An unproductive week. I guess I'm reaching the point of feeling really burnt out from research and stuff. It is hindering my progress. So I guess I should put all the stuff aside and do nothing for the next few days. I hope this helps. I hope when the semester starts on the week after, I'm geared up for all the challenges ahead. :)

Received an email from the department. It stated some of the changes to our current graduate programme. For the 2007 cohort and after, completing masters in one year is next to impossible if one wants to obtain grades like A and A+ throughout. Not only is the workload increased, they have to take graduate modules in replace for our exposure level 4000 modules. Furthermore, from next semester onwards, seminar module is going to be more demanding. As for the changes in graduation requirement for phd, my dream bubble of doing phd burst. I guess I should make more concrete plans to climb my way up for my teaching career, or start up my own business.

Finally watched deathnote 2. Enjoyed the movie, although I must comment that the manga is way more engaging. I think they've a good taste when it comes to choosing the actors and actresses. They all have great resemblance to the characters in the manga. :) Forgot to take a picture with the big poster in cineleisure.



Dinner was great and was of affordable price. Haha. Just foot the credit card bill. Not forgetting the amount I paid using nets. I think I must reduce my expenditure next month. Haha. I miss tuition. Without tuition, both my heart and wallet feel empty. Lol. Will upload the pictures later.

Really glad to see my IT club juniors and CZ again. Haha. The last time I met up with my juniors was during my undergraduate year 1 or year 2. :P Glad to know that all of them are currently coping well and happy with their lives. I felt a bit uneasy talking to them at first, but it got better after a while.

Had a guest staying over in my house over the past few days. I think my mum is really happy to have her with us. Finally someone to talk to her at home. Haha. My dad and I usually ignore her when we're doing our work. That is, before she starts screaming at us. Haha. Brought her to walk along orchard road, all the way to esplanade on the first day afternoon. Brought her to the market for breakfast in the morning. And for the rest of the days, I gave her the directions and she went exploring on her own. Despite our different lifestyles and everything, I had a good time chatting with her. Sigh. Now that she is gone, I kind of missed her. All the photos are in her camera. Got to wait for her to send them to me.

Haha. It sounds like quite a happening week for me. Lol.

2006 is going to be over in less than 2 hours time. Here's wishing everyone a brilliant year ahead.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2007!

The last few days had been pretty relaxing. Haha. And I spent a lot this holidays. When the new semester starts, I'll have less chance to spend money anyway. Oh well. My mum used to pay for all my clothes, shoes, transport, handphone bill and even stationaries. Basically everything. Now I've to pay for all these. Fair enough, I should be doing so since I get quite a decent amount of allowance from the ministry and from the school each month. Haha. Now I'm trying to keep track of how I spend my money, and possibly reduce unnecessary spendings.

Blogging less and less often these days. Haha. Oh well, sometimes when I sit in front of my comp, I'll rather watch anime, or search for journal articles which are helpful to my research. And sometimes, I'm just reading my thesis, and thinking of what to add to it. I used to blog more frequently because I wanted a revenue to voice out my views and thoughts. Now, my opinions are heard. Another reason is, I've tuned my mindset, and somehow, I just have less to write. Haha. But all in all, this blog still serves a great purpose of letting my friends know how I'm currently coping and what I'm currently doing. So it'll stay.

I've slight regrets of not taking up the research scholarship. Haha. Dr. Ng is back, and he approached me to take up his lab classes. It's a really good way of fulfilling my teaching duties if I had taken up the scholarship in place of the minstry's. Not to mention the pleasant feeling of getting to work with one of my favourite teachers. Of course, it was a great feeling to have a teacher approaching and offering work.

Shall be spending xmas at home doing research. Argh. Now I think I need some group theory knowledge. I think I'm really stuck. I think it is going to be shorter than my honours thesis. Sob. I've too little time. :(

Been two weeks since my last paper. Most of the time were spent on research. Had to go back to school to listen to talks and meet my supervisor. Also, I fell sick last few days, and before that, my computer got virus and I had to reformat everything and install back everything. Haha. So this explains why I've no time for blogging.

This December holidays is too short. Lessons are going to start in less than a month's time. Sigh. I must be well disciplined for my research, or else I shall have no break through this holidays. Looks like I've to sleep one hour later every night this week in order to revise my linear programming stuff in preparation for my DO next semester.

Next semester shall be my last semester in NUS. I'm not exactly looking forward to graduation. In a way, I'm starting to feel that I'm part of the department. I'm starting to feel the sense of belonging. But nevertheless, I've to leave and enter NIE next July.

Looking forward to the second episode of death note at the end of the month. The poster is already up. Haha. I think HK already showed the second episode in November! And the lead actors went to HK to promote the movie. Light looks so handsome in person. Haha. I was watching it on you tube. The fans were screaming when he appeared at the shopping centre for the autograph session. It had been years since I last heard this kind of scream. :)

But I bet I've lots of chances of listening to people screaming when I teach next time. Maybe I'll have a fan club screaming for me when I go on stage ah? Lol.

ok, time to stop dreaming and step back into reality. Must start work on research again. :) I called my supervisor yesterday. And he was promoting some of the restaurants to me. Hmm. I must have given him the impression that I love eating. Hmm.