Nite OUT

We need a break from all the cramping of notes and revision. After our revision yesterday, we went down to Liang Court to have our dinner at Tampopo. Its quite interesting as both of us had Liang Court in mind before we actually say out where we want to go.

Food was great and we even had time to buy a top each + walk around in Meida-Ya. We love walking around Meida-Ya as every turn and every corner seems to have a new discovery. A far cry from the typical supermarket we see all over Singapore.

It was a well deserved break, especially after Dar Dar had her first paper in the morning. Hopefully, we are fresher to continue our hardworking efforts to conquer the rest of our 3 papers =)

Paranormal Activity

This is one of those shows that I regretted before and after watching. Not many of us enjoyed the show either. I wasted 85 mins of my time watching something that is only better than Blair Witch Project.

A little googling revealed that it was made in 2007 and premiered at the Screamfest Film Festival in the U.S. on October 14, 2007, and was shown at the Slamdance Film Festival on January 18, 2008. The movie received a limited release in several U.S. cities on October 9, 2009, and had a nationwide release on October 16, 2009. With only a production budget of $15,000, it brought it more than $100 million in earnings (approximately 6667 times).

From an economic point of view, ITS GREAT!!

But from a moviegoer point of view, SUCKS BIG TIME!! Perhaps the scare factor would be that it is something close to you and that it “might” happen to you (but seriously.. aint that apply to most of the horror movie??). I would classify this in the category of “for those people with acquired taste” and I am not in that category. Even Humpday (whatever that is) got a better rating than Paranormal Activity!!

There’s talks about having a sequel to Paranormal Activity….. Hmmm….. Once bitten, twice shy….. I am not going through this crap again!!

NYC the SICK

To get a clearer look, click on the picture

Ernest mentioned during the last lecture of RED on what will we remember about our batch, this sick kid is something that I will always remember (in a traumatic way). How the heck a BBQ evolve into a sick manifestation of his warp mind, where he seems to be more interested to see nude people.

The thought of whether is he being the email did cross my mind and it is quite hard to believe that someone would actually do this kind of shit. But on second thought, it might actually be him, perhaps thinking that we are playing around with the BBQ idea and he decides to play it back. But still, the fact that he said all these shit, doesn’t matter that he is serious or not, it is quite clear that there is something seriously wrong with him.

Can this constitute to sexual harassment? Is there anything that can be done?

NYC the SICK…. This may be an understatement on how he actually is…..

Sleepy Poppy

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To Shell or Not to Shell

Seriously…. I really think Singaporeans really love to complain….

The other time Shell gave a discount, people complained that the timing was too short, too inconvenient and many other reasons.. Now when Shell extended their fuel offer from 10am to 6pm, people complained AGAIN….

I heard that the average waiting time for getting in line for the fuel was about 30 to 45 minutes, varying from different Shell outlets…. Though I am an avid supporter of Shell, I didn’t think it was worthwhile for poppy and me to spend an hour waiting in line for cost saving of around $15-$20 (as my car was at 1/3 tank) when we both had hell of a lot of work to do….

Back to the topic of the complaining Singaporeans…. People who live near the outlets complained of noise, congestion and how it ruined their weekends….  My answer to that is MOVE OUT…. We have to learn to live with the environment that we are in…. It is not as if it is a daily thing and that it is affecting your whole way of life….

I am sure those drivers who got the savings are not the one who send it the letter to Straits Times Forum…. Apparently the one who sent in the letter have been a supporter of Shell and he was quite disappointed with Shell. We have to live with the fact that something like this will definitely attract a crowd and cause congestion. I must praise Shell for hiring axillary police officers to deal with the congestion and that was perhaps the best Shell could do…. But seriously, it will be quite silly to expect that there will be no congestion or queue…. I am sure the writer was quite pissed that he could not get into the queue for fuel and hate the fact that he has to face the congestion….

This is so similar to the things I had to deal with when I was doing my national service…. During briefings before the patrol team leave for their duties, the team leader will remind the team of “certain notorious residents”. These are the sort of people that will complain at everything that they see…. They will complain about students being noisy when they are in school (which is quite stupid as that is what you get for living next to a school). They would also complain about the mall being too bright, congested and noisy and how it affected his sleep. But seriously,  we do get such shit calls and we have no choice but to attend and “appease” them because the calls will just keep on coming….

Seriously, if they really like his peace and quiet, he is living at the wrong place as he should stay near places such as bukit timah or botanic garden, where he can enjoy the peace and quiet (with the occasional monkey screaming). Rather than making grumbles that will help nothing, perhaps it would be better if he put his head to better use on how to earn some dough and move to a quiet location….

Oh well, this is life.. There will be the normal people and there will be also the SHIT people who complain at anything they see….

Stoning Poppy

She just loves stoning so much=)

Swensen Ice Cream Buffet

After 2 sleepless nights, we finally got a chance to relax and went for out long awaited ice cream buffet:)

Queue was quite long and it took us a while before we could get our seats..

Oh my oh my….

There are so many choice of ice cream that we are familiar with and also new creations by swensen.. Slurp:)

But the best part would be having the opportunity to go out with poppy and take our minds off our busy schedules..

So glad that we went early as we were shock at the length of the queue.. I’m sure there is at least 50 queuing up for the buffet..

After some shopping, I could not take it as it felt that I can fall asleep while standing.. We decided to head home so I can have an early night..

Dive Dive Dive

I am suppose to be doing my literature review but I just cant seem to concentrate as in a few hours time, I will be leaving for Pulau Aur for my dive trip =)

From the pictures I have been seeing, Pulau Aur seems to be a great place to dive as the water are crystal clear, not like the milo water we have in Singapore.

Having kind of a mixed feelings to it. On one hand i am damn excited about diving down and see all the fascinating things underwater, on the other hand, i am being constantly reminded how unforgiving can the sea be.

Because of this trip, I am missing out on a lot of things, namely the photoshoot at Dar’s place, paintball with ODAC, Commex Fair and Ben and Jerry Chunk fest. But there is only this much time for this much activities. We cant possibly have everything that we want.

Hope that everything goes really well=)

Procrastination to Motivation

This is really a struggle for me.

I can’t seem to find the kind of motivation I need to carry out what is need to be done. I chanced upon this website which help to identify what is impeding my progress.

Action Driven Procrastination

• Seeking Perfectionism and Micromanaging (This is a problem that I have always faced, I will try to do the best in something and I will keep redoing it, though I should try to complete a draft of the task and work on improving it instead)
• Over Planning (I will plan and plan what I want to do but always fail on the execution)

Feeling Driven Procrastination

• Feeling of Frustration (The feeling of not able to do something that I think is within my capability, I get frustrated if I am not being able to do something. I can’t seem to redirect the motivation to something positive)
• Feeling of Boredom (I admit that I hate repetitive things. I need stimulation to the mind and have problem motivating myself doing such stuff.)

Procrastination Triggered through Lack

• Lack of Focus (I get distracted easily, my attention span towards things varies and I have problem focusing on task on hand unless it is due in a short time)

Analyse, Think, Prepare, Motivate and Act

The five important steps identified in the mind map below.

• I have to find the drive in my life, in order to motivation myself.
• I need to know what I want and work towards it.
• I need to discipline myself to ensure that I keep to what I set myself out to me.
• I need to pick myself out of the slump I am in now.
• I NEED TO ACT NOW

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From Procrastination

To Motivation

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http://blog.iqmatrix.com/mind-map/procrastination-to-motivation-mind-map