Went over to my grandma's place last week,ate this extremely nice, juicy tender piece of pork rib.You can't imagine how wonderful it tasted.The meat marinated with sweet sauce, then cooked to perfection.. yums.!!After dinner there's always the family talk. Everyone's putting ideas of holiday in my head, my cousin and cousin-in-law was planning to take a short getaway to somewhere near. My sis is already on some cruise having fun. Cec is already in Shanghai. Reina jie jie said she maybe planning to go taiwan at the end of the year.Uncle chek and family will be heading over to hokkaido at the end of the year too. haiz... what abt me?? no travel plans.. no money... no life...
Sorry guys.. I know it's getting boring seeing my little nephew's picture in half of my post for this month but I can't help it!!I haven't gone out with my different cliques in a while so I absolutely have no pictures in my depository to post! SOOO>>>
mORe mORe mORe pictures of our little emperor with all the different people carrying him! My target is to shoot a picture of him with everyone in the family! That'll be damn cool! He'll know how much he's loved the next time he sees his baby photos...
Finally i caught the cool dude!! (Forced into position)
Ah po telling me not to take her picture coz she's old & wrinkly. heehee.. but i quickly snapped a shot before she could object to it! ehehheee.. 
Emperor's pouting coz he doesn't want to be put down!
(peeking through one eye) So cute!! ahaha..
(*emperor thinking)hmmm.. so comfy ahhh.. fleshy.
tAlkIng tO a Dead mAn?!!??
to my dear Shakespeare,
Why do you fill your plays with allegories? Why are they not in plain English? hOw I wish I could talk to you directly and ask you about your plays! Why are u dead?? Is there really such a person called William Shakespeare??
Yours sincerely
Regina
The tempest is driving me near nuts! I can't convince myself with the points that I've stated. I still think that it's too weak an argument for a 1000 word assignment!! It's killing me and eating up all my time, since sat I've been reading truckloads and truckloads of articles, writings, essays, you name it! I've typed out all the keywords that i can currently think of about this topic:
" Discuss the theme of paternalism in The Tempest and its significance to the play, making close reference to the text."
I'll have to come up with something by today else I'm sure I'll never be able to finish this assignment in time, not forgetting I still have a report I'll have to churn out by friday that's another of my major worries. Haiz.. when is this ever going to end?? I'll have to reinstall my soc-vpn all over again. It's giving me problems again! I wonder what's wrong!! arghhh... i'll fix it soon! I'll have to crap something out for my lit assignment first. OK back to work.... pictures later!
Cutie's hair smells weird. We reckon it has the salty smell to it. Queer hur??
A few more pictures that i was lazy to post the last time. Oh... in case of any confusion Cutie shall be called "the little emperor" from now on, a nickname we came up with when we'er joking the other day. Enjoy clare jie jie...
emperor's clothing for his 1 month old celebration made by mommy!
us disturbing him when he's sleeping! don't these two people look more and more like each other? Scary!!
emperor's usual sleeping position!
This post is for the benefit of my lovely cousin Clare who's in UK now soon to be going to Spain to do volunteer work. Missing out on all the action happening now at home with the newborn baby!
The entire three storey semi D has baby stuff in all corners now!! And when i mean all corners i meant everywhere... living room.. computer area... EVERYWHERE!
Aunt G's "nong nong ah " and her lullaby song is replayed again! hahahaa..
(insider joke) Everyone's going goo goo ga ga over the baby. My mommy's going over to bath him every morning, aunt leng and aunt G going back to carry him when they have the time, cutie's daddy and mommy losing sleep coz cutie refuses to sleep at night. Everyone's going back to see cutie every week... he's such an EMPEROR! should have been called emperor chua! Oh and dinsy jokingly said he's going to be growing a third chin soon!! He's getting chubby....
And I've taken up the task to take loads and loads of pictures of this cutie that we recently welcome into our family and so... BEWARE. This is going to be a post filled with loads and loads and loads of pictures.!! hahaha....
(cutie looking like he's going to cry soon.. oooo.. don't cry.. nong nong ahhhh)
(PS: special photo requested coz of the nice dress she was wearing)
(cutie with hot grandma and cool grandpa)
(cutie with super funky aunt and uncle chek)
(cutie with the chek family-missing one!) 
(cutie with piggy-me & chio bu da jie. cutie looks uncomfortable but at least he didn't cry!)
(cutie looking super comfortable)
(cutie's mommy learning how to carry him in his super comfortable position like the previous photo)
(cutie enjoying his meal and his time in his daddy's arms)
(cutie with the forever young aunt leng and daughter)
(cutie frowning.. looking so matured now! awhhhh..)
(me trying to get a pic of cutie with his eyes open... this was the best i could do)
(cutie enjoying his breeze in front of the fan & da jie looking messy)
(cutie with da jie and his daddy)
(cutie with timmybear who's forced into this position by me!! wwahhhaaaa) .
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and to congratulate you for getting this far.....MY FAVORITE PHOTO OF CUTIE!
(cutie dreaming and smiling! awhhhh... so cute!!)I told you there's a hell lot of photos.. not done got lazy with those that i took during his one month celebration... so too bad!!
Studying in the library yet again.....
As mentioned, I am studying in the library yet again. It just gets boring when you study alone! Can't believe i actually did that in JC. I reported at 9 am every morning one month before the A levels at the same table in Terminal 2 changi airport. Plonked my butt in the chair and started studying. Moved only to go to the loo and at 4 to get food when I decided I was getting too hungry after missing my lunch.
I was actually rather productive today.. Considering the fact that I actually finished relational algebra's notes for 2102 and MPIS part 2 for 2100. I was half way through revising for capital budgeting part 1 for my finance quiz next monday when i got so bored I just couldn't concentrate on studying.. so here i am.. blogging!
I had an extremely rude shock in my lab class this morning. My hard work creating the extremely messy ALU circuit for 2100 gave the wrong output! OH MY!! I almost wanted to faint know that! SO there I was debugging like crazy in the lab. 1 1/2 hour spent pouring over the entire circuit. It was messy.. but i didn't care as long as it gave me the correct output!
Saw kid's and wq's circuit after i was done with mine and hell their's looked so clean! NEAT And NICE.. well.. I've decided I was going to get 0 for my "extremely messy and unintuitive circuit" so to hell with weng weng's assignment questions! Let me show u how my circuit looked like.. i don't even know how i actually managed it but i really did man!
Looks pretty good like that right?? hahaa.. You'll faint after to see the uber messy connecting lines i've created! hahaa...
Ahhh.. can't wait for monday to come! After the extremely annoying finance quiz is over on monday at 3 , i'll be free to do whatever i like for a few days!! For the past one month i've been having exams, tests and more quizzes. My seat in the Central library -reference library is going to soon be labelled with my name soon. I show up in the library every single day, plogging my butt in the chair till it's way past the rush hour before i head home.
After monday I'll have to start getting the 2102 report ready before the guys decided to kill me for not doing anything. Oh and not forgetting.. a 1000 word lit assignment due yet again.. haiz.. when is this hell going to end???!!!
Da jie just told me she wanna go taiwan again! BUT i'm in the "lovely" state of being BROKE! I have yet to recover from the spurgle in taiwan.. the two of us "battled and won" 12 pairs of shoes from taiwan. If I were to go again I'll remember to apply first for an overseas credit card and to bring lots of extra sing dollars to change in case I've ran out on mine. I'll be doing lots of clothes shopping! I'll have to bring back a luggage filled with new clothes this time! hahaaa...
Missing the extremely smooth bean curd tart... missing the lovely buttery taste of popcorn... missing shopping in taiwan... missing fun times spent with the 2 crazy A(s)
talking crap..
Got bored of doing my stupid 2100 circuit creation assignment so I'm here to blog! hahaa...
I'm bored... and there is simply no one to disturb here in the library. Most of the peps i know love and adores to hang out in com1 and here I am lonely in the library coz des isn't here to study with me. How boring.!!
After lunching with ydings and gaode yesterday it had suddenly dawn upon me that I absolutely have no idea what is showing in the theaters now. I haven't seen the inside of a cinema since my last movie batman. Totally missing the taste of those lovely, buttery popcorns and the big screens with ear-blasting sound boosters. hmm.. maybe i could convince sis2s to go catch something with me this weekend.. hmmm...
There's nothing interesting these few days as I've been cooping myself up in the reference library of the Central library. Good place to study.. extremely quiet and of course extremely boring.. hence the optimization of my concentration.
Oh man I'm really bored.. I think i shall leave the library and go search for someone to talk to now.. bye peps!!
After thought (the bluest eye)
Incest. child abuse. rape. discrimination. psychological imprisonment. self-hatred.
This has gotta be the most depressing book I've ever read, usually I seem to unconsciously avoid these sort of books. Books that appeal to me are stuff like: fantasy. thrillers. mystery. (mainly fiction).
But I'm "forced" this time to read this book that has all the elements mentioned above. As I was reading the analysis of the book, I got to see the carefully crafted and planted foreshadows, words, images used by Tony Morrison.
And I have been enlightened.
I finally understood why i never once got attracted by this genre of books that have gotten popular these few years. It is too close to reality for comfort. I've been trying to escape/avoid the reality that is revealed in these books.
When I am forced to meet with such a sudden crush of realism it makes me culpable of the hurt that they feel. Their suffering. I've placed a distance(my safety barrier) between me and such reality. I would rather drown aimlessly in the world filled with damsels in distress, dragons, knights, guns, heroes... then to face such sadness. The dichotomy of a beautiful as well as an ugly world.
It makes me doubt who I really am.
It makes me realize that I could be an Anglophile.
I could be hiding my self-hatred with an indirect and perhaps self destructive means.
The pessimism of the book and the passiveness of the protagonist of the book veils "the light" from the reader. But as the saying goes before there could be light there will be darkness, so the inherent hopefulness of the idea of love in the book brings me to realize how valuable kinship and friendship is to me. It could have been the reason why i stayed sane in such a chaotic environment. This book taught me that material comfort, neatness and quietness could be destructive or become deadly themselves if not accompanied by genuine human warmth.
If you are feeling e-mo, i suggest strongly not reading this book. But if you are interested in expanding your scope of understanding of human beings around the world i strongly suggest reading this book
[the bluest eye] by Toni Morrison.
plAnning fOr tHe hOlidAys alReady??!
You know what?? I actually completed the circuit diagram for that stupid state diagram!!(the only crazy three circle diagram??)
Hahaha.. actually I had absolutely no idea how i arrived at the answer.. some help for kid though. Our conversation went something like this:
kid: just stare at the truth table and replicate the entire thing
me: what?? how?
kid: I don't know, i just stared at it and replicate what do u mean how!
me: okok.. fine fine..
In the end, i stared hard at the tips pdf wong wong sent and derived a circuit diagram out of what i understood.The entire pdf was almost useless except for the part on the Sum of product term formula. I still can't understand how wong wong derive that. I'll have to ask the guys later.. need someone to actually explain it to me. Getting dumb lar.. getting real dumb.
Just read up the 2102 project question for the project discussion later. Not sure what i can contribute to the group though. PHP and creating user interfaces are out of my scope of knowledge. In fact, the only time i've even heard about PHP was when i first took 2102!!
I've been dedicated the job of the report writer as usual (no surprise there), it's the only thing I think i can do well. ahahhaa.. sounding depressed hur?? I'll need to bug the guys to give me some insights to the codings that they will be doing. I think the only thing i can do beside the report will be the DDL for the database. The two simplist thing in the entire project.
This sem is probably the most hetic sem since i've start school. The most things to learn in the shortest time. I constantly feel like a sponge absorbing and absorbing and i've came up with a list of things I'll need to learn before the next sem. Haven't actually written the list out yet so i still don't know if it's going to be a long one but here is wat i have in mind:
(1) learn Java from scratch again(1101/1102)
(2) building on that, start on reading 2261 java Netbeans
(3) practise to be ultra efficient in photoshop/illustrator/video editing
(4) learn HTML and PHP
(5) read everything on my book list...which seems to be getting pretty long!!
Yeah.. this looks like what i have in mind now. It's going to be a really busy holidays this time with christmas and all.
OOOHh ahhhhh... korea!! this just sounds darn cool! des found this out when we were cramming truckloads of information into our heads over the hari raya public holiday in school.
It's about this YMCA korea ski trip.
There's this freaking cool homestay thing too!!oh my god!! it's like damn damn damn cool! I WANNA GO!! But first.. i'll need to find a sponser..hahahhaa. KOREA can you imagine that??The food, the skiing, more food oh and of course if i'm lucky i might get to try those big colourful korean traditional dresses or meet some cute guy there. hahahaa...
Advertisement time: Anyone interested in going?? Please tell me!
This is really going to be a really busy busy busy holiday!
rANting.. ranTinG.!!
I've just realised that by putting off checking exam results helps to lessen the pain of looking at it. Just got the mood to check my results this morning, knew that nothing good will come out of it and i was right!! Well... then again. it's computing.
Finance paper last night was a total nightmare. I expected the paper to be tough but i didn't know tough meant not even having enough time to press my two calculators!! Seriously speaking... i've tried hard for finance. I think it's the only module that I'm not lagging behind. Serious catching up to do for the rest. Lab for 2100 was on flip-flops and it was horrible!!
Nope.. I'm not talking about flip flops as in slippers flip flop. I'm talking about flip-flops as in the digital circuit term. It's a bistable multivibrator with two stable states capable of serving as one bit of memory. Don't stare at this part too hard.. coz that's about all i really know on it and i'm suppose to solve this question~!
The model solution came up to about 18 NAND gates at 3 levels, 1 decoder and 3 flip-flops with cables joining joining to so many gates i couldn't trace the entire shit!
Something to be glad of though.. I'm finally able to take a break! This weekend is a weekend packed with lots of gatherings. And I'm finally able to see cutie Declan after all these weeks. Mom said he's getting really really cute. Can't wait to see him this weekend but before that... I'll have to complete my tutorials first. With three tutorials of different modules on monday, can you imagine my pain of rushing though all the tutorials? I meant 2 computing modules and 1 finance tutorial all on one day. But i had no choice.. i had to pack my monday timeslot otherwise i'll have nothing to do after my 2100 tutorial at 12 till my 4pm lit lecture.
Da jie made this really nice tasting tiramisu on Hari Raya. A treat really for me after slogging hard over finance in the yih study area the entire day. It's really good! Lots and lots of biscuits socked generously in baileys with really good and creamy mascarpone cheese. It's finger licking good!! OKOK... I have to get back to work now... I still have to solve that stupid diagram up there coz wong wong (lecturer) decided to extend the submission of the lab to make sure that he doesn't see a diaster strike. Will be right back with more cutie's pictures after i snap them up like crazy on sat! And after ally decides to send me all the pictures we took at the F1 practice runs.
Finally i caught the cool dude!! (Forced into position)
Ah po telling me not to take her picture coz she's old & wrinkly. heehee.. but i quickly snapped a shot before she could object to it! ehehheee.. 
Emperor's pouting coz he doesn't want to be put down!
(peeking through one eye) So cute!! ahaha..
(*emperor thinking)hmmm.. so comfy ahhh.. fleshy.
