It is official. I am now a teacher. This post will expose a certain ritual that I firmly believe in. A few post back I mentioned that I have been quite lucky and just a quick recap on how lucky I am:
Car accident no injury.
BTO in Tampines.
Graduated from NUS with no work done.
A- for FYP with no work done.
Successfully get a job that is within my target.
Zoe.
To be honest, I would love to credit all my luck to Zoe because life has never been the same after I met her. In fact, without her immense coaching before A levels, my Maths would have flunked just like my Physics and Econs. And most of you would know that she is a super tryhard in terms of studies so the fact that she took so much time off her revision to help me proves how lucky I am.
Those multiple coaching sessions allowed me to get into NUS due to an A in Maths despite the abysmal results in Physics and Econs and that was the start of the amazing luck.
I firmly believe in karma. Not so much as doing bad to others and bad things will happen to you also, but rather if something bad luck happens to you, you will get an equally lucky break.
Not many people know the full story of how NS screwed me over, but long story short, if NS didnt screw me over, I would not have met my hyper-carry in Uni. Case in point, bad luck -> good luck.
Not many people know the story of how I finally made the decision to quit maple due to extenuating circumstances, long story short, without quitting, I would have never started blackshot, never met HeavenRemix, never been able to stand on the stage of WCG kissing a medal, how many people can daresay they took a game so seriously so far to that extend? Furthermore I would have never started maple private server, never met Dollars/Ikke in DN which in turn would not have given me all the fun memories and money to go Taiwan, how many people can say they stood at the top of 2 MMORPGs? Case in point, bad luck? Fk that shit -> Even better luck.
So far, it may seem luck has been favouring me in irrelevant things like games. The next part of the story would go into Dota/LoL. Some of you may know, I went to WCG Dota when I was in secondary 3/4 and got 4th in the Asia Regionals. So therefore I always felt that I was good in MOBA games. LoL is a game that is similar in concept to Dota and I aspired to be as good in LoL as I was in Dota. However, despite previous success in Dota, despite dominating FPS, dominating Action MMO, dominating MMORPG, I could not go far in LoL. Perhaps I was old, perhaps I was getting tired of games, perhaps I coudlnt give enough fks to be a tryhard, but an interesting phenomenon occured.
Every time a really important life event was going to happen, I would go on MASSIVE losing streaks. I was still playing ranked games despite 0 progress in FYP, after 17 consecutive losses, I stopped playing, and suddenly my FYP was done. After the interview, I had 16 consecutive losses, and abracadabra I am now a teacher with my dream subject combination.
Perhaps I am giving myself an excuse as to why I suck in LoL, but being bad was well worth it.
Going into the next part of my life, I am kinda sorta reluctant. Not that I dowan to work or I dowan to stop playing, its just that I have to start giving a fk to things that I have long not given fks to.
Things that I have not given a fk to:
1) People.
2) Building relationships.
3) Impressions of others.
4) My image.
Now that I have to start work, be a role model, start making friends with colleagues, suck HOD balls, trying to carry on pointless and boring and fake conversations with people I give zero fucks to. Sigh.
Grow the fk up Danny. Stop whining like a little bitch. I guess this is what it means to 踏入社会. Time to respect authority and stop testing/challenging the system. Time to 早睡早起, time to be politically correct, time to man up and shoulder some responsibility and work towards a family someday.
One thing will never change though,
Dear Miss Yeo,
I love you. I want to make you Mrs Chu soon <3
Regards,
Mr Jay =D
You will always be the silver lining to whatever bad luck that bestows upon me, you will always be the good luck that follows me around without complaints, and as some would say: blind faith.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Job *** Interview
Ok this post is meant to be informative. So I will keep the vulgarities at a bare minimum.
So you think you can teach?
Lets not kid ourselves. What exactly is "passion for teaching"? When people tell me they have a passion for teaching, my first impression is "he likes to be the smartest person in a group" or "he likes to 讲大道理 ". Do not get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with both mentalities. Everyone enjoys being the smartest in the group or having people listen to your 大道理.
So basically, if you wanna be a teacher, apply online, wait for reply, if shortlisted go down to *** for essay writing and interview and a 5 min verbal presentation on any topic of your choice.
Here are the essay questions that were given to me. ( 3 choose 1 )
1) What are your views on a teacher dating a student after he/she graduates and is of legal age?
2) What are your views on a teacher accepting expensive gifts from students?
3) Responsibility, Integrity, Respect bla bla bla, which of the above core values do you think is the most important and why?
Obviously being the humji dog that I am, I chose Q3.
And I am quite sure people who know me know what are my views on Q1 and Q2 hence understanding why I chose Q3 since I do want to get the job.
Next was the interview, 4 old people asking me a bunch of standard questions.
Pro tip: Do not say things like "I like to interact with kids" if you are a male. Just don't.
So why do you want to be a teacher?
What I wanted to say:
I dun. I dun even wanna work a single day of my life. I just wanna sit on my ass playing games with money dropping from the sky.
What I said:
"I feel that as a teacher, I play an instrumental role in molding the nation's future and I feel a great sense of achievement and satisfaction when I am able to inspire the next generation of students the way my teachers have inspired me in the past."
So what makes you think you can be a teacher?
What I want to say:
Because the students today are fked up. I am fked up. I understand them. Takes one to know one. You think your *** courses are enough to cover the amount of toxicity in the generation of students today? Lmao. Just ask the minister of education to go play 10 ranked games in LoL and I assure you he will revamp his useless policies and courses the very next day.
What I said:
"From young I have been known to be vocal and hence I want to work in an environment where I can interact and communicate with others while exchanging intellectual ideas. With my outgoing personality and my continual involvements with both music and sports, I believe I fit right into the ***'s policy of having a holistic education experience and hence be able to guide and inspire students to take the holistic path in education as well."
Edit: The entire segment above was just a joke. Everything on this blog is a joke. A great big joke. Now that I have the job, I love teaching and I am just trying really hard to be funny k? So dear *** background checker, I am just a humble teacher who tries too hard to be funny, please 大人有大量 and let me carry on trying to entertain myself without blacklisting me or firing me ok? Thanks in advice mighty ***<3
Edit 2: Replaced all traces of my boss name into ***. Save my own humji ass.
So you think you can teach?
Lets not kid ourselves. What exactly is "passion for teaching"? When people tell me they have a passion for teaching, my first impression is "he likes to be the smartest person in a group" or "he likes to 讲大道理 ". Do not get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with both mentalities. Everyone enjoys being the smartest in the group or having people listen to your 大道理.
So basically, if you wanna be a teacher, apply online, wait for reply, if shortlisted go down to *** for essay writing and interview and a 5 min verbal presentation on any topic of your choice.
Here are the essay questions that were given to me. ( 3 choose 1 )
1) What are your views on a teacher dating a student after he/she graduates and is of legal age?
2) What are your views on a teacher accepting expensive gifts from students?
3) Responsibility, Integrity, Respect bla bla bla, which of the above core values do you think is the most important and why?
Obviously being the humji dog that I am, I chose Q3.
And I am quite sure people who know me know what are my views on Q1 and Q2 hence understanding why I chose Q3 since I do want to get the job.
Next was the interview, 4 old people asking me a bunch of standard questions.
Pro tip: Do not say things like "I like to interact with kids" if you are a male. Just don't.
So why do you want to be a teacher?
What I wanted to say:
I dun. I dun even wanna work a single day of my life. I just wanna sit on my ass playing games with money dropping from the sky.
What I said:
"I feel that as a teacher, I play an instrumental role in molding the nation's future and I feel a great sense of achievement and satisfaction when I am able to inspire the next generation of students the way my teachers have inspired me in the past."
So what makes you think you can be a teacher?
What I want to say:
Because the students today are fked up. I am fked up. I understand them. Takes one to know one. You think your *** courses are enough to cover the amount of toxicity in the generation of students today? Lmao. Just ask the minister of education to go play 10 ranked games in LoL and I assure you he will revamp his useless policies and courses the very next day.
What I said:
"From young I have been known to be vocal and hence I want to work in an environment where I can interact and communicate with others while exchanging intellectual ideas. With my outgoing personality and my continual involvements with both music and sports, I believe I fit right into the ***'s policy of having a holistic education experience and hence be able to guide and inspire students to take the holistic path in education as well."
Edit: The entire segment above was just a joke. Everything on this blog is a joke. A great big joke. Now that I have the job, I love teaching and I am just trying really hard to be funny k? So dear *** background checker, I am just a humble teacher who tries too hard to be funny, please 大人有大量 and let me carry on trying to entertain myself without blacklisting me or firing me ok? Thanks in advice mighty ***<3
Edit 2: Replaced all traces of my boss name into ***. Save my own humji ass.
25 years old
Dayum I'm 25. Take a deep breath, take one step back, DAYUM I'm 25.
No accomplishments, no job, no money but a $300k HDB loan and a girlfriend looking forward to getting married. DAYUM.
It has been a long long long time since I bothered to write anything here since I only do so if something significant happened such as game maintenance or during exam time where anything else seems 100000x more fun. But I guess there are some things for me to remember as a joke in the future.
I graduated. That itself has to be the greatest joke of the Singapore education system. I got carried so so so so hard and I can daresay I learnt close to absolutely nothing in the 4 years except the fact that I am not suited to be a computer engineer. Therefore I shall dedicate an entire paragraph to my beloved carry: Lets call him R.
I was destined to graduate from NUS by doing nothing the day SAF posted me to 30 SCE. Reason being if I did not know my NS buddy, he would not have introduced me to R in the first day of school. So how did he carry? Basically, for the 8 semesters in NUS, I did not have to plan for any of my core modules and electives at all. He single handedly planned the perfect timetable for our clique that involves the most efficient "bid points to free day to easiness" ratio. I would sleep until 4pm on close bidding day, he would wake me up and tell me how many points to bid for which mod and I would just follow suit. G-motherfking-G. He even taught me some CORS mechanics that involved dropping a core mod and bidding it in round 3 to refund half the points or sth, till today I have no idea whats happening, I just listened to him. The catchphrase in the 4 years was "Dun doubt R".
To put things into perspective, I would wake up, check my whatsapp, R would tell me today got lecture, I would go empty handed, walk into the LT and notes would be printed for me on the table already. Sometimes I would take electives and would briefly mention my project deadlines to R and 2 days before the deadline holyfk R would remind me that I had a deadline for a mod that he never even take. LOL.
In year 4, we had to choose our FYPs, we tried to look for the same prof and do the same FYP together. Sadly our cap discrepancy was too big and for once my guilty conscience SCREAMED at me when R wanted to reject a FYP that he wanted to do because the prof didnt want to take me in as well. Therefore I decided to man up, and told him I would be fine doing another FYP on my own.
My FYP was a joke. But thats another story for another time.
One of the most memorable getting carried experience was CS4243, R literally SOLO-ED the whole project, we never met up even ONCE for this project. On the presentation day itself, R told me and H to go school early, and he showed us the PPT slides and explained to us what he did and taught us what to say. Ultimate carry. Not to mention we got extra marks because apparently the work R did was so good that it even beat all the name long name short people. Holy fuuck I think saying I got carried is definitely an understatement at this point. Up till today I still have no idea what CS4243 stands for.
TBC.
*** / *** Interview
Relief teaching all girls school
$220 谭鱼头 bday treat.
Inverse law of game luck.
No accomplishments, no job, no money but a $300k HDB loan and a girlfriend looking forward to getting married. DAYUM.
It has been a long long long time since I bothered to write anything here since I only do so if something significant happened such as game maintenance or during exam time where anything else seems 100000x more fun. But I guess there are some things for me to remember as a joke in the future.
I graduated. That itself has to be the greatest joke of the Singapore education system. I got carried so so so so hard and I can daresay I learnt close to absolutely nothing in the 4 years except the fact that I am not suited to be a computer engineer. Therefore I shall dedicate an entire paragraph to my beloved carry: Lets call him R.
I was destined to graduate from NUS by doing nothing the day SAF posted me to 30 SCE. Reason being if I did not know my NS buddy, he would not have introduced me to R in the first day of school. So how did he carry? Basically, for the 8 semesters in NUS, I did not have to plan for any of my core modules and electives at all. He single handedly planned the perfect timetable for our clique that involves the most efficient "bid points to free day to easiness" ratio. I would sleep until 4pm on close bidding day, he would wake me up and tell me how many points to bid for which mod and I would just follow suit. G-motherfking-G. He even taught me some CORS mechanics that involved dropping a core mod and bidding it in round 3 to refund half the points or sth, till today I have no idea whats happening, I just listened to him. The catchphrase in the 4 years was "Dun doubt R".
To put things into perspective, I would wake up, check my whatsapp, R would tell me today got lecture, I would go empty handed, walk into the LT and notes would be printed for me on the table already. Sometimes I would take electives and would briefly mention my project deadlines to R and 2 days before the deadline holyfk R would remind me that I had a deadline for a mod that he never even take. LOL.
In year 4, we had to choose our FYPs, we tried to look for the same prof and do the same FYP together. Sadly our cap discrepancy was too big and for once my guilty conscience SCREAMED at me when R wanted to reject a FYP that he wanted to do because the prof didnt want to take me in as well. Therefore I decided to man up, and told him I would be fine doing another FYP on my own.
My FYP was a joke. But thats another story for another time.
One of the most memorable getting carried experience was CS4243, R literally SOLO-ED the whole project, we never met up even ONCE for this project. On the presentation day itself, R told me and H to go school early, and he showed us the PPT slides and explained to us what he did and taught us what to say. Ultimate carry. Not to mention we got extra marks because apparently the work R did was so good that it even beat all the name long name short people. Holy fuuck I think saying I got carried is definitely an understatement at this point. Up till today I still have no idea what CS4243 stands for.
TBC.
*** / *** Interview
Relief teaching all girls school
$220 谭鱼头 bday treat.
Inverse law of game luck.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The end of NUS life.
So much to be remembered. And of course, tomorrow is my paper and I choose this perfect time to type something here. On second thought, I should get back to studying before the consequences contradict the title.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Candy Crushed
Ok so apparently there is this new mobile game called candy crush and many people are hooked onto it. I obviously hopped on the bandwagon but have regretted it ever since. Its even more stressful then WCG and I simply cannot take it already.
Every time I play the game on the MRT, Bus, NUS Shuttle, in lecture, there will definitely be people over my shoulders staring at my screen. From kids to friends to adults and even ah mas, I always feel that I am being scrutinized deeply. Every move I make there will be looks of disapproval and head shaking from all around me and even an occasional sigh of disappointment.
Furthermore when I have a few moves left and 1 jelly/1 fruit left to clear, anyone would obviously spend more time thinking about their final few steps. So everyone around me is like waiting in baited breath for my epic legendary move of the century while I think long and hard. That is when the pressure and expectations start to build up, when I finally make my epic legendary move of the century that does not clear the whole screen at 1 go, I literally heard a friend whisper "wtf" to his another friend while I stared at the game over screen.
Ok I might have exaggerated here and there. Point is: I really have a decent IQ, please dun judge me by my Candy Crush performance.
PS: My fav place to play is still in the toilet. That is when the concentration is the highest and no prying judgmental eyes (i hope).
Another thing that has been bugging me recently. The White Paper. I personally have absolutely NO IDEA what it is about besides the main caption of " Singapore population to reach/hit 6.9m in/by 2030". Suddenly everyone on Facebook is a fking politician. Suddenly everyone in school is a fking politician. Suddenly everyone has an opinion about what are the negative consequences and everyone starts quoting/repeating things that they have read and shared on facebook and pretending to be knowledgeable and understandable about this issue.
Who cares? This is not the first time the Govt chu pattern.
Who cares? If you have the time to worry about something that far away in 2030, dude you are really having a good life now.
I barely understand what my modules are teaching me. I barely even remember when my submissions and deadlines are. Why would anyone care about something that is going to happen 17 years later? Like as if our population has not been growing and like as if the negative consequences haven already hit us hard enough.
I read this from somewhere. Found it insightful.
17 years ago, a basic NUS engineer starting pay is $1900.
Now its $2600. A $700 increase.
17 years ago, a Toyota is $30000.
Now the COE alone for car is $100000. $70000 increase. Haven even buy a door or a wheel yet.
The point is, who cares? There are like tons of problems to worry about today. Stop being a fking parrot and leave the policy making to the politicians. We all know each other well enough to know that no one gives a serious fk about politics. Some complaints here and there at most? Dun post for the sake of posting, dun say for the sake of saying and please dun repeat what has already been said with the aim to impress. The problem is way too big of a scale for anyone of us at our level to even start thinking about solutions.
Its like saying, Dota is going to release 2000 new heroes by 2030. Blackshot is going to release 2000 new guns by 2030. Some MMO is going to release 2000 new bosses/dungeons by 2030. Who cares? The impact of having new heroes, new guns, new bosses have already been around since the beginning. Every new hero is broken, every new boss is going to crash the economy. Who cares? So what now? Threaten to quit? Threaten to boycott the game? In the end nobody cares. Not even you.
Same thing. Now what? Threaten to migrate (quit game)? Threaten to vote for WP (boycott)? Childish fucks. Firstly, you dun make a difference. Secondly, nobody cares.
Dun get me wrong. Sharing is always caring. I enjoy reading real stuff to gain knowledge about the White Paper. I just fking hate it when people start getting self righteous with their shallow and parroted opinions. To quote one of my best friend, "a look of disdain is what you will get".
Every time I play the game on the MRT, Bus, NUS Shuttle, in lecture, there will definitely be people over my shoulders staring at my screen. From kids to friends to adults and even ah mas, I always feel that I am being scrutinized deeply. Every move I make there will be looks of disapproval and head shaking from all around me and even an occasional sigh of disappointment.
Furthermore when I have a few moves left and 1 jelly/1 fruit left to clear, anyone would obviously spend more time thinking about their final few steps. So everyone around me is like waiting in baited breath for my epic legendary move of the century while I think long and hard. That is when the pressure and expectations start to build up, when I finally make my epic legendary move of the century that does not clear the whole screen at 1 go, I literally heard a friend whisper "wtf" to his another friend while I stared at the game over screen.
Ok I might have exaggerated here and there. Point is: I really have a decent IQ, please dun judge me by my Candy Crush performance.
PS: My fav place to play is still in the toilet. That is when the concentration is the highest and no prying judgmental eyes (i hope).
Another thing that has been bugging me recently. The White Paper. I personally have absolutely NO IDEA what it is about besides the main caption of " Singapore population to reach/hit 6.9m in/by 2030". Suddenly everyone on Facebook is a fking politician. Suddenly everyone in school is a fking politician. Suddenly everyone has an opinion about what are the negative consequences and everyone starts quoting/repeating things that they have read and shared on facebook and pretending to be knowledgeable and understandable about this issue.
Who cares? This is not the first time the Govt chu pattern.
Who cares? If you have the time to worry about something that far away in 2030, dude you are really having a good life now.
I barely understand what my modules are teaching me. I barely even remember when my submissions and deadlines are. Why would anyone care about something that is going to happen 17 years later? Like as if our population has not been growing and like as if the negative consequences haven already hit us hard enough.
I read this from somewhere. Found it insightful.
17 years ago, a basic NUS engineer starting pay is $1900.
Now its $2600. A $700 increase.
17 years ago, a Toyota is $30000.
Now the COE alone for car is $100000. $70000 increase. Haven even buy a door or a wheel yet.
The point is, who cares? There are like tons of problems to worry about today. Stop being a fking parrot and leave the policy making to the politicians. We all know each other well enough to know that no one gives a serious fk about politics. Some complaints here and there at most? Dun post for the sake of posting, dun say for the sake of saying and please dun repeat what has already been said with the aim to impress. The problem is way too big of a scale for anyone of us at our level to even start thinking about solutions.
Its like saying, Dota is going to release 2000 new heroes by 2030. Blackshot is going to release 2000 new guns by 2030. Some MMO is going to release 2000 new bosses/dungeons by 2030. Who cares? The impact of having new heroes, new guns, new bosses have already been around since the beginning. Every new hero is broken, every new boss is going to crash the economy. Who cares? So what now? Threaten to quit? Threaten to boycott the game? In the end nobody cares. Not even you.
Same thing. Now what? Threaten to migrate (quit game)? Threaten to vote for WP (boycott)? Childish fucks. Firstly, you dun make a difference. Secondly, nobody cares.
Dun get me wrong. Sharing is always caring. I enjoy reading real stuff to gain knowledge about the White Paper. I just fking hate it when people start getting self righteous with their shallow and parroted opinions. To quote one of my best friend, "a look of disdain is what you will get".
Sunday, December 2, 2012
A New Beginning
It is the end of semester! When I was in NS, every time when I was outfield, I will be telling myself "fuuck this shiit I would rather be studying, I'm gonna study so hard in Uni to rise above the fked up officers and underqualified specs." Now that I am 1 semester away from graduating, I say the same thing but a shorter version :" fuuck this shit."
A quick review of this semester and a few conclusions:
1) I got carried. Hard.
2) NM modules are a fking joke.
3) I got carried. So Hard.
4) Gonna get lung cancer from FYP.
1) The only reason I am not retaining/expelled in/from SOC is because I am being carried. This sem I had no clue what was going on in CS4243 and 1 of my group member finished the project on his own and had one of the highest scores against groups of ah nehs and ah tiongs. He has carried me from year 1 to year 4 and I swear in my FYP acknowledgement section I will honor his ass with my heart and soul. Not only CS4243. CS2102 project I also got carried, I only wrote the report which was simple as fk, my group members camped overnight in school while I stayed at home and the project scored full marks. Lmao. Carried. So hard. Zoe says its because I have good people skills. I say its because I am lucky. <= will prove this point further on.
2) NM2210. No exam. Therefore I did not go for a single lecture the whole semester. 2 individual projects + 1 group project. I spent 4 hours on my individual project and about 30 mins on the group project ( same story, got carried ). Amazingly, my C5 GP managed to get me an A for both projects ( thanks to Zoe for proof reading <3 ) and my group mates from arts ensured my A for the group project. 5 hours of work and 0 lectures attended is enough to get an A. NM modules are a joke. Actually you can tell for urself how bad my writing is just by reading this post.
3) FYP is such a fked up requirement. I can barely understand the things that Professors are teaching me for 4 years, yet I am expected to learn Android Programming/ Augmented Reality/ Image Recognition Implementation and Windows Programming all by myself? Dream on la. Every week I dread walking into my Prof's office, its so tiring to keep coming up with things to say when I actually have nothing to show. Yet I managed to get good comments from both my supervisor as well as evaluator in my CA Interim Presentation. Smoking level over 9000.
The reason for this title is because I am now an owner of property in Singapore. muahahaha. Zoe and I managed to get the Tampines BTO! Despite having a fked up queue number of 222/215, we managed to get a 5th floor unit that has a good position! Lucky much? Furthermore, I posted a troll status on facebook saying I will not be saying which unit I got since I did not want to share 4D money. Guess what? We really won 4D! Even though its just a consolation price, the luck is really overwhelming. Once again since I am not working, Zoe will be carrying me! Lucky max.
Some useful reminders/tips:
1) Apply only if you are sure he/she is "the one"
2) He/She can carry you lol
3) There are alot of grants/schemes that are available but they are mostly for resale flats. For direct sales we only have the HLE (Loan) and the combined income grant.
4) Combined income grant is if the couple has a combined income of less than $5000, the couple will be eligible for a grant of up to 30k. So basically the best time to get this grant is if one person is working and the other is not. Although I do know friends who earn more den $5000 alone lol.
5) Couples who apply before 30 years old can split the down payment to 5% (1 month from application) and 5% ( when the house is ready about 3-4 years ). If you are above 30, you will have to pay 10% down payment within 1 month from the application which is about 40k.
At the point when I signed the documents, it was pretty surreal. 7 years ago I would not have seen this moment happening. Yet I think I am extremely blessed with luck to be able to apply for a house with Zoe. I quote Yuxuan " It is very rare and lucky to find someone like Zoe who would stick through thick and thin with you " I fully agree. Not so much of thin since I am fk fat right now but I do agree that I am really pretty damn lucky.
Tenant /Occupier /Applicant 2 : I love you <3
A quick review of this semester and a few conclusions:
1) I got carried. Hard.
2) NM modules are a fking joke.
3) I got carried. So Hard.
4) Gonna get lung cancer from FYP.
1) The only reason I am not retaining/expelled in/from SOC is because I am being carried. This sem I had no clue what was going on in CS4243 and 1 of my group member finished the project on his own and had one of the highest scores against groups of ah nehs and ah tiongs. He has carried me from year 1 to year 4 and I swear in my FYP acknowledgement section I will honor his ass with my heart and soul. Not only CS4243. CS2102 project I also got carried, I only wrote the report which was simple as fk, my group members camped overnight in school while I stayed at home and the project scored full marks. Lmao. Carried. So hard. Zoe says its because I have good people skills. I say its because I am lucky. <= will prove this point further on.
2) NM2210. No exam. Therefore I did not go for a single lecture the whole semester. 2 individual projects + 1 group project. I spent 4 hours on my individual project and about 30 mins on the group project ( same story, got carried ). Amazingly, my C5 GP managed to get me an A for both projects ( thanks to Zoe for proof reading <3 ) and my group mates from arts ensured my A for the group project. 5 hours of work and 0 lectures attended is enough to get an A. NM modules are a joke. Actually you can tell for urself how bad my writing is just by reading this post.
3) FYP is such a fked up requirement. I can barely understand the things that Professors are teaching me for 4 years, yet I am expected to learn Android Programming/ Augmented Reality/ Image Recognition Implementation and Windows Programming all by myself? Dream on la. Every week I dread walking into my Prof's office, its so tiring to keep coming up with things to say when I actually have nothing to show. Yet I managed to get good comments from both my supervisor as well as evaluator in my CA Interim Presentation. Smoking level over 9000.
The reason for this title is because I am now an owner of property in Singapore. muahahaha. Zoe and I managed to get the Tampines BTO! Despite having a fked up queue number of 222/215, we managed to get a 5th floor unit that has a good position! Lucky much? Furthermore, I posted a troll status on facebook saying I will not be saying which unit I got since I did not want to share 4D money. Guess what? We really won 4D! Even though its just a consolation price, the luck is really overwhelming. Once again since I am not working, Zoe will be carrying me! Lucky max.
Some useful reminders/tips:
1) Apply only if you are sure he/she is "the one"
2) He/She can carry you lol
3) There are alot of grants/schemes that are available but they are mostly for resale flats. For direct sales we only have the HLE (Loan) and the combined income grant.
4) Combined income grant is if the couple has a combined income of less than $5000, the couple will be eligible for a grant of up to 30k. So basically the best time to get this grant is if one person is working and the other is not. Although I do know friends who earn more den $5000 alone lol.
5) Couples who apply before 30 years old can split the down payment to 5% (1 month from application) and 5% ( when the house is ready about 3-4 years ). If you are above 30, you will have to pay 10% down payment within 1 month from the application which is about 40k.
At the point when I signed the documents, it was pretty surreal. 7 years ago I would not have seen this moment happening. Yet I think I am extremely blessed with luck to be able to apply for a house with Zoe. I quote Yuxuan " It is very rare and lucky to find someone like Zoe who would stick through thick and thin with you " I fully agree. Not so much of thin since I am fk fat right now but I do agree that I am really pretty damn lucky.
Tenant /Occupier /Applicant 2 : I love you <3
Friday, September 14, 2012
YongSeo
Omg thanks and no thanks to Hammy, I finally managed to prove to myself that I am not as cold blooded as my mom claims I am. Hammy introduced a korean reality couple show where random guys and random girls from the korean showbiz were picked and put together to become a "married couple". They would be required to do missions together as couples such as taking wedding photos together or make kimchi together. Some missions would actually benefit the couples themselves such as learning how to drive together and going on holidays etc.
In dota, my first ever hero that Yuxuan taught me to play is Enigma. Fk his face seriously. Even at the peak and height of my WCG days in dota I also cannot play Enigma properly and I actually learned Enigma first. People usually start with zeus/sniper/sven as their first int/agi/str hero but I had to choose one of the hardest heroes to start with and extremely team mate reliant.
Basically Hammy ruined my weekend by introducing a song: "Banmal Song" sung by CNBlue YongHwa and SNSD Seohyun because he knew I was a sucker for good songs, especially duets. And that proved to be the single most devastating heart wrenching weekend ever because YongSeo made me happy/sad/excited/disappointed throughout.
Not sure why I had such big emotions over that show, perhaps its the pure and innocent relationship they had? Perhaps the scriptwriter was a genius? Even though every single WGM couple and the things they do are scripted, I believe that the interactions and expressions cannot be faked. The amount of chemistry between Yong and Seo is unbelievable, compared to the "Adam couple" which was more funny then touching and the "Khuntoria couple" who only touched each other, "YongSeo" touched my heart much much more with their simple yet truthful interactions and it made me realize I am still a warm-blooded human.
It reminded me of the jc days where I would put in alot of effort to make gifts, practice songs and plan surprises for Zoe and vice versa.
When the couple ended their "on-air" relationship, it was so heart wrenching that I literally had no mood to double click on any game icon for the whole weekend. (Oh by the way my weekend is fk long because of a 3 day week. I have thurs, fri, sat, sun, mon free which was why I can clear 51 episodes and still have alot of time left) YongSeo ended just as abruptly as it started, just when they were getting comfortable with each other. Just when all the hard work Yong had put in to make Seo comfortable and no longer awkward around him and his friends. The show WGM managed to make many many happy memories for YongSeo but I personally feel that there is no closure at all, and the only thing YongSeo left for the viewers is their songs and hence I was stuck listening to banmal song and lovelight and googling about what happened to them after WGM for the whole weekend.
The impact of YongSeo for me was so big, big until I unsealed the forbidden piano and tried to learn and play banmal song. I then realized that being a fan of Kpop is actually very tiring, the language is pretty hard even though romanizations/translations and subs are everywhere. But to learn to play a korean song is so much harder because I have to first memorize the pronunciations and lyrics before I even start practising the notes.
So the aftermath of YongSeo for me is perhaps a tearful gameless weekend which was why I absolutely refuse to watch any other WGM couple because it is really very 犯贱 to make myself sad all over again. Tried to look for SNSD Seohyun files in comics connection but it is freaking 16 bucks for a lousy quality file. I introduced it to Ben but I'm not sure if he is watching the same thing as me since he keep noticing Yong's mother to be very chio instead.
Anyway enough about YongSeo. A few light hearted things to note:
NM modules are really funny. This sem I took NM2210 Interactive Media Design: Theory and it turned out to be the biggest joke module ever. Firstly it was 1300 points in round 2 and I got it for 1 point in round 3. Fk all of u noobs that bid for UEMs in round 2. Another tip I learned from an imba friend of mine is to bid for core mods in round 1 and drop them in round 3 and rebid them to get back half the points. I managed to save about 1400 points with this method already thanks to imba ryan. Anyway back to NM, it is currently week 6 and I have yet to go for a single lecture since there is no exam, I have yet to do a single reading but have gotten participation points every tutorial. I literally waltzed into the tut room with no readings, no laptop, no assignment done and smoked my way through like a boss. Epic.
Another joke mod is my FYP. It is week 6 and I have yet to even install the andriod compiler onto my desktop. However I have managed to convince my prof that there is actually progress LOL. I went to a prof meeting one day totally unprepared and at the end of the meeting he actually said and I quote: "Good! Well done! There is progress already." At one point of time I was so engrossed and dedicated to smoking my Prof until I myself am convinced that there is actually progress lmao. There is a saying: To bluff opponent must bluff your own team mate first. For me I bluff opponent until I bluff myself into it. Really high level gameplay.
Lastly, guild wars 2. Fk. It is an awesome game but I got suspended because apparently "Erections" has too much sexual innuendos and is deemed too pornographic to be an IGN and hence I got suspended for 72 hours due to a violation in naming policy. Which also explains why I am typing this whole load of crap that bores the crap out of crap here.
I realised I have a natural recurring 犯贱 attitude towards games.
In Maplestory, I chose to become a bandit/chief bandit/shadower which was a class that is grossly underpowered with items that are grossly overpriced. If I had spent the same amount of time leveling a Nightlord/DK in maple I think I long ago level 200 already.
In dota, my first ever hero that Yuxuan taught me to play is Enigma. Fk his face seriously. Even at the peak and height of my WCG days in dota I also cannot play Enigma properly and I actually learned Enigma first. People usually start with zeus/sniper/sven as their first int/agi/str hero but I had to choose one of the hardest heroes to start with and extremely team mate reliant.
In DragonNest I have achieved unparalleled success in all characters, but once again I started DN with an Archer. A class that was impossible to both PVE and PVP because of its underpowered nature. I persevered till max level and even reached the top few Bowmasters in Westwood ladder only to realise a few months later that I repeated the same feat with all other jobs with half the gold and half the time. After being the top FU, top EL, semi-top BM, top Acro I finally realised how dumb I was and told myself never to repeat the same mistake again.
In GuildWars2, I did all my research before hand, I consolidated peers who played the beta and realised that Warriors/Thieves/Rangers were the strongest and Elementalists were pretty weak and extremely complex and challenging to play with. And guess which profession I chose? Thats right. Elementalist. Fml. Paper as shit, sub par damage. Sigh. Is there actually a mental illness to describe people who love to do things the hard way just to seek approval and acknowledgement from others?
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