Fallacies galore and the Korean Language

Sharing something nice :) Click HERE.

A site talking about the fallacies of argument. Gives a really clean and clear picture of how some people try to mislead/escape/turn an argument in their favour. Pretty interesting read.

And then here's a little comic strip teaching you, in really simple terms, how you can learn to read Korean! Click HERE!

Haha seems kinda cool... Just that I'm not really in the mood to memorise things now :\

After a long time... glad I got to speak with Bei again today... short tho it might be. Miss the old times :)

Hmm 3 papers down! And I don't feel any of them went well at all. Depressed.

Even so... next next! I'll do better next time!

Share a song...

Mia - IU

Sem 2 Finals are Starting...

Tired. As usual. And depressed.

My first exam this week turned out horribly... Once again banking on the bell curve...

Can only blame myself for that... What happened to being more disciplined this sem...

To add to my troubles, they're making us choose our specialisation now (wtf NUS? why during exams?)... I'm really not prepared to do that yet... The modules are becoming really tedious...

Is this really the path I want?

And then there's that thing with the YongSeo couple. I swear I'll never get myself attached to another of those couple gimmick things again. Beautiful though it may be if their relationship is true (BANMAL SONG!! T.T Find myself smiling or tearing every time I hear the song... Knowing the "true" story behind the song changes the significance of the song so much!), and damn I hope it is..., both the possibility of it being only make believe, and the cold termination and denial of the relationship at the end of the show if it is real, causes me way too much unnecessary distress...

Their lives have nothing to do with mine. I have to re-centre my life and tackle my own problems already...

That said. If it's real... Thank you for the good times...

The original video uploaded by the pair w eng subs...

Banmal Song - YongHwa (C.N.Blue) & SeoHyun (SNSD)

And the touching finale that nearly drove me insane...

To end off, the song that seems to have some relevance my current state of mind at present...

I'm a Loner - C.N.Blue

Midterms are over!

Yup midterms are finally over! Hurrah!

Although finals are a month away too but still it's good to have a breather :)

Had a really good rest in the last 2 days. Slept like log haha... >.<

Would really like to go out with some friends soon. I haven't even spoken to jh or ws or even syl in so long. Have to do something to break out of this lull :\

Anyway... things I wanna share here this time round :)

First! Mahou Sensei Negima has ended!


Don't really know whether to be happy or sad about it. The comic sorta lost steam at the last bit, with everything being covered only really really briefly. So many interesting things were only hinted at and done off screen that one kinda wonders... it seems as if the author just wanted to end it already. :(

That said, it's been a great 9yrs, with a story epic in proportions and truly grounded in culture, yet amazingly imaginative. If you haven't read it yet, and would like a story that balances action and romance, I would certainly recommend this comic :)

The only burning question that's left unanswered is WHO DOES NEGI END UP WITH????? Hope Akamatsu will do something about that too. And there's also that bit about rescuing Nagi. Why was it done offscreen? hrmph lol.

Next! I cannot believe I'm saying this but i've totally become a fan of Li Ji Eun aka IU! >\\\\<



She's shooooo cutttee XDDD and pretty at the same time. I dunno how the koreans manage it. It was always either pretty or cute. Now they've managed to do both O.O

Not to mention she's a really good singer XD

Check out Good Day :)

The lyrics and dance are so cute too haha.

Not really getting enough of her juz via MVs so am watching SBS Heroes! Super funny variety show!

Eps can be found here

And first ep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz8CrzITk7U

Alright cya all! Gotta catch up on my webcast debt now >.<

Raymond

Break in the Dark

Ok, just want to type a short one, since quite bz this weekend, and wanna slp early.

Had 3 midterms last wk (Acc, 1020 - Prog, 2100 - Logic gates). Acc was... tough. I didn't have the eqns  memorised well enough, so was trying to make sense of it all from the little practice I had. 1020 has horrible. Was thoroughly depressed for the next few hrs after the test. Qns were really tricky and focused on checking the dark corners of the language -.- Lost something like 20 marks alr...  Lucky if I were in the median. Only 2100 was ok. But I forsee a steep curve... :( 1 more to go! (MA1101R)

I'd like to think the worst is over, but there's also a graded assignment, as well as a sit in lab this Thurs. That makes 3 again. If it wasn't for the fact that I did 1 today there'd be 4 -.- Uni life was never meant to be restful huh...

Since I ponned a whole bunch of stuff last wk, there's plenty of debts to be repaid, in the form of webcasts. There's also the 2100 lab I didn't manage to complete, to be done tml... Also have to go do all the finance stuff that I have backlogged. Urg... 

Felt kinda bad that I left Bei alone for Bio last fri... shall think of something to make it up to her :)

Alright... my stressful school life aside, honey moon period for the A lvl grads is over! Starting to be anyway =P Since results are out lol and so they'll have to start applying for uni~~ Am glad that sis did quite ok, and that emma did v well as well. Thank God :) Hope they'll get their dream courses ^.^

On a separate topic I saw a bunch of 9gag posts depicting how good friends would kinda fool around. They'd like be total douches to each other, and u'd supposedly not mind. And I... don't really agree?

For me, sure my friends and I fool around. We'd like do trash talk and stuff, and say like "oh i know u're liddat..." and stuff, but we'd never take it v far... or at least not that far. 

I personally don't prefer to do the "insult joke" thing with the people I care for. In fact, the more I care the more I'd be careful with what I say. And the more I'd only ask things to care for the person, or do things for them. It just seems counter intuitive to me to spend what little time I have with the people I care for saying stuff that they may end up taking offense to. 

Not that I'm against it. But it's just not for me i guess?

Maybe this is me being too uptight. And maybe changing this will make me more fun or popular. But it just feels so... unnatural.

Huh now I feel kinda dumb writing this... Not like this blog's gonna talk back to me, or anyone's actually reading :P But maybe one day I'll look back on this and say "haha that was me when I was 21". 

Alright. Gotta go watch some webcasts... Cya again!

The cycle starts again.

Recess week is over in the blink of an eye... And midterms are just around the corner.

Feeling measurably more rested, but it's like... not enough.... urg. Tutorials labs n stuff are starting up again...

Financial period is also closing...

God help me.

******

Song in my head:
It will Rain - Bruno Mars

2nd Sem Recess Week

The week has ended! Friday!! WHoopppie!!

And it's recess week! *Sigh of relief*. I don't think I can keep up this life style much longer. Monday do tues, tues do wed work...

Am half asleep even as I type this so shall make it quick.

Been hanging out with lots of different people lately! My OG and the S-YJ-ZZ-K mostly. And thoroughly enjoying the company. Also been spending time with HM, the CSS ppl and my bio kaki... it's kinda nice. Haha we crap a lot and share stuff...

I'd really like to understand them better though. Sometimes I ask myself, if someone were to ask me, who is this person, I kinda wonder if I'd be able to answer. Do I know what they like/dislike? Fav color/ food? Do I know perhaps, their unique worldview? What's their model of thought? I want to get closer and know them, and not just have fillers on the surface...

I kinda regret that sometimes, even as I try to build the relationship in my own way, I'm treated as an outsider, despite the history some of my friends have with me... I'll keep trying though. If anything, I won't be the one to give up on it first.

That aside, things have been getting pretty interesting down at CS1020. Been learning java, and now about lists and adts. After the discussion with yj, totally feel i'm getting closer to making that game i wanna do. Sorta burning with excitement :) I foresee a good sem, albeit a tiring one.

Been watching Dream High 2. I just updated myself up to ep 6. It's getting better at the moment. The relationships have come up clearer, and I find myself liking some of the characters. I can relate to Ji Woon on some level, especially to his passion for good music. I really like the pair up of "the Poet" and Ailee. Hope there'll be more scenes abt them. They're more interesting than the lead males and females at the moment, and far sweeter. It's like a reverse of the UI-Jason line back in Dream High 1. Yup so though it's not as good, I am looking forward to seeing the next episode.

HSDK's taking a break this week, leaving me kinda depressed :\ Haha I still have Naruto, Bleach and Negima though (3rd from the last chapt!!!). Shall draw happiness from those.

Urg my desktop broke down T.T

Outing with Soraemon people tml! Looking forward to it.

Wondering if this last post made any sense at all. :\

Bb :)

Song in my head:
Good Day -UI

dadum - dadum - dadum dadum dadum dadum dadum - dadadadum

Hello! The title is dum-ed to the tune of Pink Panther! XD

Hmm it's been a really busy week. Kinda feel like I'm in an endless loop at the moment... Finish one week of assignment chasing... next week arrives... Guess that's how it goes when u don't keep up :\ Actually slept at 5am on Fri morn last week... haix. Oh but had Yong Jie for study kaki haha. It turned out quite good.

General Bio is actually the most fun at the moment. The old prof keeps pulling out props to show us, which is really really awesome. (I wish I could show some pics. Should start bringing a camera ard). Even if you forego the awesomeness of his props, he gets my vote for his effort. Too bad he's not teaching next week alr... hope the actual prof is as good and not like boring... fridays tend to make ppl v sleepy, even if i did buy some snacks to fight the sleep =P

The Bio lab this week was like the best haha. We went to the Raffles Museum in Science Fac for the lab... it's near the science lib. Basically we were supposed to go thru the museum and fill up our assignment worksheet... kinda like our sec sch excursions :D good times... Saw lots of amazing things. Haha like the huge turtle, and the huge grouper fish. Bei actually went to take picture with it haha, along with some of the other larger animals. Some of the more interesting things... there're fossils, one of a dinosaur that's a land animal, but has feathers like a bird, there's another showing just the leg of the huge and long leaf eating dinosaur (bronchasaurus i think :\). and it's huge. just the leg along is ~2m high? Can't imagine how they'd be in real life. We also saw v long snakes and preserved civets. Hmm. Bei tells me ppl make perfumes from civet tails. And it smells like piss o.o Dunno why they'd wanna do that if that was the result? If they're for guy perfumes... I'm so not gonna buy them :\ There were also bats and birds (hawks! :D), and we got to see them up close since they were stuffed and preserved, which is kinda cool and creepy at the same time... the eyes were either fake (glass beads - which give them that bland staring feel) or covered with a thin film of white (which gives them the feel that they're in a trance). Either way... feel its a better thing to do since we break away from the norm of labs and tutorials.

Midterms are creeping up on us eh... So scary. And I'm good at absolutely none of my subjects at the moment T.T Even though I've resolved to do better this sem T.T Have another sit in lab coming this wed... hope to do better this time. Have to enforce the plan and progressive programming alr.

                                  Need You Now - Lady Antabellum

Valentine's Day is coming up! Hope all those with partners will cherish each other and be happy...
as for those like me... well... hope to see better things in time...

Oh btw, I lost my old UE Metro5 earphones during my return trip to Singapore somehow... been quite sad abt it... but now I've got NEW earphones!! Dunno the full name (lazy to go read the box now), but it's a pair of Denon earphones! Cost me a bomb, and took me damn long to find, but it was worth it. It has abt the same balance as the Metro5 in terms of vocals and instrumentals (slight emphasis to instrumentals and bass - i found this to be a very impt factor when i was trying out the other brands at Javens (sp?). I just couldn't stand it when the voice was overly clear, or when the instrumentals were overwhelming the voice. This fit juuuuust nice. :D ) only the vocals were clearer, and the bass less brash. Currently enjoying the amazing clarity of the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra piece :) Eargasm haha...

Oh I found out they actually whisper "wild drive... wild drive" in the song Wild Drive - YGO opening 03. I was like wth -.- The discovery was a.huge.turn.off :\ I used to think the song was cool. Now it's just creepy -.- urg.

I wanna have enough time to laze around and watch tv!!! To go and learn something interesting (music, martial arts whatever)!! Still haven't watched 3rd ep of Dream High 2... Pending 49 days... and juuuust managed to finish those few episodes of Big O... Zz...

Oo I'm pretty excited with Naruto, Bleach, Negima and HSDK. The end's in sight for Negima (3 more chapters) and Bleach (just declared final arc... tho I think that'll be at least another 200 odd chapters :\)... Naruto is going into the last bit of fight alr. And Miu just regained consciousness in HSDK! Haha faster lemme see next chapt...

Zz... oh well it's late. Till next time!

Ray

Rage quit

Hi! 

I'm actually super annoyed tonight. There's somebody partying somewhere near PGP and they're blasting this loud, annoying wailing noise all over the place. I actually wanna slp early tonight too. Urg. 

Hope to change the mood by typing something.

Anw... hope people've had a pretty good holiday! What with the long 4-day CNY wkend and all.

Are the number of Ang Paos inspiring? XD

Spent a CNY here without my ma and sis for the first time in like... ever -.- It's a pretty quiet CNY without them here... Not sure if I particularly prefer it, cuz it is a CNY where I don't actually have to be woken up early to wipe *insert furniture* or eat *insert CNY delicacy*. Not that I don't like these things, especially in the case of the latter, but it is kinda annoying when u have to eat a mountain of 年糕, or you have to eat that smelly clam meat thing. Yuck. I got to sleep in, and take my time packing my room and stuff, but in exchange, there wasn't much of a festive feel either. CNY's significance died when they weren't around. Most importantly it lacks the warmth I'd feel every year when we did stuff like that together. Sigh. Kinda wish they were back.

But I think it finally hit me that school's started. Even though it's just after CNY holiday lol. It took a mountain load of homework to hit me, but it finally did, and I'm quiting my gaming le. Damn. Skyrim was just getting fun too =P

Labs and tutorials are starting up again. It's currently wk 3. Got 3 java programs left to write, and labs and tuts for later today, not to mention the remainder of the finance stuff that i'm supposed to finish. Alr have a webcast I haven't watch yet too =\ Yup, school's back with a bang.

Talking abt being back, Syl and Sijie are back! Haha hope to see them ard, tho not really eating at Arts so often le.

...They still haven't stopped the noise. Irritation max. Feel like throwing my fan out the window. Have I mentioned that I'm particularly susceptible to rage when I'm sleepy? Grr.

Alright. Gonna see if I can lodge a complaint somewhere. 

Good night.

Dream

Hello!

I’m currently blogging from HK J Feeling super happy, since I managed to meet up with most of my relatives already. 

It seems a little strange to be over here at this time, since it’s already a week after school started, and I feel like I’m having a holiday even though I’m conscious of the fact that I should be studying. But anyway, I came over to attend my cousin’s wedding! Here’re some pics! 

The bride and groom!

The “Awwwww!” portion, where we got to see how the groom proposed to my cousin ^.^

The kiddies that’re supposed to call me Uncle Raymond now >.< Haha wth feels old =P

I was soooo shocked lo! Even though my cousin was pretty to begin with, she looked absolutely amazing in her wedding dress =P Must’ve been the luuuuurve XD

Congratulations! 祝你们新婚快乐! And ALWAYS BE HAPPY!!! J

Random: I got to eat 烧肉 already!! Damn happy cuz it’s damn nice!!! Really la… roasted pork in hk is THE BEST la XD Now juz steak and the dim sum left! Going for that tml! J

Over to school mode, it’s tutorial registration time! Got like 7 of them to register for lo this time… so many >.< Hopefully I’ll get them ba… then can have best of both worlds – can have friends in all my tuts/labs, and still can keep my Monday free

CAW is next week! Can’t believe it’s coming so soon! All our hard work will cumulate and manifest itself in this coming week! Excited and afraid at the same time! 

Lord, bless us. Bless us so that we can be your hands and feet, your voice and your love to your people. May we become perfect instruments for your work.

Maker of all things and Father to us all, as you gave voice to Moses, please bless us, so we can reach out with courage, and plant the seeds for your harvest Lord. 

                Lord, we lay ourselves at your feet. Take our hearts and make them yours. Let us remember always that it is for your glory that we work.

                Lastly, we pray for this project to be a success, but let it be your will, not ours, be done.

                Amen.

Really hope it turns out well J The journey to the event was really beneficial to my faith, probably much more so than the event itself will ever be. Especially after attending Kelvin Chia from ACT’s talk on Fri and in the previous Befrienders’ Workshop. Learnt so much… and now I have a direction to deepen my faith. Happy.

Still gotta headache over the song choice for mass, since half of them got rejected… grrr :\ Oh and I still haven’t bought CS2100 txtbook lo! So dead -.-

Flying back tml le. Slightly depressed about that. Will likely be spending CNY alone, since parents and sis are staying back… aaand besides… I haven’t seen everyone yet… L My relatives are looking older every year… just wish I could do something for them.

Oh! On a happy note, had first lecture of general bio with Si Bei on Fri! So nostalgic! We’re classmates again! Yay!! XD

Haha dats all I have this time. Gnite!

Raymond