results results results

well my CAP improved by 0.05, but at least it didn't drop. My sentiments? could have done a little better, could have done a lot worse - and because the "little" is less than the "more", I'm happy.

After 13 years battling it out in countless exams and assignments I'm just so sick of it all that "an 'A' grade = your future" stuff. I just don't think it matters anymore. At least not as much as it used to, mainly because I'm already happily in the university - the supposed highest rung of the education ladder. And even if you are say, the lowest among the highest, it can't be all that bad now, can it?

I did what I could do... attend (notice I didn't say "prepare") tutorials, hand up my term papers on time, sit for the final examination, resist the temptation to complete a season of FM when at the 33-game mark of the season (which I can assure you is NOT easy)... and that's what matters most to me.

So yes, whoever you are reading this after getting your results - time to smile and move on. If 8 semesters in university don't determine your life, why should a single sem?

cats cats cats!!

I lovvveeee cats haha... I guess part of it stems from this particular habit of mine in primary school when, together with my dad I would scour my Telok Kurau neighbourhood counting cats. Think the record was 89 cats or something. That was of course before they started sterilising them and when there were a few old malay ladies who'd go around feeding them every evening.

Anyway, was having dinner at Golden Mile Complex yesterday (note to self: don't ever go back to eat zhi char again) and when on the way back to the MRT station I saw a few cats all at the same void deck. Thinking it somewhat strange considering I haven't seen many cats around these days, I stuck around, playing with them a little, only to discover there was this 50plus year old woman taking care of them, even having 2 flats filled with cats! According to her, there are about 40 cats taking "refuge" in the flats.

The cats (kittens especially) were damn cute lor, there were these 3 black kittens (from the same mother presumably) who kept me fascinated for nearly 30min by just simply playing with a piece of corrugated cardboard I held in my hands lol. If only I could take them home...

I impulsively made a little collage of pics. These cats weren't from the house last night (didn't bring camera lah) but I find them simply adorable nevertheless. For those who have cat(s) at home, send me your pics!!

Even the dead aren't spared

Check out this report I found on the Electric TNP:

CEMETERY is now a PARK. Next, it will be HDB ESTATE

When schooling, you are chased by teachers (or if you damn jialat - by principal);
When pon school to go dating, you chase the gal of our dreams (or if you super rich, she chase you lah);

When before married, you chase and whack the motherfucker that act funny with your gf;
When married already, your wife chase you for ogling at tiger beer girl at coffee shop;

When become parents with young kids, you chase them for stealing your porn collection;
When become parents with older kids, they chase you for money for their own porn collection;

When retired with too much $$ in CPF, you chase china girl working at Joo Chiat;
When retired with no $$ in CPF, you chase china girl for making you bankrupt;

and so the story goes and you run till you die. or so it seems... now, when you're dead, gahmen still chase you out of your resting place. Whatever happened to the saying "Rest in Peace", or more importantly, whatever happened to respect for the dead?

on SDU

SDU - Officially known as the Social Development Unit, unofficially the subject of many sniggers for being the acronym of people who're Single, Desperate and Ugly, has finally come to an end (I'm referring to the organisation here, the people would always exist... oops)

I should first clarify that I'm not against an SDU-type matchmaking service. In fact, methinks its a great way to make more friends, expand your social circle and networks, and well, ultimately get hitched at the end of it all. What I cannot escape from however, is wondering why people would pay huge sums of money to private match-making agencies serving the same purpose, but not to SDU, and why this image of SDU being an organisation catering to Singles who are Desperate and Ugly has continued to persist today even though I think its far from the reality.

I believe its all a problem of the name. What in the world would you expect people to think of with such a name like the SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT. How boring, how ministry-like. What image can such a name possibly conjure, other than a stereotype "boring" and "typical civil servant" kind of person? Despite all the funding and gahmen efforts to promote it, maybe SDU was doomed to fail from its very onset?

Learning something new in Evo Psych

I was reading my Evolutionary Psychology textbook a couple of days ago (when I still had exams to worry about), and I don't know why, but I found this short sentence damn funny:

"Men's relatively large testes (compared to other primates) provide one solid piece of evidence that women in evolutionary history ..."

"one solid piece"? I thought all men had two testicles?

Another personality test

got this link from Aileen's blog, so decided to try it out. I am, after all, plain sick and tired of studying for my remaining 2 papers tomorrow, a situation not helped by my attention span of a 12-yr old kid. but i digress, here it is... click on the "view full report" link below for a more detailed description of each of the attributes.

In summary, this is what it said of me:

"You are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone. Stressful and frustrating situations can often be upsetting to you, but you are sometimes able to get over these feelings and cope with these situations. As a practical person you like to think in plain and simple terms. Others describe you as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others' needs than with your own. You are reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled."

My Personality

Neuroticism	60
Extraversion	61
Openness To Experience	13
Agreeableness	5
Conscientiousness	41

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"Eye" am okay now

I forgot to mention this in my previous thread, but I finally got my minor eye surgery done on tuesday immediately after my paper. it was quick and erm... quite painful. You see right (no pun intended on "see"), they had to inject some local anesthesia into my inner eyelid, and to do so, it meant that I effectively had to open my eye and watch the tip of the needle slowly descend into my eye.

But the worse was yet to be: the doctor had to use this pair of metal forceps to literally pry open my already-numb eyelids before digging into my eyelid with some instrument (I ain't joking when I say I couldn't see what instrument it was) and scraping out from the inside the infected part of my eyelid.

Ok QED. The next step was to bandage my eye as it was bleeding (like, duh) after the surgery. I had to wear the bloody bandage for like 6 hrs lah! knn... and according to a person who was present when i finally removed the bandage and opened my eyes, my eyelids were shut so tightly (out of fear, maybe?) that almost my entire top eyelash was like, embedded together with the lower eyelash inside my eyelid, which I think is quite gross.

fucking painful experience, but I'm glad that its over and done with. Whoever said exam periods can't be exciting?