Good old mates
Strangely, i've dreamt of my primary school classmates recently! It was such an odd feeling to have suddenly "visualise" these old friends. Some of whom that i have not met since graduating from primary school 9 years ago... One of the more peculiar aspects, is that we went for a cruise trip together in my dream! Was it because i harbour too much on a cruising vacation? Or what did i do to have brought back the fond memories?
well, i still see my ex-classmates in their childish looks in that dream. just make me wonder how have they changed through time. i only kept contact with a few of them. the "contact" includes get-together for movies and yamcha session, not merely hi & bye. i do hope to meet the others if only there is a chance.
humans grow in stages and they have a different pool of friends in different stages. i find this statement, made by my mom, very true! we cannot hang on to the same pool of friends forever... we have to let go when the time comes. although the neighbourhood is small and you know exactly where your friends live, you may never bump into them on the street! how contradicting... sometimes when you see someone in the mall, you know that you knew that person! but just unable to recall their names or even how you have met.
in the end, only fond (and sometimes blur) memories are left for us to savour.
Last minute AGAIN...
finally handed in the revised version of chapter 1! phew... quite a relieve! 
but then again, why? why do i always leave things to the last minute??? 
i hate myself for that... why couldn't i just buck up & do things more quickly?!
i always make a resolution at the start of every semester, so that i would not inflict the "last minute bug" again. however, every semester ends the same way! that shows how "determined" i am...
anyways, 3 more days to go before my internship ends... HURRAY!!! i'm dying to go for movies... wait for me! i have too many things to do before sem starts but too little time.
i'm relishing on the Genting trip, are you guys really serious? keeping my fingers crossed...
EPL 06/07 is ON again!
finally, the EPL season kicked off on 19 August 2006! i've been awaiting this moment for 3 months...to be able to watch my favourite team, Manchester United, play again!
i personally do not find world cup that great as national teams seldom gels as a result of players playing for different clubs in seasons long. thus, u can hardly see the actual capability of a player. u still remember how ronaldinho flopped in the previous world cup although he's been awarded the World Player of the Year in the same season?! there are also players who shone in the world cup but flopped at club levels... so, i still prefer to watch club-level football that continues season after season as you can see changes & improvement in clubs, rather than wait for 4 years for some knock-out competition!
the 1st day of EPL did creat some upsets, in my favour obviously 
! first & foremost, Liverpool was lucky to have escaped with a draw against Sheffield United. The premiership newcomer was on course for victory, until the referee awarded Liverpool an unlikely penalty. Arsenal also left it late before finally equalising against Aston Villa at their new stadium. Imagine the 1st goal scored in the Emirates Stadium was by the visitors team!
Manchester United played on a sunday afternoon fixture against, imho, their bogey team. Fulham has always created problems for MU even though they are considered as a mid-table team. I was quite worried if MU is ever gonna claim a clean sheet against Fulham. Worry not, MU is back with a vintage performance where they have gone 4-0 up by 18 minutes of play! With goals from Saha, Rooney(2), Ronaldo & an own-goal completed the rout as MU demolished Fulham 5-1 at the final whistle. Seeing that all attackers managed to put their name onto the scoresheet, MU is still lethal up front though without van Nistelrooy. The team did relax after leading 4 goals to nil, & that resulted to Fulham clawing back a goal. The shot by Helguson would not have gone in if Ferdinand did not stick his head out & deflected it into the wrong side of Van der Sar. Other than that, Evra finally proved why Ferguson bought & defended him after his dismal debut last season.
Chelsea, who kicked off moments after MU's match, also won their first fixture of the season in style, romping to a 3-0 victory. Undeniably, Chelsea has many great players (thanks to the billionnaire Russian owner) but the pool of players may not gel. another year of domestic domination will do EPL no good, unless they prove they can also conquer the continental glory!
so glad that MU has got off a great start! it'll be worth waking up in the middle of the night this coming thursday to watch the game against Charlton Athletic!
first blog...
Prologue
hehe.... this blog seems to come a little too late! i wanted to start blogging in may, right after my final exams. thought i could get my blog going during this summer holidays... well, dunno what happened?! managed to update a few pics of me & my housemates & tada... the space is left to rot!
Penang Trip (1-7 June 2006)
to be honest, i'm quite `busy` in this 3 months break 
. i spent 1 week in penang @ early June. gotta thank my friends, Corina & Alvin, for spending time to bring me around Penang. other than tasting good food, i finally found something i've longed for, the dvd-set of Return of The Condor Heroes 95! imagine i've searched thru kl, but found the boxset in penang 
. actually, i failed in my searching mission as this series is nowhere to be seen in most of the malls, e.g Perangin Mall, One Stop, Bukit Jambul etc. thx to corina's sister for getting me this boxset from the market near her house (Bkt Mertajam). A million thanks!!!
after the penang trip, i still had about 1 week++ to relax before starting internship. well, i spent most of the time watching tvb series that were collected during the semester. too busy then to watch, thus i have a huge library of tvb series waiting for me! i'm still wondering if i should keep them or to discard them? these media files are really eating up my harddisk space. gosh, even the external hdd is already 95% full 
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Final Year Dissertation
Just before our final exam, we were told to start preparing for the final year project. I've talked to a few lecturers, including daniel su, payam, & michael chung. the more people i talk to, the harder it gets for me to make up my mind. i just dunno what my interests are... finally, selvaraj sent us a list which shows the assignment of supervisor for those students who have yet to find one. guess what, i am assigned to daniel su! since he is one of the candidates as my supervisor, i decided to go along with the list. i like his style of pushing & giving deadlines before deadlines. i don't hope to repeat the scenario of SE project, where i did so much work in my final week of the semester! haha...i can only blame myself for that
Internship
16 June 2006 - the 1st day as an intern. The pc for me has not been set up yet, so the boss gave me 2 books to read. "Sam's Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 hours" & "Linux for Dummies". Wow, reading the MySQL book reminds me of exam as most of the contents are exactly similar to that of G52DBS. Phew...why do i still have to read that book?! its just a pastime for me to fill up my 1st day of work! BORING...
i only got my pc on the following week. i get to disassemble & assemble my own pc, with the help of my colleague of course. my task is to build a website for the company using php & mySQL. had to learn php in order to complete the task. its quite similar to other web programming language, but syntax holds the main difference. not a big problem for me as i have done websites before in ASP. however, designing a professinal website remains a headache to me! i must admit that i have no artistic flair to be able to come up with something attractive. i can only guarantee the functionality part; design-wise... 
Accommodation
Sigh... this is 1 issue where i regretted the most! i totally ruined a friendship! 
dear ling wei,
if you so happened to read my blog, i must tell you i'm sorry once more!
i know you have been thru a tough time.
although you've said the problem has been settled, i think i still owe you on this.
really sorry!
the accommodation office finally gave a reply regarding the application for the studio. i am really glad they have approved the application coz i'd have like to stay on-campus due to various reasons. however, my suppose-to-be roommate decided to stay off-campus. her mom even tried to persuade me to stay with her! i'm doomed coz i've gotta find myself a new roommate when most of the people have settled their accommodation problem. it must be punishment from god! i was quite worried for a few days...
i finally went back to Unim @ 1 Aug as there was a feedback session with daniel su. George, under the same supervisor, also went that day, and he brought along a friend, Tze Hui. She just came back from uk a few days ago. we went to see Selena & Donald & hope that they would allow Tze Hui to take over my rommmate's place. thank god it was approved & luckily i've got someone i know as my roommate! thx to george too but i just don't wanna say it in front of him! haha...
Epilogue
i guess that's more than enough for my 1st blog. the above written is a summary of what happened to me in the period of June, July & 1st week of August. hope that i can continue to update this blog as frequently as possible. till then, adios... 
around the world before i die. however, 2 factors prove to be the main obstacles in preventing me from fulfiling my dream at this moment.
Money
! haha... i should have anticipated this actually. not many parents would agree to this anyway! 
Until then, my travelling dream will remain a dream for the time being.
how i wish i have Doraemon's 
