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i guess not every day can be a good day. so we’ll just have to make do. the fireworks have to cease sometimes, at least for a moment. but we shall take heart, for the sun rises once again tomorrow. and it will be a new day, a different day.
new beginnings every 24 hours. what would we do without them.
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save me from myself
ephemeral
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so many things in life are running on temporary fixes. my computer is working only on a temporary fix, achieved by disabling vista’s wonderful security feature: user account control. i usually have no gripes with this rather annoying piece of technology, since it doesnt take much effort to click yes or hit enter. but ever since i messed up the drive access with windows 7, uac would render all my programmes on vista unable of accessing the drive. so yes, this will do for now. indefinitely.
my phone is now facing a similar crisis. having installed too many programmes, with an excess of 40 applications on that measly memory card, it no longer loads correctly after a reboot. looks like i’ll just have to survive by leaving it on, or deleting a couple of my games. maybe in a while after i get tired of them. alternatively i could try reformatting the card and restoring the games, but that is hard work for another day when i have more time and am more emo. till then, i just have to make sure it doesnt run out of battery on me. then everything will be fine, since i dont switch it off anyway.
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edit: i find it highly amusing how when i checked out my facebook apps today, 2 of them have morphed into speeddate. somehow i never thought that an aquarium and a characteristics app could become dating ones. are we really that deprived of love in our world today.
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come down to smu infosystems campus next saturday. we’re playing at 315, but there’s going to be events the whole day.
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little figures on a big stage
all alone in the moonlight
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this foa was a strange one, and its hard to discern if that’s a good or a bad thing. the whole process was a frighteningly short and last minute one, with everything happening much too quickly after the exams. but still, it came off nicely although i personally enjoyed last year’s one more. everything turned out better than expected, in spite of all the h1n1 setbacks. kudos to vincent reuben and gang for all their hardcore work.
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its an exhilarating feeling to play for a concert. even the practices, when they actually happen, are amazing stuff. and when youre up there on stage, with hundreds of eyes looking at you, with the stage lights making you sweat, something just makes you want to grin. but then again, with guitar, we spend most of our time not grinning but pretending to look intently at the wave of the baton. still, exciting stuff.
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thanks everyone who came down to support us. i hope you guys enjoyed the concert as much as we did (:
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woke up at 910, after the late night. the horfun there is not bad, and staying out to chat is entertaining too. i did nothing the whole morning, and ate mcdonalds for lunch. im so glad they have double fillet and shaker fries again. yum. and now, i am slacking again till i get forced to do my world lit. fun stuff yes? i think ive sent about 160 messages since foa ended. woohoo for unlimited smses. which i had better have. or else i am so dead it isnt even funny.
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so the midyear results were pretty good. i must say, i love my subject combination, weird as it is. the right blend of easy subjects to get marks, and interesting subjects to keep you in school. now i just have to add more points for prelims and the real thing, and brush up on current affairs and stuff. i need my scholarship.
i shall start studying for prelims earlier. then maybe i can beat you eh (:
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one
long days, and guitar practices. along with irritating infected wounds which refuse to heal quickly and make life so difficult for me.
i am so terribly sleepy that i can’t do anything.
over
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its been another one of those lame days, where everything just feels generally lame. admittedly it had it good parts, but there was an overall feeling of sianness. i havent felt like this in a while, but evidently im not free from it. ohwell.
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it was strangely fulfilling just strumming nonsense with tony though. and so was slacking around in school throughout the day, punctuated by a number of lessons. if only it had been a happier day, it would have been totally awesome
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i really dont feel like doing any work tonight. despite the fact that i have to finish rewriting a world lit draft by monday if i hope to redeem my english from the state it is in. maybe tomorrow then.
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so its the end of the run. the steering wheel’s passed to new hands, and i hope you guys do a better job than i ever managed. im not sure if its my fault in part or in full, but i sure hope that you guys manage to save things from failing. this year seems to be so much more last minute, but im confident it wont be a flop. all the best.
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Tough, you think you’ve got the stuff
You’re telling me and anyone
You’re hard enough
You don’t have to put up a fight
You don’t have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don’t have to go in alone
And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you when I don’t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
We fight all the time
You and I… that’s alright
We’re the same soul
I don’t need… I don’t need to hear you say
That if we weren’t so alike
You’d like me a whole lot more
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don’t have to go it alone
And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you when I don’t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
(This is it)
I know that we don’t talk
I’m sick of it all
Can, you, hear, me, when, I, sing
You’re the reason I sing
You’re the reason why the opera is in me
Well hey now, still gotta let ya know
A house doesn’t make a home
Don’t leave me here alone
And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Sometimes you can’t make it
Best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
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don’t be so hard on yourself
because you are loved
remembrance
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today has been a tiring day. school was strangely draining, despite the lack of lessons. doing a dbq practice so soon after the exams have ended is terribly difficult, with everyone lacking the mood to work. inertia is too great a force to deal with. on the other hand, it was interesting to see the class actually doing work without a teacher being present in class. although we DID start later than we were supposed to, but the point is that we did the work we were assigned, which is rather an accomplishment for a bunch of slackers like us. and having a music phone is so great, especially since i now have 4 earphones which can is just the right number for me: 2 ports on the comp, 1 on the ipod, 1 on the phone. and sound quality is surprisingly good – it certainly lives up to being an xpressmusic phone. gym was tiring (duh) but i dont feel any buffer after the last 2 sessions. maybe im going too easy on myself. and i should start running more to build up cardiovascular fitness. then i can be awesome and win at life yay.
conversations with friends are vitally important to our mental well-being. i count myself blessed, that so many of my friends are wonderfully easy to talk to. fewer barriers to break = happier people.
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because i have not seen nor read a single harry potter installment, i shall have to pass on the gep outing this friday. it would have been interesting to get in touch with my gep roots. but ohwell. till next time.
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some people just make you smile whenever they’re around. even on disappointing days with the world spinning out of control, the glint in those eyes chases away the clouds and reveals the sun once again.
everyday i thank God for you
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this one’s for you
contrived
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today marked the beginning of the school term after our mid years, and what did we do? slack. not only is our tuesday timetable extremely slack, but throw in sqa meetings and unforseen illnesses and we are left with a day without lessons. the only lesson we had was 40 minutes of history, which only served to depress us regarding the dismal states of our history papers. after which, enter 6 episodes of 30 rock, a great breakfast, and movies. sitting in the library commenting on faces on the wall and spotting flaws in the massive display while reading twisted short stories by dahl was certainly entertaining. and so was the response of the various authorities in the presence of the inspectors, or as a certain power once described, royalty. the only work i did today was to fill up the cas forms to claim action hours for pe, because i am now suddenly 5 hours short of the target. ohwell.
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sometimes things end with just a whimper, not a bang. its funny how so many expectations can be easily crushed, yet other dreams are fulfilled to the letter. maybe this is what one gets for not taking an active enough role, for not taking the initiative, for not stepping up to the plate. maybe i just wasn’t good enough. and so i’ll stop trying. it was a good run for the years it lasted, and i hope it doesnt end sour. because there is so much i have gained, in life, in skills, in exposure, and in friends. but disappointment is a necessary emotion, for we are all merely, human.
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cheer up
because your smile makes everything better
there
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today was a fun day, despite the disappointment that is mathematics hl paper 2. being too long and too difficult to be completed satisfactory, it is a topic that should be left in a corner to gather dust until the results are released and we all get pissed off with our own lack of practice.
class lunch was exciting, and the food was rather good. although i am highly against eating spicy food. the last time i ate thai food proper was in thailand. which was when i had dengue fever during the holidays, which i must say is a tremendous waste of a sickness. there wasn’t even much school to pon.
ice age 3 is an extremely funny show. and there’s nothing better than laughs to lighten the heart. okay maybe there is, but laughs are still good either way. the subplot ensured the humour didnt begin to stagnate, and the jonnydepp-like character was tremendously entertaining. either way, go and watch it.
today was a reminder that i shouldnt to fill up my schedule every minute. its wonderful to have spare time to just walk around with people, to sit down and chat over a meal, to exchange a phone call with, and just to spend time together. ahh such fun.
but now that the examinations are over, the school term begins. deadlines, projects and cca practices. assignments which actually count toward our final ib grade, and the looming prospects of ioc. which are pretty grim prospects, i must say.
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enjoy it while we still can
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so my phone is back from the shop, with its raceshield. although i discovered that it didnt cover the parts where the chips are, so it probably wouldnt help much if i dropped it again. OHWELL. at least its shinier now and i can actually see my reflection in it.
size comparisons
raceshield
unboxing
http://picasaweb.google.com/danielyeews/Phones
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the brush of your fingertips
sync
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today just feels like a generally weird day.
i woke up at 8 something feeling really sleepy. did some math. went to funan and spent an hour walking around attempting to find shops selling race shields or invisible shields for my phone so that the next time it gets dropped, it wont chip off. giving up and eating mcdonalds with henry. going for the edb roundtable discussion and just slacking around, listening and talking to people. oh and eating nice chicken pies. on a side note, a career in the edb doesnt seem that boring after all. networking sounds like such fun. after that, walking from merchant court to bencoolen street to find a dodgy looking handphone shop in a dodgy looking shopping centre. waiting 15minutes for the guy to get back from dinner. realising that my phone didnt vibrate when i got messages and calls, panicking and restarting the thing, and calming down when it regained its vibrating abilities. leaving my phone in the shop with the guy and coming back home to attempt to study math but generally failing.
just another day.
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and so i shall go without a phone for the next 18 hours with no phone because im lazy to put my simcard in my old phone. yay.
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give me exams over ioc and world lit anyday.
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insecurity
deflection
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2 more papers to go. today’s chemistry studying session in the library was rather productive. otherwise i would probably have added 20 more applications to my new phone or watched a couple of shows instead of studying. at least now i can slack a bit more before dinner without having to rush mug like yesterday.
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more about the new phone next post. but on a side note, i find it highly irritating to read forum posts about the 5800 when people insist that other people are stupid. there’s a bug in the latest firmware which makes the menu notification light blink even when there is no message or missed call until the phone is unlocked and locked again. but some keep insisting that there is no bug and that everyone’s so incompetent that they don’t even know how to switch off the breathing light on the phone.
and on another note, my brother was complaining about people not knowing how to google for simple computer fixes. i think that the only people who are smart enough to google are the ones who already have some idea on how to fix the problem themselves. and as for the rest, even if you taught them to google, they probably wouldnt even know how to read the online fixes and use them. so there.
i have no idea why this was such an agro post. must be junyi’s fault. 
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technology is such a wonderful thing. except when its lowering our productivity and slowing us down. and even then, it’s still much more attractive than work.
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