this wednesday.. nope, thursday.

another week flying by soon. been so cooped up studying for quizzes. but what about exams?! guess it kinda counts as studying for exams as well.. its late, but i shouldn't be sleeping yet, because i have still yet to finish studying for tmr's transportation quiz. i decided to continue tmr morning instead of trying to squeeze every bit of info into my congested brain.

speaking about congestion, i'm being reminded of the cardiology lecture earlier today. everyone should be staying away from high cholesterol foods! aka cha kway tiao. pls do. accumulation of cholesterol can take place within any part of our arteries. and any part of the body. the most serious case would be blood clot occuring after the cholesterol leaks into our heart artery. blood clot > blockage > can't pump blood downstream > heart attack, failure. within 3 secs, dead body. *shiver*. enough said.

hostel life gets interesting when the whole block you're living in gets a black-out. and for more than 1 hour. well, in total actually.. the opposite block's electricity was completely zilch for about 15 mins at first. then just when everyone thought all was well again, it happened again. and again. so you see, all in all, they were mostly in total darkness. and, making a whole lot of racket. (haha).

rr...ight. quiz. tmr. study. sleep. now. goodnight.

you will be missed

after months of hectic preparation, our hardwork and late nights (sleepless, for some) have paid off. "together, we strive towards excellence" - munhong, CP.

Cheerobics is an organizing committee in NTU, also belonging to the Cultural Activities Club. Cheerobics has been around for a few years now, organizing cheerleading competitions on the national level. Teams from various primary, secondary, tertiary levels, as well as other active communities enter into the hype, spreading the name and spirit of cheerleading.

i'm honoured to have been part of the gang setting up all this and making Cheerobics 2006 work. from a complete stranger joining fresh into this committee, i gradually warmed up to everyone in the team. much had to be learned while being a programmer for the first time. so much had to be done. but we were lucky to have our capable CP munhong to guide us. who eventually was given the nick "king kong". long story. haha. justus our "ceh meh" is gifted, well-organized and a very nice chap to work with. dear cass is like a sister, so welfare, and chirpy. have to thank rongshan mei mei for taking down then typing out all the minutes for us to keep track of impt jobs. greg is the most "giam" treasurer i have ever seen! he's damn good! and all the lobang. haha. supper links to jiahao. also quite welfare, knows what he's doing. pro.

the girls, denice, huixia, sop, azlina ACP, my dearest fellow programmers. all great pple, good jobs produced. wendy, michelle, the liaison officers, cute, capable and fun pple. wanjing, cherish and sara, bravo P&Ps. shermain, blur at times but cool nevertheless, nice biz mag. yifen, supporting us all the way.

the guys, keng hooi (or hoon as cp puts it), fellow ECD programmer in-charge. had fun using walkie talkies! larry and david, two "macho" logistics officer. lotsa lobangs and ideas. juz simply wonderful and fun pple. siulun, jamie, hey where's my copy of the video?! heh... media and i.t. look for them. junyu, his bag... provided wonderful trophies for the winners, and us for photo-taking. keith, i still wan the team singapore stuff lei haiya.. goodies for the participants and everyone else, he found them. found wendy too. lol.

onward to cheerobics 2007.

not always wrong being selfish

must a couple break up if either party have problems with the other spending too much time with his or her friends, or to the point that often he or she must hang out with their friend(s) as well?

i'm not saying there must be a perfect logic to everything people do, but often we see couples breaking up for as simple a reason as a teeny disagreement in the heat of a quarrel. and often, once you said it out, there can be no taking it back. so are we being selfish towards ourselves, selfish towards our partners, or selfish towards our friends?

from all we read or listen to, love, they say, is selfish. only question is, who is the losing party. if you put your friends ahead of your partner, but cannot let go of that love afterwards, you are just being selfish to yourself. does it really work this way? is it really better? sometimes things are just not as straight-forward as we think it to be...

on the other hand, for a person who finds relieve from the break-up, it is pretty obvious who he is being selfish to.

what about the situation where most couples who just neglects their friends, well, once in a while perhaps. does this mean they don't cherish their friendships as much? i strongly and positively object this assumption. (haha). for a start, they don't completely neglect their friends. we still find time to go out with them whenever there is a chance. yes we, i'm putting myself in this debate. couples don't have to spend every freakin' hour together, each still leads their own life. okay, i'm not saying we are totally free from guilt of neglecting our friends but ya, other than having special reasons sometimes, we do look forward to catching up with our buddies.

there are many things in relationships (be it with your love or your friends) that can be hard to compromise sometimes. even following your heart might not guarantee anything. the ultimate solution is to ask yourself,

... what is it that you want.