luv Firefox and iPhone

ok, so as i mentioned earlier... this post will be dedicated to the iToy apps and firefox add ons that i absolutely love/adore.

1st up. why firefox (ff)?
FF runs way faster than IE, and it has really nice add ons that make my life much easier.

google chrome is good too, but i've yet to check out the add ons - in fact i plan to do so right after this post. unfortunately, too many add ons slows down the program, and too many add ons in FF will cause occasional crashes... so dont go overboard with add ons... (after my latest round of add on searching in FF, it'll crash occasionally now, previously none at all, still i cant live w/o those add ons...)

ok the 1st add on: snap links
(listed in order of usefulness/importance/reliance)

right click, drag, and it'll open up all the links in box in a new tab. or in a new window etc... u select in the options menu :)

i use this all the time. eg. there's several new threads to read in forums, i open up all the threads at the same time to read. or there's several links to check out in HS/other sites... right click, drag, done! simple, but very very important. esp if u play games like pet dogs or fluff friends etc... open tons of links at once with this add on for easier petting!

2. easy drag to go
uber useful. select a text, drag and it will do a search for you. you can drag in all 4 (top,down,left,right) directions and each direction it can perform a diff task for you (once again, u get to set!)

you can set it to open pics in a new tab, copy the link location, or even save a picture... the save a pic part is especially useful for me when doing HS updates... when i'll need to constantly save pics from extractions and upload them to HS. saves me alot of time when this add on

3. Auto Dial
saves a whole list of the pages u visited recently and displays them when u open a new tab. the downside that is you cant arrange the display order :(
nonetheless, its still very useful for me... much better than the recent pages displayed in safari or chrome, as this allows the display of... 20 or more sites??? the 8 sites or so in chrome/safari just aint enough for a user like me.

those abv, are the absolute essential ones that i use every single time i'm on the web... the rest are also very useful, but not as essential/used that frequently

colorful tabs
as the name suggests. changes the tabs so that they look very pretty, and you can see at a glance which tab is which. allows you to fade the tabs that aint selected too to make it more obvious which tab you're at.

split browser
allows you to move a tab into a side window --- top, bot, left, right, ur choice. anyplace you like. you can make the two pages scroll at the same spd even... very useful when i'm copying stuff from say south perry to HS. i can just look at the two pages side by side (w/o having to open them on seperate windows, and resize both windows.) you can resize the size of the 'side tab' webpage. the down side is that your apps like snap links dont work on the 'side tab' window. so make the window that you need to use the rest of ur add ons on to be NOT the side tabbed window. if you need those add ons (like ez drag to go, snap links) on both, guess this still aint ideal :(

but already it makes life much easier for me when i added in stuff from south perry extractions to HS. (i didnt need ez drag to go on both tabs too)

clippie
allows you to store your copied text, pretty much like the clip board in msoft. downside is that there isnt a shortcut to selecting which copied text to paste. would very much prefer it if there was a keyboard shortcut to select which text to paste, would make my work on HS much faster/easier

reload every
the one and only auto refresher for firefox. used it alot when i was playing some broswer rpg games but since i've now quit them all, i dont use this at all anymore. used to set some forum pages to auto refresh every 1min or so, so that whenever i go to the site i dont have to manually refresh to see if there's new stuff... hmm... maybe i shd do that for the warrior's hall page again...

anyway... this app sits very nicely as just a small drop down button beside the original FF refresh button. really neatly tucked away indeed. you can set the exact amt of time to wait before refreshing, and you can control each window and tab separately.

FoxClocks
i use this to check the time at various cities... sits as a neat row of times at where your status bar is(bot of the page). basically i used it quite often previously to check wat time is it at XX place where my fellow troops/other friends were... but now i refer to the times less often

ok... now for those apps that i use to keep in touch... i've come to rely on these add ons so much that they are absolutely essential now... but i felt they deserve another category of their own, plus they aint that 'work related' stuff, so their here rather than at the top of the list

scribe fire
the oldest of the 3 'keep in touch' add ons that i've got. basically its a platform that lets you sign in to all ur blogs, edit ur entries, and make new posts. w/o having to go to the website itself to sign in, create new entry... scribe fire is much more convenient... click the little icon on the bot right hand corner, and this screen pops up where u can make ur blog entry. there's a panel on the right that lets you choose which blog to post to, or choose a blog entry to bring up for editing/deleting. you can make the entry in rich editing or source editing (html)... can see a preview before you post too. very very convenient... in fact, all my entries theses days are made from scribe fire and scribe fire only. i only log in to blogger itself when i have changes to make to my blog layout/template.

TwitterBar
as the name suggests.... its a twitter tool! you type your tweet in the address bar of FF, and hit a button to just tweet away! convenient eh?

oh speaking of which, yes i've gotten myself a twitter acct. i do talk alot abt gaming stuffs there tho, so be warned... still i'll be glad if you could follow me at http://twitter.com/darkillertg

and the last FF add on that i'll talk abt...

Yoono
a very very useful tool... appears as an expandable bar on the left side of the browser... lets you sign in to sites like FB and twitter (the only two i use), and it'll inform you when ever there are updates. you can sign in the msn from there too, but i wont suggest that.. you'll get logged out of the msn live messenger program, and if you aint looking at ur FF page, (e.g. working on word) you wont know if ppl sent u a msg on msn.

but for FB and twitter wise its really great... i nvr bothered with FB updates... but with this i get to see if anyone made any updates, or sent me a msg etc... same for twitter... i'll know if anyone talked in my channel, or if those guys i'm following made any new post. you can reply right away from the add on too, very convenient. this together with the twitterbar... made me a much more regular user of twitter.

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ok, now on to iPhone apps - listed in no particular order. i'll break them into two main categories. utilities and games. basically utilities will include all the work related stuff, while games are just.. games and other fun apps :)

1st up, Utilities!

AppBox Lite/Pro
all in one... very useful, so much so that i've paid abt 1.5bucks sgd to buy the pro version. since that's the one i have now, i'll say wat's in the pro version only

currency converter!
battery status, phone memory space info
alarm clock
calculate the no. of days btw dates, no of days till XX
level - you know the carpenter tool with liquid and a bubble in the middle?
flashlight - it is really bright...
holidays info
calculate discount price (doubt i'd use this tho, mental calculation ftw!)
apparently you can download some add ons to this app too! cool!

there's a units converter too, but its a bit troublesome to use, i prefer another separate units converter app...

MultiConvert
very good units converter app. from weight to length to pressure to light intensity to... anything... everything! very user friendly too, it was very helpful when i did my biophysics on9 quizzes this sem

SG buses
lets you check which bus goes where. you can check by road name or the bus no. comes in handy at times when you are 'stranded' outside and need to know how to get hm

TouchMouse
control ur comp/lappy with ur iPhone thru wifi!!!

Remote
Control iTunes on ur comp/lappy using iPhone :)

Translators
there are quite a few translators out there... i've got quite a few of them on my phone... not sure which is better and all... ><

Dictionary
dictionary! now you can check the meaning of any word anywhere you want... if only i had this when doing my essays or comprehension in jc...

Stick it
basically a post it note pad :) i prefer this kind of 'timeless' notes to the date ordered notes as in the bulit in note pad.

UYH - Use Your Handwriting
basically you just doodle watever note you have down, not type :)

Channel News Asia/ Straits Times
Lets you read article stubs on ur itoy

Office Plus
Lets you open office (word, excel etc) documents! i've got several apps doing the same stuff, not quite sure which is better... didnt use any of them much, dont really use office files on my phone so yeah... ><

Timetable
save ur timetable on ur phone, pretty self explanatory...

Facebook
basically lets you know of any notifications/pms/wall post on FB :)
you can reply from the app, but seems like you cant delete from the app...

MeRadio
you've probably seen the advertisements... since iphone has no radio... you have an alternative... download an app to listen to the radio from the web... yes its in real time :)

PandoraBox
often apps have discounts for limited periods of times... this app keeps tracks of all the discounts and the new apps available!
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ok, that's abt it for utilities... other small stuff here and there but... let's move on to GAMES and other FUN stuff!

Backgrounds
Tons of nice background designs to choose from. you'll nvr get bored look at em

DoodleBuddy
As seen from my previous post, i really really enjoy playing on this app. the glitter effects and color add on are must gets! download some free apps for the doodlebucks!

Tap Tap Revenge 3
the ultimate game on iphone! gosh... i'm so addicted to this game that i've spent quite alot of $$$ buying tracks. extremely fun... so many song packs that i downloaded and liked... my very very most favourite one has to go the the owl city pack though. fireflies and vanilla twilight. love the song, love the blue background, love the rhythm. its perfect!

aint a person with good hand eye cooridination? no matter! i started off flanking songs in the easy mode! now i still fail at some songs in the hard mode, but very much improved already. i still panic when i see hoards of tappers coming my way but hey... this game IS fun. started off having to play with two thumbs, now i can play with three fingers, and i can play on my left hand too! really addictive game!

Tap Studio
lets you make ur own tap tap games from the songs in ur ipod!

iBubble Lite/Pro
If u like those bubble shooting game, this is it. very simple game, yet the game play format makes its so very very addictive. really. i've spent days playing this game on my itoy till i run my battery flat. a word of warning tho, this game seems the drain the itoy battery rather fast...

Solitaire
a classic game, nothing much to introduce abt it:)

Flaboo
Very fun arcade style game... u send a chicken flying thru the clouds and see how far up you can go

Fingerzilla
tap as fast as you can! very addictive too... so much so that i spent like 3 bucks to unlock more maps and the names pack...

Music Quiz/Name the Song Lite
picks songs from ur ipod, plays them for a while and gives you a list of song titles to pick from :)

WordSearch
just... word search :) good at training ur... searching spd :P

Links
its... smthing like teris... but with slightly different gameplay. i'd say the style is very interesting :)

Paper Toss
addictive... toss the paper ball into the basket! but beware the fan blowing....

iDragPaper
Drag a roll of toilet paper as fast as you can, very fun... compete among ur friends ;P

Sodoku
Just ur regular sodoku puzzles ;)

ADoodleFly
if you've played hedgehog launcher... yeah this game is quite similar to that :) cute drawings, cute upgrades... wat more can you ask for?

Charmed
something like bejeweled, but even more fun since you have to flip the phone in all sorts of directions to complete the level!

Piyo Blocks
also something like bejeweled, this game allows you to make multiple moves even before the previous combo ends. here, running out of moves wont lose the game, you only lose when you run out of time (yes, so many bejeweled like games, i'm a huge fan of bejeweled and bounce out, but since those aint free, i've to look for alternatives)

Creaturez
the third and last bejeweled like game i've got. in this game there's timed and untimed modes... either way, if you're out of moves... you out!

Quest Knight
Very fun tossing game... kinda like... heh... playing the flash game before but i've forgotten the name. you toss guys and prevent them from reaching the castle. too bad the free version has limited lvls, but still, its fun.

Lemonade Tycoon 1/2
i love the tycoon kind of games... you can play on... forever and ever!

there's also the farmville like series of games that i play... all with similar concepts... shant list them all here... i'm sure you can find them urself on the app store :P lazy and it IS getting really late...

ok... nite nite all!

loads of updates! hold your breath and get ready for a long read!

i'm going on holiday to taipei next week form 14th to the 21st. of June
yes. we only booked the hotel and tickets online yest morning at like
3am... uber last min stuff as you can see... i cant believe its thursday now already and we are flying off on monday morning gosh!

been reading bryan wong's blog for the past 2 days or so. my sis chanced upon his blog to find that its amazingly updated... yes, bryan wong the media corp artise. and yes his blog is updated! with very nice pics of his travels, shows, entries on his emotions/thoughts etc... he's set up a fb page and twitter too, but his twitter isnt very updated... anyway his fb page is at http://www.facebook.com/bbryanwong

lol, why i am so random to start promoting his blog etc you ask? well honestly i've been quite a fan of bryan and kim ng... i remember the time when they hosted shows after shows after shows together... their shows were abt all that i watched on tv... and these days with the much decreased standards of many sg tv shows... bryan's shows are just abt all that i watch on chn U/8 (well almost, occasionally there are funny, worthy shows like the ѫp show and the paris and milan show where aunty lucy made her debut... oh the noose is good too, but that's a chn 5 show). esp when there are irritating hosts like mark lee. really really dislike him, idk why he is so popular/hosts/appears in so many shows...

anyway... on tv programs... aint watching any sg made shows atm lol...
hmm, back to bryan's blog... yeah, very surprised that he keeps a blog, keeps it updated, and bothers to upload all those nice pics from his trips/shows etc... very nice entries really. i highly recommend you to go read em :) quite surprised, his english is really good actually... enjoyed reading his entries, really shows the.. human/real? side of him? very interesting experiences that he shared too... was after reading his entries that kinda motivated me to come back to post smthing on my blog :)


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ok, so the taiwan trip...

did some more research just now. perhaps half of the research is done already (or more)
tmr gotta plan out the itinerary... and finish up the research.  gotta do all the small things like freeing up the camera's memory card etc too...

dl-ed more apps onto my phone... and i've been having quite a blast on doodle buddy. esp with the new color tone thing (now i can use just abt any color under the rainbow!) and glitter brush! gosh, i love the glitter brush! it looks so good from afar/on my iPhone! heh... doodles on mine are nvr meant to be stared at/taken seriously, mind you!

okays... so the pix!


and some random crap i drew previously w/o the nice colors and glitter tool


and on mousehunt... still discovering all that long tail has to offer... but i absolutely LOVE the new trap checks that dont require entire page refreshes... the new crafting/inv and travel page... the much more convenient trap/base/cheese change on the camp page itself... gosh i <3 all the new non-page refresh changes, THEY ROCK! MUACKS MH! really wont mind donating to the game... the devs deserve the donations... however still hesitating since i'm not yet in dire need of sb+ atm, and just remember abt my FB credits which i can use for buying sb+ later on. previously wanted to buy sb+ already, but didnt know how much to donate... the more u donate at once, the cheaper it gets... but the largest amt to donate really is quite a huge sum... plus i've spent some $$$ on buying songs for Tap Tap Revenge... so yeah... see how things goes later on.

man, when i wake up later... it'll be thurs already (i know it IS thurs now already)... and we're flying off on sunday. gosh... so little time left! guess i wont have time to start up on my new training grounds thread till after i come back... gd thing is that the hotel we booked has free wireless! so i can still check up on forums when i'm in taipei... IF i'm not too tired that is. (of cos, i <3 my iPhone!!!)


currently listening to Love Story by Taylor Swift over and over on replay on the cute mp3 speaker i won (connected to my iToy, lame i know, but if u dont use stuff, they'll spoil quite fast). i <3 that song, and can listen to it hours on end...

yeah yeah, i've been copying and pasting stuff over from the other blog but well....


okays... so... exams ended... results were out, i did as badly this sem as i did last sem. exact same lousy gpa GOSH. seriously... i suck. i cant make myself motivated to study anymore. i really... feel like quitting after looking at my results. i did study. i did try. but not hard enough. nor consistent enough. and i still cant make myself stay awake, pay attention to 2 hours of lect. i just fall asleep halfway through. as usual, i say i will do better the next time round... but as usual... its not going to come through. oh gosh... someone slap me awake... someone... anyone...

so far away from my goals.
so far
1st class hons i guess has just became an impossible dream
nah, it was impossible the moment i stopped studying when i entered jc.
its like i stopped all my gears, and things nvr went right since then.
once stopped... my gears could no longer be started...

i guess there is some hope though... all that involvement in HS and other stuff... now i can happily not maple even if its 2x exp or when there's events going on... playing lesser... but it could very well merely translate to time spent on other game related stuff... or just non sch work stuffs. e.g. my training grounds guide. not that those are really bad... but not having the motivation to study...

promised to do things like read up on my chem and jap during the hols... time is slipping by and i've not done anything! next week will be gone... tho i've got an uber long hols till end of aug... but i'm intending to visit a friend in China in aug... she's from chong qing and we'll also be gng to visit the shanghai world expo! but being the lazy person that i am... i've not done anything apart from check the air ticket prices. absolutely nothing..... gah................


so in the mean time.. apart from a whole sem that flew past... and the exams... my dad got me an iPhone (aka iToy) as a bday prezzie! over 500bucks... plus an expensive plan... at 1st was reluctant to change phone... their all so ex these days... was looking for smthing similar to my old phone... candy stick type, not slide, with keypad, no touch screen... but those type were really... extinct! really couldnt find a single phone that fit the bill (esp cos i wanted SE back)

however cos the ear piece contact on my old phone was really... dying... i decided its better to take hold of the opportunity of the IT show to get a new phone... already settled on anio by sony E... took the queue number... but at the very very last min... realise that the touch screen of anio was really really sucky. cant even like unlock the phone properly... used iPhone for a while... the touch screen was uber good... and my dad kept tantalizing me with getting the iPhone... so yeah, last min decision made right at the counter - get an iPhone instead of the anio. Black - i wont have it otherwise, white is really not my color despite how my dad says white is nicer. really i think it looks better in black. my mum got a sumsung jet at the same time :)

no research, no nothing done prior to that. my sis helped did some research but it was btw anio, jet and omina... not iPhone. i didnt even know that the ear piece jet is the normal one... and the touch phone idiot that i was didnt even know how to lock the phone... nor how to take out my sim card...

but after that... gosh now i really <3 my new toy. the touch screen is fantastic! everything works really well... expect when i dropped it from like wrist height in the toilet... the one and only menu button didnt respond... like i had to press it really really hard/hold it... sometimes it just didnt respond at all... really gave a quite a big scare.... thankfully it 'recovered' after that (i dropped it at night, the next day it was working almost completely alright again)... i think the parts just went lose or smthing, but got back into place later. phew! (now the button works perfectly fine!)

i do miss the music ID feature on my old SE phone... where the phone will sample the music being played in the bg and search on the SE site for a matching song... and the bluetooth on iphone doesnt allow sending of files... well there are apps that allow for that, but mostly only btw other iphone users... :(

but apart from those two... gosh i love the phone! all the millions of apps and games! its just grand! the currency converters... unit converters... the fantastic fast speed, convenient web surfing... heh esp the web surfing... really makes my dad jealous everytime - his is a HTC touch pro 2. windows OS, so he can run xcel and stuff really just like a windows comp, screen resolution better than mine too, but the downside is that things aint as userfriendly, and the touch screen is no fight compared to itoy. case in point regarding the userfriendlyness...

itoy: there are only two buttons, pressing the top button offs the screen, AND locks the phone
htc: you have to 1st lock the phone, than press the top button to off the screen. turning the screen off DOES NOT lock the phone. you have to lock it 1st, than off. no doubt its uber irritating... so much so that ppl made programs that re-programs the top button to lock the phone directly... basically its an iPhone emulator... just that it gave the user even more functional tweaks than on the actual iphone. so now my dad happily has a iphone mimic in his pocket :P (at least the lock function and the background when the phone is locked part, yes they even mimic the clock and the slide button) oh yeah... the htc original unlock method is just touch two diff parts of the screen, making it very easy to accidentally unlock the phone and end up calling random ppl... so the iphone slide to unlock mimic solved the problem (as with the slide the answer stuff, made things more user friendly...)


yay! wang xin and sandra are both coming back in june/july <3 you troopers! gosh, how much would wx have changed!!! lol, i wonder if she still remembers she's called wx and not just Yvonne!

hmm... seems like i have a hell lotta stuff to say... i shall continue in my next post that'll be on FF add ons and iPhone apps! :D

Exams are over.... and omg...

exams are over. the papers were disgusting... maybe i'll talk abt them later or some other day... but for now... gosh. i must say this 1st.

was talking to this wonderful chap i met in maple (so hard to find nice ppl there these days) on msn. he asked me abt some sch work in the afternoon, chem and bio related stuff... and thanked me again for helping him just now (really nice). we started chatting abt sch, bio, science related stuff... i told him abt my attachments at ibn and encouraged him to go for attachments... told him abit abt the hydrogels and sent him the paper... than i went to check for the title of the 2nd paper my mentor published. the one that i saw my name hidden somewhere in the acknowledgments... than i realised there were two papers... and lo and behold... my name was in the acknowledgements on both of them gosh. such a privilege, wat an honor! a mere jc kid having her name appear on a paper. yes its just a small, insignificant name in the acknowledgments, but still... hopefully its a nice start to a great beginning >< shot, i shdnt screw up my studies like this... T.T thks to my horrendous performance last sem in which i took a hefty 24AUs, my gpa now is PATHETIC. really PATHETIC. gosh. maybe i shd go back to ibn this hols... but i got an invitation to go visit my friend in china which i do intend to take up >< and than again, this hols is probably the longest hols i'm ever gonna have... and than again, i want to go china... didnt want to go back ibn cos i've been there quite a few times. wanted to go else where but looking thru the list of institutes in astar nothing much else seemed appealing. in the end i hesitated and ending up doing nothing. now i've got plans to go china... and attachments? i really dont know. gotta rethink my holiday plans again. have yet to contact my friend in china. promised to do so tmr. maybe i'll do attachment for two months, and go china in august. nvm, i'll contact my friend 1st. i want to stay in sg during jun-jul period cos that's the stars registration period. and i've got to apply for overload this time round to cont taking jap lvl 4.

haiz...

gotta thank that friend of mine for reminding me perhaps? of those ibn attachment days. okays, i shd go and read those papers now :P

thanks alot to fan, really the best mentor anyone can wish for, and of cos, kuri the very funny and nice boss.

4 down to go!

2 more papers left, tmr morning and friday!

lalala

and you tot i'd abandoned this blog eh?

haha... almost... well maybe not.

wanted to post some stuff, but decided that some things are better kept offline...

anyway.... exams are coming already.... *gosh* my last post was abt me taking how many modules this sem. yeah. time flies, and it will only go faster as we age and our internal body clocks slows down... NOOOOOOOOOO!

1st paper: jap on thurs
26th april - bs209
28th - 207
30th - 210
5th may - 206
7th may - 208

still not sure abt wat to do during the hols. i shd have msged my mentor long ago if i want to return to ibn... but dun ask me why... i'm still hesitating....

taking on too much?

well my dad was quite surprised when i said i took 8 modules in total last sem... and this sem i have 7 core... and i still planned on taking 2 electives cos i desperately need to clear my electives... he was saying i'm taking on too much.

yeah maybe...
this sem i have 7 core, + lab, planning to take 2 electives, one of them is jap lvl 3 which WILL take me alot of time to remember all the new vocab and such...

and then i have:
HS DB mod
self imposed warrior's hall regular poster/helper? not sure what u call it
hero's lounge... thread starter (not lounge starter!)
my training grounds guide
and my latest project. HUGE project. a website of my own (still its free hosting) with:
the entire encylopedia of all the warrior related FAQs
SM guide
hero guide
aran guide
NW guide
training grounds guide
acc calculator and damage calculator (my own version)

alot of my new project stuff are not done of cos, and that's gonna take an awful lot of time... already i've pushed the new project aside for a couple of days, in favor of playing the game itself.
of yes, how can i forget my array of characters to train....

gotta... yes... gotta force myself to study during certain periods of time per week. MUST do....

...

okay ok... i decided to write some stuff here...

exams came and passed. my holiday in korea + china came and passed... -.-

i really have to think up of ways to make earning interesting to entice myself to devote more time to studying, apart from the host of games and game related stuff i do. results was a... kiss your high almighty 1st class hons dream gdbye... terrible. i can believe my dad didnt really scold me abt it. i guess we all know. i've been playing games right up to the very last min again and arghs. i hate myself for doing such things. yet when the time comes to actually mug for exams, i JUST CANT do it. man i suck! yes i do suck... even though... arghs... As was one big failure already... i'm doing it all over again. and again. and again. do i ever learn? i guess not. yes in a way i'm still freaking childish i guess. so old and still playing such childish games actively. and than spding so much X on it. arghs.............

i dont know.

i give up.

maybe i'll try typing out my own notes next year and see how things goes. at least that'll force me to actually read my lect notes more. yeah.

a million years since i blogged haha

as per title....

hmm... 1st paper down... 5 more to go. the japanese paper was still okay, felt better than i did the last sem. at least i hope i can get an A. haiz. so near yet so far. last paper on 8th dec! 2 papers tmr... haiz. hope i can do well for my other elective paper too... i think i'm pretty screwed for some of my core modules so yeah... :(

gah... i'm bored!

wanted to go maple forums... but nope... the forums are under maintenance! imma bored!!!!!!!! yesh i still have a bunch of work to do later on... part of the 102 draft needs to be edited (work split up) and emailed out by tmr, i have to find papers and read up on the causes n prevention of type 2 diabetics cos we are meeting up tmr... gah! 5 hours of break tmr but at least 1 hour will be spent on discussing the diabetic thing. the guy in my grp is like the super worried, kan choing... i dunnoe.. just find his character a bit weird. like how he suddenly come n ask me if i'm in 2nd year (like not direct entry) and know how to search for journals. yes yes i've done so much journal searching while at ibn. then the other 2 gals in my 102 grp were like, huh? year 2 means know how to search for journals arh? how arh? we dunnoe! wat's a journal anyway? proves my point that there are really a lot of ppl so far backward i dunnoe how to describe... their idea of research n all is still like the very childish, primary or secondary sch kind of idea ><

gah. dont wanna talk abt this anymore... i'll go play some games or smthing ><

yo peeps!

hello all! in sch comp lab now... biostats lesson LOL. OMG THIS MODULE IS SO SLACK!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR! i just looked thru all the title of all the lects for the module... like all but 1 of the lecture is stuff not taught in jc... and considering that i really aced jc stats... i've already finished all the qns for today's lab... which plenty of time to spare to check out my gc syntax, check wiki for CLT formula and all etc... play facebook even.. hehe...

2 projects stuff on going now with an undone assignment for ACB... ok lah... nothing compared to all that 3, 4, 5, or more performance tasks at once in rg... lol. now my greatest challenge is trying to keep awake, and at the same time still be concentrating on lectures. still have yet to find a way to do so... imagine if i fall asleep half the time during that techno speak elective... where all the lesson content is in this 3 hour lecture once a week... i'll die in the exams lah ><

haiz. okays. her still gng on n on abt approximation n CLT... wonder if the use to gc to skip all the approximation, standardizing etc is accepted in exams... gotta ask the guy later on. <3 my gc ^^

tough days ahead?

been sick for the past couple of days... like fever, running nose, cough n the like.........

been totally heck care abt getting any electives... until like just an hour ago i decided to check out the stars planner thingy.. and to my amazement found this prescribed elective that doesnt clash with my core, has a title that looks interesting, and had 2 slots! OMG! so i went to search the ntu webby on details on the course. turns out that its a course abt english... technologically speaking is the course title. sounds interesting, no? smthing abt how technology changes the usage of language... even things like chat slang and all... the assessment still looks do-able. 50% ca - 2 take home assignments and a quiz. 50% final exam - mcqs and short qns.

then i went to check out on jap lvl2... which i've actually wanted to take but cldnt find a slot that fitted well with my time table... amazingly once again i found slots. picked one that's on tues n friday. the tues one is right aft my adv cell bio lect but i'm hoping the trend of that lecturer always releasing us early continues... probably gotta grab a bite before the lect n eat during the lec or smthing, in case i starve during the jap tut from 6:30-7pm... ><

not sure if i'm taking on too much. well if i slack like i did last year, i'll fluck everything no doubt, but that's the point - i dont want to waste my 4 years in uni n not get my 1st class hons. i dont wanna settle for anything less ><. yeah, a big chunk of it depends on the FYP, which u must get an A for, but if i'm not the one getting the A than who else? hell i did not waste my years rushing PTs in rg for nothing, nor did i spend my holidays at ibn doing nothing... the other day during one of the tuts 2 poly students while doing self intro said they worked at imbc n some other a-star insitute for a year before coming uni - cool stuff, but i did too had attachments at ibn for a total of over 8 months ><. yeah i was a student and they were dip holders so i believe they were lab officers/bio/watever its called in the insitute, but i did learn a lot from fan too. yeah i'm still extremely unsure n not confident if u ask me to come up with a project, design all the experiments and stuff, but compared to the rest of the students where i believe way more than half of them have had no experience watsoever... i'm definitely a lot ahead of them. thks fan!

gotta thks rgs a lot too... we were learning aseptic techniques to culture bacteria the other day... stuff we were taught in rg... >< yeah yeah, some small details like u shd always leave the agar plate inverted to prevent any condensation on the lid from falling back on the agar where not taught before, but the bulk of it? we learnt in secondary sch! they are teaching us how to write reports as a module too. yeah i appreciate them teaching us some new linguistics terms, but i've already picked up quite a bunch of scientific report writing skills... from the time we did a scientific project for RS in rg, to the srp in jc... no i'm not a fantastic writer, i'd probably be taking lit or smthing otherwise, but i really wonder how far back some of my peers can possibly be? i mean, i'm sure there are peeps who did srp also, who knows how to write reports... but if EVERYONE already knows all that stuff, why have such a course? that extra confidence boost, practise etc is always helpful, but i'm sure there are still ppl out there with no concept of report writing at all.

anways... i've missed the 1st 2 lects (bravo!) of the technologically speaking course, and the 1st 2 tuts of jap class. oh wells. the price to pay for not signing up for electives early. i must say that i'm really lucky tho, i didnt expect to get any electives this sem so late.

we have this biostats course this sem and i'm loving it! haha, stats was abt the only part of jc maths i liked anyway, and thus far i see a lot of repeat of jc stats. and the thing is, its BIOstats. basically, they know that in today's world of wonderful computer program and convinences, we dont need to bother abt the mathematical formulas and such (cos we arent taking math!!!!!!!!!!), we just need to understand the concept, and know how to use the programs... haha, my point exactly! just what i like! <3

we have a couple of projects thus far. actually, only 2 lah... not a lot. one on writing a doing a project n writing a proposal, report etc - basically its just PW all over again but with less time to complete. the other is a short presentation for tut class. my topic is on diabetics:causes n prevention. pretty cool topic, but not the coolest :( was hoping i cld get stuff like the bovine growth hormone, slimming pills n such... but oh wells. gotta think of some possible projects for the mini-pw and start searching for journals on the diabetes one tmr. both also got discussion on monday :X

gah... time to get start with work, just hope that this flu will be gone fast ><

sch's in!

1st wk of sch is over, i still have not found an elective to take. found an interesting one in psycology that doesnt clash with my timetable BUT it needs a prerequisite course which i, being a bio student, obviously didnt take. no hope in changing my mon afternoon class to a more desirable time either it seems. so i guess i'm stuck with waiting for FOUR hours on mon and FOUR hours on tues. sucks!

still hoping i can get in an elective before the add drop period ends next week. GAH!

sch's in

yup, sch has started.... met up with dear linger aft my lect n her work, had sushi again (wat else is there in ntu haha). she was really impressed with the sch buildings - cos just nice all the food place n my sch are the nice looking new buildings, the just nice they are repainting the old buildings for next yr's youth olympics, so i guess compared to nus, ntu looks so much better, haha! but seriously... ntu has a lot more new buildings than nus, and the new buildings do have quite a nice design - my sch doesnt look too bad, and the marble floorings inside does make the building look quite high class. the sch of art and design takes the cake - 2 buildings, with all glass on the exterior, in the shape of 2 slops, with grass grown ontop of the slopes. super nice looking - its been featured in the papers before...

anyways, no more slacking for me, i want my 1st class hons gpa and i cant get anyway near it if i continue slacking. i promise to read my lect notes before and revise it again aft the lect. no i've nvr mugged or memorized for any exams, and i WILL nvr do that. okays, i did study for exams still in rg, but its nothing like the way ppl mug for A lvls and such. i'm a smart person, and smart ppl dont mug and memorize stuff! we REMEMBER things haha! no more last mins work, i wanna know things inside out like the way i used it. okay, not exactly inside out, but at least i was sure of more than 80, or 90% of the course content in rg... now i step into the exam rm being sure of... less than half of wat i was taught. >< i wonder how i still get such a good gpa really =.=

okays. lect notes for tmr are still not out....... zzzzzz and tmr's lect is 1st thing in the morn so i guess there's no gonna be any notes... oh yeah, gotta try to stop falling asleep in lects too. last time i'll sleep thru half of EVERY lect. once again i wonder how i got such good grades zzzzzzzz. ok, my grades werent really that good, but i think its still abv average... at least it still starts with a 4... out of 5... either way, i'll make sure that this sem i know 100% for sure that my grades will be a lot better than average. its a promise... and promises are not meant to be broken - <3 linddy for teaching me the value of promises >< haiz... i'm not a good person when it comes to keeping promises, but i know wat i want n wat i must do to get there. well at least i know i want my 1st class hons ><

today's lect was pretty entertaining. or rather, very entertaining. as expected from dr. ken yu's lects. super duper funnieh. great thing abt it is that i dont have much trouble keeping awake ^^. bad thing abt it is... there's none! haha... i like his lects and style of teaching. a teeny weeny bit like hhx's style yeah. my laughing lect... really hope that he's taking us for all the lects, cos in the intro slide it say's he's the course coordinator and he didnt mention anyone else in the slide that's gonna be teaching us...

okays, enough time spent on blogging. i'll try to blog more often but i'm lazy. gah, i haven upload the pics we took for the outing with troopers to my com even. took me so long to upload the pics to shutterfly the other day, plus i cldnt load any webpage properly while uploading the pics >< gah... >< wat am i to do? haiz, still need to find an elective to add to my time table ><

outings!

3 outings lined up for the week!

1) sushi tea time buffet at novena with ash n mich tmr! yes, no more sakae this time! not very sure where we are gng, but i think its the one they showed on tv that time...

2) lunch with the students i meet at ibn on thurs! venue still undecided.

3) outing with my dear jlf on sat! venue n time both undecided.

hehe, jlf helping me play my nightwalker on maple... hmm... maybe i shd log on n visit my night walker later :D

life is full of surprises!

hehehe.... its been so long since i blogged or even visited my blog. sandra reopened her blog (surprise surprise!) which prompt me to take a look at mine (and hers of cos). which was when i realized that mich left a tag regarding her blog moving....

sandra's flying off again tmr :( i'll miss ya darling! <3

sch's starting on the 10th... or 11th... or august.... cos 10th shd be a hol in lieu of nat day on sunday right? anyways... yest when i check the elective module i've been assigned to aint out yet... so i'mma still waiting... haiz. next sem's timetable aint that great... 3 days starting at 8.30am. 3 days of squeezing in the crowded trains... arh wells... that' the life of a bio student i guess... unlike other courses where they can pack their time table to have free days... ours we dont have much of a choice... lects are fixed timings, tuts are more or less fixed... yeah... we only get to select which tut grp we are in.. hmps... so much so for letting us 'plan' our time table. we only get to choose our electives... but even then, u have 5 choices and its the computer that allocates which one u get into. and worst still... most of the courses have like 1000% of more ppl trying to register... and... ALOT of the modules clash with my core classes so yeah... so much so for the choices... ><

luv Sandra & JLF

still haven gone out with sandra but i swear we must meet up more than the one time we met with wx :(

and jlf is back in sg too! yay! :D <3 u all!

YIPPEE!

haha so long since i bothered to blog here...

quite a no. of stuff happened since... eg. ma got a lappy at the pc show... anyways sandra is back in sg!!!!!!! and jlf is coming back next thurs!!!!!!! YAY! double happiness!!!!!!!

been slacking all hols... surprisingly my gpa was stilll... acceptable... but i must work hard next sem if i ever want to get my 1st class hons... really... :X alrightly... nothing much else to report for now :X

an update!

hehehe, i'm forever not updating this place... anyways we went sakae with wx last week... last... erm.. okays i cant remember! but it was so fun!!!! we ate till we were so bloated and its the 1st time we cldnt finish the food... luckily they didnt charge us extra (its buffet). i think now the economy not very good lah, so if they still charge us they scared later no customers? i dunnoe... but its really wasnt our purpose to waste food okay :( we didnt leave THAT much behind either :X...

aft tt we still went ramen ten cos mich wanted to see ash's bf... then we talked n order a drink and a desert (which we cldnt finish) just cos... u cant go in a restuarant n order nothing right? then her senior n her bf gave us a free cup of drink each... and then we were so full that basically we wasted everything... and then we went home!

promised to met up again this week... ard thurs. do ash's hse n play xbox n sing karaok of west life songs... at least i think she said west life.. watever... just go her hse n play ^^

sad to say wx is gng back us b4 sandra can come back sg, unless sandra can come back earlier... otherwise... :(

TROOP OUTING!

wx is back in sg!!!! yup, current plan: outing to ramen ten/sakae sushi on thursday afternoon, meet at clementi!

wx has adopted the american accent, and has difficulties switching back! when i spoke wiht her over the phone i felt like copying her accent too.. just my natural reaction i guess, like if u keep speaking to me using the china accent chinese, i'll speak that way too... hohoho

yoz

hohoh, so long nvr blog again. went out with ash that day... erm... last thurs? for sakea buffet... super nice to eat with her again, we ate so much that my stomach was BLOATED hohoho... mich had exams so cldnt go... wx is coming back sg in 12 days time yay! cant wait to have an outing with me, ash, wx, mich and sandra again! not too sure when sandra is coming back tho, but i miss them all so much! even mich i also haven seen her for a while...

still not decided on what to do with my hols... main prob is that i dont feel like gng ibn again, and then i dunnoe which ri to go to. dont wanna do some admin job like last time in rh also. super boring... so yeah... haiz.