you know singapore is so small, you just never really know if the person you see everyday might be your relative or somehow related to you.

uncanny...

i found out something interesting today. well, dunno how to put it, not quite a star wars "i am your father" type of seriousness, but it just feels nice having another nice person to be related to.

in fact, i may just be your distant cousin haha

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Ever wished when you were a kid that when you grow up, you could make a living just by watching television? Well, that's kinda how I describe my holiday job hee hee.

Don't know how much i can talk about it, but i must say that it is quite enjoyable there and got tons to monitors to look at, watch new shows that have yet to come out (for quality control purposes!) and best of all, getting paid much higher than i would be slogging as an intern or another part time elsewhere. God is good!!

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Yay, after like 2 weeks of waiting, i finally got to try the new sausage macgriddles from macdonalds. It's suppose to be like regular sausage macmuffins but this time, it comes with maple syrup infused buns!! Sounded so irresistible that i simply had to try it.

also had the opportunity to meet up with le Roy and Yan for breakfast, after so long of not meeting. Had a lot of interesting discussions as usual, dunno why we often get very philosophical, could be the free time haha. We rounded it off with some mario kart fun too.

Back to the burger.. well... the verdict is... it's alright i guess. I took their advice to have it without cheese, worked out pretty well. According to them, the cheese makes it taste weird, so there's the tip for ya if you want to try.

in the meantime, you can always check out the macdonalds game that lumzy showed us, i guarantee its fun :)

http://www.mcvideogame.com/index-eng.html

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i tried my first massage today: a back and shoulder massage at this place called Wang Yang, quite a few outlets around. And no, it's not those sleazy type with the darkened windows...

The place was brightly lit and had plenty of people, and apparently due to the new regulations, that meant no partitions too. So that means it was just one big hall like place and people were having their feet, shoulder, etc massaged altogether, no privacy at all.. duhz

So anyway i had to lie face down into this weird contraption and it had a hole so i don't suffocate. Before i went i had expected the experience to be more of the relaxing type like those you get in the hair salons, but boy was i wrong. The dude then went on to prod and poke my back, shoulders and skull. At one point i almost felt like he was trying to dislodge my skull from the neck!! After that the alternated between pushing my head into the cushion and elbowing my shoulder plates (which hurt too)... I just couldn't wait for it to end... Well i guess it may have been slightly better if i told him to use less force. But seeing nobody complained or anything, i thought it was just part of the process that i should stick it up like a guy should... could be stupidity on my part too.

When it finally ended, he was nice enough to offer me some water but then went on to hard sell me on some magnetic belt because he said i had a lot of toxins which was evident from me sweating during the massage (i have high metabolism!). The belt had two versions, one like 70+ and another 200+... i was thinking like: dude that hurt so bad, why do i want to pay you somemore! and a magnetic belt that what, draws some electrons from some mysterious part of my body and it sounds like a sham... needless to say, i hightailed outta there.... never knew real massage suppose to be this painful, if they told me i should have just done more wrestling, at least it'll be more fun getting hurt.

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seeing people drag soft toys and luggages out of their dorms can only mean that it is the end of the semester again.. a long break indeed. As i looked out the window of the bus in the night, everything seems to be winding down. Time slips through our fingers as though we were grasping sand, behold, we're year 2s... A strange feeling washed over me out of the blue, it felt as though it was my last day there as i stared at the students rushing for the late bus, pushing their bags, sharing one last joke amongst friends before heading separate ways for summer. Somehow i miss school already, maybe it's because the next time i see it, it may already be next year.

Anyway, today was the last day of another round of examinations, lets see..

Biz Comm: crap... didn't finish the paper. What a let down, i was hoping for an A here.

Law: not too bad, almost sprained my wrist from all the writing, but im optimistic. I typed most of my answers before going in as it was an open book exam and all i had to do was to cut and select the areas i need to put into the answer book. No need to think that much during the paper, just write and write fast.

Operations Management: hmm this one is tough to call. Could go either way here. I could either be a genius or a flop haha, so far i think im the only one that go and find how many workers i needed to produce the output for aggregate planning.

Management: we were allowed to bring in one piece of A4 as cheat "shit". I thought i was quite kiasu by typing in font 9 and squeezing the whole book stuff in, but apparently i underestimated the kiasuness of others when i saw they used like font 4. Man, i don't know how they do it, but perhaps their glasses come with magnifying mode.

Macro Econs.: Ahhhhh what an interesting subject, but the bugbear of my whole semester. I couldn't figure out how to do the tutorials ever since the 4th one. Even went to learn product/quotient rule for differentiation (covered in Alevels) but still couldn't apply it to find the damn multipliers. Thankfully the final paper wasn't as bad as i imagined, but then again, it depends on how well the rest of the class does, stupid bell curve and there's so many geniuses from science and engineering. But certainly eye opener module, learned to appreciate what the government did for singapore more.

Well i guess that's about it. Hope to post more entries more, i need to earn more pps.

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Sunday mornings seem to be a really popular time for families to do their grocery shopping. For those supermarkets that don't have an express line, the wait is so not worth it for people like me who only need to buy a few items.

I was just thinking these supermarkets should learn from the government and set up gantries at the checkouts instead of having cashiers. RFID all the grocery items and all we have to do is dump our stuff into the trolley, walk through the gantry, and pay using our cash cards or credit cards. Fully automated, no fuss, no waiting time, people just pay and go. Of course, make sure you top up your cash card or the supermarket will fine you for causing a "jam" in the waiting line.

ahh the wonders of technology

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