Teardrops On My Guitar

Friends who are familiar with me will know for sure that this entry can't be about me crying... I don't know how to play any kind of music, hence from where will the guitar pop out from? haha..

This is about a song from Taylor Swift. I listened to it when I blogwalking several weeks ago.. but no matter how I crack my head, I just can't remember whose blog it was ^^; Anyone knows? (Update: I found it! It's from Zelda's post. hahaha.. *finally, after 4 hours of excessive blog searching*)

Presenting: Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar



My reaction to the song:
First minute: OK, not bad
Second minute: Wow! She is pretty!
Third minute: *Searching lyric*
Finally: Listen to more than 3 times in a row
Afterwards: Search for the song again after few weeks.

Nice? =) I like the lyric. Just so melodic, seriously.
Erlin.D

Exclaim 7

The design for Exclaim is so wonderful this year! Can't resist not to blog about it :p Kudos to the publicity officer! Anybody knows who designed it? Wanna learn.. hahahaa... I hope that the event will be as great as the poster. Hahahaa…


I lurve the design very very very much~

FYI, Exclaim is SCE School Day... a day where we got all the lectures cancelled from 12.30 onwards.. The only day where IA student can have mass-half-day as well. haha... This will be the last Exclaim I can participate.. The first one was great.. the second one I didn’t enjoy that much since I was one of the organizer.. the third one I can’t make it due to IA.. so I’m really looking forward for the Exclaim this year =]

SCE-ians… check out the website for more info…
Other-ians… check out the website to envy us :p

Looking forward for 5th March~
Erlin.D

Last Recess in NTU

It’s funny how I allow procrastination to take me over and over :S

Every Monday, I will start with lazy attitude, knowing that it’s only the first day of the week; hence don’t want to overload myself too much. I have lessons (and nap) until 12.30, and then do practically nothing for the rest of the day.

Every Tuesday, I’m looking forward for the whole free day on Wednesday, and enjoy a light-weight Tuesday.

Every Wednesday, I’m in weekend mood: sleep until afternoon, lunch, sleep again, browse, chat, and sleep early.

Every Thursday, I’ll have lesson until 9.30 pm. When I’m back to room, I feel that I have had enough for the day.

Every Friday, I’m in weekend mood (again) and think but to play.

Every Saturday is weekend. I relax myself by watching some movies, doing room cleaning, blogging, replying email, etc

Every Sunday, I will get worried about Monday, start to look at my lesson, but don’t know what to start, then finally reading blog or watching instead.

So, everyday, I got reason to delay my stuff over and over.. This happens every week! Until this Thursday, I realized my deadline and got so overwhelmed T_T

On Wednesday night, I started to worry about my assignment and start planning.. I planned to do DS on Wednesday night, then IR assignment on Thursday morning and ADMT meeting before weekend. Actually, it was a very irrational planning. Each of them will actually take at least 3 days to complete, but I compress them to half day =.= in my worrying mode, suddenly my supervisor email me and ask me to complete something by tomorrow! Oh gosh!

So I sleep on Wednesday praying that Thursday never came.. T_T

Finally on Thursday, I decided to be realistic. I apologize to Peko that I might not be able to update her anything regarding IR, cancel my plan to have ADMT meeting, and focus my self on FYP in the morning. After FYP for the whole morning till afternoon, continued with the deadly lesson from 3.30 – 9.30, I reached back home and started my DS assignment. I almost gave up when I think of the code that I supposed to write… but I, finally, decided to read the task seriously…

There was a lot of temptation at night.. I work on the assignment for 5 minutes, then started to read blogs for 20 minutes.. get back to the assignment for 5 minutes, then playing fluff friends for another 20 minutes T__T then at around 2am, after I code for around 20 minutes, I decided to reward myself with instant noodle =.= I finished only at 4am.. haha.. It is so dejavu.. I used to do that during my first year… at that time, my companion was always Pringles. Hahaha..

Anyway, happy that I manage to finish the 1/10 part of my DS assignment, I slept until 11 am the next day… the time when I was supposed to be doing my FYP!! I reach lab only at almost 12 pm :( and do my work until 2.30 before going for the DS lesson. After the lesson, we have DS discussion… then… the procrastination mode get over me again T_T after dinner, didn’t feel like going back room… hence went to play fluff friends at library, then go to attend SIA recruitment talk =.= I’m so speechless about myself T_T

Back to room, again, the Friday mode is ON… so I chat, blog, and play abit with photoshop.. gosh.. How to make myself constantly aware that I’m in super dangerous mood? I have FYP demo this coming Tuesday, FYP report deadline in less than 2 weeks time, and 3 big assignments chasing me around. I never even did my tutorials anymore this semester :(

Still, what inside my mind are the upcoming Exclaim, pre-graduation seminar buffet, steamboat dinner, and party.

Sooo wrong minded :S I think I better go to sleep now rather than keep doing nothing =.=
Erlin.D

Necessities

My headset’s microphone is spoilt again.. The voice can’t get through my sister no matter how hard I scream. Hahaha.. so afterall, there IS a different between $6 and $50 microphone XD

Anyway, I just remember that I got a lot of things that I need to buy… T_T Let me note it down before I forgot again:
- Headset
- Swimming Goggle with (- 5)
- Back massager
- Coffee supply for 1 year
- Sandals
- Body Shop perfume

Anybody wants to go out? Haha… or even better, anyone cares to donate some of the stuff? :p (!! OMG, Just realize that my b'day is in one month time!! so fast!? O.o) Then this is just nice to act as my wishlist as well ba.. muahahaaa (so shameless)

Just realize that I’m getting old again soon :s
Erlin.D

Impressive Dream (3)

I got another dream which makes me sleep until 10.30 today.. This time.. it was about me being chased by a stranger… No matter where I run, he always able to run after me, simply because there is a tool like GPS that denote where I was. The GPS is quite unique.. it detects where I am by detecting my blood =__= More strangely, it only detect my blood and the stranger blood… (something like Harry Potter and Voldermort connection :p) so, the situation was that both of us have a GPS and we know the location of each other.

I was accompanied with one of my friend.. which in this case turn to be like my assistant.. muahahaa.. (shall not reveal who he is… maybe an initial for myself to remember… ‘K’?) I remember in one scene, I decided to hurt myself and dripped blood in different locations to confuse him (cool, rite? :p) After dripped the blood in almost 10 locations, I stayed in one place to recuperate.. However, unexpectedly, he managed to find me very fast… (still remember how I was having spa and looking at GPS and shocked to see how fast he move from one blood location to another)

The chasing finally continued.. I drove to a cliff (yes, I can drive in my dream :p) and decided to drop the car and make it looks like accident, where I and my assistant was actually hiding inside a hole in the cliff. Still, he managed to find me and then.. we struggle.. and then.. I lost balance.. and fell from the cliff, together with him… leaving my assistant stared blankly from the top of the cliff.

The climax is almost there… (and I suddenly wake up… 9 a.m! but since I am curious with the ending, I try to continue) I fell down.. but didn’t die.. fell down to a hill… then tried to stand up… and I was looking at familiar place. NTU. Somewhere near canteen A =__=… the one chasing me was standing up also.. then.. both of us decided to end the chasing case and be friend. Then.. we walked to canteen A to buy a cup of coffee. He bought Nescafe and treat me a cup of coffee as well.

What a lame ending T___T I think it’s because I happened to wake up in the middle… hahaha.. but anyway, the dream wasn’t scary.. more to adventurous and I really felt want to continue it :p.. I didn’t know the meaning of the dream though… and I didn’t know why I dream like that.. I haven’t watch any related movie recently…

Anywayyy…. Lucky that the dream is on Wednesday, the day where I don’t have any lecture.. else I might end up skipping my lecture ^^;

Ok.. 2 pm now.. and I haven’t started my day yet T__T

FYP… how do you want me to love you? With my heart, with my soul, baby let me know~
Erlin.D

Let the music heal your soul

No matter what I’m stress over: FYP, assignment, tutorial or even ECA, music never fails to make me feel relax. Even for the exam stress, music has always been my best companion.

The type of music I listen depends a lot with my mood… but typically, instrumental and slow music never goes wrong. From all the instrumental music, the best will be Kenny G, no doubt. Currently, together with Michael Bublé, they have been my best companion for FYP.

The only bad thing about music is that… I always try to find more information about the songs I love, can it be the lyric, the video, the website, etc etc.. ended up spending most of my time surfing instead of studying T_T haha…

Having said so, I’m glad that I know my ultimate way to release stress. It makes everything less troublesome. Stuck? Listen to slow music. Sleepy? Listen to 90’s boy bands songs. Stuck and sleepy? Go to sleep lor :p hahaha…

I hope that all of you have your own way to release your stress… or if you haven’t find one, maybe you can try out music as well ^_^

This entry is intentionally posted to welcome Kenny G’s latest album – Rhythm & Romance, another savior of my dishearting fyp.

FYP, here I come~
Erlin.D

PS: Music is good except for one situation - when I'm memorizing things. It can make me focus to the songs instead of the stuff I try to memorize ^^;

PS2: Let the music heal your soul is a song title by Bravo All Stars. Simply wonderful.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2008

I started this entry complaining about FYP, but decided to delete and rewrite… those 3 sensitive letters aren’t good for Valentine's post. Hahaha..

Ten minutes before Vday, Clement came and... sell chocholate! =__= (now you know that this post isn't a romantic post :p) As a good senior, I decided to buy one.. (it's for prom nite fundraising somemore) So... Yeah.. at least I got chocholate to give this year... but I really don’t know who I should give to ^^;.. Give it to roomie was the first thing to come to my mind.. but since roomie saw me buy it (and know exactly the price) it felt funny… In the end, I decided to just put it to my bag and go to sleep… Thinking to eat it together with my friends the next day. Hahaha.. (sound despo?)

In the morning, I went to school at 10.. When I reached library, I saw It land.. I said hi but she didn’t saw me.. so I just went to my favourite place at level 2. All in sudden, my phone rang and It land asked if I want to join her for lunch.. oh.. wow! I’m very happy that she still remember me.. hahaha.. then I decided to give the chocolate to her.. Which turned out to be a good decision, as she was giving me Ang Pao! Ow~ I really didn’t expect it :’) Thx so much It land… you made my day ^_^

Back from lunch, I continued studying (and chatting) until 3.. then decided to walk to Valenwine. It’s an event by NTU Wine Appreciation Club... The event is very well organized, impressive! Have a very enjoyable half hour tasting and knowing (a bit) more about wine before starting my 6-hrs-lesson until 10pm.

When I was back to room, my roomie said Happy Valentine to me.. and I felt so happy. Hahaha.. So.. that’s it about my vday ba… Oh! Btw, I finally met Steph today.. Thx so much that you decided to say hi to me.. =D Appreciate it alot~

May everyone had had a great vday ^^
Erlin.D

Spending Quality Time

This is just another boring blog entry about abstract thingy… :p

I’m considering adding another motto beside “There is always a time for everything”. Still related to time, it’s about “Spending Only Quality Time”. I interpreted it as “spending time for something that you know you wont regret spending” It sounds simple, but sadly, these few weeks I didn’t feel doing anything close to that statement.

This festive season, I decided not to go back despite of my family’s request. I defended myself saying that I needed to do FYP… and the ticket to go back isn’t cheap as well. My sister teased me asking “So you will be able to finish your FYP if u didn’t go back? Does it really so important?” I ignored it and fully determined to make use of this week holiday to do the max..

And so, here is the end of the week… I wont said I didn’t enjoy the holiday.. but I really suffered the remorseful feeling.. which mostly caused by my bogus expectation towards myself.

I ended up never lay my single finger on FYP or any of the three assignments. Instead, I did a lot of things out from plan… (Sum up the cost together, it didn’t differ much from the price for air ticket T_T). The holiday was fun.. But the fun formed isn’t maximized… E.g. I think I will be much more satisfied finished my FYP then turned to Harry Potter, rather than the other way round… When you’re doing too much fun, you just didn’t feel the added value anymore… just topping up your guilt feeling when you’re coming to your real assignment.

Having said that, if I were back to home and I didn’t do my FYP as well, I didn’t feel this guilty feeling. Same outcome (FYP untouched) but different feeling (Guilty VS Happy)

Well, this entry might not be well formed… But I got 2 main point there.. first is to plan something with a right expectation. Second... is to get the plan sort in a right order.

I blogged when I supposed to sleep, but I still didn’t feel guilty :p
Erlin.D

Ends of Holiday

Just finished up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I know it's a bit late). After reading to the last page, I still can't believe that it was the last page. There are still so many mysteries concealed ~.~... but the story is still a fiction after all, so I wont be searching too hard to find the answers. Haha..


Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallow - Thanks Nancy for the book :p

I spotted one exciting phrase in the book, but I can’t remember what is the exact phrase and where it is located.. The moral of the phase was… Voldermort didn’t know about tales about Hallows.. which end up making quite a severe mistake by turning it to Horcrux. He should have been spending some time reading the fairy tales about Three Brothers rather than keeping all his time for the Dark Arts.

I assumed JK Rowling tried to tell us that we shouldn’t spent all our time studying… but must remember to read fictions as well.. :p Because sometimes the story made us learn much more than what we can seek from other sources.

Anyway, maybe I think too much… and maybe I just tried to find excuses for my own negligence of study over this few weeks =.= I hope I'll be back to my daily routine soon.. =]

So... Finally finished what I have started reading since Junior High School. I still remember the time where one of my friend was so enchanted and decided to type it all out in microsoft word to produce his own softcopy (He gave up half way though). Thinking back about it, I felt funny as we were still so naive back then, not knowing that there are lots of ebook available out there in the internet. hahaha...

Alright... To conclude, Harry Potter has quite influenced me. Thanks for such a great novel, J.K. Rowling =)

My idol is Hermione Granger throughout the 7 books~
Erlin.D

Update on CNY Zhu 1

I woke up again at 1.15… shocked, then rush for shower and lunch. I reached bus stop at 2.20.. and wait for around 15 minutes before the bus arrived. Haha.. Met WK who was going to his friend’s home. Cut the story short.. I reached Tanah Merah around 3.30. I looked for any local map… but seems like the MRT station don’t have one :S.. Instead of map, I found OCBC atm.. the money I draw yesterday was all new, hence I felt reluctant to spend it.. so, I try to draw again today.. and get all new money again! =.= lame lame… Maybe I should just spend it ba. haha..

After I went down from the escalator, I need to decide between going left or right. Left is to Bedok Road, right is to New Upper Changi Road… and street directory wrote that I should go to Bedok Road opposite Man Fatt Lam. So, I tried my luck go to left.. which turn out to be wrong :s.. I didn't manage to find Man Fatt Lam... (later I know that the bus stop is 420m away!) I read the bus map and finally know from which bus stop I should board. Hahaha.. I waited for around half hour for bus 14 to appear.. .and then took the bus to Upper East Coast Road - B94029. Thanks to the bus driver to inform me where to stop, and even direct me of where I should walk.

Go down from the bus, I turned left, cross road, walked until the end, and found Bayshore Park. After entered the Bayshore Park, I needed to walk for another 5 minutes to reach her place. Well, not that far afterall :p


Kiki, Alip, Lily Cc (pretty as usual), and me

Finally, I managed to great her Gong Xi right at her door. Hahaha.. we chatted for almost 2 hours.. It felt quite fast. Get a lot of stuff from her.. Thanks Lily cc! I took Bus 14 again to go back.. and reach NTU at almost 9. Shower, Dinner, then now is the time for a movie with others to end this Zhu 1 ^^

Mission Done~
Erlin.D
(sorry for absurd ending, rush to watch movie :p)

Days to CNY

Saturday
Sent che2 and rin2 back to Medan and went for CNY shopping afterwads (like indicated in my last post) back only at night, and went to sleep after looking through the gifts again and again :p


Rin and I infront of our Shio ^^ - Habour Front

Sunday
Che2 was not around… and I slept until 12. Wake up, I didn’t feel motivated to do anything.. so spent the time browsing, chatting, and reading harry potter as well.

Monday
I was so in the CNY mood and forget that I still have lesson. Wake up at 8.30, sleep again until 12.30 at LT, then went to international cultural, food, and travel fair, grabbed some goodie bag (so happy to get the last year’s student union tshirt! I haven’t got one!) and went to have lunch at the Quad. Afterwards, continue with ADMT discussion. I went back only at 5.30.. then rush to shower and went to ISC lunar new year celebration.. The lucky draw was aloooottt… make me somehow wishes to get one too T_T haha.. congratulations to all those wins… which I reckon 50% are Indonesian :p.. Congratz AE for winning the Hong Bao $188 as well.. haha.. Looking forward for the KFC treat :p


Barbarian way of Yu Sheng =.=

Tuesday
Today my lesson is one hour earlier than yesterday… so I need to wake up one hour earlier as well.. 7.30. Thanks that I still can make it. Our lesson finished at 11.30.. then having ADMT discussion again all the way. Visit Mano at his office for the second time.. and I feel that he is quite a patient person (started to see his positive side :D) hahaha.. we did ADMT until being hushed away by the lab technician, as the lab is closing soon T_T hahaha… back to room, in 100% CNY mood. Haha.. spent my day chatting and chatting until 3 am =.=

Wednesday
CNY eve! I wake up at 7! And I can’t believe that I didn’t feel sleepy. Haha.. Nan2 picked me up at around 8.30, and both of us went to City Hall. Yup2… Nancy was going to sign a contract for a new job.. and I was so happy to witness it. Hahahaa… While waiting, I read Harry Potter and drank coffee at Pasific Coffee.. I enjoyed it sooo much… Rare that I can get this kind of relaxed feeling. Thanks Nancy to make it happen :p. Nancy finished at around 10.30.. then we set off to Changi. Have a great treat from Nan at Crystal Jade (Thanks Nan!) and then have some picture before saying goodbye to her.. huhuhu… Enjoy your time at Medan, hor =)


Harry Potter with Vanila Latte and Jazz Music - Simply relaxing

Afterwards, I planned to go back to JP. But on the way, winson told me that wk and him were going out soon… so I finally decided not to stay at the city. I was already at Tanjung Pagar when I decided.. afterwards, I changed MRT and went back to Bugis. Haha.. Did some prayer and read my fortune for this year.. not very good.. but I believe that I will make it through =D =D

Finished with bugis, I waited for Winson and WK at City hall. Then, we hunt for any restaurant that open until night. Finally, we decided to have steamboat buffet dinner at Suntec. The buffet starts from 8 – 10.30. I ate really a lot *.* not felt very well.. hence went back, wait for clock to tick to 12, saying happy new year, shower, then sleep until the next day =D What a long and fulfilling CNY eve :p


The members of buffet dinner with rotund belly :p

Thursday
Bravo to myself to wake up at 8.15. (wake up < 9am in a row for 4 days. Good sign that the Pig year has really gone away.. hahaha..) I then brush my teeth, call all my family, sms my friends… and decided to write blog.. Finished typing this blog, I felt sleepy again… Might sleep for another few hours before going to my relative place ba :D

Hooops.. Almost forgot the happiest news I got today... I will get another niece/nephew by the end of this Rat Year :p haha.. Congratz Broo!!!

FYP is definitely out of my mind now ^^;
Erlin.D

Time of the year

Chinese New Year is here again. As usual, I’m going to visit my (only) relative here. The past three years, I had always been troubling her to pick me from MRT. This time around, I am fully determined to knock on her door without having her drove me there. (Phaise, has been teased during last year visit “Next time you come here, you can actually take bus from Bedok to my place… it’s easier.. so that you can come whenever you want.. not only once in a year” *stab stab stab)

So, first thing I need to do is to find her address.. which was given by my sister 4 years ago… mess about half of the room (because another half is my roomie’s) to find the piece of paper.. Jump with joy for 1 minutes after finding the paper.. then typing in the postal code to street directory… and get the correct result… (happy again) then, I selected what I want to view.. “Nearest walking distance using MRT & Bus” but then.. the result was:

2b. You will travel for another 22 stations before reaching your destination station.
2c. At the 23rd station, please alight at Bedok MRT (EW5).
3. End Destination: Your destination address is 1.58 km away.
Bayshore Park

Huh…? So the street directory actually suggest me to walk from MRT to her house? T__T lousy… I didn’t expect it.. I remember she told me last year that there was a bus that I can take to near her house.. but why it’s not stated in street directory? Of course, I can’t remember what was the bus number she suggested 1 year ago.. T_T

Finally, after several tried using different option, I got some results saying that I should take bus 14.. I’ll give it a try in next few days.. wish me luck!

By the way, I really feel phaise to visit her only once in a year :( Usually, after the visit, I promised myself to contact her more.. but then.. I always remember her again only when CNY is in 1 week time.. such a bad cousin T_T At that time, I will feel very guilty and keep thinking of what to buy for her to compensate.. (because she always give me angpao.. afraid that she tought I came only for angpao ^^;) This year around, I bought her chocolate.. I can’t remember what I bought last year.. (my oh my brain) Ummm... I think chocolate as well… Alright, to reduce the severity effect of my rusty brain, here I posted the chocolate I bought for her this year.


Chocolate Coctail Creams - Anthony Berg
CNY Gift as well as Valentine Gift :p

With this, I will remember not to buy the same thing next year... haha... And her address is Emerald Tower, 469981. I will definitely looking for this post again next year. XD

Side talk, my roomie has went back to Indonesia.. feel quite lonely in room T_T I bet I will sleep like pig in this one week (To get the essence of few last days of Pig Year :p)

Side talk2, I also managed to buy a small cute massanger for It Land.. It is from Mini Toons.. Quite cheap, $4.95 for one.. and buy 4 get 1 free. Anyone wanna join me? hahaha..

a great Fortune Cat Massager!

Still looking for 2 oranges,
Erlin.D

The 1st Meeting of 2nd FYP

Summary of the first meeting:

“We choose what we are interested in, not what is easy. This is a very hot topic currently, and we’ll look distinct as not a lot of people taking this subject before.” – Bebek

“The Exam schedule is very nice, 1 week to and from another subject” - Cicak

“This is how a University should be teaching! Giving a lot to explore” – Bebek

“We should feel lucky: we can take the master’s and PhD’s subjects but pay undergraduate fee” – Cicak

“We reviewed the lecture along with the assignment. At the end of the day, we will need only very little time to revise” – Bebek

Now I understand why he required us to work in a team of 2 – So that we can encourage each other.

Feel 1% better,
Erlin.D