating me & my destination zone. Returned to my starting point and decided to measure the time it takes for a shuttle bus to travel the “normal” way. Took 11mins LESS waiting time and minimal stopping along the way.

A better but still tiresome footpath (1.51km)

Took a water break then travel from my destination back to my original starting point (took the black path on foot). Took close to 13minutes of brisk walking. Either way sucks. Try doing this every week for a couple of months and I may actually get fit. NUS. A student’s largest obstacle to hassle-free curriculum. & dun get me started about CORS!~

Alternative to Fishing

Sorry to Mr. Fish.

Found something cheaper than fishing (what with the need to find good ponds, high pond rates as fish are more expensive, rod & reel & lure, boat trips, etc)…& it’s Prawn Fishing. The pond I frequent is the one in Sin Ming Ave, Bishan. Though the location is close to an hour’s ride away, I do have a direct bus there (service no.52). Rates are pretty reasonable, i.e. I always go $30 for 3hr anyway and the catch rate was acceptable. I went twice & all I can say is, unless you dun cast, you will not return home empty-handed. Environment is sheltered and I believe there are more than 4 ponds around, which is more than enough on a weekday. Chairs are aplenty and BBQ pits are available. There is also a very adorable cat and a whimpy dog that resides there. Size of prawns are varied and there are definitely big ones. But the average-sized ones shrunk a lot when cooked.

Ah…nothing beats listening to podcasts, chewing on Subway cookies and tight lines the entire afternoon away…

Computer. Fixer.

Right after everything is done then BSOD. Tamago.

So after settling a couple of miscellaneous items for my cousin’s desktop system & securing a new cellphone for S, I decided to keep the momentum going and proceeded to fix up an old desktop system for my parents to use. I got all flustered trying to figure out how to get RAID and AHCI working until I realized my parents dun really give a damn about data redundancy and Native CommandQueueing (NCQ) for SATA drives. Geez…sometimes must really take a step back & not be too “obsessed”. However, despite the sincerest of my intentions, Luck will have it that the system will start throwing BSODs the moment the operating system was up & running with all the hefty updates downloaded & installed.

UPDATE: Finally figured out what was wrong; one of the HDD was failing and causing the system some “hardware distress”. No more BSODs upon removal of said HDD.

Still owe my cousin the following requests:

• Recover his portable 2.5″ ext. HDD
• Find a new cellphone for him to upgrade to
• Find a replacement for his portable  media player
• Whatever his office computer system needs fixing

Oh yah, my mum wants internet on the new system too. She’s browsing for a webpage & she told me it begins with “www.”

Another day bah.

“Girl with Kite”

I kinda like this photo

Random dose of Horological sweetness

My current favourite: the IWC Portuguese Tourbillon Mystere Limited Edition

For the younger crowd: the IWC Pilot’s Watch Chrono-Automatic Edition TOP GUN

If I haven't bought my other Seiko (PVD exterior), this could very well be an alternative

Let's get the lume glowing...a Ball watch; cheaper, but still not very affordable for me

Some Bell & Ross

Orchard Central – like that lor

Said to be better than Subway...but I feel both are equally matched lehz

Tiramisu from TCC, CentrePoint. The presentation has altered from a few years back

A close-up

For future endeavours...

2J Class Gathering

We tried to play some Monopoly, but were rudely interrupted by sumptous food

Progression?

Which one?

Lord of Wear & Tear

Cue tip dropped off. Luckily it's $5+$5 for a replacement

• Snap toilet flush thrice
• Broke living room & bedroom window pane
• Broke kitchen stove handle
• Worn out cue tip
• Worn out laptop extended battery
• Worn out the lettering on my laptop keypad
• Worn out (literally) a pair of pants
• Torn my bag

Really, die die, no choice, have to change bag liaoz...