Exams are coming!! Something that I dread most every semester. This semester, there is a total of 5 exams which I have yet to start revision for anyone of them. To start revision for someone that haven’t been working hard since the start of the semester is very difficult. The amount of initial is so much that I would rather sit in front of my computer and check out youtube, wordpress, soccernet and much more websites.
I haven’t been feeling well these days. My back is hurting real bad and I know it’s time to lose some weight. However, for a heavy person to lose weight is so much more difficult then a light person. I have to take note of other parts of my health other than my weight. Such as my knee, back and so on. I have seen one of my obese friend in army was so determined to lose weight that he forced himself to run everyday. I think at that point of time, “no pain, no gain” was his motto. I suppose he had overcome pain to such a extend that he hurt his knee in the process. Eventually, he has to downgrade because he cannot run anymore.
I just went out of a slow jog around my neighborhood. So slow that I felt so sad for myself because I used to be able to run at a MUCH faster speed without sweat. For those that know me, I am not much of a runner, which means I run quite slow. The fastest 2.4km run I clocked was 11mins flat. So when I say I had a slow jog, it would probably be a walk for the rest of you. However, I should be pleased with myself because I have managed to get my butt out of the chair to make the first move.
There are still many lectures yet to be watched. I need to stop playing Football Manager and start watching and concentrating now. I wish I do well in my exams and please pray for me that I will get my Industrial Orientation Company soon. Have mercy on me God.
Today, I went to BBDC to take my driving basic theory test. The reason why I didn’t announce it to everyone that I am taking is because I scared I fail and malu… haha.. end up the test quite easy. I am very very glad..
BTW, if you are wondering why I started learning driving only when I am going to 25 years old, it is because I never thought it’s necessary to learn it young. I can’t afford a car, my family either, so what for I learn. Plus I heard that the testers will be more lenient to aged learners because they think that older people will not be like young man, pass driving already then start speeding on the road. We “old people” will treasure life more than them.
I need to thank dearie for testing me here and there to help me prepare for the test for these 2 days. Also, I recommend SG Driving for your preparation. So far, I have only tried the Basic Theory Test, haven’t tried any of the Final Theory. Hope it will help all of you!!
Ok, I’m suppose to talk more about Easter Sunday’s performance. As you know, the 5 of us performed @ Barker, to collect money for BB week. As a member of BB, all of us should be asking people for donation for this time of the year. I remembered that when I was in secondary level, BB week used to be 2 weeks. Right now, BB Week is 1 month, I guess they should start thinking about changing the name of this donation drive.
As I was saying, Bin Soon prepared a box with a A4 size sign that wrote, “BB WEEK, pls donate generously, thanks.. =)” or something like that… When it’s 10am, most of us was still saying should we do it?? I was quite reluctant because I am afraid that nobody will actually put money into the box, then it will be quite malu…
For the first 5 mins, there wasn’t any donation. As I was into my second tune, a small kid (probably got instructions from his parents) put a few bucks into the box.. I was so happy.. soon after, all the money start coming in for the next 10 mins. There was quite a number of spectators watching in the canteen. I certainly hope that they had enjoyed the performance.
15 mins later, there wasn’t any more donation coming in. By then we were also quite tired because we have been playing the full 15 mins with only few seconds of rest. At that point of time, those irritating BB boys start to stand in front of the box to count how much money was there. It was so irritating and certainly spoiling my business. If I find out that it was because of “you all” that affect my business, I will give you a “piece of my mind” man.
Nearing to 10.30am, people we know start to appear. And they did contribute some money to the box. I was glad that even after we stopped, Mr Loo asked for an encore.. haha.. never had this musician feeling before…
The 30 mins busking earned us a total of $144. Which is not really good for 5 of us, because each of us only get ard $30 worth of donation, but it was a great experience. I think we should be more well prepared next year and start going to all the churches to ask for BB week donation…
I have uploaded some tunes that we practiced the day before on youtube. They can be found in THEATER.
Annually, BRMC requires helpers to prepare the chairs for their sunrise service, and as usual, BB have the honour of taking up this important job. Therefore, in order for us to make our programme more fun for the Boys, we have organized the Easter Camp.
The camp started on Saturday morning, 8am. After putting the bags into the classrooms, we got onto chartered bus that head towards Katong…. for LAN Gaming.. When I told my non-BB friends about this, they asked, “What type of UYO are you in? Instead of doing campfire, you all are having LAN Gaming??” Come on.. kids are difficult to please these days… gone are the days when secondary school kids find doing good drill with a sense of pride… gone are the days when they find campfire fun… What they enjoy most is games games and more games… Also, we have to give them a taste of all the fun things you can do if you collect more with BB week.. First was laser tag, now is LAN gaming.. of course if we really meet the target, we can play the long forgotten “Paint BALL” aka “PAIN ball..”
Alrite, after reaching a LAN shop in Katong, we started our expedition – fighting in battlefield 2… it’s a fight mainly between the Officers & Primers vs. Boys.. It was quite exciting.. but I got bored of it after awhile.. So Raymond and I started playing Fifa 07…
After LAN gaming, it was wing lunch.. wing sergeants are suppose to bring their wings to some place nice to eat… hmm.. what can you eat in katong?? I am quite sure there are so many good food there.. but guess what, my wing decided to go to MACS!! Go to katong to eat MAC!! haiz.. so sad.. but still I have to follow them.. As they were at marine parade buying macs, Xavier went to get char kway tiao and suger cane for the officers & primers.. The char kway tiao was decent but the suger cane was horrible.. and even after Xavier went back to tell him something is wrong with his sugar cane, he still say it was ok.. if i wasn’t in that BB polo tee.. i will go and scold the uncle that sells it….
After that, we went back to barker.. I was so tired after that because I haven’t slept for the past 24 hrs.. bascially, I was behaving like a zombie after the LAN gaming… till night… the Boys was given their awards and Senior Proficiency Star… I must say that Othniel is really efficient, so soon most of the awards mess was settled… or I should say he is more hard hearted than me.. slave driver.. haha…
The Boys slept ard 11pm as they are suppose to wake up at 4am to move the chairs.. BUT.. the Officers started linking their laptops together to play Counter Strike.. (I was one of them =P).. As I am suppose to perform during the Sunrise Service tmr, I decided to catch some sleep… but those playing CS was so noisy.. shout here and there.. disturb my sleep…
I woke up ard 4am to change and tune my pipe. Soon after, the service start and we played Amazing Grace with harmony.. I think it was quite a good performance despite some cock up… there were full of praises from some of the pple I met later… one of the most unexpected person that I met later was Mrs. Ding (Euwen’s mum).. She was my boss for the part time work I did for her last time.. but not no more due to my busy schedule… I think she was very happy to see us playing pipes during the service that she decided to donate $100 for BB week..
Actually, we are suppose to perform from 8am – 8.30am and 10am – 10.30am.. but because all of us were feeling exhausted, we decided to skip the 8am performance. More details about the performance will be posted later, with the videos of our practices… =)
The camp was dismissed ard 12-1pm… was so tired that spent most of the time talking and sleeping in admin room. I think the most memorable about this camp other than the performance for me was SLEEP.. I hope I will do less of this in order to enjoy more of the camp next time…
FOR ALL THOSE THAT WANTS TO DONATE TO THE BB WEEK, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!
Hey all… a bagpipe quintet band will be performing in between the church services… The timings would likely be 8am-8.30am and 10am-10.30am… We will be performing a few short medleys settings arranged by ourselves….
It will be a busking style performance where we will be asking for pple that appreciate our performances to donate to The Boys’ Brigade, 12BR Singapore Company… All donations will go to the BB week collections.. Please give your fullest support…
Haven’t had a post with pictures for quite awhile… so this shall be it…
I went to join in the fun at Boat Quay for the St Patrick’s Day (irish) on the 16th Mar 08…. This is the second time I went, representing the St Andrew’s Society (scottish)… not that I am in St Andrew’s Society but because Merlion Pipes & Drums is quite affiliated to it..
Attendance: Dearie & I, Joshua Ang, Brandon Choo, Woo Kai Kein & pple from Merlion P&D… I think let’s take a sneak peek on what happened that day..
Here is another video that is posted on youtube by pple from SJI..
I think these pictures & video gave you an idea on what happened at the St Pat’s Day celebration in Singapore… I am going to elaborate on my experiences….
1st, there was a route march starting from where Raffles has landed… then, we walked all the way to DBS building (i think)… on the way, the pipe band played constantly.. as you can see how huge the band is.. there is kinda jam along the roads.. The music I must say was very loud.. but not say very good la.. normal standard you get when you do mass bands.. FYI, the combine band is formed by BB (18th & 60th coy), GB (RGS), Singapore Pipe Band and SJI pipe band..
2nd, performances at the DBS building… basically.. the only good performancs were by the mass bands… coz the sound systems suck…affect all the other performances.. music play half way can stop.. luckily, pipe band is loud enough to be heard…
3rd, went to Macs to eat.. nothing much…
4th, went to the pub near molly malones… I drank a beer and dearie drank a mocktail.. guess wad did Joshua, Brandon and Kai Kein drank?? PLAIN WATER.. and it cost ard $7 plus taxes… Oh man.. was really ripped off..
5th, met Gladys, my sch mate from MSE…. she is selling Guinness there.. saw her last year doing the same thing too.. had a chat with her and catch up on some IA stuff…
6th, performances by those irish kids on irish dance & a scottish highland dance – Alicia, accompanied by Yvonne & Henry.. (Merlion P&D).. the first dance was really… offensive i think.. she is showing her fist through out the entire dance.. we were quite shock.. dearie found out later that it’s a sailor dance.. (dunno if she bluff me).. the next dance was very highland.. i must comment on her vest.. makes her look world class!! and most certainly.. she danced very well..
after the entire St Pat’s wHoo hAaaa.. joshua, brandon & kai kein went home.. yvonne, simon, freddy, dearie & i went to Tiong Bahru Market to eat..
Since the last time I blogged about myself, I have been very busy with so many things.. My school work includes completing my MS3002 (Advanced Materials Processing) assignment and my human resource & management project.
I started doing my MS3002 simulation using ATHENA process simulation on wednesday.. this programme is suppose to help you find out the practical time for semiconductor to form oxidation layer and also allow ion implantation.. after the simulation, I did all the analysis and answering of questions for the next 2 days.. eventually, I submit the file on friday.. I think some of you that take this course might find it shock that I did the assignment within 2 – 3 days.. I also dunno how I did it.. but I need to thank all those that provided me with answers either though sending me their copy of report for my reference, or those that told me their answers verbally… without them.. i am really dunno how to do it.. and at such a short time….
As for my HRM project.. I almost wanted to puke blood doing it.. I just have this strange feeling that nobody bothers about this project… I just cannot take it when people start to take project work lightly.. esp when it jeopardize other’s marks as well.. it is not very ethical leh… On the other hand, most of my group members got MS3005 to do.. (a module about doing project) whereas I have done mine last sem.. maybe I should be more understanding and not grumble so much because their workload is quite a lot of that module.. BUT again.. why don’t they ask me to help out earlier?? only at last minute then ask me to write something when I am rushing my 3002 assignment.. haiz.. everything just have to come at the same time.. not anyone’s fault la..
So my lesson learnt… PLEASE DO YOUR PROJECTS AND ASSIGNMENTS EARLY!! a reminder for myself especially.. because I have this bad habit of living life on the edge…
Now, I am left with 3002 quiz and 3003 assignment… have to start soon…
Hey.. I have set up this bass & tenor page.. I’m trying to put in more tutorials that can be found on the web… If you have found any interesting Tenor links about anything, feel free to comment it.. I will try include it… God Bless!!
“How to get rid of the page number for appendix??”
Which means, I want to keep the page number for my first part of document.. but I don’t want the page number to show for appendix.. Hmm.. I never ever thought I needed this function.. but anyway, I have to think because this is for my HRM report…
I have thought a few methods such as changing the font colour and see if there is any function to get rid of it… Finally!! I came out with a method… create a text box by: Insert-> Textbox-> Horizontal/Vertical… then put it in over your page number.. As the text box shows border, right click to Format Text box then at the colours & line tab, go to the line section and change the colour to No Fill… in this case.. the text box is undetectable..
I know it sounds unprofessional.. but it works!! haha.. now I have another question.. how to start page 1 at the 6th page of the document?? that means not including the contents and so on… let me know if you have the answer…
