September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
Results
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January 2011
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December 2010
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
Not again
Well, six weeks. This is probably the least enjoyable semester I’ve ever had. It’s just like secondary school, except that most of the teachers are bad. Some are sort of bad. Others are pretty bad. And yet others are oh, man, so bloody terrible. I’ve had a number of tests this past couple of weeks. Also a presentation. That went all right, I guess. I’m not that bad a...
Abandonment
Augh, the derelictness. The desertedness. The improper use of ness. Ness. I haven’t written anything here since the semester began, and it’s the start of the fourth week.
I have accomplished approximately nothing so far, aside getting a digital trophy that, in retrospect, proves nothing except that I play way too much. Also, I defended my honour and increased the size of my e-genitals...
October 2010
3 posts
Apparently, it is perfectly reasonable to be angry over a potential $40 loss. Let’s not bother about the fact that money is apparently plentiful enough to buy a new refrigerator, fine wines, four new televisions in as many years, tonnes and tonnes of pseudoscientific bullshit, maintain a leaking fish pond, a fish tank that NO ONE LOOKS AT, a garden that would look better if it were made of...
I'm starting to see a pattern here...
Caffeine. Doesn’t keep me awake enough to avoid snoring in people’s faces, but stops me from falling asleep while I’m dreadfully tired.
It’s probably my fault. Drinking all that Chinese tea and Coke at dinner. Should probably have stuck with water, but I wanted to keep enough water in my glass to make it sing. I’m such a dope when it comes to this stuff.
Meh. So...
Insomnia, the Fuel of Writing
So, I met up with my old classmates. After many, many long months of not seeing them. It was a surprisingly good turnout. We had lunch, talked a lot, and fired up some LAN. Sounds great, yeah?
Well, it certainly was fun, even though I didn’t manage to land a victory. For some reason, however, I am anything but cheerful now.
I realised that I didn’t have much to say to my friends. I...
September 2010
3 posts
Sleep Eludes Me
Wow well, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here. It’s nearly three in the morning. I had been lying awake in bed for more than two hours. It’s rather frustrating, being very tired all through the day, then not being able to fall asleep. Thoughts, fantasies, even music.
And then, I suddenly didn’t feel tired. I’m wide awake now. If I had...
Weather Control Machines!
My environmental modulation… module… has been serving me quite well these few days.
It has been slightly over a week since I have returned to Singapore, the land of unlimited bandwidth and perennial short shorts. These things are all well and good, but I have already fallen back into the old batch of problems.
This morning, or rather, afternoon, I was yelled at by my mother for...
Teal and Orange
I’m back.
Finally.
Goodbye shivering. Hello warm moisture.
Now, how long has it been? I last complained extensively about things, as I always do. But not today. I’m home. After getting frisked at the airport, holding my pee in for eight hours… It’s all pretty surreal.
I’ve been using that word a lot lately. Over the last few weeks, I have experienced freedom and...
August 2010
3 posts
“Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower,
Some in the chill, some in the...”
– Walter Savage Landor
Tingly
Oh my, what a week. One of the better ones so far, actually. This was for several reasons.
One! I woke up early enough to leave the house without having a parasitic lamprey attached to me on three out of five days. On the other two days, I didn’t have anything urgent going on at the lab, so I let it leave first. Oh, and I didn’t have to see him on the way back on any of those days,...
God, a red nugget, a fat egg under a dog.
August, it is. I have survived eight weeks of this nightmare. I still have trouble getting up in the morning.
Work is going fine, if you don’t count the “little” hiccups that were accompanied by successive career crises and the realisation that I really don’t get along well with most people. They’re probably just trying to be friendly, but I find that what they say...
July 2010
3 posts
This was at the end of my Princess Mononoke...
Flux Capacitor... Fluxing.
Okay. So. after having complained excessively about my roommate, I’m back to complain some more. This is an extension of some previous complaints. Because honestly, it’s surprising and depressing. I have always imagined Australia to be one of the more advanced places to be. It has reputable universities, and is apparently very popular among Singaporeans looking for work, among other...
Dear Catholic Church: I have discovered the...
Or at least, some low level demon that any good soul should slay on sight.
Well, it is about to be six weeks now. The food is great, the weather is great. Even the shitty internet has given me the opportunity to find something else to do; that is, play old games on an SNES emulator. What is not great, however, my immediate company. Samson is a bloody pain in the ass.
It is physically...
June 2010
5 posts
Moon
This post is not about dropping your pants and showing your butt to people.
We’re now in the middle of the fourth week here in Sydney. That means nearly one month is about to come to pass. The temperature has been steadily dropping, going as low as 8 degrees centigrade in the day, even when the sun is up. At night… well, let’s just say I’m glad that I’m unconscious...
The World is Sick: There are no kangaroos here →
theflamemonster:
Day 3 in Australia. It’s been pretty uneventful so far. We’ve settled in quite nicely. The apartment was nicely furnished. Not exactly a lot of room to play ball in, but everything essential is here. Tables, sofa, a washing machine and tumble dryer. Electric oven, microwave, toaster. Samson has…
Hey the first week will be the toughest part of the trip, adapting to the change...
Life Support Systems: ONLINE
It has been slightly more than a week in Sydney now. I think I’ve settled in quite nicely, and despite the excessive complaining in my previous post, I’m actually enjoying myself here. Work in the lab has begun, so I the time that I go without internet service is becoming less noticeable. The people in my lab are all quite nice, though they tend to keep to themselves. I personally don’t mind this...
There are no kangaroos here
Day 3 in Australia. It’s been pretty uneventful so far. We’ve settled in quite nicely. The apartment was nicely furnished. Not exactly a lot of room to play ball in, but everything essential is here. Tables, sofa, a washing machine and tumble dryer. Electric oven, microwave, toaster. Samson has been alright company, proving to be quite level-headed, albeit a bit boring.
We were supposed to report...
Why I Cannot Stand Justin Bieber
I’m not even going to say anything about his implausible male soprano voice. I hate what he does to people.
Long story short: A man - no, a hero - created a browser extension that blocks all Bieber-related content, ensuring a banshee-free afternoon of pleasant websurfing. In response, hordes of (what I can only assume to be) pre-teen Bieber fans started sending him death threats....
May 2010
3 posts
The World is Sick: That sounds like something an... →
theflamemonster:
So. It’s been several weeks. My report has been written, cut and submitted. All the other junk has also been taken care of. I’m finally free(-er). Now I can waste time on the internet without guilt, as opposed to before, when I did the exact same thing but had a whiny voice in the back of my head…
Awww damn I have not been to a concert with you before :/ anywayz have a safe...
That sounds like something an Axis spy would say.
So. It’s been several weeks. My report has been written, cut and submitted. All the other junk has also been taken care of. I’m finally free(-er). Now I can waste time on the internet without guilt, as opposed to before, when I did the exact same thing but had a whiny voice in the back of my head telling me to do something productive.
The Axis of Awesome concert was great. It was the...
April 2010
6 posts
Alright, Gimme my Superpowers
Well, that certainly was a different few weeks. Thanks to the helpful FYP students, I have begun to engage in vigorous physical activity on an almost regular basis. The main problem is really that this activity does not have the sort of male-female or female-female interfacing that I had hoped for.
I was also considering male-female-female interfacing, but alas, it was not meant to be.
Yes, I...
Stop Stopping Science
In 1989, the Havasupai tribe of the Grand Canyon approached a scientist for help. They were plagued with an unusually high incidence of diabetes and schizophrenia. Many tribe members had to undergo amputation, and others had to leave the canyon for dialysis. After some negotiations, blood samples were taken from them to study genetic markers for the diseases. Research was done.
Some years later,...
Atrophy
Well. It’s certainly been a while. I have been doing my final year project for the past four weeks. No, wait, that’s inaccurate. I only actually began two weeks ago. This is thanks to my project having to be (as always) different.
Sure, it was great when I learned that I would be doing something fancy with potentially deadly viruses. It was great when I actually went to NUS to pick up...
March 2010
1 post
The Funnies
The Funnies. GIVE THEM BACK, YOU BASTARDS.
The Straits Times prints a small section of comic strips in the Life! section every weekday and Saturday, and a much larger, and in-colour set on Sundays. My issue with them began a long time ago, when they replaced the beloved comic Bizarro, with a horrible, terrible one named Insanity Streak.
I have a few problems with Insanity Streak.
One:...
February 2010
5 posts
COMPUTER
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Ouch
This post is entirely unrelated to any sort of exams, stress, non-stress, and withdrawal symptoms from not having my gaming fix. I am here to complain about fish.
Just a few short hours ago, I had fish for dinner. It was a small fish. Tubular body. Known commonly as the mullet, this fish really doesn’t taste that bad. I consider it lucky to get this fish instead of something else, like...
I am so Bored
As is customary, I am dedicating a post to Valentine’s Day. Of all the things that human beings could celebrate, we have to celebrate an emotion that wasn’t invented until the middle ages, and wasn’t involved in marriage until the 20th century. That’s right, there wasn’t any such thing as marriage based on love until very recently in human history. It was all...
January 2010
4 posts
Mmm... Forbidden donut
I’ve neglected this place for a while. I’ve just had a lot of stuff to do recently. Projects on top of projects, none of which are particularly fun or rewarding. And World of Warcraft. That is fun and rewarding.
I now have Michael Crichton all over my room. My dad managed to get a copy of Next for six dollars. Sort of shows how well that one was received. I haven’t really looked...
Semper Vincit
Well, this is remarkably familiar. It’s two in the morning. I should be asleep, only I’m not. And this time it’s not because I stayed up to kill mutants, explore the universe, or expand my knowledge. No, I simply could not fall asleep.
I am dreadfully tired. Yet I lay in bed for two hours, restless. I’m not even bothered by anything. Nothing that I can place a finger on,...
“You’re like Christopher Columbus! You discovered something that millions...”
December 2009
8 posts
Gregorian
It’s 2010. New years used to mean something. They carried with them an opportunity to leave the mistakes of the past behind, and to start afresh. To attempt to become stronger, faster, and more productive. The start of a new year used to let me begin a new chapter, free from the burdens of the previous one.
It is apparent now that the only reason this was ever possible was that the school...
Ocular Damage
Soo. It’s been almost a week since the last common test paper. I’m a little disappointed in myself. I seem to have created a potential grade disaster in one of my modules. There isn’t much I can do except prepare for a non-uniform result.
But I’m hardly thinking about that right now. Several days ago, I was worrying about how work-filled this break was going to be. Now I...
Hatena arenicola
It’s during times like this, when I have to study spherical chickens in vacuums and memorise irrelevant bullshit about consumer behaviour, that my main interest- evolutionary biology- becomes yet more appealing.
Having just spent about an hour reading up on the origin of mitochondria and plastids again, I have stumbled upon something new, as well as some old things that make more sense to...