to walk on water...









P.D. 08.
upcoming...

a feeling so good

I can just cry

it's been long since

and now I can wait once again

with that big smile

The day came. July 11.
In fact, the online results were up on jul 10. Tai gave me an urgent call.
And there I went, struggling to switch on the computer frantically.
Hands are shaking. Heart thumped. thump thump.
Yes, a year's battle's outcome is now at the brink of revelation.
A year which I've never been so busy before.
I now take time to give credit to all those who really made this dream a plausible reality and made the journey an enriching all-guy all-work no-play experience.


1st of all on my list.
Sem 2 07.
Andee and Edmund.
Dynamics Project team.
Hey u guys tweaked the most awesome Programmable Frankenstein KFC U-turn vehicle.
I must say we had the most innovative totally funtional car.  
Andee was quick to tear the car apart for upgrading and Edmund really took time to test the different combination of the pre-programmed actions of the KFC.
My greatest contribution seems only to be just providing the KFC car.
Full marks and all 4 bonus marks were very much deserving.
(Although Edmund's blur caseness nearly... returned the bonus marks to the Dr. Keith)

Special Thanks to Andee (different group for Physics) for speaking out to save my butt during Physics mini project.  "Wind blew wert!!" 
Whew!

Special thanks to Edmund also for pointing out my computing lab mistakes. And forcing me to study before exam by making me help you with computing.

Next up is ENG1020 Structures project group.
Sem 1 2008

Sub-group A  [Active from 8pm-8am]

Joseph Leong Chan San - from SMK Taman Sea,STPM
   ( team leader. very ambitious. hiGh standards. "I'm thinking"=I'm sleeping!! )
Hoong Tai - from S'pore NJC, 
   ( Bad handwriting, Gets the final answer fast with zero working. AJK Powerpoint)
Darrel Tan GG - from MMU
    ( very loyal, source of productive and unproductive discussion, very fun to kacau also =p )


Sub-group B  [Most productive from 8am-8pm]

Joshua Tan Seow Chun- me. from SMKDJ. A levels B for physics. failed med applicant. 
   (Asst. Leader. Coordinates Subgroup A&B's work. Keeps project timeline. HR and logistics)
Shaun Ng - from Jusco, Bukit Tinggi, Klang. STPM.
   (Most meticulous&hardworking. AJK Calculation. Worked closest to me)
Edmund -a.k.a. Mr Green. has two modes: On/Off.  On=sleeping. 
   (Tops in neatness. Single-handedly did the hand-witten complex load allocations. Cutest)

Achievements:
Triangle platform with C-truss tower design
Unbreakable (at 100kg load) newspaper bridge. Bridge weight: 1kg 
A rushed Platform design project in the midst of electric test and psa case studies. 



Psa case study group is next. Sem 2 08
Shaun and Willie.
Shaun as usual, totally reliable at calculations.
Willie from Sabah, Hysys Champion. Did practically all the Hysys problems for case studies.
(with seeming effortlessness) 
98% 99% 93.7%
Missed the 100%. But still, Great work! I don't think anyone else has achieved such gay marks. Especially for the Lab.

Psa Lab. 
Sem 2 08
Me Shaun Tai Darrel and Pey Chin.
Took me some time to plan and gather resources. And yeah, Awesome team members.
Ok, this lab we really had fun. When Dr. Ooi came in and saw our kar-chang (extra equipment) nodded head approvingly, wah...
Special thanks to Pey Chin who did the on-the-spot calculations. (which all the marks came from)
Also to Tai for figuring out the zero fluid friction for the connector fitting. (which made our marks jumped up). Tai used his naked foot to operate the valve while standing on stool holding the pipe. Darn pro!
Shaun... haha. Your name appearing alot of times. But yeah, He's my partner la this sem 1 08. exact same timetable.

Electric Labs
Sem 2 08
Shaun(again?!?!?! haha) and Phoi Boon.
Shaun kau tim the methods. Phoi Boon do intro and objectives.
We get the results.
I do data analysis and the rest.
for every lab. Quite even la the work =p
Why la Boon u go aussie so fast? Did I scare you??

Chemistry Labs
Sem 1 07
Ervin and Me.
haha. this dude and me... pulled through chemistry labs. somehow. Although we didnt always get the results we expected... you're quite fun.

Physics Project Team
Sem 1 07
Me, Kenneth, and Sii Nen
I'll admit I think there was some breakdown of communication among us. I think it's because we worked in different wavelengths. But thanks for making time to help finish each lab/project. Kenneth thanks for coming over my house to start the really last minute silly machine mini-project. Sii Nen thanks for the support during the labs, especially the box-drop. And yeah, we pulled through without loosing too much marks.  

Thank you Mr. Khoo Boon How, my computing tutor.
You're just so so helpful that I wonder sometimes do you get paid extra to be so nice and easy to contact and... yeah..helpful.



Thanks guys.

Suyi, thanks for assuring me I didn't calculate my result marks wrongly. =)
You're the 1st person who knew about it.

This 91% average, this scholarship, would NEVER been possible without you all.

Thank you Father Lord. For blessing me with friends such as these.
And Praise be to You. For You're so Good to me.
May You increase, and I decrease.

Disclaimer: Forgive us engineering students. We can be stressed out sometimes by the lack of... certain necessity in the duration of our course.

Pro teach Noob
-a snippet-



[01:12] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:12] - Josephlcs -: getting an older girls isn't a problem
[01:12] - Josephlcs -: girl*
[01:12] - Josephlcs -: it's getting the older girl to respect you
[01:12] - Josephlcs -: if you can do that, then no issue
[01:13] Joshua Chun: i dunno if i can do dat
[01:14] Joshua Chun: so why take the risk?=p
[01:16] - Josephlcs -: well
[01:16] - Josephlcs -: older girls are more mature
[01:16] - Josephlcs -: and more attractive in that sense
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: young farts are..
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: well
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: stuipd
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:17] Joshua Chun: my eyes are on the long run. ->
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: yeala
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: but no long run if you can't make it short term right?
[01:17] - Josephlcs -: think of both together dude
[01:17] Joshua Chun: but i do know one or two very matured younger... in ur words
[01:17] Joshua Chun: farts
[01:18] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:19] - Josephlcs -: then go after them la =).
[01:22] Joshua Chun: too matured
[01:22] Joshua Chun: cambridge family
[01:22] - Josephlcs -: ...
[01:22] Joshua Chun: debate champs
[01:22] Joshua Chun: skool magazine editors
[01:22] Joshua Chun: cf prez
[01:23] Joshua Chun: short term for what?
[01:23] Joshua Chun: for fun ah?
[01:23] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:23] - Josephlcs -: nope
[01:23] - Josephlcs -: like
[01:24] - Josephlcs -: if you marry good wife material
[01:24] - Josephlcs -: she must be good gf material too
[01:24] - Josephlcs -: else you won't make it that far
[01:25] Joshua Chun: sarah is seriously GooD wife material, my fren.
[01:25] Joshua Chun: gf material.
[01:25] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:25] Joshua Chun: i dun get that
[01:26] Joshua Chun: gf material = ?
[01:27] - Josephlcs -: like..
[01:27] - Josephlcs -: attractive, interesting and everything else you'd want out of your gf
[01:28] - Josephlcs -: whereas wife material is
[01:28] - Josephlcs -: maternal, motherly, nurturing, orderly, responsible etc.
[01:28] Joshua Chun: can i quote u on this?
[01:29] - Josephlcs -: you can
[01:29] - Josephlcs -: it's true
[01:29] - Josephlcs -: ^^
[01:29] - Josephlcs -: most often girls are good gf material
[01:29] - Josephlcs -: but lousy wife material
[01:31] Joshua Chun: then its darn hard to find the perfect one la
[01:31] Joshua Chun: even if there is
[01:31] Joshua Chun: she's prob taken
[01:32] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:32] - Josephlcs -: don't find la
[01:32] - Josephlcs -: God will provide

fastforward....

[01:35] - Josephlcs -: ah
[01:35] - Josephlcs -: ic
[01:35] - Josephlcs -: so you do have her on your sights
[01:36] Joshua Chun: haha. no. i'm waiting for a girl to go crazy over me
[01:36] - Josephlcs -: won't happen
[01:36] - Josephlcs -: you have to initiate it
[01:37] Joshua Chun: bleh. i dun care. they have to come get me if they're for me
[01:37] Joshua Chun: haha
[01:37] - Josephlcs -: lol
[01:37] - Josephlcs -: then be prepared to stay a spinster
[01:38] - Josephlcs -: honestly
[01:38] - Josephlcs -: if a girl throws herself at you
[01:38] - Josephlcs -: you wouldn't find her attractive
[01:38] - Josephlcs -: attractive*
 

Fastforward...

[01:39] - Josephlcs -: hm
[01:39] - Josephlcs -: then you don't give them a chance to respond
[01:39] - Josephlcs -: they'll always treat you as a friend. and it ends there.
[01:39] - Josephlcs -: you have to be a bit more ambiguous
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: give them hope, but just a little
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: little enough to entice, but not too much that you give the game away
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: then you wait for them to take the bait
[01:40] Joshua Chun: haha.
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: if they do, then you release a little more, and see how they react
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: if they come closer then you repeat
[01:40] - Josephlcs -: until they're right next to you
[01:41] - Josephlcs -: then you strike!!!
[01:41] - Josephlcs -: and take them for all their worth!!
[01:41] - Josephlcs -: rawr!!

                            FAILED

“Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.”

                                                                                                                   -Snoopy

Upon waking up today.

Petrol prices rocketed.

Electricity bills jumped up.

(food and everything else will soon be next)

Kuala Lumpur City Hall, DBKL wants to clear 14.2ha Bukit Gasing forest for development.
(as if it isn't hot enought already)

AVG 7.5 free edition antivirus is no longer giving free updates after 25th June 08.

I accidentally discovered a conspiracy at home. Someone's making unauthorized calls out.



It's 11.30 am. and I can feel there'e more to come.


tmrw i got UPSR.

For an average of 90% over 2 consecutive semesters,

For a get-back-every-cent-you-pay scholarship bonus,

Here's the lowdown;



1st half. (Sem2 07)
Score: 89-97-88-90
Average obtained: 91%
(Thank you God for Physics moderation)

Buffer bonus = 1% = 4 marks.


2nd Half: (Sem1 08)

load showdown.dat

>>

Table Design Credit: Joseph Leong.
Idea credit: Joshua Tan Seow Chun

Category	Engineering Structures	Electrical systems	Computing for Engineers	Process System Analysis
Internals
Total	60.00	30.00	30.00	50.00
Achieved	55.00	28.00	29.29	48.46
Lost	5.00	2.00	0.71	1.54
Finals
Total marks for final paper	40.00	70.00	70.00	50.00
Minimum Needed	35.00	62.00	60.71	41.54
Target %	87.50	88.57	86.73	83.08
Minimum Target Final	90.00	90.00	90.00	90.00

Units ranked in increasing order of difficulty:
Computing-PSA-Structures-Electrical

Units ranked in increasing order of marks lost:
Computing-PSA-Electrical-Structures

Expected distribution of buffer marks:
Structures and Electrical

Considering 1 week study time for Electrical finals alone compared to only 2 days for both Structures and Computing, student Joshua Tan Seow Chun is expected to be more prepared for Electrical finals as compared to Structures.
>> Total buffer of 4 marks allocated to Structues.

Structures internal is now 59 out of total 60.
Lost: 1

3 sec. time-out for reflection on the lost 1 mark. Doomed. Fated not to be saved.
>> 3...
>> 2...
>> 1...  
>>Sympathy gauge emptied.

Generating amended wallpaper....
Resize to fit screen...
Applying as new default wallpaper:

Category	Engineering Structures	Electrical systems	Computing for Engineers	Process System Analysis
Internals
Total	60.00	30.00	30.00	50.00
Achieved	59.00	28.00	29.29	48.46
Lost	1.00	2.00	0.71	1.54
Finals
Total marks for final paper	40.00	70.00	70.00	50.00
Minimum Needed	31.00	62.00	60.71	41.54
Target %	77.50	88.57	86.73	83.08
Minimum Target Final	90.00	90.00	90.00	90.00

Structures marks adjusted.

Recount time left till finals showdown as of 10:14 am,  31/05/2005;
>>5 days 21 hours 46 minutes 0 seconds.

Study status:
>>Still in warm-up mode. (WARNING:prolonging this nonsense will cut down on study time)

Stress level:
>>minor fatigue due to mini-flu. but feeling pretty ok otherwise.

Time left untill last paper is completed:
>>.....
>> ERROR. User has previouly locked current command. Output is encrpyted to help user to focus on final showdown.

Recount time left till finals showdown as of 10:23 am,  31/05/2005:
>>5 days 21 hours 37 minutes 0 seconds.

Calculate time lost from previous time count:
>>9 minutes 0 seconds

Delete that time from friday night sleep, allocate to study:
>>ERROR: Today is already Saturday. The next friday marks commencement of final showdown. No more fridays available.

Switch time allocation. Case:Saturday night:
>>Saturday sleep is decreased by 9 minutes. Personal logfile updated.

Sign off.
>> auto-recalculating time left. Stored into "Wasted Time" folder..... COMPLETED
>>saving work.
>>logging off. Goodbye and Good Luck.


** screen goes *zip* **

My vocab has dwindled down over the past few months to
1. noob
2. pro
3. gg
4. ks

"haha! say I pro!!"
"Sorry I noob"
"Noob why liddat also you dunno how to do one?"
"Noob what? You noob la! Summore teaching me voltage-divider rule for parallel circuits like so pro.. haha."
"Wah call me noob. I pro la ok. I mixed up only that time."
"Like that exam how? do so pro but in the end noob also. gg la."
"Dun say exam. I the internal hand calculation test already gg. aih, i today kena ks. At first she msg me go makan. Then later Tai also showed me the same msg.Whah gg lo. ks kau kau man."

Its also amusing that one of my friend in this vocab-dwindling gang has GG as his real name.

IF holidays & structures project==incomplete\n
go uni like normal 8-7 day no holiday no sleep\n
ELSE doing tute/case study\n
at home no holiday got sleep\n
ELSE study\n
at home half holiday got sleep\n
ELSE chilling\n
hang out ice cream bball wake up late watch football COD4 go replenish friendship points..
...
...
END

25 Nov, 07: Started Holidaying like never before.
25 Dec, 07: Christmas. Still holidays.
25 Jan, 08: Birthday. New Year. No school.
25 Feb, 08: Season 2/Semester 2 begins. back to hardcore work.


So how did the holidays played out...?

well, i remember...

Went Italy with Family.

















And came back Malaysia with Family.























Christmas Gatherings





















Time of sharing...         good food


And appreciating simple gifts like bookmarks. =)










Then this botak ben dude came back from Aussie to transform into Dinosaur Head. But during the transformation, he taught me how to create class, knife people, and save profile.
    Yes, COD4.

We talked. We played. Play. Talk. COD4. Mamak. Bball. COD4. Bball. COD4. COD4. Bball. Mamak. Crash over at his lair.  Me Grounded. Cinderella. Watch movie. Bball Day. Bball Nite. Run errants. Chill at one's hse. Call Kerry. Bball. Yam Cha. Talk. Commando. Brother in law. Bball. Until one day he returned aussie. till i see him again.   

Of course that was fun!










Birthday Bash in the forest. reserve.











Straight flush.
Tong fa suen.
Mine.



And i thought it was only a flush.

Received some generous donations.








Langkawi.

High school friends.

A Dvd was produced. Incorporated 7 movie clips (from camera photos and video clips), 1 dance video, and a exclusive post-trip rewiew/interview with hosts Josh Dykes and Shebby Huang.










Chinese New Year.
For every chinese. every family member.













For every family member...
Don't matter 2 legged or 4 legged.












MANY birthdays gatherings. Enough to make my mum suspicious.
Everyone wants to be born around new year, or chinese new year. or valentine's day.


Speaking of valentine's...






I think she had more fun than me.



In my world, I have to wait.

But an exceedingly hot cupid makes me want to wait.



And other stuff I did, that was so not boring, I was too lazy to capture it on camera lens.

Oh well, Holidays over. Studies and scholarship pressure builds up.

Here I go again.

Gotta practice waking up early.

I Don't want now to end.
Don't want
Don't wan
Dun wan
Duwan
Dowan
Do want
I Do want more of today.

"I wonder who first discoverd the power of poetry in driving away love? "

 "I thought that poetry was the fruit of love"

"Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead "

"So what do you recommend to encourage affection? "

"Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable."

Heading down to the court,
The anxiety I've come to sought,
There's always new lessons,
Ecstatic moments under the sun,
Having games where emotions flare,
Cooled by the evening air,
Nothing's like satisfaction so strong, 
Of yearnings so long,
To finally show who's outclassed 
By a warrior striving to surpass



But when an instant turn sore,
Injury declares I cannot soar,
The pain I feel is in the heart,
It certain we'll be torn apart, 
Resting from games' just so agonizing,
Can't perform those moves so mesmerizing,
Aesthetic and Swift, the exciting dual,
Impossible now for the ankle swell, 
No more fast-paced breaks so thrilling,
Without exercise, I'm simply boring.

This love so dear to me,
Although 3 months away we will be,
Our time together is not due,
We'll patch things up one day,
Restored and energized, on our way,
Bound for wherever the challenge lies,
Practicing to make techniques precise,
Was my bad to play-play,
I won't repeat that now that I pay,
To you again, I'm longing to embrace,
Then we'll take 'em all in their face.   

STRESSED is DESSERTS spelled backwards.



An ice cream a day,
Keep the blues away.

The Dalliance of the Eagles
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.
--- Walt Whitman, The Dalliance of the Eagles

Once attracted to a potential partner, the bald eagle may begin one of several elaborate courtship rituals called "cartwheeling." In this magnificent display, the eagles soar to dizzying heights, lock talons, and begin a breathtakingly death-defying plunge to the earth with tremendous alarming velocity. At the very last moment before striking the ground, the eagles disengage, pull up and once again soar gracefully to the heavens. If the timing is not perfect, certain death awaits this pair of speeding bullets.
By this this spectacular test of trust between the pair, the courtship is sealed.

From my binocular-camera;

<< Pulau Redang Trip, 2004.









This is what Eagles know as "Courtship".

Me? I don't know much about courtship. But 'cartwheeling' sure looks thrilling!! hehe...

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
-Mark Twain

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
-Reinhold Niebuhr

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910





























If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
-Thomas Paine

In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9