Fitness Report 260309

Just took out the dusty weighing machine below my bed and weighed myself. The figure surely doesn’t look good as it stands at 94.4kg.

I was suppose to study for my quiz tomorrow but as usual, I will only buck up at the 11th hour no matter how much I tried convincing myself to prepare early. So I did the normal routine; wake up, eat, study abit, nap, wake up, eat…. etc etc. However, today is very different. I suddenly felt like running. Actually this is not the only time that I felt like running, but the difference today is I ran! The main reason was because of the warm weather making me feeling sticky, so I thought to myself, “why don’t I just have a good exercise to purge those fats out of my body?” Hahaha…

Running is so boring. Many said that during a run, they can have time to think about things, but not for me. My mind is more preoccupied with, “oh man.. how long more??” Finally, I cannot take the tiredness and stoped after running just a mere 1km. That is so sad. The “Wey Shi” that used to be able to complete a half marathon only ran a miserable 1km today. To make matters worst, I have to go back to army in a few months time.

On the other hand, I managed to get myself to run. I think it was more than 6 months since I last ran, not counting the futsal games. I suppose it was a good start and hopefully I can continue to exercise.

I shall give myself a goal. That is to get back my fitness in a 3 months time. My aims shall be:

• Shed 10 kg.
• Pass my ippt 2.4km run.

Actually I want to set more aims like doing 5 chin-ups but let’s be realistic. I am not even sure if I have the time to exercise as exams are coming.

Okay, I shall start looking for my swimming trunks and goggles and swim as often as I can for the next 2 weeks. Hope I can do it.

Bad Bad English in my posts!!

Well, the title says it all. I just re-read my previous post and was disgusted by the standard of English I have written. Who would think that an ACS Boy would write his blog with such poor English. ARgh.. wth… Anyway, I will put in more effort to update my future blogs and probably pen in more sense in my sentences.

Recently, I got to know about this Australian singer Lenka, all thanks to Brandon. YES YOU!! Your post of the cover in your blog made me like the song. Managed to find a video of her performing 3 songs. ENJOY!!

Life after eff wai pee submission

It has been a week since I submitted my draft to my supervisor. Since then, it has been very much enjoyable.

I went to JB on last Thursday and go in by the new customs. I should be quite impressed by the new facilities that they have built, but in order for me to get the city square, I have walk round and round. As we were in a rush to watch 3.05pm movie, it wasn’t a good thing. Luckily, we manage to reach the box office by 2.55pm to buy the tickets and some snacks. We watched Marley and Me, a movie that dearie has been desperated to watch before it stop showing. Well, I think she is quite crazy about owning a dog… haha… The movie was quite a nice one, talking about life of a special dog, Marley. Overall, it was quite an interesting show and a sad when as the dog dies, worth RM10… haha…

Later, met up with Othniel, Shawn and Samuel for dinner in JB!! haha.. all thanks to Samuel, they came very late and only manage to stay for the dinner. We ate Kenny Rogers, which was very disappointing, then did a little shopping and headed to the petrol station to pump oil for Shawn’s car before we head back to Singapore. Shawn was so kind to send all of back later, makes me want to go to JB with him again.. lol…

My weekend wasn’t really interesting. On Saturday, I went to teach piping, then back to barker to do some of my own practice with Nicklaus and Brandon around. On Sunday, it’s piping again as I went to barker for band practice. Thereafter, Brandon and I saw Xavier around and went to have dinner together.

For the past few days, I spent most of my time relaxing and not doing much. Don’t really remember what I did on Monday other than eating Botak Jones (Depot Road) with dearie and studying in Queenstown library. The dinner at the food centre was quite good too, as I finished 1 plate of Wonton Mee and 1 bowl of porridge.

Went to school on Tuesday to discuss about project presentation for MS4030 (Engineer & Society). I felt quite guilty for not doing much, but thankfully I managed to redeem myself by volunteering to redo the Kallang Airport slides for my groupmate to present. Also, I thought about an ingenious idea for conclusion, that include the concept of Total Defence to the materials we are presenting.

Wednesday came and pass. Woke up at 6AM!! haven’t woke up this early since eons, because I have substituted the morning lectures with online lecture.. haha.. Reached school at 8.30am to be present with my groupmates presenting. I think the lecturer was quite happy with our presentation especially with my conclusion idea.. hehe.. The rest of the day was plan boring with me going home straight after breakfast and sleep… whole day!! woke up at 6pm to cut my hair.. then wasted most of my time doing dunno what till now as I decided to blog…

There’s a quiz coming up!! it’s on Friday!! Alrite.. I shall start studying now….

At long last

It has been quite sometime since I have last blogged. So sorry to those who bother to check whether I update my blog. I will now tell you how I have been up to.

After striving for the past few weeks, I am so glad that I have completed my FYP program and report. If you are wondering what I am doing for project, the topic is on the development of electromigration simulation program using MATLab. It certainly wasn’t easy, come to think of it, why did I ever choose such a project? Is it because of the supervisor? Or because I was confident with my programming skills. Whatever the case, I kinda regret this choice. Instead, I should have work on an experiment project where I can just do those necessary experiments and report on the results and do a wee bit of analyzing. However, dearie had been having lots of problem trying to pass her online SEM and XRD test. Plus, she had so much problems with her booking of equipment that she gets so depressed. Well, I guess I should be happy to be doing something that can be done at my own time.

Back to my epic journey on my FYP. I started my engine on the report around the last time I blogged, which is 6 Mar. Then it went on full throttle on Sunday, 8 Mar. During this time, I aim to complete my project by Wed, 11 Mar. For that few days, I can say that I have had eat, shit sleep FYP. My mind have never stopped thinking about it; how to improve the program,  what to write in my literature review, where to find the necessary documents and so on. It was really fustrating. Then on Monday night, I really couldn’t take the stress anymore and decide to ask for extension. That night, although I haven’t got the reply from my supervisor, but I stopped working. If I continued that night, I really don’t know what I will become, whether I will do anything crazy…

Luckly, my supervisor was kind enough to give me the extension, and my tension was slacken for awhile. While I was relaxing for the next few days after that, I suddenly thought of what I can add to the program to make it impressive. I shall not bore you with the technical stuff. So I am back at full throttle on 13 Mar again. I finally completed my literature review on Monday night and proceed with the alteration of program. On Tuesday, I stared at the two programs that was done by the previous students and the journal of electromigration for the entire afternoon and evening. Finally, I developed the concept and know what equation I should add into the program. When my brother came home, I tried asking him for help with the commands, but it din’t work out because we had a disagreement on a particular function. MATLab is not that difficult after all, eventually I figured out the problems and solved it by 12 midnight on Wednesday. In order to reward myself, my bro brought me to my favourite prawn mee stall down at MacPherson to have my dinner.

For the next 7 hours, I have typed non stop to complete 2 more chapters of the FYP report. Around 8.30am, I am really exhausted and went to take a short nap which lasted 2 hours. When my mom woke me up at 10am as instructed, I was sulking like a kid infront of my com. I continued to stare at it for another 30 mins before writing something. Type type type… I slowly finish the conclusion (ONLY 2 PAGES!!) and work on my misc pages.. I always knew that references are difficult to work on, but I never knew acknowledgement and abstract is so difficult to write, especially when you are so tired that everything in your mind is sleep sleep sleep. I realised that I have absolutely nobody to thank because I depended on myself to do the entire project.. and I didn’t even consulted my “mentor”, who always tells me to find out myself.

At last, I completed my report at around 3.30pm. I am so tired and really don’t feel like going to school, but whatever the case, I called my supervisor and asked if he is still in school in 2 hours time so that I can submit the report. TO MY JOY!! he said that I can come on Thurs to submit… YAY.. but not for long.. coz dearie got angry that I spoiled her Thursday plan.. of course with my great planning skills, I managed to come out with an alternative to pacify her… haha..

Thursday, I woke up later than I planned, and made my way to school the submit the report. When I entered his room and hand over the report, he put it under another 6-7 reports and told me that he will get back to me sometime later… WAH.. he still have so many to read.. pity him man…

ok.. dearie wants to see this blog quickly.. and Im getting tired blogging..will update my other experiences another day…

The day is almost ended… almost…

Well.. it’s 11.40 pm now.. and I have only started writing 1 page of my FYP.. I am suppose to write around 50 pages.. but what the heck.. was so lazy the entire day… totally unproductive.. hate it..

Anyway.. I have realised that it has been quite awhile since I last put some pictures on top.. I shall put up 2 pictures of myself performing at the Highlanders’ 2nd anniversary. Found it off a website that Brandon sent me.

“This is when I am marching along the shops by the Clarke Quay”

“This is performing at the fountain in front of Highlanders”

After the performance, we are entited to freeflow of beer.. but I only got to drink 2 glasses of it. Also, by the time I went to the buffet table prepared in the pub, it was too late.. most of the food were all taken.

That’s all, I am going back to do my report.. let’s hope I can finish most of it by this weekend… Jia you!!

Lost…

I have been staring at my eff wai pee program for the past few hours, but can’t seems to make any contribution to it. It’s just so tiring looking at it.

For the past few hours, I have been thinking of what I want to do in the near future after I graduate and complete my National Service. I have looked at some piping course in Scotland, but everything seems so far fetched because what if I can’t pass my modules and need to study for another 1 Semester? So what if I can pass, I don’t think my parents would provide me with the funds to pursue this “impractical” interest. Haiz.. I should just stop thinking about it and get back to my eff wai pee.

On a lighter note, I think I fared fairly well for my MS4555 Quiz today. I don’t think I have made any stupid mistakes. Hope this will help me get a good grade for the module.

I still have to prepare for my Investment Quiz on Thursday. Help me Lord.

The last 10 days

Since the day I have requested to do this simulation efff wai pee, there wasn’t much progress at all. Now almost 8 months have passed and I have left 10 days to get my program and report done. The amount of stress in me is unimaginable.

Right now, I have to look at the next 10 days, and decide on how I am going to fully utilize it. To make matters worst, I have 2 quizzes coming on on Tuesday and Thursday. Till now, I still look at it optimistically and believe that God will lead me.

Alrite, I shall start planning the things I need to do for the next 10 days. Pray for me.