never depend on technology. sometime i simply hate technology. today is one such day. at 10.30am, 1 and half hours to my german semester test, i was slogging through entering german nouns in the online website vocab book so as to churn out a table to do a last minute revision and memorization of the words while eating my brunch (which consists of instant noodle and milk tea) when the website suddenly give up on me. damn. can't open the website. can't load the page. can't print the words. and time check: 11.00am. dead. half an hour left before i need to leave hall to make it in time for the test. no time to use the good old tradition method of using a pen and paper to churn out the table. damn. so i spend the next half an hour refreshing the page (hoping that the website will be up again), eating and trying to read the available worksheets. of course to no avail. damn. and whose fault is it. mine. why? cos i know of the test long ago and had been procastinating instead of studying and leaving it to last mintue. great and what happened: the website crashed. argh.

lesson learned: never leave things to last mintue. but will lesson be applied? well... =)

finally. the Army Half Marathon is over. 21km in 3 hours.yeah. that is better than what i had expected. all thanks to mona who has been 'forcing' me to run. Thanks Mona!! but no mona.. no... i am not considering another half marathon right now... =) well so here is te recount of the event:

i woke up at 330am asking myself why am i doing this to myself after a day of training... then i drag myself out of the bed, shower grab my stuff 2 pieces of breads and forced myself out of the door before i changed my mind and decide that i should go back to sleep and waste my money... then i grab a cab and pick up mona on the way and made our way to the starting point which is at the Padang ( side note: it is appparantly much easier to catch a cab in the middle of the night then i thought... there is cabs everywhere at 4 am in the morning, which according to the taxi uncle is to cater to pubbing crowd as pubs usually closes at 330am... oh well...) when we arrived at padang we saw a whole bunch of people,mostly guys, who are as crazy as we are to wake up early in the morning to participate in the event ( with exclusion to the army guys who i think are forced to join the event) and a poor DJ who has to wake up as early as we are to entertain us. then wala.. it is the run... which we apparantly missed the flag off and started late... which me and iso decided that we should keep a slow and constant pace which is apparantly slower then our team mates pace... which of course means that we lost them like 2km down the route... then as the run goes on.. each km seem longest then the one before... and my motivation become the next Gatorade water point (although the Gatorade is extremely diluted)... then we managed to catch up with angeline somewhere along ECP... then iso got this sudden bust of energy and start to pick up pace and got further and further... oh well... and for the rest of the run i was running at this really slow pace. (i mean really SLOW pace) and of course looking out for the next Gatorade point. yeah. this trend continued all the way until the endpoint at the esplanade.

After which, me ah yi and iso went in search for milk in hope that it will have the same effects as the good old vitasoy that we had been drinking after every training... and whao.. daisy hi-lo milk had never taste better! yeah!!

after effects: aches in the knees, ankles and back.. what the hell...

and for those curious souls out there... the photo above had nothing to do with the run. it was taken last year in perth australia and i happen to like it alot.. so what the hell if it is 1 year ago.=)

i love rainy days. i love the rain despite all the inconvenience you might faced because of the rain, i don't like to walk with a umbrella , i simply love the power in the rain, the way the rain just seem to come at you, the way it seems to wash the whole world. i feel that the world look more beautiful after the rain. okay.. i am weird.

today it was drizzling when i alighted from bus A1 as i walk towards arts i saw a huge downpour coming towards me.. it is the kind of rain you can see coming towards you and you know the rain cloud is going to cover you in like 3 seconds. at that point of time you just feel like you are standing at the border of 2 different worlds and watch the 2 world merged into one. wished i had a camara to take down the moment. it might not just happen again. shit. missed the chance.

~it is the small little things that make your life and make living interesting.
*~* It only rains on people who create the storms*~*

Procastinating.. porcastinating.. procastinating... i am just procastinating here.. i am suppose to be studying for my german vocab test tomolo.. but what am i doing.. nothing... ergh.. i have a ton of stuff to do... and blogging is DEFINITELY not on the top of my list... what am i doing... and my room is in a mess... okay impt things to do

1) study for german test
2) print lecture notes
3) pack my room
4) finish the design
5)do cm2111 tutorial
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and the list never ends... STOP Procastinating and get BACK to WORK!!

As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather i enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obsure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I missed intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that means so much to me that i have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...
Even from your scant description, I know that I could not bear the routine and humdrum of the life that you are forced to lead. I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

THE LAST LETTER EVER RECEIVED FROM EVERETTE RUESS,

TO HIS BROTHER, WALDO, DATED NOVEMBER 11, 1934

~~ Quoted from the book Angeline lent me " INTO THE WILD" by Jon Krakauer.

Yeah!!! it is raining cats and dogs and hamsters and whatever outside... just when i want to go out... hopefully the rain will stop of least become smaller in half an hour time... because i really need to go to the sci library to renew a book that i had borrowed for 2 weeks but had no time to read... ergh... i really want to read the book... and i also want to finish the book i borrowed from Angeline... missed the hols where i can read all the FICTION books instead of the textbooks, readings and notes for tests... can't the notes, textbooks and readings be slightly more interesting so that at least when you are reading them you don't feel like sleeping...

and yes i am procastinating now... i suppose to be studying for my test (thats means reading those notes that i have mentioned above) that is going to take place in an hour time but here i am updating my blog... but well, not that i never study... i did flip thru' all the notes i suppose to study and read thru' some of them plus my textbook... but not sure much of it is actually got stored (guess i will finds out in an hour time) and cannot really get the part abt calculations and analysis on the character table, how you actually get the values... well... all the best to me then... luckily it is open book...

the rain seemed too be much smaller... got to venture out to sci lib...