lamh

enough

2011-05-24T09:50:00.001+08:00

with the curve balls -_-

wake up your idea

2011-01-23T11:46:00.001+08:00

bad week. moving on.

i'd rather

2010-11-24T07:28:00.001+08:00

lie on my bed than watch youtube videos.

2010-05-28T22:20:00.000+08:00

if running alone isn't lonely or tiring,
i probably haven't been running.

i realize

2010-05-06T00:10:00.003+08:00

that there's so much i don't really want to know about people here.
or maybe even people in general.

nothing more illuminating than a few drinks and a round of 'never have i ever'

in other news,
the chinese government shuts all entertainment venues and television programs for an entire night in mourning over the earthquake victims.
while
parts of st catherine's street became completely pedestrian with the police activated to stand around as people took the streets in celebration of the montreal habs winning their first playoffs.

politics is so confusing.

its more comfortable to shit in school.

2010-03-21T21:50:00.002+08:00

for one, i don't need to worry about running out of toilet paper and buying new ones.

i stay in the living room

2010-01-25T05:44:00.002+08:00

there's pretty much nothing i can do if someone wants a chat.
(although for me the definition of being at home = i'm free)
there's no bedroom door for me to close and hang a dnd tag.

i think God stays in the living room too.
while i coop myself in a tiny bedroom and play dota.
he's outside chillin' with the 360 and ps3.
waiting for me to come out and chat.

i'm stopping this analogy before things get awkward.

01022010

2010-01-02T14:58:00.002+08:00

lol
racecar
draw ward

start of a new decade.

its still december somewhere.

2010-01-01T16:00:00.002+08:00

there are only that many different ways to spend your birthday.

pffffffff

2009-11-19T14:13:00.000+08:00

grrr
zzz

units

2009-10-21T12:44:00.001+08:00

starting to measure assignments based on
whether it is worth an all-nighter, and how many.

stop whining.

2009-09-22T11:10:00.001+08:00

such a despicable show of pride.

he has made everything beautiful in its time.

2009-03-28T15:22:00.002+08:00

its been long.
i'm still alive.
and well.

so my wallpaper has ecc 3:11 on it.
and just the other day when i see it for the nth time i realized it said
he has MADE.
past tense.

in other words.
everything will be beautiful.
a good thing to keep in mind yeah.

i kinda worry for singapore.
don't know why, just kinda do.

all so surreal

2008-12-31T11:36:00.002+08:00

its been about 4 months
and i've been through a fair share of
ups and downs, hard work, good fun,
but sometimes it all still seems so surreal.

not quite "i'm going to wake up anytime now",
don't need a reality check.
its like i haven't quite grasped the impact, consequence, the entire circumstance.
there's still this wonderment walking through the campus
i'm still hyped up of being in university. (wow university)
and there's only a limited number of semesters left, oh man.

HAHA. i guess my mind's still stuck at 18 years old.
i hope the number of posts on your facebook wall doesn't become a measure of a person's popularity in the high school world. by the hammer of thor facebook is becoming so official and powerful its scary.

Harry is staring at his wall waiting for you to write on it so he can reply with more than a "thank you!"

OH THE IRONY

2008-12-11T02:32:00.000+08:00

out of the bluest blue david hoe started a conversation on msn.
and pointed out that
its 21 days till 21!

now how often does a person go through that?
nope. not often at all. today's a special day!

and by mathematical induction,
if x is special
and x+1 is special.
and k is special where k is any real number,

then everyday is a special day!

romans. lend me your years.

2008-11-16T22:34:00.000+08:00

please excuse the title. due to the lack of river valley alumni in montreal (one, actually) harry has been lacking in the lame jokes department.... hurhurhur

i really do enjoy taking the architecture history course. while being reminded of age of empires and trebuchets chukonus priests ballistas big daddys and all that, learning about greeks, romans, and constantinopole does prompt a few "so this is what it was like with paul" at the same time.

so during the research for my paper i came upon this:
"Emperors tried to minimize contact between army and civilians, perhaps for fear that city life would soften soldiers. Thus the army had developed its own societal system apart from the rest of the population."
which led me to think about
"no one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs- he wants to please his commanding officer"
(and be glad that saf gave bookouts and night outs, but wonder if that was the cause of nasi lemak's escape, but that's another matter)

and i can't help but think wow. God must have put a lot of faith in us when he lets us undisciplined, untrained soldiers live in the city. the balance between reaching out, not being softened, and hardening yourself is mind boggling. which kinda goes back to explain why God chose to do it this way, doesn't it.

recent probable blog titles

2008-11-01T10:02:00.001+08:00

IT SNOWS IT SNOWS

the beginnings of the architect's life

how to make average tomato chicken soups, japanese curry and other random dishes

Canadian Cantonese Language Education Better than Singapore?!

architecture history midterm exams induces age of empire cravings

mont royal is higher than bukit timah, for shor.

"oh REAlly?" -david militello

yes i lost my accent, LAH

no, 'singaporean' is not a race, i'm chinese.

we speak english in singapore. national language? that's complicated. but everything's in english. yes, you can survive in singapore come, come!

WHO IN THE WORLD INVENTED TIPPING

-note: daylight saving on sunday. if i pushed that daylight saving hour two days early, it would now be 1154pm, therefore not november 1st yet, therefore i'm just on time.

first blood (+200 gold)

2008-10-01T19:49:00.000+08:00

red and white

2008-08-29T00:51:00.003+08:00

i have a weird affiliation with red and white. singapore = red and white = njc = red and white = mcgill = red and white = canada. what are the odds... anw here's my first post in canada. i'm now in montreal, a city in the province of quebec, in the country of canada. montreal's towards the east of the country, and google map tells me its actually a couple of kilometres directly north of new york.

i've been here just a bit more than a week (my flight was businessly great). i share a 3 room flat in a brand new student apartment which looks something like

haha. go figure (its a 360 degree picture). if you look carefully you shd be able to see my precious stock of instant noodles too!

montreal really is an interesting place. sometimes its really hard to imagine this city being in the same continent as USA cos its so french! (then again it is the second largest city in the world after paris) thankfully almost everyone is bilingual, so its easy to get by with just english. now its close to the end of summer, so mornings could be about 13 degrees, but afternoons are at least 26. its like experiencing four seasons in one day (which means its too cold for just tshirt and jeans in the mornings and its too hot for tshirt and jeans in the afternoon). and when the cold wind blows (echo!), when the cold wind blows, when the cold wind blows, ITS COLD. hahaha. i get by with berms and a jacket. its not as bad as it sounds.

harvard is america's mcgill. (that's what the tshirt said).
well, over here there are students from all over the world. its quiet awesome. just two days ago i had dinner with ppl from china, yesterday i was hanging out with malaysians, i've met ppl from dubai, france, britain, lisbon, australia. woohoo! and i hear there's starbucks and subway on campus. double woohoo! and because of a levels i skip foundation year, triple woohoo! faculty orientation is going on just as i type, and i'm sure they're all happily getting themselves drunk and wasted. uh, woo. well. a picture speaks a thousand words (OH THE IRONY) so here's a couple more

oh right. i got a phone number here so 9853 will soon be receiving its last message (9 years.... that's a long time). its gna be +1 (514)-569-4786. messaging here ain't cheap though bleah. well well. school starts next week! can't wait. (actually. i could. x))

a thousand words speak a picture

2008-07-14T01:33:00.000+08:00

i did this in one day.
its actually a cbd skyline. yea i know its nothing like it. made of the encouragements that i got from my last few days sporing. so don't read it.

more than anything else its a form of reminder.
but its also a thank you to everybody.

haha. here goes nothing.

LAST

2008-06-26T09:31:00.001+08:00

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hah.

i just thought of spamming the word so much so that i won't recognize it anymore.
maybe if i found some media agency and spammed it all over the internet and televisions and radio stations the word would cease to exist and be taken out of Oxford Cambridge Longman Dictionaries.

hah.

Last Lsat Lazt?

stare-into-blank-space-and-rot-ness

2008-06-25T03:50:00.000+08:00

ict was eckk.
made worse by the fact that i really couldn't figure out anything i could possibly get from it.
(the $123 is pointless)

the same hard manual labor, same issues with men (just that now they're all older than me, which only served to worsen issues), same problems same troubles.
so whats there to learn?

nothing.

but between the preparing and the keeping (the only tough parts) was a day or two of stare-into-blank-space-and-rot-ness. so i thought. well. only God can salvage this situation and make it all worthwhile.

"whaaaat. work so hard for a retreat with God?!?!"
and why not?

and therein lies my salary for that week of work.

the white city

2008-05-30T12:50:00.000+08:00

twas 1893.
an era where men walked around in suits ties suspenders and hats.
no airplanes. just ships, horse pulled carriages, trains and bicycles.

it was the age of thomas edison, nicola tesla, helen keller, mark twain, woodrow wilson, scott joplin, frank llyod wright, theodore roosevelt. (people whose names sound distinctly familiar)

in 3 years, chicago planned and staged the world's columbian exposition (otherwise known as the chicago world fair)
a fair to showcase anything and everything around the world.
brought chinese, japanese, egyptians, africans, javanese, cannibals, cowboys, indians (native american indians that is) etc etc all together.
built 200 builidings in 600 acres (abt 10 vivocities).
they had cowboy shows, displays, dancing, ship rides, restaurants, museums, the list goes on and on.

and its impact was tremendous.
the AC electricity and the light bulb were popularized because of the fair.
Walt Disney's father worked at the fair, which became inspiration for him.
George Ferris constructed the world's first ever Ferris Wheel.
The first ever postcard
Scott Joplin became famous with ragtime music.
Chocolates introduced to America
First Pledge of Allegiance written.

and i wonder, how'd they do all that without handphones?!
never knew human beings were actually so powerful. to do sth equivalent in today's world is like staging a universal alien world fair using the entire singapore.
so anyway. wots the next big thing?

"make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."
Daniel H Burnham, Director of Works, World Columbian Exposition 1893.

am i my brothers keeper

2008-05-24T01:14:00.000+08:00

isn't that rhetoric

china two

2008-05-14T10:26:00.000+08:00

my month long trip was long over (can't say break. cos i'm still having my break. haha.) but i can't stop wondering,

what's in a holiday, when you're on your own?

you either

explore and go for an adventure

or slaaaaaack till you can't slack no more.

but i had the whole beijing to myself for a weekend. can't waste that chance no?

i never was much of an adventurer. (i just like to do random stuff that's all)

but there's no point slacking in the hotel - might as well slack at home.

so i went out. and here's what i got.

that's an aerial view of the forbidden city. cool ain't it. i'd love to say i took a helicopter to take that pic. but i'm not so rich. that's just a model in a museum. they had the whole beijing as a model.

and the other is the prestigious tsinghua university. where only 1 out of 1 million applicants get in. hahah i just like that little boy walking away from it. btw do you wonder why in the world of alll places i could go i visit the univerisity? beats me.

walked passed a park. imagine west coast park. but look what i saw: table tennis tables! as if that's not amusing enough, they used cements bricks as their nets. AND they're being used! unlike certain *ahhem* facilities *ahhem* you see around *ahhem* *ahhem*

on the right is the two most famous olympic structures: the birds nest and the water cube. aka the stadium and the swimming pool. i find it interesting how they're widely known and called by their nicknames. you don't often hear people saying "ever been to the durian lately?" around here do you.

this is the greatest amusement. do you see a cctv camera in that sentry house? yep. i tell you. that's how china won their wars against mongolia and other countries during the han dynasty. CCTV.

so what's in a holiday when you're on your own?

you think abt what you can blog abt.

or you open your eyes and wait for God to talk to you about anything under the sun. through anything that your eyes happen to chance upon. this i learned from mr lau hanyang.