me is in krakow, poland now! waiting for my turn to bathe, nothing to do so decided to blog about my trip so far.
Day Zero Supposed to meet the rest at Linstead Hall at 9pm but as usual, we left at 920pm instead. took the bus at 1010pm to Luton Airport. The bus driver was super flirty lahh, flirting with the other female passengers and still had the cheek to say that we are going to poland to look for polish chicks. hahah. but i have to admit that polish gals are quite good-looking. =)
Reached the airport at 1130pm. totally had nothing to do till 4am. went to buy FHM magazine to read. 1st magazine i bought in london and i have to say that FHM in london thrash singapore's hands down.
Day One Anyways, managed to sleep here and there till 4plus where we checked in. had breakfast at BK den went in for sercurity. the security was a bitch seriously, to astee at least. 1st, they asked her to take out her shoes. then they kept her bag for investigations. normally, the officers will just take out the contents to check but for her case, the officer asked her in an interrogating manner, "did u pack it yourself?" and took an ionising stuff to go through every content in her bag. it was super kua zhang can? the funny thng was he was super intermidated by us guys, cos he kept asking us to go away and not stare at him. i bet he thought that we hired astee to do something wrong. hahah.
Slept in the plane throughout. we were all so nuah that we were the last to leave the plane. Amazing Race tip no 1: if u see that buses are present to send you to the immigration customs, be the last to leave the plane. this is because u ll be the 1st to reach the immigration customs, which was exactly wad happened to us. hahah.
The customs was another nightmare. cos the immigration officer could not pronounce clearly and the rest had to ask her to repeat before they understood what she said. think she must have felt really stressed. anyways, it was majiam like another oral exams lo. i was the last among us to go through the customs. "whats your purpose?" i got the question. so happy! the next question was "how many days?" and i answered too. the funny part came after that. she asked me,"1st time?" i said, "1st time" then she thought i could not understand her question and she juz screamed "1stttt timmmeee?" i was sooo shocked that i shouted back "1sttt timmeee" and i nodded my head. realised that a restounding "YES!" could have been better.
took a bus and walked quite a bit in warsaw to our hostels den we went to walk around and bought train tix to come to krakow. felt that warsaw was quite boring. there was nothing much to see and the city was quite dusty. had polish dinner. we had polish dumplings. a super salty soup in a cup. we all took risks cos we din know what the drinks actually were. i regretted my drink man! the menu wrote buttermilk and i got a super sour yoghurt.
Day Two This morning, woke up at 5am to catch the train at 645am to krakow. it was quite a nice train and we just slept the whole journey. krakow was much better because think the people learn basic english. and krakow attracts tourits too. there was this super big shopping centre which reminded us of marina in singapore lah.
we went to see the castles and musems and visited the jewish quarters. the whole area looked quite sad, and according to astee, felt like war had just ended. we walked until all of us were so tired and we juz came back after dinner and were playing hearts in our hostels and having fun. now not tired anymore. hahaha.
okok going to bathe liao. shall blog more about my trip soon.
haha.. nothing to do. packed my bag le. so was surfing the net around.
then came to Blogthings. It had many small tests that sort of test your personality yadda yadda. But some of the tests are reallie CMI can?
lets take the one that i juz took for example. there were 4 questions and there were 4 answers. each question linked to a personailty/ character whatever.. the thing is each answer represent different aspects with respect to that personailty. 1stly, are the 4 aspects enough to represent the whole world in that particular personality that it is testing on.
like for example, there was this question:
You are at a new restaurant with your friends that has a huge dessert buffet. Starving, you go right for the desserts... How do you eat them?
You take little samples of everything the buffet has to offer. You go crazy - eating as much as you can as fast as you can. You find your favorite dessert and mostly eat that. You don't eat a lot. You don't like sweet things very much.
i chose the 1st one.
and the results: You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly.
go and die lah. food and frenz are soo different can? i like to eat mahh and eat lots of rubbish too. so that equates to i like to a large variety of friends and i change friends quickly ( is it as quickly as i change underwear everyday?).
hahahha... y am i soo bitchy? heez. yah, holiday mood nothing to do, thats y
going to stay at the airport overnight tonight. start of a 10-day tour. going to poland, prague, vienna and salzburg. not reallie excited as usual before the trip. haha. but i know once i start my holidays prpoer i ll enjoy it very very much. plus got such good company, wad else can i complain about rite? hahaa...
packing my bag now. seriously, think someone likes me so much that i think i have lost some underwear. hahahha.. sicko lahh, whoever took them.
anyways, u pple take care k? to all uni people esp study hard for ur exams and everything ll be over real soon. my turn will come shortly after. haiizz.
last day of school term. no more lectures for this academic year. but still got outstanding problem sheets to do. sianz. haha...
this term went super super super super super super fast. so many things happened, still din know how i managed to cram and understand my lectures. anyways, it is all over!! yippe!
gg for a holiday next week. it will be the only break that i will have. after that need to pia le. for my 1st class ( my goal), for my rewards at home (grinning at my dad), for me to have loads of fun in june to have no regrets when i get back my results.
anyways, talking about this week. this week was really a week of its own. it was really different. juz like the weather. spring was supposed to have sprung this week but the stupid winds blew from the arctic, causing temperatures to drop to winter temp. had to wear my thick jacket again. luckily it is only this week.
on monday (or is it tuesday?) was walking back. the wind suddenly became strong. it became colder. but suddenly, without warning, it snowed! i was caught by surprise.. pleasantly. i was enjoying the walk in the snow. my heart felt warm and i felt really happy.
last night, was the 1st time i talked to this person for soo long and so in depth. u know who u are. felt really happy to talk about everything. even though we are here in london for so long le, last night was really the night where we talked soo much. really appreciated it. =)
2 nights ago, scolded this other person. never felt so pissed off before. but i am fine le, really. dun let it affect u too much ya? in life, there are juz so much for us to learn. juz take everything as a learning experience and i am sure we will be better persons.
Also, when people ask me are u ok? will everything be ok? and my reply was yes, it will sure be fine. thats how much trust and reliance i place in this frenship. you dun have to be too upset about it, cos yup everything will be fine. if it is not fine, then something is wrong with this frenship.
if there is no fight/quarrel in any relationship, be it father-son, brothers, close friends, boyfren-galfren, husband-wife, then something is wrong with this relationship too. (and no, i am not asking ANY of u out there to pick a fight with me pls ahhaha) but the key thing is to grow from it and make that relationship stronger and better.
now is supposed to be my last computing lesson of my whole uni life! heez. juz finished my test. damn waste of time but i am not complaining so here i am with 45 min to spare. so decided to blog. hahah.
yesterday, my dad emailed me, saying that there was this fortune-telling thingy at hougang mall and so my mum went to see the fortune teller. and this is what my dad told me 'not too good for you this year as there is alot of " small people " around you and you are easily frustrated, too sensitive and think too much.'
well, not that i believe in feng shui or stuff, and of course not the 'small people' part but i have to sort of agree with that statement. haizz. i have been easily frustrated at situations and people even though most of the time i am not showing it. and yes, me think too much!! ahhaha. heez...
hmm, so now my challenge is to prove that fortune teller wrong and i will change and even those 'small people' scared of me. heez.
hahah.. and the production was not bad. targeted audience were the asians so they could sort of understand the singaporean jokes. heez.
during the performance can see everyone was being quite tensed and stressed but when it came to the real thing, every scene was superb. even though there might be a little glitches here and there but i have to say that the overall performance were still superb..
me was doing hiphop dancing with 6 others. before that, all of us were quite sianed by it already cos we rehearsed so many times. not that we were already that good, juz felt sian after practising so many times. heez.
in the end, everything went well. everyone came to say that we did a good job even though me myself din see any difference from normal practice (i think) but whats important is that the audience like it isnt it? so yeah! =)
24@sg has come and gone and left with 1 more week of school!
I really want to give thanks and praise God. ahhaha. because for the past few days, there were some stuff that i prayed about and He answered all my prayers, so i am very happy! =)
haha. the reason as to why i am not sleeping yet. yes, my clock reads 348am now. heez. finished rehearsal at 11pm. den went to eat krispy kremes and ben n jerrys' at 12 plus. then the linstead gang juz sat down to talk about the event on sunday. i was merely just listening most of the time. came back at 230 den decided to do my matlab project. I have gotten all the materials i needed so juz spent the last hour collating the project. now that it is done, after this post i am going to sleep le. ahhaha. anyways, tmr can sleep until damn late. heez.
oh, me want to vent my anger! yup. i got back some of my courseworks today. i am quite satisfied with 3 of them but i cant believe my eyes when i saw the last one, a freaking 10 out of 20. the lowest i have ever gotten here. but thats not the point. the point is that there are some parts of the question where i followed my lectures in writing down the proofs. and this postgrad who marked my paper think he/she is better than my lecturer wrote down his version and marked me down for it. hmmm.
and on another coursework which i did ok but there was this part where my method was different from the answer scheme and i wrote down the law that i used and the postgrad cancelled the law and put a cross beside it.
it is like what the hell! postgrads are paid to invigilate/mark our assignments yet they only follow the answer scripts. if 1+1=2, isnt 3-1=2 too?
haizz. nvm lah, the percentage of this is soo low that nobody bothers anyway. luckily my exams are marked by the lecturers. i am so furious now that i want to do damn well in my exams and trash all of them man. hahaha. okok, thats not really possible but ya, ok anger vented. heez
oh, me want to talk about 2 of my lecturers too. i love my mechanics lecturer man! he has finished his lectures 1 week earlier. that means i can wake up later on tuesday. hahah. but anyways, he was so nice to tell us for each question which topic will be tested. and for the last question, he told us he will be testing us on 1 of the last 2 chapters. then he said," note that i have already tested this particular topic last year and the other one was not tested." hahahah.. he is damn nice!
the other lecturer. haiz. the matlab one. he sux to the core lahh. 10 weeks of lessons and i learn nothing much about matlab. serious. haizz. then i was so scared of next mon anti-plagarism test. he juz told us it will be a 30min test and thats it. so i went to look for him to ask him more about the test.
all along, i thought i am supposed to create some computing stuff within the 30min.
so i asked him questions like, "will it be within what we have learnt for the past few weeks", "can we bring notes and materials in?"
i was so sad and taken aback when he said we cannot bring any material for the test BUT the best part was after that he said it is a multiple-choice test. i was stunned for 10seconds, grinned and the next thing i said was thank you and goodbye to my lecturer. heez. so happy! hahaha..
no more computing lessons or torture. =) okok 4am le. time to sleep. nite
decided to blog since i am sick of studying le. spent the whole afternoon deciphering the stupid matlab stuff sure caused millions of my brain cells to evaporate. and next monday i have an anti-plagarism programming test. hahah. the name of the test is so dumb. heez. basically the test is just to make sure that we know our stuff and not to let others say that we copy one another's work and not know anything. but true fact: darius dunno anything. hahhaha. well, not everything lahh. but i know what is going on k? hahaha...
and to think i used to love maths. hahaha... in the past, i will be very happy whenever i can solve difficult questions. still remembered when practising rj/hc f maths papers, i ll really grin from ear to ear when i can solve each question. yup, that was my passion for maths. hahha. now no more le. ahahha. nono, i dun hate maths now. just that cos now i eat, sleep, drink maths so much so that i am numb le. let me put an analogy. remembered louis koo said before when he acted in this R21 show where in the show he was surrounded by many many naked girls. when asked for his reaction, he said he felt numb cos of the fact that there were too many girls for him to digest. hahah... okok lousy analogy but u get what i mean. and by no means girls=maths.
i want to change something in me. haha. when you are pissed off at someone, do you feel differently if that someone is someone close to you as compared to if that someone is not close to you? well i do. as in, if i treat u as my close friend and if i am pissed at you, my heart will ache too and i want to just hope that everything will go well.
the problem lies with when that someone is not close to you. 1st stage, u are pissed. 2nd stage, u start to get biased. 3rd stage, u will be easily irritated by that person. the thing is i dont want to go stage 3. in fact, i want to just treat that someone as transparent and not let him/her affect me. but i think it will be an uphill task for me. hahaha..
i am not saying anyone in particular, please. just my heartfelt feelings. so pls dun point fingers. heez.
so if u want to know whether u are my close friend, try to piss me off! heeez. JUZ KIDDING!!! hahaha...
anyways, tmr got rehearsal for this sunday's event. cant wait for this sunday to come and go quickly. ahhahah. vacation is coming! yippe!
these are the pictures taken from wicked the musical.
anyways, just came back from annual general meeting which lasted for 6 whole hours! i was so drained and hungry. now got no mood to study le. hahaha.
congrats to everyone out there who earned yourself a place in the exco. u all deserve a pat on ur back. i feel soo happy cos my close frenz are mostly in the committee and got 1 guy is i 怂恿 him to run one lo. heez.
feel like all of us are playing survivor at different parts of our lives. yup.
from luke 6:41-42: "why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?... You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." this is something that i am still learning. i know it is humane to judge others but i want to learn and not let this be an excuse. me shall try.
went to watch wicked the musical last night. one word to describe it, POWER!
for those who may not know, it is about the witch of the west in the wizrd of Oz. cos in the book, even though she was portrayed as the wicked witch, it didnt portray much evidence or showed that she was really that erm.. wicked.
so bascially, this musical is from the witch's point of view. so, no price for guessing, it is portrayed as she was misunderstood since day one. this musical is one of the newest show. and kudos for trying to link some famous parts from the book to the show. tinman, lion and dorothy. i thought it was brilliant of them to weave a story out to bring them in.
their singing was superb! and the bimbo glinda is well... super bimbo, in fact the most bimbo bimbo that i have ever seen. wonder how is she like in real life. hahaa.
and i feel that it is pointless to compare which musicals are better than others. cos different musicals have strengths in different areas. yup.
well, hopefully i will survive till next monday cos the next few days i will be super busy. if all go well, by monday, i ll be slack again! heez.
yeah! juz finished watching hana kimi!! hahah. it is shown on channel u now too on 7pm according to my mum.
no more shows till 17th may liaoz. sianzz. after school ends, holidays den full time mugging liaoz... and it will be done in 2 months and 6days. wheee...
anyways, back to hana kimi. according to cat, the show is for girls since the setting is in a boy's school... i beg to differ. cos the show teaches how to love and accept love too. like how ella can because of her dreams and aspirations, made such a big sacrifice to disguise as a boy for 2 years. and for wu zun, he had been protecting her during the whole time. he prevented her from being raped, stopped her from being hurt by others etc... hahaha. was really inspired by the show and it teaches me how to really love someone. hahhaaa. sorrie lahh, me have been single for 21yrs, and so i dunno how to express and show love... and no, darius is not a despo, please. i believe in true love. hahaha.
and thanks to everyone out there who told me that the ending was crappy and lame and duhh. cos i din put up much hope on the ending. in fact, because of the low expectations of the ending, i felt i like the ending in a way. ok fine, there is ambiguity in the ending. ella din tell wu zun that she is a gal and wu zun din tell her that he knew that she was a girl since day 1. but it is soo obvious and it ended somewhat in a way where by it is a secret just between the 2. ooH, julia is hot!! hahhah.
and yes, i like all the 3 songs from the show. 怎么办 from SHE is a cute and lively song which shows from the girl's point of view. the girl in the song is going to explode cos she likes the guy so much. the other 2 songs 专属天使and 懂了by tank are oh-so sentimental.. and yes clarence, i like the song too...
hope 1 day i can be an angel too and protect her with all my life. and in the same way, she can be my angel where her wings are there to support me... i not that heavy, not like someone. =) (shit, i am gg to be killed tomorrow heez)
oh and janice, hahaa... ehh the mtv nice rite? but the last line shown on the mtv is not the last line of the song lahh. and i din write the song or produce the mtv, so i dun need to explain anything lah hor? hhahahha.
"every great blog entry starts from a blank page in blogger" -adapted from someone =)
din want to blog de. was trying to do some work here then felt quite sian so decided to do some blogging.
1st, congrats to jovian for doing an excellent job in the A levels. His results was really superb! then, i heard of someone who got 4As, S papers 2 distinctions but fail GP. haizz. this shows that he put in soo much effort in his core subjects that he neglected his GP. this should not be the way lo. as in my english wasnt splendid in the 1st place, and after getting a shock for failing my year 1 mid-yr exams i put in alot of effort in my GP. (and i could not be bothered to study for S papers anyway heez)
oh, 1 thing that i learn about myself. i am super sensitive and observant. so much so that i think it is too much. ok lahh, more often than not, with my vivid imagination i can think alot of scenarios which are not true but i still dare say that i observe alot of things correctly, which is not good sometimes. ahahaaha.... dun get me wrong ar, being observant is good... u can prevent yourself from being tactless and hurting others, but still.... hahaha.
anyways, 3 more weeks and 5 more assignments to go... maths department damn slack can? always so last minute, wait till the last few weeks then chiong... hopefully i get 1 assignment sheet tmr so can start doing and clearing it man... haiz
oh and this goes out to all londoners who know me and read my blog!! and also to those who HAPPEN to be in london on the 18th march! yes, YOU!!! please come to imperial singsoc event.. 10 pounds plus food, buffet style yes i know food is the limiting factor, u typical singaporeans =) though the caterer is not exactly in my good shoes. hahaha.
great! now i am remembered as the one who can do mass dance and remember the steps. ahhaha. anyway, I DUN PRACTISE AT HOME! hahaha... just that 2 yrs of hardcore dancing at all kinds of events in school plus after-school-nothing-to-do-then-do-mass-dance, sort of remember the steps lah.. hahah.
saw the videotapes about vj... haiiizzz. missed those carefree vj days man!! 2 yrs of fun, east coast, suntec blah blah... plus my class 02s34 and the ct councillors rox man! hahaha... good old days. and when i saw the videos, the students all look damn young lahh. haizz. me getting old liaoz...
anyways, ya next time me want to be teacher of vjc den go to vs be vice principal/principal... hahahha...
saturday afternoon. staying in room to do work. hahah. sorrie for pang-sehing u all cos i never go play in london games. supposed to play mahjong. but ya stomach wasnt feeling well this morning and asking me to wake up at 8am is another challenge, considering the fact that last night got rehearsal too. ahahha.
yup, me is much better now. everything is sorta resolved juz more time is needed to go back to normal.
holidays coming lo! that means i have to start mugging reallie hard for my exams liao. sian. ahha got my exa timetable le. from 8th may to 17th may. after which got project which deadline is 18th june. den go home lo! heezzz...
tmr going to meet the other victorians in europe... =)
ohoh.. me has finished watching my girl! now i am suffering from withdrawal symptoms... ahhaha okok not that serious... but wonder when i can be like the male lead... hahhaha
anw, CNY is coming to an end. hope everyone will have a blessed yr ahead!!
hahaha.. so loong never blog le. yup, long overdue post. not as if my life has stopped for a few days rite? hahah...
anw, felt quite low since the weekend. something happened and i juz could not help but to feel sian about some stuff. guess i m more or less ok now but to say that i am perfectly fine now is totally bullshit. hahaha.
but really have to thank yvonne for recommending My Girl to me. it is a korean drama serial and i am watching on youtube. it is super duper farnie!!! and even a sian darius can be sooo lifted up and cheered after watching the 1st few episodes. the serial reminds me of my lovely samsoon cos i think the background of the show is somewhat similar. but the girl in the show is juz super hilarious....
darius is also busy with the singsoc production. it is organised by the singapore society in imperial. well, i am involved in hiphop dancing segment. nothing big as compared to the actors. hahah. but hope all go well.
last night, went for this debate between 2 professors. one is a theologist and the other one is an aethist, someone who doesnt believe that God exist. well, the debate IS GOD A DELUSION? well, this is a debate which will not have an ending to it... reallie. ok personally, if someone were to come up and ask me about the existence of dinosaurs, i really dunno how to explain too lo. hahah.
as for me personally, i have to say that i believe that God exists. some things dun have to be so 理性 one... hahaha. furthermore, there are both signs to argue that God exists and (to the non-believers that) God does not...
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darius tan
mjs, vs, vjc, ic
soon-to-be mathematics teacher
hopes to eat less, sleep more, exercise more, have a better relationship wif God and people around me, study and play harder
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