This Is Me

If I were to make a wild guess, I guess that majority of the people wouldn’t wish to be a part of National Service. I truly understand that but I also do perfectly understand why National Service is important for this country.

I didn’t had to wait long to be enlisted into National Service upon graduating. While I was still a student, I honestly worked really hard. Each day, I’d leave the campus at 9PM. I spend up to 12 hours a day in school during my final year. I was honestly pushing myself to graduate with a merit and hoping that I can get a place in a local university. My hard work did paid off. I graduated with a merit and I’m accepted into Nanyang Technological University to complete my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science with Business Minor. Of course I was beyond ecstatic.

I was on a roll, I was ready to conquer the next challenge in my education life. I was hungry for more knowledge. My hands were itching to code more applications. As crazy as it sounds, I was actually very excited to start university life. To this day, I am still very interested to start university and be a student again.

But no, I had to be enlisted into National Service. Currently right now, I’m a hospital medic. I went through 5 weeks of cramming my tiny brain with medical terms and procedures. Honestly, at one point of time I was thinking to myself, what the hell is this all about? I graduated with a Diploma in Information Technology WITH a Merit and now I’m studying all this medical terms. Seriously, what the hell? It was totally irrelevant to my area of specialization.

Right now, I feel that what I’ve been learning for three years in polytechnic is slowly slipping away. I’d imagine that by the time I start university, I’ll probably forget all the basics of computing. Looks like my efforts are in vain.

My point is that, I wish MINDEF would properly utilize “us” and post us to proper vocation based on what we are good in. Wouldn’t that be better?

Well, all I can do right now is just wish harder and suck my thumb. Life is never fair to begin with.

I need to stop playing video games and get a hold on my life.

I don’t want to get an iPhone because everyone have one.

No words can describe how I feel upon reading those. Damn, where should I begin?

I’m sorry but do you suck so much in your life that everything you own needs to be different from the society? And why is there a need to be different? To steal the limelight? To be noticed?

Talk about crying for attention. Geez.

Look at the sales figure for iPhones.

Did I hurt your feelings? I certainly don’t care at all.

On second though, just kill yourself.

It’s that time of the year again!

Annoying music booming through the roof, endless wishing of each other a happy new year and the overhype countdown.

It will be absolutely hilarious if scientist can actually find real evidence that 2012 marks the end of the world and when 31st December 2011 arrive, will everyone still wish each other a happy new year?

In any case, I’m still not looking forward to a brand new year even after all these years. Well they say, habits are hard to break. I’d rather relive 2010. It’s not a bad year after all.

Yes I know that I have not been blogging. I’m not even bothered to explain why.

Looking at 2010, I do feel a little unsettled. I don’t think I did managed to accomplished a lot of things in this year. However, there are certain highlights in 2010 that is awesome.

One of it is that I am finally in my third and final year in Temasek Polytechnic, it has been quite a feat all these while. Being in third year, our two main modules were the final year project and the internship.

The final year project was a huge challenge for me to say the least. I have never in my life worked so hard and pushed myself so hard in school. However, I’m still halfhearted about it. If I had a chance to redo my entire final year project, I would definitely take that opportunity. I’ll talk about it some other time. In general, I wish my final year project was more ‘cool’ and futuristic.

Upon completing the final year project, the students were exiled to various company across Singapore and the world. I chose to stay in Singapore for my internship. I am currently being employed in A*STAR or also known as Agency for Science, Technology and Research. It’s been rather interesting. My internship ends somewhere in February.

That’s about it. I’m lazy to write.

PS: I think Ke$ha looks like a slut. What do you think?

Alas, another entry of daily happy. I shall skip the endless overused excuse of being hectic because of school. Nonetheless, today’s entry about daily happy is in a different approach.

I have always ponder if there is a flaw with Singapore’s education system. Do you think we study too much and did not have ample chance to apply what we have learn to real life settings? That is how I feel.

I had an opportunity lately to apply knowledge I picked up in school into real life settings. Recently, a good friend of mine that goes by the name of Kamelia, hey kamelia! a shout for you, you can check her online portfolio here and her blog here and her twitter here and her tumblr here. I’ll stop, I guess there’s no need to post her facebook profile or myspace profile or her address hah!

As I was saying, we decided to open a little business venture. Hey, don’t look down on us, everyone start small somewhere. I’ll release more information about this when we have finalized things. I’m glad I’m doing something useful in my life at this age.

Since I’m in Information Technology, I learn about computers including managing of databases. I managed to apply what I learned in school into this little business venture by drawing the database schema, normalized it into it’s third form and initialized it. Basically, I created a database which will store our customer and their order’s information.

The database is hosted off a server. I’m accessing it via HeidiSQL. In my opinion, this is better than keeping our records in a Microsoft Excel document and emailing each other to keep ourselves updated.

Hence, I feel happy that I did learn something useful after all in school.

On a side note, I am elated that I finally managed to upgrade my Macbook and my iMac to the lastest installment of the Mac OS X. Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6.X and being a makeup enthusiast myself, I finally managed to grab my first makeup item from the famous MAC Cosmetics.

School has been amazing. I prefer my new class so much more. Lastly, I finally managed to give my blog a much needed new look!

What made you happy today?

A quick look at a survey done and most people can’t leave their home without their phones. It’s very true. I bring my phone along where ever I go. Partly because I’m mentally insane and I always feel very insecure stepping outside. It’s like what if someone decides to kidnap you and torture you?! How are you gonna call for help?!

As if anyone wanna kidnap me. I bet they’ll have a hard time.

In any case, some people can’t leave without their phones because it’s linked to their work stuff.
Below is all the reasons why I need my iPhone with me and why it’s the greatest phone ever! Well, other than the basic functions of calling, text, phonebook, I use my iPhone for…

PDA! I depend heavily on iPhone for school. I literally add everything that needed to be done onto my iPhone. I’m a scattered brain person. I forget things. I can check my timetable too!

My savior. Checking of bus timing. Heavenly.

TWITTER. I love twitter. I spam twitter. What is life without TWITTER?

Youtube. If you really need to know, I watch youtube more than television. My mum offered to buy a TV in my room and I said, “Can I get the money for the TV instead?” I’m not kidding.

Alarm! 1 2 3 Not only you and me! Got 180 degrees! Okay, That was the lyrics to Britney Spears’s new single, 3! No, I’m not saying that’s my alarm clock tone!

Remote Control! I can control iTunes on my iMac with this!

Email! It’s really nice integrating school email onto your phone!

Dictionary! LOL I’m kidding about the word I was searching.

The internet! It’s heavenly. I can check last minute announcement on our school’s website! Moreover, there’s TAB browsing, you know when you’re in firefox, you can open several pages at one time. Now, how many phones can actually do tab browsing?

The next app is probably one of my favorites. It’s called Shazam.

Let’s say you were listening to this music on the radio and you really like it but you have no idea who is the artiste or what’s the name of the song! Fret not, this is where Shazam comes in.

Basically you launch the app and let your iphone ‘listen’ to the song,

It will then analyze the song.

Well what do you know! It was Fuck You by Lily Allen!

Fmylife.com What is life without reading people’s misery on FML?

A voodoo doll application. I can torture everyone now. It’s has always been a dream of mine.

What fun will it be if I can’t burn them?

Other then that, I use my iPhone to check the news, the weather, a remote control for presentation, checking of movie times and to setup a ‘Fake Call’ to get away from those awkward social situations.

What are you waiting for now?

Go get an iPhone!

Sometimes we just have to stop look around and just smile. Think positive.

If only we could just open our eye bigger and cherish the wonderful things we have in life instead of clinging on the bad things..

Action reaction. Les choristes that movie. I love it! The teacher would always say ‘action reaction’ in french. And the headmaster ‘assembly’

Tomorrow, I’ll be taking my mother tongue O level oral. Remember! Smile at the teachers! Fake smile will do. Just make them happy. We can curse them behind their back.

Bring facial wash. Wash our face so that it is not oily. Bring extra uniform. So that it looks new clean and not crumpled up. Bring perfume so that we smell nice. Bring powder..LOL I’m not sick.

First impression counts! Today is shafawani’s birthday.

It would appear that you are experiencing one problem after another. When one problem is resolved, another seems to immediately take its place. It could well be that you are trying too desperately to evade or to escape from your present situation and it is ‘you’ that is causing the problems to manifest themselves. You need to slow down a little.

Everything seems to be going against you at this time. Try as you may you are meeting with considerable resistance at every turn. Nothing is going as you would plan. The situation is difficult and you are trying to persist in your objectives against resistance. It would appear that you are being very secretive about your future plans just in case people around you try to thwart you.

You are a rather inhibited sort of person. This could be the result of your upbringing or of your schooling, whatever. You are able to obtain satisfaction from various forms of physical or emotional activity but all in all you are inclined to be emotionally withdrawn. As a consequence of this you find it difficult to sustain any deep involvement.

You are experiencing extreme frustration at this point of time, trying to achieve security and peace of mind, but whatever you seem to do doesn’t effect the situation. You are worn out and your energy is being seriously depleted. You may be experiencing what is known as ‘heartache’ – both mentally and physically. You are a listener and you listen and respond to everything that is going on around you. You feel that all that life has to offer should be within your grasp and you would like to participate in every part of it but the situation is such that every door seems to be closed to you. You just can’t understand why that is. But it is – and what’s more you feel powerless to change it.

You feel utterly wretched – worn out. The demands that other people have been making on you have depleted your strength and stamina. You feel powerless to try to remedy the situation on your own and you are looking for what is hopefully known as ‘divine intervention’. But be assured your salvation lies in yourself – you have the ability so use it.

Try it ! Click Here!